Showing posts with label Geoffrey Hartman. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 7, 2016

5. Angelus Novus Roast



In case you didn't know DeKooning took the angel of history as his model for  woman 1952.
The left eye is wall eyed, the right looks at the viewer  divided. Two molars hang upside down with gaps between.  The eyes and eye sockets come out of the forehead like light bulbs. Gershom Scholem said the hair was scrolls of the secret wisdom of angels. Geoffrey Hartman kidding calls the Klee fingers candelabras and says the hair is up in curlers.  "Thick candelabra fingers and heady excrescences, curlers."   "I cannot make out extended wings and staring eyes," says Hartman, "I see a grotesque being, disymmetric, demon rather than angel, helplessly reading itself." (A Critics Journey, 198). The bird toes support that angel-demon take, "kakangelic," as if this angel brings the bad news (kaka) "like Freud about the psyche, and offers no cure except through the very activity-analysis- which reveals this news." (Hartman, Critic's Journey 212).  

 What is the bad news Freud brings?  Civilization is the evil, the in loco parentis we wish to die. The angel is its nature concealed. [And then, the question comes, what will we have, chaos? The answer is no, redemption.] It is all taught esoterically and not, for history is hidden behind draperies of pretended ignorance, as if the occult were not the mainspring of civilization from Egypt and before and the new world ovum not a geographic entity in Washington DC and the Vatican. Rediscover it in daily life, the colossal uprooting and destruction of the existing order, where there is no progress in its history leading to redemption. Redemption is a breaking in, a revolution, not a reason, the total and complete overthrow of all the powers of the world, the reinstitution of every original thing, the return of all things to their origin. Klee's angel is the pure azure of spirituality to be destroyed. All illumination is deception. Mystical experience is a fraud. The Angel Novus version of Benjamin is a picture of this occult reality itself. The in-H-man is the new man conquered by the angel whose perfect nature is the recitation of old hermeneutics, Satan, angel of the Talmud, who hides his Theses of History and the Philosophy in the personal reflections of enormity and the subversion of humanity, in camps and propaganda which hold in bondage. It is no self. It is a dragon ornament, star boys bounding to take human beings to make them happy. It makes Star Boys happy to kill a man.
 
 Answer, that civilization is demonic and we wish for its death. Oedipus wishes for the death of the father says Freud
As the angel is being blown away, out to sea in a posture of surrender, hands up. it gets to watch the implosion of our history from Troy, Rome and Jerusalem and before. More bad news, wreckage on wreckage, we imagine the man in his rowboat blown about below on a dark sea at the bottom of a rectangle of history of storm clouds, swirled with twisted faces, supercharged with Babylonian Bohemian Grove-Mammon-Ishtar hordes. Then good news, in this scenario, suddenly the whole is rent down the middle, destroyed by a figure of light, a man. This is not in the painting nor in Klee's Benjamin's Scholem's mind.  History present and past is the allegory where eternal life takes shape.


Our acceptance of  the transference of inner speech is like a dream of odd complacencies  surgically removed like some body part and kept in a jar, a spent meniscus, a clam in amber. We both view this and are it.


Singing


The Patriarch Benjamin was the last child of Isaac born after the Angel's touch in the groin. Whether the angel's touch in the hollow was at the place where the testes descend, hence a inguanal hernia affecting the life of son Benjamin, the son born after, "little Benjamin, with their ruler, the princes of Judah" (Ps 68.27) was influenced by the angel at a second remove. As Benjamin was born after Jacob's wrestling, so Walter Benjamin took his identity after Klee's angel. Identical, not identical with himself, new name or old, audible / inaudible like the secret spelled in archetypal form, the changing mask of the Angel Novus was worn over the face of the man.

Its name projects itself on a picture which doesn't reveal the true name in Benjamin, the child father of the man, the child primal in expression and true. Peeling back the cultural history of nations, Wordsworth's year in France produced his insight that it's odd the French so supported the American revolution when they deconstructed their own. Somehow this implicates the whole nature of iambic verse and whether the English language was a turning of natural rhythms into artificial ones. But of the song rhythms, whoever THOUGHT OF SHAKESPEARE AS A WALTZ? 

Scholem says "Benjamin interrupted the angel from the singing of his hymn" and prevented his passing away. Such songs are not real, but mere figments of fun taken as religion, as if Benjamin locked the angel in his room on the wall and said, I will not let thee go unless thou bless me, and sits down under the picture on the wall.


But dawn is coming and the angel must sleep after singing. Benjamin is worried that the angel will miss its divine appointment, which Benjamin himself prevents in his sitting. You can say Jacob did it, but Benjamin also prevented the angel singing if he turned him into Samael, or Satan in the old text, as if there were any doubt as to who Satan was, the angel of light hiding in darkness, which the darkness comprehended not and could not prevent. It needed the True Light that lights every one who comes into the world. To compare these thoughts with a picture on the wall that never did anything except decay, even if preserved now in Jerusalem, Benjamin is Jacob and his Agesilaus Santander of that secret name cannot sing.  Jacob changed to Israel is just opposite Benjamin changed to Satan. No wonder these angels won't give their real names. Benjamin's frustrations with women, unrequited, unconsummated made him divide the angel in two, male and female he uncreated them out of some Kabbalah legend. 


"The angel and his feminine form in the figure of the beloved did not know each other though they had once been most intimately adjacent" (Scholem 220). One street over, in Heidelberg, Berlin and Munich, the angel Satan "wanted to destroy Benjamin through his feminine form." The Mt. Hermon Watchers had taught the angelic imposters to pretend they were women. Scholem gives their name but we will spare them. Scholem/Benjamin finds the Angelus his emblem, projects his unrequited love, his divisions upon it. This is a hermetic allegory really, division of the paths, separation of the poles restored by the alchemical marriage.  Angelus lay in wait on the life path of both. Patience, is it cunning? If the angel is faithful, Satan is not, if the angel is faithful Benjamin is not. It's all coming to an end for Angelus. Once descended from heaven, held under sway, the Satanic character, claws and knife wings proved in lore, resembles everything in this current state with which it has to part. Benjamin going over the Pyrenees with a black brief case, leaving two cases with Batille, with the angel rolled up inside, never to be seen by him again, is Satan, at last! Build the pyre from a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning. Walter Benjamin goes to his apparent suicide. Behind the surface his destiny is to sing at end of day or not to sing the hexenlied.


Benjamin discovers in finite things the infinite depth of allegories but cannot step over or into, any more than he can consummate the woman, the lieder of life. Consummate the woman who is no symbol to contact like a metaphysical being, but a woman and person like him who longs to surrender, but he only thinks it. They call this imagination the epicene world where the angel takes up residence in the vanished things that affront it daily. The two versions under knife attack are an interesting case for our best analysis, "tied eye to eye." His hair in the painting, like scrolls of learning in his briefcase, suggests the angel's thoughts are scrolls, his curls are cursives, his message of the mind in his hair there inscribes, "he has been pushed forward from the future and goes back into it"  (Scholem 225). This documents the peril of intellect that imagines but does not engage, is alienated from the angel, man or woman. "That way into the future from which he came" is dissolution for the angel who wants to return home, if that is a home of fire. If you go home you sing and then you die. It sounds like life. I came, I sang, I died. What else did you there? I had "the conflict in which lies the ecstasy of the unique" (Scholem 226). Scholem says, I'm turning black, "my wing is ready for a flight, I'm all for turning back." Little poem, little poem, going home. Often the angel just means himself. We speak in riddles between the once only and the yet again.

 Poems were guardian angels to Kabbalists. If Paul Klee's angel was what they said it would be, the angel of Satan, that fallen angel who represented the secret self with the hidden name was opposed by its own angel the way Balaam and his ass were. Do angels have angels? Well at least they have a LORD. The Satanic mortgage that fell from the stars "assumed Satanic features: though more the expression Satanic knowing, contentment, serenity." To these delusions everything had a guardian angel, if only a joke.  Hence Mona Lisa revised comes compromised with "the indescribably beautiful face of a human being [to] appear as Satanic features with a half-suppressed smile." As the wrinkle of reason, or the self important dreamer in 4D printing today changes the portrait of Dorian Grey to meet the real politik, when did Benjamin realize the angel of history was the Angel Novus of Satan? "His capacity of concentration on spiritual matters was of miraculous intensity" (Scholem 214). What we call self absorbed dementia he calls concentration. The image of Klee has nothing to do with Benjamin's meditation of Satan or the Kabbal or how syllables of a word combine to individual letters to make anagrams. In the second printing two names occur, Spartan king Agesilaus and a city of Spain, Santander somehow spelled Satan. Agesilaus Santander signed to Angel Satan "[Der Angelus Satanas] identical with Lucifer. But the first nature died. I die daily. The concept of two names and two natures keeps the commandments of Sodom against all earthly creatures who allow it and certainly those who meditate thereon.


