The Master of Those Who Know

Aristotle's Theology: The Primary Texts

Aristotle

Hackett Publishing Company

2022

0. Introduction

Aristotle is 

“the master of those who know” 

(as Dante put it). 

This was his way of saying:  

compared to him, we’re all hacks.  

1. Early Intimations

De Interpretatione 4.17a3-4

Prayer is a sentence 

that is neither true nor false 

(it is something else).  

So, truth or falsity is 

not found in every sentence.  

De Interpretatione 13.23a23-24

The activities 

sans potentialities 

are very unique. 

They are designated as 

the primary substances. 

Prior Analytics 1.36.48b35-37

The opportune time

for a god is opportune,

but is not needed.

This is because for a god

nothing is ever needed. 

Topics 1.11.105a5-7

Those who so puzzle

over whether snow is white

lack clear perception.

Those who so puzzle over

honoring a god must pay. 

Topics 2.2.109b33-35

Since a god cannot

be harmed, he also cannot

suffer injustice. 

This truth is found by asking

"What is doing injustice?"

Topics 2.11.115b30-35

All will say with no 

exception that honoring

a god is noble. 

But some will say it’s noble 

to sacrifice one’s father.

Topics 4.5.126a34-b1

A god and a good

person are both capable

of doing base things. 

But they are unlike the base

because they do not choose them. 

Topics 5.1.128b19-20

A man is only

a rational animal

(brighter than the brutes).

A god is an animal

too, but an immortal one. 

Topics 5.4.132b10-11

What can truly be

said of a god that also

can be said of men?

They share in scientific

knowledge as living beings. 

Topics 5.6.136b6-7

Since all living things

are perceptible, this is 

not a special thing. 

So, being intelligent

is not special for a god. 

2. The Immovable Mover

Physics 8.1.251a8-252a5

We say that movement

is the activation of

what is movable.

For each movement, there are things

that are capable of it. 

Ménage à Trois

Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict

Christiane Tietz

Oxford University Press

2021

"At this very time we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Protestantism, the breaking of that bubble of 'Bible-Christianity.'" (Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman)

“The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.” (Karl Rahner SJ) 

Barthianism is Dialecticism dressed in Calvinist drag. And considering what Christiane Tietz has disclosed about Karl Barth's private life in her 2021 biography Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict, we can no longer take his gesticulated words at face value, let alone give him the benefit of the polygamous doubt. It is now clear in hindsight that his thirty-year long deliberate engagement in adulterous spousal abuse (what Tietz describes as the troubling “Ménage à Trois” between him, his wife Nelly Barth, and his mistress/assistant Charlotte von Kirschbaum), is nothing but the reductio ad absurdum of the “White Whale” (his Kirchliche Dogmatik) that is now beached and continues to rot on the sinking sand of modern protestant theology.

In fact, Barth’s mother demonstrated far more theological discernment than he did when she confronted him about his domestic triangle and asked: “What good is the most discerning theology when it suffers a shipwreck in your own home?” His dialectical handwaving about what he called the notgemeinschaft (the "emergency association" between him, his wife, and his mistress), and his all-too-convenient use of what he called a “boundary case” as applied to the seventh commandment (neither marital fidelity nor adultery), clearly demonstrate that it is (almost) good for nothing, except perhaps to show how absurd it is.

For example, in a letter to Nelly in which he attempts to explain how their notgemeinschaft is an instance of an ethical "boundary case" he writes: “each one - bound and not bound in a particular fashion with the other two - has a special place, a special security, but also a special burden and pressure, without having to end our marriage legally and outwardly, and without having to deny and suppress that which connects me to Lollo.” How sentimental of him ("Lollo" was his pet name for his mistress). And how dialectical of him (there is no either/or here, only neither/nor). I leave it to the reader to assess the persuasiveness of this disturbingly self-serving apologia for adultery. "Your problem does not become my emergency" comes readily to mind as the appropriate response. 

Barth tried and failed to theologically justify the "permanent crisis" of the ménage à trois he forced his wife and his mistress to endure for over thirty years while the three of them lived and moved and had their being under the same roof (along with his and Nelly's five children). And to add intimate insult to ironic injury, the three of them were ultimately buried together in the same "family” plot in the Hörnli Cemetery in Basel, Switzerland, according to Barth's wishes.

Tietz's biography could be used to both condemn Barth's polygamy and defend his theology. His critically realistic dialectical narrators have used versions of this divide and conquer strategy ever since Eberhard Busch intimated about Barth's intimacy with his mistress in his 1976 biography Karl Barth: His Life From Letters and Autobiographical Texts. However, Tietz's book can be put to much better use.

The real value of her work consists in giving us very serious pause over whether the entire vocabulary of Barth's theology is still worth using. His abuse of words like "emergency association" and "boundary case" suggests not. To borrow and theologically apply Gottlob Frege's context principle from his Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik is helpful here: one must never ask for the meaning of a theological word in isolation, but only in the context of a dogmatic system. Hence the reductio. 

You shall know them by their fruits, and not by their own version of the Institutes (speaking of Calvinist drag). Of course, Barth's dogmatics is not the only protestant instance of this brand of dialectical absurdity. Tillich's apologetics also suffers from a similar ultimate concern in the shadow of his sadomasochism (but I digress).

Solitude and Humility

Non sanctos patefacere sed multos sanctos facere.

Looking at the Carthusians from the outside, you might be tempted to imagine them proud. But when you know a little more about them and their life, you understand that only a very humble man could stand Carthusian solitude without going crazy. For the solitude of the Charterhouse will always have a devastating effect on pride that seeks to be alone with itself. Such pride will crumble into schizophrenia in the uninterrupted silence of the Carthusian cell. It is in any case true that the great temptation of all solitaries is something much worse than pride - it is the madness that lies beyond pride, and the solitary must know how to keep his balance and his sense of humor.

