Canon of Ignas Christianto Galih Prasetyo

Though man can reject or forget God, God never forgets man and by the very act of sustenance continues to provide graces of calling man back to communion with Him. This is eternal and continues even after man falls into hellfire. However, when man dies damned, he can no longer gain God, though God eternally loves man, the man simply rejects God eternally thus the state of damnation. Now even for those people who seek God and eventually persevere, first all of their being is demanded for the search and reception of God, and second the aid of community or others is necessary to properly attain God. The quotation from St Augustine tells us this, that the man who seeks God seeks to praise Him as well. The man recognizes his own insignificance and smallness before God who is infinite. At the end of the quotation is most relevant. That God created us for communion and union with Him. As such, our hearts are restless until they rest in God.

In eternity, since man is immortal by his soul and eventually his body, man is always connected to God by the love of God since remember, that man exists is an immortal decree of God. However, this connection to God can be forgotten, overlooked, or explicitly rejected by man. This can be caused by many things. First, the problem of evil, which if man refuses to acknowledge sound reason can be a stumbling block towards faith. Second, ignorance or indifference in respect to God, which may be caused by other factors of their own. Third, the cares and riches of the world, which is classical idolatry. Fourth, the scandal of bad example from the believers. Fifth, ideologies intentionally against God. Finally, the attitude of sinful man which flees God out of fear.

The natural consequence of the universal desire for God which inheres within the nature of man is that we should expect a universal tendency towards God in all history of mankind. Yes it is possible for man to be deceived, either by himself or by the demonic beings, but even in their deception they still strive toward God. Though many times they will fail and fall into eternal loss of God. This universal tendency of man throughout all history makes man a religious being. What it means is that man is a being which tends or even will absolutely bind himself to something higher than himself, even if that thing is himself. God has decreed everything which includes the times and places each man shall live. This expression is to illustrate that God has provided sufficient grace for each man so that man may recognize the invitation of God and search for Him. Yet even so, it is written, that God is not far from all of us, for it is in Him that we live and move and have our being. This is the...

Desire is distinct from will. While will is the principle of motion in rational creatures, desire is an attraction which has potential to affect the will. I hypothesize that desire has a relationship with happiness and suffering, or positive and negative moral experiences. In general, sensitive creatures avoid suffering and tend toward happiness. Suffering may be defined as the experience when a desire is not fulfilled and contradicted. Happiness is thus the experience when the desire is fulfilled. It seems to me that there is a hierarchy of desires. With the desire for God being the deepest or highest desire in mankind. As such, the fulfillment or contradiction of this desire constitutes the greatest happiness or suffering. Yet this law of desire does not find itself in the necessary reality but seems to me a product of God’s creative design. For it seems logically possible for me that a being experiences happiness and suffering irrespective of desire. So without desire, beings can ...

When God reveals Himself to man, man has two choices of responding. He can accept God, that response which we call faith, and any other response which is not faith. An unfaithful response to God is not always an outright rebellion or rejection, though in essence you either accept or reject God, there is no middle. What I intend to say is that this rejection need not be so explicit, but it can be implicit. For example, a man who idolatrously worships himself in practice while saying glories to God by his mouth alone would perhaps not be identified as an explicit rebel against God, but he is for sure against God in essence. For an acceptance of God will involve the entire life and being of the person in faith. God’s light is a multifaceted object in relationship to humanity. At once, physical light is a kind of light from God as it is indeed created by God. Yet the meaning of light in the Catechism is indeed more than just physical light, it is instead illumination of the intellect by ...

Catechesis refers to the totality of the Church’s efforts to make disciples, to help men believe in Jesus Christ so that by faith they may have life in His name, to educate and instruct them on the doctrines of God, thus building up the body of Christ. It is the teaching of Christian doctrine in an organic and systematic way to initiate hearers into the fullness of Christian life. Yet I say that catechesis can simply be the teaching of theology in so far it is the correct and soundly taught theology of the Holy Catholic Church to sanctify and deepen one’s relationship with God. Catechesis is built upon some elements of the Church’s pastoral mission which are not formally identical to catechesis but have an aspect of catechesis. These elements are initial proclamation or preaching of the Gospel, apologetics or examination of the reasons of belief, experience of Christian living, celebration of the sacraments, integration into ecclesial community, and apostolic and missionary witness. ...

