Superbia

Einstien marked the veracity of theories not by how much they made sense but by their beauty. For me this has to do with simplicity – if it’s not easily comprehended by my finite imagination then it cannot be true!When asked how he turned a boulder into something beautiful with ease Leonardo Da Vinci replied –

  

“ I see all that should not be there and quickly carve it off.”

Much of what Rohr, the son of a Kansas railwayman, is saying is so beautiful that it must be true. We have lost sight of Common sense terrestrial reality in the West.   Although rooted in the Eternal Francis of Assisi was trying to restore us to our terrestrial roots as early as the twelfth century. Companions like Brother Death taught Francesco that he was not here forever. He wanted his brothers to be harbingers of the present moment, the only thing we have as a finite horizon stretches out ahead of us. He saw that the purpose of a book was to stretch beyond ourselves, to try and make us immortal and a vehicle for our limited ideas and warped imagination to endure, challenging God who only deals with the cardial event of the present. As such the wiry frame of the Little Man of Assisi was to be seen on the roof of the library that his uninitiated brothers had constructed. Incandescent with rage he pulled it down tile by tile.  

The juridical farce that was pre-Vatican II Christianity had at least one thing correct – Pride is the root of all evil. UK Pounds sterling,

“Promise to pay the bearer on demand.”

 In other words

” I give you something that pretends to be something. You in return give me a material possession which even further pumps up my ego.”

 In direct contravention to the Spirit of the Beatitudes money makes us believe we have something when we do not.

In a spirit of genuine misapprehension once again in true Galliean style Francesco’s brothers brought him money that they had procured. Exclaiming in disgust Francis took it in his mouth and dropped it in the deep earthen latrine.