Only humility can give him that peace. Strong with the strength of Christ’s humility, which is at the same time Christ’s truth, the Carthusian monk can face his solitude without supporting himself by unconsciously magical or illuministic habits of mind. He can bear the purification of solitude which slowly and inexorably separates faith from illusion. He can sustain the dreadful searching of soul that strips him of his vanities and self-deceptions. And he can peacefully accept the fact that when his false ideas of himself are gone he has nothing else left. Only then is he ready to encounter the Truth and the Holiness of God, which he must learn to confront in the depths of his own nothingness.

Sources

Thomas Merton. The Silent Life. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1999.

Corpus Dionysiacum I

The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite

Aeterna Press

2014

Acts 17:34

The Divine Names

Chapter One

1.

Only it alone 

gives an authoritative

account of itself. 

It is the syntactical

measure of all things measured. 

2.

Trying to apply 

The Divine Names and notions 

to God is nonsense.  

All that we can do is use 

theological grammar. 

3.

What is beyond thought 

and beyond being is the 

Source of every source.  

To those far away it calls 

them back to begin again.  

4.

The diversity 

of what we are leads us to 

divine unity.  

This explains the energy 

of our own fecundity.  

5.

It encompasses, 

circumscribes, and embraces 

each and everything.  

It also so eludes the 

grasp of each and everyone.  

6.

We praise the nameless 

by every name, knowing the

inner irony. 

Since it is so wonderful,

why do we seek to speak it? 

7.

The unnamed goodness 

causes all and contains all 

things within itself.  

This is why it transcends all 

and is named by all that is. 

8.

Hierarchical 

law leads as we study the 

conceptual names.  

The uninitiated 

remain in their lawlessness. 

Chapter Two

1.

Through perversity 

one denies that the grammar

shows the Deity.  

When it comes to scripture, it 

is all and nothing at all.

2.

When we watch over 

the scriptures, we are also 

watched over by them.  

By guarding them, we will be 

guarded and grounded in them.

3.

The unified names

are trinitarian in

their formal essence. 

All the transcendental terms
terminate in the Godhead. 

4.

Divine unity

and differentiation

must be understood. 

The total union of lights

does not contain confusion. 

5.

Theology deals

with what is beyond being,

life, wisdom, and gifts. 

Circles and seals are only

constructive comparisons. 

6.

The prime example 

of differentiation 

is the human Word.  

The Father and the Spirit 

simply do not share in it.  

7.

We are at a loss 

concerning the flowering 

of the transcendent.  

We can neither represent, 

let alone scent, its bouquet.  

November 2025 | December 2025

Pudge

Saturday November 01, 2025

they are both in love

with a romantic ideal,

not with what is real.

and given their body count,

their account is almost closed. 

Sunday November 02, 2025

beat, beat, empty words 

without stopping under the 

sun (fear of flying). 

looped black light inside out while 

slowly coming down (postscript).  

Monday November 03, 2025

blackbird singing in

the dead of night until the

break of a new day.

nothing is going to change

despite the timeless exchange. 

Tuesday November 04, 2025

the world chases him

into the desert and then 

seeks to win him back. 

it will always lose if there 

is nothing left to peruse. 

Wednesday November 05, 2025

with the arrival 

of the gift the rift he felt 

suddenly vanished.  

this is also true after 

he broke through the pretension.

Thursday November 06, 2025

that thing is nothing 

but an empty fantasy 

fueled by foolishness.  

it is time for him to cut 

his losses and disappear.  

Friday November 07, 2025

loving how he is

living is legitimate

given his limits.

he has arrived at the point

where there is no turning back. 

Saturday November 08, 2025

misogynistic  

memories calmly comfort 

his masculine mind.  

modernity aside, they 

must remain inside their lane.  

Sunday November 09, 2025

even though he knows 

he remains in exile,  

he still needs guidance. 

this consists of reminders 

about the vow that he made.  

Monday November 10, 2025

the NO order: 

“silence is the condition 

for our permission.”  

the SSPX rejects 

this free masonic boarder.  

Tuesday November 11, 2025

his temporary 

irrationality has 

always been a sign.   

if his vows are not applied, 

he will reside with the sows.  

Wednesday November 12, 2025

the most recent note 

from the magisterium  

crossed a sacred line.  

and he is not the only 

Marian who thinks this way.  

Thursday November 13, 2025

will his method change 

once he begins trading with 

digital money? 

the only difference he can  

foresee concerns his stop loss.  

Friday November 14, 2025

she turned out to be 

nothing but a feminist 

dressed in foreign drag.  

his virtual silence will 

be put to very good use.  

Saturday November 15, 2025

his cosmology: 

copernicanism leads 

to absurdity. 

the reductio calls it 

into serious question.  

Sunday November 16, 2025

he went from feeling 

euphoric to embarrassed 

once he remembered.  

to say the fair turned unfair 

is to not learn his lesson.  

Monday November 17, 2025

her recent response 

distills the domination 

determination. 

it reminds him of the world 

he is within, but not of. 

Tuesday November 18, 2025

does he really want 

to go down that rabid hole 

now that he's resigned? 

the manhole on the grassy 

knoll serves as his warning sign.  

Wednesday November 19, 2025

yesterday morning 

he read: “the greater the wealth 

the greater the wrath.” 

avoiding the wrath is well 

worth the price that he will pay.  

Thursday November 20, 2025

He has given him

room in Her maternal womb 

to deny himself.  

he recognizes, resists,

and takes up his rugged cross.  

Friday November 21, 2025

his prime needs of life:  

water, bread, clothes, and a room 

he can die within.  

soon the time will come when he

won’t need any of these needs.  

Saturday November 22, 2025

he is by instinct 

a solitary being 

who procrastinates. 

he has always left all things 

to the very last second.  

Sunday November 23, 2025

Our Lady gave him

the opportunity to 

decide between three.  

his choice was made for him when 

she revealed the other two.  

Monday November 24, 2025

she was running short 

of new words to make known what 

she already knew.  

