Aside from a personal project, the text of A Course in Miracles is hosted as a Lectio Divina and good-faith means of propagating peace on earth; the 365 daily lessons also serve as a Shavian reading primer for all those studying to reform English orthography...
While valued internationally as a lingua franca, English cannot be written in Latin characters without consistently violating alphabetical principles; to teach such anomalous rules of spelling is to frustrate all learners with illogic. Truly, I say to you, we can remedy this insanity: read & transcribe.
๐ข๐ฒ๐ค ๐๐จ๐ค๐ฟ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐๐ผ๐ฏ๐จ๐๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฆ ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฆ๐๐๐ข๐ฉ ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐๐๐ฉ, ยท๐ฆ๐๐๐ค๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ ๐๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ฉ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฏ ยท๐ค๐จ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐๐ผ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฏ๐๐ค๐ฆ ๐๐ฒ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฑ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐จ๐ค๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ฆ๐๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐ค๐; ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฉ๐ ๐ฎ๐ต๐ค๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ค๐ฆ๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ท๐ค ๐ค๐ป๐ฏ๐ผ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ก๐ฆ๐. ๐๐ฎ๐ต๐ค๐ฆ, ๐ฒ ๐๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฟ, ๐ข๐ฐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ: ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ & ๐๐ฎ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฒ๐.
Tall:
๐ /p/ pin
๐ /t/ tan
๐ /k/ key
๐ /f/ fay
๐ /ฮธ/ thorn
๐ /s/ sea
๐ /ส/ shy
๐ /สง/ chai
๐ /j/ yen
๐ /ล/ song
Deep:
๐ /b/ bell
๐ /d/ dun
๐ /ษก/ gill
๐ /v/ vow
๐ /รฐ/ thou
๐ /z/ zoo
๐ /ส/ zho
๐ก /สค/ joy
๐ข /w/ way
๐ฃ /h/ who
Short:
๐ค /l/ lamb
๐ฅ /m/ me
๐ฆ /ษช/~/i/ in
๐ง /ษ/ edge
๐จ /รฆ/ ash
๐ฉ /ษ/ ago
๐ช /ษ/ on
๐ซ /ส/ oomph
๐ฌ /aส/ ounce
๐ญ /ษห/ alms
๐ฎ /r/ row
๐ฏ /n/ now
๐ฐ /iห/ eave
๐ฑ /eษช/ aim
๐ฒ /aษช/ eyes
๐ณ /ส/ up
๐ด /ษส/ oath
๐ต /u(ห)/ ooze
๐ถ /ษษช/ oil
๐ท /ษห/ ought
Compound:
๐ธ /ษห(r)/ aria
๐น /ษห(r)/ aura
๐บ /ษษ(r)/ aero
๐ป /ษห(r)/ early
๐ผ /ษ(r)/ array
๐ฝ /ษชษ(r)/ eerie
๐พ /ษชษ/ Ian
๐ฟ /ju(ห)/ yule
As a scholar of religious rites and angelology, with over a decade of experience practicing the ceremonial arts of the Trithemian lineage, I am always seeking insight and cross-cultural inroads toward my appreciation of Abrahamic dispensations and techniques of Eastern spirituality.