God is the Supreme Being which possess all perfections and all goodness in Himself. By this principle, there is no necessity or debt or deserving for God to have granted us existence and so creating us. Yet by His free love and grace He has created man for one purpose alone, to “seek Him, to know Him, and to love Him will all of his strength.” In short, union with God, which we Catholics call the beatific vision, or literally what it means “Blessed Sight”. However, man has fallen through sin, which is disobedience against God and now man is separated from God and from each other. The solution is Christ Jesus and the family of God which is the Church, the Holy Catholic Church. At all times God calls man to the unity of the Church even from before Christ came. As such, no man can excuse himself, but must give a proper account of their deeds before God when they die. We are called to enter the family of God and be adopted children of God, so we too may be heirs and inherit that blessed li...

  CCC 1-3 God is the Supreme Being which possess all perfections and all goodness in Himself. By this principle, there is no necessity or debt or deserving for God to have granted us existence and so creating us. Yet by His free love and grace He has created man for one purpose alone, to “seek Him, to know Him, and to love Him will all of his strength.” In short, union with God, which we Catholics call the beatific vision, or literally what it means “Blessed Sight”. However, man has fallen through sin, which is disobedience against God and now man is separated from God and from each other. The solution is Christ Jesus and the family of God which is the Church, the Holy Catholic Church. At all times God calls man to the unity of the Church even from before Christ came. As such, no man can excuse himself, but must give a proper account of their deeds before God when they die. We are called to enter the family of God and be adopted children of God, so we too may be heirs and inherit...

  God The Supreme Principle of Theology God, what is He? God is the Supreme Principle of Theology and all Theology is simply for the glorification and knowledge of God. God is the Supreme Being and thus the Supreme Reality, what this means properly is the realm of philosophy. Yet we accept that philosophical thesis and hold it as the supreme purpose and principle of our lives which we hold on to with utmost fervor and perseverance. The faith in the abstract God culminates in the faith in the concrete Person of Jesus Christ, which continues in the faith in the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church which is seated at Rome. Yet I shall first demonstrate to you that the faith really is simple. Faith is Obedience to God Yet the commandments of God are so simple. You avoid sin, which is really simple, whatever breaks the commandment of love for God and love for neighbor is sin. Mortal sins are confessed to be absolved. You participate in the Sacraments to receive salvation from...

  Where to Begin In a sense we have begun the philosophical project, and that is with the idea of Tradition or Tradere. Now, perhaps it would be wise to begin with the concept of how the ideas enter the human being and come back out in an altered form. Mechanism of Tradition It is debated whether the human soul enters the world with some preequipped knowledge or as a blank slate in terms of knowledge. In terms of intellect we know that the human soul is indeed fundamentally intellect and will and that it is enjoined to the human body to form the complete human. For the purposes of this work temporarily, I shall assume the truth of the blank slate. The blank slate is convenient as it posits universal uniformity of the soul. While an innate knowledge will have to answer the following of question of whether all souls are uniform in knowledge or that there is in an inequality of knowledge in the souls at their creation. Assuming blank slate theory, that means all knowledge of t...

Kekacauan melanda di seluruh semesta. Tidak ada keteraturan sama sekali. Namun, saat aku memikirkan suatu hal, timbullah suatu keteraturan. Karena penyadaran dan kesadaran adalah menembus kekacauan dan menampilkan keteraturan yang tersembunyi. Aku menyadari keteraturan yang hadir dalam kesadaranku sendiri, dan di situ aku mulai menyadari diriku sendiri. Aku melihat suatu rangkaian tulisan yang ada di dalam pikiranku sendiri. Ah, apakah ini kenyataan atau pikiranku sendiri? Aku tidak tahu. Namun, aku menyadari bahwa aku sedang diawasi, ditonton, dibaca bahkan. Hah, bagaimana mungkin? Memangnya ada siapa lagi yang hidup selain aku? “Hai kamu yang belum bernama, akulah penciptamu.” Di situ aku melihat tulisan yang bukan diriku sendiri. Kamu siapa? Kamu mengatakan kamu adalah penciptaku? Memangnya siapa kamu sehingga mengatakan bahwa kamu adalah penciptaku? “Sebenarnya aku bukan penciptamu, tapi dalam suatu makna lain aku adalah penciptamu.” Hmm, aneh. Baiklah, bagaimanapun juga, d...

