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Omniscience, or In All Ways Wise
If God, in essence, cannot be otherwise,
Or cannot be other than wise,
God is, always and ever, other-wise.
That is, of each and every other,
In all ways wonderously wise;
Otherwise, God would be otherwise.
And so, as God is in nowise otherwise,
God is all-wise and everywhere other-wise.
This being said, one may go on likewise —
Let us suppose
God only knows
All there is to know.
Does it, then, follow
That God can forever and in detail foresee
How the decisions we make turn out to be?
There is little in eternity that God does not know
But always a little that God can never foreknow
(How our decisions from here to entirety may go)
Because there is simply nothing yet there to know.
Process philosophy can without contradiction show
That this is the case and is, indeed, apodictically so,
And that within the divine and everlasting purview,
God is always everywhere, waiting for something new.
At every time and, yes, at every where,
God is always here, yes, and always there,
With all entities, yes, in every new moment
Giving to one and, to all, lures of bestowment,
And as a participating partner in the dance,
Enjoying novelty, yes, in the creative advance.
This is rhapsody (Yes!) a rollicking robust romance,
This is, now and forevermore, the divine Jouissance.