2024-12-07
Offering a welcome step away from the constant news of "wars and rumours of wars", and back to a time nearer to America's foundation, Martin Geddes treats us to a pertinent comparison between Old Salem as it was founded, and modern "Old Salem" which seems to dwell in a different spiritual country.
It shouldn't take an Hercule Poirot to spot the incongruencies, but in this case it perhaps does take a visitor from Old Blighty. I wonder what someone from old Moravia would make of it today.
“We identify with the New Moravians”
I am also mindful of the notion that perhaps "God" or "the Universe" often reflects back to us the spirituality that we exhibit to others ("as ye sow, so shall ye reap"), and that supposedly random events are (a) impossible to generate by the laws of mathematics, and (b) perhaps not random at all.
Rather than a rigidly three dimensional model where matter is supposedly made up of a great variety of "fundamental" particles operating independently according to physical "laws" and random circumstance, perhaps an ontological model which supposes that everything is based upon a universal consciousness, of which we are simply an individual expression, could account for such "unlikely" behaviour.
Indeed, in such a universe, there may be a reason for the "Old Moravian" habit of selecting one's marriage partner by the drawing of lots!
