In the Beginning

It’s all well and good to say the good will outweigh the bad, but it’s another thing to believe it. To prophesy is to speak in a mode backed up by what you yourself intend shall be the case, and will put yourself to work to achieve. Your words are a bridge for others to move across into the future. But there is no evidence “out there” that backs up the case you are making. You intend to make yourself the means by which this future is realized, and to that extent you speak from knowledge, commitment; you promise.

We misunderstand prophecy if we think it has to do with the foretelling of natural occurrences. The supernatural element in prophecy is nothing but the willingness to dethrone your own interests and say what your conscience commands of you shall be the case, as touches on your own doings. If we say that (nature) is in(super)able, then that means that there is no overcoming it; but if we speak of the (super)(natural), then we refer to whatever it is in us that suggests we might be able to do so. It has to do with the power of speech. And yet it is quite material, through-and-through. Words have origins, as surely as do beginnings.