Celebrating the Mysteries
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gurdonarkThe chemist searched for structure,
for an ordering of processes,
an explanation for a phenomenon,
as he worked on a pure science grant
as if he had been given money to find God.
We've categorized into boxes
fields that should have been blurred into
a whole,
the theologian in the school of theology
the physicist in her own department,
when the search for truth is a single search,
a search of numbers, of speculations,
a search so large that it does not fit in one
book, or one theory, or one field of study.
A child playing with a 4 inch plastic reflecting
telescope looks Orion-ward
at the M 42 nebulae, and dreams
of thought patterns of alien
forces and strange physical events,
in that dream of science
biology and philosophy combined,
he sees more of God than a hundred
sad scholars worried about getting a grant
and paying the mortgage....
We have before us a quest,
not a skirmish over Jerusalem,
or a horsetrot after arcane occultisms,
but a challege--
if we can heal our world, and free
its resources from warfares inward and
outward,
we can be about the business of learning what
there is to know....
not in our generation, or in ten generations,
but perhaps in twenty we will learn something
about reality, and God.
for an ordering of processes,
an explanation for a phenomenon,
as he worked on a pure science grant
as if he had been given money to find God.
We've categorized into boxes
fields that should have been blurred into
a whole,
the theologian in the school of theology
the physicist in her own department,
when the search for truth is a single search,
a search of numbers, of speculations,
a search so large that it does not fit in one
book, or one theory, or one field of study.
A child playing with a 4 inch plastic reflecting
telescope looks Orion-ward
at the M 42 nebulae, and dreams
of thought patterns of alien
forces and strange physical events,
in that dream of science
biology and philosophy combined,
he sees more of God than a hundred
sad scholars worried about getting a grant
and paying the mortgage....
We have before us a quest,
not a skirmish over Jerusalem,
or a horsetrot after arcane occultisms,
but a challege--
if we can heal our world, and free
its resources from warfares inward and
outward,
we can be about the business of learning what
there is to know....
not in our generation, or in ten generations,
but perhaps in twenty we will learn something
about reality, and God.
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Date: 2002-04-30 04:57 am (UTC)thanks!
Date: 2002-04-30 04:59 am (UTC)community, astrotheism. Now I'll add it to my next poetry chapbook, which will be called Gerbil Theology.
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Date: 2002-04-30 09:30 am (UTC)Thanks
Date: 2002-04-30 09:40 am (UTC)I enjoyed writing it.
Re: Thanks
Date: 2002-04-30 09:51 am (UTC)Anxiously Awaiting...
Date: 2002-04-30 10:00 am (UTC)Re: Anxiously Awaiting...
Date: 2002-04-30 10:05 am (UTC)less a matter of "getting it right" than a matter of spending an hour or two on the
few poems I'll need to finish to finish it out. I'm starting to think about how to do graphics.
My MS Paint skills probably don't run to rodents, so I guess we'll be illustrated with abstract flower portraits in black and white instead....
I'm in the process of getting more copies made of
Chess Poems for the Tournament Player.
That little booklet has sold dozens of copies, and now I've got to go back to the printing well.
I sent you a Chess Poems didn't I?
I'll certainly send you a Gerbil Theology.
Re: Anxiously Awaiting...
Date: 2002-04-30 10:25 am (UTC)