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Peonies, Day 19

“The Eternal Tao (Panels 3 and 4)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang

“The nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth
The named is the mother of myriad things”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin

God is both hidden and manifest (nameless and named) in relationship to spiritual creatures. … Read the rest

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Peonies, Day 18

“The Eternal Tao (Panels 1 and 2)”
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang

“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named is not the eternal name”

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 1, translated by Derek Lin

Tao is the word used to translate Logos of St.… Read the rest

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Peonies, Day 17

Is God “omnipresent”? (Panel 6/6)
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang

“The nature of God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere” is an idea often attributed to St. Augustine, but which originated as far back as Empedocles in the 5th century B.C.… Read the rest

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Peonies, Day 16

Is God “omnipresent”? (Panel 5/6)
©️2020 by Gloria M. Chang

Concepts, words, images, and language all derive from spacetime. Concepts about God are like dotted lines attempting to outline formlessness. They take us to the precipice of human knowing beyond which we plunge into docta ignorantia (“learned ignorance”), in the words of the 15th century German philosopher, theologian and mystic Nicholas of Cusa.… Read the rest