A difficulty with DoubleQuotes 2: Benzon

August 9th, 2015 by Charles Cameron

We employ language that makes a distinction between God and matter and the natures of both.

The question being asked at the Council of Nicea was …

  • Is Christ of the substance of God, or

    • is he made of matter like us and the angels?

    Sameness and Difference, One and Two — we’re back in the heart of the Presocratics, of Pythagorean mathematics, of the Tao — the One and the Many.

    One Another.

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    1. Bill Benzon:

      August 10th, 2015 at 12:33 am

      Yep, you read me right, Charles. That last image is a blend. And, yes, I’m playing with sameness and difference and, as always, with reality.

    2. ken cowan:

      August 10th, 2015 at 6:51 am

      for your enjoyment, I hope….
      .
      “Simple Math”
      .
      .
      One is the true Name.
      .
      Two are the states of being:
      I’m alive or I’m dead.
      .
      Three, you say, is heaven above
      and hell below and this world
      stuck right smack in the middle,
      .
      and that’s where I get hung up
      since all I can see is this world.
      I know heaven and I know hell:
      their geographies are inside me.
      .
      So, you tell me:
      Am I a trinity? a duality?
      or just an empty zero?
      .
      No, don’t talk to me
      about three or more.
      It’s too much for me.
      .
      I’ll stick to simple math.
      There is nothing more
      I need know than this:
      .
      One is the true Name.

    3. Charles Cameron:

      August 10th, 2015 at 8:23 pm

      And for yours..

      Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man’s hand and the wisdom in a tree’s root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.

      Ursula Le Guin, Wizard of Earthsea

    4. ken cowan:

      August 11th, 2015 at 6:12 pm

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