Poetically not Historically
(Galahad and
Parzival both wore red armor) So may we
all, when we have caught the meaning of Paul’s saying: “It is no longer I who
live, but Christ who lives in me” (Galatians 2:20). The
reference here is not and cannot be, positivistically, to the corporal person of
the historical “incarnation,” Jesus of Nazareth, whom Paul never saw or knew,
but, mystically, to the ever-living Christ, the knowledge and Knower of the
Father, potential with all. This revelation awakened within
Paul at that moment on the road to Damascus – and knocked him from his horse.
And once one learns this way of reading the symbols, through the imagery
of vision and the pictorial script of the religions of humankind, suddenly all
the mythologies of the world, each in its own way, become eloquent of the
spirit. RG 83