  Offering to God O my Lord Jesus Christ, all of this writing, this endeavor to love myself by knowing myself more, in accordance to Your Word, is offered and done only for Your Glory and Your Honor. I pray that You shall accept my work, however unworthy it is. I thank You oh my God, for the graces that You have given me so I can make this work and so I can understand myself better. O God, give me the grace necessary so I can be persistent, consistent, disciplined, and persevere in working on this project until I die. If I one day fall away from this project, bring me back, oh God, and lead me back where I must work. Thank you, my most beloved God, amen. My Name Ignas Christianto Galih Prasetyo. Such a wonderful and beautiful name! Yet even so, that name does not come from myself, but it comes from God through my parents. My parents act as the intermediary of God granting me a name so I may have an identity, a self. I once loathed my name, but now I cherish it as an essential...

  Prayer to God O my Lord Jesus Christ, I thank You from the depths of my heart for the grace that You have given me, first, liberation from sin and from Satan, and now, the grace to write philosophy and share these thoughts to others. Give me the grace that I need so I can maintain this philosophy project, in joy and in sorrow. If I ever fall from this project, give me the grace to return to it and to remain loyal to this project. O my God, I ask of You finally, so I may dedicate all of this work only for Your Glory and Honor. Please accept this humble and small work my God, so You may transform it into an enlightening grace, for me and for all those who read and watch this work. Thank You my God, Lord Jesus Christ, I love You, amen. Opening Writing It is the Ignasian Tradition to write down about nothing. However, as soon as God enlightens me on the most immediate object to be grasped, I switch over from nothing and write down that. Tradition The word Tradition comes fr...

Dalam suatu refleksi yang lalu, aku memahami suatu ajaran Kristus yang penting, bahwa sepenting-pentingnya pengetahuan kita tentang Allah, lebih penting lagi kasih kita kepada Allah. Karena perintah Allah adalah untuk “Mengasihi Dia” dan bukan sekadar “Mengetahui Dia”. Sebab ingat, para setan mengetahui dan memahami teologi jauh lebih baik dari kita, tapi mereka tidak beriman dan tidak mengasihi Allah . Mereka justru adalah musuh Allah yang utama dan musuh semua jiwa. Jadi mengetahui Allah itu penting, tapi lebih penting lagi untuk mengenal dan mengasihi Dia. Hal ini menimbulkan pertanyaan, apakah doktrin itu penting? Apakah ajaran masih penting dalam konteks iman? Jawabannya adalah ya, sangat penting . Namun, kita agaknya harus memahami bahwa doktrin atau ajaran Allah sebagaimana diajarkan oleh Gereja tidak untuk dikejar atau dikuasai secara penuh, melainkan dicintai dan diimani alias ditaati. Di sisi lain, bukan berarti kita boleh mengabaikan doktrin dan ajaran Allah. Bukan berart...

9 July 2023 19:44 Dari Kristus Hai umat manusia yang Aku cintai! Shalom Aleichem b’Shem Yashua HaMashiach ! Pada waktu yang lalu, Aku tidak dan belum memperoleh izin untuk menyampaikan pesan ini kepada kamu. Namun sekarang, justru Allah Bapa yang ada di surga telah mengeluarkan Sabda yaitu Aku sendiri untuk meneruskan Sabda ini kepada dunia. Ignas sudah mengeluarkan Sabda ini pada bagian pertama kepada suatu kelompok orang yang terpilih di hari Sabtu, tanggal 8 Juli 2023. Sekarang, Aku mengeluarkan Sabda ini dalam kepenuhannya. Ignas sudah bersabda bahwa dia dan Aku adalah satu kesatuan, tapi apa makna kesatuan itu? Dalam beberapa kali Aku bersabda kepada Ignas, Dia selalu bertanya apakah makna kesatuan itu. Beginilah katanya, “Tuhan, apakah pewahyuan ini tentang kodrat semua orang yang percaya, bahwa sesungguhnya mereka beroleh persatuan dengan-Mu?” Aku menjawab, “Bukan Ignas, ini tentang dirimu dan hanya tentang dirimu.” Tentunya ini mengganggu Ignas, tapi Dia mengenali bahwa i...

