The Statues is a fantastic poem. Applied Platonism. That's probably the best way I'd describe it. I'd love to write about it and will, but there's a lot to it and it's hard to pull the different strands together. But the imagery's phenomenal, and the language is next level, and it's one of those that stays with you and works it's magic on you through the decades even (maybe especially) when you're sleeping.
Another intriguing fragment from The Statues (thanks for introducing me to that!):
"That knowledge increases unreality, that
Mirror on mirror mirrored is all the show."
The Statues is a fantastic poem. Applied Platonism. That's probably the best way I'd describe it. I'd love to write about it and will, but there's a lot to it and it's hard to pull the different strands together. But the imagery's phenomenal, and the language is next level, and it's one of those that stays with you and works it's magic on you through the decades even (maybe especially) when you're sleeping.
Please find a reference which features The Divine King riding the Dawn Horse and performing the Ancient Ashvamedha Horse Sacrifice
http://www.adidaupclose.org/Adidam_In_Perpetuity/dawnhorse.html#vision
A comprehensive critique of our childish self-serving religiosity via the essays featured on this site:
http://beezone.com/current/tableofcontents-5.html
The Death Message
http://beezone.com/latest/death_message.html
http://www.adidaupclose.org/death_and_dying/index.html
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On Narcissus
http://www.dabase.org/up-1-6.htm The Criticism That Cures the Heart
http://beezone.com/adida/narcissus.html