Letter 12: The Hanged Man

"The Hanged Man is the representative of humanity who is found between two kingdoms -- that of this world and that of heaven. For that which is truly human in man and in humanity is the Hanged Man. And it is the Hanged Man who said thousands of years ago:

"Has not man a hard destiny upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages…Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock forever! My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside…For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, and from my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me in expectation!"
(Job vii, 1-2; xix, 23-24; xxiii, 11; xix, 25-27)  --VT


"Job"
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