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| Nature & Other Writings Ralph Waldo Emerson |
January 29, 2017
Book 7 - Nature and Other Writings
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003)
Part 2 - Pages ix-xvii, 1-63
by Ralph Waldo Emerson (2003)
Part 2 - Pages ix-xvii, 1-63
Reading Time - 60 Minutes
I know... same batches of pages as yesterday but... I decided to do a post on each of his essays. They are that dense. Today it was the Divinity School Address. It echos his other work - we are all channels of the divine. Did I mention that he was the son of a Christian minister and actually became a minister himself? He left the ministry at some point, and I can see why. In fact... to pull a page from Emerson's book... I experience why! I think the reason why I love Emerson so much is that his experience is a mirror to mine. He just speaks it far more eloquently at this point... but my eloquence may come.
One thing he said in this essay was that we have distorted Christianity... and that we need a new Revelation. Even that we need a new Teacher... Someone to show that God IS, not God WAS. We are relying on a Middle Eastern interpretation of the divine (Christianity, Judaism, Islam)... and that we need something from the West.
I would say... we have it... and we did not recognize it. It is First Nations spirituality. They see the Divine throughout Nature... but we told them they were wrong. That the only path to the Divine was via the "one-true-faith"... through Christianity. And even though Christianity has a tradition of Revelation through Scripture AND Revelation through Creation/Nature... the second has atrophied through lack of use. We froze Revelation with the death of Christ... or rather the Apostles who wrote the Gospels and the New Testament. That was it... that's all God wanted written. I think not. I know not. I experience the Divine revealed around me... in Nature, in the writings of people like Emerson and it is fresh and new and alive. Did I mention, I love Emerson... or rather his Writings?
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