Secret Names


The mystic intuition that connects clairvoyant theories, as if reason were stranded on a bridge admiring the beautiful Lucifer, whose appearance cancels, conceals and reveals the beautiful, is far from experience. This angel ex cathedra thinks the mystical is God, connecting the soul with the angel when the angel is not any way a likeness of the soul. These deceptions need Deliverance, but it is in the personal, not the social or religious that Providence names itself. Those who give secret names to their children do not tell them before the time of their maturity. They are prescient it is hoped, for it is He Who IS Above All Things who gives a new name out of a bag of fine white quartz. Parents remain a citadel of the past effects of the child who is made to wander in the world without inhibition, but surrender to those futures who the parent, like the Angel Novus, observes blown backward from their birth. They are not named for angels. The befallen think a man divided into male and female seeks reunification, which preoccupies marriage and family, but reunity is only realized in the greater catching up which the angels might hope to know but don't.

Turning all this mystical pious and impious thought into the secret Ad Depravitorim is a way of joining true and false, angel and man. Just the thing the higher powers seek, then marry it to the art of stars. This is the future which will belong to those who live from the forces of the cosmos. "The angel had a secret name [or a legion of them], but it is hard to get account of their names lest they be invoked or cast out: "unexpectedly the human person of Benjamin now changes into the angelic-Luciferian nature of the angel in the picture by Paul Klee, a nature connected so unfathomably deep and magical with his own" (Scholem 218). 


Uprooting


 New person, old person, there is only one character, not three in the angel, himself and the new. All chimera, deception, division, altered. "Did Benjamin, when he first saw the angel, and Klee's picture affected him like a revelation of his own angel, journey back with the latter into the future that was his origin" (Scholem 227)? Out of this the Frankfurt school was born, the observation of a realm of spiritual terror where advertising was a history written by the vanquished out of blind spots that escaped the dialectic. Surely some dialectic is at hand when Klee's Angelus Novus is the angel of history who shows today as Marvel Comics. The sins of the time are discovered in the hidden. Oh who hath he smitten?


In Benjamin's encounter with Satan, his angel, and Klee's, and Scholem's, and everyone who reputedly has one on the cover of their notebook, undergoes an illumination of himself. Busted, there stands Benjamin's personal angel "between past and future and causes him to journey back" (Scholem 232), turned into the angel of history whose fourteenth thesis is, Origin is the Goal, but the storm blows him back and back. History fails to enter through the gate. "What prevents the angel? The storm from Paradise? No, the real redemption. "It is a matter of dispute whether one can speak here-as I am rather inclined to do-of a melancholy, in deep desperate view of history for which the hope that the later might be burst asunder by an act like redemption or revolution continuous to have about it some thing of that leap into transcendence which these theses seem to deny" (Scholem 235). Benjamin and Scholem end up transfunctioned, another name of Satan. For there is no division of Messiah.


"What kind of novum, then, does this evangelist bring?" Much of Benjamin's view could be questioned, revisited. 


Satan getting  in here has more to do with thought than the art. Thinking makes it so.  Benjamin wrote a spurious little Journal of Angelology that Scholem calls a dear little demonology  of "devils who bring an intentional banality [like Nazi murderers] to conceal they are devils. Cubs with a lizard body, banally corpulent."  Benjamin was going to edit a magazine of various and sundry fictions called Angelus Novus with the myth omnipresent in all these writers that Midrash angels are so ephemeral that once they sing they die, a romantic notion, to cease upon the midnight with no pain like Keats' Nightingale. Keats said of Shakespeare that he led a life of allegory. We should be glad he didn't profess it was a life of fraud. Keats could probably do the voices of others too, since he was able to imagine what it was to be in another’s head and to speak just like them, that is, excluding Shelley. There is something of a chameleon in Benjamin too, in this myth of the Angelus Novus and its interpretation which came to have a life of its own. 


What is called messianic interpretation reflects the personal effects of wars that result from unbelieved manipulation. In this they present an object lesson blissfully unaware before the fact of what history will be. For Benjamin and Scholem the causes would be scorned. It's really only possible to talk about the idea of history, totalitarianism, genocide, and not the specific acts or persons who  commit to serving them. These are as hidden and unspoken as subway riders who chew on their own arms. We do not likely know anyone of this 9th circle, otherwise our sons would be waking up in cold sweats.  History is diabolical in that all particular cases of its counterfeits must be rejected, not only because they are unbelievable but because even so, who can bring the offenders to account? So we are intended to think. Are you going to indict the kings and queens of Inland? Are you going to abjure the Greek gods? That leaves us with the lives of men and women confused by every aspect of society, religion and their own foibles. The angel in other words is viewing what it itself has made. The angel shall be taken as malign in this view, that also codes its hermeneutic in nearly any work of art and links it to some poem or life to dissemble. If we allow that to seem innocent is to be sinister and destructive, how else could the Angelus Novus, the angel of history so called, appear on the covers of notebooks as a symbol of the new world order? 


What is the bad news? We are about to hear it, a piety that wrestles the suspended fallen angel in the unconscious. 


What must the libido of science be if it wishes for the death of the world? If Freud is right, and this bad news is the unconscious of our state, it is acceptable that Klee modeled the angel after Adolf Hitler who lived in Munich in 1920. Hitler was giving speeches in beer halls then and it is sometimes argued the master of this dubious angel of the unconscious is Hitler.

  There is going to be an angel registration after all, so be sure to get its name. We wrestle this thing into submission when we realize what it is we struggle against and its demonic thought. We bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ against whom the devils have no answer. It's not that the death of Oedipus might have been ours, or that his curse comes on us at birth, but that the death of Christ is ours and the blessing that comes on us from his birth enables our thought to go beyond the bad news Freud and science bring.

Imagine all this and more as Benjamin and Scholem did in a painting called the New Angel. But the painting cannot be said to truly exist, for the commentary is the thing and not the work. So we come to the outward edge of understanding the new angel.  It is made with words, even if it "has claws like the angel and knife-sharp wings" (Scholem 205). It is an inversion of the meta-theological stance of a Marxist rabbi and occult church father.


They say the angel pulls its partner, a female emanation, along into a future, but backwards, while looking at the past and the mounting rubble, for historical rubble grows greater as time progresses.

 In its maturity the (counterfeit) Novus name that should not have been given is said to join the life forces, male and female, but it loses the gift of being human. No man now and if not, what? Armored and encased, a picture on the wall? Considered a self portrait of the masculine, it could be anyone. "The new angel passed himself off as one of these before he was prepared to name himself" (Scholem 207), but the counterfeit name once given is fatal, as though both male and female, angel and man, project into the angel the image and the world. These are what the angel let go of forever in order to be called by its new name to be revealed. In this absence it exists once removed. But fire from the quartz is struck for the new human, the new man not the angel, whose "regeneration, at least in its commencement, is a work of the mind, and when it first takes place, it has the lusts of the flesh, yea, all the evil inclinations to war against; and even ignorance itself, together with the temptations and allurements from without" (Abraham Godshalk, A Description of the New Creature. 1838). Who pulls along the new, the old or the old made new, the art on the wall or the words it describes? These images, names hanging in the eternal catalog appear miniature, but one most important concession is the New Angel / Angelus Novus to Benjamin (Scholem 210) as a momento of spiritual vocation, a living allegory, flesh into nonflesh, that sea washed uplifted fella.

These nuances are called elective affinities by Emmanel Levinas, meaning a force that brings heterogeneous entities together and unites them in what they like to call a chemical wedding, but the phrase is redundant. Affinity itself elects, so strike elective. All this depends on the creation of a reality so small and obvious that when it is contradicted is bigger than what we had imagined. So it is with these angels. Benjamin had not gotten approval for his views on the angel from history however.


 Note


 Angelus Novus was first displayed at Paul Klee's exhibition in Munich, 1920. The supernatural beings that inhabit his later work began then, fifty terrestrial angels imagined from the metaphysical Weimar and the further later puppets. Call them terrestrial angels as a consolation; we will see  they are not celestial, but rather southy, below. Are they imposters? It depends on the point of view. Matters of art are not determined by being human, but slightly more than human, or less. What are the archetypes offered for today? Walter Benjamin purchased Klee’s aquarelle of the Angelus Novus (1920) in 1921 for an equivalent of 14 dollars, some say thirty. Before Benjamin went over the Pyrenees to his death in his escape from Paris and the Gestapo, he put Angelus in one of two valises filled with his manuscripts that he gave to George Batille to hide in the Bibliothèque Nationale. After Benjamin's death Angelus passed to Gershom Scholem who delivered his treatise to its altar, Walter Benjamin and His Angel. After Scholem's mortal reward it went to Jerusalem. Scholem's, Benjamin's, Klee's angel was called the "angel of history" in Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History IX.  This melancholy doctoring of angels in ink divined the historical process as an unceasing cycle of despair.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Portal Novus Ordo. Ninth Circle Emirates 4. Elimination Angel Space ColonBus.


Retraining the Populus. 

Every part and parcel of the high knowledge is necrophilic, but no results are found in the search for "defecations of light"  which  massive defecations that pose as light  constitute a major combat of angels.  Like the  whistle blower who was to reveal reptile practices but canceled because he said it would do more harm than good, the fear is that people would be so repulsed that the revelation would refute itself.

