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the mind does not know,” and the very innocence of Jesus: “Except you be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.”13
And between the streams of terror and splendor, Lethe and Alethe, Mythos and Logos and Poiesis dwell. Lethe- Oblivion is Experience’s grieving rivers, what must be forgotten, Mythos and Logos, their condemnation; and Alethe-Unconcealment14 is Innocence’s joyous revealing waters, what must be recovered, luminous Poiesis: Salvation.
Lethe symbolizes Plato’s Cavern and it symbolizes, too, the world of Blake’s Songs of Experience as if it were a dreadful Katabasis, a journey to the Underworld or to the Unconscious; while Alethe is its exit towards nature’s splendor: Being. Amidst this blinding beauty, there dwells Poiesis, the abode of Blake’s Songs of Innocence, the Metaphysics of Splendor, the symbolic return to Eden, to the New Jerusalem, to Love: Light-blossom. Pure consciousness and Oneness.
13 Matthew 18:3. The Holy Bible. K JV.
14 Link Heidegger’s Aletheia in Heidegger is presence, revelation, the clearing of Being the unconcealment of the hidden in contrast to Lethe, oblivion or forgetfulness. Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time. Trans. John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2000. 33, 219.
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