I have fallen. I am a spirit trapped by the Earth’s gravity on the planet. A body. Weight in flesh. A liberating thought. Thinking about the death of the body. Faith. Believing in the survival of energy. Thinking about God.
How dare I think about immortality? How can I be part of the whole that surrounds me and narrow the gap that has locked me in my thoughts? Trying to be outside of oneself is possible only if we think about human ontology. Where is the being of the human being? The history of human thought led us to language. The essentially linguistic being of humanity throws us out of itself. Being in language is a way of founding the world. But world and planet are different. Just as language is not on the planet but is the world itself into which humans are thrown as a natural ethnic group.
In the same way, we tend to confuse ourselves and believe that language is our thought and that we are masters of it; that we use it as a tool of communication and even that it is our expression. But it’s clear that when we come into the world, we don’t bring language, but rather we are thrown into it. Thought without language is so difficult to imagine, when we see how we distance ourselves from the natural entity that surrounds us in human existence.
To be is a distance. And the word throws us into the idea it represents, in a mode of existence based on the planet’s own transformation, which causes us to transform it into a world. The ontological essence of man is linguistic. Now, the question I’m involved in is about the measurement of the world, that is: What is the measure? The measure of man is to think about the divine. It is to relate the knowledge of one’s own death to the immortal nature of divinity. And it is through the poem that, as the poet Paul Celan said, poetry is not imposed, it is exposed; that the gesture of the poem is to establish meaning within humanity’s own linguistic world.
Let’s go back. Let’s revisit the beginning. Thought is trapped in its linguistic condition, just as the thinking body is anchored to the planet by gravity. How will it be possible to think without words and free the body from its perpetual condition in order to measure itself against divinity? The origin of divinity lies in the inexplicable, and for contemporary man, science explained the universe around us. Scientific thought displaced divinity by explaining what surrounds us. To explain it, to experience it, is to domesticate divinity.
If you want to seek divinity, pray.
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