The great secret is the fiery quest. It is not a secret because it cannot be told, but a secret because it cannot be heard. Your passion, your pothos, must drive you to find it for yourself. Finding it is a part of the secret. It has always been the real secret of all the mysteries in the Divine search through all of human history.
The Enneanean
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On This Day…
Jonathan Edwards born in 1703 in Enfield, Connecticut, died 1727: revivalist, preacher, philosopher and protestant theologian. Quotes: “Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.” “Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.” “I resolve to live with all my might while I live.”
We call to the muse as Homer did, "Sing in me a new song, of the old story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, of agon, of the wanderer, harried for years on end." Thanks be to all the blessed Homers, bards, who by their vatic quests eternally restore to us those who have stood on the threshold before us, that single party of the victorious and the defeated. Thanks be to those bards who within the Holy Grail of their imaginations, fire and fuse in syllable and rhythm the one call with the numberless stories of each path and way, and bring each of us again and again to the threshold, the razor's edge, the narrow gate.
Bless us… as we embark with abandonment— of expectations, of disappointments, as we embark with abandon— in passion and vision.
From The Mystery of the Quest Service
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Wallace Stevens born in 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania, died 1955: poet known for The Emperor of Ice Cream, The Snow Man and The Man With the Blue Guitar Quotes: “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” “Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life, poetry and everything else would be a bore.”
It is a quest, a trial, a journey, a personal hero path that each one must travel to reach the Divine through the realities of life. We do not reach the Divine by avoiding life. Two things must be done: first, your must try; and second, you must do.
