(Part of an exercise given me, to write 500 wds/day.)
( Read if you like, it's slightly longer than 500 wds. )

Sunday, August 29, 2004
Church of Scotland leaders have ruled that the hymn Jerusalem is not relevant in a devolved Scotland and have dropped it from the fourth edition of the Kirk's hymnary, to be published on St Andrew’s Day.

... the air smells of something like incipient rain or maybe just cleanness, I've been to Mass and feel fortified of body, and comforted of heart -- and even enlightened of mind, because I learned a new thing from it just as I always do. This time my realization is about the Dove, which sits in the place of the sub-supernals (XSD, GBVRH & ( Read more... )

The dove descending breaks the air ( Read more... )

with healing in his wings.

"Hail, the heavenly Prince of Peace!
Hail, the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings."
(Wesley's original lyric to the hymn called (and written by) "Mendelssohn"I come in the power of Light; I come in the Light of wisdom; I come in the mercy of Light; the Light hath ( Read more... )

O choruscans lux stellarum,
o splendidissima specialis forma
regalium nuptiarum,
o fulgens gemma:
tu es ornata in alta persona
que non habet maculatam rugam.
Tu es etiam socia angelorum
et civis sanctorum.
Fuge, fuge speluncam
antiqui perditoris,
et veniens veni in palatium regis.

"... thou shalt seek me yet again in the wilderness of sand ( Read more... )

So this morning I woke from a dream, and here's as much of it as I can remember ( Read more... )

"Good ceremonial in church is ceremonial that makes you think about God; bad ceremonial in church is ceremonial that makes you think about ... bishops."

-- Archbp Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, on the BBC.

He's not a Thelemite. I don't have a problem with that. He doesn't have inner conflict, and neither do I.

"Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of days."

O Voice subtler and clearer than the singing blood in my own ears,
O Beloved closer to me than my own skin,

Amen, say I, Amen.