HERESIES
MILTON — A GREATER VISION BEYOND
The first poem tearing itself loose the shock of its emergence the priests of poetry making augury before the gods for the bard is sacred to the gods he is their priest and speaks of things hidden derived from human life, yet larger than human life hidden symbols to convey worlds beyond human knowledge holy counsels of the gods above and down below where the fierce dog barks the human perspective, so limited and finite how acquire the answers to questions beyond the human experience? The word a verbal revelation of God to man the poet listening constantly for messages the shelter of ancient languages death marks the limits of knowledge the essence, the poetry, the word the human and the divine in direct alignment the cycle of nature at night the sun falls into the western ocean the young dying god pastoral worlds see no winter for the sun of righteousness never sets revelations versus the repeated question of ignorance long nights haunted by sinister gods that made man in their own image the worlds of Moloch and Osiris the world of Comus, master of illusion, whose domain is the forest at night the fallen world man and false gods call home and sometimes hell, infernum escape the helpless servitude to desire for passion is tyranny lives plagued by ignorance and confusion ending in slavery and bondage human nature is a state of tyranny the prophets use words like spells they transcend their meaning man cannot acquire freedom without knocking down his idols and willing to be set free by something far greater than himself the prophet is a breaker of false images and words the only authority is spiritual forget not the rule of charity the bondage of moral law ensures that man only hears what he already knows the revelation of all true things always sounds foreign and dangerous to the ears of man most prefer tyranny over freedom false securities over ancient truths and shiny things over the permanent things worldly revolution is merely a technique transferring power from one class to another a greater vision beyond to repair the ruins of our first parents: Adam, Eve, Abel & Cain where are the agents of spiritual authority? the enemy is at the gates the true poet is not a heretic or blasphemer he is the prophet through him and not by him ancient truths are spoken history begins with the fall of man man lost his liberty and refused to take it back no peace, no freedom, no justice are to be found in the ways of man creation: the separation from chaos redemption: nothing but the recreation of order the kingdom of hell mocks the kingdom of God Satan, the grotesque court jester, presides over an army of slaves and fools mistaking the demonic for the divine destroying the idols of servitude is the only path to liberation the lost seeking reconciliation with the found when you come to the end of your will your will is nullified the temples of ignorance and servitude crumble and a mysterious change will take place The valley of shadows ruled by the ferocious children of Nimrod bewildered slaves with no masters a dying culture wailing to its helpless gods a dead giant in a pile of broken stones heaven & hell within.