Brian Berge (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} brianberge) wrote,@ 2006-11-07 02:01:00 |
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The Change-Mercy*
I know Death to be
Necessary to the bargain,
And I agree to the terms,
However soon It comes.
You give me a Flower,
But when I accept It
I am become You
Because It is a turning Wheel.
*CHANGE = 72 = ChSD (Hebrew, "Mercy"). Chesed ("Mercy") is the last Sphere before total surrender of the individual consciousness when ascending the Tree of Life, but also "mercy" comes from the Latin "merc" or "merx", which means "price paid" or "wage" & is the root of "merchandise". "Mercy" (merchandise) is thus fundamentally related to the subject of individual consciousness (i.e. mortal consciousness) in that this category of consciousness is the prerequisite of ownership & of bargaining (even of such basic property as the "personality" & the "ego"). The flower received upon "Death" is the bloom which opens to fulfill the whole of the Tree of Life (centered on Tiphareth [the Heart]), & this fact explains the subconscious symbolism of funerary flowers (both on the heart of the giver & the tomb of the receiver) as representations of the fulfillment of the departed in the memory of the giver. The individual mind makes a macabre distortion of the scenario because the individual is fearful to give, but the Universe loses nothing by giving. The poem is not directed to any individual, but to the Universe, which when seen without any of the bias inherent to ego is a perfectly-balanced Flower centered upon the Heart. This is the Rose which blooms on the Cross--the fulfillment which succeeds the full payment exacted by the instrument of equilibration. Indeed, when Christ said "It is finished" (John 19:30), he used the Greek word "Tetelestai", which is a business term meaning "Paid in full".
I know Death to be
Necessary to the bargain,
And I agree to the terms,
However soon It comes.
You give me a Flower,
But when I accept It
I am become You
Because It is a turning Wheel.
*CHANGE = 72 = ChSD (Hebrew, "Mercy"). Chesed ("Mercy") is the last Sphere before total surrender of the individual consciousness when ascending the Tree of Life, but also "mercy" comes from the Latin "merc" or "merx", which means "price paid" or "wage" & is the root of "merchandise". "Mercy" (merchandise) is thus fundamentally related to the subject of individual consciousness (i.e. mortal consciousness) in that this category of consciousness is the prerequisite of ownership & of bargaining (even of such basic property as the "personality" & the "ego"). The flower received upon "Death" is the bloom which opens to fulfill the whole of the Tree of Life (centered on Tiphareth [the Heart]), & this fact explains the subconscious symbolism of funerary flowers (both on the heart of the giver & the tomb of the receiver) as representations of the fulfillment of the departed in the memory of the giver. The individual mind makes a macabre distortion of the scenario because the individual is fearful to give, but the Universe loses nothing by giving. The poem is not directed to any individual, but to the Universe, which when seen without any of the bias inherent to ego is a perfectly-balanced Flower centered upon the Heart. This is the Rose which blooms on the Cross--the fulfillment which succeeds the full payment exacted by the instrument of equilibration. Indeed, when Christ said "It is finished" (John 19:30), he used the Greek word "Tetelestai", which is a business term meaning "Paid in full".
