Constitution and Derivation

Being and change; constitution and derivation; light and darkness.

In the beginning was nothing, and so in the beginning was something. In the beginning was the logos, and so in the beginning was possibility. Constitution and derivation.

That possibility necessarily manifested into life, or "let there be light." Instantiations under Necessity: derivative.

All derivations are linked to some constitution.

A chain of links: logos, Necessity, being, consciousness, individual action. Each part dependent on the previous. The mystery of existence: why something rather than nothing?

We operate in gravity's realm of derivation. Who we become renders self-aligned actions onto the world we inhabit, or the perspective of coherence.

In this sense, derivative things can also be constitutive. Like all chains: interiorly bidirectional. Grace is the miracle of a derivative link constituting the previous link.

Upwards movement.

A man illuminates a dark room with a flashlight. At one moment was darkness; the next moment was light. Being and action; grace is the likened light.

Darkness is a necessary derivation of light. We invent and inherit unnecessary derivations.

The labor of a lifetime: cultivating the distinction between such derivations.

Such is the fate of man.