Ode to the Creator and creativity

July/2012

BE ORIGINAL.

the prophetic nature of poetry

The Voice in the Song

the IRish Mystic proverbs revisited

A Portrait of the Venerable Terry Hogg

Moonrise Kingdom Be Here Now Visions of the Unseen

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What is the relationship between the poetic and prophetic? Or verse and vision, maybe form and future. Better yet, how does art really affect what rational ones would call reality. I would say in many ways looking at the bible there are eerie ZMNMZMVKM[\W+PZQ[\\PI\IZMN]TTTML\WI<1VNIK\->-:AXZWXPMKa\PI\ ZMNMZZML\WWZQUIOQVML+PZQ[\_I[N]TTTML<PQ[Q[\PMIKK]ZIKa\PI\KIVWVTaJM facilitated by way of the Holy Spirit. Hundreds of years would pass between Isaiahs prophecies and the birth of Jesus, but consider this verse from Isaiah 53:7:

0M_I[WXXZM[[MLIVL0M_I[INQK\MLAM\0MWXMVMLVW\0Q[UW]\P#0M_I[ led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
Isaiah began his ministry in 750 B.C. Over 700 hundred years before the birth of Christ. This is a clear example of the poetic becoming the prophetic. When art is at its strongest is when married with the Spirit of the Living /WLW]\W_[\Z]MQV[XQZI\QWV Written word becomes a powerful precursor for what God will bring about in the future. So is prophecy foretelling (seeing what will transpire in the future)? Or forth telling (causing it to happen)? I like to believe it is a healthy mix of both. Prophecy like poetry is a taste of what is to come. As we read the words of a talented poet, or composer. Like David. We are transported to a time when the full version of the goodness in the future is made apparent. This is the way God has always taught me to expect good things. When I was about 11 years old, I visited a friend of mine and spent the night over his house. It was around 20 miles from my home I shared with my mother, Father and 6 other siblings. At that age it might as well have been 1000 miles away for my world was relatively small. I decided to go on a bike ride through his neighborhood and weaved around well-trimmed lawns on clean avenues and found myself in front of a school. I stopped and looked at the school for a long time, but I did not know why. Two years later after many moves in state and out of state, also a couple twists of fate. I found myself attending that same school. God gave me a glimpse of my future then he took me there. This is the prophetic at work, all the more powerful when mirrored by the audacity of verse. Be bold, write a poem, and make up a song. It may give you a glimpse or catalyze manifestation of your destiny. .bam! Nathan Bam Bam Stanton Creative Director| Metatron magazine
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features 12 portrait of an irish mystic
Meet Terry Hogg

2 Prophetic poet The metaphor as reality 11 Moonrise kingdom

Adolescence runs wild, hilarity ensues

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Departments
-IKPUWV\P_MXZWTMIZ\Q[\[ musicians and writers that rise into these medium catagories. We hope you come away with inspiration and encouragement.

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Poetry/Prose Visual Art

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Golden Notes

Miracleshout

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Music Miracles

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.

The joy of the Lord is your strength.

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today All that is present will give way to what will be The silence of yet to come cacophony :MITQ\a\PM[W]ZKMWNITTXIQVIVLXZWUQ[MIVL AM\\PMZM[\IVL[I^Q[QWVNITTQVOQV\WZZMV\[ Here No more life led into an abyss for the purposelessness WNIMM\QVOSQ[[ One not led by passion but by the lack thereof, For our statements stay where they have always been, in a love. )VKQMV\WNLIa[ZMITQbMLNWZ\PMPW]Z[VW_IZM[PWZ\MZ# than they have ever been :MKMLQVONZIK\QWV_Q\PPMTLJaKPIVKM -ZIIT\MZQVOLQV

Prophetic/Poetic Vision unseen

clamor Distant in disposition found wanting for a similar proposition No catch to the ultimatum that would paint me a similar story Of the whispers that transcribe translation Into the lexicon worth mentioning Onward we traverse the best And worst of times Ducking Greek Gods for Nice and nine Still rhyme most well >QKIZ[TQXXQVO\W\PM[TWXM[KI\\MZML for reasons that I could quote losing the meaning in the most dense of smoke. Foresting costs all you have for art Has been cannibalized like mahogany only treated twice as bad.

