Spells to be dissolved - new vows taken….
Diaspora and Syspora—
calling in all the Jupiter Uranus, liberating blessings of all traditions in all Flora Fauna Fungi
Realms...
Sean adds:
Shakespeare Twelth Night quotes:
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere.
(Feste, Act 3 Scene 1)
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
(Fabian, Act 3 Scene 4)
James Joyce:
"By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of
gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments."
"This is the moment which I call epiphany. First we recognise that the object is one integral thing, then we recognise that it is an organised composite structure, a
thing in fact: finally, when the relation of the parts is exquisite, when the parts are adjusted to the special point, we recognise that it is that thing which it is. The soul of the commonest object seems to us radiant. The object achieves its epiphany. "
both from the unpublished novel Stephen Hero
"the tradition of genuine
warm-hearted courteous Irish hospitality, which our forefathers have handed down to us and which we must hand down to our descendants, is still alive among us.”
― James Joyce, The Dead set on January 6
and of course Joseph Campbell:
Indeed, the first and most
essential service of a mythology is this one, of opening the mind and heart to the utter wonder of all being.
And the second service, then, is cosmological: of representing the universe and whole spectacle of nature, both as known to the mind and as beheld by the eye, as an epiphany of such kind that when lightning flashes, or a setting sun ignites the sky, or a deer is seen standing alerted, the exclamation “Ah!”
may be uttered as a recognition of divinity…
For it is the artist who brings the images of a mythology to manifestation, and without images (whether mental or visual) there is no mythology.
