MONTESSORI THE GREAT LESSONS : The Creation Poem

MONTESSORI

THE GREAT LESSONS

      

 Long ago, long, long ago

When all was darkness deep and low

The voice of God called forth the light

To split the curtain of the night

Then what was night in darkness lay. 

 

  Then God divided earth and sea

And marked the place where each should be

With mountains rising high and steep

And oceans spreading wide and deep. 

 

 Then God called seeds to sprout and grow

And all the flowers that we know

The trees and grass both great and small

Blossomed when they heard His call. 

 Then God said,"let the darkest nights

Be filled with tiny glowing lights"

He called the sun to light the day

The moon to keep the dark away. 

 

Then God called all that swim and fly

The creatures of the sea and sky

And all the creatures of the land

Where shaped and formed

by God's good hands. 

 

When all was done God loved it all.

The dew drop and the waterfall

The timid creatures and the strong

The robin and the thrush 's song. 

 He searched the sea and sky above

To find one who would share His love

When none was found His plan unfurled.  

 God made a man to share His world

He made a man and  woman too

To share His world so bright and new; 

 

To love the earth, the sea and the sky

The creatures, fish and birds that fly.

God gave them all to show

His special love long, long ago. 

 

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MONTESSORI THE GREAT LESSONS : God Who Has No Hands

  MONTESSORI

THE GREAT LESSONS 

From the very beginning people have been

aware of God. They could feel Him though

 they could not see Him, and they were

 always asking in their different languages 

who He was and where He was to be found.

"Who is God?"

they asked their wise men. 

"He is the most perfect of beings"

was the answer.

"But what does He look like?

 Has He a body like us?"

"No, He has not got a body.

  "He has no eyes to see with,

no hands to work with

 and no feet to walk with;

but He sees everything
 and knows everything, even 
our most secret thoughts."

 "And where is He?"

 "He is in Heaven  and on this earth.

He is everywhere."

"What can He do?" 

"Whatever He wishes."

"But what has God actually done?"

"What He has done is all that has ever happened. 

He is the Creator and Master Who has made

everything, and all the things He has made obey 

His will. He cares and provides for them all,

and keeps the whole of His creation in the

most wonderful harmony and order."

 In the beginning there was only God. Since

He was completely perfect and completely

 happy, there was nothing He needed. 

Yet out of His goodness He chose to create 

and all that He willed came into being; 

the heavens and the earth, 

all that is visible and all that is invisible. 

 One after another He made

the light. the stars, the sky, and the 

earth with its plants and animals. Last of all 

He made man. Man like animals was made

out of  particles of the earth; but God made him 

different from the animals and like Himself,

for into his body which would die He

breathed a soul which would never die."

Many people thought this was just a tale.

How could someone with no hands

and no eyes make things? 

If God is a spirit who cannot be seen or

 touched or heard, how could He have made

 the stars that sparkle overhead, the sea

which always  astir, the sun, the mountains

and the winds? How could a spirit make

the birds and fishes and trees, the flowers

and the scent they shed around them? 

Perhaps He could make invisible things,

 but how could He make the visible world? 

It is all very well, they thought, 

to say that God is everywhere,

but who has ever set  eyes on Him? 

How can we be sure He is anywhere? 

They tell us  He is the Master whom

 everybody and everything  obeys, 

but why on earth should we believe that?

 And really it does seem impossible.

We who have hands could not do these things, so

 how could someone  who has no hands do them?

 And can we imagine animals and

plants and rocks obeying God? 

The animals do not understand when we

talk to them, so could they be obedient?

Or the winds and the sea  

and the mountains?

You can shout and scream

and wave your arms at them, 

but they cannot hear you

for they are not even alive,

and they certainly will not obey you.

Yes, that is how it seems to us.

But, as you shall see,

 everything that exists,

whether it has life or not,

in all that it does and by 

the very fact of being there,

it actually obeys the will of God. 

God's creatures do not know that

they are obeying. Those that are

inanimate just go on existing, those that

have life move and go on living. Yet every

time a cool wind brushes your cheek,

its voice, if we could hear it, is saying:

"Lord, I obey."

