Moving Into A Period

Unified-Heart
Leonard Cohen Symbol
He described the symbol as 
“A version of the yin and yang or any of those symbols that incorporate the polarities…
and try and reconcile the differences.”





We are moving into a period of bewilderment, a curious moment 

in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the 

summit of their hopes. It is a religious moment also, and here is the 

danger. People will want to obey the voice of Authority, and many 

strange constructs of just what Authority is will arise in every mind. 

The family will appear again as the Foundation, much honoured, much 

praised, but those of us who have been pierced by other possibilities, 

we will merely go through the motions, albeit the motions of love. The

public yearning for Order will invite many stubborn uncompromising 

persons to impose it. The sadness of the zoo will fall upon society. 

You and I, who yearn for blameless intimacy, we will be unwilling to 

speak even the first words of inquisitive delight, for fear of reprisals. 

Everything desperate will live behind a joke. But I swear that I will

stand within the range of your perfume. 

How severe seems the moon tonight, like the face of an Iron Maiden, 

instead of the usual indistinct idiot. 

If you think Freud is dishonoured now, and Einstein, and Hemingway, 

just wait and see what is to be done with all that white hair, by those 

who come after me. 

But there will be a Cross, a sign, that some will understand; a secret 

meeting, a warning, a Jerusalem hidden in Jerusalem. I will be wearing 

white clothes, as usual, and I will enter The Innermost Place as I have 

done generation upon generation, to entreat, to plead, to justify. I will 

enter the chamber of the Bride and Bridegroom, and no one 

will follow me. 

Have no doubt, in the near future we will be seeing and hearing 

much more of this sort of thing from people like myself. 

Leonard Cohen 

in, Book of Longing