“One of them [the Ten Commandments] says, thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, of anything that is in the heavens above or the earth beneath or the waters that are under the earth. Thou shalt not bow to them nor worship them…. And that is what [this discussion] is about. It is a destruction of idols. Because the most dangerous graven images are not those that are made of wood and stone. They are those which are made of ideas… And it is well known… that the sort of Supreme Vision, can only come when you have got rid of every idea of God whatsoever. ..It would be like, cleaning a window on which someone has painted blue sky. Well to see the [real] sky you have got to scrape off the paint… “The only God you can cling to is the idea of God. In order to discover God, you have entirely to stop clinging…” “People who believe in God don’t have any faith, because they want something to hold on to. So... real faith is when you do not hold onto anything anymore.. ..in the Christian tradition this is called “The Cloud of Unknowning…” Dionysius the Areopagite, he was a Cyrian monk, living in the 6th century. He wrote a book called the Theologica Mystica, in which he explains that in order to come to full Union with God, you must give up every conception of God whatsoever.. And he enumerates this. ‘Don’t think that God is Oneness, or Threeness, or Unity, or Spirit, or any kind of anything that the human mind can conceive. He is Beyond all that…’” Kill the images because you love what the Image is… https://youtube/watch?v=DRt-wYwb2QY
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 18:17:33 +0000
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