From Depth to Surface

From Depth to Surface The great exchange that has taken place Is now quite easy to see; Brilliant we’ve become with the surface of things But depth has disappeared completely. Long ago we still felt the depth that was there And before that we were unconscious within it, But with intellect ascendent our brilliant selves Onto the depthless can only now fit. The intellect with instruments may all cut and sever, But with surface it’s confronted always and ever. 10/1/09 Free To Choose World creation’s direction and purpose Was to bring one species to the state Where it could achieve its freedom then receive The power to purpose self-fate. (That freedom can be realized in that which he chooses Or lost to the One who his freedom opposes.) 10/9/09

Nothing To Be Left Unfree The purpose and direction of the future  Will be given over to man Once he’s achieved his uniqueness in freedom And can stand before the future as its beginning I am. But he must enter into the unfreedom Of that which he’s helped to become, For freedom’s realization in unfreedom begins And only therein is it finally won. This realization of freedom for man must be Such that nothing of prior purpose is left unfree. 10/9/09 Incomplete Views The divine is the source  of the glorious world That fills us with joy and awe, And also divine is our thinking By which We understand it all. But different are other's world opinions That arouses awe in them, too; They say what’s created Created itself And the thinking about it we do. So down from Divinity all comes for some, And up from below others say it’s self-spun. 10/10/09