There has been a topic of philosophy that has been slowly forming in my Spiritual walk for some time now. I have posted many blogs around the topic, but none have found completion in its goal. I now feel that I have collected enough puzzle pieces (and assembled enough) that I am now ready to begin writing it. However this may take some time to get right. So this is a preview of coming attractions. I cannot promise when this will be completed, but for now I would like you to meditate on this C.S. Lewis quote for preparation. See you on the other side.
“If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if
we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and
most intimate souvenirs of Hell. I believe, to be sure, that any man who
reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out
his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was
really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond
expectation, waiting for him in “the High Countries.” In that sense it
will be true for those who have complete the journey (and for no others)
to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere. But we, at this
end of the road, must not try to anticipate that retrospective vision.
If we do, we are likely to embrace the false and disastrous converse and
fancy that everything is good and everywhere is Heaven.” –The Great Divorce
we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and
most intimate souvenirs of Hell. I believe, to be sure, that any man who
reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out
his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was
really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond
expectation, waiting for him in “the High Countries.” In that sense it
will be true for those who have complete the journey (and for no others)
to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere. But we, at this
end of the road, must not try to anticipate that retrospective vision.
If we do, we are likely to embrace the false and disastrous converse and
fancy that everything is good and everywhere is Heaven.” –The Great Divorce
