Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The ideas in Keats' letters that will be pertinent to us are Negative Capabilty, Almost a Remembrance, and the Veil of Soul-making.

There was also a great quote by Blake mentioned: "the road of excss leads to the palace of wisdom." So it's not a question of there being too much, but how much is one able to take in. Bacause the more one can take in the wiser one becomes, for the more one knows. Which is somewhat akin to a description of the state of mind when we begin to grasp anagogy, which I'm thinking Heather is very close to doing, whether she realizes it or not. What is the "it"? The Creator, from which the maker of the song was shaped? But then "she was the maker", so the Creator was her/in her the whole entire time. As it is with pretty much everyone. We simply don't realize it, and only dimly become aware of it when we sing or write poetry or do other transcendan things. Perhaps this is when we are being guided by the "it". Perhaps the daemon is the "it"? It's a guiding inner force which exists in everyone, so why not?

Ben says a few similar things much more eloquently in his blog. At a later point I will pursue this discussion of the Divine it, when perhaps I can try to reach the very high bar that has been set.

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