Two complicated words: Epiphany and Manifest. They basically mean the same thing. In Mark's Gospel the heaven's were torn open and the Holy Spirit descended like a dove on Jesus. It was an Epiphany and Jesus was the Truth Manifest.

..... John the Baptist was a wild man. At at time when God and gods were important, John was talking about God and people came and listened to him. The understanding of God was that God was all boxed in the Most Holy Place, a small box in the back of the very large Temple. God was only accessible through the priests and they only allowed access to those who made sacrifices to God, and sacrifices cost money. The only acceptable sacrifices were the expensive priestly approved sacrifices.

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John the Baptist, the wild man, says that you can have access to God if you only repent. Later, Jesus comes around and bring the Holy Spirit to us. With the Holy Spirit comes forgiveness, enlightenment and spiritual gifts. The word spirit is the same word as breath. The Holy Spirit brings us life! As Martin Luther said we are drowned in the waters of baptism, and I will add the Holy Spirit breathes new life into us. The Holy Spirit gives us authority to speak for God. We have all been given this authority through our baptisms into the name of the Holy Spirit. There is no central rule or ideal for a culture. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) In the Middle Ages people were killed over the Golden Rule. In reality, it all depends on our philosophy of light. G.K. Chesterton offers this story: Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, “Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good—” At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their unmediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark. (From Heretics) No matter what they wanted, they are now in the darkness. We need to understand our philosophy of light. It is daunting to figure out how to make the light plausible in a world committed to darkness. In St. Francis Cathedral people have been entering there during they day, many more people than there have been. They enter sit and put their head in their hands. We have the light to bring them and those like them.