So inimical to  us that we can only address it in metaphor, the  celebration in Tolkien and romantic sagas, such a term as dragon blood is a metaphor  neither dragon nor blood, coined  by the same forces of dragon that create them. Reptile blood is the generic and the portal of the Novus ordo seclorum is its anus, which anatomical model of the journey down references eyes,  mouths, bloodstreams, then intestines in the Malbolge. Dante's enigmatic passage of entry into the Malbolge about what point he must have passed, disgusted, is appropriately clear (Canto XXXI), as if what would be in the scheme of schools and higher orders of learning, with arks of diamonds streaming in meteors across the sky, were feces streaming Secret Doctrine and mystery religion, Atlantis, Stonehenge, black holes, Bermuda Triangle, sun worship.

  Enoch says the fallen assume "many different forms in defiling mankind and lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods" (I.19). Feces of rocket ships out of alien portals, spiral portals of snake gateways in the sky take the multidimensional wisdom of the Malebolge as the sum of all occult wisdom; it is a reverse toilet that flushes its refuse into our world, though up and down mean little in dimensional settings, where a toilet bowl is worn as a fish hat. The bowl flushed into our  noosphere does not transmit diamonds of light, but waste to defile, for the true diamond, the true gold is what we already have on earth that Nephilim want for themselves. Both bowl and hat are up and down depending on how worn, but the "wisdom" is polluted. Waste away! Nephilim are second only to the fallen angel eidolon in these deceits, whose universe is behind ours and needs to open such portals to come through. The largest scientific consortiums of the world sponsor these entemenaki- baba-alu, the opening of Abzu, gate of hell-torn immortals. The Ninth Circle is reserved for that faculty of intellect joined with brute force and evil will. The coming through is to be en masse, a digestion gone wrong, a corporate structure, a mass evacuation of mustard parts. Rulers, kings and scientists make deals with these  portals because they think to gain access to the immortal life of published Nephilim designs. These designs mask as the golden age: good weather, three harvests, long life, which, being translated, means immorality, chemtrails and GMO food, with a bonus thrown in as voice to skull technology called inner wisdom. This is the "light" of Satan's intestine broadcast into earth. It is alimentary Mr. Watson. These are the defecation angels, apologies to Jack.


PupPoets are heroes of this unworld of undigested giants
. They speak for Giants who might be compared to alien farmers who grow PupPoets to serve and eat, as well as the general populace to consume. It puts a whole new sense on food. If we understand it is more the mind than meat they seek, the more is eaten the more they need, but then new planets are required to devour. Giants aren't space aliens. They are endemic to earth to glorify space exploration to spread the disease.  It's not as if poets couldn't think of anything else to write. Perversion, lust and dissolution spill.  "Stated boldly," one tweeter said: "Today's Troy is Freudian in myth, Jungian in archetype and pagan in scene, a surrealist combo of dreamlike change." There's no freedom of expression or inspiration in that, or dictation of the divine. It is the hydrocephalic obesity that death embodied long before. On Mt. Hermon at Baal Peor Spit-lust desolation angels, princes of desolation were lords. Mount Cognentis Olympus Solipsis. This imaginative poverty spreads in writer's work and ilk. In the Book of Giants, and plenteously in Enoch, "the land is crying out," that giants are offspring of the defecation angels. Those angels' lust made "every animal, every bird [a target] for miscegenation (Book of Giants, 1Q23 Frag), "the outcome of demonic corruption, violence, perversion, and a brood of monstrous beings. Compare Genesis 6.4)."  Oh dear. Writers surrender to the apocalyptic constant of their Troy, the excavation which convenes at the Troy Horse Neptune War RoundupThe Palms of David and The Book of Kurk Wold [where all OOks and Orcs] hold this view. PO-EATS-here!

We  abstract the topology of the human torso to space, the planet Liver, the satellite fart, the comet fingernail, or from the rides at Disneyland, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Alpine Matterhorn, not just digestive allegories that follow the underworld/gastrointestine theme, except the soul within the body is the Inferno. So many space names come from myth. Why has hell moved to the planets in scientific discovery? Paradise could as easy be there. Amaranthus might bloom, or Salvia. It suggests in space discovery a ruse afoot to deceive, with the bare exception of the moons of Uranus named for the characters of Shakespeare, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, as if the localities of Phlegathon, Archeron, Styxeron were a damned development of Birnam Wood, with streets like Bloody Hands, Serpent Underneath and N'er Be Clean to neighbor nearing Dunsinane. It tells more about the namer than the thing.  Surely they have plans to unveil a new psychology planet, Oedipal Complex, Medusa, Medea, Murderous BiPolar, before they get round to naming them for the denominations of BitCoin.
 
But to face these substitutes is not the tyranny of Greece over Germany, or Philo over Hegel. It doesn't matter whether canonizers of the accepted, the good, the true and the beautiful, are talking about Shelley, Byron, Keats, Whitman, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Dickens or Crane, the canons of order declare them righteous as planets, in whom, if you will pardon the descending rungs of this analogy, the cousins of astronomers, critics unleash the unrelenting dementias of hell. The inevitable return of our thought upon ourselves in every case of literature, physics and astronomy is obvious simply in the way planetary and psychological landscapes are named in the 181 natural satellites. Astronomical convention names its bodies in a Plutonian system of mythological Greek and Roman deities, demons and geography of the Underworld. The moons of Jupiter were named for characters in the life of the demon Zeus, but why should the Jupiter be so named. "Following tradition is strongly encouraged!" say the NASA authorities. Not that this is any different from calling Uranus and Neptune the Ice Giants, as if they were taken from the mythology of the Abenaki with Caucasoid glee. But what tradition is that? The nephilim! What about the Gas Giants? Scientists reserve that for themselves. Most of Jupiter is filled by an underground sea that so squashes its hydrogen you can drink it, so they belly up also there.
 

The gods and their wisdom powers, Adam Kadmon, idol of this invention and Blake's Albion, are other guards in this prison. The illusion is that there was a pagan diaspora and the Romantic poets idea of the gods returns, "they will return, the gods for whom you weep." But they never left. That they revived as the illumined Kadmon is false because they never left, but always ruled in the fashion of their illusion. Every spot, every couch in the bower of science and philosophy, oh poetry what have you there, is a Delfica of Apollo, ode to the oracle sport of Skynet - Space Fence


Blake's Tyger was his system of mind forged manacles in this myth-science, a commonplace perhaps. Geoffrey Hartman's affection for the notion in his latter day, delivered the statement that the misprison of our imaginative powers, the exploitation and institutionalization of human fears about them...Mankind, a self-bound Prometheus, exudes the "net of religion" from the guts of his own imagination and, taking the gods literally, worshiping these invented giants, becomes entangled in the net. (Scars of the Spirit, 152).  

  To amend this concept of institutionalization, imagination reveals a far worse state than the imprisoning of religion and state. Instead, we face a vast illusion of evil masked as a good, and this is exemplified in the idols and stars of all human institutions, the Queen of England  and all the way down, but masked by a good, uninvented but mirrored utter evil through and through. By its own perverted justification of itself it requires itself to give open clues of its contempt and desecration of all good. So with the statement, all institutions are demonic (Hedges, Tillich), and the knowledge that all journalism is disinformation along with scientific research and philosophy, we are setup for the annihilation of the human. Two terms above need redefinition, gods and invented giants, which redefinition briefly is that gods are nephilim and giants are their progeny along with Men of Renown of Genesis 6. Of that same text which Hartman generally alludes to in such phrases called "censorious monotheisms," that "recent scholarship has questioned the assumption that ethical monotheism is a spiritual advance"  (Scars, 153) Levinas says is a deceit of morality. If we pull aside the veil cast over institutions, science and literature, as we must do now before the illusion of freedom is completely caught in the net of these demons, we must urge not censorship of the gods, but their annihilation. And that right early! (Psalm 46).


In the middle years of these wars of the gods comes an image out of Winslow Homer, a man in rowboat on a dark sea who appeared, buffeted at the bottom of a rectangle of storm clouds that swirled with twisted faces.  Supercharged as the War of Neptune to concoct deception of the Bohemian Grove-Mammon-Ishtar-Isis killers, suddenly the whole image was rent down the middle, destroyed by a figure of light, a man. These forces had raged over my citation of the proposition, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God. I was reciting this New Testament psalm as these surrounded me, as if it were Psalm 8 of the Old.  I cannot exactly say what they were, these phantoms, spirits in the  night. Defending against the attacks, but not happily or utterly, the only proper defense being their annihilation, right in the middle of this psalm-saying, I called out the name of Jesus (the Blessed). In an instant there was such peace that my son's chow, an overnight guest, came and lay beside my bed. Such peace I have not felt in sleep for years, stillness and peace that I carry along with the Blessed. Not for the first do I think we under estimate the man and woman if these images come in their sight, or wonder how they are so prepared to fight. 

