To all friends, and specifically to brothers: Kossmoss Gajang, Ngong Daniel Kur and my long-time friend (since tender age) of Sunday school, Jal Baping. What’s your understanding in this rather sincere excerpt? “If He (God) did not exist, we should not be speaking of Him. Who has invented Him, if He does not exist? How was there born in thee any conception that such an ineffable Being could exist? How did it happen that thou and all the world together have postulated the existence of such an inconceivable Being, a Being Omni-potent, eternal and infinite in all His qualities. He (God) exists, but he is not easy to comprehend. If it were the existence of a man that thou hadst doubted, I could have brought the man before thee, taken him by the hand and shown him to thee. But how can I, a mere mortal, display the omnipotence, the eternity, the blessedness of Him to one who is blind, or to one who closes his/her eyes so as not to see, not to understand Him and not to see or understand his/her own vileness and sinfulness. He (God) is not easy to know. Down the ages, from our forefather Adam to our day we have been working towards this knowledge, and are still infinitely distant from the attainment of our goal, but in our lack of understanding we see only our own weakness and His greatness… He (God) is attained not through reason, but through living. “”Why human reason cannot attain the knowledge…?”” The highest wisdom and truth is like unto the purest liquid which we try to absorb into ourselves. Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only through the inner purification of myself can I bring the liquid received within me to some degree of purity. The highest wisdom is founded not on reason alone, not on the worldly science – physics, history, chemistry and the like- into which intellectual knowledge is divided. The highest wisdom is one. The highest wisdom knows only a single science – the science of the whole, the science that explains the whole of creation and the place of mankind within it. In order to assimilate this science it is necessary to purify and renew the inner self, and so, before we can know, we must have faith and be made perfect. And for the attainment of these aims we have had implanted into our souls the light of God, which is called conscience”
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:59:32 +0000
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