God in a great expanse with many big bangs happening all around, many universes in flux growing and shrinking non stop. New earths following the new bangs and old earths shrinking with the old. Whole universes melding the way we see stars melding.[...]
This I think was not fore most in His mind at the time because I think He was intent on teaching me of the Holy Spirit
The Supreme Being puts the vast number of universes he's creating on automatic just to give you a private tutorial? My. This makes you a very important person indeed.
And the perfect counterweight to Buz. We get to see both extremes.
Buz shrinks his deity to small material size, like a human. You inflate yourself to grand cosmic proportions, like a god.
The ambition is the same: to make God your buddy. You want to imagine yourselves confidants of the Supreme Being the way other people are confidants of old high school classmates.
It saddens me to inform both of you that the endeavor is foolish. I see nothing resembling revelation from either of you.
Wisdom begins by telling the truth. By letting things be what they are.
When you neglect recognition of the chasm that exists between cosmic scales and your own, it becomes questionable whether you have ever had a genuinely religious experience at all.
Here is the real thing.
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
- e. e. cummings
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