Continuing with the theme of God's own reality tunnel, Andrew Klavan writes of Jesus that
his story is the story of the meaning of life. Picture him as a bridge between the physical world and its immaterial meaning. His life is life, but it is also the truth about life and it is also the way between the two (The Truth and Beauty).
Bridge and way to the meaning of life. Sounds like a reality tunnel to me.
Supposing it's true, of course. If it isn't, then it's no better or worse than any other unreality tunnel.
Well, what is the immaterial meaning that Christ reveals?
Starting at the top, this would have to be the triunity of God, something we couldn't know absent God revealing it to us. Presumably he could have done so in other ways, but the Incarnation is the reality tunnel he saw fit to deploy.
But once revealed, it not only makes sense, but becomes a kind of master key:
The Trinity is a fractal; it is the pattern of all creation that is repeated in every aspect of creation. Everywhere, in everything, there is always the object, the term, and the meaning (ibid).
True. A reminder that
Metaphor supposes a universe in which each object mysteriously contains the others.
Klavan continues: "Metaphor is even built into the basic structure of creation." For example, "DNA is a code," and "A code is a kind of language." Creation itself
is a fractal: it is metaphors all the way down. The three-part Logos creates man, man creates metaphors for reality, reality is a metaphor for the Logos.
Everything points every which way, beyond itself, to its immaterial meaning. And as we've discussed on many occasions, in just what kind of cosmos is this possible?
Our interaction with the world is fractal work: creation within creation, metaphor within metaphor, trinity within trinity proceeding out of and representing the Trinity that is the source and life of it all (ibid.).
We've often pondered the fact that the first thing said of God is that he creates. Well,
When we understand our inner experience as a little Genesis, the ongoing creation of creation, we begin to understand that we are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God.
Again, a fractal of the Fractal.
Why fractal? I don't know about Klavan, but for me it's the most adequate metaphor I can think of for oneness-in-manyness, and vice versa. If I recall correctly, Ted has a good image of the metacosmic situation.
I recalled correctly:
But I suppose what I really want to suggest is that the Second Person of the Trinity is God's own reality tunnel to and from himself via the Third Person. Indeed, the conclusion seems unavoidable. Here's another image I think we've used before, but just google "fractal trinity Tao" for more:
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Bridge and way to the meaning of life. Sounds like a reality tunnel to me.
Also reminds of something I learned back in Bible study, about how shepherds in his time would actually use their own bodies as the literal gate to the sheep's paddock. Thus when he says "No one gets to the Father except through me," he only means it perfectly literally; he is the door. Speaking of metaphors.
Re. that last image, I like it. It's awfully pointy, but then again one so often feels skewered by the Truth it seems rather fitting.
That first one almost looks like something JWM might sculpt, except he'd be more freeform. If you haven't seen his work lately, you're missing out.
I stole the fractal thingy, but since it's part of the whole then I certainly could not part with it for the whole.
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