E Uno Plures

During my labyrinth walk one Good Friday, I received the image of three brilliant spheres of light enveloped in a shared light, the Holy Trinity. (For that image, I have to thank an Eastern Orthodox writer, Vladimir Lossky, whom I had recently read.) On Easter Sunday that year, that same image returned, and I understood why there are so many denominations: it was always meant to be that way. The Big Bang theory tells us that the universe (or multiverse, as some would have it) came from unity, a single point. Now it is filled with millions of stars and planets of very different natures. On just our one planet, there are millions of species of very different natures. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, as the Vulcans say. All this came from unity; and according to some theories of the cosmos, all this will one day return to unity. So: many denominations reflect the nature of the universe. They may have been born of strife, but they were the intention all along.

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