THEY say that reality exists only in the
spirit
that corporal
existence is a kind of death
that pure being is bodiless
that the idea of the form
precedes the form substantial.
But what nonsense it is!
as if any Mind could have imagined a
lobster
dozing the
under-deeps, then reaching out a savage and iron
claw!
Even the mind of God can only imagine
those things that have become
themselves:
bodies
and presences, here and now, creatures with a foothold
in creation
even if it is only a lobster on
tiptoe.
Religion knows better than philosophy
Religion knows that Jesus never
was Jesus
till he
was born from a womb, and ate soup and bread
and grew up, and became, in the
wonder of creation, Jesus,
with a body and with needs, and a lovely
spirit.