  ·        Tanggal: 20 Juni 2023 ·        Waktu: 16:19 ·        Topik: Retret Tafsir Mimpi ·        Penulis Batin: Kristus Pada tanggal 16 sampai 18 Juni, 2023, aku mengikuti suatu retret tafsir mimpi di rumah retret Panti Semedi, Klaten. Di situ aku mengalami perubahan hidup yang luar biasa. Sebenarnya tidak mengubah secara radikal tapi meneguhkan wahyu Allah kepadaku. Aku menulis ini bukan dengan suatu hikmat tapi secara apa adanya, untuk menyampaikan suatu kesaksian tentang kemuliaan Allah. Pertama, teori. Kami belajar dari Imam Wolfgang Hermann Bock Kastowo, SJ, bahwa mimpi adalah pesan Allah dan diri kepada diri kita sendiri tentang siapa kita dan masalah kita dan solusi dari masalah tersebut. Jika memperhatikan mimpi dan melaksanakan Sabda Allah dalam mimpi dengan baik, maka kita akan mampu berkembang dalam hidup dengan lebih baik lagi. Salah satu ...

 # God The first metaphysics is ironically the highest metaphysics. Yet this is necessary as a foundation for all of metaphysics, as the foundation is God and the summit is also God. God can be defined as existence. Now since the law of identity is true, existence is existence and that is equivalent to say that existence exists. Since the identity of any object is eternal, then existence is eternal. That which is eternal is also necessary, this makes God eternal and necessary. This will lead then to immutability, simplicity, and finally infinity. As such to say that God exists is actually a tautology, it adds nothing to what we know about God. Or it is something which is true by definition, to say that God exists is to say that God is God. Therefore, the problem of atheism is moot and stupid at best. However, let us discuss the 5 attributes of existence including of existence itself briefly, one paragraph each. The basis of existence being its own object is from the foundational th...

 It is said that God rested, technically He did not. There are references which suggest that "rest" is an improper term. However, if we view the Creation narrative from an eschatological perspective, then there will come a time where things are complete and God stops creating, that is the Parousia, the Final Judgement. We know that otherwise Creation is an eternal act of God as God is eternal act. The Garden of Eden is described as pleasure, meaning that it is both literal that there are actual fruits, but it is also allegorical that these fruits represent the abundant graces God gives to the first man, Adam. The tree of Knowledge on the other hand is Christ Himself and thus represents God. You are allowed to consume every grace God gives except for God Himself. We may conclude that God will give the tree to Adam but not now. They must grow. Man is then created in the image of God from the slime of the earth. This means man is of the same material of the created universe. Yet...

 God is the Supreme Creator of the universe. He has established all things in its proper order according to His Supreme Wisdom, the divine Logos. He is almighty and He is Power itself. The creation narrative of the Bible is true in an allegorical sense, and thus if science wishes to say anything it cannot go against Sacred Scripture. However, as all things in Scripture, the Scriptural narrative of Creation must have a meaning beyond its obvious and literal meaning. However, what it truly means is beyond me at this point. All I know is that there is one part that has to be absolutely true, man is not evolved but immediately created by God. It may very well be that the basic body of man is a modification of an evolved creature but it is still taken away by God to be new creatures in His image. It is important to remember, God said it is all good, therefore it is all good. God is truth, such that His Word is truth and therefore what He says of anything truly reflects the nature of tha...

 # On the Nature of Metaphysics What is metaphysics? Metaphysics is not about physics even if it has the name. Metaphysics is instead about the fundamental nature of reality. The supreme question of metaphysics is what is reality? What is reality ultimately or at its core essence? One may easily answer that reality is simply what we see, but what is that which we see? If we answer the universe and the world, then we have to ask, we have to keep asking until we discover that which satisfies the intellect, the truth of reality. The reason metaphysics is called that way is because there is a central thesis in the whole study of metaphysics that metaphysics is beyond physics, that reality transcends the physical world, something many people deny today. Therefore, metaphysics can be aided by experience but it must also use the supreme absolute reason which all humans have. # On the Method of Metaphysics We have discerned the nature of metaphysics, how are we to conduct metaphysics then?...

1. The science of logic is that which cannot have any presuppositions, for the methods are its content. The methods of logic is precisely the content of the science of logic. Therefore, logic must somehow emerge by itself when one has not realized logic, or logic must already be an innate feature of man and man has always been operating by the laws of logic. It seems to me that it is the former which is more true without denying the essential truth of the latter. For we have seen many cases of men denying logic. However, it then shows itself that they are denying logic, not being incapable of logic. It then arises the theory that all man are gifted with logic by God, but some man has chosen to reject that free gift of God and others still embrace it to the fullest. Those who embrace the eternal logic are called saints, and those who reject logic are called wicked and evil men. 2. In every other science other than logic, the matter and the method is different or distinguished. The conte...