PRAYERS FOR DISTRESSED EMPIRICISTS ANNA M. FURDYNA 1 THERE IS A BLACK-BOX OF THE MIND-- CONTACT WITH EVERY NOW AND WHERE CONTINGENT ON THE INNER FACE OF IS, A MEDIUM WHEREIN ALL EFFECTS ARE NEGOTIATED: DARK AS THE SOFT DEPTHS OF NIGHT, INEXORABLE, WARMER THAN THE LOVING SPUME OF WATER ON SUN-FLECKED SAND. THERE ALL QUESTION STRIPPED OF ITS BARK-SKIN DISSOLVES WITHIN THE GENTLE SWELL. THERE RESPONSIBILITY DRAWS BREATH IN ITS RIGHT PORTION, AND CAUSALITY BEARS NO MENACE TO THAT FRAIL CONSTRUCT, BEING… VOICELESS, THE BLACK-BOX OF THE MIND, CONTACT WITH EVERY NOW AND WHERE, CONFLUENT WITH THE INNER FACE OF IS-- AND YOU , IMPLICITE, ARE THE KEEPER AND THE KEY. 2 I WOULD PRAISE YOU WITH THE BRILLIANCE OF DEW-DROPS, WITH THE HUSHED CHILL AT SUNRISE TREMBLING ON THE FRAILTY OF TWIGS. I WOULD SING TO YOU HIGH INTO THE BLUEST ARCHES OF MIDSUMMER GOLD, LIKE TO THE RAPTURED THRUSH. BUT NOW MY VISION IS STRAINED THROUGH SURFACES BURNISHED DARKLY, AND IT IS ONLY EVERY JAGGED MOLECULE OF ME THAT CRIES OUT TO YOU WHOSE GEHENNA WAS THE PRICE 3 4 5 6 THE GIFT OF TURNING TO THE OTHER AS TO A MIRROR PLIED WITH PROMISE BRINGS SELF TO ITS OWN UNDERSTANDING OF NATURE OFFERED FROM THE SOURCE. THUS WE DISCERN WHAT WE AS CREATURES ADORNED WITH SAPIENCE MIGHT DIVINE OF THE SIGNIFICANCE IN OUR YEARNING TO BE WITHIN MAN'S ELEMENT. 7 : SOMETIMES ALL WORLD-LINES SEEM TO LEAD TO A CONVERGENCE WHERE THEY TWIST INTO A KNOT SO INVOLUTE THAT IT BECOMES A TRAP. : HIDDEN INSIDE THE NEXUS PAIN IS A SMALL ROUNDED WAITING DOOR TO HIGHER PATHWAYS IN THE CONTINUUM OF SPACE-TIME. : IT TAKES THE HAND OF LOVE-IMMANENCE BROUGHT DOWN TO GENTLY FORCE THE TIME-WARP OF THE LOCK. 8 TIME AND AGAIN YOUR GREATNESS FOLLOWS ME, A SILENT FALL WHEN I EXPECT IT LEAST. TIME AFTER TIME YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS PURSUES ME INTO UNLIKELY JUNCTURES SURROUNDING ME ON EVERY SIDE WITH GLITTERING HIGH-POINTS OF CONGRUITY. YET I LACK TRUST. I AM TOO MINISCULE TO GRASP AND TO RETAIN: FROM YOUR WILL EMERGE UNCOUNTABLE INFINITIES OF ELEMENTS ORDERED TO THIS, OUR COUNTABLE REALITY. ONLY THE MERENESS OF MY MIND COULD THINK THAT IT PERCEIVES THE FULL CAUSAL STRAIN. ONLY THE MEANNESS OF MY MIND COULD DOUBT THE ABSOLUTE OF YOUR SURPASSING CARE.
9 THERE IS AN ESSENCE WHICH ABOUNDS, AN AMBIENT KINDNESS PERMEATING TO THE MOST INTIMATE PLASM OF BEING. THERE IS A FLUX OF BENEVOLENT WILL THAT PROPAGATES IN WAVES OF UTMOST TENDERNESS TO REACH THE TISSUES OF THE BUDDING PLANT, THE HATCHING-PARRY OF THE MITE, THE SHYEST, MOST UNSPOKEN WISH. THERE IS AN ENERGY WHICH SPURS EACH RESTLESS COSMIC INCREMENT OF GROWTH, POWERS STILL SPACES THAT CONVEY CREATURES MORE RADIANT, MORE SUBLIME THAN HUMAN MIND CAN HOLD. ONLY ITS SOURCE OBEYS NO LAW OF CONSERVATION. ONLY CREATION IS THE EDIFICE OF LOVE. Return to Writings of the Ecumenical Humanist Circle STEVEN HILLER 1 I AM NOT A WELL MAN. I AM NOT EMPOWERED TO UNDERSTAND THE DETAIL OF THE PRISTINE YET TENUOUS DESIGN THAT WE ABSORB AND PROCESS AS CREATION. YET IT IS GIVEN TO ME TO KNOW THAT THIS DESIGN IS THE EXPRESSION OF A TRIUMPHANT LOVE AND INSUPERABLE INTELLECT-- THAT SPACE-TIME NETS, NASCENT QUARKS, AND EVEN THE ARTFUL CONSTRUCTS WE CALL ”STRINGS” ARE MEANT TO SERVE OUR GOOD IF WE BUT RESPOND AS LOVING BEINGS TO THE HIGHEST COMPASSION THAT WAITS ABOVE. 2 MAY WE HALLOW WHAT IS PRESENT TO OUR BEING, GROWING IN ITS IMAGE AND LIKENESS INTO GLORY, YET KNOWING THAT THERE MIGHT BE OTHER REALMS OF SAPIENT EXISTENCE MORE EXPERIENCED AND NOBLE THAN OUR OWN. 3 IN THE TRUTH OF BEING SAPIENT ABOVE ALL THAT'S HOMINID WE ARE REALLY NOT ALONE AND REMOVED FROM LOWER CREATURES. YET WE LIVE IN OUR OWN WORLD THINKING THAT THERE IS NO JOINING OF OURSELVES WITH THEM IN SEEKING THE COMMUNION WITH THE HIGHEST THAT DOES BLESS US IN OUR STATE. 4 THE SPIRIT THAT ARISES IN EVOLVING MEN WHEN THEY BECOME RECOGNIZANT OF EACH OTHER AS CEREBRAL ENTITIES, MAKING THEMSELVES WHOLE AND SEEKING OF TRUTH, IS THEIR GREAT TRIUMPH AND HOMAGE TO THE EVERLASTING GLORY THAT IS GOD. 5 THE LANGUAGE OF A CHILD EMERGING AT SUCH A TENDER AGE IS A MIRACULOUS WONDER TO BE MARVELED AT AND CHERISHED AS A SIGN THAT WE ARE INDEED BLESSED AND ELEVATED TO A STATE THAT IS BEYOND RECKONING TRANSCENDENT AND SINGULAR. 6 THE PLETHORA OF LIFE ON EARTH SO RICH AND VARIEGATED GIVES US TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE SCIONS OF A GREAT ASCENDANCY THAT IS NOBLE AND ABOVE ALL THINGS A HEY-DAY OF BEING PROGRESSING IN TIME. 7 MAY THE ESSENTIAL TRUTH OF OUR EXISTENCE HOLD US IN ITS SAFEKEEPING IMBUING US WITH THE JOY THAT IS PARAMOUNT AND ETERNAL. MAY WE ADHERE TO IT WHENEVER WE CAN MANAGE TO MAKE IT OUR GREATEST, COMPELLING AWARENESS. Return to Writings of the Ecumenical Humanist Circle |