[New-Poetry] 1. Re: Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx (David Bircumshaw)
elemenope at icubed.com
elemenope at icubed.com
Wed Aug 2 15:21:06 EDT 2006
Dave,
I was under the impression that he helped to found it in Ireland. No
great matter. I must get the new collection of his papers that discuss
his encounters with people like Madame Blavatsky.
It is "fascinating" and it is also important to reunited poetry with the
tools of occult prophecy rather than to continue relying on statistics and
probabiity theory at the roots of poets mind directions.
Richard
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:50:51 +0100
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <david.bircumshaw at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Yeats, Bircumshaw, Sphinx
>
> 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
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <elemenope at icubed.com>
> To: <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> 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:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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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