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Jade has a meaning significant to the temperance theme of the album.
"Jade is balancing, grounding and strengthening."
- Jade
Jade (balancing stone)
- The Color Pallette Page - Green
"Therefore the Sage wears rough clothing And carries jade
inside."
- Lao Tzu
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Yang and Yin kept a balance. And so the "man named Jade" is Hermes, the
Egyptian Thoth.
"His hieroglyphic
name Tehuti is usually explained as meaning 'He who balances'.
Heinrich
Brugsch (Religion und Mythologie) and E. A. Wallis Budge (The Gods
of the
Egyptians) interpreted that to mean that Thoth was the 'god of the
equilibrium'
and considered depictions of him as 'Master of the Balance' to
indicate that he
was associated with the equinoxes - the time when the day and the
night were
balanced."
- Zecharia Sitchin, When Time Began
Just about any duality one can think of will correspond to Yin and Yang:
Eros/Logos, Female/Male, water/wind, etc. In
Cadence and Cascade
, Peter Sinfield is referring to all dualities, and the ultimate goal of the
album (through balancing the forces of Yin and Yang) is the transcendence of
all duality. Along with its message of sacred sexuality. what Peter Sinfield is
offering the reader/listener, with
Cadence and Cascade
, is a representation of the Yin Yang mandala, perfect balance.
Portraying an idealized state in which the elements are working together in
balance and harmony,
Cadence and Cascade
represents a counterpoint to the "strife" of
Pictures of a City
, wherein people are no more than commodities. As a song about the playfulness
and relatedness of Eros,
Cadence and Csscade
is also very different from its counterpart on the first album,
I Talk to the Wind
. Told in the third person,
Cadence and Cascade
describes the inter-relatedness of people and the elements.
I Talk to the Wind
, told in the first person, is an inner dialogue wherein the narrator does his
best to minimize or deny the existence of "the other", Eros or the Feeling
Function.
"While his audience played."
"The feminine principle can be seen as Mal'akh, the shadow side of the Father
God, once he has left the original void. The dark or shadow side was already
there in the beginning as Proverbs 8: 23-31, speaking in the feminine voice of
Wisdom, says:
I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before
him at all times; Playing in the world: and my delights were to be with the
children of men. (Proverbs 8: 23-31, p. 649)
The personification of Wisdom as the Father God's playmate and co-creator of
the world is the Goddess archetype, who is with God from the beginning.
Psychologically speaking, she can be seen as the personification of the
undifferentiated feeling function (the silent Goddess)"
- The Genesis Model by Gerry Anne Lenhart
"Purred, whispered, "Spend us too:
We only serve for you".
Again, Yin and Yang only serve the balance. Inevitably, one leads to the other.
"Sliding mystified
On the wine of the tide"
As this song is an allegory, "mystified" can mean, temporally, "failing to
understand" and, spiritually or psychological, "in a state of mystical
awareness". One might say that Cadence and Cascade reflect both the poverty and
the plenty of Eros. Similarly, "the wine of the tide" represents both (or
either) physical intoxication (the illusory quality of physical life, getting
caught up in the moment) and (or) spiritual intoxication.
"Wine...through Sufi usage, is a symbol of mystical communion with
God--spiritual intoxication."
- Choice Wine:
The Kitab-i Aqdas and the Development of Baha'i Law
"Stared pale-eyed
As his veil fell aside."
On the earthly level, this passage describes a prelude to sexual activity but,
spiritually, the "veil" can conceal the face of God, or the Self.
"Sad paper courtesan
They found him just a man."
However humans in the fallen state fail to perceive the divine nature of their
activities.
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"Caravan hotel
Where the sequin spell fell
Custom of the game."
"Several hundred years ago, it was the practice for merchants to travel in
groups of up to about twenty and this was done for reasons of safety. If you
could not get into the town before the closing of the gates at sunset, then you
had to camp outside the walls, and be at the mercy of brigands. This state of
affairs existed in old times in all European countries, including England. Such
a group of traveling merchants was called a caravan, and on arrival in town
they looked around for an inn or KHAN in which to stay. The caravan "hotel" was
called the caravan serai; the word SERAl is Persian for mansion hence the name,
Saray Hotel. These old inns were quadrangular in shape. and always had an inner
courtyard where merchants could gather with their donkeys and bundles of
precious goods. It was like going into a small castle, and once inside, the
merchants had safety and seclusion."
- The Aniquities of Turkish Nicosia
The "sequin spell" is our enchantment by material reality, a "spell" which
becomes more powerful the farther we travel (caravan) from the source, the
psychological unity of the womb, infancy and early childhood.
"Cadence oiled in love
Licked his velvet gloved hand
Cascade kissed his name."
Once again, we can see the spiritual possibilities of this passage. Cadence
(Yang) simultaneously mistakes an object for God and recognizes God in an
object while Cascade (Yin) loves the name of God which is, at the same time,
only a symbol. The name and the object: both "veil" the truth.
"Sad paper courtesan
They knew him just a man."
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