Fast times

Month, Day: Loftiness, Light (Majesty)

Once a year, there is a month, with a very appropriate name, during which we are told that fasting, prayer, and reflection can obtain greater than usual reward.

One focus of reflection might be the Attributes of God since we're to know God through Creation (science).

The first few days (Splendour, Glory, Beauty, Grandeur) can make one speechless as words fail. Later days go toward more operationally attuned affairs. This day, Light, has a lot of interest since the concept applies heavily in our technological progress yet we do not do (have not done) justice to the Reality behind the Attribute.

The study of man, in as complete sense as we can conceive, will be the means to further our understanding. For instance, we are told that the intellectual powers (SAQ #56) are spiritual gifts.

And, we know that the spiritual facilities tie with our physical powers; this can be through the 'common faculty' or otherwise.

SAQ #69: " It has been mentioned that the members and parts of man affect and influence one another. For example, the eye sees; the heart is affected. The ear hears; and the spirit is influenced. The heart is at rest; the thoughts become serene, and for all the members of man's body a pleasant condition is realized. What a connection and what an agreement is this! Since this connection, this spiritual effect and this influence, exists between the members of the body of man, who is only one of many finite beings, certainly between these universal and infinite beings there will also be a spiritual and material connection. Although by existing rules and actual science these connections cannot be discovered, nevertheless, their existence between all beings is certain and absolute."

One has to ask what benefits would there be to a scientific framework that is based upon a broader sense of knowledge.

Of course, there are other questions, to boot.
Remarks:

03/19/2009 -- Science and knowing are key.

Modified: 03/19/2009