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
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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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