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MONTESSORI THE GREAT LESSONS : The Creation Poem


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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. 

 Hawaiian Akepa, rare & smallest of the Hawaiian forest birds. Males brilliant orange plumage takes four years to develop.  by Jack Jeffrey

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. 

Spring rain

 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; 

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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


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THE GREAT LESSONS 

From the very beginning people have been
aware of GodThey 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.

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"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?"

Can I be a cloud?

 "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. 

Sei la stella più bella del mio firmamento / You are the most beautiful star in my firmament

 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.

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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."

Sunset, shoreline

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:

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"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.

Sun Light

At first there was chaos and
darkness was on the face of the deep. 
God said "Let there be light,"
 and there was light.

 Rays of light here !!    2012

 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.

Starburst Cluster Shows Celestial Fireworks

  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. 

A magnificent filament from a medium sized flare via Universe Today. Image credit: NASA/SDO

 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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