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THE JOURNEYMAN 1977
BELOVED ISIS QUEEN OF THE NIGHT COME WEAVE THY WEB WITH RAPID LIGHT
THE JOURNEYMAN Wakefield Theatre Royal, 16 and 17 March 2007
Nature Boy words and music by eden ahbez Nat King Cole There was a boy And then one day "the greatest thing you’ll ever learn "the greatest thing you’ll ever learn
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Graham Hancock 1995 Page 490 Library angels The missing piece of the puzzle "The novelist Arthur Koestler, who had a great interest in synchronicity, coined the term 'library angel' to describe the unknown agency responsible for the lucky breaks researchers sometimes get which lead / Page 491/ to exactly the right information being placed in their hands at exactly the right moment"
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 James Slack Home Affairs Editor Page 25 "Outcry by prisoners who can get only nine TV channels" "Convicts are complaining that they will be able to receive only nine channels in their cell when the Prison Service switches to digital television." "Officials have decided inmates will get nine channels." "The nine channels that are available in the pilot sites were chosen centrally, but these can be changed locally if the governor so wishes."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Michael Simkins Page 32 ".........That'll be nearly nine hours,' I observe........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Derek Lawrenson The World Of Golf Page 65 ".........nine consecutive rounds........." ".........nine hole course........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Mike Dickson Cricket. Page 68 ".........nine fours........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Graham Otway Championship Page 72 ".........ninth goal in nine games........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Chris Wheeler Championship Page 73 ".........nine games........."
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS Catherine Lea Friday April 13 2007 Page 3 WHEN newborn baby Kian Woods heart stopped it was the worst "90 seconds of his parents life " "Then at about 9 pm I got a phone call telling me Kian had gone into cardiac arrest and had been out for about 90 seconds." "But now Kian is well on his way to recovery and is described by his mother as "thriving"
YORKSHIRE EVENING POST Monday 7th March 2005 Page 48 "IT'S KING DAVID"
DAVID AND SOLOMON SOLOMON SOL MOON SOLOMON
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, July 12, 2006 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled by James Black and Charles Legge Page 48 QUESTION When was the Star of David first used as a symbol? ACCORDING to research undertaken by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas fot their book The Hiram Key, which studies the history of Freemasonry, the origins of the hexagram are ancient Egyptian. The design is made up from two pyramids, the upward pointing one is the symbol of the power of the king; its base on the earth and its point reaching up to heaven. The two pyramids came to represent the double Messiah; the kingly and the priestly messiahs. As such, it is the true sign of Jesus who saw himself as a both priestly (he was a rabbi) and kingly (royal House of David) Messiah - the living 'star of David'. James Morris Leighton Buzzard, Beds:
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Jonathan Cainer Page 42 Jonathan writes: Why am I travelling to Tibet to investigate a prophecy from Mexico? It has something to do with ancient cultures, complicated cosmologies and poignant predictions. On my way, I passed through Delhi, where there is a temple dedicated to Saturn. Word has not yet reached them there about the newly-discovered hexagon at Saturn's north pole. I have, however, been dwelling on this. The Star of David is hexagonal. Could Saturn have a message about the future of Israel?
"HOW YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN BRIGHT SON OF THE MORNING"
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Littlejohn Page 15 ".........David who........." ".........David........." ".........Call me Dave........."
A MAN NAMED DAVE Dave Pelzer 1999 A Story Of Triumph And Forgiveness
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Roy Hattersley Page 16 "Passion in the Rhubarb Triangle" "The junction of the M1 and M62. Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield are all about three miles away" ".........Leeds Wakefield and Bradford........." "For .this is a part of rural England that the guide books often ignore" ".........England........." ".........English........." ".........England's towns and England's countryside........." "The roads meet at the heart of 'the rhubarb Triagle'. Around are the fields of David........." ".........DAVID ........." ".........David ........." ".........David ........." ".........David ........." ".........David ........." ".........David ........." ".........Good Friday........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Ephraim Hardcastle Page 17 ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 James Slack Home Affairs Editor Page 20 ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Richard Kay Page 35 ".........David........." ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Barney Calman Good Health Page 50 ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 David Williams Good Health Page 51 ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Television Radio Page 52 ".........David........." ".........David........." Page 53 ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Compiled by James Black and Charles Legge Page 58 ".........David........." ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 James Ashton City and Finance Page 64 ".........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Richard Bott Rugby League Page 68 ".........David........." ".........Wakefield on Good Friday........." ".........David........." ".........Wakefield........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Graham Otway, Neil Hallam. Championship Page 72 "........David........." "........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Chris Wheeler Championship Page 73 ".........Davey's........." ".........Davey........." "........Dave........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Simon Cass Premiership Page 76 "........David........." "........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Peter Ferguson Premiership Page 77 "........David........."
