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“Original participation fires the heart from a source outside itself; the images enliven the heart. But in final participation—since the death and resurrection—the heart is fired from within by the Christ and it is for the heart to enliven the images.”
-Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances, 172. See also “Philology and the Incarnation,” in Barfield, Rediscovery of Meaning, to understand Christ’s relevance to the transition from one stage to another.

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It is a tumultuous surf because eschatology is mainly about judgment, and judgment is the revelation of things as they really are. One day that judgment will be apocalyptic (all masks ripped off), but it has already begun in the liturgy and overshadows our lives.
-David W. Fagerberg Consecrating the World On Mundane Liturgical Theology

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He stood outside the horse truck, waiting for Mogador to come back, and he began to whistle. Across the field the men had taken down the sides of the tent and were moving about in dim light under the top, picking up trunks, ropes and equipment and packing it away. He began to whistle a tune from the depths of his soul; he had never heard it before but he recognized it as a form of the song his soul had always been singing, a song he had been singing since the beginning of the world, a song of return. It was as though he stood in a dark corner of the universe and whistled softly, between his teeth, and the far stars were attentive, as though he whistled and waves far off could hear him, as though he had discovered a strain at least of the night song of the world.
-Robert Lax, Circus of the Sun, Rastelli

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