Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Does Tori Amos's 'Crucify' Mirror William Blake's Reworking of Christian Theology?

There are striking similarity's between Tori Amos's song Crucify and William Blake's re-working of Christian theology in his poem The Everlasting Gospel.  In fact, William Butler Yeats' commentary on Blake's poem can just as easily be used to explain Crucify's lyrics!  The following is color coded with Tori Amos in blue, Blake in red, and Yeats in green.
Every finger in the room
Is pointing at me
 Accusation is the great mental sin. Other sin is merely physical, and belongs to the things of Time that pass.  
I wanna spit in their faces
Then I get afraid of what that could bring
I got a bowling ball in my stomach
I got a desert in my mouth
Figures that my courage would choose to sell out now
Healthy Satanic pride in the energy of that lower part of mind, called body, has also a right to its elation because "everything that lives is Holy." 
I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets
Looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets
Lust is fire. It is also the basis of our human imagination which develops from it. Thus lust, seeking to destroy mind and make body everything, unites the sexes bodily, consumes their separateness, and is the basis of that union which is the entrance of mankind into the state called Man. In other words, it is the destruction of the dust, type of separateness, and the release of the Image of God from that dust by the Breath Divine that moved on the waters and made them the source of Unity in the infinitely divided.
I've been raising up my hands
Drive another nail in
Just what God needs
One more victim
Humility is only doubt, 
And does the sun and moon blot out, 
Roofing over with thorns and stems 

The buried soul and all its gems.  
Why do we
Crucify ourselves
Every day
I crucify myself
Christ's two natures impelled Him to crucifixion. He went to "humble Himself to God," and also to proudly destroy the serpent in himself; his own spectre, or Satan. This Satan is the false (view of) Christ, worshiped still...  This Serpent, Satan, was what was nailed to the tree. This body was destroyed or devoured in three days. This devouring is the meaning of the serpent with his tail in his mouth. Christ's self-sacrifice (or suicide) was the thrusting into death of Satan, and who had become Himself as a result of the Incarnation. 
Nothing I do is good enough for you
Crucify myself
Every day
I crucify myself
And my heart is sick of being
I said my heart is sick of being in
Chains, oh oh oh
Chains, oh oh oh
Satan is not only the moral accuser but the denier of Imaginative truth, for he would have Reason and Memory only considered to be intellectual attributes. With these he builds the dark fiction of error — a belief in that delusive Goddess Nature, who is the mother of physical morality, and of mental immorality... [Christ's Crucifixion] was the eternal putting-off of Reason and Memory and Morality as delusions, that Imagination, Eternal Present, and Forgiveness might survive.
Got a kick for a dog
Begging for love
I gotta have my suffering
So that I can have my cross
Jehovah, in the persons of the Elohim, and by the agency of the Angel of the Divine Presence, created this dark world as an act of mercy and of cruelty. It is of mercy because it enables the weak emotions to look through symbols upon prophecy, and also because it passes away, being under Time. It is of cruelty because it cuts off joys of mind and adds on pains of mind — of that lower and shrunken part called body. 
I know a cat named Easter
He says, "Will you ever learn?
You're just an empty cage girl if you kill the bird"
The Image of God in which man was made is the form of the Imagination. This is common to all men and will end by becoming One Form. It will unite all. It will survive all. It will redeem all, saving them from violation or experience and the slavery of belief in nature, in accusation, and in the mental permanence of sin. In a word it saves them from Satan, God of this world. Reason and memory tend also to unite men's personalities into one great Temporary Delusion. This is the great Satan, opposite of the great Saviour. It is negative, imagination only being positive.
Got enough guilt to start
My own religion
To this hour, Satan also, himself the type of Christ by being Christ's mental opposite, tempts man to lust that he may accuse him, restrain him, make him take morality for religion, and so absorb him in the delusions of Nature and live in his absorption.  
Please
Save me
I cry
But the Divine element in man does not leave him when he enters into lust, but accompanies his three regions of Head, Heart, and Loins, as the Form of the Fourth accompanied the three men in the furnace. It takes Man in all men into this vegetable fire, and comes out of it with him. Satan also sacrifices himself in the vain attempt to sacrifice others to himself. So he also becomes a Redeemer while still the contrary of the great Self-Sacrificer, and his suicide, with its evil intent, complements the good suicide of the crucifixion. This latter suicide began when God allowed his Image to be of two sexes, and when "Male and Female created he them," whose name was called " Adam " — red earth.
Where are those angels
When you need them
Thou Angel of the Presence Divine,
That didst create this body of mine,
Wherefore hast thou writ these laws
And created Hell's dark jaws ?

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