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.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
movement, energy, order
MOVEMENT, ENERGY, ORDER
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
April 7, 2015
What moves man other than the fear of pain or death, or the desire for gain or pleasure? Anything?
There is also, admittedly, another inner, innate movement. It is that indefinable, irresistible impulse that impels people to put themselves out, and at risk for others, for strangers, with no expectation nor desire for pleasure or gain, while fearlessly risking death and pain. What is this one’s source and name?
My surmise is that the first class is mankind’s material, earthly self; while the second class is mankind’s spiritual or heavenly self. These two seemingly, antithetical selves invest and infest each human soul. They exist corporately, and individually in each living man, male or female as energy subject to an order.
What is this outer and inner movement, this energy, this order, indeed?