"He is quite concerned with his many names, isn't he?"
Not in the slightest.
In your last post you raise several questions, but instead of batting back an answer to you, which you in turn counter or dismiss, let me instead offer some RUMI which I was reading this morning.
A voice/someone/something said to me: "Solon". So here it is!
"WOULD YOU BOW?
If the Friend rose inside you, would you bow? Would you wonder where that one
came from and how? If you say" I will bow?, that's important. If you answer,
"But can I be sure?" it will keep the meeting from happening, as busy people
rush there and back here murmuring, Now I know, no I don't know now. Have you
seen a camel with its eyes covered turn and walk one way, then turn another?
Be silent and revolve with no will. Don't raise your hand to ask anything.
Holy one, sitting in the body's well like Joseph, a rope is there in front
of you. Lift your hand to that! A blind man has bought you for eighteen
counterfeit coins. Empty metal cups bang together, and the full moon slides
out of hiding. Make one sound, please! You are the precious hyacinth that the
sickle will spare, not the wheat plant Adam ate. I remind you with these poems
to dress in the flower of God's qualities, not your torn robe of self-accusation"
from the book described at:
amazon.com
Namaste!
Jim |