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.
Monday, March 18, 2019
ORGANIZED BY GRACE
ORGANIZED BY GRACE OF GOD
Volition . "Involition." Evolution . Devolution. Four modes of known mundane organization exist readily.
There must be more beyond our present human conception, surely .
Volition is applied consciousness.
"Involuton" is opposite to volition.
Evolution is building up from base.
Devolution is opposite to evolution.
These four are/ were observable in nature. Volition is a government. Involition is an ant hill. Evolution is civilization. Devolution is savagery .
Everything accedes to organization of some kind, one of the four kinds.
Chaos is organized, science says, as described by blast, fire , flood, tornado, hurricane, earthquake, etc.; nothing is free-floating , apart from organizational dictates that are eminent in its material essence.
"Little Bo Peet has lost his sheep and doesn't know where to find them. Leave them alone. They will come home , wagging their tails behind them." It describes being organized. They know what home is and they know the way home.
What is true in the nursery rhyme is true for all else, including African Americans who have been greatly "scattered and peeled" from their base, to another land, language, culture, lifestyle, form of religion, relation to temporal power, family, perception, conception, ethics, law, conscience, consciousness, diet.
Yet, as social media unwittingly shows daily, they share communal consensus on many issues despite not knowing each other except by an expressions of ideas by words , memes, images, music , dance, gestures, other variable nuances.
They, we, have become essentially organized as a potent social, political, economic force without consciously trying to do so in the United States of America, without seeking to become organized as such! Volitional attempts failed. So involition held sway. Then evolution stepped in ratcheting up involition .
Until now devolution takes charge, placing us where we are today in 2019. We achieved all of this in 400 years, a blink in the eye in history, in line with the prophesy of Genesis 15: 12-15. We did all of this by the grace of God, despite having been daily discouraged by overwhelming opposition, within and without the race, across all imposed parietal, tribal, membranes that divided our all-too-oblivious African ancestors.