The Logos: A Couple of Notes

[Scholarly Tarot]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Yes, I often use a lightning strike as a contemplation of that moment when
two forces come to an illumination point of Power. A sort of revelation.
An activation with excitement.
An end of confusion that leads to a direction of action.
Or as they say the light bulb came on.



If that makes any sense?

Perfect sense. lightning also brings in the theme of light, always a spiritual theme, let alone a physical one. After all, the Bible does actually say "God is light."

[Zeke55]

Night after night we take different facets of this truly great secret, and as we turn to the greatest book on Imagination in the world, we treat it differently. So, as we turn to it, bear in mind that the Bible is addressed to the Imagination, not to the man of sense or the man of reason – the one that is “lost” or “dead” or “sound asleep.”



We will take a simple little verse and show you why it is not addressed to the natural man, Ecclesiastes 3:15:

“That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.”

The “natural man” cannot grasp that, for to him reality is based only on the evidence of the senses. The man of reason could justify the verse’s end, saying if it has any meaning then the writer must mean recurrence. The sun comes every day and the moon completes its cycle and the seasons come and go. If we took a picture of the universe today, the scientists can compute how long it will take to return to this point in the picture. So the intellectual man could justify the verse; but that is not what is meant, for it is addressed not to the man of reason or the man of sense, but to the man of Imagination. What is it all about? “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and God seeks what has been driven away.”

[RabbiO]

Originally Posted by Zeke55

Night after night we take different facets of this truly great secret, and as we turn to the greatest book on Imagination in the world, we treat it differently. So, as we turn to it, bear in mind that the Bible is addressed to the Imagination, not to the man of sense or the man of reason – the one that is “lost” or “dead” or “sound asleep.”



We will take a simple little verse and show you why it is not addressed to the natural man, Ecclesiastes 3:15:

“That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.”

The “natural man” cannot grasp that, for to him reality is based only on the evidence of the senses. The man of reason could justify the verse’s end, saying if it has any meaning then the writer must mean recurrence. The sun comes every day and the moon completes its cycle and the seasons come and go. If we took a picture of the universe today, the scientists can compute how long it will take to return to this point in the picture. So the intellectual man could justify the verse; but that is not what is meant, for it is addressed not to the man of reason or the man of sense, but to the man of Imagination. What is it all about? “That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been, and God seeks what has been driven away.”

Does it matter that the translation you’ve chosen is inaccurate?

[Scholarly Tarot]

Originally Posted by ImthatIm

Yes, I often use a lightning strike as a contemplation of that moment when
two forces come to an illumination point of Power. A sort of revelation.
An activation with excitement.
An end of confusion that leads to a direction of action.
Or as they say the light bulb came on.



If that makes any sense?

It makes good sense. It is with lightning, the celestial light bulb which comes on.....hey when the divine flashes, I can only think it is always a good thing....