03-30-2012, 06:34 PM
Siren, I appreciate your posts and I think you are accurately describing a phenomenon which is all too common in our intellectual circles: arguing meanings rather than discussing substance. However, I have found that it is precisely the poetic, once infused with the rational, which is capable of bearing the weight of a thought-system in a way that normal language wouldn't. If I hope to deliver a concept to you, but cannot transmit that concept in any other way but with words, would it not be best for me to build a rich imaginary picture by the use of words and then, within this now painted picture, to connect structural elements in this new pictorial reality in order to show you the shape of the concept I mean to convey? What I am describing, of course, is the tool we call metaphor. Short of telepathy, I have found that this is the most powerful tool for conveying a concept to another.
On topic: First: blind faith is not properly faith. Blind faith is little more than a tiny, desperate hope surrounded by countless fears whose spiritual power is far greater than that tiny hope, yet, for whatever reason, the person of blind faith pretends that the fears do not exist and fools himself into thinking that all he has is hope.
Faith and will are parallel. The represent the same force, but they exist in different arcs, different planes. Faith is to the spirit what will is to the mind. Thus faith can be thought of as a macrocosm to the microcosm of will. A potent will cannot be had without, as Ra says, attention, or focus as I call it. Will represents a focused desire to experience, but the mere presence of will does not indicate what kind of experience is desired, as Pickle pointed out.
Will is given direction by faith: since I cannot know anything for certain, any direction which I commit my will to necessarily requires faith. If will is the propulsion mechanism of a ship, then faith is the navigation system. But the navigator doesn't let you see very much of the map!
How are the two parallel? Focusing of the mind yields a potent will; focusing of the spirit yields a potent faith.
On topic: First: blind faith is not properly faith. Blind faith is little more than a tiny, desperate hope surrounded by countless fears whose spiritual power is far greater than that tiny hope, yet, for whatever reason, the person of blind faith pretends that the fears do not exist and fools himself into thinking that all he has is hope.
Faith and will are parallel. The represent the same force, but they exist in different arcs, different planes. Faith is to the spirit what will is to the mind. Thus faith can be thought of as a macrocosm to the microcosm of will. A potent will cannot be had without, as Ra says, attention, or focus as I call it. Will represents a focused desire to experience, but the mere presence of will does not indicate what kind of experience is desired, as Pickle pointed out.
Will is given direction by faith: since I cannot know anything for certain, any direction which I commit my will to necessarily requires faith. If will is the propulsion mechanism of a ship, then faith is the navigation system. But the navigator doesn't let you see very much of the map!
How are the two parallel? Focusing of the mind yields a potent will; focusing of the spirit yields a potent faith.
![[+]](https://www.bring4th.org/forums/images/collapse_collapsed.png)