"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.
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.
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.