64._ Epilogue

1. (Taken from the Genesis):

There was an old man of ninety nine years called Abram; his wife Saray was almost as old as he, and she could not have children. Abram had a vision of God that said to him: "Sight to the sky and count the stars, if you can; that numerous it will be your descendants; no longer you will be called Abram but Abraham: "father of many", and your woman will be called Sarah: "mother of kings". Abram --now Abraham-- lay down to laugh; and when he told it to his wife –now Sarah-- she also laughed of surprise and incredulity: How were they going to have children now that were so old! But thus it was: Sarah conceived and had a boy to whom they put the name of Isaac: "God laughs". She, and also Abraham, laughed along of joy with God.

(It spent the time. Isaac grew until becoming a boy.)

And God spoke to Abraham and said to him: "take your dear son Isaac, carry him to the Moriah mount and once there, sacrifice him to me". Abraham obeyed to God; he went to that mount, he constructed a small altar there, he put on him to Isaac tied, and took the knife to immolate his son.

But God took part to prevent it. He spoke to Abraham, through his angel, and said to him: "It holds, you do not extend your hand against the boy, do not anything to him; now I know that you have a great confidence in me, since you have not denied your only son to me." Then Abraham saw a sheep in a bramble patch by the horns. He took the sheep, and sacrificed it instead of Isaac; and he called to that mount "God provides".


2. (Theological Poem)

God laughs

If we went back imaginaryly, in wings of science, at the first moment of the universe,
that in which there was only emptiness, only a nothing, perhaps potentiality,
we had thought, without a doubt, that of that nothing, nothing could be expected,
that it was more barren and sterile than a old woman of ninety years.

But, quantum emptiness fluctuates
and it produces space-time with its dimensions, and the energy-matter fields!
Our laughter of incredulity transforms into laughter of surprise and rejoicing.
And God laughs. And God saw that it was good.

Later, we laughed when seeing to emerge particles,
atoms and molecules,elements, galaxies, stars and planets.
And God saw that it was good.
And God laughed.

But when we have laughed more it is when we have seen how,
of the rock and gas vastness,of the incandescent eddy and the frozen solitudes,
a small point emerged of life.

There it appeared that inexhaustible source of wonderful complexity,
that procariot and eucariot cell,
that program of increasing organization and conscience,
those subtle organisms,
those delicate, most beautiful ones, most tender alive beings:
dear plants, dear animals, dear birds, most dear Nature.
Arisen from which it seemed inert and cold.
Cheer like jugglings that come to dissipate the boredom.

And we have seen, with God, that it was good.
And with Him we have laughed.

No longer we would have waited for another thing,
if not falling in the account of we ourselves.
Nothing more improbable and derisory that our own freedom,
in the middle of the determinism of the matter and the instinct.

Appears in the world that impossible son, that unexpected Isaac: the Man.
And, satisfied with his work, kindly, God laughs.

Then we consider how imperfect and displeased we are.
That we have been born for an existence of sufferings and injustices.
That we are guilty, least and ephemeral.
That, as individuals, we have to be sacrificed to the process.
That the process itself seems to lead to the dissolution of all existence and all value.
That this universe is indifferent to us, that will return to the emptiness.
That we have been created to be victims of a sacrifice for the sake of a cruel God.
Now, then, no longer we laugh.
Now we cry.
Like Isaac on the altar,when he saw that the knife of his father was hung over his throat.

But God does not laugh either. Also God now cries.
Everything was good because He is good.
He is not cruel.
He requests to us that we trust his intention and his power.
When everything seems lost and sad, He can make us laugh again.
Still his greater juggling is reserved.

He himself will appear, like last surprise,
in the top of the process.
He will have all the power on all things.
He will have the power to stop the sacrifice.
He cries when seeing tied Isaac, and will prevent that he perishes decollated by His own knife.
He has provided another victim for the sacrifice: His loved Son, His innocent Lamb,
thus to support with us.

He will create a new universe, more rejoicing than the old one.
He will rescue us of the nothing.
He will release us of all our fastenings
and he will invite us to a banquet table,
where we will eat with Him of His Lamb
in unspeakable love and harmony.

Then God will laugh.
And we will return to laugh.
And we will never stop to laugh.



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