This Poem I dedicate to all the girls I know, in particular G.Y who has always provided moral support to my blogging activities.
David I must also mention as our official bloggers' Bard
who triggered my efforts at " listening to the inner Voice ".
Of Passion and Action,
or, Vice and Virtue,
and
of Ludwige and Luthien
norwegian twinned nymphs.
Of Passions and Actions which Motion inform
I shall here sing oh divine Muses,
Muses not Muse since mighty the task is
of all celestial deities and nymphs terrestrial
the approval and smile requiring.
Of Passions and Actions then,
of which,
in human and godly Deeds alike
wise Aristotle the stagirite
did measure the range and heights
defining these as Virtue
when from amidst their span,
in not exactly middling proportions
between the extremes,
which Passion and Action are
the Motions of which arise to those godly heights
that both Olympians and Hyperboreal
Artic and Antartic,
nordic and australic
godly abodes are.
Abodes of those whom Sir Laurence Gardner’s Anunnaki calls,
who mightily inhabit such heights
to which, from our Beings
Motions they cause continuously to ascend
as the reaction to the Motions by which
the gods keep on
either blessing or harassing us,
and that they cause descendingly
and condescendingly to reach us,
in order to laboriously amuse the One Who,
Alone,
Unity is also called and Jehovah,
Whose boredom they relieve
to avoid a return to the eternal and
a-sensual bliss
in which mortals and Creation alike
are just that a-sensual Nihilo,
that Nothingness, that Void
in which God,
IT( He/She)Who is,
is but an invisible, self-subsisting,
etc. etc. etc.
Dot.
Vast as the subject and the mystery of it all is,
I shall it analogically to you virtually esplain
oh dear cottonwhool-brained fellows of mine,
although always partially and in an incomplete fashion,
since of the gods to us the similarity
is not given to fully expose, to us
who are to earth bound and find it hard to rise
to the ethereal and thought-thinning heights,
where it all can, always analogically and as if through a veil,
in a human fashion clear become.
I shall then call upon this task to accomplish,
Ludwige and Luthien, sisters, nymphs to my aid
who semi-divinely reside and courtly rule
in those hyperboreal arctic heights
which to the mighty grecian Olympus are twinned,
sisters who aptly can represent to us poor mortals,
Action and Passion in an erotically-amorous paradigmatic fashion
which more accessible is to our lusty and carnal attractions,
however intended by the Almighty
to be perfectible and meant to rise,
levitated as we supposedly are when sublimated
through the ordeals that Scarcity, Entropy and Necessity
through the Motions, purifyingly placed on our earthly paths,
in order for these Motions, Virtues to become
through practice and use.
I said analogically, meaning partially and imperfectly
since it is not fit and just to exactly aim
at a knowledge of things which
while gross and objectionable in us mortals
yet still divine and endearing are
when suffered and annunakely-wise performed.
Remember in fact oh cottonwhool-brained mortals
that in this song the judgment is from them
and not from us directed,
not relatively to our perfectibility
but to their hyperboreal and olympic loftiness that is perfect.
And this is the stage at which Charity or Agape'
make their presence felt as absolute peaks
that cannot extremes conceed.
My joy bounds does not know, ecstatic becoming and mystic
when upon the sisters I finally can call,
having exhausted the unsavory and hard task
of clearing the way to them
that cottonwhooled human brains
must trod in order to their heights to rise.
Remember oh reader of mine, that the issue is not simple,
but paradoxical indeed-:
Although to Eros, so popular with us,
the unavoidable first rung belongs
on the ladder of analogical realities
that finally reaches even upo to God
from God down to us, Agape' flows,
Eros to redeem and lift, and this Grace is called.
To human poles of Passion and Action
on the earthly line
there also correspond ones which are semi-divine on high,
and these are the ones which cause the rise on high
along the middling term between both extremes
in accord to another of the absolutes
like Agape' above, that Justice is called.
Ludwige and Luthien, sisters, nymphs semi-divine,
are semi-divine Poles
who so differ in loftiness
from poles of the same and one Motion,
which sublimated must be,
human and mortal ceasing to be,
by the subterfuge of humans rising out
of the level, low line
that both of these connects at
of human knowledge's horizon's the circle,
humans enslaving down-to-earth to their humanity that is born mortal,
however paradoxically also immortal
if the soul is the portal that to the divine aspires.
The moving Force that from the middling part of such a line
such feat encompasses of human motion rising divinely,
powered through its lofty Poles,
those below and above alike,
in a conspiracy allied,
by the Almighty Divine,
Virtue by Aristotle is called,
and is a link between Ludwige, Luthien and I,
in a blessed triangle that is semi-divine,
which all who strive and graced are, similarly entwines,
so that by rising they might fulfill that destiny
that to humanity was since the Beginning potentially assigned,
to become through Faith, Hope and Charity,
virtuous Motion and Act.
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I shall now endeavour to tell imperfectly
and sportingly for some glee to realize
of Ludwige and Luthien the arcane semblances,
so that you also oh cottonwhool-brained mortals
may recognise them when your turn may come
to rise even such as I may,
when so graced,
blissfully do.
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Ludwige is Nibelungian and a Walkiria,
of Wagner’s and Goethe’s the filia,
of rotundities full,
both of the concave and convex sorts,
abundanttly endowed
such that even a constipated, anorexic little greek geometrician,
who deprived of epic motions
by its elocutions and bickerings,
in the Agora’ continuously measuring and arguing
of abstract theorems,
artificially complicating everything and
insisting in only using letters instead of numbers
until the arrival of Mohammed
who blessed by the Moors is called,
who such nonsense exorcised.
The Greek only an unmarked ruler and a compass
to draw the geometrical figures allowed,
in order to demonstrate of Euclide’s, the master,
the divine but wasted brightness.
Even such a geometrician of common sense so deprived
could appreciate of Ludwige's
the osculating and aloft-rising potentialities,
which extended from the line’s and proportionalities’ the science
to the one of the circle and its circularities and irregularities,
even becoming tri-dimensional,
from conic sections giving rise
to parabolic, hyperbolic and ellypsoidic notions
with their asymptotic motions
which gave rise to trigonometry with all its sexual notions,
which the astronomers inspired revolutions various to observe
of the celestial bodies which also began to have Motions
whereas before had possessed
centrality, impassivity, staticity and eternity.
Which notions provided the spring
to Descartes, Leibnitz and Newton, etc.
to ponder and weigh the infinitesimally small,
that calculus became called,
that opened the way to the invisible motions
of the elementary particles
among which God ITSELf
used to hide and rest sometime,
awakened by the rude, petulant, arrogant
Shabbath-chanting
of the confounded, self-deluded, self-chosen
all-others excluding Abirus,
the Prophets destroying
trouble-arousing masters.
Philosophy in turn further seduced was
which thus left Theology behind,
who the Queen of Science had been called
without her maid to be served by.
However one must gratefully assent to the truth that
before the maid seduced was,
thanks to Aristotle’s distinctions between Potentiality and Act,
common sense had already begun to awake
in greek theoretical semi-platonic minds,
which the Ideas believed to be living celestial realities,
which through knowledge alone could humanity of Virtue instruct,
rather than to ascend to the possibility that a human could only be able to do so
through Grace, experience and praxis,
that knowledge should inform rationally,discriminatingly and judgementally, until willingly
right Motion could become Virtue in right Act.
In fact, analogically speaking of her as Passion,
that at its human extreme even Vice could be,
in dear, opulently-built Ludwige,
all this had paradoxically a beginning had.
( to be continued )
E poi,