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A Critical Mass
“For the human race to survive, the human race must remain civilized.” - Rod Serling
Dreams form the space between heartbeats – life
Advances by inhaling the scent of rain, or listening
To the ocean’s roar; unrelenting torrents release
Floods of information with lightning speed. What are we
Missing right now? Knowledge seems so complexly 5
Thorough, yet remains a blank page to the superstitious.
Oh Clio! Lead me down your byway, to understanding’s harbor.
Kether
Anticipation
Unity >
An airless breeze hung
Still, languidly unblowing
On the faceless void.
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Breath suspended in still silence; uniform
Un-form sketched itself upon a blank
Canvas; uncondensed molecules, huelessly
Unpainted, roamed where no needle, failed to indicate.
Eternal nothingness floated
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Upon a waterless sea: Oceanos.
Behold Oceanos as the circle,
A completed, omnipresent circuit.
Latently; origin and terminus co-situated, non-existently.
Oceanos sat poised, ready
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To beget endlessly;
Self-satisfied within unprovoked potency;
A unified whole – unrealized contentment.
Singularity, coreless and unclothed, rested: inertialessly inert.
Tranquil harmony tolled unimagined bells
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With a soundless, polyphonic symphony,
Unheard, desireless and unsung.
Oh immanent Oceanos, in Oneness
With Tethys, inseparably united
Like the caduceus, you are indivisibly 30
The Father/Mother: the Original Originator;
Your realm transcends contemplation:
More than of the Beyond, you are the Beyond.
Pre-existent Pluto’s subatomic potential
Hid in the yet to be conceived Underworld,
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Scalelessly balanced, an utterly whole unmanifestation.
Dreamless sleep permeated
An empty, thoughtless mind,
While Undifferentiated Unity soared
Unexpressed, unaware and undesigned:
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Pre-cognitive, like Oliver Sacks’ “sleepy sickness” patients.
Chokmah
Action
Singularity = Duality
The monad yawned and stretched. A great,
Insatiable, Supra-Massive Black Hole pulsed –
Incessant rhythm at the heart
Of Unity – uncovering Splendor, impelling
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Singularity to erupt in a critical mass.
Universal Supra-Consciousness, Ouranos,
Emerged into Duality with Gaia: each saw
Their reflections arise together upon the placid face
Of Oceanos – the looking glass,
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Where Ouranos’ and Gaia’s gazes awoke.
Ouranos, the great impeller,
Prime Mover as Eros,
You embolden Creation:
Copulation encouraged
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The ultimate expression of worth;
Union through Loving intent,
Implicates meaning in every birth.
Mass and energy differentiated. Yang
Quark encountered yin electron
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Intuitively. One mitosis yields two:
Adam/thesis/male/positive/active/energy/light
Inferred a shadow reality –
Eve/antithesis/female/negative/receptive/mass/darkness.
Only awareness of other yields comprehension
Of self; definitions express nuances in relationship.
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Mercifully, from the primordial relativistic jet and plasma beacon,
Illumination flashed: a bolt of lightning from nowhere –
Strobing upon the vast nothing, igniting energy into motion.
Compressed to implosive collapse,
The pressure of a critical mass exerted
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Presence from crevasse.
Binah
Fertilization
Triplicity ≠?
Primal Adam and Eve fell
In love at first sight, instantly
Kissing and caressing –
Potential energy kineticized
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And condensed into dew
Drops of atomic energy; free
Radicals initiated a revolution –
Attraction manifested fusion and fission.
A brilliant, explosion of exhibitionism – rainbow-hued
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Fertilization: the Cosmic Dialectic exacted synthesis.
Darkness cleaved itself from light: Unity committed suicide.
Pre-eternity
Spiraled in an Irish jig
During its own wake.
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Gaia, Creation’s organic thread,
Slowly poked her orphaned head
From the womb of expiring Unity.
Awareness, born from Death’s fertility,
Sang out in a joyous tune
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For the palingenetic retinue
And deep respect for the loving gift
Implicit in Saturn’s severe shift.
Adam’s sweet kisses and soft caresses inevitably inflamed Eve’s passion.
Quarks fused randomly: protons
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And neutrons invented
The tango. The dance lacked form until electrons
Encircled nuclei; their orbits consummated
The dance, plucking notes of the Celestial
Song upon the lyre: spacetime. Hydrogen and helium configured.
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Oceanos’ infinite potential
Issued a river of chance
Through Ouranos’ uninterrupted current:
A primal stream inseminating fertility;
The incessant urge impregnated 105
Gaia’s eternal dance,
Releasing fertilized eggs
Of imagination’s embryonic proclivity.
Tension mounted; atoms accumulated. Impelled
By an intuitive yet inarticulate 110
Memory of Unity; desire – Oneness
Insisted union. Atoms shared adulterous
Electrons, the dance’s grip tightened; mutually
Obsessive embraces urged erotic
Copulation: nuclei devoured nuclei, merging – 115
Increasing complexity ≠? modeling expanding Splendor.
The heat of passion intensified. Speed
Persisted fomenting friction and prodded.
Adam and Eve wed, their marriage sanctified
By eternal vows. Perpetual mating, the ultimate 120
Expression of monogamy, co-mingled
Essences. Slowly passion secreted
Pre-orgasmic fluids: the lovers’ ritual
Shone forth: the original, active, galactic
Pulse in cosmic darkness, a rapturous beacon. 125
Adam’s energy willfully inseminated Eve’s mass,
Lewdly fueling expansion, impregnating her.
Atoms and molecules sparked into existence. Ceaseless
Labor conceived in streams, painting the curvature of spacetime.
Imagine a spherical rosebud – petals unravel
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In pairs, emanations stretch; each petal
A universe within a voidless void: infinite fields
Of quarks and electrons where energy remains yet
Unkineticized; our petal: young, unfolding, becoming.
The petulant hearts of Adam and Eve sustained, multiplied
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And diversified nature through emanations of petal after unfolding
Petal. Unending union sanctified and glorified each
Pregnant, protruding universe, curving out a dimension
Of existence, unique, complete unto itself.
You’ve just dined upon the fruit of the Tree
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Of Knowledge. The pulp, so succulent
And meaty, always perfectly ripe, nourishes
The cosmos. Devour it! Slurp up
The juices! Swallow the pit whole!
Only when yin and yang combine
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Is perfect sustenance provoked.
Without the balance of seasons and spice, the fruit
Fails to satisfy: an augury of The Fall.
Consuming the fruit was never forbidden,
The act lay implicit in the flowering
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Of the petals of spacetime. Taboo lay
In discarding the seed.
Da’ath
Gestation
Unity Singularity
The landscape forged unformed; substance proliferated
Shapelessly. A kitten-like curiosity resonated amid haphazard
Musings. Mystery sought adventure in Poseidon’s realm
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Through an Odyssey of wondrous encounters
Across the Celestial Aegean. A mischievous sea,
Fertile contingency, inundated Splendor with paradox,
As Cronos tick-tocked into existence.
Yin and yang coalesced in the presence
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Of Knowah, who herded them onto the Ark,
That together they might navigate the chaos
Of Cronos. All the while, our petal of spacetime inculcated
Existence with myriad machinations of manifestation.
A Supra-Massive Black Hole – the center,
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Nothing/all – discovered a seed at its core
And erupted in great jets of mass: cosmic
Dust, atoms, molecules and microwave
Radiation spewed out and were sucked back
Into the maelstrom’s insatiable black hole –
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Creation fed upon itself, as Cronos ate
His own young; then, Creation erupted:
Just as Cronos’ young sprang from his gut,
Vigorous actors upon the world stage.
The tempo of Adam and Eve’s tango torturously torqued into 175
A dynamic, universal turbine. The perpetual motion machine
Embarked on its journey of self-discovery, consciously
Initiating Original Orgasm: The Big Bang!
Knowah scattered seeds across the Celestial Aegean;
Yin and yang germinated into Super-Massive Black Holes 180
Eyes in each new maelstrom: perpetual,
Self-inseminating incubators – each wielding
A relativistic jet, pulsing – feeding
The insatiable hunger of the black hole
And simultaneously spewing forth material to populate 185
The vast, blankblack canvas. Thusly, Knowah birthed
Galaxies across an instantly expanding spacetime.
Fecundating Love spread out like honey
On the rose petal, dripping and oozing into newly
Formed reaches; love pumped the lifeblood – 190
Splendor flowed through every expression.
Whirling, swirling clouds of cosmic mass
And primal energy warped
The curvature of the expanding universe.
Pregnant with possibility,
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Galaxies developed according to their own volition:
The halcyon waters of Oceanos slowly receded.
Mass condensed into matter:
Stars were born from molecules,
Collecting into white-hot furnaces; 200
The fruit of Adam and Eve: only
Evolutionary death breeds revolutionary Splendor.
Denser collections of matter spiraled serenely across spacetime.
The inertia of evolution
Incited a cosmic revolution
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Determined to express liberating actualities.
As Adam and Eve perpetually copulated,
Knowah encouraged yin and yang, who populated
The universe with multiplying galaxies.
Mysterious Balance constantly reasserts itself. 210
Chesed
Expansion
Air, Fire, Earth and Water = x (Unity Singularity)
Profligate potential
Imprinted our petal
Of spacetime with physical Laws.
When Moses encountered the Burning Bush,
He apprehended justice as the epitome 215
Of Jupiter’s expression –
“Love and Creation are one!”
Life emerged from Unity’s merciful sacrifice; hope vested in its child.
The soothing balm of chance forested a desert
Landscaped imagination with saplings of undreams. 220
The eternal flame of nascence reflected wildly
In Moses’ cornea, etching upon his retinas
A vision: the perpetual union of Adam and Eve.
Mass gathered itself into white-hot cores, spinning
Molecules collected; whirling masses corralling 225
Electromagnetic fields, tightly compressing –
Spheres. Constant combustion: stars blossomed
In the night like lily islands on a tranquil pond.
A Hebrew slave conceived and delivered Moses.
This child, as future lawgiver to a nation,
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Would impose Order upon Chaos.
In the beginning, chaos dominated
Spacetime. Super-Massive Black Holes sparked
Flames and expansion where No-Thing once reigned.
Coupled, Adam and Eve spawned
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Random fountains of generation; our rose
Petal wove a hive of structure with fragrant Symmetry just as
Zeus orchestrated the Greeks from Olympus. Accumulating
Atoms and molecules coalesced; balling up –
Denser, heavier; energetic masses.
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The laws of gravity and electromagnetism bound Infinity to limitations.
Moses, the child, floated on the Nile –
The river of life –
Until discovered by Bithia,
She bequeathed him a legacy
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Of power, wealth and kingdom:
A proffered glorification to her own vanity.
