Laureate
"Laureate"
Laureate
speak now lofty phantom
to my mind
guide my hand
I write I write I write
receptor of communication
things that are not mortal
Luminiferous aether
sublime
not normal writ
medium calculating in the script
In that other time
there you hold me in your mind
spiritus mundi
consort I
with you
metaphoric in another world
I am in between
existing in this Other time
your messages received
Ectoplasm
Seraph wings
overseeing guides
Some think you mad
the invisible seen
through spectral mind
There I move your hand
smooth planchette
in your Vision time;
Here, you move
in mine.
Some think you mad.
Not I.
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
Music of Forgotten Temples and Abandoned Places
https://youtu.be/737dP6K6dd8
“How to Disappear Completely – Seraphim” (2017)
https://youtu.be/Lf099gm1Mz8
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity…”
W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
“On the afternoon of October 24th 1917, four days after my marriage, my wife surprised me by attempting automatic writing. What came in disjointed sentences, in almost illegible writing, was so exciting, sometimes so profound, that I persuaded her to give an hour or two day after day to the unknown writer, and after some half-dozen such hours offered to spend what remained of life explaining and piecing together those scattered sentences. ‘No,’ was the answer, ‘we have come to give you metaphors for poetry.’ “
Introduction to “A Vision” from ‘A Packet for Ezra Pound’ (1937)
Spiritus Mundi
“'Spiritus Mundi' was a term used by W.B. Yeats to describe the collective soul of the universe containing the memories of all time. From 'Spiritus Mundi,' Yeats believed, came all poets' inspiration. Spiritus Mundi is a Latin term that literally means “World spirit”. In Spiritus Mundi, there is, according to William Butler Yeats, “a universal memory and a ‘muse’ of sorts that provides inspiration to the poet or writer. To Yeats, Spiritus Mundi is the source of all ''images'' and ''symbols,'' a ''collective unconscious.''Spiritus Mundi” is difficult to understand.”
“W.B. Yeats married a woman, Georgie (or George) Hyde-Lees, who was thirty years his junior. George was interested in the occult and astrology. One day, in an effort to assure her husband that he had made the right choice in marrying her (he had proposed to two other women before George), she started doing what she called 'automatic writing.' She would sit in a trance and write, often as Yeats asked her questions. Both Yeats and Georgie believed that they were receiving communication from a superior spiritual source, or being. Out of these sessions came Yeats' philosophy of Spiritus Mundi, among other ideas which he published in his book ‘Visions’.”
William Butler Yeats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Club
Georgie Hyde-Lees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgie_Hyde-Lees
Automatic Writing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing
W. B. Yeats, George Hyde-Lees, and the Automatic Script
https://www.csun.edu/~hceng029/yeats/hedayatirad.html
Joan S Carberg, Preview
“A Vision” by William Butler Yeats
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024196?seq=1
“The Nobel Prize in Literature 1923
was awarded to William Butler Yeats
"for his always inspired poetry,
which in a highly artistic form
gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."
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