VERBACRUCE
In principio era il Verbo
In the stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, when one of the group is feeling at risk of losing their way and comes to ask for guidance from their spiritual parents, they are often told to do the work that they have available to them there – the weaving of the palm leaves.
I took what I had available to me and worked.
”Religion teaches that the soul can exist when the body has disintegrated. Now do I understand what it teaches? – Of course I understand it –– I can imagine various things in connection with it. After all, pictures of these things have been painted. And why should such a picture be only an imperfect rendering of the idea expressed? Why should it not do the same service as the spoken doctrine? And it is the service that counts.”
Wittgenstein
