The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense.
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
Magic symbolises the subconscious - that part of us that is creative and powerful that we sometimes don't tap into.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
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