"wordlessness" will always be  

the word to the worldly wise.   

Tuesday November 25, 2025

rorty inspired 

his methodological 

nominalism.  

this is an example of  

plundering the egyptians. 

Wednesday November 26, 2025

now he has no need 

for any priest to teach him

about his life’s work.  

this is due to the unction 

that he recently received. 

Thursday November 27, 2025

the first twenty five 

years of this century show 

the depth of the lie.  

he prayed to be translated 

like enoch was before him.  

Friday November 28, 2025

why does she send him

mad music that promotes her 

present form of life? 

she must protest and project 

her sad existential strife.  

Saturday November 29, 2025

about the daily 

drudgery divine: only 

quality for Thee.  

less is more, in life as it 

is in his Roman reading.  

Sunday November 30, 2025

he wants to end it 

with the requiem six years 

later to the day.   

it is his way of giving 

thanks for kolbe and kilar.  

...

Monday December 01, 2025

oui turned into WE 

over the last six distant 

and dissident years. 

he loved the shire’s clover, 

he is sad it is over.  

Tuesday December 02, 2025

this next year he will 

be incommunicato 

incrementally.  

what begins each morning will 

extend to the end each day.  

Wednesday December 03, 2025

the fourth vow prevents 

him from lulling liberals 

into libido.  

he is a solipsist in  

relational remission.  

Thursday December 04, 2025

he's endured too much 

emotional exhaustion 

over the weaklings.  

why waste energy over 

carthusian exclusion? 

Friday December 05, 2025

being off the grid 

makes it possible for him

to process their id.  

“on women” is required 

reading for men who matter.  

Saturday December 06, 2025

it is not his role 

or goal to apologize 

apophatically. 

his sole assignment is to 

pray the ROsaRY aright.  

Sunday December 07, 2025

the douay-rheims says, 

“he shall be a wild man” 

on page thirty-three.  

this numeric sign confirms 

what he knows is true of him. 

Monday December 08, 2025

he must hold himself, 

in a particular way, 

as an alien.  

worldly news, views, and reviews 

are no longer his concern. 

Tuesday December 09, 2025

he has turned his hate 

into love for his brothers 

dressed in winter white. 

providence directed him 

away from their cloistered life. 

Wednesday December 10, 2025

was merton’s murder 

the product of less praying 

and more publishing? 

his sense is that he was a  

carthusian in his heart.  

Thursday December 11, 2025

he is a distant 

and reclusive relative 

of my white brothers. 

prodigality prevents  

him from even robing black.  

Friday December 12, 2025

as if adding more 

insults to his injuries 

helps to inure him! 

if he won’t cell the psalter, 

he will be detestable.  

Saturday December 13, 2025

shooting and stabbing 

and setting things on fire 

(the news is dire).  

operation mockingbird 

continues to mock us all.  

Sunday December 14, 2025

what would be the point 

of being interstellar  

all over again? 

he decided not to push 

another book off the shelf.  

Monday December 15, 2025

he needs to be a 

responsible witness to 

his own time and place. 

he needs to align with God’s 

providencial precision.  

Tuesday December 16, 2025

the sum of thirty 

three, sixty six, and ninety 

nine falls short by two.  

three hundred and thirty three 

must needs become the last one.  

Wednesday December 17, 2025

once the deed is done 

the fun stops and he's rocked back 

to reality.  

what started with countless bangs 

ended with confessed whimpers.  

Thursday December 18, 2025

what is the inner 

truth and greatness of Roman 

Catholicism? 

the answer to this question 

is known by the avant-garde. 

Friday December 19, 2025

canon 603 

only applies to hermits 

that are religious. 

we laity do not need 

to be recognized by law.  

Saturday December 20, 2025

he sits in silence, 

crawls into shadows, and prays

all his prey away.  

he annihilates himself 

from without and from within.  

Sunday December 21, 2025

the depth of her guilt 

and inferiority 

is disheartening.  

conversation discloses 

the history behind it.  

Monday December 22, 2025

the latest Doctor 

of the Church has waited so 

very patiently.  

he leads him not into the 

transcendental temptation. 

Tuesday December 23, 2025

he will put no faith 

in friends, and he will not share 

his secrets with them.  

he will no longer embrace 

those who cannot be trusted.  

Wednesday December 24, 2025

beyond family  

he only reached out to two 

individuals. 

one was active, the other 

was politely reactive. 

Thursday December 25, 2025

and then there were two, 

despite his proclivity 

for everything three.  

from puritanism to 

Roman Catholicism.  

Friday December 26, 2025

looking at women, 

let alone talking to them, 

is prohibited. 

while reactive exceptions 

must be made, they will be few.  

Saturday December 27, 2025

the best thing he can 

do for the wicked world is 

to stay out of it.  

he is now called to be as 

marginal as possible.   

Sunday December 28, 2025

John Henry Newman 

is the patron saint of all 

calvinist converts.  

he went from banner of truth 

green to longmans, green & co.  

Monday December 29, 2025

he was once lost in 

translation, but now he is

found in transcription. 

the discovery in the 

temple has recovered me.  

Tuesday December 30, 2025

it does not surprise 

him that he is acting like  

a sociopath.  

if she does not restrain him, 

he fears the worst will happen.  

Wednesday December 31, 2025

he has been working 

to achieve consistency 

over the past year. 

the truth of “less is more” rings 

true once he adds more to less. 

October 2025

Men Without Women

Wednesday October 01, 2025

he was once betrayed,

and now remains among the

men without women. 

in fact, you can't live with them

and you can live without them. 

Thursday October 02, 2025

now that greece is greased,

and the poles have all been polled,

the czechs can be cashed. 

knowing they have been troubled

troubles him beyond belief. 

Friday October 03, 2025

he woke up and asked

"who shot who in the what now?"

while being hand-cuffed.

the element of surprise

is the secret of spy-craft.

Saturday October 04, 2025

he woke up and walked 

to the corner store to get

the morning paper.

it’s as if the entire 

country had changed overnight.  

