Tuesday, August 30, 2005

How deep our roots

How far back can we trace revelation, and what exactly is it, anyway? Revelation is the hearing of intelligence, whether that intelligence is ours, or some other. We call it higher intelligence, because we assume that what is revealed about what had been unknown, must require a perception beyond the ability of mortal human.
We can see that revelation has hardly changed at all, but that the technology is better able to reflect the nuance of the experience. We see time and again how the typewriter, and the printing press before it, were the instruments of revealed scripture.
A question I have. Not the proof of the experience, but, trusting that time and again the phenomenon of prophecy returns to our age, how long have we been on this journey, and asking the same questions, praying the same pleas?