July 28, 2003
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City of God
Today’s site music is
The central aim of Western religion —
“Each of us has something to offer the Creator…
the bridging of
masculine and feminine,
life and death.
It’s redemption…. nothing else matters.”
– Martha Cooley in The Archivist (1998)
The central aim of Western philosophy —
Dualities of Pythagoras
as reconstructed by Aristotle:
Limited Unlimited
Odd Even
Male Female
Light Dark
Straight Curved
… and so on ….
“Of these dualities, the first is the most important; all the others may be seen as different aspects of this fundamental dichotomy. To establish a rational and consistent relationship between the limited [man, etc.] and the unlimited [the cosmos, etc.] is… the central aim of all Western philosophy.”
– Jamie James in
The Music of the Spheres (1993)
“In the garden of Adding
live Even and Odd…
And the song of love’s recision
is the music of the spheres.”
– The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
City of God, by E. L. Doctorow (2000)
Today is the feast of St. Johann Sebastian Bach.