Satanists and illusionists train their children in ritual and pain-divided alters from before birth. Christians do not but await the spirit to turn the hearts of the children toward the Father. Free will they will call it. Many are called, few are chosen. Antagonists of these children cry foul every time repayment falls upon them, and that's how the world will end, to general applause from wits who think it's a joke. Then the burglars who claim to be pacifists will inhabit a controlled universe which they ordain, self-initiated burglars, but the Christian gets no sort of "hel" "p," is just left to be and to be. These swirling spirits which he can't see, Screwtape live, Pilgrims's Progress or Dante Inferno take off in image and fact, whatever that is, not fiction, but real. Then the man calls on the name of  the Blessed and the heavens cleanse and he is flooded with peace. It makes you think more is going on than meets the eye, as if the appalling human evils and inquisitions and archipelagos were not enough, but that all asylums, prisons are modeled upon the fallen spirits of these Neptunean kings.  Spiritual wickedness in high places. We're a lot more important than we think we are. here



  In all this the bishops of Lit like to speak of the literary canon, themselves the canonizers, who form a church after the Roman style where those they let in have all the mark of saints, universal, descriptive, miracles, the works, while in the main these bishops disbelieve any authority other or greater than themselves. These are the elohim priests, fish gods of Dagon crowned idol. Their works are swordship, casting in and out, building up and taking down. They mightily disbelieve an author other than their true nephilim. "Milton's Counterplot" in Geoffrey Hartman's Critic Journey shows Hartman much the devout believer in canon, even if against his wishes, for Hartman rationally loves Milton's thought and sees the interplay of its images without having to decimate its smooth sky.


"Angel forms, who lay intrans't

Thick as Autumnal Leaves..."


The created world is a Shelter against the fallen sons of God and their giant egregoroi, these inverted demonic "brushed with the hiss" who the "belated Peasant sees," that "careful Plowman." All the more reason for these fallen to demolish the shelter of creation in the councils of their stranglet cabinets. It was not such of old: "Paradise Lost was written not for the sake of heaven or hell but for the sake of the creation...whether man can stand though free to fall, whether man and the world can survive their autonomy." (Journey, 118)


I find it saddening that the things Hartman wanted to know and extract from the poets with his huge erudition denied him direct access, for it cannot be known by study or thought. He quotes Stevens wistfully, and Blake and Wordsworth who he knew so well.  He was drawn to "the mysteries of biblical figures that had to shoulder the burden of a divine election (3),  ...literary sublimities I could not live up to, even in maturity." I feel his separation from himself and from the emotion he does not have for the readings of Midrash or Psalms, "I hear only the void shouting back." "I adopted myself out to the words blowing in the wind and insights that detached themselves from what I read" (Scholar's Tale, 147). Hartman says he wanted to write "beyond the middle style" (A Scholar's Tale, 152). He was unwilling to give up a visionary kind of verse, but was a realist, not a Baptist who takes the kingdom of God by force. He wanted "to stand in the presence--a wish that has never left me. I have kept a belief in the possibility of a direct line to the truth, if only through the medium of literature" (8). He says to his seminar that it might take all their time to unpack "strange fits of passion I have known" but he outwardly looks in.

In those fits, leaving Wordsworth alone with Annette, could be all the embarrassing moments he seeks apology for in his colleagues' Nazi lapses, if by that is understood their betrayal of the canons of righteousness commonly held, and not the impiety of Blake snatching the angel away to view the bottomless. Blake shows disregard for convention entirely, slaps it down, impugns it royally, as if his doctoral candidates would go utterly stoned into their orals after making love for the hours before. Indeed the premature Absolute Hartman likens Medusa to a historical reality, a Medusa if you like of Chemtrails or digital backdoors. I think he rationalizes as the "the ideal of immediacy" itself the "direct intuition of reality," which he cannot apprehend (35). Medusa, whether our historical reality or inner archetype is the uninitiated conspiracy of paganism of the self.

Because of Hartman's association with Bloom I looked up that Department of One, as he considers himself, whose love of kabbalah must inspire his love of comparing Merrill and Yeats and his gemetria, "six is the perfect number," he says for days of creation, just as far off, for there were seven days of creation and the seventh the most important of all. Somewhere both Bloom and Hartman confess with a little regret that they are not poets, but they are word smiths. Bloom says "I summoned metalepsis," I rewrought Kenosis, I called apophrades, (Anatomy of Influence, 194) like some Prospero or Faustus he blinks, which shows the deeper nature of his possession. To call a literary critic possessed might be the best compliment he ever gets.

If you're a scholar you have to pretend you believe in the zietgeist, in Barthes, deconstructs, new critics, going back and in their kosherness, lioke Loch Ness, of Curtius, Auerbach, Wellek, you know the kind, the masters of mind, not quite Herman Wouk or James Watt or Creel who cast doubt on the whole paradigm of anti-lit, anti word and want to uphold the word. It's almost as if Yale got a stipend from DARPA to further disconnect humanity from its sources in order to deconstruct the genome, and now, famously the mind, rat mind meld.


How far and to what end Bloom gives in to his daimonia is questioned with his praise of the Satanic in Shelley and Yeats, whether daimon in the Greek is the muse at all, or whether the muse of Milton, Urania say, is something altogether different, opposites. When Bloom speaks of the ruins of Sacred Texts (Truths) it is really sacred subjects in poetry, especially Milton he is after, by all means to exalt the character of Satan, pretty old hat since Blake and his imitators.

 Hartman wants to save the sacred even if he feels duty bound to give the devil a due date. He was denied the community of worship into adulthood so does not feel the joy of worship in his devotion that he says his wife does. Still he wants to keep faith with the words, "the possibility that there was an original meaning or a specific and authoritative act of designation"  He is a sad wrestler who asks "where did that authority, that performative strength come from?"(Third Pillar, 31), where that "truth claim of the Bible, that Auerbach says is so imperious that reality...is not dwelt upon" (30). Hartman admits that all his doubt upon text and author from Barthes and on stems from German 19th century higher criticism of the Bible which "analyzed a unified, authorless narrative into its redacted and blended strands" (28) at least that is what is taught by its scholars. He cites Gunkel, who thought the psalms and Abraham never practically existed, and Speiser, more destroyers of the sacred text and fathers of Barthes. He  cites numbers 15 through 18 of Propp's list of the components of the fairy tale, just to show that he's not going to give in easily to loving the Word, as if he werewolfing a survey of evil interpretations of Jacob's wrestling with the angel. In such thinking, by the frequency of citation, he would believe much more in the Redactor, than in either author, truth, or word, let alone the Father of all. But he does not believe in the werewolf as Bloom does, who is a good example of nephilim thought, all dazzle bedazzle, pick it up and hide:

"One labyrinth in which the Father, Minotaur-like, can be slain, is the Gnostic model adopted by learned skeptics from Denis Saurat to A. D. Nuttall. I am reasonably certain that you can associate Sir Henry Vane's and the Muggletonians' Inner Light with Milton's temple-of-one, but Kabbalah and Ophite Gnosticism remain remote from the shadowy abyss of Paradise Lost." (Anatomy of Influence, 107) [If that bit doesn't make you smile you've lost all good humor.]

The coruscation of this light decays as it shines. Truly a prepossessing state of the nephilim, critic Bloom reminds of someone going to see a film who first reads up in the classic film books what the opinions are and afterward spouts them as his own. This instead of just looking at the film for himself. Bloom has an Anxiety of Influence, as he says, a deep insecurity that unleashes extraordinary energy as does any fission, but is lost because his world is spinning too fast. All this passes in the pic of Bloom at 84 with the flesh swatted off his face except there substance begins to emerge. Vain corrupt influence as the covering cherub depends on your view, whether Lucifer or Satan covers, but since they are the same, the notion that the poet/critic occupies a Throne so covered and is hence his own deity is another instance of the presumed. Get your hand off that girl's fly, Bloom.


I come to all this grateful for a chance to understand civilization in its highest and best thoughts, marginally anyway, for I was never the companion or even had discussions with these sensibilities outside of entering the holies with JCC III in graduate school. Geoffrey Hartman may be an example of one who has known them all. He cites Christopher Smart several times in his Scholar's Tale for his poetry that would pierce "the screen Twist thing and word...language straight from the soul." Smart's life would not be sought as a trade off for this. Hartman says he would "consider that [the poet] a mad and heroic endeavor beyond" (84) himself, but I have loved Smart from first contact, and am glad he is given an almost admission into the canon, like the fox going across the stream who gets his tail wet, the last hexagram of the I Ching, Almost There.

All the understanding I have of philosophy and criticism comes from wrestling with poetic issues first hand, so only because of that and not from brilliant study do I recognize their importance when Hartman cites the oblique circuitry, the history of trash, the extracanonical, multidirectional reading, thesaurus of old stories and fantasies against the scientifically correct. This is so well said. To me that demonstrates that we ourselves are capable of ourselves. Of course I admit to being kindled to all this thought, otherwise it were for naught. One explanation of my absence from academic discourse is that those faculties are so desperately dull and self consumed.

