Mirror! & Misc.

[Glenn Scheper]

But in 1310 the Inquisitor, for want of direct testimony, extracted a list of 
articles from Marguerite's book and presented them for examination to twenty-one 
theological regents of the University of Paris, who unanimously declared the 
articles to be heretical. 'Mirror of Simple Souls' taught that a soul 
annihilated in the love of the Creator could, and should, grant to nature all 
that it desires. It invokes the realms of enlightenment, outstripping the 
Christian orthodox view, as the higher levels of illumination are reached with 
an autonomous realization of God-nature or Christ-nature that we are God's sons 
like Christ without distinction. The Mirror was very popular throughout Europe 
and was translated into many European languages and had a vigorous life in 
England. The Free Spirit movement sanctified the sexual act of intercourse as 
'Christerie'.
  -- http://www.dhushara.com/paradoxhtm/jealous.htm
  Sexual Paradox: The Jealous God

Marguerite ultimately says that the Soul must give up Reason, whose logical, 
conventional grasp of reality cannot fully comprehend God and the presence of 
Divine Love. The "Annihilated Soul" is one that has given up everything but God 
through Love.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Porete
  Marguerite Porete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

O deepest spring and fountain sealed, Where the sun is subtly hidden, You send 
your rays, says Truth, through divine k nowledge; We know it through true Wisdom 
[Note: Sophia and Shekina are both feminine forms}: Her splendor makes us 
completely luminous.
  -- http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/porete8.htm
  Porete8

The ambiguity of the text begins with the ambivalence in the title, The Mirror 
of Simple Souls. The "Mirror" can be a smooth surface that reflects the images 
of objects, but can also suggest self-reflection and self-knowledge. However, 
mirrors can also be the illusion of reality, and represent vanity and self-love, 
commonly from the myth of Narcissus, who unknowingly fell in love with his own 
reflection (Hollywood, 87). However, it is probably more likely that 
Marguerite's use of the word "mirror" is to teach the process by which the soul 
is clarified (as images in mirrors are), "therefore becoming a mirror without 
blemish or obscurity" (88).
  -- http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/simplesouls/essay1.html
  GradeSaver: The Mirror of Simple Souls Essay: The Mirror of Simple Souls: Marguerite Porete's Voice and Use of Gender


	Interesting take: I.e., You either already knew, or you don't.

I have been blessed by Marguerite. Her words will resonate with you or not. It 
is unlikely that you will learn anything from her.
  -- http://www.margueriteporette.org/index.htm
  Marguerite Porete - The Mirror of Simple Souls


	Love spells (for Robin)

Hathor's dimension of love extends beyond sexuality to foster the affection of 
the heart by which two young people come together:

"I send a prayer to my goddess (Hathor) That she may give me the present of my 
sister (my love)".

"O Golden One, let it be in her heart, Then I shall hasten to the brother (loved 
one) and I shall kiss him in the presence of his comrades Brother, O I am among 
the women destined for you by the Goddess".

The Golden One has destined her for you, O my friend. I prayed for her and she 
heard my prayer. She destined my mistress for me. And she came of her own will 
to see me. How tremendous is that which overcame me. I rejoice, I exhault, I am 
very proud, since the moment when it was said : "See here she is".
  -- http://www.askcache.com/webcp?q=thoth&t=thoth&r=thoth&cache=00*2jk79gxzfoqk6&qlang=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dhushara.com%2Fbook%2Forsin%2Forigsin2.htm&page=11&o=0&l=dir&ws=1&ax=1
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	Again, this is my AF tryst, and seeing the Thoth vision (So it's Him!):

We can see extensions of this idea in the following two passages, firstly in 
Thomas again trampling the garments of shame in returning to the child-like 
state: "When will you become revealed to us and when shall we see you?" Jesus 
said, "When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your garments and 
place them under your feet like little children and tread on them, then [will 
you see] the son of the living one, and you will not be afraid"
  -- http://www.dhushara.com/paradoxhtm/jealous.htm
  Sexual Paradox: The Jealous God


	Dark (=division) and Light (=annihilation).
	This was His AF tryst (but He came?)

