I have never written so little.
Unusual.
Playing guitar a little each evening.
Slow murder of two beautiful tunes belonging to the Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan:
Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill
Si Bheag Si Mhor
Also learning the Kesh Jig on Anglo concertina.
Interesting exercise. Traditional tunes, not just ITM, tend to trip me up. It's the subtle variation in the melody line between the different Parts. It really stretches my memory. Often I end up mixing lines of one part into the line of another. Intend later this year to learn an old favourite Geese in the Bog/Jig of Slurs and that rather sweet Northumbrian tune Salmon Tails Up The Water.
I crashed Calvin into a wall. I wouldn't dismiss him. He has a place. Just not for me now. The gist of his message has already arrived.
I am sat next to Thucydides and may commence reading his work tonight. It will be the second reading.
I'm reviewing how I approach Work. Something tells me to play fast and loose. Non committal. Free moving, without anchor. Just working at the core: self-remembering.
The old metaphors have been washed away.
Even yesterday thinking of the idea of ploughing.
What?
Ploughing destroys the earth to dust. Ironic given that the invention of the plough would feed so many ... for a time. And though my gardening enterprises are much reduced these days, I'm wholly an advocate of no-dig techniques.
It's just that.
Time rolls along. Ages pass into the future.
The enemy has always favoured surprise attacks.
Slippy fish, wriggly worm.
4 comments:
We probably should state a doctrine to remember it having to do with the profit there is in reading a great influence more than once.
We do it automatically with certain works (the Bible, Homer), but not with others.
Second readings are more profitable and sometimes more difficult. At least the novelty of first encounters is passed. Once you have your hands on a solid influence like Homer, Thucydides or even some less recognized work, it has to be profitable. We are too easily lured by the next attraction when often it isn't needed. There's so much that is missed on a first reading and so much waiting to be gained. Or look at this. I read Thucydides and later Herodotus and after that Homer and Aescylus. There is a lot in Thucydides that sets him, if not in opposition at least in a contrary position to Herodotus. He even has interesting things to say about Homer. I wouldn't have known that several years ago. Thucydides saw an absence of divine intervention in human affairs. Like much of what he writes, that seems awefully modern and interesting because I sense a differential despite the apparant common between him and, for example, a contemporary athiest.
I've been talking about Ouspensky's New Model of the Universe lately, in the context of a re-reading, but in its case I can sort of see how I got as much from it as I could the first time around. I think compared to the main Work sources New Model is not alive. On recurrence, for instance, the 16th chapter of Fourth Way gives higher impressions than the discussion in New Model.
New Model is definitely interesting to skim or consult if you are getting a complete take on some Work idea.
The one to re-read in this case if the Fourth Way, it goes without saying.
I'll never leave Jesus Christ. Murray made a statement in that video on 1 Cor. I mentioned in an email where God takes care of his own. If someone messes with one of His He deals with it in time. I've experienced that. I've experienced how prayer can be effective relative to different things. I am in the Kingdom. Jesus Christ is my King. I also understand and hold to orthodox doctrine as the apostolic and Reformation times - schools - taught it. I see it and value it.
What the trap is once you get all that is to get caught in the level of the obvious sleeping, village of morality fools of the churches. Not to put them down. We are all where we are. They are a general law force though.
These other influences are for real Christians. These other influences we speak of.
Music at its highest levels, getting understanding of it, hearing it all, this trains one to not be lured by it when sirens use it or something similar. The music isn't bad, how its used can be. In the spiritual realms if you've already heard all great music and you have exhausted it and you know its limit you are armoured against that particular weapon that can be used against you.
Just a twist on that activity with all the higher music.
An example of new thinking, seeing new things, seeing into the higher world.
The hidden ones. The Keltoi. A universal term. Tall and blond, or short and dark. Hidden from the apprehension of the world.
Seeing the spiritual realms, using different languages, higher visual language, higher centers, it's all something that is snuffed out by the church level. They have their names: "Gnostic!" They police pretty heavily. You can get tainted with their policing pretty easily, even not realizing it.
Even when an orthodox theologian veers into such realms, instead of writing that theologian off they just pretend he didn't write the 'off the ranch' parts. Calvin, Kline, Jonathan Edwards are three that get treated like this. You know what I mean.
To sum things up, for where we are, humans, gods, goddesses of old, nymphs, centaurs, all, spiritual warfare is it. If the dark forces are still about, and if the holy mountain is still being fought over, and if the gathering to it has not been completed, then you are in a state of battle. Quest. Pilgrimage. Stranger. On the Way. In this world, not of this world.
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