Sunday October 05, 2025

everyone gathered

around the old matriarch,

expressing respect. 

all of them understood that

she is their sine qua non. 

Monday October 06, 2025

the waves of his life

keep receding from the shore

in increasing ways. 

he cannot turn back the time

to when the tide was rushing. 

Tuesday October 07, 2025

the latest news was

as unexpected as his

reaction to it.

these illuminati freaks

don't deserve his attention. 

Wednesday October 08, 2025

now he understands:

there is only one trio

worthy of his time. 

their surprising sacrifice

indicates non-exemption. 

Thursday October 09, 2025

they don’t need to be 

troubled any more than they 

have been already. 

reaction is the raison 

d'être of interaction.  

Friday October 10, 2025

the eminent that 

inhabits eternity 

revives thee freely. 

the literary source is

a secondary concern. 

Saturday October 11, 2025

when remorse returns

he retrieves and reads the words 

he once wrote and sent.  

and then the better angels 

of his nature nurture him.  

Sunday October 12, 2025

he despises all 

the demythologizers 

of modernity.  

their proud presuppositions 

presuppose the pride of life.  

Monday October 13, 2025

on may twenty-one 

the mythic shire became 

the mystic spire. 

it was then that he began 

at the beginning again. 

Tuesday October 14, 2025

the very last words

he wrote were about watching

the nightly nocturnes.

it started in the evening, 

and ended in the mourning. 

Wednesday October 15, 2025

the magnetic pull 

of the pulsating star can 

be felt from afar.  

he hopes it never enters
into his inner orbit. 

Thursday October 16, 2025

the psychopathic 

disclosure about the past 

prevents rapprochement. 

it has turned into a bridge 

too far to travel over. 

Friday October 17, 2015

virtual silence 

is reactively used to 

avoid all abuse.  

in retrospect he knows his 

decision protected him.  

Saturday October 18, 2025

the development

of dogma makes explicit

what is implicit.

the point is to clarify,

not fundamentally change. 

Sunday October 19, 2025

a year with wheelock 

would unlock the latinesque

liturgy for him.  

he doubts whether it will be 

as it once was, but he hopes.  

Monday October 20, 2025

modernity modes

its magick mist and appears

as a therapist.

"the rapist" is another

name for this satanic beast. 

Tuesday October 21, 2025

four letters of love,

all written but never read,

remain with the dead. 

they describe the irish sea

as lacking a memory. 

Wednesday October 22, 2025

an old equation:

multi-cult equals

multiculturalism. 

canada is a country

of many-if-any-cults. 

Thursday October 23, 2025

his farewell to kings

began on january

seventh, years ago. 

it ended on october

seventh, a few days ago. 

Friday October 24, 2025

unexpectedly

he met a catholic consort

worthy of the name.

they are not interested in

the novus ordo nonsense. 

Saturday October 25, 2025

chapter sixty-two 

of the statutes on penance 

forbids for his good.  

puritanism redux:  

grace will dwell where he cannot.  

Sunday October 26, 2025

recent encounters 

confirm the domination 

determination.  

they remind him of the world 

he is within, but not of.  

Monday October 27, 2025

the way that he plays

is to reactively stay 

within foreign words.  

he always try to give them 

the benefit of the clout.  

Tuesday October 28, 2025

to ignore their kind 

is to insult them in the 

most scornful of ways.  

hell hath no fury like a 

woman who has been ghosted.  

Wednesday October 29, 2025

raggedy andy 

reminds him it's possible 

to totally change.  

and that is precisely what 

disappearing is about.  

Thursday October 30, 2025

the world’s old weirdness 

has become so extensive 

it’s now the new norm.  

while he accepts its matter 

he fully rejects its form.  

Friday October 31, 2025

seven months ago 

he formally retired 

from the corporate world. 

one thing he won't miss is the

toxic femininity

September 2025

The Black Forest

Monday September 01, 2025

he desires to 

depart from modernity

surreptitiously.

he does not want to leave a 

trace in his own time and place. 

Tuesday September 02, 2025

paying attention 

in his fashion these days is 

quickly aging him.  

his body is whispering 

a new secret to him now.  

Wednesday September 03, 2025

thankfully he is  

slowly recovering from 

his mexican cruise.  

he has never felt this way

despite his multiple trips. 

Thursday September 04, 2025

each day brings with it 

evidence of immanent 

physical decline. 

he is preparing himself 

for the inevitable. 

Friday September 05, 2025

his mandatory 

solitary confinement 

keeps their harm at bay. 

having them stay far away 

helps him unleaven his life. 

Saturday September 06, 2025

the response to the 

novus ordo: retreat to 

the caves in the hills. 

there is no turning back now 

that the freemasons are free. 

Sunday September 07, 2025

he embodied the 

method of correlation 

without knowing it.  

this explains his lateral 

drift in academia.

Monday September 08, 2025

the new world order: 

the united nations and 

one world government. 

at least democracy was 

tried, but it was left wanting.  

Tuesday September 09, 2025

all is fine when they 

are far away, but if and 

when they are near, fear.  

it has taken many years 

of pain for him to refrain. 

Wednesday September 10, 2025

he was once willing

to be found in translation

after being lost.

the prodigal son returned,

but he was never welcomed.

Thursday September 11, 2025

from the greatest trade 

to the latest greed that rears

its dead head instead. 

now he knows more than ever 

what it means to be handcuffed.  

Friday September 12, 2025

something tells him he 

has not fully disclosed all 

that needs to be known.  

loyalty can be a vice, 

especially when it’s blind.  

Saturday September 13, 2025

all he can read is 

the contra that was written 

for the gentiles.  

it combines everything he 

needs in a single volume.  

Sunday September 14, 2025

his hard and fast line 

is as fine as it is refined 

(being as caring).  

when he crosses it, it costs 

him more than he can afford.  