Personally, I hold certain Restorationist opinions which I've specifically deemed Immanuelan, or Renascent Christianity. My convictions rest with the sayings of Jesus in the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, which proclaim a holy immanence, abiding and inclusive of all humanity, that is wholly capable of being known. "The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the children of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty." ~ Gospel of Thomas, ยง3
Although I maintain there is a continuity of revelation mediated by angelic ministry, and that Christ, in the office of Melchizedek, reinstated the Temple Mysticism redacted by Josiah's Deuteronomistic Reforms, thereby affirming every person has the capacity for theophany, I do not define my faith by mere statements of belief, nor do I profess hegemonic dogmas to be intrinsic to the practice of true religion. "For humanity was not created for such a purpose, to give confirmation to their good faith with pen and ink." ~ Enoch II, 69:10. Moreover, "the attempt to formalize religion is so obviously an ego attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable that it hardly requires elaboration here." ~ ACIM, Psychotherapy Pamphlet, 2.II.2:2-3
Carl Jung rightly anticipated our deep need for a spirituality beyond platitudes. While he was sorely disappointed by institutional Christianity, he nonetheless regarded it as an innate cultural inheritance, whose legacy constitutes the long shadow cast behind the spiritual psyche of the West:
โIf I remain so critically averse to [the many disciplines called] yoga, it does not mean that I do not regard this spiritual achievement of the East as one of the greatest things the human mind has ever created. I hope my exposition makes it sufficiently clear that my criticism is directed solely against the application of yoga to the peoples of the West. The spiritual development of the West has been along entirely different lines from that of the East and has therefore produced conditions which are the most unfavorable soil one can think of for the application of yoga. Western civilization is scarcely a thousand years old and must first of all free itself from its barbarous one-sidedness. This means, above all, deeper insight into the nature of humanity. But no insight is gained by repressing and controlling the unconscious, and least of all by imitating methods which have grown up under totally different psychological conditions. In the course of the centuries the West will produce its own yoga, and it will be on the basis laid down by Christianity.โ ~ The Collected Works... Vol. 11: Psychology and Religion: West & East, VIII ยง876ย
It is more than a wonder that such a development began in 1965, only a few years after his death. As a curriculum of mind training, A Course in Miracles reveals a thoroughly gnostic discipline aimed at perfecting relationships, attaining spiritual vision, and realizing total serenity. While often said to feature near-analogies to Vedantic philosophy, there are more than a few parallels with Buddhism and its tantras, particularly the concepts of โviewing the result as the path,โ recognizing one's "inner teacher," and a commitment to universal forgiveness effectively "emptying all hells of the condemned" before realizing salvation.ย
Published shortly before the complete translation of The Nag Hammadi Library in 1976, the Course likewise stands as a providential response to the ongoing reappraisal of Christianity and Judaism in light of Gnosticism, the lost gospels, and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Situated within the history of the Church, whose theology has been so contested and debased through two millennia of logomachy, I regard this to be the lattermost among three revelations exemplary of the religionโs renewal...ย
โA universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary.โ ~ A Course in Miracles, Manual for Teachers; 1965
โI have been permitted to see the wonders of heaven and the world of spirits, and also to speak with angels and spirits as one man with another.โ ~ Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia; 1749
โThe Lord visiteth, and is of power, and that the imaginations of man fly before themselves, as the dust of the earth doth before him that moveth it; I open unto you a seal, yet secret and not known." ~ Angel Uriel, to John Dee & Edward Kelley; 1584
If you aspire to reclaim your Christian heritage from those worshiping the POTUS, or all those who've used it to support worldly exploitation, racism, and nationalist war-mongering, I'd be more than happy to instruct you in the subversion of their doctrines. And if you're an occultist or practitioner of like mind, amenable to philosophy and theological studies, who values humanitarian ethics and acknowledges the unity of peoples above all: join my cause in establishing a guild and worker's union petitioning for wider recognition of wonder-working as an honorable profession much needed by the populace and world at large.
Our vocalic hymns are openly provided for all those unable to articulate their heartfelt prayers... "God does not understand words, for they were made by separated minds to keep them in the illusion of separation." ~ ACIM, Manual, 21:1ย
Join us in consonance without consonants, for we beseech divinity beyond names... โThe whole of God's name also includes meaning and spirit and air and everything at once that is in them or through them or from them; no, I cannot hope to name the maker of all majesty, the begetter and master of everything, with a single name, even a name composed of many names; Divinity is nameless or rather all-named since God is one and all, so that one must call all things by Godโs name or call Divinity by the names of everything.โ ~ Hermes Trismegistus, Corpus Hermeticum, Sermon to Asclepius, ยง20