@Plough To consign other traditions to endless misery while reserving fulfillment for Christianity is exceptionalism masquerading as hope. What if the messianic fulfills the world’s longing for renewal: Creation reborn, its cycles transfigured rather than abandoned?
The sunburst of the messianic is the point at which cyclical history and eschatological fulfillment align—the moment the world’s repeated cry for restoration is met by the transfiguration latent within it.
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“We stand at the point...of entering more fully into our human garment, and of raising everything into a clearer more unified belonging.” - Ronald Beesley Only superficially, then, does ‘home-making’ refer to refining our external attachment to people, place and things, and the broad array of technes supporting the outer forms of settling in. Ultimately, homemaking amounts to accepting a profound invitation to explore the most vital coherence of our senses and thoughts in congruence with the embrace of Nature, striving for a depth where the form of our emerging growth is brought into rhythm with the concealed order of creation. It is, in other words, an invitation to friendship with our own essential nature. Such is the ground of primal affection mediated by Beauty. “The experience of the beautiful,” as Hans-Georg Gadamer describes it, “is the invocation of a potentially whole and holy order of things.” Thus, redemption doesn't destroy the world (the Zoroastrian Mazdean getik) but re-couples or re-originates it with its celestial reality (menok) restoring it to its luminous, archetypal dimension. In Zarathustra redivivus, Paradise in potentia of the da'wat becomes Paridaez Now. [Painting of fruit with calligraphy reading: “The colors of the grove and the voices of the birds will restore immortality, at the time when we shall come into the garden, thou and I. - Rumi”]
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