He cites Numbers 11 that "would that all the Lord's people were prophets." Mr. Hartman loves Blake because of Blake's direct apprehension, but to question the visionary company of the Romantics, poetry is removed from direct access, which is not in words, but to "walk in the light of your presence oh Lord, we rejoice in your Name all day long, we exult in your righteousness." Of course this fine gentleman sought this Existence, but I get to live through his last four books the gemütlichkeit I forfeited to live the estranged life of direct access.  Hartman's "wish to be affirmed, to stand in the presence--a wish that has never left me... a belief in the possibility of a direct line to the truth, if only through the medium of literature" (Scholar's Tale, 8). He cites Stevens that the great poem of earth is still to come. The interlingual cues that make him aware of similarities (124),  the minimalism of a memory trigger that can produce by sonic accident some associational string, the realia, the sound value of words he locates in Smart's literal, "sound reasoning." The first two notions I hold of verbal obscurity are of the Elizabethans who were obscure, especially Donne, and Herbert, even if they're not Elizabethans.  

The poets are always read after their deaths, and not only the letters of their ancestors are remaking their lives as we live. The second of obscurity is the inevitable conclusion of conspiracy that if  the work does not serve the foreordained  purposes of hierarchy then it must be obscured, although to what purpose, when it can be easily ignored, one knows not. Is the apple cart that insecure that it might overturn this modern phenom since '45, shall we say from the beginning of cloning?
Delusions of psychiatry occur in the search for divine archetypes. It turns more desperate when allegorists seek the prepotent word. Stop right there. Poets wanted in piecing the cowl!  Robert Frost's cowl at birth, James Merrill's (David Jackson) Ouija, Charles Olson's peyote chips. No wonder they take mind altering drugs, practice magic -- poets want to Break on through where the subtext is connect with the power pre Sumerian nephilim. Resuming this sacred demented theurgy, the oracle and its imitatio dei, sacred dramas of the Washington Monument impregnate the Capitol Dome. Imitators of the gods hold guru asps to their bosom, pretend they are Isis. Does Blake overthrow metaphysics to stand naked in the universe the way he was made? Never. He is clothed in Delphic laboratories of world peace.

 Broken texts. Broken texts are relied upon as a ritual almost, clay sculptures fall off the table, sink, implode, having been pushed too far. Any number of disasters befall so it can become an active means of composition, which at least ensnares freshness and unexpected spontaneity to the work. To apply this to writing makes a broken text.  But to apply it to clay, a pot I tried to make after it got pushed too far and totally fell, the deal is that the clay still has to be used, so it got made into a large protuberant figure to be called Molly or Maggie. Maybe I think intuition in the nature of clay is like the hyper grammatical, each jot and tittle even mathematical. But no, to me language is sound and sounds skewed, consonant assonant meanings misspelled with punlike contextual corporate collective meanings along with image yes, but of the sound itself, therefore flowing and changing as the clay that falls forms the pot. There are two of these, the other, still to be fired, came as a result of a failed tapestry, then cut in half and formed as such.

When Stephen Spender says it is in the Seen that word poems remind us of some other inner state, I think of the phrase, to walk in the light of Your presence. Whole books and long meditations try to plumb this meaning as the same phrase continues and builds, to rejoice in your name all day long. There are multiple envelops of experience that contain the letter, the word, the sound, the grammar. This is so much more than literal that it exists in the song upon the bed all night long that David wrote about and the song when awakening that feeds the brook, the stream, the spring that recedes from consciousness in day but surges again in night and plays, sings, murmurs, shines all during the instruction of sleep that is the instruction all night long. Spender gets at this experience of language as the ground Heidegger is after, not philosophical, it is the song in the night, not poetical even, it is much more. I both participate in and view the simultaneous presentation of these events when waking. Enormous to express, they are simultaneous and rotate in the mind with clarity, welcome insights that feel good to see and know. If I did not make this note the process would be gone from conscious memory. Hartman's Heidegger calls "for a liberation of hermeneutics from its dependency on texts...it is Being itself, according to Heidegger, not the text that "calls" to us in those poets." This is what Spender is after.  However the meaning exists and whether it calls to us like the new birth, and we hear the sound thereof but know not whence it comes or wither it goes, the text provokes the meaning and meaning makes the text grow so that it is a new birth, which becomes a song:

"He was in the world and the world was made by Him
and the world knew Him not.
He came unto His own and his own received Him, not,
but to as many as received Him,
to as many as received Him, 
To as many as received Him
to them gave he the power,
 to them gave He the Pow-er
to become the sons of God!   

(added to Methods of Unconscious), "To Walk in the light of your presence, rejoice in your Name, exult in your righteousness.  Psalm 89.15. The light of His presence is not the light of the heavens, defamed by the man of earth and the fallen. I got up to give water to Zion in the night. I rescued her when she went over the cliff on her chain. The presence is what we see by and that orders our lives. The sun, defamed in the heavens by the nephilim fallen, the annunaki Sumerian spirit hose rats, is the Day star that rises in our hearts, a symbol of the one who made it, as Zechariah says, "the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace" (Luke 1 78,9).
 
Psalm 149: The children of Zion joyful in their king, sing upon their beds high praises, swords execute vengeance to bind kings, nobles with iron, and this honor have all saints.
I said Theo had marks of character in his face and beauty. Sabrina said, what's the difference? Beauty can be corrupted, character not. Psalm 149: He will beautify the meek with salvation.

 One microchip away occurs the war that redoubles meaning like the retelling of the giving of the Law, the second strike of the Rock. As if to say, bye bye homo sap. This brings us to the odd Malaprop that everything touted as true is false, Sinai, that doubles itself but must have revelation mediated by an angel, poet, priest or critic. Hence what is not celebrated of what is said to be false is true. Suddenly we are surrounded by flat earths and worse, but better that than every shibboleth science and media project, meaning literally everything hybrid you can name, with evolution, relativity....

When Psalm 119 says Thy Word is a lamp, it meditates upon this word over and over, so that when such apostles as are say to sing spiritual songs and psalms in your hearts all day long, that meditation of the word grows in appreciation. For David this word was Torah, for the unfolding meditation it is all the prophets and writings too, language filled with the songs of hearts that bless and sustain. David had Torah, we have David, and we have Isaiah and Daniel and all the history and biography of the sacred to meditate and we have the gospels and the letters too. So our meditation is complete. When that word says, because he loves me says Yahve I will rescue him, I will protect him because he acknowledges My Name, or, I will surround him with songs of deliverance, these are the strength of a life. Hence, Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim him, who walk in the light of the presence Yahweh. We rejoice in your name all day long...in your name and your word as the Psalm says, we rejoice for its own sake and because by your favor you have exalted our horn. We are exalted in spirit, joy, peace. Blessing and love overflow us as we walk. Being so led He leads, to lie down, he leads beside still waters, he leads me, he restores. His rod and staff comfort me. He prepares a table... this goes on and on in the songs and spiritual psalms that surround and deliver us.



This bio note: Geoffrey Hartman was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929 and was placed on a Kindertransport to England in 1939, where he spent six years on the Waddeston estate of James Rothschild with 19 other boys. He did not attend the reunion of the Cedars Boys in 1983 at the Rothschild estate. There is no reason to think that this is why.

Both at Iowa and Texas I was invited to join circles of the intellect and literarti, which means get into bed with them literally, which I was not constituted to do, seeing it be the greatest of distractions, what they call in the underground levels soul scalping. How far and how wide the inbred dissolution goes is not hard to discern; faculties are pretty small towns, precursors of digital neighborhoods where when all human feeling has been drained and operators no longer process sensation they can spray cannabis on their patootie, applied directly, consume DMT or more earnestly powdered white gold. Did ya ever notice how much a fig leaf looks like a cannabis? No fig wants that, or merchants want the siege.

  It was in Geoffrey Hartman's class that first semester at Iowa I entered the intuitive way in writing an essay on the Tyger.  He had begun the class with a several session meditation of Collins, Ode on Poetical Character, handed out to read. It was my first graduate class. I remember puzzling about Collin's logic and expression in his Ode as much as Hartman was from the front of the room, filled with coats and boots and scarves.The first assignment was to pick a poem of Blake and write about it, no other restrictions. For no reason I remember I sat down that weekend with the Tyger and gradually emerged with, as if the poem opened up, a vista of Blake's system. The essay was to be four pages  but mine was closer to six, which I achieved by compressing 1 1/2 spacing with a small elite typewriter. 

for the book of the creation of the world


Planetary astroarchaeologies, Electric universe, NASA
Satellite Blue Beam Projection
HAARP
Chem trail geoengineering
the Pope and the President political engineering
Jesuit, Masonic, NSA, CIA social engineering
Drugs, EM rads, Alpha states
MK Ultra,  DARPA
Beta testing Methodical  Illusion
Scientific experiments 7th level Dulce, Denver
Underground bases, cities 





Know for sure these things  are all grossly horrified that in our time those fallen gods come back to whisper, then shout their obscenities over the high places.  These massive defecations that pose as light  constitute a major combat of angels. Every part and parcel of the high knowledge is necrophilic, but no results are found in the search for "defecations of light."  Like the  whistle blower who was to reveal the reptile practices but cancel because he said it would do more harm than good, the fear is that people would so repulsive at these practices that the revelation would refute itself. To say this is so repulsive is its own refutation. Such a term as dragon blood is a metaphor if we get the meaning, for it is neither dragon nor blood. It is so inimical to  us that we can only address it in metaphor, all the more precarious since its celebration in Tolkien and every such romantic saga, written by the same forces of dragon that create them. Reptile blood is the generic. To call it what it is.



