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Ep. 19 – Improbable and Magical: A Tribute To G.K. Chesterton

Alan Watts Being in the Way

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The Beatific Vision

Sunday is a very interesting institution. It's a modification of the Jewish idea that after the six days of creation, when God was working, took a day off. Sunday is an expression like whoopee. We say to swing it, get with it. And that is, of course, what all those angels are doing, the beatific vision. That means bayatus in Latin, we translate it, blessed, but that's a rather pious word. It really means happy. Joyous, bayatus.

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