The World Is Full Of Words
The world is full of words.
Words help mind to make connections.
The connections cause reflections
Where reflections cause connections
Shining back to help the mind.
The world is full of rhythms
Going bang, bang, boom -
And suddenly the world’s a drum.
You put the words and drums together,
Out comes humming, drumming verse,
Prose, rosary - God knows what more;
The mind so full; a store
Of ideational eye-dea
Put together and it’s order,
Creativity and power.
The world is full of words
And the words are full of worlds
Absurd and girded up
By clouds and deeds and shields
That build
Upon
The boon
Of unrhymed, well-timed
Tons and tons - and tons more words.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
ReplyDelete-- The Gospel of John 1: 1-5
Yohanan (John) was among the 1st 4 apostles of Jesus. After leaving Jerusalem he settled in Ephesos (modern Efes, Turkey, 3 km southwest of Selçuk), where Kerinthos also resided. Kerinthos preached a Judeo-Christian Gnostic doctrine based on a truncated version of Matthew's "Gospel of the Hebrews." Kerinthos believed that the Christ descended upon Jesus at baptism and left him at his crucifixion and denied that the physical world was made by God; instead it was created by the Demiurge, a lesser deity. One of Yohanan's students was Polykarpos, who had in turn Eirenaios of Lugdunum (Irenaeus of Lyons) as a student. According to Eirenaios, "The disciple of the Lord therefore desiring to put an end to all such doctrines, and to establish the rule of truth in the Church, that there is one Almighty God, who made all things by His Word, both visible and invisible; showing at the same time, that by the Word, through whom God made the creation, He also bestowed salvation on the men included in the creation; thus commenced His teaching in the Gospel." Yohanan based his ideas on the Greek notion of "Logos," as developed by Philon, a Hellenistic Jew in Alexandria who tried to harmonize tyhe Torah with Stoic philosophy, but for Yohanan the Logos was idential to Jesus.