Circles

Hooray, I finally have the internet. Hopefully I will have more time to do a better job in my classes. I still can't figure out why assigment 3 is'nt up on my blog home page. Its of no matter now, so I shall procede to attempt to dicipher the epigraph which precedes Emerson's essay Circles.It is seems obvious that everything must start at a beginning. People, of course are confined to the limititations of our feeble brains, and the scope in which time and its duration are ever intertwined.
Therefore, prudence suggests that Emerson's epigraph begins with: "A new genesis was here." His essay merits this proposal by his insistance that he is merely a traveler, "No facts are to me sacred, none are profane, I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back." Paramount to the soul of a seeker is open-mindedness, without it there can be no change, no foresight, and no acceptance.
"Knew they what that signified" Well do you? Aldous Huxely said "when the doors of perception are cleansed, all will be seen as they truly are, infinite." A profound statement, yet its magnitude and import are of little consequence to the mind biased and set in its ways. In his essay Emerson states "The key to every man is his thought."
"Scan the profile of the sphere." The mind is the door to the kingdom, the eye the key to the mind, the heart knowing this realizes that there is no greater truth than love. Emerson clearly battled to understand his consciencenous. Sadly, I believe the person that realizes the futility of thinking, accepts life, on lifes terms will then be able to blossom and know peace.
"Fast to surface and outside" Much like a shooting star, events begin and end in the blink of an eye. Emerson's essay says "cause and effect are two sides one fact"
"And her proud ephemerals," Mayflies, nasty little bugs, they molt twice in a day, mate, lay their eggs, then die. Emerson's essay parallels this thought, "Each new step we take in thought reconciles twenty seemingly discordant facts, as expressions of one law." Fact: things live and die, where they go afterwards, well therein lies the real question. Does all life contain spirit, or only man.?
Lastly, "Nature centers into balls" Everything is cyclical, from flesh to molecule, everything is in orbit. It is the harmony of these orbits that brings continuity to the universe we know. However, does understanding matter, is knowledge power, or a curse? Do we sell ourselves short by living within the confines of the known, or can we be set free and live in hope and imagination. I believe Emerson thinks so. "We learn that God IS that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.