Apocalypse
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:00 pm
"What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison,
not his own isolate salvation of his 'soul.' Man wants his physical fulfillment first
and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For
man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the
unborn and dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being
alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent
here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a
time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh,
and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part
of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is
part of the sea.
"...what we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those
related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections with the cosmos,
the sun and the earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun,
and the rest will slowly, slowly happen."
--from Apocalypse, by D.H. Lawrence
not his own isolate salvation of his 'soul.' Man wants his physical fulfillment first
and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For
man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird,
the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the
unborn and dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being
alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent
here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a
time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh,
and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part
of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is
part of the sea.
"...what we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those
related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections with the cosmos,
the sun and the earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun,
and the rest will slowly, slowly happen."
--from Apocalypse, by D.H. Lawrence