Lament of the Dead

To say let me suspend my knowingness. Let me set aside my science. Let me set aside what I take to be my psychology and see if I can learn something directly from these figures.

with is reanimating the dead, acknowledging that their presences exist and haunt us.

We think we’re posing the questions but we’re not. The dead are animating us.

At that point he realizes conceptual language is inadequate to encapsulate the language of the soul. It is the language of the soul, as far as he’s concerned, because it is his dialogue to and with his soul.

This is itself an absolutely unparalleled window into the psychology of creativity.

So we each become, in a sense, a poet of our own psyches.

that I, this “me” who I walk around with all the time, is actually a composite of a lot of people living in the same house.

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.

he doubts his own visions and is more interested in the vision-making function than simply proclamation.