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In so doing, he harmonizes the piping with himself, signing with nature, writing with the heavens. He is the being that pipes, that celebrates nature, the enchanted magician: the universal Poet. He is the being that, remembering innocence, shall write of soaring ideals of Beauty, and become the supreme Philosopher-Poet. In awe, he, under the spell of this three-fold enchantment 3⁄4 piping, singing, writing 3⁄4 shall experience creation’s ecstasy in piping, in signing, as Mythos-Logos; in writing as Poiesis. If Mythos-Logos is the manifestation of Reality; Poiesis is the manifestation of the ineffable: the Maker. Only a Maker can grasp the Maker. In wonderment, bewitched, he shall glimpse and discern not only the unity of creation, of Poiesis, but also at his own metaphysical image, his very self as Poiesis Imago Dei, just as Blake found his Image Divine in his Poiesis, and in so doing, journeyed to innocence’s Paradise, the blooming vales of Eterna, the Piper as Blake, and Blake as the Piper, and in mutual ecstasy, the child, before such beautiful musicaria-poética, the music conjugating the earth and the spheres, collapses in joyous weeping: starry tears.
As the song is piped, if the song is sung, Poiesis becomes tears, moving the soul towards sublime beauty: Romanticism’s bliss, and there is rejoicing, much
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