Seas and seas – and seas – of words have been devoted to the spiritual experience of God by mystics such as Philo of Alexandria, Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel – to name but a few.

Philo of Alexandria was born circa 20 BCE and died Circa 40 CE.

Purposefully or instinctively, he used allegory as an approach to God. Though he used other means as well, his name became a byword for this, the allegorical, approach.

What, though, is allegory if it is not another “language” – a “language” akin to the “languages” of music, mathematics, the arts and other........

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