Bruce Charlton's Notions

It was in the summer of 1978 that I first read Colin Wilson's The Outsider, borrowed from the Edinburgh City Library; and for only the s...

Against the background that our destiny is to become like God, we will all - sooner or later - reach a zero point from-which only Christ ca...

These two aphorisms from William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell... http://www.levity.com/alchemy/blake_ma.html ....combine to e...

The meaning of the fact that Jesus Christ was both Man and God has proved very difficult to elucidate - despite that it is true. Clearly, th...

William Wildblood brings his usual calm, comprehensive and loving perspective to bear upon this vital theme. One of the most insightful piec...

In which John Michell explains why feet and inches, pints and gallons, pounds and ounces are divine in origin - whereas metres, litres and g...

So there is no point in discussing the subject. Christian sin is a concept relating to the reality of God and his plan of salvation. Norma...

Through our weakness, as well as strength - failures sometimes more than success - being brought-low as often, or more than, raised-above......

Ariana Grande-Filth - By Peter Mullen The pop-star who performed at the event in Manchester at which 22 members of the audience were murde...

Men have been on the wrong track, hijacked and diverted, for many generations - probably about 200 years. Instead of pursuing the developmen...

I'm feeling highly honoured that the new Home Page of the  Owen Barfield Literary Estate web pages includes my summary of the core of Ba...

There aren't many people who sincerely value freedom. The Left say they want sexual freedom; but what they really want is to shut-down...

My childhood was spent in the West Country of England - Devon and Somerset. The climate there is temperate - warm summers, and not-very-...

Van Wyck Brooks tells us Whitman in old age Sat by a pond in nothing but his hat, Crowding his final notebooks page by page With nam...

It doesn't much matter what people say ; but if you observe what they do , advocate, approve - it seems that many or most people favour ...

By the very process of thinking , of 'cognition', we create alienation: we create a reality in which there are 'things out there...

'I'll hae nae haufway hoose, but aye be whaur Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken To dodge the cursed conceit o' bein...

It is simply hard-headed realism to recognise The Problem as spiritual in origin. It is just a fact that the Global (Leftist) Establishment ...

The totalitarian state notched up another ratchet in Britain this week. Terrorism is now proposed and accepted as normal.  Increasingly-comp...

Edited from William Wildblood at Albion Awakening: Modern Christianity has lost its sense of sacred mystery. Now, mystery is the essence o...

It is hard, but not impossible, to change oneself - including for the better. That, indeed, is the problem at present - the barrier to doi...