@PervertGuide The deepest layer of reality is not 'stuff' but living utterance—generative speech. Spirit is articulated relation; existence in eternal conversation—first cause and final cause voiced as a single, cruciform Word. Meaning is the eschatological grammar of that Voice in time.
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Tweets and subtweets: George Steiner spoke of "the honest treason of the comparatist, the translator; a persistent infidelity to any one tradition, culture or community of recognition." Ultimately, the greater assimilative space of a planetary prophetology? Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers." Sublime, from @chebhocine on Said, echoing the trans-cultural, cross-fertilizing hermeneutics of the contemporary poet-translator, Clayton Eshleman: “the antiphonal traffic of translation, for me, opens up a greater assimilative space than monolingual reading.” George Steiner: “If, as blind poets can, we pass our fingers along the living edge of words – Spanish words, Russian words, Aramaic words, the syllables of a singer in Cathay – we shall feel in them the subtle beat of a great current pulsing from a common center...” 3/ The subtle beat of a great current pulsing from a common center; the final word, the root mantra, made up of all letters and combinations of letters in all tongues. Earth Epiphany, planetarily manifest.
Open original document@BretVDB @malcolmguite end/ Prophetic speech is exorcism's counter-spell. An archetypal irruption—truth sounded—it sets refiner’s fire to pseudo-order, evil’s veneers, and hollow abstraction, revoking its claim and rebinding the field to truth. Where the Word sounds, the Real can bear weight again.
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