medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Lewis explores the transcendent thing in "The Great Divorce", where the
> people arriving at "heaven" (?) find themselves to be insubstantial in
> comparison to the "realness" of the place. They are as thin as air,
compared
> to the place. He has the idea that transcendence is actually super-real,
as
> in ultra-real, or highly real (not just "beyond real" or "above real"). It
> would not be so much that the universe *is* feminine, but rather that
> compared to the transcendent, it is so illusorily and scarcely masculine
as
> for the difference between feminine and masculine in the base to be
> irrelevant, compared to the difference between the transcendent and the
> base. It's a slightly difficult (sophistrous?) tightrope for him to walk
> isn't it?
Parenthetically, much of the imagery in this is taken from Socrates in the
Phaedo.
DW
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