Roxy Music - Angel Eyes

I just finished reading Kerouac's Desolation Angels. I read On the Road so long ago, when I was young. This book finds him feeling his age. Doing a two month fire-lookout stint on a remote mountain in Washington State, he idealizes his friends and the pleasures of the city. He has the  cosmic revelations of a hermit. He comes down from the mountain and travels through the world, Seattle, San Francisco, Mexico City, London, Tangiers, Berkeley, Florida. In the beginning so wide eyed, and in the end so world weary. I'm fascinated right now, with reading books about people in the middle of their lives.

He saw the big sad invisible wings on every shoulder.

I grew up in the angels.
Or El Pueblo de Nuesra Senora la Riena de los Angeles de Porciuncula.
Sometimes I thought it was lost angels.

It was about the roads, the lights and the sea. I remember best the Coast Highway at night on the edge of all that blackness. The crashing Pacific with lights shining off it from underneath houses and restaurants all perched on the edge of the serpentine.

I don't care for artistic depictions of angels much when they are women with fluffy white swan wings. You may love them and that's fine, but to me there's something airy and annoying about them. The Temperance card in tarot is usually depicted as a women with wings, although she is a virtue and not an angel.

 I like the angel called Michael. He is a fighter and defender of the people Here's the statue of Archangel Michael, the patron saint of Kiev, Ukraine. May peace reign This book is about him too:

                         Michael Valentine Smith, the man from Mars,"was in no hurry- he grokked that Eternity
                                         and the ever-beautifully-changing Now, were identical. "

But what I really want to tell you about angels is what I want to tell you about man. I'm thinking about this quote from the Zealator by Mark Hedsel. I know I'm at risk of seeming like a Mark Hedsel groupie, because I keep mentioning the Zealator. Maybe it was all the artifacts or all those footnotes but that was one thought provoking book. He also has a lot of info on eclipses and alchemy. Here is his take on the differences between man and angel;

"Man is not an angel, yet he has knowledge based on the experience of the earth which is beyond the understanding of angels. Man understands about the lower depths, about the Earth plane to which he plunged so long ago and which has remained permanently inaccessible to the angels who do not have the material bodies to explore it's depths. Just as man cannot see the peloromic light (the great spiritual light of the numinal world) which is perpetually before the gaze off the angels, the angels themselves cannot see the dense materiality that is before the gaze of man. If the sacred lore is correct we must ask, what is it that man and angels have in common?"....."Developed almost to perfection in the angels is love. Love is scarcely developed at all in man and is confused with many entities that spring from the realm of desire. Unlike the angels, man has not been bequeathed with the gift of pure love: to develop further, human beings must so perfect themselves as to learn to love unconditionally and to love without desire." "Mankind has been offered an extraordinary destiny of becoming greater than the angels. The great sacrifice behind the descent of the Efflux is the way-of-the birth which is man's own initiatory way of birth into the Future."

 These are the words I didn't know in this text:

noun: efflux

1. the flowing out of a particular substance or particle.

   • material flowing out.
   • another term for effluxion (sense 1).
     

      Pleroma (Greek πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means fullness from π
     
     And NUMINAL ,From the Latin numen (“divine will, god”), from -nuere (“to nod”).
     

     numinal (comparative more numinal, superlative most numinal)

     1. divine

I still like learning new words, and I like thinking about this new job opportunity for man. I'm thinking that in this paradigm, the angels were never thrown out of the garden as man is said to have been. They never see the clutter and the stuff of the material world, only the alive things and numinal light.

I had ten kids playing in addition to A & E after school today. Some of them really want to to play computer games but the key is to distract them. The favorite game right now is ninja pirates and plastic swords and lightsaber/nerf gun. The also like legos, plastic animals, playing kick ball, throwing frisbees on the roof, and digging in the dirt. Children play and play, and I'm happy. They are having a childhood very similar to what I had growing up although Lompoc is very different than Malibu.

There aren't many good songs about angels except for Angel Eyes by Roxy Music. The video is like an awkward prom date in the eighties, when your date is very stoned. So cheesy that it transcends the form and is numinal. So angelic it is cheese.




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