And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs -
Because Sophia over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
~with apologies to Gerard Manley Hopkins
And, so, although I have lived here, on this bit of Earth, lived here Summer drought and Winter blizzard, lived here ordinary day and ecstatic night, lived here in sickness and in health, lived here, slept here, planted here, eaten here, done magic here -- solitary and with Sisters -- for nigh on a decade, and, so, and, yet, on the Winter Solstice the lovely land that owns me had a lot to show me.
The thing about mystical experiences is that -- although "I only am escaped to tell thee," -- mystical experiences cannot be told. This is why the Charge of the Goddess says: "And you who seek to know Me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery: for if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without. For behold, I have been with you from the beginning, and I am That which is attained at the end of desire."
And, yet, knowing, as I start, that, at the finish, this thing cannot be told, I will try to tell it.
Every tiny plot of Earth is crammed -- crammed, I tell you, crammed -- crammed and jammed and overfilled and flowing over with Goddesses and Gods and Genius Locii and Fae and Spirits and Beings and Living Rocks and the Bright! Alive! RNA and DNA and Mitochondria of the Worms and Chipmunks who grace this place and every tiny plot of Earth is full to the brim of Consciousness in every form of incarnation and those things that de Chardin hardly dared intimate and, oh, poetry. And there is mystery and easy ecstasy in the skies and the turning of planets makes music in the spheres and as above so below and, well. And, the entire Earth is crammed with divine poetry and music and what I imagine mathematics must be for those, like G/Son, who think in such terms and, well, also, "Everything," our speaker is reduced to noting, "is Alive -- EVERYTHING." . . . .
I was right. You can not tell it.
But you can know it. And my wish for you on this day when the Light begins to return is for you to know it deep inside your cells. And to live in the truth of that knowing.
What would change immediately for you?
Io! Evoe!
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2 comments:
When I was a kid my grandfather, who was a geologist, explained to me on Dec, 21 what the Winter Solstice was. And he told me that every day after that day would be one minute longer until the spring equinox. I thought that was really cool, the idea that the days would be one minute longer even though it might still the dead of winter. It seemed incredible.
So I told my friends and they DIDN'T BELIEVE ME! Like, "YOU LIE!"-style didn't believe me. They thought I made it up. I was practically in tears because I couldn't prove it, being just a kid and all.
I always think of that on the Winter Solstice. I think there's a metaphor in there somewhere about those who choose to be en"light"ened and those who choose to remain ignorant.
You explained it very well. Once you can feel it and connect to it, you understand it.
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