Spiritual
adventure
Exodus,
a single historical event and at the same time paradigm for men of
all times. Paradigm of every authentic liberation. Paradigm of hope.
It says you can always leave the lands of servitude. Prototype of any
exodus, the exit of Egypt and entry into the promised land.
Exodus summarizes the whole Bible in its infinite movement 'out of'. Exodus is the originating experience in the Scriptures and the central light of its writing. Starting from the Exodus everything takes sense. What precedes and what follows.
That the Word of God in the Bible takes the form of a history
- a Sacred History - is heavy of extreme significance. This 'sacred'
history is also the most 'human' of all. Can men venture also far
with their God without being marked by him in the deepest of their
being and their culture? In which other human experience do you find
in such a deep relevance what means 'out of, and 'going ahead'?
With the emergence of his historical
conscience, man loses his security bases and his ontological
optimism. From now on he is delivered to adventure and risk. The
profound safety brought by the logic of the eternal cycles is broken.
Time starts to exist and to bite. Man discovers himself situated in
contingency. He is not any more a simple piece of the cosmic
necessity and subjected to the blind destiny, but faces the
responsibility for his existence. Man is, like God, creative freedom.
The adventure opens an infinity. In this new space of freedom each
moment becomes irreversibly decisive.
Often tragically decisive. Excessiveness is possible as grave or sin.
Nothing is never definitively played. There remains always something to be accomplished. Adventure is infinite.
The animal has this extraordinary faculty to be completely at home in
nature. He lives in absolute harmony with it. He says a 'yes' without
question and without possibility of question. Without suspicion and
possibility of suspicion. So to say in a pure 'inside'
without faults. Why is man so different?
Why can authentic humanity be carried
out only in the exodus
of an 'out of'? With the emergence of his historical conscience, man
loses his security bases and his ontological optimism. From now on it
is delivered to adventure and risk.
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