The Gaping Door: the Search for Truth and Love

The Gaping Door can be also titled - Closer to the Immutable Truth, Closer to Divine Ground, or The Mystery of Sacred Ecstasy. It argues that the chief illness, which causes the greatest disorder and affliction of any age is straying from truth and love; it is to deviate from the unchanging truth; it is the insensibility to be unconcerned or insufficiently concerned about our 'personal eschatology.' Without the quest for truth, which is inseparable from the quest for love, our existence becomes pointless, comfortless and beset with perils for neither felicity nor safety can be ensured by believing in falsehoods and abiding in untruth or half-truth. Any epistemic position which holds disbelief in God, robs one from the incentives for moral and educational improvements, from esteeming the intellectual power, from passionate aspiring, and more importantly, deprives one of the need to love. The power in accordance with which everything exists, preserves its being and is conceived, is the power of God, and human life is regarded as a supreme gift and act of God's dynamic, creative and inimitable love. Without God - without the existence of ultimate truth and love, there is no possibility of being perfected and hence, there can neither be prospect of true progress nor true being. The spiritual evolution is viewed not as being brought from below but called forth from above; the final point the Omega is the dynamic, magnetic and appealing power to which the entire creation is moving upward. This book presents the 'ethics of holiness' as the unequivocal way to get light on truth; it describes the process through which human reason can be perfected and employed properly in attaining true knowledge; it discusses the existence of evil and some of its functions, and the necessity and meaning of suffering; it examines the conception of true greatness of the soul; it explores thoroughly the concept of genuine love - being viewed as our identity, dignity and fulfillment, and thus wi