The Ethical Stench from the Trump/Musk Regime Spreads

Like many in America and world wide at this time, I really feel the darkness that’s the regime of Donald Trump and Elon Musk spreading world wide like a poison fog. 

It’s not in contrast to Hildegard’s portray of Devil with “poisoned arrows in his mouth” who sends a “very evil flame” and “poison” into the 4 corners of the universe. The poison is infinite, on daily basis brings extra ethical stench. 

The abandonment of Ukraine to the wiles of a rustic that invaded them three years in the past; the precedent it units for different small nations weak to a bigger nation and its navy ambitions; the abandonment of NATO after 80 years of kind of maintaining the peace; the bare clean test to Israel to do what it desires to the individuals of Gaza; the rounding up of individuals in America, admitting sending one to a jail in El Salvador by mistake however refusing to convey him residence; the explosion of tariffs sending shock waves into the world and American financial system, setting the desk for a world recession; the efforts to intestine Medicaid, Medicare and Social Safety, all applications to assist probably the most weak amongst us; the killing of USAID; the compulsion to offer billionaires and profitable large companies tax breaks on a everlasting foundation; and this current headline: “The US ends lifesaving meals support for thousands and thousands.  The World Meals Program calls it a ‘dying sentence.’”

What’s being mentioned in that current headline? The Trump regime has ended funding to UN World Meals Program emergency applications serving to hold thousands and thousands alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 different impoverished nations, a lot of them fighting battle, in accordance with the group and officers who spoke to the Related Press.*

One discover abruptly pulled US funding for a program with robust assist in Congress that had despatched younger Afghan ladies abroad for education, for the reason that Taliban prohibits ladies’s training.  This system is run by Texas A&M College.  If these younger ladies return to Afghanistan, their lives will probably be at risk. 

Different contracts terminated included Save the Kids and the UN Inhabitants Fund, which offered psychological well being companies and different care to ladies and youngsters at al Hol refugee camp in Syria. A complete of $111 million for bread and different each day meals to 1.5 million individuals in Syria was dropped. 

The tasks had been being cancelled “for the comfort of the US Authorities” and on the route of Jeremy Lewin, a high lieutenant at Elon Musk’s DOGE appointed to supervise the elimination of USAID applications.  This appears to sound lots just like the agenda and worth system we’ve got unmasked in our previous two DMs recounting Musk and his DOGE challenge.

However there may be excellent news too, that Hildegard additionally paints in her story of how Devil or Evil works.  We will focus on that in tomorrow’s DM.

* Ellen Knickmeyer, Samy Magdy, and David Biller, “The US ends lifesaving meals support for thousands and thousands. The World Meals Program calls it a ‘dying sentence.’” AP Information, April 8, 2025.

See Matthew Fox, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, pp. 132-135.  And plate 20.

See Matthew Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.

And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society.

And Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine.

And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the World.

And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.

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Queries for Contemplation

Do you derive power to battle the nice battle from Hildegard’s drawings that identify Evil?  Does the truth that our ancestors additionally wrestled with Evil empower you to hold on?

Beneficial Studying

Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen

An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, Illuminations reveals the life and teachings of one of many best feminine artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Custom.  On the age of 42, she started to have visions; these had been captured as 36 illuminations–24 of that are recorded on this e book alongside together with her commentaries on them.
“If one particular person deserves credit score for the nice Hildegard renaissance in our time, it’s Matthew Fox.”  – Dr Mary Ford-Grabowsky, writer of Sacred Voices.

Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election

Matthew Fox tells us that he had at all times shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and concern. Nevertheless, given at this time’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for analyzing the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, writer of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society

Visionary theologian and best-selling writer Matthew Fox provides a brand new theology of evil that essentially modifications the standard notion of excellent and evil and factors the best way to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them. 
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science.  A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, writer of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics

The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine

To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he finds ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historic pagan image of our basic relationship with nature,  to the Non secular Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their greater calling to hook up with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e book — to not point out each girl who desires to grasp the struggles, usually unconscious, that form the lads they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, writer of The Left Hand of God

Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth

Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each spiritual and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by way of which we be taught to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the reward of a very good and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that gives a standard floor for spiritual seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Observe.
“I’m studying Liberating Items for the Individuals of the Earth by Matt Fox.  He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand new life regardless of a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.

A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice

In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the that means and observe of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the long run that guarantees private, social, and international therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the best way towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Properly value our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register