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“Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. 
The most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable 
may not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every moment 
to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.” 
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, First Series (1841), “The Over-Soul”)


“But souls that of his own good life partake,
He loves as his own self; dear as his eye
They are to him, He’ll never them forsake:
When they shall die, the God himself shall die;
They live, they live in blest eternity.”
(Thomas More, 1614-1687)







“The Over-Soul” 

I found my God in poets.
They speak to me of lofty
things, such as, 

“The Supreme Critic 
on the errors of the 
past and present
and the only prophet
of that which must be,

is that great nature
in which we rest
as the earth 
lies in the soft arms
of the atmosphere”

burnt offerings
my body
I put before thee,
ash grey powder
for anointing
what reclines
behind other 
foreheads

where words 
become alters 
and truth lies 
upon the speaking 
instrument, a heart, 
like a holy wafer melts,
there for a short while,
then disappearing, but too late
it is dissolved into the very essence of me,
then, some other over-soul speaks,
knees bruised
palms outstretched
and tongue reaching 
for voice to be read 
and seen

I hear it echoing 
in the deep winding
dark caverns, the hollows
within me

genuflection 
holds its own 
warm perfection
for are we not,
it tells me,
the body electric,
a mirror reflection
of The Body Electric,
it passes to me 
the visceral exchange,
keep the chord
in the socket.

Thomas doubting,
questions More, 
the mystery
moves tarot cards 
across the table
holding territory 
favouring 
faith in belief;
it is not keeping 
score

the Over-Soul
waits for me to speak  ;  

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
gvlm
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Body Electric– Del Ray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vOdN-6LAT4



"There is a difference between one and another hour of life, 
in their authority and subsequent effect. 
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual. 

Yet there is a depth in those brief moments, 
which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them, 
than to all other experiences." 









Ralph Waldo Emerson / Essayist, Philosopher, Abolitionist, Poet. American 
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays - First Series (1841), “The Over-Soul”.
https://archive.vcu.edu/english/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/oversoul.html





Walt Whitman/ Poet. American 
Body Electric / Walt Whitman
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45472/i-sing-the-body-electric




Henry More, (1614-1687), British. Philosopher. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_More

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/henry-more/




Sir Thomas More, (1478 - 1535), British. 
Lawyer, Judge, Social Philosopher, Author, Statesman/Lord High Chancellor of England (Oct 1529 - May 1532); Author, "Utopia"; noted Renaissance Humanist. Executed. Venerated as Saint, Roman Catholic Church. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalm_51

Psalm 51
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+51-59&version=NIV;KJV

John 20:24-29
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+20%3A24-29&version=NIV;KJV




"Utopia" 

"Utopia" (Author: Sir Thomas More)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(book)

Ebook, "Utopia" (Author: Sir Thomas More), Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2130/2130-h/2130-h.htm



"An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man." 
Sir Thomas More






project semicolon;
https://projectsemicolon.com/


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