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS Graham Poucher Friday April 13 2007 Vision of the future Page 3 "........Dave........." Page 4 "........David........." Page 13 "........David........." "........David........." "........David........." "........David........." Page 17 "........David........." Page 20 "........Dave........." "........David........." Page 26 "........David........." Page 31 "........David........." "........David........." Page 31 "........David........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Page 10 "The other, Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield, Yorkshire," Page 68 ".........Wakefield on Good Friday........." ".........Wakefield........."
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS Friday April 13 2007 Catherine Lea wakefield express 'A very emotive and moving experience' Page 35 "GOOD FRIDAY WALK OF WITNESS" "The Merrie City's streets were alive with activity on Good Friday as hundreds of people put their best foot forward for the annual Walk of Witness" ".........Wakefield........." ".........Wakefield........." "The walk is organised each year to commemorate Christ's journey through Jerusalem to his crucifixion at Calvary ".........Wakefield........." ".........Wakefield........." ".........Wakefield........." ".........Wakefield........." Page 39 "Christ is risen" Page 20 "The Christian Israelite Church"
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS Friday April 13 2007 Page 21 "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS" "Christian comment from Churches Together in Wakefield" "What motivates them? I would say love.The love that caused Christian hearts to beat a little faster last Sunday: Easter Day - the awesome wonder of Jesus, resurrection."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 A-Z Satellite Listings Page 54 ".........Quantum Leap........." ".........Quantum Leap........." ".........Cry in the dark........." ".........Shadowlands........." ".........HALF LIGHT........." ".........PICTURE PERFECT ........." ".........EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Matt Barlow Premiership Page 78 ".........on course to complete a mission that looked almost impossible........." ".........saviour Messiah........." ".........Christmas........." ".........Easter........."
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS Friday April 13 2007 Charlie Bullough Front Page "- no response to 999" " - and no one responded to the 999 call" ".........999........." ".........999........." ".........999........." ".........999........." Page 5 ".........999........." ".........999........." ".........999........." ".........999........." Page 17 ".........999........."
METRO FREE PAPER Monday, April 30. 2007 Front Page Joel Taylor ".........999 ........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Michael Simkins GOING BATTY "The day I won the Ashes..." Page 32 "..........God.........." "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans." "The Almighty" "..........Good.........." "..........God.........." "..........Good.........." "..........Good.........." "..........God.........." "..........God.........." Page 3 "..........God.........." "..........God.........." "..........God.........."
DAILY MAIL Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Des Kelly Heavens what a load of golf balls Page 70 "God has been a bit busy lately, what with it being Easter and all" ".........the Almighty........." "It's amazing what God can do." ".........Amen corner........." ".........faith in God's game........." "One side is marked with the phrase: 'One shot at a time,' and the other refers to a passage from the Gospel of Matthew: Seek first the kingdom of God.' ".........believe that God has the time........." ".........God........." ".........the Lord........." ".........I pray to God that I'll win........." ".........ask God for forgiveness........." Page 3 "..........Jesus.........." Page 32 ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." Page 33 ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........." ".........Gideon........."
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References JUDGES C 6 v 28 Gideon the sixth Judge. Page 294 "And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it........." 29 "And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing." 30 "Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it. 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. 32 "Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.
C 7 V 1 The preparation for battle. Page 295 "THEN Jerubball, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched besides the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh in the valley.
