Human Development
Saviors of God: the vision
Description:
In this state, behind the stream of the mind and body, behind the stream of the race and mankind, behind the stream of plants and animals is the invisible, treading on all things visible and ascending. His face is without laughter, beyond joy, sorrow and hope. He weeps, clings to the living and the dead and grows strong. He is feared and pitied. He is lifting with every word, every deed, every thought the gravestone of creation. God heaves it upward. It is not pain, nor hope in some future, nor joy or victory that is the essence of God but struggle. To ask what is the purpose of the struggle is to succumb to the wretched self-seeking mind of humans within the bounds of man-made time, place and casualty. The self rejoices to feel the beginning and end of the world. The self condenses into a single lightning moment all of creation and all of destruction. This eternal moment is to be transfixed without losing in the rigidity of language any of its erotic whirling. This life of ecstasy can never be put in words but the struggle is to battle unceasingly to establish it in words; using myth, allegory, the rare and the mundane, exclamations and rhymes. In the same way God also struggles to speak in every way he can, with seas and fires, with colours and wings, with horns and claws, with constellations and butterflies to establish his ecstasy. In this state God confronts with terror and love his only hope and announces that this ecstatic who gives birth to all things, rejoices in them and yet destroys them, is his son.Context:
The third phase in the spiritual exercises of Nikos Kazantzakis.< Broader:
Saviors of God