a liturgy for learning the One.
Amen—Eminem.Resurrection
and Moral Order.Amen, brother.
I’m not your elder—
I am far, far older.I’m with you.
YES!!
Yes and Amen!!
Let’s work on that.Here and now.
Close your eyes.
Pick up the mic...
and lose yourself...
and SPEAK.⸻
There is One that is Spoken—
The Spoken-Word.And One who is Come—
The Outcome who came—
The Word in the World.⸻
Seed and germination.
Indeed and deed.
Time and see.
Wait—and be.
Be still, and know:He alone was alone—
The Objective,
The Outcome,
The Fullness.Beginning in seed:
in beginning,
with the Word—and in finishing,
what in beginning began—
with the in finishing Word.That is:
He speaks the End in Beginning;
and the End
is the fullness
of what, in Beginning, He calls—calling things that be not,
as though they were:and it was so.
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So:
there is one objective in Beginning,
and one outcome in Finishing—because there is one object,
and one out+come—who is:
HE IS.The Word.
God in Being.He alone is Beginning;
and in Beginning—
Finishing.And in Finishing—
it is not yet.And in Beginning—
it was so.⸻
And so:
Truth doesn’t exist
but in Him.It is Him.
It is His.Being is truth,
and truth is Being.But also:
the Objective is truth,
and truth is Objective,
and God is Objective,
and God is Outcome.This One Being—
this one Objective—
is the One who is;is also
the One Outcome.⸻
He alone does not.
He alone does not need to do;
because—
He already is.But He does.
He alone,
freely,
independently—
does.The only One who does,
of all that He does,
He does not need to do.He is.
He alone is.But also—
but!
He DOES.
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He doesn’t need to act,
because He is Being already.Behold:
I AM.But choosing to do—
He does.And in doing,
He does what is:Creation.
Creation is thereby contingent on Him—
contingent upon
the only Non-contingent.That is:
all things are dependent on Being,
and He is Being’s Self.⸻
So then:
Creation is what God does;
and what God does—
is Creation.When we look
and see
what He does in Creation,
we see:He made it as—
because making it
is what He does.And I am.
I am here.⸻
He makes the Word-World.
That is:
He makes the World—Word.Because the world
cannot be without Him.Nothing is,
apart from what He does.In doing,
He speaks.Because speaking—
He does.And there is nothing
but Him speaking,
because there is nothing
but Him doing.⸻
And so:
the Word
and the World
are One.The Word is in the world
before the Word became flesh.Because the Word
comes into the world
via Creation—hearing Creation,
receiving the Word,
bearing it.Which is what it does.
That is:
it is so.
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Just as Genesis says:
and it was so.
Which is what He says—
before it is,
and before it does.Genesis 1:
what He declares
has already been—
even before
it is not yet.Genesis 2:
it was not yet.
Genesis 1:
it was so.
it is finished.Genesis 2:
none of it was yet.
So:
Genesis 2 begins
what Genesis 1
has already finished.Genesis 2 begins
what is not yet finished,
because the End of Genesis 1
is still not here.⸻
So we see:
the Word
comes into the world
at the very time and moment
the Word itself
comes into the world.And the world
receives the Word.And the Word
comes into what is not here—which is:
what was not yet.⸻
So we see:
before the Word became flesh,
the Word was held,
and heard,
and abided—and it was so.
The Word then
comes into Adam,
because Adam
is receiving the breath—
the wind of the Word—and it was so.
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Because the Word’s so
is the Spirit.And the Spirit
is the breath of the Word
of the God who is.That is:
He is God—
YHWH.He is YHWH.
He is Elohim.I love Him.
He is God.
Elohim.
YHWH.
YHWH Elohim.He is.
And it was so.
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So we see:
at the centre of all reality—
there is only One,
because there is only One Being
at the centre.The centre of all reality:
the Word in the World.
And it was so.
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The Word was received
by Adam,
Genesis 2;and received
by Abram,
Genesis 12.Genesis 12
is before Abraham,
because he is called
father of many nations
before he is father
of any.Before he is Abraham,
he is Abram.And God calls him Abraham
before he is a father—because God calls things
that are not
as though they were.And it was so.
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So:
Abraham receives
the Word into the world.And so we have
the first incarnation—but not the first.
