De admonentibus signis

 

There are signs coming to this saeculum from what stays behind and beyond the visible reality of this saeculum, invisible to the eyes but not to the minds and hearts trained to listen, which is a quality of those people that are made of light and not opaque matter (the majority).

In this little paragraph (I, 10, 2) of the De Civitate Dei by Saint Augustine, you can track back to the nature of the signs which help to develop the training of listening.

Signum 1) Nudus exivi de utero matris meae, nudus revertar in terram. Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit, sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est:  Naked I departed from my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away. Just as it pleased the Lord, so has it been done. 

Being-toward-death, used to say Martin Heidegger, but we will say instead being-toward-nudity. Listen to your nudity, your being-human, and see yourself beyond the layers that are covering your nudity.  Have as ultimate aim the vision of your nudity in front of your destination. To that destination, you will bring just your nudity and not your layers that are covering it to your conscience. 

Signum 2)  Magnas facultates...quas cito fuerat moriens relicturus: those things [layers] that, dying, [man] would soon abandon.

Signum 3)  Experimentorum disciplina: in the harsh experimentation of events, you learn the training to listen

Signum 4) Apprehendere veram vitam, in listening to, you will seize the real meaning of life, and the place of your heart

Signum 5) Ubi est cor tuum, illic erit thesaurus tuus, your heat will be there where is the goal of your listening (thesaurus)

Signum 6) Ubi enim sint omnia mea, tu scis, at that moment you will know where is all that it matters to you

Signum 7) Ibi enim habebat omnia, There, in fact, it was what you needed to know and you knew through the listening

 

Signum 8) and this happens because si non praecedente sapientia, certe consequente experientia didicerunt, those attempts to develop your faculty of listening was taught to you if not by innate wisdom, certainly by a consequent experiencing.