Re: DIE SCHERE #18 again

[03643518060-0001@t-online.de (Brown)]

Wahe@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Of course there is the other side too with the theories of physical science
> being
> "Gleichnisse". Of what other nature could they be at all. The question arises
> if language itself is any more than a "Gleichnis".
> (Virtual Reality - a new word for an old thing, for instance reading a book)
> 
> But maybe he just wanted to say that the explanations of the heart of matter
> offered by science don't really explain what's behind but only give "examplary
> stories". (Is one really to find everything consisting of tiny bits bouncing
> about happily exchanging electrons ?)
> Nobody objects because they fill the vacancy left by the gods. The speed of
> light,
> the preservation of impulse etc. as dogmatic truths, their neglectance
> blasphemious.
> And even the deepest thinkers trying to find ways around behind, in
> theologistic manner turning over theories of singularity, counting how many
> angels it might
> take to fill a black hole.
> 
> It doesn't really make a difference in this sense whether Lazarus historically
> happend, or whether Christ even physically existed, it's the story that
> counts.
> It must be a good one, otherwise it wouldn't stay around so long.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Walter


Certainly, in one sense you are right, but this argument leads into
relativity i.e. everything is relavant. I think that the reality of
these things is what is at stake here. It must make a difference it
these things happend, otherwise they would have know meaning. How they
happend is the question that is often imposed and by posing it it leads
to skepticism and the destruction of faith. But almost all of the
important questions whether they be of a physical nature or spiritual
nature require faith in order to obtain thier realities. The atom is
empty space despite what we see feel and touch, but if it is empty space
then there is the possiblity to experience it. It may be the exception
but it can happen. These are the foundations of spiritual experience and
the miracles of the prophets and saints.

I find myself at odds often to speak of the divine or God because I am
in the minority and so many people are still impressed buy the
materialism of the enlightenment. So many people have lost this
conection to the divine that these issues seem archaic, somthing that we
have surpassed as I have often heard it expressed. This is why I like
Junger, his world and works are alive with the seen, the unseen, and
thier Creator. Take for example this entry in Gaerten & Strassen Feb. 3,
1940: “...Auf dem Rueckweg flog ein unbekannter Vogel mit langem,
schmalen Halse und langem Stoß an mir vorbei. Daß manche Tiere, so wie
mir dieses, uns absurd erscheinen, beruht auf perspektivischer
Verzerrung und deutet die Entfernung unseres Standorts von dem des
Schoepfers an.”*

No questions just observation and understanding. His diaries and works
are filled with better examples than this but even in the smallest
observation the world is sacred to him. It is the creation of the
Creator and proves its meaning in the smallest details.

Greetings from the Goethe Stadt.
Abdalbarr.

*Trans. “on the way back an unknown bird with a long, narrow neck and
long tail feathers flew by. That some animals, like this one for me,
appear absurd to us rests on a distortion of perspective and identifies
the distance of our standpoint to that of the Creator.”