Egyptian society arose from the schism of Unity into Duality.
Temptations, power and greed revealed
A flame of eternal truth: rule by one
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Enslaves multitudes, rule by any –
Tyranny; complete, unbound, unfettered
Freedom liberates all; the only Laws?
Free Will, Opportunity, Respect,
Understanding, and Acceptance.
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Moses rejected dominion, traversing the desert
Of ignorance; he found nourishment in union
With Miriam: his necessary counterweight. He overcame
Obsession by achieving Balance
And ascended the mountain of knowledge.
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The Burning Bush, a living flame, revealed Unity in aspiration.
The Burning Bush enflamed Moses,
Whose descent from the penultimate height
Bridged a chasm separating Adam and Eve;
So, Moses mainlined an injection of insurrection
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Into the bulging vein of free will, releasing
Egypt’s Hebrew slaves.
The first primordial stars compressed tightly, exploding
Like mini celestial orgasms; mass spewed forth
From their cores. Super-massive nebulae and great clouds billowed, 270
Cosmic dust demarking seeded regions.
The laws of electromagnetism and gravity
Restricted dispersing mass: cosmic
Dust swirled, elliptical orbits
Collecting new galaxies:
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Stars, billions of solar systems,
Planets, asteroids and comets.
A spell of Cohesion bewitched the rose petal.
Electromagnetism and gravity express
Subservience to the Law of Attraction 280
As balanced with the Law of Exertion –
Together, they reflect the union of mass and energy;
Re-consecrating the marriage of Adam and Eve
Wrought Symmetry across the fabric of spacetime.
Moses returned to Egypt,
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And lovingly liberated Free-Will,
Leading the former slaves through
A parted Red Sea; the birth of his nation rushed
Headlong between menstrually mature, labia-shaped, oceanic
Pillars, leaving behind the security blanket, placenta –
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Egypt, seeking to suckle upon nourishing breasts by the sea.
Harmonically Symmetrical spacetime
Underlies cosmic Creation
Evolution cuts a wake,
Releasing ripples of chance
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From the shackles of chaos,
To vibrate across celestial waters.
Geburah
Disintegration
Smell, Taste, Hearing, Sight and Touch < Unity
Love,
The laws of physics
Evolution,
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And natural selection
Carry
A
Metaphysical
DNA.
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Mars bled struggle and strife
As the imposeur of limitation and death;
Ares introduced the eternal battle:
Orator facing orator in endless debate.
Evolution severely demarked Universal boundary –
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The was of one thing
Transforms into the will be
Of something to come.
Moses led his nation to the foot of a great
Mountain; he ascended and received ten
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Laws. The people forged a Golden Calf
And offered up wild reverie: idle idol worship.
The primal stars exploded in brilliant supernovae. The giant plume
Clouds of gas and dust: gestating wombs that gave birth to all
The elements of the Universe and every chemical
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Reaction that occurs in stars, solar systems, and planets, unleashed Splendor.
These supernovae blossomed across spacetime sowing
Fields of solar systems in the plowed rows of gravity. Consciousness evolved
From “I am and you are” into “I become as you sacrifice.”
Upon this stage, a cast of ten new players appeared on the playbill: 325
Inertia, friction, combustion, dissipation,
Reduction, definition, interaction,
Attraction, condensation, and
Creative expression.
The rose petal’s expansion slowed
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As the first blush of color
Brushed in broad strokes:
Gravity curved the rainbow
Of all wavelengths.
Moses promised his nation a land of milk and honey; 335
Right of entry required a rite of passage.
Forty years the Israelites arduously
Roamed the desert expanse fraught with hardship:
Evolution exerts change slowly and exhaustively.
The dissonant jazz,
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Full of cacophonic counterpoint,
Segued into a bolero
Performed in adagio cadence.
Like a chalcedony chalice
Bejeweled with emeralds and jade,
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Order crystallized into chordal triads
Echoing through the rose petal.
Cycles of seasons yielded eons of progressive permutations,
Innumerable experiments in the laboratory of evolution,
Editing the play with Shakespearean craft.
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Every law etched by Moses
Upon the stone tablets ossified
Wry smiles from marrow into bone.
A societal skeleton, framed on variety
And sharing, supported sinews, loosely linking every extremity. 355
The Israelites entered a mountain pass and stood
Upon the borderline to the Promised Land.
Tipareth
Integration
The Heart = Unity
Nuit gazed lovingly upon the Earth. Feminine
Intuition informed her, this tiny-blue orb spiraling
Through the heavens reached fertility. She ached
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To express her Creative urge, so Nuit planted
Two seeds into the rich, virgin soil.
Ptah saw seeds of life gestating
In the banks of the Nile. Smiling broadly
Upon Nuit’s impulse, his countenance beamed 365
Bright, warming rays of life
Activating, golden sunlight.
The Nile swelled with joy and flooded its banks; first
Spring awoke Earth from hibernation. The seeds
Germinated, sprouted and bore fruit: Isis and Osiris 370
Manifested – goddess and god incarnate.
Evolution spins a constantly diversifying web,
Complexity. Solar systems throughout the galaxies felt
The heat of the tango’s beat, whirling across
The rose petal in rhythm to the Celestial Song. Natural 375
Pacing in planets’ orbits brought tranquil regularity to gravity.
On Earth, as it came from heaven, a violent
Collision with a celestial body ripped off
A portion of mass and formed a lunar satellite;
(Athene was born from the head of Zeus),
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Tilting the planet. The axial
Tilt induced a forced labor of seasons.
Persephone, symbol of winter-death and spring-rebirth,
Arose with fresh blossoms from her Underworld
Descent, giving rise to seasons on Earth, and grains’ return.
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Comets pelted the Earth’s surface, depositing
Mouthfuls of water upon the sere
Crust. In eons, oceans washed the globe.
Organic molecules, carbon compounds in cosmic comets, seeded DNA.
The mysteries of the seasons unraveled before 390
Osiris and Isis, masters of agriculture. Together,
They tamed oxen as beasts of burden. They taught
Harvest and husbandry, neither to dominate, nor restrict
Nature, rather, to advance Splendor.
Life on Earth stewed up out of a mad scientist’s
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Organic chemistry experiment, still occurring
Right now, off in cold reaches of interstellar
Space. A double helix wove into chemical reactions,
Molecular structures sparked single cell organisms, combining
Into colonies, cohering into multi-cellular bodies. As eons ticked off, 400
The waters of Earth teemed with vitality.
Above the reach of the seas where moist
Soil began to stretch, the first cynobacteria
Injected molecular oxygen into the air.
Fungi spawned an atmospheric renovation. Insects
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Crawled out of seas and fed
Upon fungi, explored the land, carrying seeds
Away from the waters. As the atmosphere grew
Oxygen rich, the double helix evolved –
Plants proliferated; insects assisted,
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Abetting pollination’s conspiracy.
Aquatic beings migrated
To the land where socialism reigned;
All workers received complete sustenance,
Sole payment: A natural expression – 415
Their unique life force.
In a world ripe with nourishment,
Life-forms evolved in gigantic proportions.
Set’s personal expression of emotion
Entertained desire’s taint and perversion:
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Set envied his brother
Craving Osiris’ earned adulation.
Osiris and Isis administered
Prosperity through integration;
Streaming under serenely flowing viaducts,
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Their barges navigated the river of life
Carrying equal harvest to all.
Set sought to impose tyranny…
Through acquiring great storehouses,
He could amass wealth and wield power.
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Domination interposed through dominion
Lay within Set’s scheme.
Set sought to murder his brother
And wrongfully reign as king.
Plot, contrived and exacted,
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Set sent to Osiris’ feet
His flesh of aggrandizement,
Hidden in a jar of offering.
Once the jar was presented,
Set broke through the confines,
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Thrust his blade into Osiris’
Heart, hacked off each arm
And leg, along with head and phallus.
A lifeless trunk gaped open to flood –
Hope’s escape, oozing drops of blood. 445
The seven severed pieces
Were strewn in separate regions;
Thus sat Set upon Osiris’ throne,
A narcissistic sycophant
Indulging chaotic whims.
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Infinite potential expressed
In Creative Love received
Restriction within the boundless
Appetite for size achieved.
Immanent in nature’s expression of huge erections
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Of living, throbbing, gristle, muscle, blood and bone,
A critical mass of insatiable hunger
Consumed every nutritious root of life force sown.
Dinosaurs devoured the landscape, frenzied
By riot, looting what they conceived
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As their own supermarket, sucking diversity dry.
Adam’s involuntary vasectomy
Spawned an eviscerating hysterectomy,
Constraining Eve;
Her uninseminated fertility
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Yearned for Adam’s virility;
She longed to nurture and conceive.
Evolution’s abortion reduced abundance;
Capitalism, a rampant consumerism of illusive
Affluence, yielded universal poverty: diversity 470
Gave way to monstrous edifices unable to sustain
Themselves, monopolizing all paths to prosperity –
Completely consuming an economy not really their own.
Osiris navigated the river
Of the Underworld. Maat weighed Osiris’ Ka 475
Upon the scale of deeds, and
Found Balance against the feather.
The greater the bearable lightness of being,
The less weight borne by the soul.
Maat admitted the divine son, unladen by personal
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Desire, into Abydos’ Elysian Fields. Osiris lacked
The obesity self-gratification accumulates through
Stockpiling. The Osirian sacrifice opened Abydos’
Doors for all who pass the test of Maat. A redeemer
And re-vitalizer, Osiris sat upon a rightful throne –
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Paradise unrestrained in the Underworld.
Under the world,
Earth’s bowels poised to hurl
Up a rotting botulism of dead end; for –
While the expansion of Splendor
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Discovered inhibition at the hands
Of self-absorbed, gluttonous, consumptive demands,
The hierarchy of dinosaurs
Insatiably consumed all inferior competitors,
Monopolizing the marketplace with bully tactics,
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And dominating the new world order’s pedantics.
The dinosaur strategy to global, economic ecology evidenced
A naïve belief: its market share could expand;
The more they ate, the hungrier they grew;
Ever-expanding appetite in a world of limited resources.
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Undaunted by their oxymoronic faith, have-more
Dinosaurs subjugated the have-less classes –
Order, genus and species, too! Dominion exerted
Through hostile takeovers of have-less corporate
Bodies led down the inevitable road
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Marked by a street sign named extinction.
Evolution refused to be imprisoned,
And appealed its sentence. A court of higher
Authority, Nemesis, granted certiorari, and overturned
The verdict. The illegal search and seizure inherent
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In the domination of Splendor over itself thwarted
The free expression of Adam and Eve. The encroaching
Corpus delicti of Splendor rendered habeus corpus moot.
