A Fraction, A Reflection

A Fraction, A Reflection
July 3, 2006

So I try to capture aspects about the Power and the Mystery. Certainly I am not as one who thinks we can only approach these aspects so faintly as to only describe them in a 'negative' way, what is NOT true of the Power and the Mystery. This comes from the cleavage monotheism makes between the human and the sacred. In that mindset, humans cannot ever approach the face of the 'Completely Other', as Benoist describes their view. No, that is not my path. Yet I grow frustrated. At best I capture small glimpses here and there. Yet I am grateful for those beautiful glimpses. In my recent poem, there are a few lines I really like:

...
Thus balance rights itself,
'the stars again come right',
(though they never really went away,
it was just our ancestors' vision that failed.)
They did not understand, first Power fails,
and then Vision clouds. One is foundation to all.
_His_ Power did not fail,
only that of those who do not honor him.
And if power fails, the eyes are dead, lifeless things.
For without the Essence, all men are walking dead.
They are walking dead, who trod under the command
of the deathmaker, the leveler.
The One of Power bids all rise to their own Nobility,
and seek such distinction as each can find,
know their own godhood, equal match to his calling.
With refined ear, comes refined vision.
...

But still my vision cannot capture 'the Totality.' At best, I get these glimpses. But they are beautiful glimpses, and so I will keep trying. I hold onto the glimpses, ever seeking more. Ir Shti Shta-tu! Reyn til Runa! (Seek the Mysteries!)
Ir Shti Shta-tu! - Egyptian phrasing
Reyn til Runa! - Germanic phrasing