COLLINS GEM DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE Rev James L. Dow 1964 Page 195 "Gideon [gid-e-on]. Son of Joash of Ophra in Manasseh, he was called to liberate the people from the Midianites (Judg. 6) He offended the people by destroying the altar to Baal, but his father asked that Baal should be allowed to avenge himself if he could. When there was no divine vengeance, Gideon earned the name of Jerubbaal (let Baal contend)" He mobilised 4 tribes, reduced his numbers to 300, and defeated Midian in a night attack (Judg.7). He refused a / Page 196 / call to the throne and returned to private life (Judg. 8, 22 & 23). See JUDGES
WAKEFIELD EXPRESS Friday April 27 2007 Lidsay Pantry Page 18 "It was a David and Goliath battle this week for the schools Rugby League U 14s cup final - or rather Wakefield versus Normanton." "City High coach David Mansfield said; "We are really proud of the lads. We only started playing competitive rugby league last September and Freeston were county champions, so it was a real David and Goliath match."
COLLINS GEM DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE Rev James L. Dow 1964 Page 195 "Giant. A race of demi-gods, the Nephilim, comparable to the Titans of classical mythology (Gen 6, 4). Other race names are given to people of remarkable stature who were aboriginal in Palestine before the conquest:" "Goliath of Gath was 9ft. 9 in. tall."
THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR Florence L.Barclay 1911 Chapter 1 GOLD Page 9 ".........David........." ".........Bible........." "...and David felt as did the young David of old, when he had paused at the brook and chosen five smooth stones for his sling, on his way to meet the mighty champion of the philistines, David now felt ready to go forward and fight the Goliath of apathy and inattention; the life long habit of not listening to the voice..." ".........David........."
THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR Florence L.Barclay 1911 Page 32 David Stirs the Still Waters "As he stood silent, while the congregation settled into their seats, looking down he met the grey eyes of his Lady of Mystery. They said: " I am waiting. I have come for this." Instantly the sense of inspiration filled him. With glad assurance he gave out his text. "The gospel according to St. Matthew, the second chapter, the tenth and eleventh verses: 'When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy. . . . And when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto Him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.' " Page 33 "My friends," he said, .. although it is Christmas Eve, I speak to you to-night on the Epiphany subject, because, when the great Feast of Epiphany comes, I shall no longer have the privilege of addressing you. I expect to be on the ocean, on my way to carry the Christmas message of 'Peace on earth goodwill towards men, '........."
Page 34 "No one looked in the least interested. \Vhat a silly question! What a senseless cause for wonder! Of course they would all answer" three." The youngest infant in the Sunday School knew that there were three Wise Men. " But why should you say' three' ? " continued David. "We are not told in the Bible how many Wise Men.there were. Look and see." The Smith and Jones families made no move. They knew perfectly well that their Bibles said "three." If this young man's Bible omitted to mention the orthodox number, it was only another of many omissions in his new-fangled Bible and unsound preaching. It would be one thing more to report to the Rector on his return. But his Lady of Mystery leaned forward, took up a Bible which chanced to be beside her, turned rapidly to Matthew ii., bent over it for a moment, then smiled, and laid it down. David knew she had made sure of finding" three," and had not found it. He took courage. She was interested. He launched into his subject. In vivid words, more full of poetry and beauty than he knew, he rapidly painted the scene; the long journey through the eastern desert, with eyes upon the star; the anxious days, when it could not be seen, and the route might so easily be missed; the glad nights when it shone again, luminous, serene, still moving on before. The arrival at Jerusalem, the onward quest to Bethlehem, the finding of the King. Then, the actual story fully dealt with, David turned to application. David paused. Mrs Jones rustled, and Mrs. Smith tinkled, but David heard them not. The Lady of Mystery had lifted her eyes to his, and those beautiful sad eyes said: "I had." "They lost sight of the star," said David. " Their hearts were sad, thinking they had lost it forever. But they found it again at Jerusalemplace of God's holy temple and worship. Here is your Jerusalem. Lift your eyes to-night, higher than the mere church roof, and find again your lost star; see where shines your Ideal-your faith, your hope, your love, your belief in things eternal. . And when they saw the star they rejoiced.' " David paused. Long lashes veiled the grey eyes. Her hands Page 68 "Suddenly out shone a star - clear, luminous divine:" Page 126 The Voice in the Night "There was as yet, no sign of dawn, but through the frosty pane, right before him, as a / Page 127 / lamp in the purple sky, shone the bright morning
star. He dropped on one knee, folding his arms upon the woodwork of the sill.
