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Wondrous. Sublime. A Poiesis beyond Mythoi, beyond Logoi, beyond Plato’s Noesis,10 where Poiesis, the final synthesis of Mythos and Logos, manifests itself as a perfect, unchanging reality, be it the Platonic Forms or the Divine Realm.
Blake comes to experience God in the blossom of duality’s reality, innocence and experience, symmetry and asymmetry and comes to know the Divine in Poiesis’ synthesis: Innocence. To yearn for the fallen light is to yearn for the return of Love, of innocence.11 Innocence is the Wondrous Way. Innocence, the abode of Pure Poiesis, God’s dwelling, is the Song of the Lamb: the abode of Love, of Sentiment.
“What the heart can grasp knowledge cannot understand, not even the clearest action, not even the widest thought. The moment changes everything like a condescending magician, he separates us sweetly from rancor and violence, only Love with her science makes us so innocent.” 12
It is, too, the very Love of Pascal “The heart has its reasons
10 Plato’s Noesis, intellective seeing, is the loftiest degree of Being attainable in the Allegory of the Divided Line. Plato. Complete Works. The Republic. 509d-511e. Ed. John M. Cooper. Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997.
12 Parra, Violeta. Volver a los 17. Popular Song by the famous Chilean Composer. Translated by writer.
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