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.
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.