(Painting on a church ceiling of one of the hundreds of churches whose names I don’t remember but who I loved visiting.)

To conclude this week which was devoted to the concept of action in one form or another, let Johann Wolfgang von Goethe speak.  (It sounds better in German, and also closer to the meaning of taking action; but in English “act” has to suffice.) And let’s remember that that play was about a pact with the devil…..

 

It’s written here: ‘In the Beginning was the Word!’

Here I stick already! Who can help me? It’s absurd,

Impossible, for me to rate the word so highly

I must try to say it differently

If I’m truly inspired by the Spirit. I find

I’ve written here: ‘In the Beginning was the Mind’.

Let me consider that first sentence,

So my pen won’t run on in advance!

Is it Mind that works and creates what’s ours?

It should say: ‘In the beginning was the Power!’

Yet even while I write the words down,

I’m warned: I’m no closer with these I’ve found.

The Spirit helps me! I have it now, intact.

And firmly write: ‘In the Beginning was the Act!’