He answered: "Names are powerful chains. Were humans not to be encaged from the Universe through their names, they would be as I am: omnipresent, omniscient, almighty. I gave them light and I gave them a mirror, the reflection of self, the best way of binding a conscient mind to a limited reality. The indivisible infinity of truth is marred by mankind's fences. I retain a healthy unawareness of myself, and thus I retain the Universe. When mankind came into being, I was there to light their way; should humanity cease to exist, I shall be the one present to dim the lights and pave their way up to nothingness."
In His light, we see what He wants us to see, I wondered. Fools have we been with our concerns about lenses and filters when it has been light itself the very source of corruption of truths.
Oh well, ain't that the cutest little piece of truth one's ever seen? At least it's not the usual foolish praise of every undeserving little thing in the Universe. However aesthetic are the concerns of your line of thought, it's not entirely devoid of merit. As I always say, darkness calls and it doesn't like to be kept waiting.
ReplyDeleteHow dare you consider my musings in any way related with your misanthropy? I admit the search for the aesthetic, but that does not diminish my work. Quite the contrary: that which rings beauty, rings truth. All that is hideous is unbalanced, temporary and thus bound to disappear. All that is beautiful is balanced, permanent, and therefore the majority of what exists. To search for beauty is to search for balance and thus the truth of things.
ReplyDeleteThe sense of beauty is derived from biological needs: searching for apt mates, caring for the young ones, rejecting the old and decrepit. To base the search for truth in such a primal instinct is questionable, to say the least.
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