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Some have been told the manner and origin of things but do not question.   Some who claim to know the manner and origin of all things, Keepers, forbid others whom they call their followers to question the nature of their Words.   Is not this a wonder considering the wonderment of a child and of the human mind?  Should it be: this is why – or, why is this?

The Words of Keepers come in song, or pictures or writings.   The Words are bound in the rhythm of speech, in the carvings and writings on stone or in written words scribed on the thinnest exquisite papers of black and white.  These Words contain the prescriptions for living and the explanations for the origins of all things. These Words are kept in special houses presided over by the Keepers.

The holders of these Words, the Keepers, are revered.  Robes, symbols, feathers or fur adorn them in testament.  These Words empower the Keepers; the Keepers empower the words.

Each culture has its own priests, prophets, and seers – all Keepers of different order. Their Words come in parables and stories intended for prescriptions and rules of behaviour for Followers.   The Words demand impact and authority: therefore they are claimed to come from spirits beyond, from some ethereal authority.  They are unavailable and physically inaccessible – except by Keepers who interpret and spread the Words.

These Words give structure for people to live in harmony, and so also, to provide a house for Keepers.  The Keepers of Words are well fed and clothed; they are leaders in defining the Words and in spreading the Words.

The Keepers spend days memorizing the flow of words so as to repeat them among themselves and to others whom they call their Followers.  They can then cite the Words to judge and justify actions.  Sometimes, Keepers are uncertain of the meaning of the Words and they may query other Keepers in their society for explanation.

So absorbed are Keepers in their own Words, that they seldom look at the Words from other peoples in other lands.   They have no knowledge of the Words of these foreign Keepers, for those Words have not been revealed to them. Keepers have little knowledge of the Words kept by Keepers from other peoples.  Is this not a wonder?

Some Keepers urge the waging of war upon Keepers from other lands because the Words from their Divinity are not the same.   The Words from one Divinity conflict with the Words from another Divinity.  Then the Keepers urge war – the Holy wage war upon the Holy?  The Words are thus worth more than human life itself.  Is this waging of war the work of man or of Divinity?  Are  Keepers trying to make their houses larger?  What value do Keepers place on human life?  Is the waging of war worthy of a Divinity?  Is not the nature of Divinity more nobel than that of man?  Is this not a wonder?

Is it also not a wonder that few Keepers have been so divinely inspired as to have the Words of other Keepers from other lands revealed unto themselves?  Why is this so?  Think upon it.

Is it not a wonder that Words inspired unto Prophets and from them to Keepers, that the Words should be spread but by word of mouth across the land or lands, rather than by the Divinity to all Prophets of all lands and thence to the Keepers of each land and all lands?  Think upon it.

Our minds experience many things causing many wonders.  Things happen on this planet earth; small and large in scale, small and large in numbers and over long periods of time.   These things affect us,  as we affect ourselves and others; as those before us have affected us, and as we will affect those after us.

All that happens by living things, by the planet itself, and by the heavens beyond affect us.  Our geographic birth location, the seasons, the moon cycles upon tides and human beings, continental drift, even the hotspots of the sun and interstellar bodies all influence the course of our lives as we hurtle together through space.

Some happenings we know; some we do not.  Of some we are aware; of some we are not.  We cannot partake in that of which we are unaware.  As our universe of awareness expands, we expand.

Now we have the ability to record, measure, observe, store, communicate and share around the globe with people whom we have never seen nor will ever touch.   We put our learnings one upon another.  Knowledge acquires knowledge.

We can compare histories of lives, origins of beliefs, and ways of living.  We can compare ways of healing, hopes and dreams, and, we can compare our gods even as we ourselves now begin to create life.   We can describe the origin of the earth and of civilizations.

Therein lies a wonder.

There are those who claim to know; there are those who would not know;  there are those who seek to know.  For answer seekers, they are content with answers by those who claim to know all things.  For those who would not know, they are content.  For those who seek to know, they are truth seekers.  The seekers of truth are wisdom seekers.

We have wondered about the sun and the moon, about thunder and lightning, about the nature of things. We have wondered about everything from the origins of things to how we ought to act toward each other. And we have been given answers - often by men in robes, or feathers or fur.

As time has passed, we have discovered that our answers to things have changed over the course of time. They have changed like the seasons and they have changed from one civilization to another, from one part of the globe to another.   Our answers have been diverse.

Many answers have left us answered. There is much that was unknown by those before us, there is much we do not know. This some know.

Now as more unknowns are becoming known we are awakening.   In wonderment.

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