It is necessary to see the elements of the ancient world in their proper setting. The timeless world of human experience is not an infinite universe, nor even a globe set in a neighborhood of stars. Our world is better conceptualized as a cartouche-the simplest depiction of a bounded and interlocking system. Our phantasmagoria of infinitudes allows us to spread our conceptualizations out as separate blotches on a canvas.
Nothing is separate, a fact that cannot be hidden from our unbridled senses--if we will unbridle them. This is what Jesus meant when he said "if you have eyes to see or ears to hear" and the like. Given the chance, we do not use our eyes to see, but rather to paint pictures of our preconceptions--no great difficulty, if we decide what to look at, and from which angle.
Indeed, there is not enough time in life to learn how to see nor how to properly believe--much less to divine the proper content of such beliefs. No matter--what is necessary to believe is within us: our inheritance from Adam and Eve and the "apple." We are one with the internalized cartouche of existence. We are able, as Jesus charges us, to decide right from wrong--if only we will allow the unfiltered light of our senses to illuminate the profusely illustrated cavern within us.
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