The decision Nemesis drafted stated:
Self-preservation does not confer legitimacy 515
Upon pre-emptive incursions! Honor, security
And civilization subsist solely through the wisdom
Of equitable distribution, and reverential respect for all life forms.
Nemesis, acting in the name of evolving Earth, imposed
Her own revolution against tyranny by spewing 520
A pestilence from within Gaia’s bowels.
She erupted with great clouds of methane, sulfuric
Acid and ash amid oceans of molten lava; crystals
Cut esophagi and poisoned lungs;
Dark clouds blotted out
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The elixir of light and froze
The planetary surface. The first of eons of winter
Consumed the opulent dinosaur monstrosities –
As, tiny mammals entered, and trod evolution’s stage.
The pressures of a free marketplace directed
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All wealth into the obese bellies of the most massive
Economic units; the schism between classes spread
Out in the widest chasm, the entire economy grew
Perilous, until the market crashed in a momentary
Flash from a cataclysmic event. 535
A heavenly ball of fire crashed into the Earth releasing
A firestorm that consumed those huge corporate
Bodies; and tiny mammals, the meek, inherited the Earth.
With a revised manuscript, natural
Selection began its task anew; 540
The vasectomy was reversed
And a critical mass averted, when evolving
Mammalian DNA rose from within the eddying gene pool.
Isis refused submission to grief;
Motherhood yearned from within her. 545
She searched every remote locale
And gathered six of Osiris’ extremities;
Only the phallus eluded her grasp.
It came to pass in her wanderings
That a fish explained to Isis
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It had swallowed the member;
Still whole in its belly.
Isis begged for release
Of the phallus. The fish agreed
To sacrifice its own desires and life
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So Osiris might raise his scepter again.
The fish swam into Isis’ open hands,
Who gave thanks for selflessness, sliced open
The fish, grasped the phallus and exposed it
To the Sun’s brilliance. Isis blessed
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The fish, and sewed closed its wound,
Returning it to the Nile and it swam off.
Isis gathered together all of the body
Parts, and reassembled Osiris
Upon an expectant altar. She placed
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The phallus inside her womb and rocked
Her body on the member; then, Isis kissed
The breath of life back into Osiris’ lungs.
Ptah and Nuit sanctified the copulation
Of their children; Osiris shuddered, and issued forth 570
Into Isis’ womb, conceiving Horus, as
Osiris rose from the dead.
The earth moved from their conjugal explosion
And Set was non-violently toppled from the precarious throne
Aggrandizing self sets atop tranquil Splendor. 575
Netzach
Opulence
The Seven Chakra = ( x Air, Fire, Earth and Water) The Heart
Consciousness evolved in bounds and leaps
With the invention of neurons and synapses;
A ladder was built upon the Tree
Igniting a chain of synaptic complexity,
A path to the doorstep of humanity.
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Venus reflects in morn and eve;
Her hypnotic refractions attract
Psychedelic hallucinations, indulging voluptuous appetites.
Cronos excised Ouranos’ phallus
From whence it fell into the ocean, 585
The restless waves tossed the member
Upon currents of wild abandon;
White foam gathered about it
In the cresting waves of Poseidon.
The frothy foam of white coalesced
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Into a phosphorescent maiden;
With beauty and countenance
No mortal ever laid eyes on.
Aphrodite swam and surfed as if she floated
Till she reached Cyprus’ shore.
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Mystified, Zeus awarded
A charge and office well adorned:
Over whispering maidens, laughter and hoaxes,
Sweet lust, kindness and of lore,
Over beauty, Love and all art forms
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Aphrodite reigned, forevermore.
Individuals mated, consorted, and bred, grouping
As families through urges of intuitive, synaptic evolution.
Aphrodite’s heart radiated rainbows and songs,
Pulsing through her core from high above 605
Into every noble human endeavor. Harmony rained
Like doves’ feathers fluffed;
Unremitting frolic cavorted through the woods
As Balance reigned over Splendor through Love,
Till arose a new infection:
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With base emotions was this reign rebuffed.
Aphrodite’s charm, so chilly, encouraged
Elitism and manifested imagined destiny. Entranced
By pleasure, leisure yielded desire, and Aphrodite
Decanted insatiability in her lust for insouciant luxury. 615
Mother Earth warmed again to nurture
Human clans, the scale of nature redefined
Size with touches subtle and refined; grandiose
Passed out of fashion: a new sensibility was born.
Humans found the warm world 620
Generally to their liking, relocating
From their caves claiming the most valuable
Real estate, even erecting homes of their design –
So momentous in the annals of the Earth, nature
Now had a competing creator
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Who would will, for better or for worse.
The riven bark from the tree of myrrh yields
A resinous gum, fragrant and sweet; a god-child
Condensed from this substance, more handsome
Than any mortal man, miraculously born and elegantly 630
Chiseled – he could bear only the name, Adonis.
The goddess of Love was struck as by lightning
With the apparition of perfected male; her lust
Deepened with the roots of the myrrh tree and branched
Through the heavens, ever-unfolding, her seductive
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Fragrance permeated the firmament.
Aphrodite sought beauty in variation; vagaries
Of chance excited her curiosity. Every succulent pomegranate
Leaving flavor’s aroma on Aphrodite’s tongue whet
Her palate for wine; grapes demanded cheese, and love,
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For the goddess of Love, insisted Adonis.
Aphrodite shared Adonis with the sweet
Persephone; he spent a third of the year
In the dark Underworld – Zeus decreed this.
The two goddesses, together, nurtured Adonis from child
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To adult. Since both showered him, unbridled lust laid its claim.
Zeus opined, “Love does not own,
Nor does it ever restrict;
Love’s meant to rain in torrents,
Freely, unfettered and unfixed.”
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Since they expressed Love as a greedy need,
Neither Aphrodite nor Persephone earned,
Entitlement to take Adonis’ seed.
A third of the year was awarded to each,
To compensate for the debt,
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While a third was bestowed on Adonis
That he might wield from his own intent.
“Through free expression does true Love flow,”
Decreed Zeus, in wisdom’s course.
As humans tamed fire, they arose from ashes as gods. 660
The wheel revealed the calendar,
Calculated the seasons,
Propelled the barrow,
Encouraged agriculture,
And charted stars’ movements across the night. 665
Aphrodite, having so much,
Feared losing even a little;
She ached for more, cowering at the feet
Of notions that pleasure be whittled.
Open minds shine light in dark places; 670
The spawn of Narcissus cloaks in shadows,
And into lucid daydreams casts nightmares’ traces.
Aphrodite’s languid, petulant mercy
Induced a permeating perfume
Enticing infinite permissiveness.
675
Paradigms of hierarchies
Amid permutations of schisms
Ingrained human lore
With fascinations for machinations.
Classes of doers and deciders
680
Divvied up the spoils all wrong!
A few embezzled premium grade;
The many shared meager survival.
Greed and jealousy sailed ships of the desert,
Telling tales of glory and revenge;
685
Nightmarish fascinations incited destructive passions.
Hod
Curiosity
Octaves of Wavelengths = (Duality x Air, Fire, Earth and Water) The Heart
Socrates entertained Mercury’s realm as he passed knowledge
By asking questions.
Plato refined and revealed Socrates’ vision; like Socrates, Plato sought answers
To the most impenetrable of deliberations. 690
Impetuous Aristotle placed himself above his learnèd
Teachers, and boldly believed he could intelligently design
Answers out of his imagined logic.
Thoth collected, transcribed,
Interpreted and taught thought.
695
Thoth informed all the wisdom of Alexandria.
From thought arises conscience.
Consciousness of insatiable appetites
Instills conscience with remorse.
Civilization’s sprawl incessantly encroached
700
Upon newly conquered regions. Animals’
Habitats shrank. The swell of human population
Diminished diversity, the census, and the quality of life of all
Generations and every genus. Communities built
Fences, segregating wild splendor from a bland regularity civilization imposed. 705
Osirian/Isian Balance was forgotten.
Merlin also exemplified Mercurial force;
His story recounted: a wizard,
Wizened by eons of existence,
Wielding magical potency
710
With sage insight and grandfatherly Love.
Merlin taught fellowship and fraternity
Through rationality. He sought
A gentle, human approach to
Other-than-self, altruism made manifest;
715
The cooperation of the Round Table.
The Grail embodied these qualities
Through the admonition,
“The king and the land are one,”
A co-efficient of “Love and Creation are one.” 720
All of nature expresses Unity; the king’s sacred
Role, Merlin taught, evoked essence in embrace.
The Grail quest enriches the lives
Of everyone who undertakes it;
Its responsibility demands
725
Moderate appetite and respect for exquisite Splendor.
The will of self’s search for pre-eminence,
Dictated entry into an age of empire.
Seti, Ramses, Alexander, or Caesar;
Mongol, Viking, Cossack or Hun;
730
Nixon, Hitler, Napoleon or Bush;
Comrade, terrorist, Netanyahu or nun; all are one.
The fragile chalcedony chalice of affection –
The very picture of the Grail –
Was smashed by the Golden Calf,
735
Re-forged and worshipped anew.
The annals of history glorify conquerors;
Marching progress legitimizes devastation.
The Grail lay hidden in the belly of the Golden
Calf; the brilliant light of altruism, obscured
740
By clouds of carbon emissions! Intellect sacrificed
Wisdom, suffering subjugation to the cult of privilege.
Nemesis unleashed a plague of war, infecting humanity. Its
Spore spread, an endemic epidemic, diffusing dark despair: dread.
The disease disseminated disaster in dulcet voiced doses declared
745
From regal daises: pompous, papal pulpits.
The waste of human seed
Lay spent upon the ground,
Lifeless forms spread like weeds
With maimed, homeless, and orphaned all around. 750
A stern severity of divisive decadence
Raucously revels at its own reflection
In a mirror of marshaled Mercurial mental pre-eminence
Unbridled by Venusian affection for the virtuous virtuosity
Only obviated by the messianic manifestation 755
Of evolution’s unremitting revelation of variation.
Yesod
Dreams, Myths and Gods
A Reflecting Orb = The Heart x ( + The Seven Chakras)
A realm of shadows slowly creeps
Across a wintry landscape’s face,
A crystal ball clouds up within
From smoky fingers’ inkless trace; 760
The light of stars, not dimmed, diffused,
Reveals that hope still shines through gloom;
Though sunsets darken after dusk
The night’s illumed by yonder moon.
