Inquiries into Consequential Imagery
If the Abrahamic divinity was infinite and eternal, why would it have attained an image on which to base our forms?
And if it had an image, wouldn’t it be much more Zoroastrian, as in the myth of the “burning bush? Were we to peer into a divine mirror, would we see fire’s reflection?
Is that, perhaps, the nature of our souls, or perhaps our spirits? And if so, what would we have to fear from the infernal?
Ethereal and ephemeral while concurrently ubiquitous and eternal, a mystery such as those of which religions are so fond.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2022; all rights reserved. Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.
Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. He has academic degrees in political science (the Citadel), law (St. John’s University), international legal studies (New York University) and translation and linguistic studies (the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.
Originally published at http://guillermocalvo.com on November 14, 2022.
