Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Thought for the Day No. 8: The End of the World
The world will perish in fire. Fire is essentially good; it used to be one of the four basic forms of matter. But man cannot survive pure fire. It is a high kind of reality that destroys everything impure. In that, it is like the face of God. Indeed, perhaps the end of the world will occur when God turns and faces it.
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The dove descending breaks the air
With flame of incandescent terror
Of which the tongues declare
The one discharge from sin and error
The only hope, or else despair
Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre--
To be redeemed from fire by fire.
.........
And all shall be well and
All manner of things shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
you know Frost's poem Fire and Ice?
Weirdly enough, not till you mentioned it, so thanks. I suppose it's a good thing to be on the side of Frost....
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