Selene, sister to Helios, appeared 765
In slivers, quarters, and all her phases,
She arced through the cold, bright night sky so clear,
Wrapping the Earth with tender embraces;
Reflecting light from her silvery sphere,
The delicate webs of shimmering laces,
770
She conjured dreams in the mind’s sheer veneer,
Dripping, like dew, on mornings’ awed faces.
It’s in the darkness of sudden silence when consciousness cedes
Imagined dominion – dare loosen the laces of synaptic bootstraps,
As the mind dips into the cool, placid waters of sleep. 775
Where does the I go when eyes go shut
And ego sinks below sunset’s strut?
When lust and desire find rest,
A grander awareness manifests.
Endymion, a mortal youth, bore features
780
Rivaling the gods, his aura glowing as he hunted.
Selene trained a close eye on the mortal, captivated
By his innocent strength and knack for reflecting
The light of Olympus, so akin to her own seductive
Mystery, reflecting the sun’s rays while Helios slept. 785
Endymion’s name transcended the personal
In significance for all human travails;
In the meaning, “He who finds himself within,”
An oracle of all human destiny
Was whispered by zephyrs
790
Through woods’ leafy branches.
Fantastic phantasms exposed demons and angels,
Lying dormant in untapped regions of thought,
As yet-unborn conceptions of images
And unvoiced conversations and songs. 795
Yea, even in scenes unseen and settings unsat
Upon, which some mind
(Is it one’s own or some god’s?)
Blocked out the action
The playwright described
800
Of plots within tales
Unimaginable in the light of day.
Could the phantoms within
Reveal our true selves to scrutiny?
Selene, that temptress and seductress, 805
So sweet and alluring a mystery,
Found her beloved Endymion
Sleeping nightly in her own dear cave,
Whence she disappeared just before each new dawn
Behind the mountain crest of shimmering Latmos.
810
The first concept of soul sparked in Cro-Magnon mind
From the elusive visions,
Such were nocturnal emissions,
Of active synapses undesigned;
Revealed within dreams 815
Of angelic imagery and demonic schemes,
Soaring serenity and cacophonic confusion
Harkened, as harbingers of superstitious illusion –
Explanations required otherworldliness must be entwined.
It was in that cave beyond fair Latmos 820
Where Selene and Endymion stole snippets of thyme,
They spoke of shadows and stars and passion
Until, one morning yawned, and Eos ushered Helios
Into the sky, Endymion bade his belovèd Selene
Spare him from cruel death’s sting
825
By granting the gift of eternal slumber.
In their secret cave of wonder
With a lovers’ caress they would adore each
Other’s reflected light beyond the last breath of eternity.
To this request Selene consented, though
830
She added one lingering longing, her own
Dear yen was added to the chore: she’d whisper
Unity’s secrets and guide Endymion to that self
Within, while his love would forever wash over
Her, even through his slumber, with eyes always agape –
835
Selene would always see love shine upon her through his gaze.
The sweet nothings Selene whispered
To Endymion in his unbroken slumber
Shone as pyrite picture dreams. Reveries examined
Facets’ gleams within, revealing the intransigence of glittery 840
Fiction. With blind eyes open to the world around him,
Endymion opened his mind to second sight;
Selene tended Endymion, who she taught
To see through deceptions of whim. Such small tuition.
From trips into other, no words would uncover 845
Relationships to the mundane.
Through every reverie, profane and heavenly,
Our nonsense reigned over our brain.
Out from nocturnal seeds, grew superstitious creeds
Vain humans disdained to contain. 850
Out of our confusion and dark disillusion
Gaia’s needs in her seed convey
Some hint in her order that through nature’s border
All Balance is scaled by play;
So a man named Lao-Tze searching deep did pursue 855
Within and without him The Way.
The Tao’s a path of steps that respects and accepts,
Its aim is never to meddle;
Through silent insistence, paths of least resistance
Are never marred by a nettle;
860
By disdaining extremes and all personal dreams
It’s never inferred we settle;
Since all natural roads lead us to high abodes
Everything is monumental.
A path wanders though harmonious glens
865
Past reflective pools into lush, wide
Pastures. No personal needs for stuff elevate
Desire; by honoring Adam and Eve’s eternal
Mating and the Universe they’re creating,
Splendor embraces Unity without approaching 870
A critical mass.
Malkuth
Transcendence
(Multiplicity x ) Release Pressure = Unity
Blue green orb that floats on an eddy
Ticking through space and inching through time,
Spin and revolve through cycled spirals
And wake ripples through fabric sublime; 875
Your issue teems past a child’s count of
How many-splendored embraces surround,
This still, just barely begun, evolution,
Where all possibilities abound.
There’s never a hurry with natural selection,
880
Every song is played till coda concludes;
No race need have been run,
Since all that was won
Was an expression of potential’s diffusion.
The Buddha explained a caustic paradox
885
Within the symbiotic tribulations of life,
Suffering accrues from accumulating karma –
The result of both pleasure and strife;
As deeper passion electrified the living,
Sorrow and suffering became rife.
890
One day, as Gautama ambled through India,
Heat and exercise took its toll;
Seeing a lone bodhi tree on a hillside,
The man acquiesced to break his stroll.
Right there he sat to rest and relax
895
And gain from suffering a brief parole:
From calm meditation came freedom from doing;
It’s said the Buddha never left that grassy knoll.
Humans insist the right to change
Any natural phenomenon
900
According to expediency.
Humans possess the might to raze
And replace pastoral invention
With egotistic pre-eminency.
Might never makes right and blindness 905
To global interdependence
Yields social degeneracy.
Karma in Sanskrit means doing – how we spend
Our lives; an accumulation of rewards and punishments
Meted out by a discarnate, conscious judge has nothing
910
To do with the Buddha’s teachings on karma –
When something is one’s karma, simply, it is
One’s own doing, not a gold star, a time out, or user error.
The Wheel of Karma, accumulating attachments, reveals
An exponentially growing, insatiability: all our fleeting 915
Unattainable, and insatiable desires lead to suffering:
Our own karma through our own doing.
As long as the moon circles the Earth,
Waves will continue to crash on sandy shores;
Whenever the sun’s warm rays shine above,
920
Plants will photosynthesize and create oxygen;
Where ever water rains down from the heavens,
Animals will congregate to drink and feed.
Should humans interpose their will too greatly,
They can so diminish Splendor 925
As to endanger the Age of Mammals.
Mother Nature’s intent
Will only invent
New models of differential
From her infinite potential
930
To repopulate woods, tors,
Plains and shores.
Our belovèd mother and benefactress, the hostess
By whose virtue and grace we exist has a world
Of eternity to express evolution’s unending
935
Possibility; it is we who are bound by restrictions,
And so, should re-evaluate our convictions.
Reconfiguring the landscape to fit
Human desires, while destroying
The wild, causes a critical mass –
940
Extinction, strangling the planet.
It is often thought that when Gautama taught,
Emulate him to reach Nirvana,
He meant, “Stop all doing.”
It is a part of doing to procreate; the Buddha 945
Really intended we discard desire.
Throughout humanity’s recorded history a precious
Few control wealth, perpetuating their
Dominion over the masses, while critically exercising executive
Privilege’s health; the response of the people – acquiesce
950
To consolidation of power, with or without stealth.
Awaken from the raving delusion that humanity exerts dominion over nature!
Who are you to believe your life force is most worthwhile?
Dominion only meant we’d overcome
Neanderthal, not evolution. So Cro-Magnon invented 955
A god in his own image who promised no Earth
Without sapiens. What a small grasp of infinity.
We’ve all become wind-ups, our keys
Being turned so we can march off to place our cog-selves
Into that wheel that is the economy to amass 960
Ever-increasing fortunes for the elite class
Of every generation, who, we are taught
And cajoled, to celebrate and idolize.
Now, we sit at the edge of time:
Our geometrically expanding population,
965
Approximately doubling every 35 years,
Threatens to strangle all life, including our own,
With a critical mass
Of insatiable mouths to feed and bodies to house,
Usurping, in time, all the land for human use 970
And strangling all other life on the planet;
Our weapons of war are capable of extinguishing
All life on the planet
With a critical mass
Arising from the push of a button
975
Threatening to vaporize every living thing;
Our waste is choking the air
And infecting all water on the globe –
A critical mass of pestilence looms
As the air becomes un-breathe-able and we murder
980
Coral reefs with our excrement, refuse, and preheated
Carbonated oceans, killing the Mother-of-Life-on-Earth.
Nemesis calls to everyone, invoking an ancient oath –
Attendance at a critical mass
Of spiritual hearts is mandatory; 985
Express love and reverence
For our Mother, the Earth;
Promise to cease eradicating Splendor;
Vow to leave some wilderness
For diversity to blossom and bloom.
990
Mother Earth tells us,
“Children, play nice; can’t you
All just get along?”
Nemesis requires open hearts
Expressing joyous gratitude 995
For the gift of life, to avoid a critical morass.
Life is not a path of will, both
Mind and heart must fully engage.
Mass expresses variations on denser octaves
Etching reflections of energy’s formatives;
1000
Variety, diversity, multiplying endlessly –
Subtle distinctions implying, commendlessly,
That every blade of every lawn
Soaks up light from Original Dawn.
Our planet is a single-family dwelling 1005
With the ‘hood of brothers and sisters swelling –
As life proliferates love must grow!
Acceptance and understanding must always flow.
The sky, the sun, the stars, the sea;
Your wife, his mom, her dad, our auntie;
1010
They and more waddle pregnantly
Through Splendor’s immanence in Unity.
Smiles and laughter and giggles and glee
Kisses, caresses, snuggles and urgency
Sno-cones and ice cream and chocolate and tea
1015
Are these not enough to fill eternity?
No edifices will survive humanity long;
In time, no traces will remain:
All that really survives and persists
Is the love we’ve made and shared.
1020
A line of twelve pelicans glides on the air
Barely inches above the sea’s rolling waves,
While a glowing red ball slowly inches lower,
Far behind the rocky crag of a jetty,
Beyond the point of land curving out from the bay’s border,
1025
Further, still, than the horizon’s edge.
The planet revolves as gentle winds rustle through palm fronds,
And shadows lengthen across the faces of sundials;
Gaia inhales while Ouranos exhales;
Cronos winks a constant beat;
1030
Zeus balances the scales by disarming Mars.
Merlin allies all competing interests
Into a Round Table of agreement and respect
With the wisdom of mutual cooperation;
Selene and Endymion reflect Osirian/Isian Balance
1035
As they entwine up a knowledgeable tree into a new caduceus,
And that red, glowing ball of incandescence
Sinks slowly into the cold, blue, eternal sea.
