The Emerging Chamber

The Emerging Chamber

Its parents were Athens and Jerusalem.

One the abstract, of logic and beauty.

The other the real life, hope, and love.

Sages provided concepts of order.

Patriarchs followed created order.

Jerusalem gifted Athens.

Heraclitus and Anaxagoras were on to something:

Science, philosophy, the cosmos.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle their beneficiaries.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob:

Obedient, patriarchs, wrestler.

David, Solomon, Jesus beneficiaries.

The marriage of Athens and Jerusalem,

The thought, the idea, and the true reality:

“The Way” the beneficiary.

“The Way” from the two cities

Westward tamed barbarians.

Europe the beneficiary.

Two thousand years

European mission.

The world, the beneficiary.

Two millennia passing,

Followers losing their way,

Forfeiting their benevolence.

The formerly Holy now deemed offensive,

Positive law overshadowing “The Way.”

Hush or be taken to jail!

Despite appearances,

No separation between secular and divine.

But secular subjugation close at hand.

Excluded from public square assembly,

Holy spaces soon to be quashed.

Prepare “The Way” for a new chamber.

A new catacomb.