A time Make no mistakes No :MITTa None at all for the lording of light Has cancelled many calls and who cares what Has transpired in the name of what we thought Was good for us Cryptic rhythm takes the hurled Insults in stride for aesthetically Pleasing divinity will not hide for long We all the design the universe was shown 0W_OITI`QM[IUMW]\[W_MTT -`\QVO]Q[PMLJa\PM[IUMPMIZ\[\PI\JMfell reality Time not the measure but Mythology.
+WTWZMTL Golden explained to sienna no one would help A hue so close to the darkness -^MVQVIVaKI[MJZW_V_W]TLJM\PMUW[\KWUUWV I knew that was not her name then Ochre got into the discussion -`\WTTQVO\PM^QZ\]M[WNVW\PQU[MTNJ]\\PM[PILM[\PI\ neighbored him All the while yellow wanted a better more exotic Sounding name but yellow is exotic -`KTIQUML\PMUW[\M`XMV[Q^MWVM_IV\\WVQKM[]Q\[ and Talking of the old days Ultramarine riots he says :QW\QVOQV\PM[\ZMM\[Q[NWZQUJMKQTM[ :M[XWVL[^QWTM\QVPMZZWaITZMOITQIZMOIZLQVOPMZ cousin Crimson with an indifference that makes Blood ashamed of their lineage :QKPIVLZM[XMK\ML During a party persimmon as the picture Parity >MZLIV\IVLNZM[PTa]VLMZ[\WWLNWZOIZLMV[ Are framed by the oldest of them all Sprouting like sprigs stalking Paintings for centuries to come.

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Hope always forgets to set a place for fear.

did not die Even lions bow to Jesus for your sins, He their partner died for you in crime .IQ\PQ[TTQVO]VKMZ\IQV\a with hope. boldness laughter tick, tock Time

Innovation comes from a place of frustration AND wonder

For Gods sake let love be your weapon

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Poetry is everything, Everything is poetry

Making light of our differences will keep what binds us in the dark.

Time enhances preparation, not courage.

a miracle is destiny made manifest

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be here now: from Erica Henry

The following is a message that has been said in a million different ways, spanning time and cultural groups. Just a few versions are: No regrets. Spend the LIa#aW]KIV\\ISMQ\_Q\PaW]+IZXM Diem. Or as Mother Teresa said, AM[\MZLIaQ[OWVM<WUWZZW_PI[VW\ yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. But what does living in the moment mean? The passage of time is one thing we can count on. The seasons may change even the extremity of the seasons may change, but time will continue on. Time will continue as it always has, and we will forever be a moment older than we _MZMJMNWZM-^MZaWVM_MTW^MQ[IOQVO as we are aging, and there is no way to stop it. Pray and hope as we might, time would appear to be a constant within which we are to be ]VQ^MZ[ITTaKWVVML during our existence on this planet. As W. H. Auden explained this idea in his poem, As I Walked out One -^MVQVO" In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. In headaches and in worry >IO]MTaTQNMTMIS[I_Ia And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. 8 Metatron July 2012 -IKPWVMWN][_I[KWVKMQ^MLL]ZQVO particular moments in history to particular parents in particular towns and countries and cities, and from then on a course of events began that cannot be put out, except by death. We pass hours, days, and years. When we are babies, our parents tally the months as we grow and develop and learn. Then we become children, itching to be grown and independent, and at last we are adults, yearning for our youth. Many of us become parents, and the LIa[aJaI[_M_I\KPW]ZW_VKPQTLZMV grow and our own parents get old, and we are often too busy to enjoy much of it. Then we become old and wish for our youth and energy. And always, always, there is an element of wishing that time would stand still or hurry on or move in reverse. We are always wishing we were older or younger or reliving past experiences or wanting to VQ[P\PMKPWZM[[W_MKIV[SQXIPMIL\W the most joyful moments. Is it possible to free ourselves from these supremely human desires? Is it possible to forget about the past and the future and live each minute fully? One thing I have learned about life is that almost nothing is as good as you IV\QKQXI\M:MITQ\a is all too real. In memory and in anticipation, experiences are golden and the unpleasantness surrounding them falls away, but in the moments as they are occurring, they rarely live up to what we have pictured. Our brains have a sublime ability to create images of supreme perfection.

Our anticipation and perfect memories are our spiritual perspective.

