[New-Poetry] Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx
David Bircumshaw
david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com
Wed Aug 2 04:50:51 EDT 2006
Richard
this is fascinating stuff, but, for a start:
>Yeats was also a founder of the Order of The Golden Dawn<
no he wasn't! He joined it when it was already up and going.
Get back to you further.
Take care
Dave
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:12 PM
Subject: [New-Poetry] Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: New-Poetry Digest, Vol 25, Issue 28
> From: elemenope at icubed.com
> Date: Mon, July 31, 2006 3:10 pm
> To:
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>
> Dave,
>
> Yeats was also a founder of the Order of The Golden Dawn, an esoteric
> organization that intended to inject into the flow of intellectual culture
> a renewal of occult philosophy and techne. Yeats was not only a very
> competent horary and natal astrologer, he rose to a level of esoteric and
> mundane capability equalled by very few in the field. The occult system
> of transmigration and fate, human, personal and planetary history, isn't
> found in quite the same way anywhere else. In contemporary astrology, the
> names of Nicholas Campion, Bill Meridian, Alan Oken and Michael O'Reilly
> sort of cover the same area, but all of them would agree that Yeats'
> system stands alone. That it might very well be a transmission by Michael
> Robartes from The Other Side, as Yeats asserted, should not be, I believe,
> gainsaid.
>
> If it quacks like a duck, has the strange orange eyes of a duck, the
> webbed feet of a duck, it's the bloody rough beast Sphinx, come roaring
> monstrously to life, thundering like some 1965 Japanese Sci Fi monster
> across the sandy wastes towards Bethelem at the very moment (2000 post
> Christ) it's own prophecies, painted in its astrologically organized
> chambers, announce.
>
> The interpentration of the gyres matches exactly the moment in mundane
> planetary history we all have the pleasure of experiencing in the world
> mind over death t.v. right NOW.
>
> If not now, when?
>
> Revelations, Nostradamus, Yeats. Mayan Calendar - - even Makmadinjihad's
> quoted prophecy about their long awaited Ghoul-At-The-Bottom-Of-The-Well,
> who will bring a deeply welcomed total chaos to humanitas that will demand
> of all a total submission to Mecca round the clock on the Majic Carpet - -
> all mark on the world calendar this moment as the start of the Final
> Battle, which Yeats optimistically calls a birth throe.
>
> Ridiculous, unnecessary, plain stupid, well, that's the way it is at this
> level of the Manifestation that Yeats astrology charts. A chart that
> provides a way out, I would like to hope to think as I study it.
>
> Onward the days roll,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 23:43:37 +0100
> > From: "David Bircumshaw" <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com>
> > Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] (no subject)
> > To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News & Views"
>
> > You have to be very careful witrh Yeats' great piece of windbag
rhetoric,
> > Richard, as well, I might add, with the theatrics of the Book of
> > Revelations. Yeats' poem came to prominence through widespread
> > misapphrension of what he was 'talking' about: 'the best lack all
> > conviction/ while the worst are full of a passionate intensity' was
widely
> > seen as the Prophet Yeats predicting the rise of Nazism, as was that
rough
> > beast. He meant nothing of the sort, as the little cryptic note to the
> > poem
> > in his Collected implies. The best were his extremely dodgy fringe
> > fascisti
> > friends in the little green island, the worst were people who were in
> > favour
> > of council houses in England having baths because everyone knew that the
> > working classes would use their baths to store coal in, I'm not of the
> > camp
> > who think Yeats was a full-blown facist, but he was friendly with the
> > devil,
> > and he was a pathetic fantasing arrogant snob, but a great poet, his
> > first,
> > and authorised, biography by the Nazi sympathiser Joseph Hone (pub.
1941,
> > of
> > all years) when the little green government was covertly sympathising
with
> > Hitler and the IRA were planting bombs in Coventry (of all places)
weasly
> > implies all.
> >
> > Mecury, that god of communication, was very definitely retrograde in the
> > reception of Yeats's admitedly powerful rhetoric, as is that defunct by
> > then
> > already in the delirium of St Revelation John.
> >
> > All the Best
> >
> > Dave
>
> >>as is that defunct by then
> >> already in the delirium of St Revelation John.
> >
> > 'god', in the lower-case, has been typographically omitted from my
> > closing:
> > should be:
> >
> > as is that defunct by then +god+
> >> already in the delirium of St Revelation John.
>
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <elemenope at icubed.com>
> > To: <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:34 AM
> > Subject: [New-Poetry] (no subject)
> >
> >
> >> (Taken from correspondence outside this list, but the content is
> >> immediatly apparent to interested parties.
