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Quotes from The Cultivation of Conspiracy — Ivan Illich

1926–2002 Austria

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The Latin osculum is neither very old nor frequent. It is one of three words that can be translated by the English, "kiss."

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

The shared breath, the con-spiratio are the "peace" understood as the community that arises from it.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

In the Christian liturgy of the first century, the osculum assumed a new function. It became one of two high points in the celebration of the Eucharist.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

Explicitly, corporeally, the central Christian celebration was understood as a co-breathing, a con-spiracy, the bringing about of a common atmosphere, a divine milieu.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

Peace as the commingling of soil and waters sounds cute to my ears; but peace as the result of conspiratio exacts a demanding, today almost unimaginable intimacy.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

It came to signify their union in one Holy Spirit, the community that takes shape in God's breath.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

Through the act of eating, the fellow conspirators were transformed into a "we," a gathering which in Greek means ecclesia. Further, they believed that the "we" is also somebody's "I"; they were nourished by shading into the "I" of the Incarnate Word.

The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ivan Illich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.