We speak about God, angels, our own soul, and the life to come in the same way that a blind man speaks about colors. We can certainly say true things about spiritual things- but anything we imagine about spiritual things is false; and usually dull. I for one can’t help imagining the angelic hierarchy as a row of unmoving points of light in black space- or imagining my own soul as a ghost. If you want a certain idea of what spirits are not, imagine them. We can say and know all kinds of true things about immaterial being, but we cannot allow so much as a glimmer or dot of light, or a specteral form, or a dark void to creep into our imagination without creating a misleading and utterly false thing with the very image. Deum nemo vidit umquam (Jn. 1:18)
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We speak about God, angels,
November 3, 2005 at 4:52 pm (Default Category)
