THE BEGINNING

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THE BEGINNING
AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH
THE GOOD BOOK
OF LOVE
ORGANS OF DESIRE
MAN WOMAN
AGE OF IRON
THE AGE OF REASON
MATHEMATICS
SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
CULTURE? OR LACK OF
AMBITION
QUALITY
CREDO
JUDGEMENT
BROTHERS IN ARMS
DEATH
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ?
THE WAY OUT
THE END
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THE BEGINNING
In the beginning there was the word...and the
word was made flesh...'
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Beyond the beginning Brothers Sisters there are
no beginningsor ends, but, for the sake of all
beginners, we must begin with a beginning and end
with the end of all ends. Then will the ending be
a happy ever after. Beyond the beginning there
are no words like these or books like these or
any need for books or words. Be careful my
Brothers, words are more often nets than wings,
more often the Chains Shackles of a colonial
power and the legacy of a military language.
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Be wary my Brothers Sisters of a language whose
words bark Commands Orders like little
dictators. Moreover a language founded on a
single word that is also a single letter and
equally a numeral. A Proud and Phallic totem to
the regenerative urge, a symbol of desire at its
most rampant. Yes my Brothers, more a cult that
pays tribute to the flesh and its gratification
than anything else. Be wary of the dominant,
commercial language of our times, for this
language and its culture, or lack of, has become
just that.
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A beginning and an end, Oh my Brothers and
Sisters are moments chosen and framed more for
their dramatic effect than for anything else,
like a Romantic artist s favourite theme. Even
Science in its so-called clinical indifference
cannot but succumb to an instinctive
preoccupation with the Dramatic and the
Captivating. Particularly sensational is the
apparent Materialisation Dematerialisation of
phenomena, for example black holes, supernovas
and of course the Big Bang. On a more human
level Birth Death, novelty, Joy Tragedy, the
horror, the ecstasy and the agony of it all.
Brothers Sisters they are nothing but events
that we naturally latch onto which distract us
from seeing the continuity rolling into
infinity...
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AND THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH
What is a word my Brothers Sisters? But a
corruption of the Breath, and what is Breath? But
a corruption of the infinite equanimity of space,
limited and trapped within the confines of a
lung. What is language then? But a net trawling
the cosmos to ensnare and gather the unwary and
the ignorant into flesh. Flesh is the expression
of desire coagulating into the tangible. Just as
precipitation forms into rain or Sorrow into
tears, so does humankind condense into flesh and
fall into a Sea of pain. Oh my Brothers Sisters
we are nought but children of the flesh, born
enmeshed, in Biological cages, the author of our
own being, by our own grasping hands.
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The Hunting Evasion has started. The whole
seething, lusting, writhing, grasping restless,
process, has been initiated The joy of
breathing, arising ceasing or the agony of
choking. The Politics of Survival, The Great
Chase, or whatever you want to call it My
Brothers has begun
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THE GOOD BOOK
Oh my Brothers Sisters Be wary of those of all
faiths who lean too heavily and righteously on
The Good Book. Too often it is plundered for
quotations in order to justify the dubious, or
it is routinely referred to in order to churn out
clichés and platitudes, regurgitating parrot-like
what was once Strong Rhetoric, now only echoes in
the halls of dusty institutions. A physical
relic to what was once a Revolution of the
Spirit, made all too static and heavy by its
translation into the written word and bound in
leather. It represents the Body of the teaching
but not its Soul. If we could but set all these
books as so many steps upon which to climb to the
stars
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Yes my Brothers The Good Book,, indeed any
book, is dead. It takes a particularly Good
Reader to resurrect it. Even this book if you can
call it a book, would rather be an Anti-Book. A
book to end all books, The Ultimate bookend, if
you like.
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OF LOVE
If anything can do an injustice to the concept of
Love more, it is a beleaguered attempt at its
description. It is far easier to discuss its
absence. The ten commandments were decreed when
Love had failed, however living by these alone
without Love is no guaranty of eternal bliss.
