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Thu Jul 27 18:43:37 EDT 2006

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

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> (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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