WEEK FIVE COMMENTARY neillmorgans entry [20/08/06:02:27 am]
I think
neillmorgan's poem, ‘not the most popular view’ has a very Blakean feel to it. The whole concept of ying and yang, balance and duality. The thought that what we see as ‘evil’ might simply be a product of our own conditioning- Neil proposes that Lucifer is the most consummate being because he experienced both the SUMBLIME life of the angel, the divine and the indulgent life of man (HUMAN) (what other organism is capable of excessive living- mansion-beemer-rolls-royce-extended-upsized-breast-enlarged-new-model-renovated-drunken-overdosed-kind of living?). I guess he means indulgence here in the traditional form, promiscuity, lust, power, greed. Blake himself saw that man was capable of existing in a comfortable balance between the states of innocence and experience, but where are the boundaries to these states? When are we living too simply and ignorantly- and when are we living to complexly and well, ignorantly? Neill replies to a comment on his journal and states that whilst he disagrees that lucifer should be seen as an entity he recognises that the imperfection of man is often equated to the * of the ‘devil’. So what are these concepts of good and evil? Theyre both relative I guess. Can someone be inherently good or evil? Or are these attributes/ flaws only evident in the actions we take? For so long man has struggled with defining these things- we see this in religion and in the bible. It would be so amazing just to leave questions unanswered, notions undefinable, like Bromion and Oothoons questions in The daughters of Albion- let the mystery remain so.
mood:
contemplative