“Whenever we as Americans have faced serious crises, we have returned to fundamentals….”
Ralph Ellison
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE makes an appeal to heaven, but a different pole star. Instead of the divine of right of kings, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” (Emphasis added) There is a departure from royal grants. Here, rights come from Nature’s God.
A designer nation is a matter of creation. It is based on principles, not birth. It is where the obscenity of h_ _ _land—and chants of “Blood and soil!”—have no place.
America is a child of the Enlightenment and mankind’s attempt to become transcendent. The Great Seal is a symbol of that aspiration. Its two sides represent the material and spiritual realms; the eagle on the one and the pyramid and the all-seeing eye on the other define the struggle “to form a more perfect Union.”
Under God’s leadership, Ancient Israel faced the gap between the idea and the reality—the tension between the material and the spiritual. For after witnessing miracles, there were, to be generous, doubters. Let Moses step away and the people demanded a golden calf.
Whether past or present, liars dominate the stage. And that problem has existed since the encounter with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Yet assertion and repetition do not equal truth. They never have—and never will. But falsehood is not defeated on the defensive. We must take the battle to the enemy. For it must be remembered that knowledge is the foundation of the American Republic.
(c)2023 Marvin D. Jones. All rights reserved.
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[‘In Order to Form a More Perfect Union’]