> >>
> >> R.D.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> And Mercury is retrograde until the 28th. Lots of Mercury retro
> >> glitches
> >> in my video work.
> >>
> >> I'm writing on Tuesday. I may be going up to Chatauqua, N.Y. on
> >> Thursday.
> >>
> >> I've been busy evaluating the question: Is Terra undergoing WWW IV?
> >> (USSR
> >> vs. USA Cold War being WWW III.) If so, is this the Battle of
> >> Armageddon
> >> as predicted in "The Book of Revelations," or the prophecy W.B. Yeats
> >> saw
> >> in his poem, "The Second Coming."
> >>
> >> A "gyre" is a funnel shaped, spring-like pattern Yeats used to measure
> >> the
> >> ages of 2000 years that mark the Great Astrological Cycle of 24,000
> >> years.
> >> The falcon and the Falconer point to the relationship of man's
control
> >> over the ferocity of animal will and mind; also, consider the fact that
> >> the Arabs are associated with falconry. The term, "Spiritus Mundi,"
> >> means
> >> the Collective Unconsciousness of Deepest Dream Archetypes, or the
> >> Akashik
> >> Records. I quote from memory:
> >>
> >> THE SECOND COMING
> >>
> >> Turning and turning in the ever widening gyre,
> >> The falcon cannot hear the falconer,
> >> Things fall apart, the center cannot hold
> >> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth,
> >> Everywhere the blood dimmed tide is loosed.
> >> And the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
> >> The best lack all conviction,
> >> While the worst are filled with passionate intensity.
> >> Surely some revelation is at hand.
> >> Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
> >> The Second Coming! No sooner are those words out,
> >> When a vast image out of the Spiritus Mundi
> >> Arises to trouble my sight.
> >> Somewhere in sands of desert
> >> A shape with body of lion and head of a man
> >> Is moving its slow thighs
> >> While all about it screech the indignant cries
> >> Of desert birds. The darkness drops again.
> >> But now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep,
> >> Where vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle.
> >> And what rough beast? Its hour come round at last,
> >> Slouches towards Bethelem to be born.
> >>
> >> (Circa 1921)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > I'm going to call you.
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >> > Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 1:30 PM
> >> > Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: WE WILL NEVER SEE THIS AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Remember the mechanically physical effects of Mercury Retrograde as
> >> >> Mercury stopped stationary, retreated backwards, stopped, and then
> >> went
> >> >> back over the path it had just traced. Remember the analogy of a
> >> boat
> >> >> and
> >> >> its wake.
> >> >>
> >> >> Now consider the current planetary crisis. What is Mars doing? And
> >> >> what
> >> >> is Mars in mythology? Mars (Roman), Ares (Greek), the GAWD OV WAR!
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> We will never see this again in our lifetime
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ...nor will the people of the next 50-to-1,000 Life
> >> >>> Times!
> >> >>> Mars
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The Red Planet is about to be spectacular!
> >> >>>
> >> >>> This month and next, Earth is catching up with Mars
in
> > an
> >> >>> encounter that
> >> >>> will culminate in the closest approach between the
> >> two
> >> >>> planets in
> >> >>> recorded history. The next time Mars may come this
> > close
> >> >>> is
> >> >>> in 2287. Due to the way Jupiter's gravity tugs on
> >> >>> Mars and perturbs its orbit, astronomers can only be
> >> >>> certain that Mars has not come this close to Earth
> >> >>> in the Last 5,000 years, but it may be as long as
> >> >>> 60,000 years before it happens again.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The encounter will culminate on August 27th when
> >> >>> Mars comes to within 34,649,589 miles of Earth and
> >> >>> will be (next to the moon) the brightest object in
> >> >>> the night sky. It will attain a magnitude of -2.9
> >> >>> and will appear 25.11 arc seconds wide. At a modest
> >> >>> 75-power magnification...
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Mars will look as large as the full moon to the naked
> >> >>> eye.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Mars will be easy to spot. At the
> >> >>> beginning of August it will rise in the east at
10p.m.
> >> >>> and reach its azimuth at about 3 a.m.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> By the end of August when the two planets are
> >> >>> closest, Mars will rise at nightfall and reach its
> >> >>> highest point in the sky at 12:30a.m. That's pretty
> >> >>> convenient to see something that no human being has
> >> >>> seen in recorded history. So, mark your calendar at
> >> >>> the beginning of August to see Mars grow
> >> >>> progressively brighter and brighter throughout the
> >> >>> month.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Share this with your children and grandchildren.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN
>
>
>
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