In Exodus 33, Moses asks to see God and God says no one can see his face and live.
21 Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”
In Exodus 33, Moses asks to see God and God says no one can see his face and live.
21 Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.”
Very apt reference!
Love the Dickinson reference... "the Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind"
A reminder that stronger arguments and louder repetition are actually too weak a strategy to impart the truly mysterious and powerful. Paradox.
Oh, and I think you did the impossible with the Adam-and-Eve dialogue as well. Simple and pure, letting it speak for itself.
Wow! Beautifully said and composed. Impossibly.
Slant, yes. And also in complete images that have meaning most when combined with others, as in the vision of Ezekiel:
the incredible complexity of images that Ezekiel, for instance, experienced when he saw God:
interdependent wheels
and flashing lights
and overlapping and polygonal living beings no human could paint or even conceptualize simultaneously,
but only in mental snapshots.
In my post today, I consider a hologram to produce "A Sliver of God". https://open.substack.com/pub/latayne/p/a-sliver-of-god?r=cg6k8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true