Endnotes
“For the human race to survive, the human race must remain civilized.” - Rod Serling
Dreams form the space between heartbeats – life
Advances by inhaling the scent of rain, or listening
To the ocean’s roar; unrelenting torrents release
Floods of information with lightning speed. What are we
Missing right now? Knowledge seems so complexly 5
Thorough, yet remains a blank page to the superstitious.
Oh Clio! Lead me down your byway, to understanding’s harbor.
Kether
Anticipation
Unity >
An airless breeze hung
Still, languidly unblowing
On the faceless void.
10
Breath suspended in still silence; uniform
Un-form sketched itself upon a blank
Canvas; uncondensed molecules, huelessly
Unpainted, roamed where no needle, failed to indicate.
Eternal nothingness floated
15
Upon a waterless sea: Oceanos.
Behold Oceanos as the circle,
A completed, omnipresent circuit.
Latently; origin and terminus co-situated, non-existently.
Oceanos sat poised, ready
20
To beget endlessly;
Self-satisfied within unprovoked potency;
A unified whole – unrealized contentment.
Singularity, coreless and unclothed, rested: inertialessly inert.
Tranquil harmony tolled unimagined bells
25
With a soundless, polyphonic symphony,
Unheard, desireless and unsung.
Oh immanent Oceanos, in Oneness
With Tethys, inseparably united
Like the caduceus, you are indivisibly 30
The Father/Mother: the Original Originator;
Your realm transcends contemplation:
More than of the Beyond, you are the Beyond.
Pre-existent Pluto’s subatomic potential
Hid in the yet to be conceived Underworld,
35
Scalelessly balanced, an utterly whole unmanifestation.
Dreamless sleep permeated
An empty, thoughtless mind,
While Undifferentiated Unity soared
Unexpressed, unaware and undesigned:
40
Pre-cognitive, like Oliver Sacks’ “sleepy sickness” patients.
Chokmah
Action
Singularity = Duality
The monad yawned and stretched. A great,
Insatiable, Supra-Massive Black Hole pulsed –
Incessant rhythm at the heart
Of Unity – uncovering Splendor, impelling
45
Singularity to erupt in a critical mass.
Universal Supra-Consciousness, Ouranos,
Emerged into Duality with Gaia: each saw
Their reflections arise together upon the placid face
Of Oceanos – the looking glass,
50
Where Ouranos’ and Gaia’s gazes awoke.
Ouranos, the great impeller,
Prime Mover as Eros,
You embolden Creation:
Copulation encouraged
55
The ultimate expression of worth;
Union through Loving intent,
Implicates meaning in every birth.
Mass and energy differentiated. Yang
Quark encountered yin electron
60
Intuitively. One mitosis yields two:
Adam/thesis/male/positive/active/energy/light
Inferred a shadow reality –
Eve/antithesis/female/negative/receptive/mass/darkness.
Only awareness of other yields comprehension
Of self; definitions express nuances in relationship.
65
Mercifully, from the primordial relativistic jet and plasma beacon,
Illumination flashed: a bolt of lightning from nowhere –
Strobing upon the vast nothing, igniting energy into motion.
Compressed to implosive collapse,
The pressure of a critical mass exerted
70
Presence from crevasse.
Binah
Fertilization
Triplicity ≠?
Primal Adam and Eve fell
In love at first sight, instantly
Kissing and caressing –
Potential energy kineticized
75
And condensed into dew
Drops of atomic energy; free
Radicals initiated a revolution –
Attraction manifested fusion and fission.
A brilliant, explosion of exhibitionism – rainbow-hued
80
Fertilization: the Cosmic Dialectic exacted synthesis.
Darkness cleaved itself from light: Unity committed suicide.
Pre-eternity
Spiraled in an Irish jig
During its own wake.
85
Gaia, Creation’s organic thread,
Slowly poked her orphaned head
From the womb of expiring Unity.
Awareness, born from Death’s fertility,
Sang out in a joyous tune
90
For the palingenetic retinue
And deep respect for the loving gift
Implicit in Saturn’s severe shift.
Adam’s sweet kisses and soft caresses inevitably inflamed Eve’s passion.
Quarks fused randomly: protons
95
And neutrons invented
The tango. The dance lacked form until electrons
Encircled nuclei; their orbits consummated
The dance, plucking notes of the Celestial
Song upon the lyre: spacetime. Hydrogen and helium configured.
100
Oceanos’ infinite potential
Issued a river of chance
Through Ouranos’ uninterrupted current:
A primal stream inseminating fertility;
The incessant urge impregnated 105
Gaia’s eternal dance,
Releasing fertilized eggs
Of imagination’s embryonic proclivity.
Tension mounted; atoms accumulated. Impelled
By an intuitive yet inarticulate 110
Memory of Unity; desire – Oneness
Insisted union. Atoms shared adulterous
Electrons, the dance’s grip tightened; mutually
Obsessive embraces urged erotic
Copulation: nuclei devoured nuclei, merging – 115
Increasing complexity ≠? modeling expanding Splendor.
The heat of passion intensified. Speed
Persisted fomenting friction and prodded.
Adam and Eve wed, their marriage sanctified
By eternal vows. Perpetual mating, the ultimate 120
Expression of monogamy, co-mingled
Essences. Slowly passion secreted
Pre-orgasmic fluids: the lovers’ ritual
Shone forth: the original, active, galactic
Pulse in cosmic darkness, a rapturous beacon. 125
Adam’s energy willfully inseminated Eve’s mass,
Lewdly fueling expansion, impregnating her.
Atoms and molecules sparked into existence. Ceaseless
Labor conceived in streams, painting the curvature of spacetime.
Imagine a spherical rosebud – petals unravel
130
In pairs, emanations stretch; each petal
A universe within a voidless void: infinite fields
Of quarks and electrons where energy remains yet
Unkineticized; our petal: young, unfolding, becoming.
The petulant hearts of Adam and Eve sustained, multiplied
135
And diversified nature through emanations of petal after unfolding
Petal. Unending union sanctified and glorified each
Pregnant, protruding universe, curving out a dimension
Of existence, unique, complete unto itself.
You’ve just dined upon the fruit of the Tree
140
Of Knowledge. The pulp, so succulent
And meaty, always perfectly ripe, nourishes
The cosmos. Devour it! Slurp up
The juices! Swallow the pit whole!
Only when yin and yang combine
145
Is perfect sustenance provoked.
Without the balance of seasons and spice, the fruit
Fails to satisfy: an augury of The Fall.
Consuming the fruit was never forbidden,
The act lay implicit in the flowering
150
Of the petals of spacetime. Taboo lay
In discarding the seed.
Da’ath
Gestation
Unity Singularity
The landscape forged unformed; substance proliferated
Shapelessly. A kitten-like curiosity resonated amid haphazard
Musings. Mystery sought adventure in Poseidon’s realm
155
Through an Odyssey of wondrous encounters
Across the Celestial Aegean. A mischievous sea,
Fertile contingency, inundated Splendor with paradox,
As Cronos tick-tocked into existence.
Yin and yang coalesced in the presence
160
Of Knowah, who herded them onto the Ark,
That together they might navigate the chaos
Of Cronos. All the while, our petal of spacetime inculcated
Existence with myriad machinations of manifestation.
A Supra-Massive Black Hole – the center,
165
Nothing/all – discovered a seed at its core
And erupted in great jets of mass: cosmic
Dust, atoms, molecules and microwave
Radiation spewed out and were sucked back
Into the maelstrom’s insatiable black hole –
170
Creation fed upon itself, as Cronos ate
His own young; then, Creation erupted:
Just as Cronos’ young sprang from his gut,
Vigorous actors upon the world stage.
The tempo of Adam and Eve’s tango torturously torqued into 175
A dynamic, universal turbine. The perpetual motion machine
Embarked on its journey of self-discovery, consciously
Initiating Original Orgasm: The Big Bang!
Knowah scattered seeds across the Celestial Aegean;
Yin and yang germinated into Super-Massive Black Holes 180
Eyes in each new maelstrom: perpetual,
Self-inseminating incubators – each wielding
A relativistic jet, pulsing – feeding
The insatiable hunger of the black hole
And simultaneously spewing forth material to populate 185
The vast, blankblack canvas. Thusly, Knowah birthed
Galaxies across an instantly expanding spacetime.
Fecundating Love spread out like honey
On the rose petal, dripping and oozing into newly
Formed reaches; love pumped the lifeblood – 190
Splendor flowed through every expression.
Whirling, swirling clouds of cosmic mass
And primal energy warped
The curvature of the expanding universe.
Pregnant with possibility,
195
Galaxies developed according to their own volition:
The halcyon waters of Oceanos slowly receded.
Mass condensed into matter:
Stars were born from molecules,
Collecting into white-hot furnaces; 200
The fruit of Adam and Eve: only
Evolutionary death breeds revolutionary Splendor.
Denser collections of matter spiraled serenely across spacetime.
The inertia of evolution
Incited a cosmic revolution
205
Determined to express liberating actualities.
As Adam and Eve perpetually copulated,
Knowah encouraged yin and yang, who populated
The universe with multiplying galaxies.
Mysterious Balance constantly reasserts itself. 210
Chesed
Expansion
Air, Fire, Earth and Water = x (Unity Singularity)
Profligate potential
Imprinted our petal
Of spacetime with physical Laws.
When Moses encountered the Burning Bush,
He apprehended justice as the epitome 215
Of Jupiter’s expression –
“Love and Creation are one!”
Life emerged from Unity’s merciful sacrifice; hope vested in its child.
The soothing balm of chance forested a desert
Landscaped imagination with saplings of undreams. 220
The eternal flame of nascence reflected wildly
In Moses’ cornea, etching upon his retinas
A vision: the perpetual union of Adam and Eve.
Mass gathered itself into white-hot cores, spinning
Molecules collected; whirling masses corralling 225
Electromagnetic fields, tightly compressing –
Spheres. Constant combustion: stars blossomed
In the night like lily islands on a tranquil pond.
A Hebrew slave conceived and delivered Moses.
This child, as future lawgiver to a nation,
230
Would impose Order upon Chaos.
In the beginning, chaos dominated
Spacetime. Super-Massive Black Holes sparked
Flames and expansion where No-Thing once reigned.
Coupled, Adam and Eve spawned
235
Random fountains of generation; our rose
Petal wove a hive of structure with fragrant Symmetry just as
Zeus orchestrated the Greeks from Olympus. Accumulating
Atoms and molecules coalesced; balling up –
Denser, heavier; energetic masses.
240
The laws of gravity and electromagnetism bound Infinity to limitations.
Moses, the child, floated on the Nile –
The river of life –
Until discovered by Bithia,
She bequeathed him a legacy
245
Of power, wealth and kingdom:
A proffered glorification to her own vanity.
