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Heaven #4161 You Are Beginning To Wonder
Posted April 12th, 2012 by Normand Bo...
Dear Gloria,
in http://www.heavenletters.org/you-are-beginning-to-wonder.html
parag. 1:
"I am not hope. I am Truth. I am far more than hope. I am Love, and you are Love, and love meets in a non-space of Oneness. How happy I am to have met you. I met you first in My dream, and then My dream esplanaded into Truth, and so We stand, you the illustrated Truth of Me. How vast is Our relationship."
I have never encountered the verb "TO ESPLANADE" anywhere and the segment "My dream esplanaded into Truth" is a little cryptic to translate. Esplanade, if it exists as a verb, would come from the italian verb "spianare", from the latin verb "explanare" which would mean to level, to make plain. So how would you paraphrase this segment?
Thanks
It is about ambling along
Dear Norbert,
have a look here ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esplanade
Theophil
Dear Theophil, Thanks for
Dear Theophil,
Thanks for your hint.
Did you find any reference where esplanade is used as a verb? I still don't grasp the meaning of "a dream esplanading into Truth"? How would you paraphrase it?
French:flâner ... when we esplanade and amble along an esplanade
When we amble along an esplanade which comes from dream and leads to Truth - what is it?
Isn't it our life? Is there anything in our life, which is not yet Truth in our awareness and which is not a dream at the same time? A dream is something per se, which is set in motion. A dream spreads itself out. It covers some ways and esplanades. And then it will find Truth while esplanading and meandering.
I am not good in English vocabulary - so, I could not find a verb >to esplanade<, too. There is much more in our languages in a state of sleeping than we are already have intentions to awake it from the words ... dear Norbert ... to whom do I speak while I refer to languages here?
It would be a good question, what is the background using an 'old' word >esplanade<, which is not any more accessed in all its connotations of social manners, expectations, more or less hidden dreams, when people ambled around their allées in Rouen and Québec in 1880. Most of the French litterature of those times would not have become written down, if there would not have existed esplanades in their large or small cities.
Theophil
Very interesting short
Very interesting short dissertation, Theophile and your evocation of Rouen and Québec (thank you for putting the accent on "é" in Québec). I guess the great German philosophers would probably also "esplanade" for the same reason.
In the context of the Heavenletter, I think I would translate "to esplanade" by "to unfold, unroll" like a carpet on a flat ground. You mentioned "a dream spreads itself out". It stays closer to the original meaning which carries the idea of leveling.
Thanks for you comment Theo.
P.S. Why do you call me Norbert?
Norman, you took the words
Norman, you took the words right out of my mouth! Well-done! Thank you! I should mention that Luus reminded me that you had a question pending!
Here we have an example where matters, if left alone long enough, can take care of themselves!
Theophil, every word you write is brilliant and stirring.
What a team we have here!
a lapse accompanies esplanading
Dear Normand,
This was a lapse - in the early days of the forums of ND Walsch's >Conversations with God< there was a good friend called Norbert, and a scientist too.
You are right. We can read a lot about Kant's and Schleiermacher's and Husserl's going for a walk once or twice a day. And there is a funny and well documented story about the >thinker< among the German composers - van Beethoven ....
He took his walk every day up to the vineyards on a steep road in the town precincts of Vienna. It was well and densely frequented by horse and cart, because there was no alternative to come to the top places of the vineyard. The coachmen knew their Beethoven, as one not looking around, deepened into his sketch books (which survived) and writing ideas of musical parts and about his life occurrences. We know, there were several near-accidents, because the carts coming from the top, could not get out of the way of Ludwig's steps and blind direction.
Of course, Kant's going for a walk was of a winning and taking, endearing and conciliatory nature, greeting and being invited into several houses, ....
Theophil
Are you an historian,
Are you an historian, Theophile? Anyway you are a wonderful narrator. I knew that Emmanuel Kant was a good "esplanador". But I didn't know about our dear Ludwig Van Beethoven. Next time I will play his sonatas, I will see him esplanading on my wohltemperierte Klavier and I'll watch his steps!