HERMITIC HERMETIC

Ode #4 - Transcribed Poetic Dictation, Her~Metic Ode

[Sometimes, I cannot say~ ] Received 7/26/2025 | 2:14-2:21am
Companion Missive #4 - THE WEIGHT ON OUR HEART IS BURNING (4/29/2023)

Listen to the Recitation:

HERMITIC HERMETIC
Alone is not alone
Together is not together;
Separate is not separate
One is not one.

Is is not is
As begun is not begun;
But when is becomes is
And one becomes one;
Then all will be all
And all shall be done.

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Gwen John, Cat (1904-8)

Another of Gwen John’s spectacular Cats (1904-8)

Gaius Julius Hyginus, De Astronomia // Poeticon Astronomicon (1482 edition by Erhard Ratdolt, with woodcuts of the constellations to accompany Hyginus’s c. 27 BC - AD 14 text)

Draco becomes the pole star’s spine