America is the land
that has its vastest spans
and deepest depths
expressed in this one keystone phrase:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal…
endowed by their Creator
with unalienable Rights—
Liberty, Life and
the Pursuit of Happiness.”
In its original draft
by Thomas Jefferson
(when he was just 33,
the holy number of the esoteric fraters
and Christ’s mortal age)
the line had:
“We hold these truths to be sacred and un-deniable...”
In Benjamin Franklin’s approved edit,
the sacred and the undeniable
was condensed to “self-evident”—
And so the Geist spoke,
and America became
the world’s most singular Land
of Grand and Obvious Truths.
The Land of the Obvious—
that holds and hides inside
the Jeffersonian original of the sacred
and the undeniable—
that, above all, is held to be four-fold:
Equality, Liberty, Life and Human Happiness.
These four words spelled the abrogation of the old world order,
the old thousand-year old feudal system
of serfs and masters
based on Jesus
& man’s original sin
and illiteracy of the masses
as property of their lords
for whom liberty and equality of the people
was abhorrence,
mockery,
Satan’s anathema.
Thus a new Republic was born—
by a vote
on new political thinking.
A new Republic
and the first government and state
that declared
that human happiness for all
here on earth
is its promise
and its goal,
thus overturning
the previous rule that justified all and any tyranny
by recasting life of man and woman
as an earned and justified temporary penal colony
penitentiary, Vale of Tears,
labor & reeducation camp
for utterly damned and worthless sinners,
a priori so and if only
because of the tale
about an apple
and the ignorant and naked,
Adam and Eve,
by God himself made
superb and perfect,
so that the world,
so decreed
and masterfully engineered,
was merely a large waiting,
concentration center
for the Apocalypse,
the end of the world,
and God’s terrible judgment
for which the graves were to give back
all the rotten corpses
interred over all the ages
for the last and closing sentence
on everyone’s fate.
This Jeffersonian pronouncement
by a committee of men
was the first act by any state
to base its existence
on the avowal of natural rights
or creeds moored in a twin appeal
to reason and God,
which each of the two
taken to stand for mankind’s
universal common sense.
And thus
toward the end of the second millennium
of Christian faith,
the emphasis rocked and altered—
away from the original sin,
the lynchpin
used to hold man down and shackled
as a fallen, corrupt, worthless man
to the idea of man,
the source of his restored pride
and new supreme confidence
in being, in the words of John Milton
from The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649),
“the image and resemblance of God himself.”
And on this human nature’s God-like view
the new daring and venture,
the rediscovered claim
to liberty and equality of all
just by coming into existence
was created and hoisted.
America is where these truths
became self-evident
in the characters of those pouring in
from overseas
and by virtue of them running from the other and old way.
America is there these truths
were adopted and approved
by Congress’ one abstention
and twelve affirmative votes,
the twelve apostles
of the New Dispensation
that took to its heart
the creed that, deep down,
human nature,
even if far from infallible,
is inalienably divine,
and, with this divinity within,
thus free and equal—in all,
and whoever harms these human natural rights
shall be subject to resistance
for even revolution is then justified
in defense and respect of such rights—
and the liberty to pursue one’s own happiness.
And these rights and truths
came to stand
sacrosanct and obvious—
without a need for any further proof—
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