DAILY MAIL Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Daily Mail Reporter Page 24 "........David........." "........David........." "........David........." Page 28 "........Dave........." "........David........." "........Dave........." "........Dave........." "........Dave........." "........Dave........." "........Dave........." Page 28 "........Dave........." "........David........." ".........amen to that........."
The word 'amen' is the value 99 in Greek numerals and appears in the Bible (Old and New testament) 99 times.Wikepedia AMEN AMEN ALL MEN ALL MEN AMEN AMEN ALL WOMEN ALL WOMEN AMEN AMEN NAME NAME AMENAMEN NAME NAME AMENAMEN NAME NAME AMEN
THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR Florence L.Barclay 1911 Page 71 " And some have never loved Thee well, And some have lost the love they had," "Presently David's voice arose in glad tones of certainty: " Thy touch has still its ancient power; No word from Thee can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Thy mercy, heal us all; Oh heal us all "The last notes of the quiet Amen died away."
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References REVELATION C 21 Page 1351 REVELATIONC 21 V 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.5 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.6 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son."
I THAT AM THE HE AS IN SHE THAT IS THEE
DAILY MAIL Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Front Page "THE NEW EARTH" "Does the discovery of a planet just like ours mean there IS life out there ?" Page 12/13 "FOUND; THE NEW EARTH" Michael Hanlon Science Editor Page 12 "A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life - just like us - might be out there" Page 13 "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute uses radio telescopes to try to pick up messages sent by alien civilisations." "Quite what would happen happen if we did receive a signal is unclear."
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
I AM DAVID Anne Holm 1963 Translated from the Danish by L. W. Kingsland Page 99 "........David........." "........David........." "........David........." "........David........." "........David........." "........David........."
CABINET OFFICE Civil Service PensionsForm P60 End Of Year Certificate Received 27, April 2007 D Denison 9 Windsor Road CAPITA HARTSHEAD "Paymaster (1836) Ltd no longer pays your pension and has passed all its records to Capita"
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD Or The After Death Experience on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering Compiled and edited Edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz 1960 Facing Preface To The Paperback Edition 'Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that have this calling to learn to die. . . . I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundament of all virtues. '- OrologiumSapientiae. 'Against his will he dieth that hath not learned to die. Learn to die and thou shalt learn to live, for there shall none learn to live that hath not learned to die.'-Toure of all Toures: and Teacheth a Man for to Die. The Book of the Craft of Dying (Comper's Edition). '\Vhatever is here, that is there; what is there, the same is here. He who seeth here as different, meeteth death after death. Facing Preface to the Second Edition BONDAGE TO REBIRTH "As a man's desire is, so is his destiny. For as his desire is, so is his will; and as his will is, so is his deed; and as his deed is, so is his reward, whether good or bad. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad FREEDOM FROM REBIRTH 'He who lacketh discrimination, whose mind is unsteady and whose heart is impure, never reacheth the goal, but is born again and again. But he who hath discrimination, whose mind is steady and whose heart is pure, reacheth the goal, and having reached it is born no more.' Katha U panishad. Page xi SRI KRISHNA'S REMEMBERING 'Many lives Arjuna, you and I have lived. I remember them all but thou dost not.' Bhagavad Gita, iv, 5., iv, 5. Page xx "......... Denison........."