-^MZa+PZQ[\UI[1IUKWV^QVKML\PI\1PI^MOW\\MVUaKPQTLZMV and husband a gift that will blow them away and that somehow we will have a moment of serene bliss, celebrating the birth of Jesus as a family as we eat and relax together. But there is no perfect gift that can provide that much joy, and the day always ends up anticlimactic. The holiday usually lives on with beauty in my memory, but in the moment, there are usually many unwanted gifts awkwardly unwrapped and acknowledged and disappointment when the longed-for unwrapping is over (if you have not experienced this, you may not have children). 1WN\MVVLUa[MTNTW[\QVMV^aIJW]\[WUMWVM[TQNMWV.IKMJWWS usually someone who lives far away in a tropical country and is doing some sort of fantastically creative and generous humanitarian work. My ability to let these feelings of envy and imagining what-if, is truly impressive. Now I am not going to spend another moment regretting the time I spend being envious, but I will say that as a mother of young children, it is particularly sad. I spend moments, minutes, even hours fantasizing about other lives and memories, when I could be enjoying these moments now with my children. The experiences of romance and love, even parental love, are similar. We fantasize about sharing our soul with someone, but

_PMV_MNITTQVTW^MWZVITTaPI^M\PI\LZMIUMLWNJIJa\PMZMITQ\QM[WNLQIpers or exes and bad moods and things we dont have in common (e.g. sports, movies) and schedules and family dynamics are all too real. Our anticipation and perfect memories are our spiritual perspective. It is how our lives could be viewed through the divine. But the stark reality of each moment has potential for holiness too. If we can look at the world around us as a constant, all-too-real miracleif we can accept the pain with the pleasure at least for this time we are put on earth, we can maintain a state of contentment. If we can let go of our concerns and our desire to control all circumstances, we can experience each day as a steady stream of singularly euphoric moments of epiphany. It may sound like I am talking about enlightenment, and perhaps I am. Just as very few people have ever supposedly reached enlightenment, it would be nearly impossible to successfully live each moment in its own fullness. But our contentment can grow in as much as we are able to shed our concerns and wishes and regrets and let ourselves be present. There are few things we can control in life. One thing I have learned is that each day I can expect something unexpected, M^MV[PWKSQVO\WWKK]ZAW]\Z]TaVM^MZSVW__PI\_QTT happen next. If we can learn to accept this idea without fear, we can experience freedom from one of the worst distractionsworry. There are many things in life that we must do, whether we like them or not. These are some of the all-to-real aspects of life that are overlooked in memory Metatron July 2012 9

and anticipation. We must wash the dishes. We must bathe. We must eat. If we can TMIZV\WVLXTMI[]ZMIVLUMIVQVOQVM^MV\PM[MJI[M[\WNIK\Q^Q\QM[\PMUW[\ mundane of tasks, we will be better able to experience a more steady joy instead of always hunting for the next high. What does this mean for us as artists? How can we be creative if we let ourselves enjoy the mundane instead of focusing on the business of our creative work? First of all, we can let the mundane be inspirational. Let conversations with the neighbors that could be viewed as distractions inform our ideas of humanity and God and teach us to love more fully. Only by letting ourselves forget our other concerns and be in the moment with our neighbor, listening and sharing life, can we love him or her. We can IT[WTM\JMQVO[\]KS_IQ\QVOI\\PMLWK\WZ[WNKMWZ\PMNZ][\ZI\QVO[\ZM[[WNOM\\QVOQVI fender bender be considered opportunities in which we are forced to be stopped in our tracksforced out of our own control and into an awareness of the greater, beautiful universe of which we are a part. We are given the chance to practice gratefulness in spite of ourselves and reminded to pay attention to and love the people we are with. In order to create anything, we must love our muse. If we are to be inspired, we must let go of control and yes, be in the moment. This may mean getting the dishes put away so that we can sit down at the canvas, or it may mean doing the dishes and feeding our dreams simultaneously. Life lived in awareness and gratefulness is gloriously full of creative opportunity. And worry must always be cast out. Worry destroys creativity. ?MKIVVW\_WZZaIJW]\[]KKM[[WZNIQT]ZMWZVW\JMQVOIJTM\WVQ[PWZPMIZQVOVWWZ disappointing ourselves or others or God. Worry is the opposite of living in the UWUMV\7VKM_WZZaIVLNMIZIZMKI[\W]\_MPI^MZWWUQV[QLMWN][\WJMTTML_Q\P creativity and joy, room to be made whole, room to be lifted and carried away and led JaLQ^QVMQV[XQZI\QWV-0

