POETRY:

from PARADISE LOST - John Milton

From Book 1:


Of man s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into our world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb or Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of chaos , or if Sion Hill
Delight the more, and Siloas brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invokethy aid to my adventurous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
And chiefly thou, Oh spirit that does prefer
Before all the temples upright and pure,
Instruct me, for thou knowest; thou from the first
Wast present, andwith mighty wings outspread
Dove like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss
And mad'st pregnant: what in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth ot this great arguement
I may assert eternal providence
And justify the ways of God to men.

Completion of first 26 lines. To be continued. . . . . . .



JUNG .. ..Dreams. Titles of Pictures contd.

The mystic vessel where the two natures unite (sol and luna, caduceus) to produce the filius hermaphroditus, Hermes Psychopompos, flanked by the six gods of the planets.- Figurarum Aegyptiorum secretarum". MS 18th Cent.

The activities precided over by Mercurius. Tubingen MS. c 1400.

The fountain of life as fons mercurialis- Rosarium philosophorum (1550).

The Virgin Mary surrounded by her attributes, the quadrangular enclosed garden, the round temple, tower, gate, well and fountain, palms, and cypresses (trees of life), all feminine symbols- 17th Century devotional picture.

Life-renewing influence of the conjoined sun and moon on the bath.-Milan, Biblioteca. Ambrosiana, Codex 1.

Capture ot the Leviathin with the sevenfold tackle of the line of David, with the crucifix as bait.- Herrad of Landsberg's Hortus deliciarum (12th Cent.).

Seven-petalled rose as allegory of the seven planets, the seven stages of transformation, etc. - Fludd, Summum bonum (1629), frontis piece.

The red and white rose, the "golden flower" of alchemy as birth place of the filius philosophorum.- "Ripley Scrowle" (MS, 1588)

The symbolic city as centre of the earth, its four protecting walls laid out in a square; s typical temenos.-Maier, Viatorium.

Coniunctio solis et lunae.-Trismosin, "Splendor solis"

Poliphilio surrounded by nymphs- Beroalde de Verville, Le Songe de Poliphile.

The nigredo standing on the rotundum, ie sol niger.-Mylius, Philosophia reformata.

A medieval version of "the wild man".- Codex Urbans Latinus 899.

The devil as aeril spirit and ungodly intellect.- Illustration by Eugene Delacroix (1799-1863) for Faust, Part 1.

Mercurius as virgo standing on the gold (sol) and silver (luna) fountain with the dragon as her son.- Thomas Aquinas (psed.) "De alchimia. MS 16th century.

To be contd. . . . . .


*** .... Some USELESS INFORMATION;

SAVANT: Meaning to know from the word, sapient-having wisdom. Man of language or of science, especially one of eminence and distinction.

XERANSIS: Drying up, dessication.

XYLOGRAPHY: The art of wood carving.

XYLEM: Woody tissue forming part of vegetable body. Xylem vessels.


Signing of till later, Your Buddy, Blossom Bangle!

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