Ezoteryka krzyża w tomie W mroku gwiazd Tadeusza Micińskiego

Abstract

The article looks into the passion motifs in the poet’s debut collection differently from previous interpretations. Miciński seems to combine elementary astronomical knowledge, the source of which could be the textbook Cosmography by Jan Walery Jędrzejewicz, with the ‘secret knowledge’ of the turn of the 20th century, especially in the writings of Édouard Schuré. As a result of this contamination, the titular „darkness of stars” begins to appear not only as a hostile void or condition of poetic creativity but also as a veil concealing the mystery of resurrection, its esoteric dimension. Paying attention to the poetic attempt to salvage this aspect of the mystery of Golgotha may allow us to reinterpret several peculiarities of the poetic world of the author of Nietota. Thus, the article focuses on the way of constructing space (including ‘astral’ interior landscapes), the syncretism of religious imagination, and the dynamic Luciferian-Christian unity.