Jesus Answers Poet
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Posted by aplecompte on July 27th, 2009
I noticed correlations to some of Yeats' poems in Chapter 25.
But is there any comfort to be found?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes.
1919, W. B. Yeats
Is it not evident that what the body's eyes perceive fills you with fear? Perhaps you think you find a hope of satisfaction there. Perhaps you fancy to attain some peace and satisfaction in the world as you perceive it. Yet it must be evident the outcome does not change. Despite your hopes and fancies, always does despair result. And there is no exception, nor will there ever be. The only value that the past can hold is that you learn it gave you no rewards which you would want to keep. For only thus will you be willing to relinquish it, and have it gone forever.
Is it not strange that you should cherish still some hope of satisfaction from the world you see? In no respect, at any time or place, has anything but fear and guilt been your reward. How long is needed for you to realize the chance of change in this respect is hardly worth delaying change that might result in better outcome? For one thing is sure; the way you see, and long have seen, gives no support to base your future hopes, and no suggestions of success at all. To place your hopes where no hope lies must make you hopeless. Yet is this hopelessness your choice, while you would seek for hope where none is ever found. T-25.II.1-2
But love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop, W. B. Yeats
The Holy Spirit is the frame God set around the part of Him that you would see as separate. Yet its frame is joined to its Creator, One with Him and with His masterpiece. This is its purpose, and you do not make the frame into the picture when you choose to see it in its place. The frame that God has given it but serves His purpose, not yours apart from His. It is your separate purpose that obscures the picture, and cherishes the frame instead of it. Yet God has set His masterpiece within a frame that will endure forever, when yours has crumbled into dust. But think you not the picture is destroyed in any way. What God creates is safe from all corruption, unchanged and perfect in eternity. T-25.II.6
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing
Sailing to Byzantium, W. B. Yeats
Accept God's frame instead of yours, and you will see the masterpiece. Look at its loveliness, and understand the Mind that thought it, not in flesh and bones, but in a frame as lovely as itself. Its holiness lights up the sinlessness the frame of darkness hides, and casts a veil of light across the picture's face which but reflects the light that shines from it to its Creator. Think not this face was ever darkened because you saw it in a frame of death. God kept it safe that you might look on it, and see the holiness that He has given it. T-25.II.7
All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will.
A Prayer for My Daughter, W. B. Yeats
The innocence of God is the true state of the mind of His Son. T-3.I.8.
The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself. T-27.VIII.10.
I share God's Will for happiness for me. W-102
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