The Over-Soul

“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 LUX VITAE 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/ LUX VITAE