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And just as the Piper pipes his song by the Tree of Life, the Tree of Knowledge awaits nearby. The ineffable Song, the ineffable Word, the Word Song 3⁄4 mysterious, Ever Living and Ever Present, the Word Holy and the Holy Word, he sings, he writes, and the Tree of Life blossoms from the seed of his heart, remembering that which was, and no longer is:
“On a cloud I saw a child...
So I piped with merry sheer... So I piped he wept to hear... So I sung the same again...
And I wrote my happy songs...” (Verses 3,6,8,11,19)31
And having sung it 3⁄4 the Holy Word, the Word Divine blooms into the two-fold Word: The Affirmed and Negated, the Concealed and Revealed, the Heard and Unheard. Thus, arising from one totality (SII), the two- fold Word yearns to return to its singularity (SEI), the Absolute Word, its Divine Heart. Unfolding, SII and SEI encompass all: the concealed and revealed, what is absent and not, what is present and not. And in this double- utterance, the totality of the Divine image sings and
31 Blake, William. The Poetry and Prose of W. Blake. “Songs of Innocence.” Introduction. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970.
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