The path narrows, the way becomes fuzzy,
a descent into the maybelogic of the psyche.
"A Vision,"1 symbolic poetry and the occult and signs,
the language of the unseen entity.
"An পৌঁc ar buile,"2 the rough beast stirs coffee,
awakened from its slumber, a force of nature unleashed like tiktok.
The Great Wheel turns,3 twenty-eight phases of the moon,
light and shadow, creation and destruction.
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"As above, so below,"4
the Emerald Tablet lore,5 swallowed in front of the mirror in the stars up the stairs.
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"The Renaissance Legacy
is a single form
of চেতনা (chetona - Bengali for consciousness), space
and causality.
The 'individual' from thence
is built
on this fragmented basis."6
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The קבלה (Kabbalah),7 Tree of Life, ten sefirot, twenty-two paths,
a map to rivers source.
The Fool, card zero, steps into voidsly,
who can beat goliath, why choose an average mean?
On his shoulder a staff with an ouroboros,
and a bag with a drum, symbols on cymbals,
what hidden hand guides the path, whose voice in the code, Scarlet?
Is the global "tannoy," loud enough, or too loud over the banners?
^1 "A Vision": Yeats's complex work exploring his personal esoteric system, based on automatic writing and occult studies. W. B. Yeats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vision
^2 "an পৌঁc ar buile": Irish for "the stroke of madness"; from Yeats's poem "The Nineteenth Century and After".
^3 "The Great Wheel": A symbolic diagram used by Yeats to represent the cyclical nature of history and personality.
^4 "As above, so below": A fundamental principle of Hermetic philosophy, suggesting that the microcosm (humanity) reflects the macrocosm (the universe). Hermeticism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism
^5 Emerald Tablet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
^6 "The Renaissance Legacy is a single form of space and causality. The 'individual' from thence is built on this fragmented basis.": Marshall McLuhan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
^7 "Kabbalah": A system of Jewish mysticism that explores the nature of God, the universe, and humanity's relationship to the divine. Kabbalah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah