There is no Force — no divine text, no inspired reading, no Jedi Council.
Most important, classical Chinese wasn't tied to a religion or a divine text.
The Sufi teacher of a divine text, parable, and state of mind, no matter how complex or comprehensive, illuminates the text, the parable, and the state of mind.
But even if this is some kind of divine text message, how will Barrett, an underemployed Yale grad who spends most of his free time pondering either his rotten luck with men or his inability to stay interested in an occupation longer than a few months, ever unlock its meaning?
Part of the Vedas, the divine texts of Hinduism, it dates back 3,500 to 4,000 years, and is deemed to be the world's oldest complete medical system.
Ahn's reading, with the tension of a young woman trying to divine via text messages whether her father has been beating her mother and sister, was, he said, "just heartbreaking.
Campbell is probably best known for "Rhinestone Cowboy," a song he recorded in 1975, though he released sixty full-length studio albums over the course of a fifty-year career, sending some eighty-two singles up the Billboard charts, which makes it feel foolish to reduce his discography now, to divine some quintessential text.
In some ancient texts, divine intervention can be read as a metaphor for surprising actions.
Maimonides, in his "Guide for the Perplexed," from 1190, is more modest and quizzical, but he, too, obedient to the tradition, says that we must yield to the text's divine authority.
The Art of the Qur'an aims to introduce visitors to the Islamic holy book as both foundational sacred text – the divine message for Muslims, received by the Prophet Muhammad between 610 and 632 – and work of art.
The nontheist community goes one step further by valuing the pursuit of knowledge, not through divine revelation and ancient text, but through logic, rationality, and the scientific process.
