Hi Dolmakalem, It's interesting because I really don't think Blake's poetry and Cohen's are about the same thing. Blake and Cohen are too different from each other. Maybe so, but for me at least, they are "talking the same language". ;-) Mat. You're right, "too different" is too...

I find out "The Golden String" image has been used by William Blake once. -Jerusalem- -To The Christians- I GIVE you the end of a golden string; Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall.… England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister ca...

I think there should be a love triangle between god, soul and body. (Dlomakalem) That is the message that I find in this song of Cohen's as well. Actually I find that message tucked away in most of his work Mat. Yes, he uses that theme a lot. And if you don't think about the song thorough, it sound...

There is an old belief in Islamic mysticism. God gives mankind's soul a little of him. So, a mans soul was simply a part of god, then god sent it to world. God and man and soul always love each other. And soul longs for god, wants to unite again. Only handicap of this unition is the material. And yo...