Monday September 15, 2025

reading the thesis 

reminds him of a time he 

wishes he lived in.  

but he is historically

condemned to his history. 

Tuesday September 16, 2025

the indicator 

was clearly pointing downward,

despite the green trend. 

he needs to be disciplined 

about rule application.  

Wednesday September 17, 2025

it's michigan now 

at the very beginning 

of every new week.

as for the other weekdays,

it’s reading pennsylvania.

Thursday September 18, 2025

the pain of the pain 

clinic consists in the mind, 

and not the body. 

resentment begins to rear

its monocultural head. 

Friday September 19, 2025

“they’re not called lesions  

for nothing, especially 

because of the source.” 

usually hyperbole

is used to avoid backlash. 

Saturday September 20, 2025

the video feed 

is the best he will receive 

given the distance.  

the traditional readings 

more than make up for the loss. 

Sunday September 21, 2025

the lot of this dumb 

ass is to follow the dumb 

ox out to pasture. 

it's only there that he can 

safely graze in solitude. 

Monday September 22, 2025

the orange county

choppers dude was so brilliant

at marketing bikes. 

they were never meant to ride,

but only meant to reside. 

Tuesday September 23, 2025

he's realistic

enough to realize it

is far too abstract. 

all his failed beginnings is

evidence of enough of that. 

Wednesday September 24, 2025

there happened to be

a very worthless man who

shook all of it out. 

this was the second (and last)

time he would ever do this.  

Thursday September 25, 2025

he goes from scalping

to swinging depending on

the way the trade ends. 

the latter lies there in case

he falsifies the former.

Friday September 26, 2025

he did not consult

with anyone while ailing

in arabia. 

the trick here is not minding

that it hurts the way it does. 

Saturday September 27, 2025

he began with one 

reeve, and ended up learning

from another one. 

aristotle defined him 

in terms of understanding.  

Sunday September 28, 2025

it is hit and miss 

when it comes to the allure

of aurality. 

it took many years for him 

to finally hear and feel it.  

Monday September 29, 2025

retreat and retrieve 

the philosopher’s ancient 

wisdom and insight! 

now more than ever he needs 

to heed this old injunction.  

Tuesday September 30, 2025

all it is going

to take is one hundred and

eleven dollars.

given his recent record,

this can be easily done. 

August 2025

Paul Tillich

Friday August 01, 2025

what does it mean to

give a defense for the hope

that is within him?

here is another question:

why must he mean what he says?

Saturday August 02, 2025

he's now at the point

where one false fall discloses

ultimate concern. 

"where would i be without you?"

is his penultimate sign. 

Sunday August 03, 2025

that he might never  

hear the recorded sound is 

in his best interest.  

add that to sight and you have 

a deadly combination. 

Monday August 04, 2025

he discovered that

"iself" is a technical

tillichian term. 

on first reading he thought it

was a typo of "itself."

Tuesday August 05, 2025

how a man treats his

mother is the way that he

will treat his other.

for those with both eyes and ears

let them see and let them hear. 

Wednesday August 06, 2025

he disclosed his plan

to practice archival law

on main street markham. 

it took place in the office

that was once his mother's home. 

Thursday August 07, 2025

his correlation

clarifies all the issues

(methodology). 

the subtle symbolism

simply cannot be denied. 

Friday August 08, 2025

all his well-read plans

cannot withstand indifferent

indifferentism. 

he wonders if reading is

leading to abandonment. 

Saturday August 09, 2025

it's not a tumor

but a treasure beyond words 

(mariology). 

he will remain within this

mystical city of god. 

Sunday August 10, 2025

the truth was disclosed:

aquinas and agreda

are mystic symbols.

no wonder the publishing

company kept appearing. 

Monday August 11, 2025

"what is a weekend?"

is the question that he asks

himself every day. 

eternal life belongs to

those who live in the present.

Tuesday August 12, 2025

"the future is the

way that women think" (so says

jeffrey e. epstein). 

we need an apophatic

epistemology, right?

Wednesday August 13, 2025

replacement is not

a theory but a fact of

globalization. 

multiculturalism

is the means to this planned end.

Thursday August 14, 2025

all he needed was

one technically textbook trade

to cover his loss. 

his father's remark about

psychology sets him free. 

Friday August 15, 2025

both of them cancel

each other out in the end

(opposites distract). 

this is an example of 

his via negativa. 

Saturday August 16, 2025

he relies upon 

his ignatian indifference

to get through the day. 

some may say this attitude

is only a platitude. 

Sunday August 17, 2025

to be occupied

by his busy leisure is

how he works it out. 

he lived his life forwards but

now understands it backwards. 

Monday August 18, 2025

"esoteric words

don't make us holy" (so says 

thomas a kempis).

he is not the only one

who loves the imitation. 

Tuesday August 19, 2025

let the blind lead the

blind and the dead bury their

dead instead of him. 

he has next to no time for

the uninitiated. 

Wednesday August 20, 2025

now that the weather 

is colder, he can become 

bolder once again.  

putting up with the heat made 

him miss his daily mileage. 

Thursday August 21, 2025

translation is fine 

from a distance, but it can’t 

keep up with the grind.  

to think otherwise is the 

trauma of technology.  

Friday August 22, 2025

time and time again 

dasein resigns iself to  

being forgotten.  

this is the basis of his  

temporary memory.  

Saturday August 23, 2025

from metallica

to megadeth to making

metal history.

the farewell recording should

have one word in the title. 

Sunday August 24, 2025

the daily readings 

remind him to monitor 

the conciliar. 

this is how he celebrates 

transcendental providence.  

Monday August 25, 2025

the penultimate 

day before travelling to 

the retreat appears. 

that it occurs on the day 

before tomorrow gives pause.  

Tuesday August 26, 2025

he will remain mute 

within his own silent cell 

for the next three days.  

our protector of poland

deserves no more and no less.  

Wednesday August 27, 2025

removing almost 

every trace of what once was 

is the right response. 

the writing is on the screen 

and within the distant scream.  