Egyptian society arose from the schism of Unity into Duality.
Temptations, power and greed revealed
A flame of eternal truth: rule by one
250
Enslaves multitudes, rule by any –
Tyranny; complete, unbound, unfettered
Freedom liberates all; the only Laws?
Free Will, Opportunity, Respect,
Understanding, and Acceptance.
255
Moses rejected dominion, traversing the desert
Of ignorance; he found nourishment in union
With Miriam: his necessary counterweight. He overcame
Obsession by achieving Balance
And ascended the mountain of knowledge.
260
The Burning Bush, a living flame, revealed Unity in aspiration.
The Burning Bush enflamed Moses,
Whose descent from the penultimate height
Bridged a chasm separating Adam and Eve;
So, Moses mainlined an injection of insurrection
265
Into the bulging vein of free will, releasing
Egypt’s Hebrew slaves.
The first primordial stars compressed tightly, exploding
Like mini celestial orgasms; mass spewed forth
From their cores. Super-massive nebulae and great clouds billowed, 270
Cosmic dust demarking seeded regions.
The laws of electromagnetism and gravity
Restricted dispersing mass: cosmic
Dust swirled, elliptical orbits
Collecting new galaxies:
275
Stars, billions of solar systems,
Planets, asteroids and comets.
A spell of Cohesion bewitched the rose petal.
Electromagnetism and gravity express
Subservience to the Law of Attraction 280
As balanced with the Law of Exertion –
Together, they reflect the union of mass and energy;
Re-consecrating the marriage of Adam and Eve
Wrought Symmetry across the fabric of spacetime.
Moses returned to Egypt,
285
And lovingly liberated Free-Will,
Leading the former slaves through
A parted Red Sea; the birth of his nation rushed
Headlong between menstrually mature, labia-shaped, oceanic
Pillars, leaving behind the security blanket, placenta –
290
Egypt, seeking to suckle upon nourishing breasts by the sea.
Harmonically Symmetrical spacetime
Underlies cosmic Creation
Evolution cuts a wake,
Releasing ripples of chance
295
From the shackles of chaos,
To vibrate across celestial waters.
Geburah
Disintegration
Smell, Taste, Hearing, Sight and Touch < Unity
Love,
The laws of physics
Evolution,
300
And natural selection
Carry
A
Metaphysical
DNA.
305
Mars bled struggle and strife
As the imposeur of limitation and death;
Ares introduced the eternal battle:
Orator facing orator in endless debate.
Evolution severely demarked Universal boundary –
310
The was of one thing
Transforms into the will be
Of something to come.
Moses led his nation to the foot of a great
Mountain; he ascended and received ten
315
Laws. The people forged a Golden Calf
And offered up wild reverie: idle idol worship.
The primal stars exploded in brilliant supernovae. The giant plume
Clouds of gas and dust: gestating wombs that gave birth to all
The elements of the Universe and every chemical
320
Reaction that occurs in stars, solar systems, and planets, unleashed Splendor.
These supernovae blossomed across spacetime sowing
Fields of solar systems in the plowed rows of gravity. Consciousness evolved
From “I am and you are” into “I become as you sacrifice.”
Upon this stage, a cast of ten new players appeared on the playbill: 325
Inertia, friction, combustion, dissipation,
Reduction, definition, interaction,
Attraction, condensation, and
Creative expression.
The rose petal’s expansion slowed
330
As the first blush of color
Brushed in broad strokes:
Gravity curved the rainbow
Of all wavelengths.
Moses promised his nation a land of milk and honey; 335
Right of entry required a rite of passage.
Forty years the Israelites arduously
Roamed the desert expanse fraught with hardship:
Evolution exerts change slowly and exhaustively.
The dissonant jazz,
340
Full of cacophonic counterpoint,
Segued into a bolero
Performed in adagio cadence.
Like a chalcedony chalice
Bejeweled with emeralds and jade,
345
Order crystallized into chordal triads
Echoing through the rose petal.
Cycles of seasons yielded eons of progressive permutations,
Innumerable experiments in the laboratory of evolution,
Editing the play with Shakespearean craft.
350
Every law etched by Moses
Upon the stone tablets ossified
Wry smiles from marrow into bone.
A societal skeleton, framed on variety
And sharing, supported sinews, loosely linking every extremity. 355
The Israelites entered a mountain pass and stood
Upon the borderline to the Promised Land.
Tipareth
Integration
The Heart = Unity
Nuit gazed lovingly upon the Earth. Feminine
Intuition informed her, this tiny-blue orb spiraling
Through the heavens reached fertility. She ached
360
To express her Creative urge, so Nuit planted
Two seeds into the rich, virgin soil.
Ptah saw seeds of life gestating
In the banks of the Nile. Smiling broadly
Upon Nuit’s impulse, his countenance beamed 365
Bright, warming rays of life
Activating, golden sunlight.
The Nile swelled with joy and flooded its banks; first
Spring awoke Earth from hibernation. The seeds
Germinated, sprouted and bore fruit: Isis and Osiris 370
Manifested – goddess and god incarnate.
Evolution spins a constantly diversifying web,
Complexity. Solar systems throughout the galaxies felt
The heat of the tango’s beat, whirling across
The rose petal in rhythm to the Celestial Song. Natural 375
Pacing in planets’ orbits brought tranquil regularity to gravity.
On Earth, as it came from heaven, a violent
Collision with a celestial body ripped off
A portion of mass and formed a lunar satellite;
(Athene was born from the head of Zeus),
380
Tilting the planet. The axial
Tilt induced a forced labor of seasons.
Persephone, symbol of winter-death and spring-rebirth,
Arose with fresh blossoms from her Underworld
Descent, giving rise to seasons on Earth, and grains’ return.
385
Comets pelted the Earth’s surface, depositing
Mouthfuls of water upon the sere
Crust. In eons, oceans washed the globe.
Organic molecules, carbon compounds in cosmic comets, seeded DNA.
The mysteries of the seasons unraveled before 390
Osiris and Isis, masters of agriculture. Together,
They tamed oxen as beasts of burden. They taught
Harvest and husbandry, neither to dominate, nor restrict
Nature, rather, to advance Splendor.
Life on Earth stewed up out of a mad scientist’s
395
Organic chemistry experiment, still occurring
Right now, off in cold reaches of interstellar
Space. A double helix wove into chemical reactions,
Molecular structures sparked single cell organisms, combining
Into colonies, cohering into multi-cellular bodies. As eons ticked off, 400
The waters of Earth teemed with vitality.
Above the reach of the seas where moist
Soil began to stretch, the first cynobacteria
Injected molecular oxygen into the air.
Fungi spawned an atmospheric renovation. Insects
405
Crawled out of seas and fed
Upon fungi, explored the land, carrying seeds
Away from the waters. As the atmosphere grew
Oxygen rich, the double helix evolved –
Plants proliferated; insects assisted,
410
Abetting pollination’s conspiracy.
Aquatic beings migrated
To the land where socialism reigned;
All workers received complete sustenance,
Sole payment: A natural expression – 415
Their unique life force.
In a world ripe with nourishment,
Life-forms evolved in gigantic proportions.
Set’s personal expression of emotion
Entertained desire’s taint and perversion:
420
Set envied his brother
Craving Osiris’ earned adulation.
Osiris and Isis administered
Prosperity through integration;
Streaming under serenely flowing viaducts,
425
Their barges navigated the river of life
Carrying equal harvest to all.
Set sought to impose tyranny…
Through acquiring great storehouses,
He could amass wealth and wield power.
430
Domination interposed through dominion
Lay within Set’s scheme.
Set sought to murder his brother
And wrongfully reign as king.
Plot, contrived and exacted,
435
Set sent to Osiris’ feet
His flesh of aggrandizement,
Hidden in a jar of offering.
Once the jar was presented,
Set broke through the confines,
440
Thrust his blade into Osiris’
Heart, hacked off each arm
And leg, along with head and phallus.
A lifeless trunk gaped open to flood –
Hope’s escape, oozing drops of blood. 445
The seven severed pieces
Were strewn in separate regions;
Thus sat Set upon Osiris’ throne,
A narcissistic sycophant
Indulging chaotic whims.
450
Infinite potential expressed
In Creative Love received
Restriction within the boundless
Appetite for size achieved.
Immanent in nature’s expression of huge erections
455
Of living, throbbing, gristle, muscle, blood and bone,
A critical mass of insatiable hunger
Consumed every nutritious root of life force sown.
Dinosaurs devoured the landscape, frenzied
By riot, looting what they conceived
460
As their own supermarket, sucking diversity dry.
Adam’s involuntary vasectomy
Spawned an eviscerating hysterectomy,
Constraining Eve;
Her uninseminated fertility
465
Yearned for Adam’s virility;
She longed to nurture and conceive.
Evolution’s abortion reduced abundance;
Capitalism, a rampant consumerism of illusive
Affluence, yielded universal poverty: diversity 470
Gave way to monstrous edifices unable to sustain
Themselves, monopolizing all paths to prosperity –
Completely consuming an economy not really their own.
Osiris navigated the river
Of the Underworld. Maat weighed Osiris’ Ka 475
Upon the scale of deeds, and
Found Balance against the feather.
The greater the bearable lightness of being,
The less weight borne by the soul.
Maat admitted the divine son, unladen by personal
480
Desire, into Abydos’ Elysian Fields. Osiris lacked
The obesity self-gratification accumulates through
Stockpiling. The Osirian sacrifice opened Abydos’
Doors for all who pass the test of Maat. A redeemer
And re-vitalizer, Osiris sat upon a rightful throne –
485
Paradise unrestrained in the Underworld.
Under the world,
Earth’s bowels poised to hurl
Up a rotting botulism of dead end; for –
While the expansion of Splendor
490
Discovered inhibition at the hands
Of self-absorbed, gluttonous, consumptive demands,
The hierarchy of dinosaurs
Insatiably consumed all inferior competitors,
Monopolizing the marketplace with bully tactics,
495
And dominating the new world order’s pedantics.
The dinosaur strategy to global, economic ecology evidenced
A naïve belief: its market share could expand;
The more they ate, the hungrier they grew;
Ever-expanding appetite in a world of limited resources.
500
Undaunted by their oxymoronic faith, have-more
Dinosaurs subjugated the have-less classes –
Order, genus and species, too! Dominion exerted
Through hostile takeovers of have-less corporate
Bodies led down the inevitable road
505
Marked by a street sign named extinction.
