Monday, October 31, 2022

Reverential Credulity

The Vision of God, William Blake (British, London 1757–1827 London), Engraving

From the primordial sludge that begot us to the 

emergence of proto-humanity the seeds of

consciousness nudged the mind toward the sky

remote and perplexing perceiving the mysterious 

presence of luminous objects as they revolved in 

the blue velvet atmosphere peering down at the 

creatures transfixed by the distance and meaning 

of there and here, minds hazarding the solution of 

a force of existence manipulating creatures below 

messaging them of its existence and their own. A 

certainty that they were not alone, that all they were 

was an expression of the unseen intelligence 

willing them into existence, endowing them with 

thought and expression yet indifferent to their progress 

in the long journey from prehistory to recorded time 

in its eternal presence; raw humanity posed on a 

planetary stage free to wonder and explore, curiosity 

impelling the brain to mature and invent stratagems 

exploiting their evolving landscape, cognizant of the 

watchful presence above and around them, faithful 

to a vision of that powerful force, pledging themselves 

to the faith of obedience to living injunctions they 

themselves visualized while time and again failing the 

template assigned to please the temper of the silent 

omnipotent force in the forlorn tempest of time.



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