Star Words: Episode V, Part 28
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matrilYoda urges Luke to look beyond the physical, to the all-encompassing power of the Force. His descriptions are pure poetry. Reminiscent of Obi-Wan's discourse in Episode IV, but expanding to embrace everything. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
"Luminous beings are we! Not this crude matter."
I adore this phrase, punctuated so well by Yoda's vigorous grasp on Luke's shoulder. Luminous beings. A mystic and wondrous image. Luminous. Perhaps we might think he is referring to the spirit form of Jedi like Obi-Wan, glowing gently blue. Perhaps. But that is itself only a visual representation of something far more expansive. (Which is why I've always thought it was silly to make a fuss over whether Anakin appears as his young self or his old self at the end of Episode VI. His physical form is irrelevant; why couldn't he appear as any age he pleases?) There is far more to luminous than its literal meaning. Whatever shines brightly within us that transcends the physical. It shines within every living thing, throughout all the universe.
In Luke, in Yoda. The tree, the rock, the land, the ship. Connecting all of us, with powers far beyond the physical, beyond crude matter. We are more than inert weight. We are part of something so wondrous and extraordinary that we can scarcely grasp it with our natural eyes. Its glory is blinding. Luminous.
Next, Luke remains the stubborn skeptic....
"Luminous beings are we! Not this crude matter."
I adore this phrase, punctuated so well by Yoda's vigorous grasp on Luke's shoulder. Luminous beings. A mystic and wondrous image. Luminous. Perhaps we might think he is referring to the spirit form of Jedi like Obi-Wan, glowing gently blue. Perhaps. But that is itself only a visual representation of something far more expansive. (Which is why I've always thought it was silly to make a fuss over whether Anakin appears as his young self or his old self at the end of Episode VI. His physical form is irrelevant; why couldn't he appear as any age he pleases?) There is far more to luminous than its literal meaning. Whatever shines brightly within us that transcends the physical. It shines within every living thing, throughout all the universe.
In Luke, in Yoda. The tree, the rock, the land, the ship. Connecting all of us, with powers far beyond the physical, beyond crude matter. We are more than inert weight. We are part of something so wondrous and extraordinary that we can scarcely grasp it with our natural eyes. Its glory is blinding. Luminous.
Next, Luke remains the stubborn skeptic....