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The movie is centered around two kids WZaMIZ[WTLVI\Q^M\WIK\Q\QW][ island that feels like it belongs in a lake in northern Michigan, c. 1965. They decide to run away together, each suffering a youthful crisis of sorts, but VLQVO[WTIKMQV\PMQZKWUUWV[MV[MWN alienation and love for each other. To be honest, its among Andersons more simple tales and this is both the strength and weakness of the piece. In MIZTQMZ_WZS[_MVLJQOOMZUM[[M[ with more complex tangles and more threatening issues.In Moonrise Kingdom, the threat feels diminished from previous works. Im going to attribute this to the fact that the primary

Wes Andersons new TU5WWVZQ[M3QVOLWU

is a delightful romp through the existential fears and hopes of youth. Its safe, fun and funny, and I highly recommend it. I had been waiting for Moonrise Kingdom for some time. Ill admit that Im a Wes )VLMZ[WVNIVI\QK1[I_\PM:WaIT Tennebaums in the theater seven times. So take my fanaticism with a grain of salt. As always the movie romps through the required rising action in act two embracing everything that is Wes Anderson: funny, Y]QZSaZMMK\Q^MIVL[\ZIVOM.WZ\PW[MWN us who wanted to punch ourselves in the face after getting stuck watching John +IZ\MZWVINW]ZPW]ZTWVOQOP\NZWU Chicago to LA, the unreasonable yet honest journey of a Wes Anderson troupe is precisely the breath of fresh air that will cure our cinema woes. Part of the fun in Andersons newest story Q[\PMILLQ\QWVITIK\WZ[_MVLWV[KZMMV Of course there is Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, but absent are Angelica Houston, Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson. 1V[\MIL_MOM\*Z]KM?QTTQ[-L_IZL6WZ\WV Francis McDormand, Tilda Swinton and even Harvey Keitel (although Harvey Keitel feels a bit like an add-on).

subjects are kids. In fact, in a threeminute dialog between Walt and Laura Bishop (Bill Murray and Francis McDormand) there is more guthrong, more soul-twisting power than in the rest of \PMTUKWUJQVML But please dont hear this as a slight. The TUXTIa[W]\WVQ\[W_V\MZU[I[LWITT WN)VLMZ[WV[TU[IVL\PM\MZU[QV this piece are a true pleasure to experience. Theres enough drama to keep you interested, enough humor to keep you chuckling and enough nostalgia to remind you of so many long forgotten details from your sordid, yet magical childhood. <PMTUQ[ZI\ML8/IVLZ]V[! minutesthough it feels not a minute longer than 85. If youre not already a Wes Anderson fan, and you enjoy Moonrise Kingdom, youll be delighted to discover a small library of delightful TU[\PI\XTIa\WOM\PMZTQSMINIUQTaWN red-headed, freckle-faced brothers and sistersif you know what I mean (and if aW]LWV\aM\aW]_QTT[WWV2,: Metatron July 2012 11

Terry Hogg: A MYstic Revelation

Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get around to being the particular poet or the particular monk they are intended to be by God. They never become the man or the artist who is called for by all the circumstances of their individual lives. Thomas Merton
1Z[\PMIZLWN<MZZa0WOO_PMVPMKIUM\W+PQKIOW\WTMILI_MMSMVLZM\ZMI\ on Celtic contemplative prayer for our church. I had no idea what to expect, but Terry was going to be staying at our friends house, so I knew that I would have an opportunity to meet him. Once he arrived, my friend, Carrie, was eager for me to meet him, convinced I would be intrigued. And she was right. I have met few people in my life who I highly respect without feeling insecure about the things I have not yet achieved, but Terry is someone who impressed me with his wisdom and thoughtfulness while making me just want to enjoy being who I am. Terry has been working on a book for a long time, and I was given the opportunity to interview him about his writing. .WZUIVaXMWXTMQVKT]LQVOUM\PMJWWSWN:M^MTI\QWVPI[KWUM\WMUJWLa something terrifying. But the truth is that it is meant to be a book of pastoral MVKW]ZIOMUMV\NWZ][1\Q[IJW]\\PMOTWZaWN/WLQVQ\[JINQVOMV\QZM\aJMQVO revealedwhat has been hidden since the beginning of time being made known to ITT-^MZaSVMM[PITTJW_-^MZa\WVO]M[PITTKWVNM[[-^MZaMaM[PITT[MM-^MZa ear shall hear. And though there is terror associated with something so powerful being uncovered, it is only as terrifying as the love of the triune God. Jesus: the One God sent to shed His blood and suffer death, even death on the cross, and all

