Here's some evidence: (1) William Butler Yeats in his poem "The Second Coming" refers to Christ a "rough beast." (2) In the song "Rough God Goes Riding," Van says that when the rough God goes riding "they'll be nobody hiding." In Revelation, it is said men will attempt to hide from God (Rev. In my opinion, the "rough God" term refers to Christ at his Second Coming and the Day of Judgment. (Van sings about "A New Kind of Man" on his album "Sense of Wonder" also.)Īnswer: "Rough God Goes Riding" and "For Mr. Christ says, "knock and it shall be opened unto you") wishing to get out of the "darkness." So we could also interpret this as a man on the verge of accepting (NOT rejecting) Christ, though the term "dweller on the threshold" is foreign to Christian tradition. Van's lyrics actually accord well with a Christian interpretation, since he is saying he IS the dweller "waiting at the door" (i.e. Answer: the phantoms of the old men he once wasĪccording to the Van Morrison website, which quotes the "Collation Of Theosophical Glossaries," the term "dweller on the threshold" originated with "English mystic and novelist Sir Bulwer Lytton" and represents the "ghosts of the dead men that the present man formerly was." More specifically, it "refers to the imbodied (sic) karmic consequences or results of the man's past, haunting the thresholds which the initiant or initiate must pass before he can advance or progress into a higher degree of initiation." To add my own note: The concept of putting off the "old man" to put on the "new man" also has Christian applications (see Ephesians 4:23-25).
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