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When I’m bored, and I want to try and figure out things, sometimes I resort to puzzling over Leonard Cohen lyrics. In the song “The Future”, he sings:
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold, and it has overturned the order of the soul …
Wow. I can get the “…blizzard of the world…” concept — but what is “…the order of the soul…”? I wanna know about the order of the soul. Sorry, the Order of the Soul. Or, how the Soul is Ordered. But I looked around, even in real books that talk about stuff like that, and no luck. Lots of talk about souls, and kinds of souls, from all kinds of perspectives & traditions, but no discussion on order.
Oh, well. Some smart person reading this could give me a hint. I’m sure Leonard was sick to death on trying to explain what he was singing about.
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CM Evans
