Reason

Creation. Light and Dark. Creator, God, Buddha, the Grand Wazoo - all are credited with Creation, the bringing of order from chaos.

God created light, from darkness.

God created good, from evil.

God created woman, from man.

Darkness, the absence of light, would seem in logic to have pre-existed creation. In order to bring about good, evil must have abounded universally, a sort of reverse template in the Divine's wish and need for an opposite. From infinite chaos comes finite order, a regulatory system in which elements of chaos funnel down and combine to make sense, fragile and seemingly defenseless against the forces continually at work to tear it apart.

Yet order, life, the organization of chaos into sensibility, fights on. Why? How?

And so we come to "purpose" and "desire" and that lonely singularity, "beauty". There is a reason behind it all, an explanation for the existence of life against the impossible odds stacked against it by darkness and random, rapacious evil. We seek, presumably, to find the answers, the reason. We are caught up in the Mystery, and we look for God, however we may imagine him, under every rock and around every corner.

Maybe someday God will reveal himself to us, but for now, vive the mystery, and hooray for our drive to find the answers. It makes this life so very interesting...

deepoet,
13 May 1995