It felt like they were trying to pack so much symbolism in that it all got too convoluted, and I rarely understood what exactly was going on. I could tell that they were trying to say something profound, but it felt like an artist trying to make a realistic painting with fingerpaint - the medium just didn’t suit the message. But maybe it was just over my head.
You do understand it. That’s what mysticism is. An expression of what can’t be understood or be put into words. It’s not something you can talk about.
And that’s what the ending is trying to express, the mystic experience of oneness with God, etc. To end suffering, misunderstanding, achieve perfection and harmony, yadda yadda
Parmenides is another source for this sort of thing, outside of religion.
I read it as a pastiche, personally. It’s like various mystic traditions and teachings, all slapped up together, hence the references to christianity, buddism, and kabbalah. It doesn’t coherently try to articulate any one particular variety of mysticism.
It felt like they were trying to pack so much symbolism in that it all got too convoluted, and I rarely understood what exactly was going on. I could tell that they were trying to say something profound, but it felt like an artist trying to make a realistic painting with fingerpaint - the medium just didn’t suit the message. But maybe it was just over my head.
You do understand it. That’s what mysticism is. An expression of what can’t be understood or be put into words. It’s not something you can talk about.
And that’s what the ending is trying to express, the mystic experience of oneness with God, etc. To end suffering, misunderstanding, achieve perfection and harmony, yadda yadda
Parmenides is another source for this sort of thing, outside of religion.
I read it as a pastiche, personally. It’s like various mystic traditions and teachings, all slapped up together, hence the references to christianity, buddism, and kabbalah. It doesn’t coherently try to articulate any one particular variety of mysticism.