When in the beginning the Lord created his works
and, after making them, defined their boundaries,
he disposed them in an eternal order and fixed their domains for all time. They do not grow hungry or weary or abandon their tasks. – Ecclus. 16:26-27 (REB)
It is Spirit as cause that moves me, not matter as effect. This world of form and change is full of goodness and beauty, despite its human detractors. Still, that beauty is reflection only, its source overlooked by a faithful trained to see in Jesus only guru or teacher or judge before Wisdom or Logos or Lord.
I seek the faith that rests on cosmic things, on unspoken Word woven into the very fabric of matter and cycles of the natural world. When Wisdom, the image of the unseen, is spoken as Word we become incarnate. Wonder is the only prayerful response, the needful precursor to faith.
The song of a sunrise. The cadence of wandering planets. The weeping of tides. The sleep of trees. The Logos, God the Son, moves through all things. Faith, the study of divine motion, studies that book of nature for signs of the same spirit forces at work in the human soul.
God is in the Mind, the Mind in the Soul, the Soul in the Matter, all things by Eternity. – Hermetica 10:36
Scripture quotations taken from the Revised English Bible, copyright © Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press 1989. All rights reserved.
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