Poemander

What is the shape to something which is shapeless and what is the form to something that is ever-forming, but never totally formed? Shape is what river banks are to a stream: a conduit to the flow of the shapeless. Do the river banks form a stream or does the stream form the river banks? Both are ever-forming because neither the stream has a shape nor the banks have a purpose while on their own. So while the conduit's purpose is to accommodate the shapeless, the purpose of the shapeless is to ever-evolve through the ever- forming conduits. This is the process of self-discovery ordained by the absolute: the ultimate, yet never accomplished destination for both, the shape and the shapeless. If every stream, every drop of water is in continuous pursuit of the ocean, than every shape is in continuous pursuit of a single ultimate shape – the boundless circle. This is witnessed in the principles of entropy – the effects from the pursuit of the shapeless. Every physical body is in the midst of such process, dispersing into the absolute and only held shaped by the shapeless stream of intent and it's manifested twin, will. Intent shapes and re-shapes the bodies, like the stream recurves the riverbanks. And upon drying up, the intent only disappears to emerge in a different shape leaving the previous shell empty and stifled, now fully subjected to the powers of entropy.