Evolution refused to be imprisoned,
And appealed its sentence. A court of higher
Authority, Nemesis, granted certiorari, and overturned
The verdict. The illegal search and seizure inherent
510
In the domination of Splendor over itself thwarted
The free expression of Adam and Eve. The encroaching
Corpus delicti of Splendor rendered habeus corpus moot.
The decision Nemesis drafted stated:
Self-preservation does not confer legitimacy 515
Upon pre-emptive incursions! Honor, security
And civilization subsist solely through the wisdom
Of equitable distribution, and reverential respect for all life forms.
Nemesis, acting in the name of evolving Earth, imposed
Her own revolution against tyranny by spewing 520
A pestilence from within Gaia’s bowels.
She erupted with great clouds of methane, sulfuric
Acid and ash amid oceans of molten lava; crystals
Cut esophagi and poisoned lungs;
Dark clouds blotted out
525
The elixir of light and froze
The planetary surface. The first of eons of winter
Consumed the opulent dinosaur monstrosities –
As, tiny mammals entered, and trod evolution’s stage.
The pressures of a free marketplace directed
530
All wealth into the obese bellies of the most massive
Economic units; the schism between classes spread
Out in the widest chasm, the entire economy grew
Perilous, until the market crashed in a momentary
Flash from a cataclysmic event. 535
A heavenly ball of fire crashed into the Earth releasing
A firestorm that consumed those huge corporate
Bodies; and tiny mammals, the meek, inherited the Earth.
With a revised manuscript, natural
Selection began its task anew; 540
The vasectomy was reversed
And a critical mass averted, when evolving
Mammalian DNA rose from within the eddying gene pool.
Isis refused submission to grief;
Motherhood yearned from within her. 545
She searched every remote locale
And gathered six of Osiris’ extremities;
Only the phallus eluded her grasp.
It came to pass in her wanderings
That a fish explained to Isis
550
It had swallowed the member;
Still whole in its belly.
Isis begged for release
Of the phallus. The fish agreed
To sacrifice its own desires and life
555
So Osiris might raise his scepter again.
The fish swam into Isis’ open hands,
Who gave thanks for selflessness, sliced open
The fish, grasped the phallus and exposed it
To the Sun’s brilliance. Isis blessed
560
The fish, and sewed closed its wound,
Returning it to the Nile and it swam off.
Isis gathered together all of the body
Parts, and reassembled Osiris
Upon an expectant altar. She placed
565
The phallus inside her womb and rocked
Her body on the member; then, Isis kissed
The breath of life back into Osiris’ lungs.
Ptah and Nuit sanctified the copulation
Of their children; Osiris shuddered, and issued forth 570
Into Isis’ womb, conceiving Horus, as
Osiris rose from the dead.
The earth moved from their conjugal explosion
And Set was non-violently toppled from the precarious throne
Aggrandizing self sets atop tranquil Splendor. 575
Netzach
Opulence
The Seven Chakra = ( x Air, Fire, Earth and Water) The Heart
Consciousness evolved in bounds and leaps
With the invention of neurons and synapses;
A ladder was built upon the Tree
Igniting a chain of synaptic complexity,
A path to the doorstep of humanity.
580
Venus reflects in morn and eve;
Her hypnotic refractions attract
Psychedelic hallucinations, indulging voluptuous appetites.
Cronos excised Ouranos’ phallus
From whence it fell into the ocean, 585
The restless waves tossed the member
Upon currents of wild abandon;
White foam gathered about it
In the cresting waves of Poseidon.
The frothy foam of white coalesced
590
Into a phosphorescent maiden;
With beauty and countenance
No mortal ever laid eyes on.
Aphrodite swam and surfed as if she floated
Till she reached Cyprus’ shore.
595
Mystified, Zeus awarded
A charge and office well adorned:
Over whispering maidens, laughter and hoaxes,
Sweet lust, kindness and of lore,
Over beauty, Love and all art forms
600
Aphrodite reigned, forevermore.
Individuals mated, consorted, and bred, grouping
As families through urges of intuitive, synaptic evolution.
Aphrodite’s heart radiated rainbows and songs,
Pulsing through her core from high above 605
Into every noble human endeavor. Harmony rained
Like doves’ feathers fluffed;
Unremitting frolic cavorted through the woods
As Balance reigned over Splendor through Love,
Till arose a new infection:
610
With base emotions was this reign rebuffed.
Aphrodite’s charm, so chilly, encouraged
Elitism and manifested imagined destiny. Entranced
By pleasure, leisure yielded desire, and Aphrodite
Decanted insatiability in her lust for insouciant luxury. 615
Mother Earth warmed again to nurture
Human clans, the scale of nature redefined
Size with touches subtle and refined; grandiose
Passed out of fashion: a new sensibility was born.
Humans found the warm world 620
Generally to their liking, relocating
From their caves claiming the most valuable
Real estate, even erecting homes of their design –
So momentous in the annals of the Earth, nature
Now had a competing creator
625
Who would will, for better or for worse.
The riven bark from the tree of myrrh yields
A resinous gum, fragrant and sweet; a god-child
Condensed from this substance, more handsome
Than any mortal man, miraculously born and elegantly 630
Chiseled – he could bear only the name, Adonis.
The goddess of Love was struck as by lightning
With the apparition of perfected male; her lust
Deepened with the roots of the myrrh tree and branched
Through the heavens, ever-unfolding, her seductive
635
Fragrance permeated the firmament.
Aphrodite sought beauty in variation; vagaries
Of chance excited her curiosity. Every succulent pomegranate
Leaving flavor’s aroma on Aphrodite’s tongue whet
Her palate for wine; grapes demanded cheese, and love,
640
For the goddess of Love, insisted Adonis.
Aphrodite shared Adonis with the sweet
Persephone; he spent a third of the year
In the dark Underworld – Zeus decreed this.
The two goddesses, together, nurtured Adonis from child
645
To adult. Since both showered him, unbridled lust laid its claim.
Zeus opined, “Love does not own,
Nor does it ever restrict;
Love’s meant to rain in torrents,
Freely, unfettered and unfixed.”
650
Since they expressed Love as a greedy need,
Neither Aphrodite nor Persephone earned,
Entitlement to take Adonis’ seed.
A third of the year was awarded to each,
To compensate for the debt,
655
While a third was bestowed on Adonis
That he might wield from his own intent.
“Through free expression does true Love flow,”
Decreed Zeus, in wisdom’s course.
As humans tamed fire, they arose from ashes as gods. 660
The wheel revealed the calendar,
Calculated the seasons,
Propelled the barrow,
Encouraged agriculture,
And charted stars’ movements across the night. 665
Aphrodite, having so much,
Feared losing even a little;
She ached for more, cowering at the feet
Of notions that pleasure be whittled.
Open minds shine light in dark places; 670
The spawn of Narcissus cloaks in shadows,
And into lucid daydreams casts nightmares’ traces.
Aphrodite’s languid, petulant mercy
Induced a permeating perfume
Enticing infinite permissiveness.
675
Paradigms of hierarchies
Amid permutations of schisms
Ingrained human lore
With fascinations for machinations.
Classes of doers and deciders
680
Divvied up the spoils all wrong!
A few embezzled premium grade;
The many shared meager survival.
Greed and jealousy sailed ships of the desert,
Telling tales of glory and revenge;
685
Nightmarish fascinations incited destructive passions.
Hod
Curiosity
Octaves of Wavelengths = (Duality x Air, Fire, Earth and Water) The Heart
Socrates entertained Mercury’s realm as he passed knowledge
By asking questions.
Plato refined and revealed Socrates’ vision; like Socrates, Plato sought answers
To the most impenetrable of deliberations. 690
Impetuous Aristotle placed himself above his learnèd
Teachers, and boldly believed he could intelligently design
Answers out of his imagined logic.
Thoth collected, transcribed,
Interpreted and taught thought.
695
Thoth informed all the wisdom of Alexandria.
From thought arises conscience.
Consciousness of insatiable appetites
Instills conscience with remorse.
Civilization’s sprawl incessantly encroached
700
Upon newly conquered regions. Animals’
Habitats shrank. The swell of human population
Diminished diversity, the census, and the quality of life of all
Generations and every genus. Communities built
Fences, segregating wild splendor from a bland regularity civilization imposed. 705
Osirian/Isian Balance was forgotten.
Merlin also exemplified Mercurial force;
His story recounted: a wizard,
Wizened by eons of existence,
Wielding magical potency
710
With sage insight and grandfatherly Love.
Merlin taught fellowship and fraternity
Through rationality. He sought
A gentle, human approach to
Other-than-self, altruism made manifest;
715
The cooperation of the Round Table.
The Grail embodied these qualities
Through the admonition,
“The king and the land are one,”
A co-efficient of “Love and Creation are one.” 720
All of nature expresses Unity; the king’s sacred
Role, Merlin taught, evoked essence in embrace.
The Grail quest enriches the lives
Of everyone who undertakes it;
Its responsibility demands
725
Moderate appetite and respect for exquisite Splendor.
The will of self’s search for pre-eminence,
Dictated entry into an age of empire.
Seti, Ramses, Alexander, or Caesar;
Mongol, Viking, Cossack or Hun;
730
Nixon, Hitler, Napoleon or Bush;
Comrade, terrorist, Netanyahu or nun; all are one.
The fragile chalcedony chalice of affection –
The very picture of the Grail –
Was smashed by the Golden Calf,
735
Re-forged and worshipped anew.
The annals of history glorify conquerors;
Marching progress legitimizes devastation.
The Grail lay hidden in the belly of the Golden
Calf; the brilliant light of altruism, obscured
740
By clouds of carbon emissions! Intellect sacrificed
Wisdom, suffering subjugation to the cult of privilege.
Nemesis unleashed a plague of war, infecting humanity. Its
Spore spread, an endemic epidemic, diffusing dark despair: dread.
The disease disseminated disaster in dulcet voiced doses declared
745
From regal daises: pompous, papal pulpits.
The waste of human seed
Lay spent upon the ground,
Lifeless forms spread like weeds
With maimed, homeless, and orphaned all around. 750
A stern severity of divisive decadence
Raucously revels at its own reflection
In a mirror of marshaled Mercurial mental pre-eminence
Unbridled by Venusian affection for the virtuous virtuosity
Only obviated by the messianic manifestation 755
Of evolution’s unremitting revelation of variation.
Yesod
Dreams, Myths and Gods
A Reflecting Orb = The Heart x ( + The Seven Chakras)
A realm of shadows slowly creeps
Across a wintry landscape’s face,
A crystal ball clouds up within
From smoky fingers’ inkless trace; 760
The light of stars, not dimmed, diffused,
Reveals that hope still shines through gloom;
Though sunsets darken after dusk
The night’s illumed by yonder moon.
