@johnmilbank3 Hello, John. Trust you're enjoying spring. Hereabouts, demi-Edenic just now. To follow on, here's an Islamic hermaneutic addressing the neither-inside-nor-outside-rather-a-simultaneity theme from an Eliatic, which to say 'universalist prophetological' perspective.
@brianmclaren 21/ In the end, a complete experience merging our inner life and external realities, of ultimacy and concreteness conjoined, can only be understood ‘apocalyptically’, that is, in its wholeness, as an integrative dimension of meaningfulness beyond any merely literal, outer sense. x.com/covidyoga/status/1782590893792596372
![“Shī’ite sources give several reasons for the greater and lesser occultations, including safeguarding the Imam, avoiding political entanglements, and testing the believers. To these can be added the fact that the providential cyclical decline of humanity would not have been possible if the axis mundi of the age held temporal power as well. According to Imam al-Ṣādiq, however, “The deep reason [for the occultation] will not be unveiled until after [the Mahdī’s] manifestation, exactly in the same way that the deep reason for the sabotage of the ship, for the murder of the young man, and for the construction of the wall by al-Khiḍr was not revealed to Moses until later…”
The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism: The Sources of Esotericism in Islam, trans. by David Streight. Ibid., Z. Markwith](/media/1783115193335390410-GL7l0MWaQAAO0-N.jpg)
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“Shī’ite sources give several reasons for the greater and lesser occultations, including safeguarding the Imam, avoiding political entanglements, and testing the believers. To these can be added the fact that the providential cyclical decline of humanity would not have been possible if the axis mundi of the age held temporal power as well. According to Imam al-Ṣādiq, however, “The deep reason [for the occultation] will not be unveiled until after [the Mahdī’s] manifestation, exactly in the same way that the deep reason for the sabotage of the ship, for the murder of the young man, and for the construction of the wall by al-Khiḍr was not revealed to Moses until later…” The Divine Guide in Early Shi‘ism: The Sources of Esotericism in Islam, trans. by David Streight. Ibid., Z. Markwith