The Great Mystery

In a book called Showings (177), Charles Upton explicates the Great Mystery of our existence in time and place. He speaks of this Mystery in the context of Homer's great epic journey in which Helen of Troy plays a pivotal, sapiential role. He says,

Only she knew the darkest secret of existence: that in the depth of the Great Mystery, the loss of God--felt and fought against and suffered through and finally redeemed--is in fact the deepest realization of God, that after 'My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me,' comes 'Into Thy hands I commend my spirit; it is finished.'

This, I believe, is core and key to our understanding of and on the wisdom path.