Language is perhaps the most metaphysically powerful social phenomenon beyond the physical. What we all yearn for is synthesis. What we all yearn for is to be surrounded by those similar to ourselves, both physically and metaphysically. We wish to be embedded in a society whose other members feel, think and believe as we do. This enables us to relate, to empathize, to sympathize and therefore to act in harmony.
What we yearn for in the realm of metaphysics is a common relationship to THE GREATER POWER. And this relationship is heavily language-influenced. For the way we think and talk ABOUT The Greater Power "is" our religion. And this is essentially a common language, perhaps the most powerful common language that a people can hold.
Even where there is striking physical similarity, perhaps even physical homogeneity, the fact of different metaphysical states will cast us apart "as" different species. We become like flowers with quite similar stems, visible to the eye, but whose flowers, our minds and their associated conceptual paradigms, are exceedingly different. We become different plants fighting over the same territory.
What we are all yearning for is the UNIFYING THEOLOGICAL THEORY which will pull us all together, make us one in the metaphysical world of BELIEF.
I have such a unifying theory! It is the THEORY OF ANALOGOS-LOGOS and the theory of WHAT-MAN-CALLS-GOD. Here it is the same for all of us, inescapably. This probably cannot be understood by all the people. In fact, it cannot be understood by the overwhelming majority of people. It will have to be understood by THE MAN.
A. Iosue
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