the Eye

Ok, where has this not been? As an original, it is used scientifically as school videos demonstrate from first person viewpoint how evolution can be traced though the development of the organ's complexity. But, this morning I am thinking about what one was supposed to "see" in the story of Oðinn loosing his eye in the pursuit of knowledge. 

Years ago, I had seen a documentary which pulled apart various scripture stories revealing that they were merely stories. And a brilliant Rabbi responded that being factual does not make something true.  It is the fact about the stories being written by scribes trying to teach a point that I SAW as so wonderful this morning. I was reviewing a well-known story of the healing of a man born blind. He was healed by Jesus creating a mud and putting it on his eye. So, the documentary was so busy proving that such a thing never happened that they failed to realize that they were solidifying a greater truth. The scribes who were thought to have created this story told such stories to instruct metaphorically. And a truth that might escape us today if we only got a few truths from the little anecdote is that Christ (the anointed) was performing greater miracles than merely healing maladies. His spit was healing a vision that man may have otherwise remained without his entire life.