Friday, 12 February 2016

Poetry Blog No 123 Trees


                                       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. 


 

 Trees - Mark Scrivener



 Robert Fludd




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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