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| Prometheus, Henry Fusili ,1770-71 |
IN THE KITCHEN UNDER THE SKIN SINK
Adam,
to God:
“I have done nothing spiritually wrong.”
God, to Adam:
“It is not that you have done nothing spiritually wrong;
it is that you have done nothing
spiritually.”
Everything is infinite in that it is metaphoric, poetic, symbolic,
pointing to something ever deeper and more vast.
-Thomas Moore, twitter 5:00am, August 6, 2016
In the kitchen under the skin's ink death
takes on the role of a dark magician
belonging to King Adam’s identity
winning requires this identity accept
the dark magician in contest and
on behalf the world, lose. Winning
requires the king to lose
which is, likewise, our own
defeat. Meanwhile,
one’s dema-terial mysterium
an imaginal center for shaping
a mythic body that isn’t identity
nor some other “other”—out of
an apple tossed the uninvited
into the fire a panis bis coctus
outcast into likeness formed—out of
the dema remateria material
a slaying of identity distilled.
In a timeless psyche-making
an infinite image and likeness
makes one’s soul home.
©2016 EXTRACTING THE ELIXIR OF LIFE stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
notes
Myths of Creation / Creative Mythologies
1. Paris, Eris and the apple tossed as working with the always outcast and the uninvited
2. Working with The King & The Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil (Heinrich Robert Zimmer. Joseph Campbell. Editor. Princeton University Press; Revised Edition: New Jersey, 1971
3. Working with dema mythologies
4. Working with the image of the skin of things and the fire that transforms it / The Pandoran/Promethean Myth
takes on the role of a dark magician
belonging to King Adam’s identity
winning requires this identity accept
the dark magician in contest and
on behalf the world, lose. Winning
requires the king to lose
which is, likewise, our own
defeat. Meanwhile,
one’s dema-terial mysterium
an imaginal center for shaping
a mythic body that isn’t identity
nor some other “other”—out of
an apple tossed the uninvited
into the fire a panis bis coctus
outcast into likeness formed—out of
the dema remateria material
a slaying of identity distilled.
In a timeless psyche-making
an infinite image and likeness
makes one’s soul home.
©2016 EXTRACTING THE ELIXIR OF LIFE stephanie pope mythopoetry.com
notes
Myths of Creation / Creative Mythologies
1. Paris, Eris and the apple tossed as working with the always outcast and the uninvited
2. Working with The King & The Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil (Heinrich Robert Zimmer. Joseph Campbell. Editor. Princeton University Press; Revised Edition: New Jersey, 1971
3. Working with dema mythologies
4. Working with the image of the skin of things and the fire that transforms it / The Pandoran/Promethean Myth
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