THE answer?

the presumption that the search for a final Lebens-, Welt-, Menschheits-Erklärung...
a final ontosophy
Is and is possible

Abyss contra Kosmos

in mid May 1832 Emerson wrote in his journal:
"I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos."

Nietzsche would later say "Abyss".

the pathos of theodicy

theodicy is a kind of intellectual prayer

views of nature

Romantic Naturanschauung
Industrial Naturanschauung
Atomic Naturanschauung
Post-Atomic Naturanschauung

Jefferson's "equality" vs the Purusha Sukta?

the Purusha Sukta seems to have a more "realistic" idea of mankind's differences in it than the "American Creed" in the Declaration of Independence

Dante beyond Jefferson ...and the pursuits of...

"...that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,..."

the pursuit of Knowledge

the pursuit of Wisdom

the pursuit of Truth

the pursuit of "God"

threadbare, hand-me-down beliefs

many Christians try to clothe their souls in tattered, threadbare, hand-me-down notions and beliefs

the civil religion USA's Pope

the US president is the Pope and the Emperor of the "civil religion" America

Heilsgeschichte?

Verweilungsgeschichte? ;)

saving Christ from unresurrectable disbelief?

much if not most modern theology seems like an epigonic, all-too-humanized attempt not at apologia, but at desperately saving Christ(ianity) from unresurrectable disbelief

Nietzsche to Dante

Nietzsche to Dante:
'actually it is a tragedy'

Nietzsche saw...

Nietzsche saw nothing outside Plato's cave

nature vs nuture?

for most, nuture has the force of nature

cosmoteleosis? anthropoteleosis?

teleosis (Ernst Haeckel)
ergo teleology, teleosophy

cosmogenesis, ergo cosmoteleosis,
anthropogenesis, ergo anthropoteleosis

archangel (Michael) ex machina?

when the anthroposophists can clearly relate their heroic archangel Michael to Mendeleev's Periodic Table of the Elements, they will be getting some serious where along

anthroposophical myth mists

anthroposophists live, think and have their being inside of a misty mythic history

man's problem of meaning

the problem, the question of the "meaning" of life and the universe...
is man's

compare Boethius, Thoreau and MLK, Jr in prison

Nietzsche's professors...

Nietzsche was a seeker...
the professors who rejected him were not.

who but few can name his professors now?

adolescent Augustine vandalism

about those pears...
"Adam made him me do it!"

years of Sinaic thunder

the lighting on Sinai thundered through the many years thenafter...
growing weaker as it echoed longer and further on...

if Adam fell...

pull "Adam" out, and how much subsequent collapses

the canonical revelation

the history of the canon is a revelation of the human creature

The Revelation of Toto

how much of the reality of human institutions, society, culture, history,...is revealed in this scene from the Wizard of Oz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZR64EF3OpA

Goethe on Augustine's Confessions?

it would be historically, intellectually and "spiritually" revealing to know just what Goethe thought of Augustine, his Confessions, and doctrine of "original sin"

searching for a hidden room

searching for Truth in "Religion" and "Philosophy" is like searching for years for a hidden room of gold treasures in a vast, sprawling, ages-old city

true philosophers...

those who only really feel alive and reconciled in their other-worldly search and finding

every book

every book is a Bible, however uninspired

for a "vision of God"...

does the end justify the means?
do the means mystify the end?