Whose digestive system is so disturbed and what has it consumed?  Oh do not ask what is it? The portal of the Novus ordo seclorum is its anus, which anatomical model of the journey down references eyes,  mouths, bloodstreams, then intestines (the Malbolge). Then Dante's enigmatic passage into the Malbolge about what point he must have passed, disgusted, is appropriately clear (Canto XXXI), as if what would be in the scheme of schools and higher orders of learning arks of diamonds streaming in meteors across the sky were feces. Secret Doctrine and mystery religion dictating Atlantis, Stonehenge, black holes, Bermuda Triangle, sun worship?

 Enoch says the fallen assume "many different forms in defiling mankind and lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods" (I.19). Feces of rocket ships out of alien portals, spiral portals of snake gateways in the sky take the multidimensional wisdom of the Malebolge as the sum of all occult wisdom; it is a reverse toilet that flushes its refuse into our world, though up and down mean little in dimensional settings, where a toilet bowl is worn as a fish hat. The bowl flushed into our  noosphere does not transmit diamonds of light, but waste to defile, for the true diamond, the true gold is what we already have on earth that Nephilim want for themselves. Both bowl and hat are up and down depending on how worn, but the "wisdom" is polluted. Waste away! Nephilim are second only to the fallen angel eidolon in these deceits, whose universe is behind ours and needs to open such portals to come through. 

The largest scientific consortiums of the world sponsor these entemenaki- baba-alu, the opening of Abzu, gate of hell-torn immortals. The Ninth Circle is reserved for that faculty of intellect joined with brute force and evil will. The coming through is to be en masse, a digestion gone wrong, a corporate structure, a mass evacuation of mustard parts. Rulers, kings and scientists make deals with these  portals because they think to gain access to the immortal life of published Nephilim designs. These designs mask as the golden age: good weather, three harvests, long life, which, being translated, means immorality, chemtrails and GMO food, with a bonus thrown in as voice to skull technology called inner wisdom. This is the "light" of Satan's intestine broadcast into earth. It is alimentary Mr. Watson. These are the defecation angels, apologies to Jack.


PupPoets are heroes of this unworld of undigested giants. They speak for Giants who might be compared to alien farmers who grow PupPoets to serve and eat, as well as the general populace to consume. It puts a whole new sense on food. If we understand it is more the mind than meat they seek, the more is eaten the more they need, but then new planets are required to devour. Giants aren't space aliens. They are endemic to earth to glorify space exploration to spread the disease.  It's not as if poets couldn't think of anything else to write. Perversion, lust and dissolution spill.  "Stated boldly," one tweeter said: "Today's Troy is Freudian in myth, Jungian in archetype and pagan in scene, a surrealist combo of dreamlike change." There's no freedom of expression or inspiration in that, or dictation of the divine. It is the hydrocephalic obesity that death embodied long before. On Mt. Hermon at Baal Peor Spit-lust desolation angels, princes of desolation were lords. Mount Cognentis Olympus Solipsis. This imaginative poverty spreads in writer's work and ilk. In the Book of Giants, and plenteously in Enoch, "the land is crying out," that giants are offspring of the defecation angels. Those angels' lust made "every animal, every bird [a target] for miscegenation (Book of Giants, 1Q23 Frag), "the outcome of demonic corruption, violence, perversion, and a brood of monstrous beings. Compare Genesis 6.4)."  Oh dear. Writers surrender to the apocalyptic constant of their Troy, the excavation which convenes at the Troy Horse Neptune War RoundupThe Palms of David and The Book of Kurk Wold [where all OOks and Orcs] hold this view. PO-EATS-here!

 

We  abstract the topology of the human torso to space, the planet Liver, the satellite fart, the comet fingernail, or from the rides at Disneyland, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, Alpine Matterhorn, not just digestive allegories that follow the underworld/gastrointestine theme, except the soul within the body is the Inferno. So many space names come from myth. Why has hell moved to the planets in scientific discovery? Paradise could as easy be there. Amaranthus might bloom, or Salvia. It suggests in space discovery a ruse afoot to deceive, with the bare exception of the moons of Uranus named for the characters of Shakespeare, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, as if the localities of Phlegathon, Archeron, Styxeron were a damned development of Birnam Wood, with streets like Bloody Hands, Serpent Underneath and N'er Be Clean to neighbor nearing Dunsinane. It tells more about the namer than the thing.  Surely they have plans to unveil a new psychology planet, Oedipal Complex, Medusa, Medea, Murderous BiPolar, before they get round to naming them for the denominations of BitCoin.


But to face these substitutes is not the tyranny of Greece over Germany, or Philo over Hegel. It doesn't matter whether canonizers of the accepted, the good, the true and the beautiful, are talking about Shelley, Byron, Keats, Whitman, Wordsworth, Dickinson, Dickens or Crane, the canons of order declare them righteous as planets, in whom, if you will pardon the descending rungs of this analogy, the cousins of astronomers, critics have located  the unrelenting dementias of hell. The inevitable return of our thought upon ourselves in every case of literature, physics and astronomy is obvious simply in the way planetary and psychological landscapes are named in the 181 natural satellites. Astronomical convention names its bodies in a Plutonian system of mythological Greek and Roman deities, demons and geography of the Underworld. The moons of Jupiter were named for characters in the life of the demon Zeus, but why should the Jupiter be so named. "Following tradition is strongly encouraged!" say the NASA authorities. Not that this is any different from calling Uranus and Neptune the Ice Giants, as if they were taken from the mythology of the Abenaki with Caucasoid glee. But what tradition is that? The nephilim! What about the Gas Giants? Scientists reserve that for themselves. Most of Jupiter is filled by an underground sea that so squashes its hydrogen you can drink it, so they belly up also there.

 

The gods and their wisdom powers, Adam Kadmon, idol of this invention and Blake's Albion, are other guards in this prison. The illusion is that there was a pagan diaspora and the Romantic poets idea of the gods returns, "they will return, the gods for whom you weep." But they never left. That they revived as the illumined Kadmon is false because they never left, but always ruled in the fashion of their illusion. Every spot, every couch in the bower of science and philosophy, oh poetry what have you there, is a Delfica of Apollo, ode to the oracle sport of Skynet - Space Fence


Blake's Tyger was his system of mind forged manacles in this myth-science, a commonplace perhaps. Geoffrey Hartman's affection for the notion in his latter day, delivered the statement that the misprison of our imaginative powers, the exploitation and institutionalization of human fears about them...Mankind, a self-bound Prometheus, exudes the "net of religion" from the guts of his own imagination and, taking the gods literally, worshiping these invented giants, becomes entangled in the net. (Scars of the Spirit, 152). 




  To amend this concept of institutionalization, imagination reveals a far worse state than the imprisoning of religion and state. Instead, we face a vast illusion of evil masked as a good, and this is exemplified in the idols and stars of all human institutions, the Queen of England  and all the way down, but masked by a good, uninvented but mirrored utter evil through and through. By its own perverted justification of itself it requires itself to give open clues of its contempt and desecration of all good. So with the statement, all institutions are demonic (Hedges, Tillich), and the knowledge that all journalism is disinformation along with scientific research and philosophy, we are setup for the annihilation of the human. Two terms above need redefinition, gods and invented giants, which redefinition briefly is that gods are nephilim and giants are their progeny along with Men of Renown of Genesis 6. Of that same text which Hartman generally alludes to in such phrases called "censorious monotheisms," that "recent scholarship has questioned the assumption that ethical monotheism is a spiritual advance"  (Scars, 153),  Levinas says is a deceit of morality. If we pull aside the veil cast over institutions, science and literature, as we must do now before the illusion of freedom is completely caught in the net of these demons, we must urge not censorship of the gods, but their annihilation. And that right early! (Psalm 46).


In the middle years of these wars of the gods comes an image out of Winslow Homer, a man in rowboat on a dark sea who appeared, buffeted at the bottom of a rectangle of storm clouds that swirled with twisted faces.  Supercharged as the War of Neptune to concoct deception of the Bohemian Grove-Mammon-Ishtar-Isis killers, suddenly the whole image was rent down the middle, destroyed by a figure of light, a man. These forces had raged over my citation of the proposition, to them gave he the power to become the sons of God. I was reciting this New Testament psalm as these surrounded me, as if it were Psalm 8 of the Old.  I cannot exactly say what they were, these phantoms, spirits in the  night. Defending against the attacks, but not happily or utterly, the only proper defense being their annihilation, right in the middle of this psalm-saying, I called out the name of Jesus (the Blessed). In an instant there was such peace that my son's chow, an overnight guest, came and lay beside my bed. Such peace I have not felt in sleep for years, stillness and peace that I carry along with the Blessed. Not for the first do I think we under estimate the man and woman if these images come in their sight, or wonder how they are so prepared to fight. 


