11 For, lo, the winter is past,
the rain is over and gone;
12 the flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
13 the fig tree putteth forth her green figs,
and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell.
Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Well said, I couldn't have said it better. The mysterious speaker urges his 'love', an adressee that has just as well remained a mystery to all sorts of interpreters, to get out of prison, it seems. It's time to run as the deer runs, and be thou like a roe or a young hart, and get out of prison. There seem to be two or three main roles, and they urge one another to get out of prison. Or there may a collective stronger in numbers, threescore, fourscore or more. Some seem to have tried to break in and seek the prisoners, the watchmen have gave them a lesson, though. (It may sound comical but it isn't. Or they were to break out, it isn't clear at all. If it wasn't Solomon I would think some idiot was joking. Not very practical, is it. Very probably intentionally veiled too.) However, they are unsuccesful. As a result, they get sick. It says sick of love, but that would be the obvious meaning everybody initiated into the 'mysteries' of St. Valentine's day and, to begin with, content to remain in prison, could understand.
That's some things logical thinking can produce. Psychological method sees more. One thing is: we've got superb form here that flawlessly conveys an emotion that is seldom found elsewhere. (That would be an example of a simple statement that nonetheless cannot be made by the logical method.)
The esoteric level would then see infinitely more. Let's imagein somebody who is Awake reads this. He sees everything connected with everything, a fullness that nobody can describe. And yet this is created/described in the Song of Songs.
Remarks. Well, how about some experimenting with it, in order to suck out some practical instruction? Hm, daughters of Jerusalem...: don't urge people out of prison as long they like it? Hey Bible there! How about instructing - apart from daughters from Jerusalem, those who want to, how to get out of prison, eh? It's impossible that the enlightened authors of the Bible hadn't left hints behind. It's also not likely they had left them in a manner that enables the watchmen to read and understand it. Must read more carefully next time, I guess. Also, don't ask prison watchmen about love, that much is clear. (Want to get sick, eh? What about some extra bruise? No, you don't.) The hint says: just do it. How?! Just do it. Be free. Wow. So it's not an escape from Alcatraz? No? Just like that? "Be like a hart"... "But how???!!! I am in pri..." "Shut up. It is not written for fools anyway. Just do it." "Yeah well, do WHAT? And WITHOUT 19 companions?" "It's all there. Can't you even read? It's your problem if you make it all look like a commercial." Also, it is the first time fig tree is seen doing something, it says it putteth forth her figs. Wow. Just as vines give a good smell and fig tree puts forth its fruit and birds sing, some people are called to their task of arising and coming away. Hmm... I know: bye bye. See? I'm gone.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
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Your greatest enemies are your vanity and pride. It is they that the prison inmates can only effect. Otherwise, you just do what you have to do. And be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove. They'll say you're sick. They'll turn your glories into shame. You will be essence unprotected because your personality (prison-issued) is dissolved and cast off. So you are ultimately vulnerable, yet you have what you have. The Work is big. The Bible, the Holy Spirit, a Prophet in Jesus, a High Priest in Jesus, a King in Jesus. You have alot. Every step out and towards the Promised Land you will be confronted though. Much friction. No getting around it. It is the food you need, though. All new thinking. Very difficult to remember...
Practically, of course, you simply have to effect the two conscious shocks. That is an entire teaching of course, yet it exists, and is real. And practical.
What is difficult is how much people won't like you. That is difficult for any person to experience. They just don't like you! They'd burn you if they could.
Escape velocity engenders heat. Or friction.
Though it has to be said: for the rest of your days you become a ghost in the prison yard. Until released from the fallen body and given the glorified body you are a ghost. You're no longer 'there' in that prison compound, yet you are still there until physical death.
So, what do you do? Evangelize? That makes you very popular. Especially if you are still in your old home surroundings. It is like handing out permission cards to people to mock you and show open contempt and disdain for you.
The best evangelization is performed without words at that point. They don't need such a strong dose. Maybe an evangelist who is still one of them, but escaping by lesser degree just yet.
What to do when still in the world but not of the world. Different approaches. Mystics, monks, conscious roles, hopping around on one foot until time to crawl into the nearest hospice.
Old story. Old story with a good ending though.
What I don't see is that Bach's (not all of it, but) is music of superman when Mozart, for example, is only a man, o matter how glorious and ingenious his music is. People dimly feel that and this how such nebulous terms as "absolute music" had come to exist. It is not a crime, is it, only ...
Still less could somebody call me a criminal for this lack of discernment. Not to mention I shouldn't value Mozart less for that.
Only: that sort of higher blindness is very serious matter. It is a 'schock' when they begin to see, that's well said. And it is conscious, and it is WHY to them it is a 'schock'. What really happens in higher world is more likely real detonation. (And in 'lower world' too.) He or she may immediately feel that it is far too powerful to bear patiently and close the door that very same second, pretending nothing had happened, what is more, putting it all into a typical hard-to-break inaccessible cloud of doubt and 'scientific' examination. To make things worse, they begin to write about it and to lecture. Unnecessary, outright harmful talking, of course. If I ask them to provide more details they will say, I bet, "I have JUST NO ONE SINGLE IDEA, damned." Or: "I had but I've forgotten."
I doubt, though, that it happened to me. If it did, I'd have no need to write about it.
Difficult to memorize, I agree. Next, I don't grasp remotely how vanity and pride enter all this. Or popular? Bad, very bad. A real curse. And with new material, things could change pretty quickly, I think. I think I'm a lunatic, but to confuse things they will say, as I know, God's lunacy still wiser than sanity of men. That's the word that is most needed, we will say to them. Or one may come to it on one's own. Who knows?
Ah yes, one has to be practical too. See? One agrees to that. I will hear: Yes, chief, nobody could have said it better. Great! We like to listen to you. We are with you. Keep on! When remembered that the word PRACTICAL usually includes elements that go BEYOND mere verbiage, THEY will SKIP OVER such negligible center of gravity. Well, what can one say? "They prefer to omit it."
It could be further asked why is that and it should be, but somehow this doesn't fit into 'comments' category anymore. What I don't see is that Bach's (not all of it, but) is music of superman when Mozart, for example, is only a man, no matter how glorious or ingenious his music is.
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