Creatorem Coeli et Terrae

The knowledge of the logical relations of sentences, or in logic, propositions, had to be present in the language because the art and science of logic relates first of all to grammar and only higher up, in the more advanced modes of discourse, does logic become a more flexible tool and at the same time more precise and more complex (See this writer’s works on the modes of discourse).

            Without this knowledge of language, human nature would not be complete.  But the Order of Creation established during the first six days of the world, contained only perfect, that is, complete beings, each one complete and perfect in its kind.  This was the Hierarchy of Being, of reality, from the lowliest particles and elements to the highest of the angelic Seraphim finished, just as Genesis 2:1 says:  “So the Heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.”

            Moreover, “God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good” (Gen. 1:31).  That was at the end of the sixth day.  And this is the origin of man, of Adam and Eve, our first parents who were far and above intellectually and physically any human pair since or will be—except Our Divine Lord Jesus Christ and His Immaculate Mother Mary.

            I hope the reader sees here also the origin of language—the one language from which all others have grown or devolved.  And all mankind had but one language until, in the pride of their own excellence, they decided to build a tower in their city, the top of which would reach to heaven, but God prevented their plan from being fulfilled by “confounding” their speech.  Thus they were forced to scatter over the earth in their newly realized languages. That is the origin of the different languages.

            Historians today still claim the original Indo-European contains vestiges of the original language.  So when human beings compose poems, or make speeches, or try to describe and define the objects of the various sciences, they impose certain forms upon language.  The forms are accidental forms made of language and language is an accidental      form inhering in the substantial form of a speaking human being.

            I like to compare the elements of language with the atomic elements of physical matter.  Thinks of the universe as a huge thing, or better, a gigantic form in which the earth is in a very special place situated at the very center of the universe.  As the word universe indicates, it is one huge circular being with the Earth at its center.  From this center there is a vertical hierarchy of beings that form concentric circles or spheres as they radiate outward and upward in the transparent spheres made of the elements of fire and light.

            Envisioned as a universe in this way, it is easy and even obvious that all the parts—earth, water, air and fire—constituted of the atomic elements and performing their proper functions—are but accidental form of the substantial form—that is the Body of the Universe.

            Earth as the central part or even the Heart of this great body, is unique in being the place, the huge habitat for the substantial forms of the plant and animal kingdoms, as well as for mankind also.