When I read this post, I had just read the opening paragraphs of *The Piano Tuner* by Taiwanese author Chiang-Sheng Kuo, and I couldn't help thinking of them as I read your post––related in my thoughts, anyway:
In the beginning, we were souls without bodies. When God planned to give us souls a physical shape, we refused to enter into a concrete form that would fall ill and grow old, obstructing our free passage through time and space. God came up with a solution by having angels play enchanting music.
We souls were so spellbound by the music we wanted to hear it more clearly, which was possible only through one channel, the human ear. God's trick worked, and we souls gained a physical body.
When I read this post, I had just read the opening paragraphs of *The Piano Tuner* by Taiwanese author Chiang-Sheng Kuo, and I couldn't help thinking of them as I read your post––related in my thoughts, anyway:
In the beginning, we were souls without bodies. When God planned to give us souls a physical shape, we refused to enter into a concrete form that would fall ill and grow old, obstructing our free passage through time and space. God came up with a solution by having angels play enchanting music.
We souls were so spellbound by the music we wanted to hear it more clearly, which was possible only through one channel, the human ear. God's trick worked, and we souls gained a physical body.
God as trickster! What motivated such conniving I wonder…