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Sublime

By Richard Mather



He who receives light from above no other doctrine needs


-- Milton, Paradise Regained IV 288-290



At the mill with slaves

in this land of foreign gods

(and more shadow than light),

the poet’s mind is moved

by thought,

an infinite succession of thoughts,

a multitude of images,

appearances

emulating appearances,

extending toward the infinite.

And as each image negates the last,

comprehension is exceeded,

the pillars are toppled

and then a god-like black-out

as the scenery crumbles

and nature and the human dissolve

into the pure mediality

of absolute indifference.


When he opens his eyes

he is as blind as Samson,

calm of mind all passion spent.

But having passed over

from the world of sense,

he now has a different light

in which to see:

an indifferent clarity of mind,

knowledge without perspective,

the zero-point of all opposites,

eternally autonomous,

superordinated,

the unhuman Absolute Person.


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