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Hierophany - College Essay

Hierophany

Faith requires awareness, whereas trust is simply the act of reliance, justified or not. The awareness of faith lies in relationship to the divine sense and as actualized in an "other." Faith precludes speculations and requires the absolute acceptance of existence and beauty as personified or objectified in the other. Faith leaves no tolerance for explanation or rationalization. It does not require definition. Hence the simple definition of hierophany in the Greek as the manifestation of the sacred requires no need for further definition or specification, or for that matter any limitation or qualification as placed by language.
Humans strive toward and away f unity as certainly as the ...

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to hold a concept of the divine, with the true realization of unity there is no hope, as hope portends future fulfillment, is the tool employed against doubts for which there is no room in hierophany realized. (Human consciousness as filtered by rationalizing is what allows fur such a redundancy as "hierophany realized" for hierophany is realization).
Wisdom is required, but not the parochial variety. Rather instead, "blessed knowing" which is a knowing has no concept of either hope or doubt. In the metaphysical sense, life is a continual quest for unity with the divine, and its maintenance when achieved -- which is purely ideal. In a sense as the poets say, it requires seekers, but cannot be found. It is in the seeking itself, the striving for unity that unity is obtained active, never static. This takes one to realms beyond the physical or biological, to the movement of the soul to unity that continues past the time-dimensional restraint of biological existence. Due to this ...

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