Silence / genesis

Mon Feb 9 13:48:55 PST 2004

Thank you, Florian.  Are you the same Florian Fisher who has written about
social art/organization work in the anthroposophical press?  If so, I have
enjoyed that work immensely.

>From: Florian Fischer <ff at begleitung-im-wandel.com>
>Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
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>Subject: Re: Silence / genesis
>Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 20:59:43 +0100
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>Am 06.02.2004 3:37 Uhr schrieb "Douglas D. Germann, Sr." unter
><76066.515 at compuserve.com>:
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>... a moment of silence here, online? Now?
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>dear doug,
>that gives space for me to come in again after a while
>of neither reading nor posting.
>
>in these days beside lot of lots I wrote my personal version
>of the genesis. the story is relating well to silence.
>if you may listen ??  here it is:
>
>Florian Fischer
>The Creation of The World
>
>In the beginning there was nothing - totally dark and absolutly silent. And
>the Spirit of Darkness protected Nothingness and Silence. Nothing ever
>happened and Nothingness had been silent since the dawn of eternity.
>However
>there came a voice from beyond the darkness; restless and invisible - and
>called out: »Hi there! Creative Spirit here. I'm calling you oh Spirit of
>Darkness, answer me! Why are you doing nothing? Why don't you do something
>in this eternal silence, anything - let there be light or say something,
>whatever!« No answer from Nothingness. He called out over and over again
>and
>shouted: »Hello, you don't even answer, but I want an answer,
>a word at least,« - he didn't want to wait and so carried on »Go on, let me
>have a go. You must do something, you can't just hang around doing nothing,
>nothing's going to happen. It's just not on.« And he didn't stop calling,
>for silence was not on his side.
>The Spirit of Darkness finally gave in, learnt to hear, listened and
>answered the invisible one and said: »Well then, you throw words into
>space,
>develop language, demand, force me to use words, extort an answer, just you
>wait and see what you've done. Right then, fine, if you really want to get
>going, go! Get on with it and do it, just create a world, a small world -
>well, you'll manage all right.  What? You need time? It doesn't exist yet,
>you'll have to invent it yourself. But do it now, yes, in this very
>instant.
>There is nothing else but now. And get a move on  ah! you must leave half
>of it in darkness, that's the condition!« »Condition, condition, what's
>that? There was nothing until now!« »Stop, no more calling out, I want
>silence.« »But  « The Spirit of Darkness answered with another condition:
>»No buts!« »It's easy for you to speak from your nothingness,« countered
>Creative Spirit, »but if  « »No ifs, no buts! Right, that's enough calling
>out and talking, simply begin! Now!«
>Creative Spirit got straight down to work talking to himself all the time.
>»Okay, that's right like that, super, that's just the thing, exactly.« And
>he started by creating light, in the half that had been left to him and he
>became afraid, because all of a sudden millions of colours appeared  by
>themselves, so he simply left them as they were. Something happened,
>somehow
>both elastic and kneadable, and he said: »I've still got plenty of time.«
>But there wasn't much, because only half was visible. The other half was
>still in darkness and it was not possible to make out whether there was a
>lot or just a little of it, and if you could call that: Time.
>Somehow, he didn't seem to be making progress because it kept getting dark
>and he had to rest half of the time. However, nothing got to him like
>silence. Out of everything he only achieved what was most necessary. Only
>two specimens of each being and not too similar for that matter. Somewhere,
>in the midst of all the chaos he managed to create something like two human
>beings. They still hadn't met, nor did either know what was or was not
>edible. The air was transparent, but you couldn't walk on it; and so was
>the
>water, unevenly spread in width and depth. A number of mountains were still
>on the move  when all of a sudden the call rang out: »Stop! Spirit of
>Darkness here! Listen here oh restless one, you who calls yourself Creative
>Spirit: Seven days and six nights have passed, so you must have rested six
>times, unwillingly, in my half. This is the measure of time and so shall it
>remain. However, it's over now, off into retirement you go«.
>»What a load of rubbish!« called back Creative Spirit, »I'm not done yet!
>Nothing has come to perfection. Besides you've been meddling, with your
>conditions and the definition of time. Is that what I must put my name to?
>Well, I couldn't care less, it will just have to carry on by itself then.«
>And so he carried on »You call as the voice of what was silent darkness to
>restrict me with silence. So be it - the swap is done: Yours is the
>language
>from now on and mine eternal silence. Amen«. And so he went on to use his
>last ten words, in capital letters, to write down his recipe which had
>produced the world he was about to free:
>NOW - LESS - IMPERFECT- SILENCE - NO IFS OR BUTS  ITSELF  SIMPLE.
>And as mankind, both imperfect and unequal, got to know themselves they
>learned the lesson the hard way: only from now to now, without ifs or buts,
>everything develops by itself.
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>Translated
>from German to English
>by Andrew Mortimer
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