“The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and changing, not in the become* and set-fast, and therefore, similarly, the reason (Vernunft) is concerned only to strive to the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding (Verstand) only to make use of the become* and the set-fast.”  ~ Goethe to Eckermann

God never wants the dead-in-heart to teach.

He or She desires that Teachings True

Be promulgated far beyond the reach

Of preachers, priests and prophets, all those who

Teach falsity and falsity — untruth.

In realms where they are listened to, their lies

Are yawing truths.  These lies are found uncouth

In minds made up of facts and not skies

Made up of melting lemon drops.  Truth IS

The truth, not fables, just the truth of facts

And rationality.  The rest is fizz

Gone flat.  Forget all catechism acts.

  The Gods most people worship are the cause

    Of strife, their wizards hiding as in Oz.

                                      * I take this to mean something like “that which has already become”.

© Phillip Whidden