A Creative Spirit

Eyes are often characterized as the window of soul.
‘For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man in him…’ (1 Cor 2:11) Spirit of man is the divine spark that wells up and courses through entire being by which man has throughout the course of human history impressed on one another. Spirit is his animating principle. His creative genius could not have been sustained to author a treatise or literary work without the ability of spirit in communion with every other.
If not for my experience and spirit of the ages that envelop me would I be able to enjoy the work of Martial or Ovid? What has an Elizabethean Age to do with me? Yet the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe do hold charms for me.
In the pagan religion we see how spirit played a great role: what are the Delphic oracles but spirit giving utterance to answer seekers who were in need of guidance. These Phythia sat at specific spots and heard the supplicants and gave out their answers under its influence. One might say these virgins must have had a hallucinatory episode while they spoke. The fact that their oracles however bizarre were translated into words by another meant that spirit of man once again came into play here.
Art, literature and thought of the Pagan world, for their excellence and many artifacts of their cultural life still surviving, stand testimony to their spirit.
But as I mentioned in my previous post this spirit do not signify soul.
(2 b Cont'd)
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