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THE FINER FURY

Rip Parker
10 min readDec 24, 2021

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SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Fury is defined as violent anger. Finer fury is fury refined into focused intention, avoiding anger, violence and hatred, but intensely energized to a level of ferocity. The danger of this condition is that its very power tempts us to lapse into negative emotions like fear, anger, hatred. That is deadly. But, kept free of the negatives, Refined Fury is very powerful, perhaps second to the power of Love.

This seems like a strange pair, Fury and Love. Have you considered how love can contain Furious Power?

Finer Fury is the driving force behind engagement in Spiritual Warfare. There is no room for hatred, but powerful focus is given to the intent of defeating the enemy without physical violence. Indeed, none of this current war is in the material world. Conflicts in the material world are no more than a shadow of the real conflict.

The material world is primarily metaphorical. Symbols are a Spiritual language.

This war is current, on going, not a thing of the future. It is raging now outside our usual sensing. This is no woo fantasizing. It is a real as real can be. All this is difficult to grasp, to treat seriously. It is literally “other worldly”. This story immediately seems to be more fairy tale than literal truth. That makes it doubly difficult to engage.

Please remember, the literal nature of this war is confined to the Spiritual realm. In the material realm, it is not literal. It is symbolic.

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics

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