Jesus On God: Part II
One of the most powerful aspects of linkage between the soul and the mind lies in our power of imagination. Imagination expresses the visual aspect of inner creativity. Imagination, as we are all aware, is not something "spiritual" in the sense of being something "religious". Yet, imagination is an action of the spirit from within.
Things "imagined" from outside sources are products of those sources, for example, a frightening suspense story where "what might happen" to the hero or heroine roosts solidly imaged in our minds. Plot and well-crafted words of the story trigger our imagination and hold our interest. As we are captured by the story and anxiously turn page after page, it is not the words themselves that drive us, but the images they evoke - images we create from within as prompted by something outside ourselves.
Experiment with me for a moment. Read the following passage, pausing after each sentence. Look inward and take a moment to truly see and appreciate the image in your mind that each sentence has conveyed:
1. A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho; and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
2. And by chance a certain priest was going down that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
3. And in like manner a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
4 But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.
5. and came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on (them) oil and wine.
6. and he set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
7. And on the morrow he took out two shillings, and gave them to the host, and said, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come back again, will repay thee.
As you read each sentence and paused to "see", did you see words ..... or images?
If you felt an emotional reaction as you read, did words cause your reaction or was it caused by images?
Ask yourself if Jesus moved crowds by mere words? For without images are words themselves sufficient to move the heart and evoke in the soul a desire for action or change?
The nature of Jesus's relationship to the Father was not driven by mere words or written scriptural verses. Yet it seems that most of us try to relate to Jesus thru blind reliance on mere words.
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