And then our Lord opened my spiritual eye and shewed me my soul in midst of my heart.

I saw the Soul so large as it were an endless world, and as it were a blissful kingdom.

And He shewed the satisfying that He hath of the making of Man's Soul. For as well as the Father might make a creature, that Man's Soul were made.

And at this point the Son began first to shew His might:

for He went into Hell, and when He was there He raised up the great Root out of the deep deepness which was knit in high Heaven.

"The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous" in seeming of  the Scourging, as thus:

The fair skin was broken full deep into the tender flesh with sharp smiting all about the sweet body.

So plenteously the hot blood ran out that there was neither seen skin nor wound, but as it were all blood.

And when it came where it should have fallen down, then it vanished. Notwithstanding, the bleeding continued awhile: till it might be seen and considered.  And this was so plenteous, that methought if it had been so in kind and in substance at that time, it should have made the bed all one blood, and have passed over about.

And then came to my mind that God hath made waters plenteous in earth to our service and to our bodily ease for tender love that He hath to us.

Behold and see!  

The precious plenty of His dear worthy blood descended down into Hell and burst her bands and delivered all that were there which belonged to the Court of Heaven. The precious plenty of His dear worthy blood overfloweth all Earth, and is ready to wash all creatures of sin.

The precious plenty of His dear worthy blood ascended up into Heaven to the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and there is in Him, bleeding and praying for us to the Father.

And evermore it floweth in all Heavens enjoying the salvation of all mankind.

I saw the plenteous bleeding of the Head.

The great drops of blood fell down from under the Garland like pellots, seeming as it had come out of the veins; and in the coming out they were brown-red, for the blood was full thick;

and in the spreading-abroad they were bright-red; and when they came to the brows, then they vanished; notwithstanding, the bleeding continued till many things were seen and understood.

The plenteousness is like to the drops of water that fall off the eaves after a great shower of rain, that fall so thick that no man may number them with bodily wit; and for the roundness, they were like to the scale of herring, in the spreading on the forehead.

These three came to my mind in the time:

pellots for roundness,

in the coming out of the blood, the scale of herring,

in the spreading in the forehead, for roundness;

the drops off eaves, for the plenteousness innumerable.

For the blessed flesh and bones was left all alone without blood and moisture.

The blessed body dried alone long time with wringing of the nails and weight of the body.

For I understood that for tenderness of the sweet hands and of the sweet feet, by the greatness, hardness, and grievousness of the nails the wounds waxed wide and the body sagged, for weight by long time hanging.

And therewith was piercing and pressing of the head,

and binding of the Crown all baked with dry blood, with the sweet hair clinging,

and the dry flesh, to the thorns, and the thorns to the flesh drying;

and in the beginning while the flesh was fresh and bleeding, the continual sitting of the thorns made the wounds wide.

And furthermore I saw that the sweet skin and the tender flesh, with the hair and the blood,

was all raised and loosed about from the bone, with the thorns wherethrough it were rent in many pieces, as a cloth that were sagging, as if it would hastily have fallen off, for heaviness and looseness, while it had natural moisture.

The Garland of the Thorns was dyed with the blood, and that other garland of Blood and the head, all was one colour, as clotted blood when it is dry. The skin of the flesh that shewed of the face and of the body, was small-rimpled with a tanned colour, like a dry board when it is aged;

and the face more brown than the body.

The body was in the grave till Easter-morrow, and from that time He lay nevermore.

For then was rightfully ended the struggling and the writhing, the groaning and the moaning.

And our foul deadly flesh that God's Son took on Him, which was Adam's old kirtle, worn, bare, and short, was then by our Saviour made fair, new white and bright and of endless cleanness;

loose and long.

Juliana of Norwich  1373

the innet quest

to determine how likable

as if this space

would be different

equipped with a switch

goodbye

why is it so hard

to know the difference

between followers and following

thousands now and forever

crawling over every bit

shared

Two Minstrels' Rune Medley

MASTERED by desire impulsive,

By a mighty inward urging,

I am ready now for singing,

Ready to begin the chanting

Of our nation's ancient folk-song

Handed down from by-gone ages.

