There is a famous prayer in the Spiritual Exercises of the Spanish Renaissance mystic St. Ignatius Loyola known as the "Suscipe" that begins with the words, "Take, Lord." Here is George Ganss' translation of the "Suscipe" prayer in standardized numbered section 234 of The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius: A Translation and Commentary (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 1992, p. 95): "Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, understanding, and all my will - all that I have and possess. You, Lord, all that to me. I now give it back to you, O Lord, All of it is yours. Dispose of it according to your will. Give me love of yourself along with your grace, for that is enough for me"
Now, in Robert Moore's Chapter 2: "The Archetype of Spiritual Warfare" and in Chapter 7: "The Combat Myth and the Archetypal Enemy," he does not mention the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. So, I want to point out here that the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola contains the famous meditation on Two Standards: Of Christ and of Lucifer" in the standardized numbered sections 136-148 - that's what Robert moore refers to as "The Combat Myth" (Chapter 2) involving "Spiritual Warfare" (Chapter 7).
Ong has studied the psychodynamics what he refers to as contest (agonistic) behavior such as the contest (agonistic psychodynamic expressed in the expressions "Spiritual Warfare" (in Robert Moore's Chapter 2 and "Spiritual Warfare" in Robert Moore's Chapter 7) in his 1981 book Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness (Cornell University Press), the published version of Ong's 1979 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University.
Taking hints from Ong about male agonistic (contesting) behavior, I published the article "The Female and Male Modes of Rhetoric" in the NCTE journal College English, volume 40 (1978-1979): pp. 909-921.
In addition, I published the essay "Faulkner and Male Agonism" in the book Time, Memory, and the Verbal Arts: Essays on the Thought of Walter Ong, edited by Dennis L. Weeks and Jane Hoogestraat (Susquehanna University Press; Associated University Presses, 1998, pp. 203-221).
In conclusion, Robert Moore thoroughly discusses grandiosity in his perceptive 2003 book Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity. We American liberals and progressives today owe Robert Moore our special thanks for articulating so perceptively the various ways in which grandiosity is manifested in our lives - and in the lives of President Trump and of his conservative American supporters today. But we American liberals and progressives today also owe a special thanks to editor Max J. Havlick, Jr., of New World Community Enterprises for pulling together and editing Robert Moore's materials from the 1980s to make up Robert Moore's perceptive but grim 2003 book Facing the Dragon -- and to Chiron Publishing for publishing Robert Moore's 2003 book Fighting the Dragon.
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