Astrite's Year 5: October 2013

A Place in Future Babel

Whilst researching the idea of ‘Tower of Babel’ I have come to believe hence conclude that God believed in the builders, he thought them capable of reaching to the heavens. He refers to them as a strong power because they came together and they spoke the same language. They spoke the language of the world. The ‘Universal Language’.

‘’Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do; and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.’’

the Lord said, Genesis, Chapter 11

This goes without saying that God should allow them to proceed to this place where only he has seen. Possible he was scared himself that the builders would become a part of him?

‘’But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.’’

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, P.x

They overcame a lot of obstacles whilst building the Tower, such as the intricate design they had to make work, building materials they found, etc. Yet they had mistaken God’s action of pulling the walls down. Instead of realizing that this w

as just another obstacle/test that they must overcome by coming and working together, they walked away. They forgot about all the hard work they put into the tower in the first place, all the suffering they endured and all they gave up to get thus far.

‘‘The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.’’

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, P.ix

God merely sent an obstacle to test them. They were led to believe that there was something that needed to be withheld from them. This is then confirmed by Jorge Luis Borges writing in ‘The Library of Babel’. Borges rightly describes the men going ‘insane’ from just the thought of that the Library was complete, that the universe was justified. Maybe after all it is better that we keep searching and hopping; living in the unknown- than to face the final wish, as then, we will be left with an eternity of nothingness.

‘’When it was proclaimed that the Library contained all books, the first impression was one of extravagant happiness. All men felt themselves to be the masters of an intact and secret treasure. There was no personal or world problem whose eloquent solution did not exist in some hexagon. The universe was justified, the universe suddenly usurped the unlimited dimensions of hope.’’

Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinth, P.82

In an ideal Place, the builders never gave up. They continued building the Tower of Babel. They slowly but surely make their way up to the Heavens.

Imagine a place lost with no translation.