John Zavacki <jzavacki@greenapple.com> writes:
>Sprituality is another subject that should not become an object.....
This reminds me of a story I heard many years ago. I am not a good story
teller, but I hope the idea becomes clear. I think, this story has no
morale and does not try to state objective knowledge about spirituality,
but it is just a warning in the dress of a story.
Once apon a time there was an island hidden in the center of a stormy
lake. In order to visit the island, people had to do a dangerous travel
with a boat across the lake.
One day, the gods of that area agreed to build a bridge to make it easier
for people to visit this precious island. In order to build this bridge,
they had to convince the queen of the night, for she was the only one who
could figure out the necessary architecture. Her condition was, that she
will only work in absolute darkness, so that no man will ever see her, for
she is very, very shy.
So under the supervision of the queen of the night, the gods started to
build the bridge.
As the time passed, people became aware, that something extraordinary was
happening, connecting the country with the island. Even the lake seemed to
be less stormy. Some kind of wonder was going on. Especially one monk
living in a nearby monastry became very curious and started to examine the
first parts of the bridge. This was difficult, because the bridge was not
yet visible at daylight. After a while he noted that the bridge always
changes a little bit at new moon. It was only a question of time, when the
monk camped at new moon near the lake and burnt a fire at midnight.
The queen of the night shied away immediately, hidden by a big storm. The
bridge was never completed.
But the monk misunderstood. He saw the bridge with his physical eyes and
took the storm as a revelation of god, giving the bridge as a gift to him.
>From that night, he taught people to see the bridge and promised the path
to the island. Whoever believed his promises and tried the bridge was lost
in the lake. Only very few tried the dangerous travel by boat, because of
the promising bridge and the island fall into oblivion.
Liebe Gruesse,
Winfried
--"Winfried Dressler" <winfried.dressler@voith.de>
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