In my mouth the words are melting,

From my lips the tones are gliding,

From my tongue they wish to hasten;

When my willing teeth are parted,

When my ready mouth is opened,

Songs of ancient wit and wisdom.

There are many other legends,

Incantations that were taught me,

That I found along the wayside,

Gathered in the fragrant copses,

Blown me from the forest branches,

Culled among the plumes of pine-trees,

Scented from the vines and flowers,

Whispered to me as I followed

Flocks in land of honeyed meadows,

Over hillocks green and golden,

After sable-haired Murikki,

And the many-colored Kimmo.

Many runes the cold has told me,

Many lays the rain has brought me,

Other songs the winds have sung me;

Many birds from many forests,

Oft have sung me lays n concord

Waves of sea, and ocean billows,

Music from the many waters.

Music from the whole creation,

Oft have been my guide and master.

Sentences the trees created,

Rolled together into bundles,

Moved them to my ancient dwelling.

On the sledges to my cottage,

Tied them to my garret rafters,

Hung them on my dwelling-portals,

Laid them in a chest of boxes.

Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,

Passed his years in full contentment,

On the meadows of Wainola,

On the plains of Kalevala,

Singing ever wondrous legends,

Songs of ancient wit and wisdom.

Chanting one day, then a second,

Singing in the dusk of evening,

Singing till the dawn of morning,

Now the tales of old-time heroes,

Tales of ages long forgotten.

Now the legends of creation,

Once familiar to the children,

By our children sung no longer,

Sung in part by many heroes.

In these mournful days of evil,

Evil days our race befallen.

Far and wide the story travelled,

Far away men spread the knowledge

Of the chanting of the hero,

Of the song of Wainamoinen.

Still the minstrel sings enchantment,

Sings his sword with golden handle,

Sings it into gleam of lightning,

Hangs it in the sky above him.

Sings his cross-bow, gaily painted,

To a rainbow o'er the ocean;

Sings his quick and feathered arrows

Into hawks and screaming eagles.

Sings his dog with bended muzzle,

Into block of stone beside him;

Sings his cap from off his forehead,

Sings it into wreaths of vapor.

From his hands he sings his gauntlets

Into rushes on the waters;

Sings his vesture, purple-colored,

Into white clouds in the heavens;

Sings his girdle, set with jewels,

Into twinkling stars around him.

"Aino, beauty of the Northland,

Wear not, lovely maid, for others,

Only wear for me, sweet maiden,

Golden cross upon thy bosom,

Shining pearls upon thy shoulders;

Bind for me thine auburn tresses,

Wear for me thy golden braidlets."

Thus the maiden quickly answered:

"Not for thee and not for others,

Hang I from my neck the crosslet.

Deck my hair with silken ribbons;

Need no more the many trinkets

Brought to me by ship or shallop;

Sooner wear the simplest raiment.

Feed upon the barley bread-crust,

Dwell forever with my mother

In the cabin with my father."

Then she threw the gold cross from her,

Tore the jewels from her fingers,

Quickly loosed her shining necklace,

Quick untied her silken ribbons,

Cast them all away indignant

Into forest ferns and flowers.

Thereupon the maiden, Aino,

Hastened to her mother's cottage.

Loudly does the pine-tree answer:

"All the ships that have been fashioned

From my body are unworthy;

I am full of imperfections,

Cannot give thee needed timber.

Wherewithal to build thy vessel;

Ravens live within my branches,

Build their nests and hatch their younglings

Three times in my trunk in summer."

Sampsa leaves the lofty pine-tree,

Wanders onward, onward, onward,

To the woods of gladsome summer,

Where an oak-tree comes to meet him.

In circumference, three fathoms,

And the oak he thus addresses:

"Ancient oak-tree, will thy body

Furnish wood to build a vessel?