INCARNATION THE DEAD RETURN Daniel Easterman 1998 Page 99 "........David........." Page 3 "The old man's name was Dennison"
NEW TESTAMENT Pocket Testament League A gift from Mr A.Bird at a chance meeting on Wakefield's New Bridge Front cover is self signed Name "David Denison Aged 10 years" Back cover name and date inscribed by Mr A. Bird (Dennison is a misspelling) FOR GOD so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that DAVID DENNISON who believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 10 - 5 - 50
THE PATH OF PTAH THE SELF CRUCIFIXION OF THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE SELF THE VIRGIN BIRTH IS TO BE REBORN OF WATER AND SPIRIT GODS HOLY SPIRIT AFTER HAVING ENDURED THE DEATH OF THE I ME EGO SELF I SELF EGO ME I WEIGHED IN THE BALANCE AND NOT FOUND WANTING EVOLVE THEE THAT THOU OF LOVE LOVE LOVE OF THOU THAT THEE EVOLVE
ISISIS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE UNLESS THAT HE AZIN SHE THAT IS THEE IZ BORN AGAIN AGAIN BORN THOU CANST NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF EVEN
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References REVELATION Page 1353 16 ".........I am the root and the off spring of David, and the bright and morning star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely"
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References C 1 V 16 THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES Page 1148 (Part quoted) "MEN AND BRETHREN THIS SCRIPTURE MUST NEEDS HAVE BEEN FULFILLED WHICH THE HOLY GHOST BY THE MOUTH OF DAVID SPAKE"
HOLY BIBLE Scofield References REVELATION Page 1353 16 "I am the root and the off spring of David, and the bright and morning star."
A MYSTERIOUS VOICE IN THE NIGHT LOVE EVOLVE EVOLVE LOVE
THE DIVINE INVASION Phillip Dick 1981 "The time you have waited for has come. The work is complete: the final world is here. He has been transplanted and is alive." -Mysterious voice in the night Page 85 'What's wrong?' Elias put his arm around the boy and lifted him up to hold him. 'I've never seen you so upset.' 'He listened to that while my mother was dying!' Emmanuel stared into Elias's bearded face. I remember, Emmanuel said to himself. I am beginning to remember who I am. Elias said, 'What is it?' He held the boy tight. It is happening, Emmanuel realized. At last. That was the first of the signal that I - I myself - prepared. Knowing it would eventually fire. The two of them gazed into each other's faces. Neither the boy nor the man spoke. Trembling, Emmanuel clung to the old bearded man; he did not let himself fall. 'Do not fear,' Elias said. 'Elijah,' Emmanuel said. 'You are Elijah who comes first. Before the great and terrible day.' Elias, holding the boy and rocking him gently, said, 'You have nothing to fear on that day.' 'But he does,' Emmanuel said. 'The Adversary whom' we hate. His time has come. I fear for him, knowing as I do, now, what is ahead.' 'Listen,' Elias said quietly. How you have fallen from heaven, bright morning star, felled to the earth, sprawling helpless across the nations! You thought in your own mind, I will scale the heavens; I will set my throne high above the stars of God, I will sit on the mountain where the gods meet in the far recesses of the north. I will rise high above the cloud-banks and make myself like the Most High. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the abyss. Those who see you will stare at you, they will look at you and ponder. . .
Page 86 'You see?' Elias said. 'He is here. This is his place, this little world. He made it his fortress two thousand years ago, and set up a prison for the people as he did in Egypt. For two thousand years the people have been crying and there was no response, no aid. He has them all. He'll thinks he is safe.' Emmanuel, clutching the old man, began to cry. ''Still afraid?' Elias said.?' Elias said. Emmanuel said, 'I cry with them. I cry with my mother. I cry with the dying dog who did not cry. I cry for them. And for Belial who fell, the bright morning star. Fell from heaven and began it all.' And, he thought, I cry for myself. I am my mother; I am the dying dog and the suffering people, and I, he thought, am that bright morning star, too. . . even Belial; I am that and what it has become.
