{"id":1659,"date":"2024-06-12T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:59:41","slug":"god-is-a-dyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"God is a Dyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Mike Soika<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">God is a dyer, dipping every<br>Essence of the cosmos into<br>Vats of luminous colors.<br>A work so delicate, as to be forgotten.<br><br>Am I a woven white cloth turned purple,<br>Or am I a purple cloth, now <br>So purely absorbed<br>That the color and the cloth are one?<br><br>Once, before time, there was<br>No cloth, but only an enduring color, <br>Lovingly waiting <br>To shine forth its hue.<br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnosis.org\/naghamm\/gop.html\">(Inspired by the Gospel of Philip \u2013 The Nag Hammadi Library (gnosis.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cGod is a dyer. As the good dyes, which are called &#8220;true&#8221;, dissolve with the things dyed in them, so it is with those whom God has dyed. Since his dyes are immortal, they become immortal by means of his colors. Now God dips what he dips in water\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the color and the cloth now one?<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Microsoft Designer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-june-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareletter.milwaukeequakers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}