Today coffee with Ron, which has not happened for some time. We reconnected at Herman’s anniversary celebration at the Unity church. So, today it’ll be Phil and Sebastian on Forth. And this aft I’ll go to the senior’s tea of the Catholic Community Services. Busy day and to this I’ll have to add a small shopping trip as well.

Yesterday I finished my entry in the afternoon, while doing the laundry. I had a good snooze, cooked my supper and read some in Kurt Rudolph’s Gnosis’ Epilogue. In it he lays connections between Christianity, Islam, Manichaeism and Mandeism - followers of John the Baptist -, which is right up my alley.

This is because I do not belief that religions displace each other, but that they morph as they bag, borrow, steal and adapt. This Rudolph shows nicely in relation to early Christianity changing and absorbing Gnosis and being changed by it.

Last night I jotted down some points on modern eschatology, without any connecting text. I like to start with these first notes about ideas that I have held in my head/mind but never put on paper. So, here goes:

Aspects for a modern eschatology:

1. Continuity: - as in Existence Divine and the creator of god of old, whose existence is never questioned. Divine is the unknown, yet knowable in part.
   - as in conscious awareness relating to ‘logos’ the word that is from the beginning.
2. Absent Time: Because of continuity of existence there is no time, no end of time.
   Time/ End - Processes have time that ends, Existence does not.
3. Interconnectedness: How to overcome the time limit of the process and state in the passing on of consciousness bound to such a process ~ [is like] redemption of ignorance? Thru passing on among processes to form a network of conscious awareness, which can continue to expand.
4. Order: The need to create order in order [sic] to grow in conscious comprehension.
5. Personal continuity: of individual existence possible thru integration of lifetime experience based on acceptance of the emotions associated with those experiences.
6. Humanity’s contribution: = ethics + [combined with] consciousness.
7. Life affirming: This is the opposite of the cosmic negation.
   It is the affirmation of human existence and its contributions.

End of the notes; titles in bold added here.
<9:06am, coffee at 9:30am.