TURNING and turning
in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of i{Spiritus Mundi}
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
by William Butler Yeats
And what does Gilgamesh learn? Before the end that awaits
each of us -- "a man's life is snapped off like a reed in a
canebrake" -- we should perform good deeds, love our families
and enjoy simple pleasures. As Uta-napishtim says, in Andrew
George's translation:
But you, Gilgamesh, let your belly be
full, Enjoy yourself always by day and by night!
Make merry each day,
Dance and play day and night!
Let your clothes be clean,
Let your head be washed, may you bathe in water!
Gaze on the child who holds your hand,
Let your wife enjoy your repeated embrace!
For such is the destiny [of mortal men].
We are extremely pleased to announce that on the
Summer Solstice, June 2007, due to the Sacred Rose chapter 5, we
have Lovingly received the Blessings for the "Celtic Cross" Sun
medicine from Grandfather Martin Gashweseoma, most Traditional
Eldest Elder of the Fire Clan Council, Hopi Sovereign Nation,
third Mesa, Hotevilla, Northern Arizona.
By the 21st December 2007, we will reveal the Blessing from
Grandfather Martin and the Fire Clan members...
They bring to us the "Omega StarSeed" from the Great Tree of
Peace and the 5th Sun of Flowers, to plant within our Hearts,
they ask us to rem ember to breath and re-kindle the Rainbow
Flame within us.
ln the past they have informed us that "the Great River is
rising" and have guided us to board the "Spiritual Ark" ~
Today they ask us to "Dream Big!" as that "Time is Now!"
"Do not go where the
path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail."
"All I
have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not
seen."
---R.W.Emerson
