In Search of the Miraculous

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Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his mighty works had been done, because they didn't repent. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. She told her story. In 1997, she said, she had fallen ill with fever, headache and vomiting, and been diagnosed as suffering from TB meningitis. Treatment had apparently been spasmodic, dependent on what her husband could afford to pay. In May 1998, she was admitted to the MoC home in the town of Patiram. It didn’t cost anything.

C. S. Lewis echoes Campbells's sentiment in his book Miracles: A Preliminary Study, when he argues that Hume begins by begging the question. He says that Hume's initial proposition — that laws of nature cannot be broken — is effectively the same question as 'Do miracles occur?'. Holland, R.F.. "The Miraculous". In American Philosophical Quarterly 2, 1965: pp. 43–51 (reprinted in Richard Swinburne below) Thank God He has given us reasons to believe in Him like the great wonderworking saints. Thank God we are given evidence for our faith in the lives of faithful men and women of God like St. John Vianney and St. Faustina Kowalska, in their miracles, their visions, their extraordinary gifts. Thank God we don’t have to believe without any evidence, without any reason, but rather that God shows His merciful face to us through Jesus, and through those who love Jesus and do His will.

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I will put forth my hand and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in its midst, and after that he will let you go. An excellent introduction to the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff. Fascinating, thorough, engaging and readable; but these traits are secondary. The early Native American inhabitants of the area, a Puebloan people who spoke the Tewa language, also believed the dirt was medicinal. Saint John Vianney had extraordinary gifts of reading souls, telling penitents their own sins when they came to him in the confessional. He offered consolation to a woman who had lost her husband to suicide, telling her that he’d repented in his final moments and so was saved, all before the woman had said one word to him. The whole story is recounted in After Suicide: There’s Hope for Them and for You by Fr. Chris Alar, MIC, and Br. Jason Lewis, MIC. Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

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As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen, When in your life, whether by a search or by chance, you meet a guru in your life, you may have found the best gift or fallen into the worst hell. Physical evolution only takes us so far and we must consciously evolve ourselves beyond this point. This way is "against god". In other words, we can all exist quite well without becoming truly conscious, just going about our lives in the ordinary way. We must go against much in our lives to become truly conscious. This latter property is not what most people mean when they use this word. Few people are actually truly conscious, which is something like being fully aware of ourselves at all times, not being lulled into stupors by our lives. You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.

I have spent 30 years seeking like a rabid dog every primordial esoteric world culture’s teaching on the soul and life on earth before known common history and I can tell you nothing is more representative of the eldest teachings on the 11 Cosmoses and the levels in beinghood in man as once known. Nothing shows better how the human energically works beyond mere biology (and yet including it some), how the keys to all mathematics, chemistry, cosmically objective chronology, symbolism, human relations, levels of consciousness, esoteric schools, creativity and culture creation, the deep morality and esoteric politics works on earth. So as we celebrate the feast of St. John Vianney on Aug. 4, let us ask his intercession. Let us ask him to help us be more like him, to imitate his works of mercy, his powerful prayer, and his faithful proclamation of the Gospel. Let us practice love of Our Lady like he did, praying and promoting the Rosary. Let us trust in the intercession of all the saints of Heaven, turning to them again and again with the impossible problems we confront today. And let us ask that St. John Vianney and all the saints help us to love God and neighbor as they did, and do now forevermore. He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith? Hume first explains the principle of evidence: the only way that we can judge between two empirical claims is by weighing the evidence. The degree to which we believe one claim over another is proportional to the degree by which the evidence for one outweighs the evidence for the other. The weight of evidence is a function of such factors as the reliability, manner, and number of witnesses.The first half of this book is very readable, straightforward, engaging and practical. Initially there were very few far-out claims, and I felt they were meant to be taken metaphorically. For instance, the idea that war is caused by the uncomfortable proximity of certain planets at certain times seems to be more an illustration of the way mass movements are the result of mechanical forces. But the book becomes more and more obtuse and really goes downhill after Ouspensky introduces this strange pretend chemistry that's way too precise and detailed to not be taken literally. It talks about 'hydrogens' and has the airs of an actual science, but is totally void of empirical justification. It's tedious and slightly embarrassing nonsense, and I don't see any value to it. There is a difference of opinion over the setting for one of Jesus’s most feted miracles – the “Wedding at Cana”, where the bible says he turned water into wine just as the night was about to run dry. Israel calls it as Kafr Kanna, a village five miles from Nazareth, and scarcely much further from the gospel fishing waters of the Sea of Galilee. But Lebanon claims it, too, as its own southerly town of Qana. Which, just 50 miles from Christ’s home town, is not completely beyond the realm of plausibility. Close to the coastal city of Tyre and its epic Roman ruins, Qana is within reach for those keen to explore a fascinating part of the Middle East.