Silent Mystery: Inspirational selections from “Confessions of a Mystic” and “The Five Jewels”

By Màrk Gerard Craig

Profound spiritual and philosophical ideas on ultimate purpose and meaning are presented in a series of bite sized easy to grasp reflections for the everyday person.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Màrk Gerard Craig
• Release date: Dec 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370872916

Màrk Gerard Craig

Mark Craig is the author of several books on the topic of spirituality. His special interest is in the conversation to be had between science and religion, particularly quantum physics and existential models of spirituality. However, in more recent books, Craig explores the essence of reality from a more philosophical perspective giving religion a broader context from which to distil meaning. Craig is currently a school teacher in Brisbane, Australia but did serve as a Catholic priest for several years prior to this. He has a Bachelor of Theology, a Graduate Certificate in Religious Education and a Master’s Degree in Education, specialising in Religion. To date, Craig has seven book publications and five published articles in academic Journals, including the Australian Journal of Religious Education (JRE), the Journal of Catholic School Studies (JCSS), now defunct, as well as the EJournal of Theology. His website religiousandspiritualbooks.weebly.com provides further opportunity for spiritual reflection and discussion, hosting a blogpost as well as various other features.

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Silent Mystery

Inspirational selections from Confessions of a Mystic and The Five Jewels

Mark Gerard Craig

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Mark Gerard Craig

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A Mark Craig book

first published on Amazon

as a Kindle edition in 2016.

ASIN: B01N4CGF43

The Truth that can be spoken and put into words is not The Truth

(Adapted from the words of Lao Tzu)

A Mark Craig Book

PART 1

A word that need not be

God is a word that need not be but is because we have no language for describing the experience of being in the world. We have no language for comprehending the fleeting experience of complete being underlying all that is within a world of distinct and incomplete beings limited to a single point and perspective in time. It is the undiluted experience of being that elicits from us the inadequate and limiting ejaculation – GOD. Somehow, in some mysterious fashion, this tiny yet culturally powerful signifier makes some meaning of this experience. This, in itself, is a curious thing. However, the moment one tries to add further description to this monosyllabic cognomen one loses that which experience once knew as itself. One places God outside of the self. God has become an object, an idea out there rather than the quality of experience.

The accretion of other words renders the word God tainted and forever devoid of capturing what it seeks to embody. God is not to be found in the word God or any other synonymous term or phraseology, nor does the word correlate to anything observable or isolatable in the world of things. The word