# The Language of Creation  ## Metadata - Author: [[Matthieu Pageau]] - Full Title: The Language of Creation - Category: #books ## Highlights - humanity’s impetus in the universe can adequately be summed up as: “informing matter with meaning and expressing meaning with matter.” ([Location 21846](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=21846)) - Tags: [[pink]] - What is a seed but the promise of a future offspring? ([Location 25342](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=25342)) - Tags: [[pink]] - To understand the role of the Ark, it is important to recognize the difference between receiving a specific commandment from God and hosting the very presence of God. This is comparable to the difference between Adam giving names to the animals versus seed to his wife. In the first case, Adam merely provides a specific identity for the animal. In the second case, there is a transmission of Adam’s full identity from the male half to be reproduced within a female half. ([Location 38012](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=38012)) - Tags: [[pink]] - in biblical cosmology, change is caused by the failed integration of alien facts which creates untenable inconsistencies. ([Location 49809](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=49809)) - Tags: [[pink]] - cyclical influences are only “restful” when they occur in the safety of familiar space, and when they do not completely destroy it. ([Location 65974](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=65974)) - Tags: [[pink]] - the Sabbath is essentially a peace agreement between ‘space’ and ‘time.’ This covenant guards against the extreme powers of absurdity, confusion, and pointless change, and the extreme powers of reason, purity, and productive stability. ([Location 70343](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=70343)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Ultimately, all the stories in the Bible are about the problem of transmuting the “evil of change” into a higher good that can properly host the Creator of all things.2 ([Location 77333](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=77333)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The shame of “nakedness” refers to the inability to cover the body with the spirit, and “dying” refers to the gradual estrangement of the spirit from the body. ([Location 81702](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=81702)) - Tags: [[pink]] - resting produces a natural but transitory reality, and working produces a permanent but artificial reality. ([Location 84762](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B07D738HD8&location=84762)) - Tags: [[pink]]