Speaker 2
You can hear the place. If you think about Heschel's description of the prophets, the loneliness, the solitude, the fear, the life you have to live because you're in the presence of the divine and you've been changed and transformed. It's all here and of course at the very end of this section, he talks about on page 191, I became a prophet since I had found pleasure in the primordial beginning that of arriving at this central place. And I'm going to show this drawing that comes later in the book but I was so moved by this, the image of the cool starry night and of the vast sky opens up my eye to the infinity of the inner world which I as a desirous man still feel is still too cold. I cannot pull the stars down to myself but only watch them. Therefore, my impetuous desire feels that that world is nightly and cold. It's the primordial place. You know, here's the tree of life, all the great cultures who have the tree and the creatures and the snake and I was just inexpressively moved by this illustration and of his arrival at this beginning. And of having to go through his own process of wanting to have everything ordered to fall into disorder and to come to his birth essentially in a different world, I thought this chapter was absolutely amazing. Especially given that all of this instruction is the second night, it's December 22nd, but the chart itself doesn't change. This is really some magic moments for him.
Speaker 1
It's really profound and Carol, what you just read, I just want to point people to again is footnote 204, yeah? Which is like 193. And it comes a little later that image in the book. It's such a beautiful image.