Stephan Michelspacher - Agla Monographs, “Cabala: Spiegel der Kunst und Natur” (The Mirror of Art and Nature), 1615. AGLA (אגלא) is a notariqon for Atah Gibor Le-olam Adonai,“You, O Lord, are Mighty Forever.” Arbitrary interpretation of AGLA is: “A the one first, A the one last, G, the trinity in unity, L, the completion of the Great Work.” According to “The Triangular Book of the Count of St Germain”, God by the name of AGLA was responsible for the preservation of Lot and his family from the fire of Sodom and Gomorrah. Adam McLean describes these illustrations as “two circular diagrams with the German GOTT (the name of God) around the outside, and also the Alpha and Omega and the monograph which may be the name of God, Agla. This represents the Beginning - Alpha - within the End - Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek Alphabet”.

Simhamukha

Visions on a night drive, lost loves glimpsed in headlights.

Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from Selected Writings; “The Suns you Shall See,”

Pig (1998)