289 - My Most Anti-Symbolic Talk - The Quest For A Spiritual Home Conference
The Symbolic World
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The Power of Rest
When we hear the story of the garden, it's a mythological description. We recognize in that story something which is true not only in a kind of historical way where we have this idea that there were people that lived in the garden before. And so it really is this powerful image of this central tree, this tree that we see in the Garden of Eden and his wife as the, his home as the space in which he finds rest. You know, when Paul brought up the image of the heavenly Jerusalem, that is how home is described. It's exactly what that is. But it is, it's something like an eschatological memory.We can put it in the past,
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