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Thank you, Alamo-Girl! From a metaphysical standpoint, there is a huge difference between Platonic thought and Christian theology. The Revelation of Christ marks a stunning sea change in divine-human relations.

For Plato, Man is the image of the cosmos. But Christianity holds that Man is the image of God. Jesus exemplifies this point, first in the Incarnation, then at the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the Ascension. He was crucified at "the intersection of Time and the Timeless," on the Cross understood in the sense of the metaphor suggested in my last. Increasingly, I am beginning to suspect that part of the message of Christ to us all is that he shows us what we humans are in our own nature, so very imperfectly realized in human existence.

But that's probably highly speculative of me, and I'm sure many Christians would regard that statement as heretical. :^) Still, what is one to do when insights like this come to one, in deep contemplation and prayer?

Thank you oh so very much for your beautiful post!

Still, what is one to do when insights like this come to one, in deep contemplation and prayer?

Exactly what you are doing - revealing the insight!

In prayer and meditation on your post 45, I envisioned a great tear in the fabric of space/time when Christ gave up the Spirit, and Light of so great an intensity it engulfs all of existence. This thought was provoked by your post but it does have a parallel in Scripture:

Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; - Matthew 27:50-51

Truly, I believe these insights are part of worship. (And, lest anyone be concerned, such insights are not to be taken as doctrine.)