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Monday, August 27, 2012

Morning's at Seven - ETHIOPIA TODAY

Synopsis: Morning's at Seven 1/( decoded)


Morning's at Seven


by Paul Osborn
“Make it simple but not less simple” (Einstein)


With the social Message DECODED

 

Morning-harmony

Since it is valuable for our reflections and allegorically relevant to our
social context and our perceptions, and to make the social message more transparent; the famous play of Paul Osborn  is here decoded (based on a short synopsis of the story/1), along the patterns of the "Harmony Model" . I think it is more than relevant for our Ethiopian context and the political stalemate confronting us at these crucial times of confused perceptions.Valuable to maintain the piece of optimism, which may be blocked somewhere in the mind or in the vibrating substance of our hearts.

Under the mirror of the Ethio-Context (in the patterns of the “Harmony Model”).


1. Cora: (Mrs. Laws) + Thor: (Ethics-Tradition);
2. Ida: (Mrs. Community) + Carl: (Mr. State);
3. Arry: (Miss Nature-Mankind); (lives with Cora and Thor);
4. Esther (Faith-Vision) + David, (Religion-Dogma);
5. Homer (“Mr. Generation-new”) + Myrtle („Miss Life“).


“Mrs. Laws” and her sister “Mrs. Community”, along with husbands “Mr. Ethics-Tradition” and “Mr. State”, have lived next door to each other for their entire married lives. In addition, an old-maid sister, called ”Miss Nature-Mankind”, lives with “Laws” and “Ethics”. A fourth sister, “Mrs. Faith-Vision” and her husband “Mr. Religion-Dogma”, live outside the immediate neighborhood. As the play opens, all four families are anxiously awaiting the arrival of „Mr. Generation-new“ and his fiancée, „Miss Life“ Brown. „Mr. Generation-new“ has been engaged to „Miss Life“ for seven years  (apparently going through the seven dimensions) and dated her for five years (say, along the five planes of Life) before that and, oddly enough, this will be the first time anyone in his family will have met her.

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"When the idea formed of Divinity is the fruit of true spiritual culture, its intimate re-action on the inner perfection is at once beneficial and beautiful. All things assume a new form and meaning in our eyes when regarded as the creatures of forecasting design, and not the capricious handiwork of unreasoning chance. The ideas of wisdom order, and adaptative forethought,—ideas so necessary to the conduct of our own actions, and even to the culture of the intellect,—strike deeper root into our susceptible nature, when we discover them everywhere around us. The finite becomes, as it were, infinite; the perishable, enduring; the fleeting, stable; the complex, simple,—when we contemplate one great regulating Cause on the summit of things, and regard what is spiritual as endlessly enduring. Our search after truth, our striving after perfection, gain greater certainty and consistency when we can believe in the existence of a Being who is at once the source of all truth, and the sum of all perfection. The soul becomes less painfully sensible of the chances and changes of fortune, when it learns how to connect hope and confidence with such calamities. The feeling of receiving everything we possess from the hand of love, tends no less to exalt our moral excellence and enhance our happiness. Through a constant sense of gratitude for enjoyment—through clinging with fond trustfulness to the object towards which it yearns, the soul is drawn out of itself, nor always broods in jealous isolation over its own sensations, its own plans, hopes, and fears. Should it lose the exalting feeling of owing everything to itself, it still enjoys the rapture of living in the love of another,—a feeling in which its own perfection is united with the perfection of that other being. It becomes disposed to be to others what others are to it; it would not that they too should receive nothing but from themselves, in the same way that it receives nothing from others."

Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State action; 1792(CHAPTER VII.
Religion)

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