2 Kings 6:17
And Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his
eyes so he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and
saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Psalm 119:18
Open my eyes that I may see wonderful
things in your law.
This is how I distinguish dreaming and
waking.
When I am
awake I can, in some degree, account for and study my dream. The dragon that
pursued me last night can be fitted into my waking world. I know that there are
such things as dreams: I know that I had eaten an indigestible dinner: I know
that a man of my reading might be expected to dream of dragons. But while in
the night mare I could not have fitted in my waking experience. The waking
world is judged more real because it can thus contain the dreaming world: the
dreaming world is judged less real because it cannot contain the waking one.
For the same reason I am certain that in passing from the scientific point of
view to the theological, I have passed from dream to waking. Christian theology
can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religions. The
scientific point of view cannot fit in any of these things, not even science
itself. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen not only
because I see it but because by it I see everything else.
Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from me gold
refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you
can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can
see.
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