TREES
This poem
offers an imagination of a particular metaphysical point of view. It
was originally inspired by a diagram from the English philosopher and
doctor Robert Fludd.
Robert
Fludd, also known as Robertus
de Fluctibus (17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637),
was a prominent English Paracelsian physician. He is remembered as an
astrologer, mathematician, cosmologist, Qabalist and Rosicrucian
apologist. Fludd is best known for his compilations in occult
philosophy. He had a celebrated exchange of views with Johannes
Kepler concerning the scientific and hermetic approaches to
knowledge. From Wikipedia
The
poem is not intended as a dogmatic interpretation of the venerable
Kabbalistic diagram known as "The Tree of Life". Rather it
is intended as a comment on the idea that perhaps the prevalent
"reductionist" philosophy, namely that the "higher"
comes from the "lower" (for
example, that consciousness is a a result of physical reactions in
the brain)
may not represent the whole of reality. Throughout history, for
instance, many have had an intuitive perception that the manifest
comes from the unmanifest- that the world of the senses is an
out-flowing of another realm.
Tree of Life - Robert Fludd
TREES
The forest tree
unfolds from earth,
and from the
darkness has its birth;
and lifts its
shimmering, green leaves
to rustle in the
air's soft breeze,
and seeks with
branching strength to rise
up towards the
vastness of the skies:
the day-blue heaven
and
the wide star-sky of
night-
through living's
power it stands
and seeks to rise up
towards the light.
The tree of life
unfolds from heaven
and from the Light
descends to living;
and spreads the
leaves of deeds upon
the earthly pathways
of the sun;
and seeks
fulfillment of its flourishing
within each aspect
of the human journeying-
and has its roots
forever in the Light...
there deep and
deeply founded in
All-Being's timeless
Might.
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