Thursday August 28, 2025

if it is not one 

chant then it is another 

from different brothers. 

in this case they predate what 

he has listened to for years.  

Friday August 29, 2025

a full news day on

the last friday of each month

might be a signal.

it turned out to be the case

this morning once the bell rang. 

Saturday August 30, 2025

he wonders whether 

what is true and what is great 

will decide his fate.  

it’s beyond any being 

and any divinity. 

Sunday August 31, 2025

he visited it 

in the evening many years 

before it was hid.  

despite the change it remains 

true to its modern mission.  

July 2025

IHS

Tuesday July 01, 2025

he works the black screen

in complete isolation

inside of his sell. 

when it comes to currency

pairs he shares what he compares. 

Wednesday July 02, 2025

for some strange reason

the transfer failed to process

like it always does. 

was it because everyone

stopped work for the long weekend?

Thursday July 03, 2025

according to some

the freemasons yield to the

jesuit order. 

rumors and speculations

are all we have to go on. 

Friday July 04, 2025

the carthusian

school is populated with

practical mystics.

they are the sine qua non

of the jesuit order. 

Saturday July 05, 2025

the collected works

of aristotle are read

with care and concern.

it is the ignatian thing

to do now at this late stage. 

Sunday July 06, 2025

since he cannot stop

the inevitable sop,

he cuts his losses. 

he did his best with the time

that was allotted to him. 

Monday July 07, 2025

he always recalls

just how special this day is

each and every year. 

because of their history

he celebrates it fully. 

Tuesday July 08, 2025

it is official:

the family law cabal

has achieved its goal. 

he is not the only one

who gets its significance. 

Wednesday July 09, 2025

the resignation

letter was based on the one

nixon submitted.

after he left it behind, 

he walked in concentric squares. 

Thursday July 10, 2025

he has always been 

an aristotelian

sedevacantist.

his process of becoming

has more than established it. 

Friday July 11, 2025

what the video

confirmed is that he was not

made to be a monk.

if he was, he would not be

writing waka poetry. 

Saturday July 12, 2025

he was one of those 

modest men who knew most things

but published nothing. 

he loved the people he knew,

but the world did not know him. 

Sunday July 13, 2025

he was down and out

for the count because his head

was wasted instead.

he met his match while trying

to mix his signature batch. 

Monday July 14, 2025

having minimal

indicators cancels out

the price action noise. 

after the hammer appeared 

he adjusted his stop loss. 

Tuesday July 15, 2025

leaving corporate life

to care for his mother saves

him from the evil. 

it is knocking on the door

but unable to come in. 

Wednesday July 16, 2025

he hopes that looking

after the banking will save

him from the evil.

it is calling on the phone

because she is unable. 

Thursday July 17, 2025

both of their backsides

appearing at the same time

produced pregnant pause. 

as a result the fourth vow

is much more important now. 

Friday July 18, 2025

traditionalists 

who are worthy of the name

have read the thesis. 

if they become totalists,

so much the better for them. 

Saturday July 19, 2025

his solipsism

is methodological

(that is, it's as if). 

all introverts understand

the utility of it. 

Sunday July 20, 2025

he is hesitant

to participate in all

social gatherings.

and yet, when he is in them

he always enjoys himself. 

Monday July 21, 2025

and then the feeling

disappears as it always

does throughout the year.

when this happens he reacts

the very same way each time. 

Tuesday July 22, 2025

the grammar of his

scholastic metaphysics

is both known and shown. 

what gets publicly disclosed

is a fraction of the truth. 

Wednesday July 23, 2025

his hope is that his

scalping methodology

is the target key. 

it has taken many years

to unlock the trading door.

Thursday July 24, 2025

not in the evening,

not while being distracted,

and not in duress. 

he knows this because he's done

it under these conditions. 

Friday July 25, 2025

and it must never

ever be done on the first

day of his blessed rest. 

part of the learning process

is knowing what not to do. 

Saturday July 26, 2025

since there are seven

abominations in their 

hearts he won't trust them. 

he is the first to admit

that this is a consequence.

Sunday July 27, 2025

there is nothing he

can do since he is living

through the end of things. 

his goal is in sight despite

all the evil distractions. 

Monday July 28, 2025

he can't live with them

but he can live without them

(in through the outdoors). 

he has lived in the system

and knows how to walk away. 

Tuesday July 29, 2025

counteracting his

every monitored movement

is the brokerage way. 

to say otherwise is as 

naive as it is deceived. 

Wednesday July 30, 2025

noise noise noise noise noise

noise noise noise noise noise noise noise

noise noise noise noise noise.

noise noise noise noise noise noise noise

noise noise noise noise noise noise noise.

Thursday July 31, 2025

and i live now not

i, and i live now not i, 

and i live now not.

and i live now not i, and

i live now not i, and i.

June 2025

Catechism

Sunday June 01, 2025

the poles are going

to the polls to determine

their catholic future.

the traditionalist is

the lessor of two evils.

Monday June 02, 2025 

the decline was so 

evident today within 

the lawyer’s office. 

simple questions could not be 

easily answered when asked. 

Tuesday June 03, 2025 

“and I know that thou 

art a beautiful woman” 

(so says abraham).  

genesis twelve eleven 

shall never be forgotten.  

Wednesday June 04, 2025 

“my baby, then you 

put your loving arms around 

me” (sings fred again..).  

deuteronomy thirty 

three and verse twenty seven.  

Thursday June 05, 2025 

indirect answers 

have their place, but they sometimes

are used to abuse. 

depending on the question, 

some try to hide behind them.  

Friday June 06, 2025

the dimond brothers

are dimonds in the rough, but

diamonds nonetheless. 

their eschatology makes

"recognize and reject" moot.

Saturday June 07, 2025

the best thing to do

is to wisely let them all

be altogether.

the trickster within him laughed

as he wrote those first three lines. 

