(08/22/1961) Remembered Eden

Remembered Eden

Dark Goddess of the Inward Sky

The Star King sings; as Charioteer

He leaps forth with his hounding cry

And dashes through the lightning’s sear.

 

Tall Chessmen stand,

The World is square,

Opposites interpenetrate;

The King and Queen,

A royal pair,

Of Black and White in stately mate.

 

The Yin and Yang are Asian Light;

Their white and black spin on the Wheel:

Drawn by the vacuum of Her night

All things begin; and all things heal.

 

Tall Chessmen stand,

The World is square,

Opposites interpenetrate;

The King and Queen,

A stately pair,

Of White and Black in royal mate.

 

— Grady L. McMurtry

 

“The Southerner remembers . . .

a kind Eden

in which he loved black people

and they loved him . . .”

Nobody Knows My Name.

James Baldwin

8/22/61 e.v.

Note: Originally published in Thelema Lodge Calendar, August 1996.