When the sun rises in the morning and

colors the glittering sea, the sun and the

sunbeams and the water also are whispering,

"My Lord, I obey."  

And when you can see birds on

the wings, or a fruit falling from a tree,

or a butterfly hovering over a flower,

the birds and their flight, the tree and

the fruit and its fall to the ground, the

butterfly and the flower and its fragrance

are all repeating the same words:

"I hear , my Lord, and I obey."

 

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MONTESSORI THE GREAT LESSONS : The Azoic Era

The Story of The Universe

The Azoic Era

(Pre-Cambrian Era) 

 (4500-3500 million years ago)   

  The creation of the earth after a tremendous

explosion in the universe. There is, what is

known as the Big Bang theory which 

hypothesizes that the  earth was formed

from a swirling cloud of dust and gases.

This gas and dust shrank to a very

 hot core.The earth was filled with volcanoes 

and earthquakes.There is no oxygen in the

atmosphere, only gases such as carbon dioxide,

 nitrogen, methane and hydrogen. This was

 followed by a gradual cooling of the earth's

molten surface. The crust forms; there is an

emergence of water falling as rain

and the first oceans are created.

At first there was chaos and

darkness was on the face of the deep. 

God said "Let there be light,"

 and there was light.

 

 Before that, there was only the deep : 

an immensity of space with no beginning 

and no end, indescribably dark and cold.

Who can imagine that immensity,

that darkness and coldness?

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MONTESSORI THE GREAT LESSONS : Cold-Freezing

The Story of The Universe

Cold - Freezing

 When we think of the dark, we think of night;

but our night would be like brilliant sunshine in

comparison with that darkness. When we think of

cold, we think of ice. But ice is positively hot if you

compare it with the coldness of space - the space

that separates the stars so hot, you might say, as

a blazing furnace from which no heat can escape.

  In this measureless void of cold and darkness,

light was created. There appeared something

like a vast fiery cloud which included all the

 stars that are in the sky. The whole universe 

was in that cloud, and among  the tiniest of

 stars was our own world. But they were not

 stars then; as yet, there was nothing except

light and heat. So intense was the heat, that

all the substances we know - iron, gold, rocks,

water - were gases, as insubstantial as the air.

All those substances, all the materials of 

which the earth and the stars are composed,

were fused together in one vast, flaming

intensity of light and heat-a heat which would

make our sun today feel like a piece of ice. 

  

This raging fiery cloud of nothingness,

too huge to imagine, moved in the immensity

of freezing space, which was also nothingness

 but infinitely vaster. The fiery mass was no

bigger than a drop of water in the ocean of

space; but that drop contained the earth and

all the stars, which are really blazing suns

millions of times bigger than the earth. 

As the cloud of the light and heat moved 

through empty space, little drops fell from

it.  If you swing the water out of glass, 

some of it holds together as it falls and 

the rest breaks up into separate drops.  

The countless hosts of stars are like those

drops. Only instead of falling they are

 moving round in space, in such a way that

they can never collide or meet again.

They are million of miles from each other.

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MONTESSORI THE GREAT LESSONS : Formation of The Stars

The Story of The Universe

Formation of the Stars

 Some stars are so far away from us that it

takes millions of years for their light to reach us,

even though light travels 186,000 miles in one

second. God gave them special laws which they

have always obeyed. They seem free, whirling 

dizzily through space with nothing to stop them,

but they are all tied to their courses by an

invisible string which is the will of God. 

 Two of these drops were our world and our sun,

which move on their own courses through space. 

The earth moves around the sun, but it travels

 like a spinning ball, ceaselessly revolving

around itself and always revolving

at the same speed. 

 When God's will called the stars into being,

there was no detail He had not planned. 

Every scrap of the universe, every speck

which we might think too tiny to matter, 

was bound to behave according to

the rules He had made.

For the drop of the blazing cloud which

became our world, He decided that there 

should be no longer be chaos. Instead

of burning confusion of gases, there

would be air and water and rocks. 

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