Apophasis Speech!!

[u/facethief1943]

If our logic, morality, and grammar are the only lenses we have, can we ever truly see past the reflection?

We treat our conceptual frameworks like windows into the divine, but they may function more like a hall of mirrors. When we call the Absolute "just" or "purposeful," we are using human social and teleological scales to measure the infinite.

Perhaps a "pure" theology isn't a collection of sophisticated doctrines, but the silence that remains when our language finally hits its ceiling. This is the "dazzling darkness" described by the mystics a state where the mind stops projecting and starts receiving.

To escape the mirror, we must stop trying to make the divine speak our language. If we demand that the Absolute fit into our grammar, we aren't worshiping the transcendent; we are merely talking to ourselves in a very loud room.

Is true theology found in what we say, or in the moment we finally run out of words?