Metaphor and meaning: Jan Arriens has words

‘We have to rest in the cloud of unknowing.’

by Jan Arriens 5th June 2026

Sometimes, it is what’s behind a word. Early Friends used some fifty terms to denote God or the inward presence. Familiar examples include the Inward Light, the Light of Christ, the Seed, the Root, the Spring of Life, the Living Water, the Teacher and the Truth.