What was before Creation is not known By mortal intellects...this Mystery Is only understood by God alone, Who spoke the Word, and all things came to be. Omnipotence looked out on emptiness, And Chaos suddenly was cast aside, The universe replaced it with success, When light outran the darkness with one stride. For space and time were brought into the game, And then the void began to disappear, Thus nothing was no more...space overcame The empty depths, and time at last was here. So Truth, before the Cosmos was designed, Was only known to God's Omniscient Mind. -Sonnet 12 of Eternal Rhapsody...
What was before Creation is not known By mortal intellects...this Mystery Is only understood by God alone, Who spoke the Word, and all things came to ...
"Hymn to Perpetual Light: A Transcendental Comedy in Six Cantos" makes use of Spenserian Stanzas and free verse to describe God's salvation of a world gone astray through Primal Sin.
Beginning with theological and philosophical observations about God's relationship to his creation, poet Don Beach compares enlightenment to a spiritual journey. This would be from the darkness of a cave-like existence (ignorance and unawareness similar to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave") to the bright light of reality and redemption through God's divine love and compassion.
Fortunately, some cave dwellers...
"Hymn to Perpetual Light: A Transcendental Comedy in Six Cantos" makes use of Spenserian Stanzas and free verse to describe God's salvation of a world...
"What was before Creation is not knownBy mortal intellects...this MysteryIs only understood by God alone, Who spoke the Word, and all things came to be.Omnipotence looked out on emptiness, And Chaos suddenly was cast aside, The universe replaced it with success, When light outran the darkness with one stride.For space and time were brought into the game, And then the void began to disappear, Thus nothing was no more...space overcameThe empty depths, and time at last was here.So Truth, before the Cosmos was designed, Was only known to God's Omniscient Mind."
--Sonnet 12 of "Eternal Rhapsody"
"What was before Creation is not knownBy mortal intellects...this MysteryIs only understood by God alone, Who spoke the Word, and all things came to b...
"Hymn to Perpetual Light: A Transcendental Comedy in Six Cantos" makes use of Spenserian Stanzas and free verse to describe God's salvation of a world gone astray through Primal Sin.
Beginning with theological and philosophical observations about God's relationship to his creation, poet Don Beach compares enlightenment to a spiritual journey. This would be from the darkness of a cave-like existence (ignorance and unawareness similar to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave") to the bright light of reality and redemption through God's divine love and compassion.
Fortunately, some cave dwellers...
"Hymn to Perpetual Light: A Transcendental Comedy in Six Cantos" makes use of Spenserian Stanzas and free verse to describe God's salvation of a world...