He is implicated in the hieros gamos with Salome in the Gospel of Thomas 
(Robinson): "Jesus said, 'Two will rest on a bed: the one will die, and the 
other will live.' Salome said, 'Who are you, man, that you ... have come up on 
my couch and eaten from my table?' Jesus said to her, 'I am he who exists from 
the undivided'. ... 'Therefore I say, if he is destroyed he will be filled with 
light, but if he is divided, he will be filled with darkness'." (61) This 
suggests he is claiming to speak from the 'whole' condition before Adam and Eve 
became twain,
  -- http://www.dhushara.com/paradoxhtm/jealous.htm
  Sexual Paradox: The Jealous God

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	Surfing Hilda Doolittle ! Bisexual but melancholic, surely an AC.

All of her poetry up to the end of the 1930s was written in an Imagist mode, 
with a spare use of language, a rhetorical structure based on analogy rather 
than simile, metaphor or symbolism and a classical purity of surface that can 
often mask an underlying dramatic energy.
  -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.D.
  H.D. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

H.D.'s work should always be grounded in its historical period. H.D.'s imagist 
verse was written in the exhilarating prewar world of the avant-garde and then 
during the devastating Great War.
  -- http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/doolittl.html
  H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961)

Her life is a means of seeing Aesthetic Realism's greatness in explaining 
something not understood elsewhere, something still looked at in a barbaric 
fashion: the relation between art and mental difficulty or depression.
  -- http://www.aestheticrealism.net/tro/Tro1316.htm
  The Sanity of Poetry; or, H.D.

	Gotta laf!

Freud, H.D. says, told her she wrote about the sea because she was "stuck" in a 
pre-Oedipal stage and wanted to go "back to the womb." He also told her she had 
"penis envy" and wrote because "book means penis" (Robinson, pp. 279-81).
  -- http://www.aestheticrealism.net/tro/Tro1316.htm
  The Sanity of Poetry; or, H.D.

Son premier accès hallucinatoire, de brève durée, semble remonter à l'âge de 18 
ans : elle voit une pierre fendue en deux, portant d'un côté un serpent (qu'elle 
rapprochera ultérieurement d'Asclépios, le Dieu guérisseur), et de l'autre une 
fleur de chardon. Elle en découvrira l'équivalent sur un blason, dans un musée.
  -- http://www.cairn.info/article_p.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFP_654_1291
  Formes motrices et figures hallucinatoires

	goog xlat:
His first hallucinatory access, short-term, seems to go back to the age of 18 
Years: she sees a rock split in two, on one side a snake (it 
Subsequent closer to Asklepios, the god healer), and the other one 
Chardon flower. She discovered the equivalent of a coat of arms, in a museum.


Mais quelles sont ses visions ? Une tête casquée de profil, qui peut évoquer la 
déesse Athéna, ou son aviateur de frère, peut-être une négation de la mort. Un 
calice, dont l'interprétation mystique est tentante, mais qu'il faut 
probablement relier à ses menaces d'avortement. Deux ronds superposés formant le 
trépied d'une lampe à alcool pour le thé, à moins que ce ne soit le trépied de 
la Prêtresse-oracle de Delphes. Surtout, la vision la plus importante est celle 
d'une échelle qui monte vers Elle, la Princesse, Nikê, figuration athénienne de 
la Victoire (avatar d'Athéna).
  -- http://www.cairn.info/article_p.php?ID_ARTICLE=RFP_654_1291
  Formes motrices et figures hallucinatoires

	xlat:
But what are his visions? A helmeted head in profile, which can raise the 
Goddess Athena, airman or his brother, perhaps a denial of death. A 
Calyx, whose mystical interpretation is tempting, but it takes 
Probably linked to his threats to abortion. Two rounds forming the superimposed 
Tripod of a spirit lamp for tea, unless this is the tripod of 
Priestess-the oracle of Delphi. Above all, the vision is the most important one 
A scale that goes up to her, Princess, Nike, figuration Athenian 
Victory (avatar of Athena).


So I'm working on the referents of earth, sea, moon, sun:
Without a doubt, sea is introjected mar, the vagina and womb.
Earth and sea are one enitity: Earth must be up higher, face, breasts.
Despite some taking paradise as womb, I see heavenly as male by contrast.
So if He has His "contenance as the sun", the moon must be His penis!

Gee, I better get back to reading OBA's book.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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