Spiritual Memory

Inspired and hardly altered from Jesef Albers' Interaction of Color, chapter I, Color recollection -- visual memory

If one says "God" (the name of an deity)
and there are 50 people listening,
it can be expected that there will be 50 Gods in their minds.
And one can be sure that all these Gods will be very different.

Even when a certain religion is specified which all listeners have seen
innumerable times -- such as the God of the Christianity signs which is
the same God all over the country -- they will still think of
many different Gods.

Even if all the listeners have hundreds of Gods in front of them
from which to choose the Christianity God, they will again select
quite different Gods. And no one can be sure that he has found
the precise God image.

And even
if that powerful God Christianity sign with the perfect image
is actually shown so that everyone focuses on the same God,
each will receive the same projection on his retina,
but no one can be sure whether each has the same perception.

When we consider further the associations and reactions
which are experienced in connection with the entity and the name,
probably everyone will diverge again in many different directions.

What does this show?

First, it is hard, if not impossible, to remember distinct entities.
This underscores the important fact that the visual memory is very poor
in comparison with our spiritual memory. Often the latter is able
to repeat a vision seen only once or twice.

Second, the nomenclature of entity is most inadequate.
Though there are innumerable entities -- shades and tones --
in daily vocabulary, there are only about 30 entity names.