Mystery of All Mysteries

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“Big Bang” or Divine Spark? What is the ‘ex nihilo’ factor? What motivates the creative impulse? What motivates my poetry? What motivates all of life and all created things? What is ‘The Source’ some call The Holy Grail? What is the divine spark of all creative efforts? That is the great mystery. That is the mystery of all mysteries to which we are all subjected and to which we are all its objects. When one knows and actively consults that which is woven inwardly, and when one acts outwardly in concert with its divine intentions, when one embraces fully that which is teleologically his royal treasure, his divine heritage buried deep within, he becomes as one with its intended individuated function. Such a person, in the due course of time, having heretofore fallen in deep sleep psychologically, and now awakened by the inward call, is anointed with the royal balm of healing and is awarded the opportunity to attain the promised goal of becoming metaphysically and spiritually whole. It is noteworthy to make the following observation. To such great scientific minds as Scottish geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875), British astronomer John Herschel (1792-1871), and English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the “mystery of mysteries” as they called it, and which utterly befuddled them was, in their use of ‘evolutionary’ language, the cause for “the replacement of extinct species by others.” In search of some quasi satisfactory metaphysical solution to their intellectual predicament, Darwin offered what must be considered as a reluctant apologetic bow to the presence, authority, and activities of an even greater divine power, and therefore to a Creator agency, when he, employing a rationale of ‘theistic evolution,’ declared at the altar of science, and before his peers of scientific scholars, his reluctant acknowledgment of the divine creative existence of a higher power at work involved in and responsible for all phenomena that I have described with poetic emphasis in this poem as the “Mystery of All Mysteries” operational in existence. Let us examine Darwin’s reflection in the final section of his masterpiece oeuvre of 1859, “On the Origin of the Species,” in his articulation of the following confessional statement: “There is grandeur in this view of life [Creationism], with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved [by the Creator].” For the sake of historical record keeping, it needs to be mentioned that Darwin’s apologetic was made partly to appease Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), a contemporary of Darwin’s, Canon of Chester Cathedral and later of Westminster Abbey, whose stalwart friendship as a colleague was important to Darwin, and whose scholarship as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, England, Darwin greatly admired. But we must recognize that Darwin even went beyond a public apologetic confessional statement of his faith. In Letter Number 12041, dated 7 May, 1879, replying to the atheist Sir John Fordyce, Darwin stated, in part: “In my most extreme fluctuations I have never been an atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God.” Darwin wanted the entire world to know that he saw no conflict in one being a scientist and, at the same time, a believer in some Creator or divine agency of nature. Upon reflection, we must therefore note that what Charles Darwin had effectively declared to his peers and to the world at large, was that the mystery of divine creation is ever continuously being marvelously unfolded (qua, ‘evolved’), manifested in all its splendor, and demonstrated before us creatures of this world, time and time again, as “the mystery of all mysteries.” For Darwin and his scientific colleagues of yesteryear, and for all others of our world of today, wanting ‘to know God,’ the Creator, actively, and everlastingly engaged in “the mystery of the replacement of extinct species by others,” — that unabated desire, indeed, continues to remain the “Mystery of All Mysteries,” along with the burning desire of mankind to ‘see the face of God’ (Biblical Hebrew, בפני, ‘bapani;’ literally, to be “in His presence”), even as Moses, Job, and Saint Paul the apostle sought to experience the mystery of God’s Presence or Glory (Biblical Hebrew, כבוד, ‘kavod’); as perpetually revealed in the mystery of all created things that are emanations of God’s glory. Postscript: From the Internet website source of religiouseducation@uua.org the following declaration is made: “The Big Bang Theory [while remaining scientifically verifiable] does not explain how the Universe began, or when all of the “stuff” in it comes from, or how it was created…. Science does not and cannot explain or describe “the beginning” [בראשית, “bereshith”], only the general evolution from a possible point in time.” The Mystery of All Mysteries continues. For biblical references alluding to the divine Mystery of All Mysteries, see the following: Exodus 34:29-35; Job 19:26-27; Job 33:26; Job 38:18-33; 1 Corinthians 13:12; John 4:24; John 14:7-14. more »