Knowledge is metaphorical, never factual
The scientists and astronomers are wrong in wanting to be objective. They think of objectivity as some goal to be realized and subjectivity as the opposite goal, to be wisely shunned. It's simply not so. Men are men, forever tied down, destined, to being men. It is not possible ever for them to be anything but subjective. Objectivity is some conceptualized ideal—absolute, detached, abstract thought—thought without a thinker. To be objective you must transcend your body, your manness.
This is what the Logos God is, the purely objective God, no body, all spirit or mind. It is this Logos-God that the scientist would that he could be. His ideal. He wants to be beyond man—free of his manhood—mind without a body. Total objectivity.
This is why the theories and thoughts of these scientists come out so coldly, so calculated with death—because they are the very theories and thoughts of men who are trying viciously not to be men! Men trying purposely to be non-human—to state the world in non-human terms. They deny their own manhood.
So the earth rotates around itself once in 24 hours, revolves around the nuclear sun once in 365 1/4 days, once around the galaxy in so many billion light-years. Stars and nebuli become mental entities in mathematical relation, just as everything else is broken into atoms of energetic quarks that exist and relate solely conceptually. Indeed, it is the world of God. It is the only world a spiritual God could have—totally inhuman, alien, and sickly in its death.
Is the objective statement of life Truth? Is it true? Is the point of view of this creative Absolute God a more valid viewpoint than that of man? Obviously it is thought so.
But the Absolute God can only exist conceptually—abstractly—not physically or really. The same with objectivity. Same with Truth. Things are true only as they appeal to our mind and body in union, to our full manness, to our man-sense of the world about us. The farther we flee from this, abstract from this, the more we exile ourselves from our own thought, the more wretched and inhuman, falser, becomes our thought. It is dead thought, and portends dead life.
So that is what it is when I call true knowledge metaphorical, never factual. I don't mean that logic and rationality are useless—I don't mean that “we can never know”. But I mean we can't know in the “factual” sense we worship as science. We can only know in loose metaphorical sense—in symbolism—in symbolic imagery.
Because what is true is beyond words—beyond logos—beyond the process of reason. Abstraction cannot be true—because life is not an abstraction—was not created out of logos, but out of itself—because quite simply, concepts and qualities and mathematical relationships are smaller than life—are bound, crated, and boxed by it—and in themselves can't touch it.
But a man is more than his mathematical mind, just as life is more than qualities and concepts itself, a man is more than one little part of him, a man is alive, physically so, and knows his life in a billion physical ways—smelling is the way his nostrels “know” life, breathing the way his lungs “know”, seeing the “knowledge” of his eyes, touching his fingers or palms in the process of getting an “understanding”. The mind “knows” through words, with a metaphorical or symbolic knowledge. And the whole man knows through the whole billion pieces of his body—hands, feel, ears, arms, eyes, mind, sexual organ, stomach, lungs, shoulders, fingernails, and more than these, and less, and less and more even than that.
That is simply what I mean.
