NOEMAYA

God is lost in the overwhelming and forceful familiarity of the world. Only if for a moment everything became suddenly unfamiliar to us, that we didn’t recognize anything anymore, to such a depth that even sight and the senses failed to provide meaning and concreteness, in that very moment the face of God will spontaneously shine forth. But of all these veils of perception, there’s the last veil which has kept all the truth concealed since eternity; and that’s the veil of your own personhood, your own primordial familiarity to yourself, the most unquestioned and seemingly unquestionable and obvious substratum in the stream of consciousness. Until you have not become a total stranger to yourself, to the extent that your personhood is as good as dead with respect to consciousness, until then the Self remains concealed. With that personhood, all traces of identity, even spiritual beliefs and belongings, must fall away, for the locus of God’s self-disclosure is so infinitely small where nothing but nakedness can enter it. The death demanded for the Self-disclosure of the true God is the absolute death not only of all human anticipations but also of the anticipation of being a human. Your humanity is the last veil. And people of the book know this very well, that to approach infinity, one must become naught in the denominator.