Listening To Sacred Hymns By Gurdjieff Comments

hey, daniel! i've been familiar with the name gurdjieff for decades, but i can't remember if i read anything by him or just about him by a guy named ouspensky (or something like that) . but no matter, as the reference to him seems not essential to this poem. last night i woke around midnight to a prolonged extravaganza of thunder—bowling ball thunder, loud strikes on tympani thunder, whip crack thunder. and i mention it because he we are officially in fall, but summer is the time for thunderstorms here. scripture of course has stories of God affecting natural phenomena through the intercessions of men. rare of course. do they still happen today? can they? i certainly don't know. but what i am convinced of, philosophically speaking, is that because God is the creator, who precedes the cosmos, who precedes time and space, we do not live in a closed system. God is apart from or transcends it—which follows that we can too. so ours is not the position or despair of the nihilist, nor the reaction of the existentialist to nihilism. our is the open sky. our bodies just the tents or temporary dwellings fit for time and space, but not for the life that goes on and on. whew! a layered answer for a layered poem. joy be yours. glen