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This lecture explores the concept of prophecy in relation to the imagination and the spiritual, arguing that true prophecy transcends materialist science and is rooted in a deeper understanding of the human experience. The speaker draws on the ideas of William Blake and other thinkers to discuss the nature of prophecy and its significance in modern times. The lecture also touches on the idea that prophecy is not limited to a select few, but is a potential that lies within all individuals.
Kathleen Raine — 9 recordings in the archive.
The book: Defending Ancient Springs by Kathleen Raine.
To speak of Prophecy is to enter regions of thought unfamiliar to indeed alien to the mental world so firmly established in the modern West by three centuries of virtually unchallenged scientific materialism or should I say materialist science because science is not necessary materialist surely every civilization may be seen as a velopment from certain ideas certain premises from which certain consequences necessarily follow While others are precluded the impressive material discoveries technology and power which have characterized W our Western Civilization have nevertheless as we are at this time uneasily beginning to discover being at the expense of other excluded areas of experience and knowledge Western science equates reality with a material Universe this world can be weighed and measured and Quantified in terms of the infinitely large and the infinitesimally small and only the quantifiable is deemed real indeed this phase of civilization has been described by Rene Geno in the title of his most f famous book as the reign of quantity the world of poetry itself can in such a system be accorded the status only of the imaginary of make believe a game for children who have not acquired real that is factual knowledge of the nature and causes of things prophecy claims also to be a revelation of truth but of a truth for which a materialist worldview has no place it is a concept relegated to the limbo of history of ideas a prophet according to the Oxford dictionary is one who speaks for God another meaningless Concept in terms of materialist ideologies but one upon which great civilizations have been established which has which hold the ground of reality to be not matter what ever that may be but mind or Spirit of which indeed matter may be but one manifestation William Blake who described who at the end of this the 18th century reaffirmed in the face of materialist ideologies already gaining ascendancy in his time the idea of Prophecy and he described his poems as prophecies and at the pre the supremacy of this materialist ideologies are being called in question only in our own time and the prophetic role which speaks from and for the Living spirit which is the true agent of all we perceive as nature is again beginning to receive our attention instead of deeming the UN a mechanism the sensible world is seen to…