Satanists and illusionists train their children in ritual and pain-divided alters from before birth. Christians do not but await the spirit to turn the hearts of the children toward the Father. Free will they will call it. Many are called, few are chosen. Antagonists of these children cry foul every time repayment falls upon them, and that's how the world will end, to general applause from wits who think it's a joke. Then the burglars who claim to be pacifists will inhabit a controlled universe which they ordain, self-initiated burglars, but the Christian gets no sort of "hel" "p," is just left to be and to be. These swirling spirits which he can't see, Screwtape live, Pilgrims's Progress or Dante Inferno take off in image and fact, whatever that is, not fiction, but real. Then the man calls on the name of  the Blessed and the heavens cleanse and he is flooded with peace. It makes you think more is going on than meets the eye, as if the appalling human evils and inquisitions and archipelagos were not enough, but that all asylums, prisons are modeled upon the fallen spirits of these Neptunean kings.  Spiritual wickedness in high places. We're a lot more important than we think we are. here


  In all this the bishops of Lit like to speak of the literary canon, themselves the canonizers, who form a church after the Roman style where those they let in have all the mark of saints, universal, descriptive, miracles, the works, while in the main these bishops disbelieve any authority other or greater than themselves. These are the elohim priests, fish gods of Dagon crowned idol. Their works are swordship, casting in and out, building up and taking down. They mightily disbelieve an author other than their true nephilim. "Milton's Counterplot" in Geoffrey Hartman's Critic Journey shows Hartman much the devout believer in canon, even if against his wishes, for Hartman rationally loves Milton's thought and sees the interplay of its images without having to decimate its smooth sky.

"Angel forms, who lay intrans't

Thick as Autumnal Leaves..."

The created world is a Shelter against the fallen sons of God and their giant egregoroi, these inverted demonic "brushed with the hiss" who the "belated Peasant sees," that "careful Plowman." All the more reason for the fallen to demolish the shelter of creation within the councils of stranglet cabinets. It was not such of old: "Paradise Lost was written not for the sake of heaven or hell but for the sake of the creation...whether man can stand though free to fall, whether man and the world can survive their autonomy." (Journey, 118)


I find it saddening that the things Hartman wanted to know and extract from the poets with his huge erudition denied him direct access, for it cannot be known by study or thought. He quotes Stevens wistfully, and Blake and Wordsworth who he knew so well.  He was drawn to "the mysteries of biblical figures that had to shoulder the burden of a divine election (3),  ...literary sublimities I could not live up to, even in maturity." I feel his separation from himself and from the emotion he does not have for the readings of Midrash or Psalms, "I hear only the void shouting back." "I adopted myself out to the words blowing in the wind and insights that detached themselves from what I read" (Scholar's Tale, 147). Hartman says he wanted to write "beyond the middle style" (A Scholar's Tale, 152). He was unwilling to give up a visionary kind of verse, but was a realist, not a Baptist who takes the kingdom of God by force. He wanted "to stand in the presence--a wish that has never left me. I have kept a belief in the possibility of a direct line to the truth, if only through the medium of literature" (8). He says to his seminar that it might take all their time to unpack "strange fits of passion I have known" but he outwardly looks in.




In those fits, leaving Wordsworth alone with Annette, could be all the embarrassing moments he seeks apology for in his colleagues' Nazi lapses, if by that is understood their betrayal of the canons of righteousness commonly held, and not the impiety of Blake snatching the angel away to view the bottomless. Blake shows disregard for convention entirely, slaps it down, impugns it royally, as if his doctoral candidates would go utterly stoned into their orals after making love for the hours before. Indeed the premature Absolute Hartman likens Medusa to a historical reality, a Medusa if you like of Chemtrails or digital backdoors. I think he rationalizes as the "the ideal of immediacy" itself the "direct intuition of reality," which he cannot apprehend (35). Medusa, whether our historical reality or inner archetype is the uninitiated conspiracy of paganism of the self.




Because of Hartman's association with Bloom I looked up that Department of One, as he considers himself, whose love of kabbalah must inspire his love of comparing Merrill and Yeats and his gemetria, "six is the perfect number," he says for days of creation, just as far off, for there were seven days of creation and the seventh the most important of all. Somewhere both Bloom and Hartman confess with a little regret that they are not poets, but they are word smiths. Bloom says "I summoned metalepsis," I rewrought Kenosis, I called apophrades, (Anatomy of Influence, 194) like some Prospero or Faustus he blinks, which shows the deeper nature of his possession. To call a literary critic possessed might be the best compliment he ever gets.


If you're a scholar you have to pretend you believe in the zietgeist, in Barthes, deconstructs, new critics, going back and in their kosherness, lioke Loch Ness, of Curtius, Auerbach, Wellek, you know the kind, the masters of mind, not quite Herman Wouk or James Watt or Creel who cast doubt on the whole paradigm of anti-lit, anti word and want to uphold the word. It's almost as if Yale got a stipend from DARPA to further disconnect humanity from its sources in order to deconstruct the genome, and now, famously the mind, rat mind meld.

How far and to what end Bloom gives in to his daimonia is questioned with his praise of the Satanic in Shelley and Yeats, whether daimon in the Greek is the muse at all, or whether the muse of Milton, Urania say, is something altogether different, opposites. When Bloom speaks of the ruins of Sacred Texts (Truths) it is really sacred subjects in poetry, especially Milton he is after, by all means to exalt the character of Satan, pretty old hat since Blake and his imitators.

 Hartman wants to save the sacred even if he feels duty bound to give the devil a due date. He was denied the community of worship into adulthood so does not feel the joy of worship in his devotion that he says his wife does. Still he wants to keep faith with the words, "the possibility that there was an original meaning or a specific and authoritative act of designation"  He is a sad wrestler who asks "where did that authority, that performative strength come from?"(Third Pillar, 31), where that "truth claim of the Bible, Auerbach says, is so imperious that reality...is not dwelt upon" (30).  He admits that all his doubt upon text and author from Barthes and on stems from German 19th century higher criticism of the Bible which "analyzed a unified, authorless narrative into its redacted and blended strands" (28) at least that is what is taught by his scholars. He cites Gunkel, who thought the psalms and Abraham never practically existed, and Speiser, more destroyers of the sacred text and fathers of Barthes. He  cites numbers 15 through 18 of Propp's list of the components of the fairy tale, just to show that he's not going to give in easily to loving the Word, as if he werewolfing a survey of evil interpretations of Jacob's wrestling with the angel. In such thinking, by the frequency of citation, he would believe much more in the Redactor, than in either author, truth, or word, let alone the Father of all. But he does not believe in the werewolf, however Bloom does, and is a good example of nephilim thought, all dazzle bedazzle, pick it up and hide:




"One labyrinth in which the Father, Minotaur-like, can be slain, is the Gnostic model adopted by learned skeptics from Denis Saurat to A. D. Nuttall. I am reasonably certain that you can associate Sir Henry Vane's and the Muggletonians' Inner Light with Milton's temple-of-one, but Kabbalah and Ophite Gnosticism remain remote from the shadowy abyss of Paradise Lost." (Anatomy of Influence, 107)




Whether there is substance here is impossible to say. The coruscations of light decay as they shine. Truly a possessing state of the nephilim, critic Bloom reminds of someone going to see a film but who first reads up in the classic film books what the opinions are and afterward spouts them as his own. This instead of just looking at the film for himself. Bloom truly has an Anxiety of Influence, as he says, a deep insecurity that unleashes extraordinary energy as does any fission, but he is completely lost, the world is spinning too fast. But all this passes in the pic of Bloom at 84 with all the flesh swatted off his face. Influence as the covering cherub depends on your view, whether Lucifer or Satan covers, but since they are the same, the notion that the poet/critic occupies the Throne so covered and is hence his own deity is proved another instance of hubris presumed. Get your hand off that girl's fly, Bloom.


I come to all this grateful for a chance to understand civilization in its highest and best thoughts, marginally anyway, for I was never the companion or even had discussions with these sensibilities outside of entering the holies with JCC III in graduate school. Geoffrey Hartman may be an example of one who has known them all. He cites Christopher Smart several times in his Scholar's Tale for his poetry that would pierce "the screen Twist thing and word...language straight from the soul." Smart's life would not be sought as a trade off for this. Hartman says he would "consider that [the poet] a mad and heroic endeavor beyond" (84) himself, but I have loved Smart from first contact, and am glad he is given an almost admission into the canon, like the fox going across the stream who gets his tail wet, the last hexagram of the I Ching, Almost There.




All the understanding I have of philosophy and criticism comes from wrestling with poetic issues first hand, so only because of that and not from brilliant study do I recognize their importance when Hartman cites the oblique circuitry, the history of trash, the extracanonical, multidirectional reading, thesaurus of old stories and fantasies against the scientifically correct. To me that demonstrates that we ourselves are capable of ourselves. Of course I admit to being kindled to all this thought, otherwise it were for naught. One explanation of my absence from academic discourse is that faculties are so desperately dull and self consumed.




