Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, October 19, 2014
CHURCH AND STATE
Separation of church and state calls to mind the separation of the spirit from the body; the "soul" from both.
In Ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh embodied both the church and the state; it is the oldest specimen of documented human governance, outside of Ancient Nubia from whose autochthonous loins it first sprang.
Down through the centuries since the epochal fall of Egypt (Kemet) and the ensuing dissemination of its arts, sciences, and philosophies to the ancient world,--and to our modern one--all nations have adopted from it what they would and could, leaving the rest as residual, "junk DNA."
That "junk DNA" was not junk at all, to borrow an analogy from biology, but contains the circuitry of a richer dynamic of connectivity of all things.
Nestled in that discarded circuitous connectivity is the fact of "God and man;" is the church and state; is the mind, body, and soul , archetypically.
http://biblehub.com/hebrews/4-12.htm
This separation of church and state; of God and man; of mind, body and soul, needs to be sutured together, restored as it was in the beginning. Then, can mankind become one; then can peace, joy, love, & wisdom reign.