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More Artists on Evil: An Opera on the Anti-Christ Playing in Berlin 3/31/2025 |
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In Saturday’s DM, I emphasized how Evil is often best spoken of by artists. (Hildegard and Luca Signorelli being integral to my most recent book on the subject and Mersault’s brilliant satire has been upfront in recent DM’s.) Lo and behold! A friend sent me an email recently with the post "a rare
performance in Berlin of Anti-Krist." It brings news about an opera originally composed in the 1920s and currently running in Berlin named Anti-Krist, “Anti-Christ.” |
Art assists us to find a language for what we are undergoing in the world today, whether vis-à-vis climate change or the rise of fascism. In my major book on Evil, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul & Society, I propose a new language for evil, based on the seven capital sins of the West and the seven chakras of the East. Poet Rafael Jesus Gonzales affirmed my most recent DM and sent me some cartoons (another important art form to speak truth to power), calling them appropriate for April |
Will Trump "lay an egg" at the annual Easter event? Digital art by Rafael Jesus Gonzales. Used with permission. |
Fools’ Day. Happy April Fools’ Day tomorrow! In the Anti-Krist opera, Lucifer sends the Antichrist into a godless world who adopts man guises. Humankind is tested and tempted by pride, lust, lies, despondency and hatred in “all-against-all altercations.” |
Teaser highlights from the Berlin Opera House's production of Anti-Krist, with extreme stylized costume designs by Ersan Mondtag and Annika Lu. Video by Naxos Music. | Based on the Book of the Apocalypse and “suffused with fin de siecle atmosphere and pessimism,” the opera warns of catastrophe and denounces the vices of the modern age. The music is described as “exuberant” and “eccentric.” The opera’s finale features the world freed of evil and sorrow in a |
culminating chorus scene, thus fulfilling the composer’s belief that music connects people to the godhead. Hope comes from the music itself. Called “one of the most remarkable experiments in 1920’s opera,” it was composed by the Danish composer, Rued Langgaard. Is it perhaps
synchronistic that the MAGA president, often called antichrist, is seeking to seize Greenland from Denmark at this very time? |
The opera foretells “a doomsday frenzy” as a parable of our own times. Issues like social fragmentation, the roughening of public discourse and the bitter climate debate rage. [Today’s] late-capitalist-era appears on the verge of collapse: a car plummets from a grave, satanic figures swirl around, people are tested and set loose on each other. We are told “punchy and fantastical” images abound. Of course, apocalypse also means revelation, and for many, the apocalypse is the mother of invention and has given rise to all the science of the modern day…The end of time also contains the seeds of a rebirth. |
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Good Friday gives way to Easter Sunday. The Dark Night yields to Breakthroughs and new births, the Via Negativa to the Via Creativa and Transformativa after all. Langgaard has been dead for over 75 years, but his opera seems to speak to our day
where plenty of apocalypses are happening at once. One article about the opera is entitled: “We are the apocalypse.” |
SIGN THE PLEDGE: Boycott pro-Trump corporations for Lent this year. Faithful America. See Matthew Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society. And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ. And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors To Awaken the Sacred Masculine. And Fox, Original Blessing: A Primer on Creation Spirituality. And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth. Banner Image: Promotional poster for Rued Langgaard’s Anti-Krist, now playing at the Berlin Opera House. Art by Thomas Aurin. From the Deutsche Oper
Berlin website. |
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Queries for Contemplation |
What works of art instruct you about Evil and ways to name it and stand up to it? And resist it and not fall into denial about its power? Be sure to contribute in ways you can to joining the resistance whether by way of prayers, attending town halls, or calling
legislators’ offices. |
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling
author Matthew Fox offers a new theology of evil that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another, and all of nature. In comparing the Eastern tradition of the 7 chakras to the Western tradition of the 7 capital sins, Fox allows us to think creatively about our capacity for personal and institutional evil and what we can do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a better vision and depth of perception far beyond the grasp of any one single science. A breath-taking analysis.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, author of Quantum Theology: Spiritual Implications of the New Physics |
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Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election Matthew Fox tells us
that he had always shied away from using the term “Anti-Christ” because it was so often used to spread control and fear. However, given today’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables in this book employing the archetype for the cause of justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity. For immediate access to Trump & The MAGA Movement as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election, order the e-book with 10 full-color prints from Amazon HERE. To get a print-on-demand paperback copy with black & white images, order from Amazon HERE or IUniverse HERE. To receive a limited-edition, full-color paperback copy, order from MatthewFox.org HERE. Order the audiobook HERE for immediate download. |
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The Hidden Spirituality of Men: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he unearths ten metaphors,
or archetypes, ranging from the Green Man, an ancient pagan symbol of our fundamental relationship with nature, to the Spiritual Warrior….These timeless archetypes can inspire men to pursue their higher calling to connect to their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Every man on this planet should read this book — not to mention every woman who wants to understand the struggles, often unconscious, that
shape the men they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, author of The Left Hand of God |
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Original Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out a whole new direction for Christianity—a direction that is in fact very ancient and very grounded in
Jewish thinking (the fact that Jesus was a Jew is often neglected by Christian theology): the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an extended and deeply developed way.
“Original Blessing makes available to the Christian world and to the human community a radical cure for all dark and derogatory views of the natural world wherever these may
have originated.” –Thomas Berry, author, The Dream of the Earth; The Great Work; co-author, The Universe Story |
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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in North American Creation Spirituality and in South
American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just Creator.
“A watershed theological work that offers a common ground for religious seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality
and Practice.
“I am reading Liberating Gifts for the People of the Earth by Matt Fox. He is one that fills my heart and mind for new life in spite of so much that is violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang. |
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The Return of Father Sky: A Cosmic Mystery for Kids of All Ages
The second book in the Father Fox’s Fantastical Fables series, The Return of Father Sky helps boys and girls to celebrate a new
relationship with the masculine by way of Father Sky, whose return excites joy and wonder and possibility that enlarge the soul to welcome others and all creation. Written in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-like style, this full-color, beautifully illustrated book, written by world- renowned theologian Matthew Fox weaves together modern science and classic spirituality in a whimsical, entertaining format to illustrate important truths to readers aged 4 and up. With artwork curated from illustrators around
the world, this book expresses the joy and wonder of all peoples and cultures, planting seeds of respect, cooperation and hope to work together for the healing of our planet. |
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Creation Spirituality Conversations |
Matthew was recently interviewed by Sandie Sedgbeer on her program “What is Going OM,” about his book, “Trump and the MAGA Movement as AntiChrist.” Watch or listen HERE. |
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