Wednesday, October 12, 2016




"A Needle's Eye" as a symbol of Kether by W.B. Yeats




I want to try to discuss about his magical skills in his symbols. 


The symbols in Yeats's art works are based on Yeats's magical skills, so his magic theory would be absorbed in his poetry and story books.


I think his magical skills are practical to search for the Holy Grail to get to the New Age as the Knight Parcifal. Of course, the Daimonic world makes the New World but the secular world is still secular


which is dominated by the law of  Karma.
 


Yeats tried to awaken the Divine Feminine in the world as the Holy Grail, Sophia. Red Hanrahan is Magician- adept- poet to awaken the sleeping Beauty, Sophia.


Now I guess that his magical skills are different from the sages, his predecessors with traditional Rosicrucianism and Cabbalah, although his magic skills are belonging to the traditional Cabblah and Rosicrucianism.


I would like to explain the Needle's eye also is a symbol of the Cabbalah, the Tree of Life.


It shows the symbol of Kether.


       
A Needle's Eye


 


All the stream that's roaring by
Came out of a needle's eye;
Things unborn, things that are gone,
From needle's eye still goad it on. 
 


 


I surf on the web for the Kether as "a point" which means "needle's eye" :
 


"Kether has many titles: Existence of Existences, Concealed of the Concealed, Ancient of Ancients, Ancient of Days, Primordial Point, the Smooth Point, the Point within the Circle, the Most High, the Inscrutable Height, the Vast Countenance (Arik Anpin), the White Head, the Head which is not, Macroprosopus. Taken together, these titles imply that Kether is the first, the oldest, the root of existence, remote, and its most accurate symbol is that of a point. Kether precedes all forms of existence, all differentiation and distinction, all polarity. Kether contains everything in potential, like a seed that sprouts and grows into a Tree, not once, but continuously. Kether is both root and seed. Because it precedes all forms and contains all opposites it is not like anything. You can say it contains infinite goodness, but then you have to say that it contains infinite evil. Wrapped up in Kether is all the love in the world, and wrapped around the love is all the hate. Kether is an outpouring of purest, radiant light, but equally it is the profoundest stygian dark. And it is none of these things; it precedes all form or polarity, and its Virtue is unity. It is a point without extension or qualities, but it contains all creation within it as an unformed potential. " 


 


Yeats shows Kether as a magician, I think.  How do you think about my thought?


I would like to publish a book for Yeats's hidden magical skills in his art works.


Yeats once told that "I look at what I have written with some alarm, for I have told more of the ancient secret than many among my fellow-students think it right to tell."


 


Yeats told tha he wrote the "hidden things" so "I have often felt my tongue become just so heavy and clumsy."    


Kether in Tree  of Life is shown to his poem "A  Needle's Eye" but he might feel his words are clumsy.