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    The Wings of God: Wild Goose to Pelican, Phoenix to Dove
    The Wings of God: Wild Goose to Pelican, Phoenix to Dove
    The Wings of God: Wild Goose to Pelican, Phoenix to Dove
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    The Wings of God: Wild Goose to Pelican, Phoenix to Dove

    By Ellyn Sanna

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    Around the world, across the centuries, birds have stirred the human imagination. They have inspired us and comforted us. They have made us believe in miracles and mystery. This book, full of quotes from ancient and modern writers, reveals the Divine through the sacred metaphors of birds and wings.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnamchara Books
    Release dateJul 28, 2011
    ISBN9781937211158
    The Wings of God: Wild Goose to Pelican, Phoenix to Dove
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    Ellyn Sanna

    Ellyn Sanna is the author of more than thirty books. She is also the executive editor at Harding House Publishing Service, where she has helped to create hundreds of educational books for young adults. She and her family (along with assorted animals) make their home in upstate New York.

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      The Wings of God - Ellyn Sanna

      Introduction

      The picture is a symbol:

      but it’s truer than any philosophical theorem

      (or, perhaps, than any mystic’s vision)

      that claims to go behind it.

      —C. S. Lewis

      Truth does not equal fact.

      Just because something is imaginary does not mean

      it is not also real.

      As human beings, we use analogies and symbols to understand the world. My love is like a red, red rose: this is a truth, a way to touch the unknowable reality of the person you love. You would be foolish to be disillusioned with your love merely because you discovered he was neither red nor scented, that in fact, in any literal sense, he was not particularly rose-like at all. The line of poetry is not factual, not in the least. But in the world of the imagination, it is symbolically true.

      [A human being] never perceives anything fully

      or comprehends anything completely.

      He can see, hear, touch, and taste;

      but . . . at some point he reaches the edge of certainty

      beyond which conscious knowledge cannot pass.

      . . . The symbol allows him to touch the unknowable.

      —Carl Jung

      Our imaginations allow us to peek beyond the material world’s hard rim, to catch a glimpse of larger world—and for thousands of years, the human imagination has grabbed hold of sacred symbols that allow us to touch the numinous.

      It is but truth, not fact: . . . .

      This is the veil under which [God has] chosen to appear

      even from the first until now.

      For this end [God]

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