Build a boat for Wainamoinen,

Master-boat for the magician,

Wisest of the wisdom-singers?"

Thus the oak replies to Sampsa:

"I for thee will gladly furnish

Wood to build the hero's vessel;

I am tall, and sound, and hardy,

Have no flaws within my body.

Three times in the months of summer,

In the warmest of the seasons,

Does the sun dwell in my tree-top,

On my trunk the moonlight glimmers,

In my branches sings the cuckoo,

In my top her nestlings slumber."

Quick he changes his complexion,

Changes too his form and feature,

Slips into another body;

Like a serpent in a circle,

Rolls black-dyed upon the waters;

Like a snake among the willows,

Crawls he like a worm of magic,

Like an adder through the grasses,

Through the coal-black stream of death-land,

Through a thousand nets of copper

Interlaced with threads of iron,

From the kingdom of Tuoni,

From the castles of Manala.

Mana's son, the wicked wizard,

With his iron-pointed fingers,

In the early morning hastens

To his thousand nets of copper,

Set within the Tuoni river,

Finds therein a countless number

Of the death-stream fish and serpents.

Elias Lonnrot

KALEVALA

if you open up

you see everything at once

you have twisted toolmaking

into a way of thinking

all information

is available

another way

not inside or

some magical room

open

no edges

no limit

no thing else

and the closer

you approach that

the more in peace

this summer morning

1648

One day when I had been walking solitarily abroad and was come home, I was wrapped up in love so that I could not but admire the greatness of love. While I was in that condition, it was opened unto me by the eternal light and I saw clearly therein that all these troubles were good for me.

When at any time my condition was veiled, my secret was stayed firm and hope underneath held me as an anchor in the bottom of the sea and anchored my unmortal soul, causing it to swim above the sea, the world, where all the raging waves, foul weather, tempests are.

As the light appeared, all appeared that is out of the light: darkness, death, all was manifest and seen in the light.

After this, a pure fire appeared in me then discerning came into me by which I did discern my own thoughts, groans, and sighs and what it was that veiled me and what it was that opened me.

Now was I come through the flaming sword into the Paradise. All things were new and gave another smell unto me than before beyond what words can utter. I knew nothing being renewed up into the state of Adam which he was in before he fell.

It was shewed me how all things had their names given them according to their nature and virtue. And I was at a stand in my mind whether I should practice physic for the good of mankind, seeing the nature and virtues of the creatures.
 

But I was immediately taken to see into another more steadfast state than Adam's.

Great things and wonderful depths beyond what can by words be declared, the hidden unity in the Eternal Being.

george fox

civil beyond all forms of breeding

and when she lifted her legs it was as if
she wanted to balance the moon  on her toes to keep it from falling

but I knew all along it was the black cloud that needed to stay in place

and so in that county where I was once and now and will be before I was

where I spoke the words holy  holy holy Lord God Almighty all the earth

is full of Thy glory where the whistling swans ride the backs of the white

horses of the river where the boxcars and skiffs are full

of drunken troubadours where once I did lay awhile longer the pavane

of whippoorwills while the pall bearers are strutting in the ceremonies

of my sleep the passing bell nodding like a snake charmer all far

past way deep behind the woods down the  road where I saw that lightning bug

in  the country where my  dreams are like bark

peeled off by lightning  I was with her the girl  with black  hair

while the wolf had the moon by the throat

I said I love you in  the field of honor

and she  was like a colt

and she was water I  held in  my hands

and she was the canoe I worked through the river

ans she was the flash at two-thirty in the morning of  the suicidal knife

and she was  a fire of pine cones who ran like a deer

and she was a butterfly that lit on the float of  my  pole

and she was  the night herself

she was the cape I drew over my body

frank stanford

an  archangel in  red

modeling

someone  is ok

for learning

but there is a need

to concentrate on creating

from whats at hand

like madonna

with the great tits

and outside bra