The Aeon,

by J. W. Cassandra

I wrote the poem "The Aeon" recently, and I immediately paralleled it with one of my first poems when I wrote it. Its genre is epigram. Its structure is the reverse of the structure of the poem "Homo Sapiens Sapiens 1981". I consciously created it this way.

The subject of the poem is a being identical with the lyrical self of the above, earlier epigram, who is no longer a prisoner of the dimensions, because the shell bursts and the being is freed: this is the poem of Ascent.

The subject reaches this through the arc through the Centre from the Descent.

The Aeon here is the Gnostic cosmic principle, the personificator of the Source, who alone rules everything.

With the poem "Homo Sapiens Sapiens 1981", which I wrote forty-five years earlier, and with the poem Crater Wound, this epigram forms an arc that encompasses the life of a person or being on the one hand, and also forms the cosmic and Gnostic epochal arc on the other. For this reason, I placed the three poems in one place, because the real message only unfolds if you read all three in a row.

The Ascent

The shell of petrified dimensions
cracks open from you –
lightning of ancestors flashes with flame –
a cycle is absolved only by the Aeon.

Written: 18 / 05. 2026, by J. W. Cassandra
Translated: 20 / 05. 2026, by J. W. Cassandra

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