Bethel, Redemption’s Loch: a.k.a. ‘Corpus Christi et Sanguinem’

A poem written to mark the occasion of the Solemnity of 'Corpus Christi',

the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

‘Tis blood red rock

From which pours redemption’s loch;

On whom, on which

Each lover may lay his head

To rest

As newer forms of Jacob old

-Who laid at Luz

And ‘held the ladder long,

‘Pon which the angels

Went up and down

On founding stone of ‘House of Bread.’

And yea that pillow bled,

For ‘twas blood red rock

From which pours redemption’s loch.

Now ladder long

Is Israel’s lass in whom her sons

Make flight.

Gathering the scarlet iron

To smelt on high

In tent unmade, unknown;

From whence descending

They bring smithed swords,

Lambent with red that slays men old.

And yea in ore was gold,

For ‘twas blood red rock

From which pours redemption’s loch;

In which was found

Lofty gold of sanctity

Most high.

For in slain lamb’s loch

Swim golden fish

With drunk-dream glee that’s real,

Who feast on wine’s loch

Named Luz now Bethel,

Since Moses-staff changed substance t’new.

Yet all brazen beasts that drink thereat

Call loch by other name:

“Corpus Christi et Sanguinem”.

And yea each draught makes union deeper,

Since drink each beast and bird and fish

From blood red rock

From which pours redemption’s loch.

8/6/2015.

Note: "...that slays men old" refers to the 'killing' of sin and our false-selves -'the old man', as St. Paul calls it. For indeed the Blood of Christ has killed our old man, and continues to kill him, as it were; whilst recreating us as 'new men': as our true and perfect-selves who we were created to be from the beginning.