Thank you again Farasha. Another great piece. I am almost finished your book: The Machine Will Never Triumph. And when I am done, I will read it again. No words can capture the depth of your wise commentary and personal thoughts. It is brilliant.
Great to see you on these pages again Farasha. May God's blessings shine down upon you.
Your words bring comfort and strength to me. I live in Australia now, a beautiful yet intensely practical and quite materially-minded country. I've had some real crises of self-worth of late, struggling often as I do with many things that people here find so simple and essential, e.g. driving, home improvements, etc
That said, I don't think we should surrender the public square to the machine - to Satan. That would be to vacate the field for evil to run rampant. It'd be the practical application of despair - the sin against the Holy Ghost. If we retreat into our own interior castles, isn't that just another form of privatisation? We have to always believe in the possibility, indeed inevitability, of transformation, both individual and collective. God and the gods are public truths and realities or they're nothing. That's my take.
What a joy to read Edwin Muir again! What a prophet and sage he was! Are you familiar with the poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001)? A beautifully sensitive soul who wrote some of the deepest and most insightful verse of our age.
Kathleen Raine wrote a foreword to his Collected Journals, and she says somewhere in it that though his WW2 record was slight (he was an actor in variety shows for soldiers) he was in truth one of the great spiritual warriors of all time, a lightning rod for the great War in Heaven that goes on beyond our perception.
Beyond the perception of most of us anyway. The poets are a different breed.
Thank you. May you be graced by the Light of God as well.
I grew up in America, so I am rather familiar with a mindset similar to that of the Australians. I never found value in the simple country people because they were so deluded in terms of ideology, but if there ever will be a change, it is just those people who could form the backbone of a new world. I find lately that if talked to in the right way, these people are open to my criticisms of modernity. On the other hand, I found very little enthusiasm in Southern Europe (where I was living for some time). I never met a people less interested in these matters, and more willing to throw themselves face first into the Machine than the Italians.
Of course, you are right about transformation, but it needs to happen in the right way, organically. First I need to experience a spiritual transformation myself, then it can move to my family, then my community. It should stop there. Millions of transformed communities would be great, but any kind of top down imposed change is just another form of the satanic Machine. I think reference to the parable of the mustard seed is apt here: if even a small grain of truth is imparted to even one person it can cause a nuclear chain reaction that lights up their soul and burns down all the dross that has been imposed on the self.
Yes, I am very familiar with Gascoyne. I never cared for his poems until I read his complete poems, since most of the selected editions focus on his inferior early surrealist phase. His late poems are something I keep coming back to. Are you familiar with the work of the poet/churchman Andrew Young? He wrote luminous nature verse with a kind of haiku quality, but his two late, long poems on the afterlife are resplendent.
It has been good to hear from you. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Farasha. Yes, that's true, Gascoyne's surrealist poems are certainly over-represented in collections of his work. No, I'm not familiar with Andrew Young. I'll seek him out 👍
The Machine will steamroll everything in its path no matter who is President. On this issue, Republicans and Democrats are the same. Even the Green party would be the same. This is why Simone Weil called for the abolition of all political parties.
Thank you again Farasha. Another great piece. I am almost finished your book: The Machine Will Never Triumph. And when I am done, I will read it again. No words can capture the depth of your wise commentary and personal thoughts. It is brilliant.
Thank you!
Great to see you on these pages again Farasha. May God's blessings shine down upon you.
Your words bring comfort and strength to me. I live in Australia now, a beautiful yet intensely practical and quite materially-minded country. I've had some real crises of self-worth of late, struggling often as I do with many things that people here find so simple and essential, e.g. driving, home improvements, etc
That said, I don't think we should surrender the public square to the machine - to Satan. That would be to vacate the field for evil to run rampant. It'd be the practical application of despair - the sin against the Holy Ghost. If we retreat into our own interior castles, isn't that just another form of privatisation? We have to always believe in the possibility, indeed inevitability, of transformation, both individual and collective. God and the gods are public truths and realities or they're nothing. That's my take.
What a joy to read Edwin Muir again! What a prophet and sage he was! Are you familiar with the poet David Gascoyne (1916-2001)? A beautifully sensitive soul who wrote some of the deepest and most insightful verse of our age.
Kathleen Raine wrote a foreword to his Collected Journals, and she says somewhere in it that though his WW2 record was slight (he was an actor in variety shows for soldiers) he was in truth one of the great spiritual warriors of all time, a lightning rod for the great War in Heaven that goes on beyond our perception.
Beyond the perception of most of us anyway. The poets are a different breed.
Thank you. May you be graced by the Light of God as well.
I grew up in America, so I am rather familiar with a mindset similar to that of the Australians. I never found value in the simple country people because they were so deluded in terms of ideology, but if there ever will be a change, it is just those people who could form the backbone of a new world. I find lately that if talked to in the right way, these people are open to my criticisms of modernity. On the other hand, I found very little enthusiasm in Southern Europe (where I was living for some time). I never met a people less interested in these matters, and more willing to throw themselves face first into the Machine than the Italians.
Of course, you are right about transformation, but it needs to happen in the right way, organically. First I need to experience a spiritual transformation myself, then it can move to my family, then my community. It should stop there. Millions of transformed communities would be great, but any kind of top down imposed change is just another form of the satanic Machine. I think reference to the parable of the mustard seed is apt here: if even a small grain of truth is imparted to even one person it can cause a nuclear chain reaction that lights up their soul and burns down all the dross that has been imposed on the self.
Yes, I am very familiar with Gascoyne. I never cared for his poems until I read his complete poems, since most of the selected editions focus on his inferior early surrealist phase. His late poems are something I keep coming back to. Are you familiar with the work of the poet/churchman Andrew Young? He wrote luminous nature verse with a kind of haiku quality, but his two late, long poems on the afterlife are resplendent.
It has been good to hear from you. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Farasha. Yes, that's true, Gascoyne's surrealist poems are certainly over-represented in collections of his work. No, I'm not familiar with Andrew Young. I'll seek him out 👍
The machine will be turgo-charged on steroids after January 20th when the Tangerine Tyrant is installed as the US President - guaranteed!
The Machine will steamroll everything in its path no matter who is President. On this issue, Republicans and Democrats are the same. Even the Green party would be the same. This is why Simone Weil called for the abolition of all political parties.