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the sorrows and shame of the broken world, for one such as me. The Spirit: the One PW^MZQVOW^MZ\PM_I\MZ[\PM7VMNZWU_PWU_MKIVVM^MZMM\PMWVM_PW[\QZZML 2WPVQV-TQbIJM\P[_WUJ\PM7VM_PWQ[ILMXW[Q\O]IZIV\MMQVO_PI\Q[\WKWUM\PM One who dwells among us. During the summer I met Terry, my husband, three children, and I were in the process of moving. We had rented our home out, but we had not found another place to live. We felt nervous and unsure of what the future held. During that time, Terry talked about the goodness of being empty, because it means we are ready and available to be TTML<PQ[QLMIQ[^MZaLQNNMZMV\NZWU_PI\_MPMIZQV\PMUMLQIIVLQVUW[\IZMI[WN our culture where being full of food and stuff and money is the best way to be. Terry Q[I^M[[MT)^M[[MTWV\PM_I\MZ[?IQ\QVO\WJMTTML-UX\a-IOMZNWZ\PMKI\KP Terry has spent about half of his life in this readiness. He has made conscious choices to be pared down to the sheerest version of himself in order to remain as the thinnest TQOZMM\ZIV[XIZMV\[W\PI\\PM;XQZQ\_Q\P_PWUPMQ[TTMLQ[KTMIZTa^Q[QJTMI[0M pumps through the veins of Terrys body and soul. Terry lives consciously in the natural and the supernatural, in the present and in the eternal. He is at once an aging man with a white ponytail, rosy Irish face, and clothes his daughters and wife have bought for him, and a timeless expression of who the Father is. Someone said of Terry that he was so into the mystics that he became one himself and we joke that Terry is our resident Irish mystic here in Oak Park, IL. A mystic is a person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect. And I believe dictionary.com has it right, at least as far as Terry is concerned. He is someonean empty vessel--who desires his very life to be an M`XZM[[QWVWN/WL[TW^MIVLPMQ[KWVLMV\\PI\_MKIVVW\SVW_ITT\PMZMQ[\WSVW_ about God through rational thought alone. Terry makes you realizeeven if you are someone whose faith is so dusty and VMOTMK\MLQ\KW]TL[KIZKMTaJMLMVMLI[NIQ\P\PI\\PMZMQ[ZWWUI\\PMM\MZVIT\IJTM for everyone. Terry makes you realize that anyone can be a mystic. Anyone can be a follower. Anyone can be working towards that ultimate goal--as you would discipline your body to run a race or perform a perfect pose--of unity with the Father. There is always room for another mystic, and the only mystic you can ever be is yourself. The trick is allowing aW]Z[MTN\WJMKWUMMUX\aMVW]OP\WJMTTML Darsana (or Darshan) is the Sanskrit word for sight, vision, or glimpse, most often in terms of a vision of the divine, such as a deity, or holy person or object. As followers of Christ, we are to live in a state of perpetual darshan, perceiving

Johns description of heaven is actually the rebirth of images \PI\IZMKWUQVO\WN]TTTUMV\[W that we can have a language to articulate the invisible.

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the world around us with eyes unveiled and mind and soul unfurled. This planet and the people on it are not just physical beings. As Terry often points out, in Hebrew there is no word for supernaturalthe natural and supernatural are one and the same. Which leads us to the book WN:M^MTI\QWV :M^MTI\QWV)XWKITaX[M Unveiling. In Greek, the TIVO]IOM\PM:M^MTI\QWV of John was written, the words all mean the same thing, but in recent decades, with movies like Apocalypse Now and A Thief in the Night-from

opposite ends of the cultural spectrum but with similar connotations of the implications of the end times--our associations, conscious and unconscious, with the apocalypse are frightful and gruesome. And if we were raised in the Christianparticularly -^IVOMTQKIT subculture, these vague but emotionally vivid images of what is to

come are part of our earliest memories and most internal notions about the world. In the United States and other parts of the industrialized West, _PMZM\PM-^IVOMTQKIT Protestant and Catholic subcultures dominate, these ideas permeate the culture at large, religious and secular alike. In 2011, yet another end times book, The Leftovers, chronicling the religiously linked sudden departure of a large portion of society, was published by an uber-famous

