Capax Universi & Halloween

Will get into that Capax Universi term in a minute or two, which is said to be something Aristotle spoke about in his writings: Nicomachean Ethics. Basically it means: capable of the whole. Aka: Knowing & being everything!

But first something about Halloween & dressing up as a bee. And I am wondering how many might agree with me on this— that I got talking about on a international Meher Baba web chat site I offer things too, usually a couple times a week. That question was:

Don't ya think the world would have been better off if Jesus or Buddha or Mohammed—  or some of the heavy hitters like that— would have etched in stone this great truth? 

What more does anyone need to know, but that you could be a bee for Halloween!!! And spend the whole year, every year, getting ready for that, and gathering nectar from the Sky— with stars dropping in your trick-or-treat bag (and heart) like candy... all year long! 

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And then I added: I guess you had to be there, or this seems too out of context…

It has to do with a very interesting children's book two others and I just got involved with that could go big.

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Well, with all that said, guess we are back to Capax Universi. I first came across that term when writing my Penguin anthology, Love Poems from God, and working on my chapter of St. Thomas Aquinas. I had some words and thoughts of Aquinas I crafted into a poem that is on page 134 in that book, that poem is titled: “Capax Universi.” 

I have 25 entries for each of the 12 great poet-saints I feature in that book, that has reached so many in this world. And there are really some remarkable poems in that book. Really some stunning ones, and some very sweet and playful too! Like how can one go wrong with a Rumi poem in that book that starts out: 

“Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work.” 

And then Rumi tells all the munchkins a great secret. Yeah, I’m all for utility in poetry. 

And just this morning when starting to write this blog entry, I came across this rather scholarly, cerebral article by Matthew Fox. But with it being so close to Halloween, and you maybe perfecting your bee costume, or maybe that of Yoda; sure, use your time to harvest what you can. Time a sickle, and existence a golden ripe meadow, when we see. 

And a couple haiku seem to want to say:

a holy book

  can be a flower

     and us a bee

the whole sky

   a drop of dew

      on the Rose*          (and so thirsty I am)

* On the Rose:  On the Whole. On God.

Two lines of Hafiz come to mind. They go: 

The eye is so wise it keeps turning,

turning needing to touch beauty.

Thanks for your time.