Science and Mystery

There Are Two Worlds

Tunes:   St FLAVIAN 8686

Day’s Psalter 1563

 

1. There are two worlds, or so it seems,

    Within our human quest,       

    The world of mystery’s delight    

    Or scientific test.                   

 

2. If we loose touch with science and fact

    Our thought becomes deranged;

    If we loose touch with mystic truth

    Our spirit is estranged.

 

3. Beyond new science myst’ry dwells,

    Unknown beyond the known,

    And both of them can nurture seeds

    That each of them have sown.

 

4. May fact and myst’ry dance as one

    In all our lifetime days

    Till our reflection and research

    Both join in common praise.

 

5. Within the cosmic wholeness then

    Both parts will have their place

    And both reveal the sacredness

    Of all of time and space.

 

6. O myst’ry we at times call God

    In you we rest our heart

    For you are inside and beyond

    And never will depart.

 

          Text © William Livingstone Wallace

 

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William (Bill) Livingstone Wallace is a retired New Zealand Methodist Minister and one of our most prolific contributors. Bill says that his work springs from communicating with the fire in his gut and his observation of both the internal and external aspects of the Cosmos. Since an early age, he has been both sympathetic to and critical of the church, announcing at the age of 13 his belief in evolution. In his youth, he struggled with the disconnection between art and spirituality in his own and other denominations and with the way in which all of the liturgies prior to the sermon were regarded as preliminaries and longer sermons were viewed as superior to more concise ones.

He holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Dip. Ed. and is the author of nine published collections of his hymns as well as other resources on our website. His aim is to help people be empowered by the divine within them and the Cosmos and to work to overthrow the forces of personal and institutional greed which destroy both the ecosystem and human society.

 

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