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Lament of the Dead
with is reanimating the dead, acknowledging that their presences exist and haunt us.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
If you shift from that language to the confrontation with the dead, accepting the lament of the dead, one’s understanding changes dramatically in that one enters a world and the problems one takes up and is confronted with are not one’s own.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
“Not one item of the Christian law is abrogated, but instead we are adding a new one: accepting the lament of the dead.”
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
He saw the whole enterprise as about enabling individuals to refind their own language, develop their own cosmologies.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
“We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.”
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
As he says, in a note in the Black Books, Abraxas is the uniting of the Christian God with Satan.106 It’s reincorporating evil into the Godhead. It’s the great theme of Answer to Job.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
but that we’re living in a world which is alive with the dead, they’re around us, they’re with us, they are us.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
what is required is to be alone with one’s dead and to recognize them, that is the work one has to take on.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
He realizes around about 1917 that the prophetic tone, the prophetic language in which he wrote the first two sections of the text were given to him by this figure of Philemon, in other words, there’s a prophetic voice in him that is not himself.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani
That’s the disidentification. There’s a prophetic voice in me that’s not me, that’s not myself.
from Lament of the Dead by Sonu Shamdasani