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...church has been a pyramid, with all wisdom flowing downward from the top. Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council suggested the possibility of a more democratic, decentralized concept of Catholicism. Paul-with his constant emphasis on the need for obedience, his surprisingly old-fashioned and orthodox Creed, and now his rather arbitrary decision on birth control-seems determined that only the Pope should speak for the church...
...authors win prizes, as they occasionally do, and make their way into anthologies. "I think it's important," he says, "that all elements of the black movement be represented in the magazines." But he has no plans to replace a tolerance of diversity with a rigid creed. "Essentially, our policy is an inspirational one," he says. "We try to motivate those who are coming up in the world, to show them that there are no barriers, no restrictions, that they have as much right to become a professional golfer as to become President...
...Creeds have been traditionally used by the church to express solidarity in times when its direct influence is waning. However, the creed you describe as "Paul's Traditionalist Credo" [July 12] represents an affirmation of metaphysics and an authoritarian slap to the liberal wing of the church. Can an action like this conceivably unite an already dividing Catholic intelligentsia...
Madame Blavatsky's doctrine is a very strange and stringent creed, highly moral despite her own aberrations, bizarre but engrossing as a compendium of comparative religion. Although H.P.B. quoted knowingly and relevantly from such ancient tracts as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Chaldean Kabalah, her main sources turned out to be 1) revelations from a secret inner circle of Eastern arahats ("masters of esoteric philosophy"), with whom she may have communicated by telepathy, and 2) "secret portions of the Book of Dzyan," a work so highly classified that only Madame Blavatsky ever heard of it. Also...
...such honest mutual recognition that the kind of political and social activity that the diggers would like to see begins. Because it is not till everyone is converted to the creed and everyone gripped by the same spirit of selflessness that institutions like the free stores and free living can flourish. Without trust nothing survives--without the trust of all nothing endures...