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$\"\"$ <\/p>\n

This is the latest cartoon from David Hayward<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Words are boxes. The great mystics and theologians of most religious traditions have always sooner or later reached the point of treating language not as a box to encompass and describe the divine, but as mere boxes used to point towards a reality that they cannot ever do justice to.<\/p>\n

Pictures and images are also boxes, of course, and David\u2019s cartoon is likewise not seeking to capture, but to point beyond itself and beyond images.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"