YOUR SHARE

 

Attempt to always receive less than your share,

and give more than your share.

LOOKING BACK

July 2011

In 2011 Larry taught a short enrichment course in Blake at the Senior Learning Institute of the College of Central Florida. He concluded the course with this precis of Blake's Milton.

In the second half of his career Blake had largely dropped his preoccupation with the Old Testament God and in favor of the New Testament God. His first large prophetic poem, Milton begins with a famous poem called Jerusalem that latter became the theme song of the British Labor party; used to sing it as a hymn.

This material is autobiographical and written in the honeymoon phase of his new spiritual life. Blake's full meanings yields only to intensive study, but from the beginning there are thrilling lines to delight and inspire the reader. In his esoteric language Blake describes for us what has happened to him, and nothing could be more engrossing for the reader interested in the life of the spirit and in Blake. The relationship of this story to the myth described above should be obvious. But Milton is more real than the previous material because Blake has lived it and writes (and sketches) with spiritual senses enlarged and tuned by his recent experience of grace.

 

AUTOS

Chevy

 Datsun

    Puff, DLF, Trumpkin

Mitsubishu

    Pronto

Mercades

    Deisel  

Nissan  Minivan

    Grey Goose

Mazda 323

    ---

Honda Civic

    Red Car

Toyota Matrix

   White Lightning

Mazda 3 HB

    Snowflake 

 

________________

Paul's truck

THESEUS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

Fitzwilliam Museum

America

Preludium

I went to an organ concert with others from Arbor Acres. The concert was at Ardmore Baptist Church which was unfamiliar to me. When we were leaving the church Nancy saw a friend and left the group to speak to him. I waited for her at the door of the sanctuary while others went on to board the bus.

When we exited the building we did not see either the others in the group or the bus. We thought we saw the bus down some stairs a short distance away. Since Nancy wasn't comfortable with descending the stairs we cut through the parking lot which avoided the stairs. We passed a woman who was getting ready to get into her car. She accidentally dropped her glasses but didn't notice them lying at her foot. I alerted her to the fact that she was about to step on her glasses. She picked them up and commented that without them she would not have been able to get home. 

When we got a better look at the bus we were headed for, we realized that it was a church bus and not the Arbor Acres bus. We did not see our bus but walked through the parking lot in the direction that we thought it might be waiting. Fortunately we were headed in the right direction. The rest of the group had boarded the bus which was parked beside the street. With our arrival the group was complete and our short drive back to Arbor Acres was soon accomplished.

Before I wrote this I had been thinking of Theseus' and the labyrinth as symbolic of the difficulties of approaching the unconscious with its unknown and threatening content. 

My dream from a few weeks ago was about having lost my shoe on the way down a path on a rugged mountain. The depths to which I was headed was my unconscious and the shoe was the protection I needed along the way and to deal with what may be lurking there when I arrived. The dream alerted me to the journey I need to take and the necessity of having assistance along the way.

https://www.sunyatasatchitananda.com/shadow-work-minotaur-theseus/

 

SCULPTURE

Westminster Abby

by Jacob Epstein

1957

Madonna and Child

By Jacob Epstein

1953

Westminster Libraries

"Now owned by The Kings Fund, the Dean’s Mews buildings were formally occupied by the Convent of the Holy Child of Jesus. The sisters had previously occupied cramped accommodation near Marylebone High Street but, needing more space for their teaching activities, they moved here in 1889.

Bombed in the Second World War, the convent commissioned the architect Louis Osman to restore the damaged buildings and also to create the linking bridge across the mews. It was his idea to include a statute of the Madonna and Child “levitating” against the bridge’s façade; the statue to be cast from roofing lead acquired from the bombed building. Osman independently commissioned Jacob Epstein to design the cast for the statue which caused a further artistic controversy.

This was due to people questioning whether it was appropriate for a Jew (Epstein) to create a Christian image and there were also requested alterations to the statue’s faces."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Epstein

LIGHT/DARK

 The darkness cannot impinge upon the light.

Light illumines darkness.

Blake@Union

Jerusalem

Plate 41

 

DEATH

Blog Post: UNLESS I DIE

Charles Williams

"We live each other's death; we die each others life."

Christianity Today

The Region of the Summer Stars is one of two cycles of lyric poetry about King Arthur and the Round Table, and in one poem, “The Founding of the Company,” Williams succinctly explains the relation between community and love:

"The Company’s second mode bore farther
the labour and fruition; it exchanged the proper self
and wherever need was drew breath daily
in another’s place, according to the grace of the Spirit
‘dying each other’s life, living each other’s death’.
Terrible and lovely is the general substitution of Souls
the Flesh-taking ordained for its mortal images
in its first creation, and now in Its sublime self
shows, since It deigned to be dead in the stead of each man"

[Eerdmans, 1974, p. 156].