"All things by immortal power, hiddenly to each other linkèd are..."

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“You cannot stir a flower, without troubling a star” is a transliterated quote from 'The Mistress of Vision' a mystical verse by Francis Thompson, a tormented English writer who specialized in transcendent and ascetic poetry. You can read the original poem here: 
http://www.bartleby.com/236/240.html. 

 Here is a transliterated version; 



“Pierce thy heart to find the key;
With thee take only what none would keep;
Learn to dream when thou dost wake,
Learn to wake when thou dost sleep.
Learn to water joy with tears,
Learn from fears to vanquish fears;
To hope, so thou does not despair,
Rejoice, so that thou does not grieve;
Plough thou the rock until it bear;
Know, for thou else could not believe;
Lose, that the lost thou may receive;
When earth and heaven lay down their veil,
And that destruction turns thee pale;
When thy first sight blindeth thee
To what thy fellow-mortals see;
Their sight to thee is sightless;
Their living, death;
their light, most lightless;
Whilst to the new eyes of thee
All things by immortal power,
Near or far,
Hiddenly
To each other linkèd are,
That thou cannot stir a flower
Without troubling a star.”



I first came upon this quote in the book True Magick by Amber K. The quote is presented in a section describing the interconnectivity of existence, and it profoundly resonated with me. The book itself is an exploratory discourse on the fundamentals of modern religions based on ancient Pagan ideologies. It is an awesome book that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in nature based belief systems.

I’m a firm believer that there are no accidents, that everything happens for a reason, and everything in existence is connected. These connections seem to span beyond just our planet to the universe at large. This brings to mind another favorite quote of mine;

"Everything in nature contains all the power of nature.
Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson


Our natural world and the life it contains is treated in a fragmented way. Everything is thought of as having distinct properties that can be exploited for different reasons. This fragmentation is further imposed onto humanity as whole, where we are broken down into endless, needless categories. This ideology is an essential reason for the present series of social, ecological, and cultural crises worldwide. It has alienated us from the natural world, bringing about a grossly unjust distribution of natural resources. What’s worse, this modern thinking has further isolated us from our fellow human beings.

We talk about the “other sex” or “other people” in “other places.” When we learn that the “other” is not the other, that it’s us, that we all are intimately connected with the workings of our biosphere, then we can do real magic.
Location: St Johns County, FL, USA

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