The Age of the Word

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there was a time when humankind not only received the word in word, but also in spirit. Then came the age when the word began to mislead, as an idol does, into intellectualism. Human being were taught to hold on to outer sensory phenomena, lest they fall prey to the idol in the word. One could no longer hold the word in its own power, but had to guard against the intellectualized word. Once one loses the true essence of the word from which knowledge, civilization and power had been drawn,. In earlier times, one clings to an idol, or so believed bacon. We see in this doctrine of idols, ashi