Christian | Tiger Riding for Beginners

William Blake painting of Urizen praying to the world he created, an illustration from "Song of Los." — William Blake:
*Urizen prays to the world he created* (1795)
**Song of Los**

I must create a system
or be enslaved by another man’s…
william blake; Jerusalem: The emanation of the great albion

Saying Yoga exists to make one more flexible
is like saying that it exists to wring farts out of one’s body,
both will happen — neither is the primary objective.
Me

He that is without sin among you,
let him first cast a stone at her…
JESUS; John 8:7

The best government is that which governs least.
Henry david thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Gods always behave like the people who make them…
zora neale hurston; Tell my horse

The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

PDF available online [Public Domain]

Thomas Jefferson (yes, the same one who wrote the Declaration of Independence) produced this book by cutting and pasting excerpts from the Gospels so as to produce a distillation of who he believed Jesus was and what Jesus’s essential teachings were. It mixes parables and other New Testament teachings with biographical description.

There is an introduction which offers the reader more specific insight into Jefferson’s thinking than can be gleaned merely from what he includes and what he trims. The Introduction also discusses the similarities and differences between Christian philosophy and that of the Jews, the Greeks, and the Romans.

If you’re looking for a condensed version of the New Testament, I’d highly recommend this book. Jefferson was obviously a sharp guy who looked at the Bible from the perspective of Enlightenment-era thinking.

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