My Interests Questioned
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seraphimsigrist
seven is a lot but perhaps one?
abandoned buildings is there
a particular abandoned building that
comes to memory when you thing of these?
This is embarassing. I was about to write about how the abandoned record factory down by the tracks at the foot of the gorge in my college town is now a museum dedicated to the pioneers of recorded jazz, but when I went to the site of the foundation, I discovered that the record factory is in fact on the other side of the river, so the place I walked around in the middle of the night my freshman year (different times!) must have been something else, and may have been torn down since. But I will give you a link to the foundation anyway, as it seems to be worth visiting, and to have some rare old pressings remastered for CD:
http://www.starrgennett.org/
From:kubilai9
ok. i'll do it. but i'm only picking a few highlights ...
Chartreuse?
When I was a kid, that was the color of the chairs in the living room. As for today, well, just take a sip and you will see!
http://www.chartreuse.fr/
Of course the monks who make this were the subject of a wonderful film, The Great Silence.
Western mystery tradition?
Ah yes, I see. Might be something like Gene Autry, Singing Cowboy Detective. (Didn't he cut his first record in Richmond, IN?) But no, I had things like Kaballah, alchemy, ceremonial magic, maybe even astrology in mind. But this is a topic, or these are topics, so weighty I may have to return to them later.
Melkite Catholics?
Well, I am a Russian Catholic. The first (or second, if philosopher and mystic Vladimir Soloviev was the first) Russian Catholic in our sense of the term was a Father Tolstoy, an Orthodox priest who wanted to convert to Roman Catholicism but was refused on the grounds that he had a perfectly good tradition as it was. The Pope (Leo XIII?, St. Pius X?) told him that he could be a Byzantine priest in communion with the Holy See under the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch, an Orthodox body which united with Rome in 1725, I think, but was persecuted by the Ottoman Empire, which imposed an Orthodox hierarchy ruled by Constantinople. My present pastor is a Melkite priest, married, with children, retired from the NYC Board of Education. See http://www.melkite.org/
(Tolstoy was a follower of Soloviev, and Soloviev received communion from him after his change of jurisdiction, which is why some Orthodox consider Soloviev an apostate and heretic, and others insist that he must have "repented" before the end.)
seraphimsigristseven is a lot but perhaps one?
abandoned buildings is there
a particular abandoned building that
comes to memory when you thing of these?
This is embarassing. I was about to write about how the abandoned record factory down by the tracks at the foot of the gorge in my college town is now a museum dedicated to the pioneers of recorded jazz, but when I went to the site of the foundation, I discovered that the record factory is in fact on the other side of the river, so the place I walked around in the middle of the night my freshman year (different times!) must have been something else, and may have been torn down since. But I will give you a link to the foundation anyway, as it seems to be worth visiting, and to have some rare old pressings remastered for CD:
http://www.starrgennett.org/
From:
kubilai9ok. i'll do it. but i'm only picking a few highlights ...
Chartreuse?
When I was a kid, that was the color of the chairs in the living room. As for today, well, just take a sip and you will see!
http://www.chartreuse.fr/
Of course the monks who make this were the subject of a wonderful film, The Great Silence.
Western mystery tradition?
Ah yes, I see. Might be something like Gene Autry, Singing Cowboy Detective. (Didn't he cut his first record in Richmond, IN?) But no, I had things like Kaballah, alchemy, ceremonial magic, maybe even astrology in mind. But this is a topic, or these are topics, so weighty I may have to return to them later.
Melkite Catholics?
Well, I am a Russian Catholic. The first (or second, if philosopher and mystic Vladimir Soloviev was the first) Russian Catholic in our sense of the term was a Father Tolstoy, an Orthodox priest who wanted to convert to Roman Catholicism but was refused on the grounds that he had a perfectly good tradition as it was. The Pope (Leo XIII?, St. Pius X?) told him that he could be a Byzantine priest in communion with the Holy See under the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch, an Orthodox body which united with Rome in 1725, I think, but was persecuted by the Ottoman Empire, which imposed an Orthodox hierarchy ruled by Constantinople. My present pastor is a Melkite priest, married, with children, retired from the NYC Board of Education. See http://www.melkite.org/
(Tolstoy was a follower of Soloviev, and Soloviev received communion from him after his change of jurisdiction, which is why some Orthodox consider Soloviev an apostate and heretic, and others insist that he must have "repented" before the end.)