secular writer, Tom Perotta, and went on to become an award-winning bestseller. Terry Hoggs Z[\JWWS odd years in the creating, unapologetically contradicts all of the indoctrination that we have been fed since we were toddlers surounding the book of :M^MTI\QWV According to Terry, there are three main principles we must remember when we read (or are read to from, as it was originally QV\MVLML\WJM[PIZML\PMTI[\JWWSWN\PM*QJTM"\PMJWWSWN:M^MTI\QWVQ[UMIV\\W JMXI[\WZITQ\Q[UMIV\\WXZW^QLM[MK]ZQ\aVW\\W\MZZQNa#\PMJWWSWN:M^MTI\QWVQ[ intended to be an unveiling of an, better yet the, ultimate realitythe true supernatural world in which we live that is more beautiful and terrifying than what _MKW]TLP]UIVTaQUIOQVM#IVL\PMJWWSWN:M^MTI\QWVQ[XZWXPM\QKQV\PI\Q\Q[ God speaking to humanity and to each of us individuallyprophecy is the mind of God, how God sees thingsnot as a futuristic foretelling of what is to come. Terry explains, Johns description of heaven is actually the rebirth of images that IZMKWUQVO\WN]TTTUMV\[W\PI\_MKIVPI^MITIVO]IOM\WIZ\QK]TI\M\PMQV^Q[QJTM :I\PMZ\PIVOWQVOJIKSPMQ[JZQVOQVO\WN]TTTUMV\\PMQUIOMZaWN\PM7TL 14 Metatron July 2012

Testament Moreover, If you see yourself as part of the bride of Christ, then what you see is a city that is people. The new Jerusalem is actually a perfect human community. Daniel prays three times a day with his window open towards Jerusalemthe only thing that can keep a person sane in the midst of this life. Once you get the sense that the city is the bride of the church ready for marriagethe city is all the good interactionpure-hearted interaction of genuine integrity. Terry believes that, The apocalypse of Jesus is intended to take us into the cloud of QVVQ\MUa[\MZa\WZMQV\ZWL]KM][M`Q[\MV\QITTa\W\PMZMIT/WLJaOQ^QVO][ITIVO]IOM IVLKWV\M`\\WNZMMW]Z[MT^M[NZWU\PM[]XMZKQITXMZ[XMK\Q^MWNQLWTI\Za0Q[JWWSQ[ not an attempt to do a theological exegesis, but an attempt to draw us into a meditative engagement so that we can experience that space that the apocalyptic is intended to KZMI\M0MPWXM[\PI\\PMJWWS_QTTTMIL][\WM`XMZQMVKM:M^MTI\QWVI[IJTM[[QVOIVL encouragement, and we will start to see the world as preternatural. Furthermore, the individual who reads the book for others is a surrogate John, who is I[]ZZWOI\M2M[][:MILQVO\PMJWWSITW]L_QTTIK\]ITTaITTW_\PMZMILMZ\WJM\PM^WQKM of the Lord. As disciples of Jesus, we are provided an opportunity to sit with the Master when the book is read person to person. <MZZaPI[\ZIV[TI\ML\PM*WWSWN:M^MTI\QWVNZWU\PM/ZMMSNWZ][IOIQVJ]\\PQ[\QUM with an awareness of its poetic, oratorical intent. He envisions people listening to a recording of verses from the book being read, then meditating on his devotional for MIKPXI[[IOMIVLVITTaTQ[\MVQVOI[MKWVL\QUM_Q\PI_IZMVM[[WN\PM[\ZIVOMXWM\QK words, this time with a more intentionally unveiled posture. His book is not an attempt to do a theological exegesis, but instead to draw us into a meditative engagement so that we can experience that space that apocalyptic literature is intended to create and to then walk in it. In the words of George MacDonald: The gospel itself, and in it the parables of the <Z]\PIZM\WJM]VLMZ[\WWLWVTaJa\PW[M_PW_ITSJa_PI\\PMaVL1\Q[PM\PI\ runneth that shall read, and no other. It is not intended by the speaker of the parables that any other should know intellectually what, known but intellectually, would be for his injurywhat knowing intellectually he would imagine he had grasped, perhaps even appropriated. When the pilgrim of the truth comes on his journey to the region of \PMXIZIJTMPMVL[Q\[QV\MZXZM\I\QWV1\Q[VW\INZ]Q\WZIRM_MT\WJM[\WZMLJ]\I_MTT springing by the wayside (from The Last Farthing, Unspoken Sermons, Series Two).

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