Selene, sister to Helios, appeared 765
In slivers, quarters, and all her phases,
She arced through the cold, bright night sky so clear,
Wrapping the Earth with tender embraces;
Reflecting light from her silvery sphere,
The delicate webs of shimmering laces,
770
She conjured dreams in the mind’s sheer veneer,
Dripping, like dew, on mornings’ awed faces.
It’s in the darkness of sudden silence when consciousness cedes
Imagined dominion – dare loosen the laces of synaptic bootstraps,
As the mind dips into the cool, placid waters of sleep. 775
Where does the I go when eyes go shut
And ego sinks below sunset’s strut?
When lust and desire find rest,
A grander awareness manifests.
Endymion, a mortal youth, bore features
780
Rivaling the gods, his aura glowing as he hunted.
Selene trained a close eye on the mortal, captivated
By his innocent strength and knack for reflecting
The light of Olympus, so akin to her own seductive
Mystery, reflecting the sun’s rays while Helios slept. 785
Endymion’s name transcended the personal
In significance for all human travails;
In the meaning, “He who finds himself within,”
An oracle of all human destiny
Was whispered by zephyrs
790
Through woods’ leafy branches.
Fantastic phantasms exposed demons and angels,
Lying dormant in untapped regions of thought,
As yet-unborn conceptions of images
And unvoiced conversations and songs. 795
Yea, even in scenes unseen and settings unsat
Upon, which some mind
(Is it one’s own or some god’s?)
Blocked out the action
The playwright described
800
Of plots within tales
Unimaginable in the light of day.
Could the phantoms within
Reveal our true selves to scrutiny?
Selene, that temptress and seductress, 805
So sweet and alluring a mystery,
Found her beloved Endymion
Sleeping nightly in her own dear cave,
Whence she disappeared just before each new dawn
Behind the mountain crest of shimmering Latmos.
810
The first concept of soul sparked in Cro-Magnon mind
From the elusive visions,
Such were nocturnal emissions,
Of active synapses undesigned;
Revealed within dreams 815
Of angelic imagery and demonic schemes,
Soaring serenity and cacophonic confusion
Harkened, as harbingers of superstitious illusion –
Explanations required otherworldliness must be entwined.
It was in that cave beyond fair Latmos 820
Where Selene and Endymion stole snippets of thyme,
They spoke of shadows and stars and passion
Until, one morning yawned, and Eos ushered Helios
Into the sky, Endymion bade his belovèd Selene
Spare him from cruel death’s sting
825
By granting the gift of eternal slumber.
In their secret cave of wonder
With a lovers’ caress they would adore each
Other’s reflected light beyond the last breath of eternity.
To this request Selene consented, though
830
She added one lingering longing, her own
Dear yen was added to the chore: she’d whisper
Unity’s secrets and guide Endymion to that self
Within, while his love would forever wash over
Her, even through his slumber, with eyes always agape –
835
Selene would always see love shine upon her through his gaze.
The sweet nothings Selene whispered
To Endymion in his unbroken slumber
Shone as pyrite picture dreams. Reveries examined
Facets’ gleams within, revealing the intransigence of glittery 840
Fiction. With blind eyes open to the world around him,
Endymion opened his mind to second sight;
Selene tended Endymion, who she taught
To see through deceptions of whim. Such small tuition.
From trips into other, no words would uncover 845
Relationships to the mundane.
Through every reverie, profane and heavenly,
Our nonsense reigned over our brain.
Out from nocturnal seeds, grew superstitious creeds
Vain humans disdained to contain. 850
Out of our confusion and dark disillusion
Gaia’s needs in her seed convey
Some hint in her order that through nature’s border
All Balance is scaled by play;
So a man named Lao-Tze searching deep did pursue 855
Within and without him The Way.
The Tao’s a path of steps that respects and accepts,
Its aim is never to meddle;
Through silent insistence, paths of least resistance
Are never marred by a nettle;
860
By disdaining extremes and all personal dreams
It’s never inferred we settle;
Since all natural roads lead us to high abodes
Everything is monumental.
A path wanders though harmonious glens
865
Past reflective pools into lush, wide
Pastures. No personal needs for stuff elevate
Desire; by honoring Adam and Eve’s eternal
Mating and the Universe they’re creating,
Splendor embraces Unity without approaching 870
A critical mass.
Malkuth
Transcendence
(Multiplicity x ) Release Pressure = Unity
Blue green orb that floats on an eddy
Ticking through space and inching through time,
Spin and revolve through cycled spirals
And wake ripples through fabric sublime; 875
Your issue teems past a child’s count of
How many-splendored embraces surround,
This still, just barely begun, evolution,
Where all possibilities abound.
There’s never a hurry with natural selection,
880
Every song is played till coda concludes;
No race need have been run,
Since all that was won
Was an expression of potential’s diffusion.
The Buddha explained a caustic paradox
885
Within the symbiotic tribulations of life,
Suffering accrues from accumulating karma –
The result of both pleasure and strife;
As deeper passion electrified the living,
Sorrow and suffering became rife.
890
One day, as Gautama ambled through India,
Heat and exercise took its toll;
Seeing a lone bodhi tree on a hillside,
The man acquiesced to break his stroll.
Right there he sat to rest and relax
895
And gain from suffering a brief parole:
From calm meditation came freedom from doing;
It’s said the Buddha never left that grassy knoll.
Humans insist the right to change
Any natural phenomenon
900
According to expediency.
Humans possess the might to raze
And replace pastoral invention
With egotistic pre-eminency.
Might never makes right and blindness 905
To global interdependence
Yields social degeneracy.
Karma in Sanskrit means doing – how we spend
Our lives; an accumulation of rewards and punishments
Meted out by a discarnate, conscious judge has nothing
910
To do with the Buddha’s teachings on karma –
When something is one’s karma, simply, it is
One’s own doing, not a gold star, a time out, or user error.
The Wheel of Karma, accumulating attachments, reveals
An exponentially growing, insatiability: all our fleeting 915
Unattainable, and insatiable desires lead to suffering:
Our own karma through our own doing.
As long as the moon circles the Earth,
Waves will continue to crash on sandy shores;
Whenever the sun’s warm rays shine above,
920
Plants will photosynthesize and create oxygen;
Where ever water rains down from the heavens,
Animals will congregate to drink and feed.
Should humans interpose their will too greatly,
They can so diminish Splendor 925
As to endanger the Age of Mammals.
Mother Nature’s intent
Will only invent
New models of differential
From her infinite potential
930
To repopulate woods, tors,
Plains and shores.
Our belovèd mother and benefactress, the hostess
By whose virtue and grace we exist has a world
Of eternity to express evolution’s unending
935
Possibility; it is we who are bound by restrictions,
And so, should re-evaluate our convictions.
Reconfiguring the landscape to fit
Human desires, while destroying
The wild, causes a critical mass –
940
Extinction, strangling the planet.
It is often thought that when Gautama taught,
Emulate him to reach Nirvana,
He meant, “Stop all doing.”
It is a part of doing to procreate; the Buddha 945
Really intended we discard desire.
Throughout humanity’s recorded history a precious
Few control wealth, perpetuating their
Dominion over the masses, while critically exercising executive
Privilege’s health; the response of the people – acquiesce
950
To consolidation of power, with or without stealth.
Awaken from the raving delusion that humanity exerts dominion over nature!
Who are you to believe your life force is most worthwhile?
Dominion only meant we’d overcome
Neanderthal, not evolution. So Cro-Magnon invented 955
A god in his own image who promised no Earth
Without sapiens. What a small grasp of infinity.
We’ve all become wind-ups, our keys
Being turned so we can march off to place our cog-selves
Into that wheel that is the economy to amass 960
Ever-increasing fortunes for the elite class
Of every generation, who, we are taught
And cajoled, to celebrate and idolize.
Now, we sit at the edge of time:
Our geometrically expanding population,
965
Approximately doubling every 35 years,
Threatens to strangle all life, including our own,
With a critical mass
Of insatiable mouths to feed and bodies to house,
Usurping, in time, all the land for human use 970
And strangling all other life on the planet;
Our weapons of war are capable of extinguishing
All life on the planet
With a critical mass
Arising from the push of a button
975
Threatening to vaporize every living thing;
Our waste is choking the air
And infecting all water on the globe –
A critical mass of pestilence looms
As the air becomes un-breathe-able and we murder
980
Coral reefs with our excrement, refuse, and preheated
Carbonated oceans, killing the Mother-of-Life-on-Earth.
Nemesis calls to everyone, invoking an ancient oath –
Attendance at a critical mass
Of spiritual hearts is mandatory; 985
Express love and reverence
For our Mother, the Earth;
Promise to cease eradicating Splendor;
Vow to leave some wilderness
For diversity to blossom and bloom.
990
Mother Earth tells us,
“Children, play nice; can’t you
All just get along?”
Nemesis requires open hearts
Expressing joyous gratitude 995
For the gift of life, to avoid a critical morass.
Life is not a path of will, both
Mind and heart must fully engage.
Mass expresses variations on denser octaves
Etching reflections of energy’s formatives;
1000
Variety, diversity, multiplying endlessly –
Subtle distinctions implying, commendlessly,
That every blade of every lawn
Soaks up light from Original Dawn.
Our planet is a single-family dwelling 1005
With the ‘hood of brothers and sisters swelling –
As life proliferates love must grow!
Acceptance and understanding must always flow.
The sky, the sun, the stars, the sea;
Your wife, his mom, her dad, our auntie;
1010
They and more waddle pregnantly
Through Splendor’s immanence in Unity.
Smiles and laughter and giggles and glee
Kisses, caresses, snuggles and urgency
Sno-cones and ice cream and chocolate and tea
1015
Are these not enough to fill eternity?
No edifices will survive humanity long;
In time, no traces will remain:
All that really survives and persists
Is the love we’ve made and shared.
1020
A line of twelve pelicans glides on the air
Barely inches above the sea’s rolling waves,
While a glowing red ball slowly inches lower,
Far behind the rocky crag of a jetty,
Beyond the point of land curving out from the bay’s border,
1025
Further, still, than the horizon’s edge.
The planet revolves as gentle winds rustle through palm fronds,
And shadows lengthen across the faces of sundials;
Gaia inhales while Ouranos exhales;
Cronos winks a constant beat;
1030
Zeus balances the scales by disarming Mars.
Merlin allies all competing interests
Into a Round Table of agreement and respect
With the wisdom of mutual cooperation;
Selene and Endymion reflect Osirian/Isian Balance
1035
As they entwine up a knowledgeable tree into a new caduceus,
And that red, glowing ball of incandescence
Sinks slowly into the cold, blue, eternal sea.
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