Dr Kynes
Well-Known Member
poetry is the province of Fintan and Mannanan Mac Lir...indeed, it is.
All Religions Are One
William Blake
The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness
THE ARGUMENT
As the true method of knowledge is experiment, the true faculty of knowledge must be the faculty which experiences. This faculty I treat of.
PRINCIPLE 1st
That the Poetic Genius is the true Man, and that the body or outward form of Man is derived from the Poetic Genius. Likewise that the forms of all things are derived from their Genius, which by the Ancients was call’d an Angel & Spirit & Demon.
PRINCIPLE 2d
All men are alike in outward form, So (and with the same infinite variety) all are alike in the Poetic Genius.
PRINCIPLE 3d
No man can think or write or speak from his heart, but he must intent truth. Thus all sects of Philosophy are from the Poetic Genius adapted to the weaknesses of every individual.
PRINCIPLE 4.
As none by travelling over known lands can find out the unknown, So from already acquired knowledge Man could not acquire more; therefore an universal Poetic Genius exists.
PRINCIPLE 5.
The religions of all Nations are derived from each Nations’s different reception of the Poetic Genius, which is every where called the Spirit of Prophecy.
PRINCIPLE 6.
The Jewish and Christian Testaments are An original derivation from the Poetic Genius. This is necssary from the confined nature of bodiliy sensation.
PRINCIPLE 7th
As all men are alike (tho’ infinitely various) So all Religions & as all similars have one source:
The true Man is the source, he being the Poetic Genius
from Mannanan, Fintan gained the Ogham, and by Ogham he created the First Poetry.
from Mannanan, Fintan learned the hour of his death and was bound by his Weird, and through this Weird he gained the power of the Will and the Word.
from Mannanan, Fintan learned the Healing Arts, and by these arts he forged his Doom, binding his life with the Hawk of Achill and sealed his fate.
from Mannanan, Fintan learned the speech of animals and trees, and the nature of their forms, and by this knowing he gained the power of transformation.
from Mannanan, Fintan learned the nature of the Bann, and through his Will and Word he gained the magic he taught to the Tuatha de Dannan
from Mannanan, Fintan learned the Nature of Things, and by this he gained the Wisdom of Things. this wisdom allowed him to view things as they are, not as they seem, and thus he wandered the paths of the Bann freely
from Mannanan, Fintan learned the Virtues, and the Five Arts and thus laid down the foundations of Brehon law.
funny, seems like jesus and jehovah forgot to pop by the REST of the world with their awesome message. we poor schlubs have to make do with what we can find.