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.
Deconstructed to simply form two different
languages.
These independently do not form
anything.
But when together they are the Universal
Language.
No comments:
Post a Comment