Come on Down - Cosmogonic Seduction Poems

I had asked the 2008-09 first year class in the Living Institute to write a seduction poem, calling the fiery, masculine Logos space consciousness down into earthy embodiment, as if they themselves were an Earth goddess. We had been studying divine-human union mysticism in the apophatic tradition in the 20th century, and Henri Corbin’s account of divine-human erotic yearning in the Sophianic Beloved theme in the Sufi theosophical tradition. JM