I wonder if it's something like this that Eric Gill, David Jones and others were trying to build in the 1920s with their artistic retreat centre at Capel-y-ffin?
Pope Benedict was thinking along analogous lines, I feel, in his 1969 prophecy of a Church grown small and purified due to persecution and neglect: 'Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.'
Eventually the tide will turn. And that's when Rananim comes into its own.
Thanks, Farasha. Your post reminded me of Richard Gregg, the American Gandhian whose biography I reviewed recently. In the 1920's, he spent several years with Gandhi at his ashram, which was an intentional community of sorts. Out of that experience, he wrote several books, including The Value of Voluntary Simplicity, the idea of which is implicit in Lawrence's and your description, it seems to me. In the past, you told me that DHL referred to Gandhi, and so I was wondering if the ashram idea had contributed to his thinking. That aside, but in a similar vein, I've just visited a beautiful 'chiesa rupestra' in a gravina in Mottola, Puglia, where a tiny community of early Christians hid from the Moors. DHL would surely have seen similar things during his time in Italy, no? (P.S. It appears that I can no longer 'like' your posts, but rest assured that I do).
I wonder if it's something like this that Eric Gill, David Jones and others were trying to build in the 1920s with their artistic retreat centre at Capel-y-ffin?
Pope Benedict was thinking along analogous lines, I feel, in his 1969 prophecy of a Church grown small and purified due to persecution and neglect: 'Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new. They will discover it as a hope that is meant for them, an answer for which they have always been searching in secret.'
Eventually the tide will turn. And that's when Rananim comes into its own.
Thanks, Farasha. Your post reminded me of Richard Gregg, the American Gandhian whose biography I reviewed recently. In the 1920's, he spent several years with Gandhi at his ashram, which was an intentional community of sorts. Out of that experience, he wrote several books, including The Value of Voluntary Simplicity, the idea of which is implicit in Lawrence's and your description, it seems to me. In the past, you told me that DHL referred to Gandhi, and so I was wondering if the ashram idea had contributed to his thinking. That aside, but in a similar vein, I've just visited a beautiful 'chiesa rupestra' in a gravina in Mottola, Puglia, where a tiny community of early Christians hid from the Moors. DHL would surely have seen similar things during his time in Italy, no? (P.S. It appears that I can no longer 'like' your posts, but rest assured that I do).