Also in my post, I ended with a biblical direction as I have done in many previous samplings. So, I was more than intrigued when I read a poem written by Fuller that was taken whole or in part as the impetus for the Whole Earth concept.

Please enjoy this rabbit chase. There is more to this than meets the eye.

   I see God in
   the instruments and the mechanisms that
   work
   reliably,
   more reliably than the limited sensory departments of
   the human mechanism.
   And God says
   observe the paradox
   of man's creative potentials
   and his destructive tactics.
   He could have his new world
   through sufficient love
   for "all's fair"
   in love as well as in war
   which means you can
   junk as much rubbish,
   skip as many stupid agreements
   by love,
   spontaneous unselfishness radiant.

   The revolution has come--
   set on fire from the top.
   Let it burn swiftly.
   Neither the branches, trunk, nor roots will be endangered.
   Only last year's leaves and
   the parasite-bearded moss and orchids
   will not be there
   when the next spring brings fresh growth
   and free standing flowers.

   Here is God's purpose--
   God, to me, it seems,
   is a verb
   not a noun,
   proper or improper;
   is the articulation
   not the art, objective or subjective;
   is loving,
   not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated;
   is knowledge dynamic,
   not legislative code,
   not proclamation law.
   not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon.
   Yes, God is a verb,
   the most active,
   connoting the vast harmonic
   reordering of the universe
   from unleashed chaos of energy.
   And there is born unheralded
   a great natural peace,
   not out of exclusive
   pseudo-static security
   but out of including, refining, dynamic balancing.
   Naught is lost.
   Only the false and nonexistent are dispelled.

   And I've thought through to tomorrow
   which is also today.
   The telephone rings
   and you say to me
   Hello Buckling this is Christopher; or
   Daddy it's Allegra; or
   Mr. Fuller this is the Telephone Company Business Office;
   and I say you are inaccurate.
   Because I knew you were going to call
   and furthermore I recognize
   that it is God who is "speaking."

   And you say
   aren't you being fantastic?
   And knowing you I say no.

   All organized religions of the past
   were inherently developed
   as beliefs and credits
   in "second hand" information.

   Therefore it will be an entirely new era
   when man finds himself confronted
   with direct experience
   with an obviously a priori
   intellectually anticipatory competence
   that has interordered
   all that he is discovering.

[No More Secondhand God]

Ideas and Integrities of Buckminster Fuller 1963; 318pp