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Passage through the Garden State Parkway is limited to those who have sinned greatly. You have to use exact change only, and it is dispersed in various areas under the drivers seat so you have to scramble to find it while the demons honk and curse at you. There's a canon on this somewhere.

Andrew

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm,
didn't Father Divine pronounce a curse on that thoroughfare many eaons ago? as one who has been up and down that road, it certainly seems to have been jinxed. yes, it has, oh yes.
Much Love,
Jonn

I posted this on another thread, but I think it fits in this one too.

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I will quote a few things here from the book "Saint Gregory Palamas as a Hagiorite", by Metropolitan of Nafpaktos Hierotheos. Although these quotes are not about hell, hades or purgatory, but about heaven:

"The whole text, (in the Bible), that describes the Transfiguration of Christ, but also all that preceded the event point out to us the path of deification, which is also the path to vision of the uncreated Light..."

"There is need for confession of Christ, certainty and confession the He is the one and only Redeemer. It is within the unshakeable faith in Christ that the prerequisites for the vision of God are created..."

"Basically it is a struggle for purity, which proceeds through patience, perseverance and hope in God..."

"...that the uncreated Light is the mystery of the age to come, and it is also the Kingdom of God."

"Man was made in the image and likeness of God. In the teaching of the holy Fathers the likeness is equivalent to the deification of man. Therefore the purpose of man is to attain deification."

When a person attains the vision of the uncreated Light in the Person of the Logos, he is deified. The vision of the uncreated Light is "union and deification" of a person, 'participation and deifying communion". During deification a person is united with God."

"There are many degrees of vision of the Light..."

"But here we wish to add that there is no ending to this perfection. In patrisitic theology standing still is regarded as *falling*."

"St. Gregory Palamas writes about this point: 'This vision of God has both a beginning and things after the beginning, varying in darkness and clarity; but there is no end at all, for its progress is infinite, like tht of the ravishment in revelation". So there is no end to this vision of God, but an endless progression."

"Vision of the uncreated Light has many degres. It depends on the person's spiritual condition and God's gift. The experience of God's purifying, enlightening and deifying energy operates in accordance with the degree of one's participation in divine Grace."
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Just a few quotes.

Zenovia

Dear Andrew,

Well I'm glad someone else knows about those honking 'demons' on the Garden State Pkwy.

Zenovia

Zenovia,

if you're good and you make it through, you end up in Bergen County.

Andrew