Because from the beginning:
in beginning,
God said—and it was so.
From the beginning,
there was always incarnation
of the Word in the world.Because the world
is the Word,
and the Word
is the world.Because the Word:
it was so.
And it was so
is the world.⸻
That is:
the world
is what God speaks
and says.Because what He says,
He does.Because there is only God
and what He does.And what He does,
He does
by His Word.⸻
And so we say:
in the fullness of time—
the Word was written.And the Word
is incarnational in creation,
because the incarnation
of the Word
is what Scripture is.Because Scripture
is both the word of Adam
and the Word of God.⸻
How do you say that?
Can you hear that?
Are you listening?
The world didn’t receive Him.⸻
“When you received the Word of God,
you received it
not as the word of men,
but as what it really is—the Word of God,
which is at work
in you who believe.”1 Thessalonians 2:13
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God does what He does
by His Word.And it is at work
in you who believe—
through the words
that are heard.And those are the words
that are written.That is:
Scripture.
You received the Word of God
as it actually is:the word of man,
and the Word of God.Because Scripture
is a human word,
and it is
the Word of God.⸻
It is written in creation,
because it is Scripture.It is in creation,
and it is written in Spirit,
because it is written
in hearing—
by the Spirit.⸻
And so:
Scripture
is the next incarnation
of the Word in the World.⸻
And then:
in the fullness of time,
as written in the beginning,
as written in the Word
of the Scriptures—which is the Word
in the world again,
through the Bible
of the Old Testament—from Genesis 2:5,
the beginning
of the generations
of the heavens and the earth—in that fullness of time:
the Word became flesh,
and made His tabernacle
among us.⸻
This is the third incarnation:
Genesis 1:1—
the beginning of the Word in the World.Genesis 2:5—
the Scripture-Word in the World.John 1:14—
the Word in the World
in the Flesh.⸻
God made the world Word,
and the Word World.And that is this:
the centre of all reality.
And the Word became flesh,
and dwelt among us,
and was crucified by us.That is:
Christ crucified.
Which is what we preach.
The Word.
The Word in the World.
The Word of Christ.⸻
So:
Word and World.
World and Word.All proceed from Adam—
and from the Second Adam.Because the Word in the World
proceeds from God,
who is the Second Adam.And the Second Adam
came into the world,
and we have seen His glory—the glory
of the One and Only,
full of grace
and truth.⸻
And He reorders the world.
He orders Adam.
He reorders Abram.
He orders now
by the Risen Man—just as He said
in Genesis 1:25–27:and it was so.
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And He will reorder
the world again—until there is
no more predation,
no more feeding on flesh,
no more death.The animals He called,
the people He called,
and every name He gave—
now gathered—all lie down together.
The wolf and the lamb.
The bride and the city.As children we’ll play
where the cobra lay.And eat together
only the green,
and never for food
will blood be seen.And no more crying,
no more pain,
and all things new,
without even a stain.⸻
So in the end:
there is woman and man,
and man and woman.One flesh.
The Word became flesh.
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The Word in the world.
In the world.
In the Word.Is the Lamb.
And the Lion.
And the Womb.
And the Man.⸻
Adam and Eve—
being His image.Eve from Adam.
Adam from dust.
Dust from Word.
Word from God.⸻
And the holy city
comes down.The Bride of Christ
is revealed.The marriage
of Man and Woman—
in God,
and God in them.The marriage
in the Garden
is the union
of Creator and Creation.The holy communion.
The divine matrimony.⸻
Word and World.
World and Word.
Man and Woman.
Woman and Man.
Bride and Ground.
Bride and Groom.This is what God does.
This is what God made.⸻
God made the world
in the Word,
and the Word
in the world—to order man and woman,
and woman and man,
in whole union,
in communion,
for all time.⸻
Resurrected:
old.Creation:
new.Creator:
Christ.Church:
created.Coming.
Come.Consummated.
Word in union—
in the world.World in communion—
in the Word.⸻
Wo(Man).
Order.
Wor(l)d.
Made.
God.But:
God.
Made.
Wor(l)d.
Order.
Wo(Man).⸻
So help me God.
So let it be.Eminem.
Amen.⸻
