Felt Soul Is Nothing Spiritual

NEITHER GNOSTIC NOR AGNOSTIC


Felt soul is nothing spritual! Based on feelinghood
Agnostics most veto what paganising gnostics seek in
Rushes of ecstasyhood
Out of a felt skepticism or born of felt need for sensation
Taking Christianity misunderstood
In their youthful want to see humans in some future Eden
(Without the murdered brotherhood)
As if denials could wish an arrested juvenile idealization
Out of its unlikelihood.

No. It's neither! Christian faith, come of outside Revelation
Is no feel good,
Nor its antithesis. Not base feeling, but real failure of doubt in
Those annunciated rude
Visitations, not much but wrestled epiphanies, angel sword dreams,
Calling to a manly hardihood
As asks too much, is taken in reluctance, even by great women,
Often to that saintlihood
So unearthly and otherworldy you might be right to call it alien.


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