The Modern Book of the Dead by Ptolemy Tompkins

Author:Ptolemy Tompkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2012-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

We shall not cease from exploration.

And the end of all our exploring

will be to arrive where we started

and know the place for the first time.

Is Eliot talking about the Eastern circle here? Hardly. He is talking about a vision of life in which the great circular motions of the universe—the changing seasons, the circling planets, the generations and civilizations that rise and fall—are framed within a larger movement in which the soul, and the cosmos itself, do not suffocate in an endless tumbling circularity but rather surge forward and ever forward, toward a culmination beyond the power of words to describe; a culmination that Eliot hinted at in the Four Quartets’ famous last lines:

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