Then there is Liberace. "I trowe he were a geldyng or a mare." -Chaucer

But the gender of the Latin noun is not changed- virgo -inis, f. "a maiden,
virgin." Fascinating is the word's closeness to "virga, -ae, f. "a green
twig" as in French "verge"(la) from Snskrt "vajra" and may associate with
the golden bough, subjectively, but let us not forget Daphne.
Dionysus' crosier was a thyrsus. Nietzsche's BIRTH OF TRAGEDY is worth
noting in the catharsis between the Dionysian feminine lunar chaos and the
masculine Apollonian solar order. The muse is always a goddess and of a
triple nature, but she is absent from the Judeo-Christian reduced pantheon
replaced by only one of her aspects, the Virgin, accompanied by her
surrogate priest eunuch thus sacrificing balance for patriarchal authority
contrary to that which Jung might have called "individuation" as sought in
Ars regis' hermaphrodite but in all not necessarily "occult".
   Anyone ever make any sense out of Pound's alchemist poem?
What about the cats? Anyone? Anything? Anton Wilson says Hemingway, a cat
lover himself, noted  them and called the Pound's residence "the cat house".

Charles



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>From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Virgo Made Male
>Date: Wed, Feb 19, 2003, 7:54 AM
>

> Ambrose, a great proponent of virginity, also had much influence upon
> medieval Christianity; he had in turn been influenced by the extremist Origen.
>
> Phallic and ambrosial
> made way for macerations.
>          --EP
>
> Tim Romano
>
> Matthew 19:12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their
> mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men:
> and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of
> heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.