City of God

Today's site music is

Nous Voici Dans La Ville.

The central aim of Western religion — 

"Each of us has something to offer the Creator...
the bridging of
masculine and feminine,
life and death. It's redemption....
nothing else matters."
-- Martha Cooley in The Archivist (1998)

The central aim of Western philosophy — 

                 Dualities of Pythagoras
                 as reconstructed by Aristotle:
                 Limited     Unlimited
                 Odd         Even
                 Male        Female
                 Light       Dark
                 Straight    Curved
                 ... and so on ....

"Of these dualities, the first is the most important; all the others may be seen as different aspects of this fundamental dichotomy. To establish a rational and consistent relationship between the limited [man, etc.] and the unlimited [the cosmos, etc.] is… the central aim of all Western philosophy."
— Jamie James in
   The Music of the Spheres (1993)

"In the garden of Adding,
Live Even and Odd….
And the song of love's recision
is the music of the spheres."
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
   City of God, by E. L. Doctorow (2000)

Today is the feast of St. Johann Sebastian Bach.