Reflection 90

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No Partial Sightings Of The Origin

Now I put it to you that this seeing of the Perfect One at your core is instantaneous and perfect seeing. That to see Him at all is to see Him all at once and as He is. That there are no blurred or partial sightings of your Origin. How different it is when you view Its products! Take for instance those hands of yours, one holding this book and the other pointing at its Reader. However long and carefully you study this scene - the hugely complex patterning and texture-range and colour-range of those familiar objects - you miss most of it, and quickly forget what you did get. Moreover you left out the hierarchy of little things it consists of and big things it depends on, and without which it isn't so much as a surface, isn't anything at all. So I say: things are too complex and too missing, too scattered in space and time, too out-to-lunch, to be seen. At best they are glimpsed. Only the No-thing which is the God who is perfectly simple and altogether present (present in two - no, three! - senses of that portmanteau word) can be perfectly seen, can be seen at all. And who but Himself can see Himself? (God, article by Douglas Harding.)


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