[Near silence] God... Is Spirit. [Long pause] Now... Forget everything else... For just... A moment. [Pause] Don't picture... A man. Don't picture... A face. Don't picture... A body. [Long silence] Spirit. [Pause] Invisible. Without... The form... You have been taught... To imagine. [Very long pause] Now listen... To the beginning. [Soft distant drone] "And God said... Let us make man... In our image... After our likeness." [Long silence] In... Our image. [Pause] After... Our likeness. [Long pause] So... Here is... The quiet question. [Silence] If God... Is Spirit... What would something... Made in the image... Of Spirit... Be? [Very long silence] Don't answer. Just... Stay there. [Pause] If you created... Something... In your image... And after... Your likeness... What would you expect... It to resemble? [Long pause] And if... You had no... Physical form... Would your image... Be defined... By one? [Silence] Yet when someone asks... What are you? How quickly... Do you point... To the body? [Music slowly widens] This face. These hands. This skin. This age. This shape. This... Dust. [Long pause] But wait. [Silence] Genesis first says... "Let us make man... In our image." [Pause] And afterward... It says... God formed man... Of the dust... Of the ground. [Very long pause] Image... Then... Dust. [Silence] So... Which one... Have you been... Calling... You? [Long silence] The image? [Pause] Or... The dust? [Very long silence] The dust... Needed breath... Before it lived. [Pause] The vessel... Could not... Give Life... To itself. [Long pause] And when... The breath... Is gone... The dust... Remains. [Silence] So what... Was alive? [Very long pause] What... Was the image? [Music becomes warmer] Perhaps... This is why... The mirror... Could never... Answer... Who you are. [Pause] The mirror... Can only show... Form. [Long pause] And God... Is Spirit. [Silence] Scripture says... "I have said... Ye are gods; And all of you... Are children... Of the most High." [Very long pause] Don't rush... To explain that. [Pause] Don't defend it. Don't fear it. Just... Let the words... Be there. [Long silence] Children... Of the Most High. [Pause] Image... Of God. [Pause] Likeness... Of God. [Pause] God... Is Spirit. [Very long silence] What happens... When those words... Are allowed... To stand... Beside each other? [Music begins thinning] Perhaps... Nothing... Needs to be added. [Pause] Perhaps... The question... Was hidden... In the words... All along. [Long silence] If God... Is Spirit... And you... Were made... In the image... And likeness... Of God... [Very long pause] What... Are... You? [Extended silence] Don't answer... With your name. [Pause] That came later. Don't answer... With your body. [Pause] That was formed... From dust. Don't answer... With something... You were taught. [Long silence] Just... Notice... The question. [Very long silence] What... Would the image... Of Spirit... Look like? [Pause] Could you... Even... See it? [Extended silence] And if... You couldn't... See it... Would that mean... It wasn't... There? [Long silence] Look at your hand. [Pause] Then close... Your eyes. [Long silence] The image... Of the hand... Is gone. [Pause] But... You... Are still... Here. [Very long silence] So once more... Without the mirror... Without the name... Without the dust... [Pause] What... Are... You? [Two minutes of slowly dissolving ambience] Don't answer. [Long pause] Notice... What remains. [Silence]
