an excerpt from my fourth book

An expression of sight. We use it in our communications daily. It is this: "I see". Our little expression is not used to suggest the seeing of physical objects so much as to say ‘I agree’, ‘I know’, ‘I understand’. I have said that knowing can be the same as seeing - seems others have said the same thing. To know (or to see) spiritually, by which I mean ‘mentally’, takes a deliberate effort. One has either wide open spiritual eyes, or sleepy little spiritual eyes with heavy lids. People try but a little, then tire; the eyelids droop. They say, ‘I just don’t see it’. This type is the un-exercised type: soft and flabby, mentally speaking. We seekers, on the other hand, exercise those mental muscles; we stretch our spiritual sinews: we are a buff new breed.

When it comes to the exercise of understanding, it must be said that knowledge is like x-ray vision. Case in point: since we know that our physical world is ‘built’ around function and intent, we may look at the outside of a barn and see the bales of hay stacked behind the walls. In an earlier analogy, I put forth the ‘gloved hand’. Now, obviously, we cannot see the hand for the glove; but, we can see the glove. And, what is the glove, exactly? It is a thing built around the hand; made to fit the form and function of the hand. The hand is hand-shaped, therefore, the glove is hand-shaped. Though we may not see the hand for the glove, we may know the hand by seeing the glove. Crude work gloves may give but an indication of the underlying hand, while refined silk gloves may give up the added information of a ring on one of the fingers. Then again, a form fitting pair of surgeon’s gloves can offer the clear imprint of knuckles, creases in the skin, and even manicured fingernails. It should be no wonder that Christ said, in John 12:45, "He that seeth Me seeth Him that sent Me". Look closely, please. Christ said that we can look upon His physical, visible body and see the invisible God inside. Of course, since the physical eye will only see the glove, man must wake up his sleeping spiritual eye.

Are you spiritually awake, or spiritually asleep? Are you spiritually (that is, mentally) alert and watchful in regard to higher issues?

 

You sound like Arthur Koestler.

 

Is Arthur an author?

 

"Ghost In the Machine"