Lumen Naturae
“And Adam knew his wife again,?and she bore a son…”? Genesis 4:1
How can a man “know” a woman as who she really is?
The sonar that could sound?the depths of her heart
Even she may not possess, unless she is inward gazing
And listens to the voice of love.?
How can the vestiges in him,
The undeveloped fragments?of his inner sight,
Plumb such depths??
Yet in this, his failures are less harmful than his outer successes misapplied,
Brought to bear where they have no bearing.
Failure is the obverse of one-sided success.
No probing light can dispel the darkness of these depths.
This darkness is the soil of her soul,
And of the world soul, anima mundi.
This soil grows Light, lumen naturae,
The Light of Nature,?
The Light of Sophia,
The Light of intuition and inspiration.
He must accept this darkness,
Receive it into himself the way a woman does.
It is dark where he is dim.
Woman seems dark, who has been banished to mere nature,
But nature cannot be conquered!
He deceives, who thinks it can.
Don’t judge, don’t distance, don’t dissect.
Woman is Queen of the Night,
Hers the silver light of the Moon,
Hers the prismed light of the stars.
She guides where he is lost,
Illuminates where he is dark.
She bore the Sun.
Unless a man is reborn in a woman’s love
As a wiser, stronger man,
He cannot truly “know” a woman.
But know her as she really is:
Be with her in her Being.
Love her through her Love.
See her by her Nocturnal Light
As she sees you by your Spirit,
And fulfill the ancient oracle:
Know thyself,
In each other.
by Frank Medlar