Sunday June 08, 2025

unrealistic

expectations blinded him

from what's required. 

there is no way in the world

it is going to happen. 

Monday June 09, 2025

the daily quota

helps him maintain his gains in

currency trading. 

his methodology is 

the long and the short of it.

Tuesday June 10, 2025

thomas aquinas

corrected aristotle

and saint augustine. 

after him there is now no

need to reinvent the wheel. 

Wednesday June 11, 2025 

they say that good things 

come to those who wait, and he 

is sure this is true. 

but the best of things will be

if they wait a bit longer.  

Thursday June 12, 2025

"people search for God

in books, but God is found in

prayer" (padre pio). 

why did thomas aquinas

never finish his summa?

Friday June 13, 2025

studying wheelock's 

latin is like studying

the philosopher.

you need both before you can

know the angelic doctor. 

Saturday June 14, 2025 

just less than one month 

later everyone could meet 

to honor their birth.  

synching personal schedules 

has become the new normal.  

Sunday June 15, 2025 

the four of them can 

demythologize their own 

legend of the fall.  

it is in the archives now, 

an event frozen in time.  

Monday June 16, 2025 

what is the correct 

hermeneutic for choosing 

a hermeneutic? 

answering this question solves 

the rupture/structure problem. 

Tuesday June 17, 2025 

he was asked and he 

answered immediately 

and attentively. 

he did not deliberate, 

neither did he hesitate.  

Wednesday June 18, 2025 

it is turning out 

to be the longest long swing 

trade in history. 

what started as a bust is 

now a must win position. 

Thursday June 19, 2025 

lonergan did not 

merely accept the modern 

world, he plundered it. 

his purpose was to create 

a new scholasticism.  

Friday June 20, 2025 

the response reminds 

him just how responsible 

he must be these days. 

his recent three-day swing trade 

serves as an analogy. 

Saturday June 21, 2025

the latest truth bomb

was an unexpected balm

for his weary soul. 

both men are models for what

it means to be a real mensch. 

Sunday June 22, 2025

in his mind he went

back to vertin's office
to gain his insight. 

his history manifests

methodological mass. 

Monday June 23, 2025

logic is static,

but method is dynamic

and therapeutic. 

all that is required is 

his self-appropriation. 

Tuesday June 24, 2025

when he practices

the discipline of silence

all falls into place. 

this is the only way he

can live a reactive life. 

Wednesday June 25, 2025

little do they know

that silent days are, in turn, 

turning him away. 

he has only so much time

to sustain his love with rhyme.

Thursday June 26, 2025

questions and answers

can only come to an end
once trust is trusted. 

he addresses their queries

with patience, kindness, and love. 

Friday June 27, 2025

the carthusian

priests avoid all confessions

from the outsiders.

they also refuse to hear

the confessions of women. 

Saturday June 28, 2025

the carthusian

brothers keep their monastic

way of life alive. 

they look after all of the

practical necessities.

Sunday June 29, 2025

the carthusian

monasteries contain men

who pray day and night. 

to say they are in the world

but not of it is a fact. 

Monday June 30, 2025

nine twenty and nine 

twenty one authorize his 

eremitic life. 

this is why he favors the 

second vatican council. 

May 2025

Matthew 19:26

Thursday May 01, 2025

to say "i will see

you soon" is a real divine

possibility.

he fully understands this

now that he has been received.

Friday May 02, 2025 

he was so enthralled 

by the romanian heights 

of his irish depths.  

on this day especially

he fondly remembers all.

Saturday May 03, 2025

"god in everything"

is the ignatian rule for

lived experience.

god in the water, god in

the river, and god in us.

Sunday May 04, 2025 

to say it’s only 

gravity that kept it there 

is scientistic.  

an aristotelian 

account is scientific.  

Monday May 05, 2025

the way they apply

their dark shadow eye is so

very appealing.

the soul of their eyes is not

just seeing but revealing.

Tuesday May 06, 2025 

he was comfortably 

numb the last time he was in 

his domicile.  

it was always welcoming 

despite what happened outside.  

Wednesday May 07, 2025

on days like today

when his brain is fully drained 

he changes his grift. 

he shifts from active trading

to analysis training.

Thursday May 08, 2025 

every so often  

he is forced into the real 

out of the ideal.  

this happens because he is 

of the world but not in it.  

Friday May 09, 2025 

conversational 

civility shall be the 

new normality.   

the virtual silence vow 

is now coming into view.  

Saturday May 10, 2025 

his divine office 

can be marian since he’s 

not a religious.  

he tried the conventional 

way but it did not work out.  

Sunday May 11, 2025 

reading lonergan 

now makes up for not reading 

him with vertin then.  

that he wrote "the study of

aristotle" was noted.  

Monday May 12, 2025 

modernity leads 

to the resolute reading 

of six point five four.  

“you must read aristotle 

before you read wittgenstein.” 

Tuesday May 13, 2025 

shorting the euro 

this morning was based on price 

action and volume.  

he watches the fear and greed 

lead on the one-minute chart.  

Wednesday May 14, 2025 

being exposed to 

ultimate despair prepares 

the self for its death.  

a human being is an  

apophatic anthropos.  

Thursday May 15, 2025 

saint isaiah the 

solitary speaks of the  

anger of the mind.  

without it a man cannot
attain empty purity.

Friday May 16, 2025 

from prime to vespers 

he prays without ceasing the 

philokalia.  

his east and his west will find

their rest within this practice. 

Saturday May 17, 2025 

thirty years ago 

he cut the umbilical 

cord with cries of joy. 

thirty years later he gets

to describe it in detail.  

Sunday May 18, 2025 

sections nine twenty 

and nine twenty-one clearly 

confirm his calling. 

even a heretical 

source cannot conceal the truth.  

Monday May 19, 2025 

with no pain to kill 

he still experimented 

with the remedy.  

feeling comfortably numb is 

preventative medicine. 

Tuesday May 20, 2025

will he lose their most

loving company, comfort,

and tranquility?

the only way to prevent

this is to absent himself. 

