God is a circle, said Empedocles, Whose centre is everywhere but whose circumference is nowhere. Thus unity and diversity cohabit, distance and immediacy, completion and initiation.
I see Radius in time as well as space; Existence that forever is, forever will be, forever was. God unbounded, omnipresent in time and space.
I see A spiral galaxy; Not a circle but points in a force field, slowly dissipating in a mist. God dissolving in time and space.
I see Wave on rolling wave, eddies in a pond, Wheel after fervid wheel, moving in all directions, A ceaseless energy.
I see A centre constantly changing, In ever-variable relation to itself and each other point, A great vibration.
I see Taijitu, nested circles: One circle, one whole, but circles within, Interlocked and interacting manifestations of the whole.
I see A world of angles, for utility is angular. Utility and vanity of buildings, authorities, policy frameworks, laws, Divorced from nature, from circle, from God.
I see Lives lived in the compass of a pendulum, but not the full circle, Lives that are or seem so bounded. In God, in the circle, there is hope.
I see and yet I do not see, I cannot see.
But I remember the Tao: Model the Godness in its entirety, the goodness at all points; Honour the yang and yin, and all between; give and graciously receive; Then the circle will be complete.
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