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was/a wilderness, savage, brute, harsh, and wild,”137 as harsh as Israel’s, as Christ’s, as humanity’s in its mesmerizing evolutions and violent devolutions through the circumambulations of the soul, at times lost, at times found, at times hearing the Word, at times rejecting the Word’s grace, yet
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou has wanderings in the wilderness
And findest not Sinai, ‘tis thy soul is poor;
There towers the mountain of the Voice no less,
Which whoso seeks shall find; but he who bends, Intent on manna still and mortal ends,
Sees it not, neither hears its thundered lore. Lowell, God is not Dumb138
For the Divine Word, being carried by God in all things, and all things being carried in the Divine Word, expands that which expands and is expanded, the living soul, for howsoever much Stoicism’s λόγος is dignified, and howsoever much Philo’s synthesis is contented and delighted, and upright, it only carries the Word, it only emanates the beautiful Idea, but it is not in itself itself, the capacious Word, for the Word is the Word is the Word in itself itself is God. For the beautiful Idea is not carried in God’s λόγος, nor God’s λόγος carries the beautiful Idea, but God’s Word is being carried in His λόγος, and God’s λόγος is being carried in His Being-Word.
137 Dante. The Vision of Dante Alighieri, or Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. Trans. By Rev. H.F. Cary. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1908. Canto I. ll 1- 5. 4.
138 Atwan, Robert and Wieder, Laurence. Chapters into Verse. Volume I: Genesis to Malachi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 4.
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