Wednesday May 21, 2025

his very early 

morning cosmological

dream seemed to have seams. 

they were hidden underneath

which made it more alluring. 

Thursday May 22, 2025

he wondered whether

the vogue photo shoot was in

sopot near gdańsk.

he could tell from the boardwalk,

but he still wanted to ask. 

Friday May 23, 2025

each and every thing

grinds to a halt on this the

fifth day of the week. 

it's really the sixth day, but

only the elect know why. 

Saturday May 24, 2025 

man's search for meaning 

mentored the legacy of  

logotherapy. 

maximilian kolbe 

lived the therapeutic word.  

Sunday May 25, 2025

rumi's field is a

warm place with no memory

(zihuatanejo).

brooks was here and so was red,

instead of all the sisters.

Monday May 26, 2025 

the end of the month 

is quickly approaching and 

no word has been heard.  

it is not that his patience 

has run out, but it is thin.  

Tuesday May 27, 2025 

retirement meant 

contentment after a life 

lived within boundaries.  

that they were not self-imposed 

made their release relieving.  

Wednesday May 28, 2025 

writing then and now 

demonstrates just how much his 

heart has been broken.  

that he was correct doesn’t 

mean he was beyond reproach.  

Thursday May 29, 2025

is it possible

that sedevacantism is

what keeps them away?

to stay means abandoning

their cherished modernity. 

Friday May 30, 2025 

most are interested 

in avoiding loneliness  

than anointed love.  

mocking the hierarchy  

makes them so miserable. 

Saturday May 31, 2025

the drv +

tcd + tst

= tbv. 

this elegant equation

is a sign that it's the end. 

April 2025

TLP

Tuesday April 01, 2025

the realistic 

spirit is alive and well 

in the tractatus. 

its a book of trickery 

for those who understand it. 

Wednesday April 02, 2025

saint elizabeth 

of hungary was waiting 

to open her doors. 

his history proves he is 

not in control of his life.  

Thursday April 03, 2025

yesterday he knelt 

beside past strife and across

from his future life. 

moments like these are beyond 

his mortal comprehension.

Friday April 04, 2025

he was reminded: 

the insight into insight  

remains in insight. 

at least he won’t get lost in 

academic translation.  

Saturday April 05, 2025

he stood up after 

the coffin was carried out 

of the local church.  

the significance of it
will never be lost on him. 

Sunday April 06, 2025

back in the bowels 

of his cosmopolitan 

life makes him wistful.

even though it is only 

once a week, he still feels it.  

Monday April 07, 2025

is he walking on 

a wire without a net  

to prevent his debt?

feeling this way is one thing, 

knowing this is another.  

Tuesday April 08, 2025

nadal once declared 

“we are not monks!” early on 

in our history. 

but that does not mean 

that we are not monastic. 

Wednesday April 09, 2025

when you cross over 

the rubicon turning back 

is not an option. 

it is becoming quite clear 

how this now applies to him. 

Thursday April 10, 2025

interrogation

is an inane insult to 

his intelligence.  

the raison d'être is not 

current with the currency. 

Friday April 11, 2025

to say it is "an

exaggeration" is an

exaggeration. 

to say he would "probably

agree" is chickening out. 

Saturday April 12, 2025

it turned out to be 

two for one for him despite 

the requirements. 

postman rather than onenote 

should have been the example.  

Sunday April 13, 2025

after each visit 

he feels less and less a part 

of that form of life. 

and then he reminds himself: 

that was then and this is now.  

Monday April 14, 2025

institutional 

analysis is the name 

of his trading game.  

it is as artificial 

as is his intelligence.  

Tuesday April 15, 2025

remaining unsure 

about the legal issue 

concerns his own share.

it is not his decision 

to make, but at least he cares.  

Wednesday April 16, 2025

a ray of fever 

favored him with some kandied

candy to enjoy.  

who knew that a cinnamon 

bun was in the microwave? 

Thursday April 17, 2025

in the very heat 

of the day he adored down 

to the grounding ground.  

he has given up trying  

to make ordered predictions.  

Friday April 18, 2025

scholasticism 

is alive and well among 

the analytics. 

their voices cry out against 

the rebellious rejection.  

Saturday April 19, 2025

he has been watching 

and wondering about them 

for the past six days. 

the swedish house mafia 

memory is fresh again.  

Sunday April 20, 2025

the moment is right 

when the sun comes shining through 

with all of its might.  

fred again and again and 

again and again today.  

Monday April 21, 2025

he stands fast and holds  

all the ancient traditions,  

working with silence.   

the uninitiated  

cannot listen to these things. 

Tuesday April 22, 2025

now more than ever 

he needs to dial in on 

the tragically pip.  

it is a means to an end 

that must begin once again.  

Wednesday April 23, 2025

the death of francis 

is the end of the second 

vatican council.  

his aristotelian 

return is their last concern.

Thursday April 24, 2025

he was reminded 

just how unprecidented 

and unique it is.  

he knows it's true, but it was 

nice to hear it acknowledged.  

Friday April 25, 2025 

after a complete 

ascent he will become so 

completely voiceless.  

he will be integrated 

with the unutterable.  

Saturday April 26, 2025 

there are only so 

many gesticulations 

he can tolerate. 

some people simply cannot 

take care of their own nonsense. 

Sunday April 27, 2025 

“i know that thou art 

a beautiful woman” he 

wrote 1,000 times.  

chapter twelve verse eleven 

has always been understood.  

Monday April 28, 2025 

aristotle died 

when he was sixty-two years 

old in chalcis, greece. 

he was sixty-two years old

when he started reading him. 

Tuesday April 29, 2025

he was trading through

the news and removed his slim

position in time.

mocking risk in this way is

not a long-term strategy.

Wednesday April 30, 2025 

years ago he told 

someone that he is "quick to 

get out of the woods." 

this is an ancient saying 

that gentle men always use.