DAILY MAIL Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Allison Pearson Page 15 "It's a bleak picture that brings to mind W.B. Yeats's great poem about a world where the natural order of things has catastrophically broken down: 'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned,'
"And now, things fall apart. The centre cannot hold. ... What W. B. Yeats’s ‘Second Coming’ Really Says About the Iraq War - New York Times ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second Coming_(poem) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"The Second Coming" is a poem by William Butler Yeats first printed in The Dial (November 1920) and afterwards included in his 1921 verse collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. The poem uses religious symbolism to illustrate Yeats' anguish over the apparent decline of Europe's ruling class, and his occult belief that Western civilization (if not the whole world) was nearing the terminal point of a 2000-year historical cycle. The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War.[1] The various manuscript revisions of the poem also have references to the French and Irish Revolutions as well as to Germany and Russia. It is highly doubtful that the poem was solely inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917, which some claim Yeats viewed as a threat to the aristocratic class he favored .[citation needed] Early drafts also included such lines as: "And there's no Burke to cry aloud no Pitt," and "The good are wavering, while the worst prevail."[citation needed] The sphinx or sphinx-like beast described in the poem had long captivated Yeats' imagination. He wrote the Introduction to his play The Resurrection, "I began to imagine [around 1904], as always at my left side just out of the range of sight, a brazen winged beast which I associated with laughing, ecstatic destruction", noting that the beast was "Afterwards described in my poem 'The Second Coming'". Critic Yvor Winters has observed, "…we must face the fact that Yeats' attitude toward the beast is different from ours: we may find the beast terrifying, but Yeats finds him satisfying – he is Yeats' judgment upon all that we regard as civilized. Yeats approves of this kind of brutality." Manuscript variations can be found in Yeats, William Butler. Michael Robartes and the Dancer Manuscript Materials. Thomas Parkinson and Anne Brannen, eds. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1994. The Poem
Origins of terms The word gyre used in the poem's first line is drawn from Yeats's book A Vision, which sets out a theory of history and metaphysics which Yeats claimed to have received from spirits. The theory of history articulated in A Vision centers on a diagram composed of two conical spirals, one situated inside the other, so that the widest part of one cone occupies the same plane as the tip of the other cone, and vice versa. Around these cones he imagined a set of spirals. Yeats claimed that this image (he called the spirals "gyres") captured contrary motions inherent within the process of history, and he divided each gyre into different regions that represented particular kinds of historical periods (and could also represent the psychological phases of an individual's development). Yeats believed that in 1921 the world was on the threshold of an apocalyptic moment, as history reached the end of the outer gyre (to speak roughly) and began moving along the inner gyre. In his own notes, Yeats explained: "The end of an age, which always receives the revelation of the character of the next age, is represented by the coming of one gyre to its place of greatest expansion and of the other to that of its greatest contraction. At the present moment the life gyre is sweeping outward, unlike that before the birth of Christ which was narrowing, and has almost reached its greatest expansion. The revelation which approaches will however take its character from the contrary movement of the interior gyre. All our scientific, democratic, fact-accumulating, heterogeneous civilization belongs to the outward gyre and prepares not the continuance of itself but the revelation as in a lightning flash, though in a flash that will not strike only in one place, and will for a time be constantly repeated, of the civilization that must slowly take its place...when the revelation comes it will not come to the poor but to the great and learned and establish again for two thousand years prince and vizier." The lines "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" are a paraphrase of one of the most famous passages from Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, a book which Yeats, by his own admission, regarded from his childhood with religious awe:
In the early drafts of the poem, Yeats used the phrase "the Second Birth", but substituted the phrase "Second Coming" while revising. His intent in doing so is not clear. The Second Coming described in the Biblical Book of Revelation is here anticipated as gathering dark forces that would fill the population's need for meaning with a ghastly and dangerous sense of purpose. Though Yeats's description has nothing in common with the typically envisioned Christian concept of the Second Coming of Christ, it fits with his view that something strange and heretofore unthinkable would come to succeed Christianity, just as Christ transformed the world upon his appearance. The "spiritus mundi" (literally "spirit of the world") is a reference to Yeats' belief that each human mind is linked to a single vast intelligence, and that this intelligence causes certain universal symbols to appear in individual minds.
THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE Prose And Verse From The Bible Robert Prys Jones 1949 Page 118 ISAIAH 1 BRING NO MORE VAIN OBLATIONS
Page 119 ISAIAH 6 HERE AM I; SEND ME IN the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.
"Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory."
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