Tuesday, January 07, 2025

for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun

 --- R Buckminster Fuller, in "No More Secondhand God," collected in No More Secondhand God and Other Writings By R. Buckminster Fuller 1971:22 (pdf

Excerpt

Here is true world democracy in the swift making;

a democracy which socializes all plenty

as that plenty is wrested from scarcity

by world-widening co-operative industry;

a democracy which, scientifically

seeking categorical validity for all the motivations,

taxes only inertia

and awards copiously its individuals

who radiantly expand the commonwealth;

awarding them out of the newly integrated wealth

captured from the unseen fresh fruits

of the limitless environment—

and not by the slightest impoverishment

of commonwealth,

either by mortgage

or individual indebtedness.

Here is God’s purpose—

for God, to me, it seems,

is a verb

not a noun,

proper or improper;

is the articulation

not the art, objective or subjective;

is loving,

not the abstraction “love” commanded or entreated;

is knowledge dynamic,

not legislative code,

not proclamation law,

not academic dogma, nor ecclesiastic canon.

Yes, God is a verb,

the most active,

connoting the vast harmonic

reordering of the universe

from unleashed chaos of energy.

And there is born unheralded

a great natural peace,

not out of exclusive

pseudo-static security

but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing.

Naught is lost.

Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled.