It is the dawning of the eternal
"I" at the center of all religious impulse. The
"I" or "Eye" is the Alpha and the Omega, what is already
manifest and what is still hidden, the unseen seer, the unknown knower.
Rivers of perennial wisdom pour out the waters of all experienced things, but
there is something more still be revealed. If religion is the dawning of
indestructible beauty and compassion, it is only just beginning. It is
mostly out of range. The cosmos is still estranged from its final
destiny. In this exploratory time the world religions are intertwined in the dawning
of a new age in the arts and sciences. This has always been, but now even
more so.
I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the First and the Last,
the Beginning and the End.
--
Revelation 22:13
God is the First and the Last,
the Manifest and the Hidden,
and God knows completely all things.
-- Koran 57:3
You cannot see That which is the Seer.
You cannot know That which is the knower.
This is your Self, that is within all;
everything but This is Transient.
--Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 3.4.2
God is that in which your soul rests,
through which it draws strength,
and from which it learns love,
God unites body and soul
for both find their foundation in God.
---Revelations of Divine Love, 56
Retreat
with Ivan Nicoletto, author of Journey
of Faith, Journey of the Universe: The Lectionary and the New Cosmology
