@HaddenTurner Meaning is not given from above, but grown in communion. Work the Garden well, and the depth realm of this symbiotic conversation—the enfleshed wholeness, harmony, and integrity of Life complete—incarnates as New World Creation. This, the Kingdom come. We inhabit it, and it, us.
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…...the subject of Andean agriculture, the way it depends on its margins, incorporating them into the very structure of it form, as opposed to pushing them back to land unsuitable for farming as we moderns have long done. If, to paraphrase Wendell Berry, we can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture ("At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another."), then it was apparent that hedgerow guilds offered a prime example of the sort of reconciliation by which we could escape the endless swinging between center and margins, rigidity and revolt, that has plagued human culture for millennia. Berry suggests the remedy is to accommodate the margin within the form, to allow the wilderness to thrive in domesticity, to accommodate diversity within unity. Slowly, the landscape began to read like a living constitutional convention…wedded to a suprahuman truth.
@Naifalbidh There's always the definitive birth of a new world creation. In this realm. Moltmann: "Judgment is not the last thing of all. It serves the new creation of all things. It is therefore not last but penultimate. What is the last and final is the new word of creation. (Rev. 21.5)"
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, four bodies including Robert Johnson quote; Thomas Moore inset Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1916254293587619954 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 2/ Where the co-evolutionary singularity of a unifying harmony, reconciliation and salvation arises from as much as comes to ground, we come home to the concrete reality of earthly and human solidarity only in so far as we and the world complete one another. Vocatus atqua non vocatus deus aderit. A working conversation, then. "If one works faithfully and patiently at this task of balancing heaven and earth, eventually one may realize something more remarkable: that the two worlds are in fact one. - Robert Johnson 7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time. Thomas Moore There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order. 9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning. Subtweet: Both hold true and both require action. Of the simultaneity in practice, the experience of prophetic earthworkers confirms the somatic, personal requirements of a functional, coherent synthesis. New World Creation is *made*, and 'The Way', as you call it, requires *being made*. []
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