Word: joachimism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your intellectuality (Joachim's egghead children) was far too scrambled for this eggnostic...
...Joachim's Children...
Your presentation of "Journalism and Joachim's Children" in the March 9 issue is a service to Western civilization . . . Man's self-announced importance and his unrestrained freedom contain the elements of his destruction...
...masterpiece. In the deep subjective sea of life, Joachim's poor children can be understood as blowfish. The little blowfish is alone and frightened, and he has worked out a system of puffing up and blowing when confronted with dangerous reality . . . The sad thing is, as you say, they have widely sold this system as a universal mode for coping with reality, so that the "pathological dream world is fairly effective." Gullible men may be impressed, but reality doesn't seem...
...West, Joachim's influence appeared at the extremes of two seemingly opposite movements. The most radical of the English Puritans thought that they could found on earth a "communion of saints" which would take over and perfect temporal government. The vigor of Renaissance humanism created in some minds other delusions about men like gods and another kind of confusion about heaven and earth. Example: Pope Leo X's "Let us enjoy the Papacy which God has given...