Wave and Particle

One of the readings from my hermeneutics class was really good. It really emphasized what an understanding of the context in which the text was written (or spoken) looks like. It talked about the oral tradition of the text and how much that meant to the expression of God's Word in Jesus' time. Hebrew holds precise ethical and philosophical value concepts that belong only to Hebrew and Judaism and that are really untranslatable. Words cannot be learned simply as words without their complete historical context. Hebrew as a written language is skeletal, shorthand structure, in which the main process takes place in thought. Here is a quote from the article:

'For most moderns, scripture has ceased to be the guiding companion of life that resides in one's deepest layers of consciousness, influencing one even when one is not aware of its presence. Instead, scripture has become a literary object to be studied and analyzed along with the other literary texts we possess.'

This reminds me to make the text a story that enters every part of my day, something to be embodied, given life to. Not a piece of literature that one would lecture about, but more like a story that is told over a camp fire.

The last part of the article was an amazing example of what this thought can look like. The expounding of the text in its tradition is done with the words from Genesis 1, 'In the beginning.'

In the beginning...
which means:

in archetypal form-
with the power to be something in principle-
like a point which unfolds itself
in wings, in flame,
in all direction,
conceiving the idea of a universe
for better and for worse...

In that time before time and space,
the Being of beings,
the I-They-Who-Are
the One which is Many,
the Ultimate Pronoun.

Drew upon unknowable Otherness,
to convert into knowable Essence
two tendencies of our universe-to-be

the cosmic tendency toward the Limitless:
the ocean of light, sound,
name and vibration-
all that shines in glorious space,
that rises in sublime time

as well as

the cosmic tendency toward that Limited:
a formed and fixed energy which moves
straight toward goals and solutions:
the sense of purpose which we see in
earth, water, fire and air.

In Principle,
In Beginning-ness,

Oneness envisioned the wave and the particle.