Dear All of us,
You know,
we know a lot more
than we understand.
We know with the soul.
We understand with the brain.
Knowing is deep in
Soul Center Union,
mystical oneness.
Understanding is conceptual,
rational grasp, to "know"
in common parlance.
There's a mix
in the crossover zone.
Seems soul opens
to the vastness of what is
and just keeps going -
no end in sight or in fact.
The brain is a powerful
receptor/computer
with a limited bandwidth.
We go far, but to limit.
Put another way,
we can experience
way more than
we can understand.
Lovers understand a lot
about each other.
They experience miles more.
What we understand
we put into prose.
What we experience
deep in
doesn't fit into prose.
The best we can do
is use poetry,
art, music, ritual
as
pointers to perfection.
To understand is delightful.
To know is divine.
For the people
of Jesus'
time and place
to "know" another
was not factual
or cognitive recognition.
It was experiential,
profoundly personal,
soul symbiotic,
intimate,
getting lost
in each other.
To know is to love.
It spans a spectrum
all the way from
profound friendship
to making love.
Think of Mary's phraseology:
"How can this be
as I do not know man."
Our spiritual life is
a beautiful, complimentary,
merger of
understanding and knowing.
We start with understanding,
"knowing" as commonly taken.
AND THEN
We have to "unknow"
to know God
in mystical intimacy.
"Your question takes me
into the very darkness
and cloud of unknowing
that I want you to enter.
We can know
so many things.
Through God's grace,
our minds can explore,
understand,
and reflect on creation
and even on God's own works,
but we can't think
our way to God.
That's why I am
willing to abandon
everything I know,
to love the one thing
I cannot think.
God can be loved,
but not thought."
The Cloud of Unknowing
Medieval Mystic
Lower case "know" cedes to
uppercase
Know
Divine Lovemaking
Oneness
Theology, meditation, scripture,
ritual, religious practices are
About God
We go to our stop point.
That understanding,
"knowing" in the everyday sense,
invites, encourages,
lights the way
to the unknowing needed
to know
unto
the union of
Divine Love
So, we strip notion naked,
turn off
the "head"-lights
and
"OH MY GOD"
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Let's understand
all we can.
Then bypass the head,
open our heart
and let God
love the socks off us!!
We'll be divinely
"In the know."
See you next week.
Love to all.
John Frank
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