Saturday, February 6, 2016
OSIRIAN FORM AND SUBSTANCE
Form and Substance and Breath
Substance conforms to form, how or why exactly, being a divine mystery.
Does form irrupt from energy's inert substance?
Or:
Is energy's inert substance teased into being by its cosmic form?
Form appears first, soon followed by substance, being form's maturity.
Form announces "I am"-- its identity. Substance completes form's destiny.
Form is sketch: substance pigment.
Form outlines . Substance colors in.
Form is fraction . Substance is whole.
Form is flesh; substance is spirit.
Form is body. Substance is soul.
One alone is impotent: substance lacking form; form lacking substance.
It takes both: form and substance to subsist, but it takes the "breath" of life to exist. It invigorates the whole.
These three make both me and thee: form, substance, and a breath of life.