Katnut d'Katnut

Lord Byron's poetry from the Romantic Gothic Era has always been a favourite of mine and his poem or song called "She walks in Beauty" is one of my favourite poems. I love the Gothic Romantic Era as well as the more recent New Romantic movement of the 80's in fashion and music. Much of today's society and technological culture is dull, ugly, tedious and bland. The bland leading the bland. My favourite Oscar Wilde quote is: "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." Dostoyevsky proclaimed that "Beauty would save the world".

Lord Byron expressed this longing for Beauty in his famous poem from the "Hebrew Melodies". He wrote a number of poems which were set by Isaac Nathan to Jewish melodies in 1815.

Yehuda Liebes a leading Israeli Jewish scholar of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University writes:

"... I. The Doctrine of Trinity. It is a well known fact that the Zohar frequently describes the Godhead as a threefold unity, doing so in different ways.

Simeon Levi West: An Anglican Jew 

First published on internet in 2008

Croxteth Hall: Home of the Earl of Sefton and one of the estates where the West family lived and worked

Simeon Levi West (1847-1930) of 19th century New South Wales is most famous for his race horse Tradition who came second in the 1888 Melbourne Cup. In the newspaper articles of the time Mr West is described as a distinguished English gentleman.

Have America's six Bishops just sealed the fate of the Church and priesthood in the United States of America by their rejecting the supernaturality of the apparitions and visions to Sister Neuzil? There seems to be even among so-called orthodox Catholic Bishops and priests an infection of secularist and rationalist mentality when it comes to the spiritual.