Tuesday, August 25, 2009

What's the Point?

This is just something I have to write down periodically, for it is one of my favorite things in all of spiritual literature.

When Franz Rosenzweig was working with Martin Buber on their famous new German translation of the Bible (Old Testament), they would meet mostly once a week, and since Rosenzweig had an illness which made it impossible for him to speak, and he would type out his notes for Buber, so they could discuss them.

On December 10th, 1929, Buber came in for his weekly visit, and found Rosenzweig slumped in the bed, with his typewriter, and the usual paper sticking out of it, except he had stopped in the middle of typing, for he had died overnight...

here is what he wrote:

... jetzt kommt sie, die Pointe aller Pointen, die der Herr mir wirklich im Schlaf verliehen hat: die Pointe aller Pointen für die es...
... here it comes, the point of all points, which the Lord truly has granted me in my sleep: the point of all points for which it...

It always reminds me of the Course:

Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say "God is," and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is. (ACIM:W-169.5)
Or, in terms of the Thomas Gospel, among others Logion 113 is a reminder of the simplicity we overlook...

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