Mr. Hartman loves Blake because of his direct apprehension, to question the visionary company of the Romantics. He cites Numbers 11 that "would that all the Lord's people were prophets." But poetry is removed from direct access, which is not in words, to "walk in the light of your presence oh Lord, we rejoice in your Name all day long, we exult in your righteousness." Of course this fine gentleman sought this existence, but I get to live through his last four books the gemütlichkeit I forfeited to live the estranged life of access. Further sympathies with Hartman's "wish to be affirmed, to stand in the presence--a wish that has never left me. I have kept a belief in the possibility of a direct line to the truth, if only through the medium of literature" (Scholar's Tale, 8). He cites Stevens that the great poem of earth is still to come, the interlingual cues that make him aware of similarities (124),  the minimalism of a memory trigger that can produce by sonic accident some associational string, the realia, the sound value of words he locates in Smart's literal, "sound reasoning." The first two notions I hold of verbal obscurity are of the Elizabethans who were obscure, especially Donne, and Herbert, even if they're not Elizabethans.  

The poets are always read after their deaths, and not only the letters of their ancestors are remaking their lives as we live. The second of obscurity is the inevitable conclusion of conspiracy that if  the work does not serve the foreordained  purposes of hierarchy then it must be obscured, although to what purpose, when it can be easily ignored, one knows not. Is the apple cart that insecure that it might overturn this modern phenom since '45, shall we say from the beginning of cloning?

Delusions of psychiatry occur in the search for divine archetypes. It turns more desperate when allegorists seek the prepotent word. Stop right there. Poets wanted in piecing the cowl!  Robert Frost's cowl at birth, James Merrill's (David Jackson) Ouija, Charles Olson's peyote chips. No wonder they take mind altering drugs, practice magic -- poets want to Break on through where the subtext is connect with the power pre Sumerian nephilim. Resuming this sacred demented theurgy, the oracle and its imitatio dei, sacred dramas of the Washington Monument impregnate the Capitol Dome. Imitators of the gods hold guru asps to their bosom, pretend they are Isis. Does Blake overthrow metaphysics to stand naked in the universe the way he was made? Never. He is clothed in Delphic laboratories of world peace.


 Broken texts. Broken texts are relied upon as a ritual almost, clay sculptures fall off the table, sink, implode, having been pushed too far. Any number of disasters befall so it can become an active means of composition, which at least ensnares freshness and unexpected spontaneity to the work. To apply this to writing makes a broken text.  But to apply it to clay, a pot I tried to make after it got pushed too far and totally fell, the deal is that the clay still has to be used, so it got made into a large protuberant figure to be called Molly or Maggie. Maybe I think intuition in the nature of clay is like the hyper grammatical, each jot and tittle even mathematical. But no, to me language is sound and sounds skewed, consonant assonant meanings misspelled with punlike contextual corporate collective meanings along with image yes, but of the sound itself, therefore flowing and changing as the clay that falls forms the pot. There are two of these, the other, still to be fired, came as a result of a failed tapestry, then cut in half and formed as such.

When Stephen Spender says it is in the Seen that word poems remind us of some other inner state, I think of the phrase, to walk in the light of Your presence. Whole books and long meditations try to plumb this meaning as the same phrase continues and builds, to rejoice in your name all day long. There are multiple envelops of experience that contain the letter, the word, the sound, the grammar. This is so much more than literal that it exists in the song upon the bed all night long that David wrote about and the song when awakening that feeds the brook, the stream, the spring that recedes from consciousness in day but surges again in night and plays, sings, murmurs, shines all during the instruction of sleep that is the instruction all night long. Spender gets at this experience of language as the ground Heidegger is after, not philosophical, it is the song in the night, not poetical even, it is much more. I both participate in and view the simultaneous presentation of these events when waking. Enormous to express, they are simultaneous and rotate in the mind with clarity, welcome insights that feel good to see and know. If I did not make this note the process would be gone from conscious memory. Hartman's Heidegger calls "for a liberation of hermeneutics from its dependency on texts...it is Being itself, according to Heidegger, not the text that "calls" to us in those poets." This is what Spender is after.  However the meaning exists and whether it calls to us like the new birth, and we hear the sound thereof but know not whence it comes or wither it goes, the text provokes the meaning and meaning makes the text grow so that it is a new birth, which becomes a song:


"He was in the world and the world was made by Him

and the world knew Him not.

He came unto His own and his own received Him, not,

but to as many as received Him,

to as many as received Him, 

To as many as received Him

to them gave he the power,

 to them gave He the Pow-er

to become the sons of God! 


(added to Methods of Unconscious), "To Walk in the light of your presence, rejoice in your Name, exult in your righteousness.  Psalm 89.15. The light of His presence is not the light of the heavens, defamed by the man of earth and the fallen. I got up to give water to Zion in the night. I rescued her when she went over the cliff on her chain. The presence is what we see by and that orders our lives. The sun, defamed in the heavens by the nephilim fallen, the annunaki Sumerian spirit hose rats, is the Day star that rises in our hearts, a symbol of the one who made it, as Zechariah says, "the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace" (Luke 1 78,9).

 

Psalm 149: The children of Zion joyful in their king, sing upon their beds high praises, swords execute vengeance to bind kings, nobles with iron, and this honor have all saints.

I said Theo had marks of character in his face and beauty. Sabrina said, what's the difference? Beauty can be corrupted, character not. Psalm 149: He will beautify the meek with salvation.

 One microchip away occurs the war that redoubles meaning like the retelling of the giving of the Law, the second strike of the Rock. As if to say, bye bye homo sap. This brings us to the odd Malaprop that everything touted as true is false, Sinai, that doubles itself but must have revelation mediated by an angel, poet, priest or critic. Hence what is not celebrated of what is said to be false is true. Suddenly we are surrounded by flat earths and worse, but better that than every shibboleth science and media project, meaning literally everything hybrid you can name, with evolution, relativity....




When Psalm 119 says Thy Word is a lamp, it meditates upon this word over and over, so that when such apostles as are say to sing spiritual songs and psalms in your hearts all day long, that meditation of the word grows in appreciation. For David this word was Torah, for the unfolding meditation it is all the prophets and writings too, language filled with the songs of hearts that bless and sustain. David had Torah, we have David, and we have Isaiah and Daniel and all the history and biography of the sacred to meditate and we have the gospels and the letters too. So our meditation is complete. When that word says, because he loves me says Yahve I will rescue him, I will protect him because he acknowledges My Name, or, I will surround him with songs of deliverance, these are the strength of a life. Hence, Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim him, who walk in the light of the presence Yahweh. We rejoice in your name all day long...in your name and your word as the Psalm says, we rejoice for its own sake and because by your favor you have exalted our horn. We are exalted in spirit, joy, peace. Blessing and love overflow us as we walk. Being so led He leads, to lie down, he leads beside still waters, he leads me, he restores. His rod and staff comfort me. He prepares a table... this goes on and on in the songs and spiritual psalms that surround and deliver us.

This bio note: Geoffrey Hartman was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1929 and was placed on a Kindertransport to England in 1939, where he spent six years on the Waddeston estate of James Rothschild with 19 other boys. He did not attend the reunion of the Cedars Boys in 1983 at the Rothschild estate. There is no reason to think that this is why.



Both at Iowa and Texas I was invited to join circles of the intellect and literarti, which means get into bed with them literally, which I was not constituted to do, seeing it be the greatest of distractions, what they call in the underground levels soul scalping. How far and how wide the inbred dissolution goes is not hard to discern; faculties are pretty small towns, precursors of digital neighborhoods where when all human feeling has been drained and operators no longer process sensation they can spray cannabis on their patootie, applied directly, consume DMT or more earnestly powdered white gold. Did ya ever notice how much a fig leaf looks like a cannabis? No fig wants that, or merchants want the siege.

  It was in Geoffrey Hartman's class that first semester at Iowa I entered the intuitive way in writing an essay on the Tyger.  He had begun the class with a several session meditation of Collins, Ode on Poetical Character, handed out to read. It was my first graduate class. I remember puzzling about Collin's logic and expression in his Ode as much as Hartman was from the front of the room, filled with coats and boots and scarves.The first assignment was to pick a poem of Blake and write about it, no other restrictions. For no reason I remember I sat down that weekend with the Tyger and gradually emerged with, as if the poem opened up, a vista of Blake's system. The essay was to be four pages  but mine was closer to six, which I achieved by compressing 1 1/2 spacing with a small elite typewriter. 

for the book of the creation of the world

Planetary astroarchaeologies, Electric universe, NASA
Satellite Blue Beam Projection
HAARP
Chem trail geoengineering
the Pope and the President political engineering
Jesuit, Masonic, NSA, CIA social engineering
Drugs, EM rads, Alpha states
MK Ultra,  DARPA
Beta testing Methodical  Illusion
Scientific experiments 7th level Dulce, Denver
Underground bases, cities 



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