Angel Standing in the Sun @ A Poem for a Penny on Good Friday

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  A medieval text, The Fire of Love, Richard Rolle, speaks of the third stage where the glorious song of angels resounds, signifying his union with the divine love. The editor of Penny, George Dance, generously said, "It leads me to several complex thoughts, especially your last line. On one level, it's a literal (vision of an) angel seen in the sun - and a good read on that. On another, the last line makes me think of Southwell's vision of "The Burning Babe" -  that (and the son/sun pun) get me to read it as a poem to Jesus, which works well on a Good Friday. Then there's the foreshadowing of Schwartz's poem, and its "Time is the fire in which we burn", which gets me thinking about life itself as a process of controlled burning. It's a high point."
The Bright Extensive Will also appeared at Penny, where sons of angel light bow from out the sky, blind in all their beams and enter creation, which resembles those in Paradise Lost who, with the First Begotten, and suggests those who "by the waters of life, where'er they sat  / In fellowships of joy the sons of light hasted."

These theophanies gather on the hastings where all along debate wondered whether these were angels or in fact the One appearing. This wonder, where the wings of angel's gold, beings light radiant of golden man, might be portions of what appeared to Daniel, Jacob, Abraham. Likenesses of appearance to the sun have been usurped by Apollo, to whom it doesn't belong at all because all brightness, all glory belongs to the First Begotten, the Dayman, also Daysman of Judgement (Job 9.33). The angel in the sun is a daysman of judgment in the event follows, which word appears in the 1551 edition of 1 Samuel 2:25 of the English Version of the Bible translated "dayes-man." Tyndale's translation has for Exodus 21:22, "He shall paye as the dayesmen appoynte him"  (as the "judges determine") so hence the Son of Man, "the dayspring from on high" of Luke 1.78 whose title in Peter is the First Begotten. To Him all his glory in the speakers heart is raised and protected and consumed, in all His fire, for Our God is a consuming fire. That none of this attaches to the false angel of light forewarned as the fallen angel is evident as that darkness cannot imitate the light except by illusion. The real Light is the True Light of every man who comes into the world as John declares and as said, "Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." So of course he is the Only Begotten and First Begotten, "First born among many brethren" (Romans 8.29).

The poem was first titled in A Calendar (1973) "On Turner's Angel Standing in the Sun, 1846." Having spent some time at the Tate viewing this painting just after Calendar appeared, Eden, who I did marry, gave me Butlin's edition to model watercolor on. But the last words of that brilliant colorist of energy, J. M. W. Turner before he died were, the sun is god, unfortunate for him and anyone who holds that, from Donald Trump's golden penthouse and Marcon's rule like a Roman god, the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), to the modern Louis VIV at his assembly at Versailles, or sycophants of Apollo who construe the  Jordan Lead Codices as a figure of Christ. The image of Apollo is antichrist, he Golden Age that is and will be the age of Apollo, Greek for Abaddon, the Destroyer (spelled out at The Sun God). There is a fine line between this epiphany and the judgement immediately following when the Dayesman comes to judge. Then is the feast of the birds, and the burial of Gog that takes 7 months, whose weapons provide firewood for 7 years. A consuming fire.

A recent label on Angel Standing in the Sun in the Turner Collection at the Tate Gallery says: This late painting shows the Archangel Michael appearing on the Day of Judgement with his flaming sword. In the foreground are Old Testament scenes of murder and betrayal: Adam and Eve weeps over the body of Abel (left), and Judith stands over the headless body of Holofernes (right). Turner's pessimistic picture seems to show death is everywhere in this fallen world...he showed the painting with lines describing 'the feast of vultures when the day is done.' which is the biblical reference, "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God (KJV)." That supper is the subject of The Banquet of God, displayed in the 20th anniversary of Ygdrasil, May 2013.

Angel was on the cover of the first
  Awhile, a site out of Uyo Nigeria
that was hacked pirated, repossessed
exceeded and expired. All the more

reason to thank Penny. 

 The Matthew Henry Commentary says Christ, the glorious Head of the church, is described as on a white horse, the emblem of justice and holiness. He has many crowns, for he is King of kings, and Lord of lords. He is arrayed in a vesture dipped in his own blood, by which he purchased his power as Mediator; and in the blood of his enemies, over whom he always prevails. His name is The Word of God; a name none fully knows but himself; only this we know, that this Word was God manifest in the flesh; but his perfections cannot be fully understood by any creature. Angels and saints follow, and are like Christ in their armour of purity and righteousness. The threatenings of the written word he is going to execute on his enemies. The ensigns of his authority are his name; asserting his authority and power, warning the most powerful princes to submit, or they must fall before him. The powers of earth and hell make their utmost effort. These verses declare important events, foretold by the prophets. These persons were not excused because they did what their leaders bade them. How vain will be the plea of many sinners at the great day! We followed our guides; we did as we saw others do! God has given a rule to walk by, in his word; neither the example of the most, nor of the chief, must influence us contrary thereto.

 The likeness of the heart to fire and light and its reception in images of color and sound, the heart of man of line 2 renews in the next to the last, my heart in which brightness is all and the end of all of our life, is the important statement of this poem.