/lit/ - Literature

>>16556516

Throughout history, nomadic-missionary caravans came to embody the transitory yet continuously regenerating nature of the soul itself. The word caravan itself roughly means ‘sun god will protect souls.’ To always be moving, to renounce attachment to the material, to harmonically engage with one’s environment are each virtues that the lifestyle facilitates. This quest for balance and harmony ultimately leads one to the very essence of the universe and the underlying structure of duality; balance, reconciliation, and integration between the spiritual and material, light and dark, conscious and unconscious, male and female, yin and yang, subject and object, linear and nonlinear, causal and acausal. By synthesizing and spreading these concepts via the Silk Road, the wanderers were crossing another threshold, bridging another duality: East and West, in both a geographical and philosophical sense.

Words are mere symbols, of which thanks to modern and ancient deviations, became secular. So when language becomes secular it no longer serves the purpose as a symbol for higher metaphysical realities, and can only be a symbol for mundane reality. It is here where symbols can become "what people want them to mean", since they no longer hold any higher value, and therefore can take on any form whatsoever. Which can't be the case if you keep in mind that essence precedes form, of which these divine metaphysical realities are the essence and the symbol is the form.