The most chaste life, the profoundest artistic
masterpiece, the most exhilarating triumph, the
most ecstatic physical sensation are all pale,
sickly creatures in comparison. And Ill grant
you this my Brothers, the Human species is not
necessarily the most loveable. However we must
cultivate the conditions through which Love will
arise un-compromised. From the dedication to the
mundane can the extraordinary blossom. We cannot
depend on its spontaneous arrival like a spring
rain.
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ORGANS OF DESIRE
What is a sound my Brothers Sisters? But a
disturbance of the Great Peace, like the Howling
of a Wolf and what is an ear? If it is not that
which yearns for the sound of a mate or strains
to detect a predator. What is an eye? But that
which ogles the flesh. What is a hand? But that
which reaches for the flesh. One does not need an
eye to see the truth nor an ear to hear it, nor a
hand to grasp it. These are the organs of desire
and as such untrustworthy. They exist to
distinguish the desirable from the undesirable
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They are selective and partisan, attuned only to
a specific range of phenomena, governing an
instinct for self-preservation and gratification.
They are therefore, tools for calculating Good
Evil on a Biological basis only. Oh my
Brothers, what then is truly Good? Goodness
prevails when we do not depend on the senses to
judge Good Eviland Evil prevails if we do. The
Organs of Desire, our senses, are only hurdles
and fences to The Way Out.
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MAN WOMAN
Gender is a Phallacy and no merciful God would
have created Man Woman. Man is the limit and
something to Overcome my most Manly of Brothers
and Woman undone Oh my most Womanly of
Sisters.When we see humankind in terms of Man
Woman we are looking with our eyes. When we see
humankind in terms of Brother Sister we are
seeing with our heart. When Man speaks of Woman,
he ultimately speaks of suffering and when Man
seeks to unite with Woman he only seeks to
perpetuate the Tragedy of Birth.
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There is not a Woman in the world
the possession of whom is as precious as that Of
the truth which she reveals to us by causing us
to suffer.
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AGE OF IRON
Iron Steel are the enemy of the flesh their
qualities are prized by the Butcher in us. This
need to carve up the world according to our
personal inclinations. Separate the wanted from
the unwanted. Dissect and categorise. When
mankind as a species was no longer content with
the limitations of his teeth he devised weapons
of war to address his insecurities and tools, in
order to assist his gratification. The Iron
Steel industry are Great Teeth set in the Jaws of
mass consumption to satisfy a Monstrous Greed.
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When we contemplate the Butcher, the Jailor, the
Miner, the Vivisector, the War monger , the
Executioner and all the other sorrowful
instruments of certain so called civilisations
They would be all bark and no bite without their
precious metal. You talk of the Age of Iron in
such glowing terms as somehow a progressive epoch
but the spirit that delighted so much in the
prolific application of Iron was far from
Civilised. Thank God for rust, may the Age of
Iron grow old and rust into oblivion.
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THE AGE OF REASON
Reason my Brothers Sisters is a glorified nose
sniffing along the causal trail for the purpose
of requisition. But the faculty of Thought and
Reason is valued above all else as if they truly
were gifts from God, but no merciful God would
have distracted his Children from the beautiful,
infinity of presence, condemn him to ceaselessly
trudge the treadmill of his miserable memories or
ponder his eventual demise, or even worse, that
of his enemies. It is said my Brothers that Men
use thought only to justify their wrong doing and
words only to conceal their thoughts. If man is
truly contemplating God, then surely he is not
really thinking at all
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Trying to think your way to God is like trying
to find heaven in a rocket. Thinking is a wound
that wont heal and the harder the thinking the
more painful it gets. It is bad for the health.
The best thinking can do is think its way to the
immeasurable benefits of not thinking. It may
well be that the conventional moral understanding
of what is considered thoughtlessness and
unreasonableness needs rethinking I think
therefore I am? I think not my BrothersI
think not.
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MATHEMATICS
Mankind is a divisive species, even the very
concept of a species testifies to this, and
mathematics, my Brothers, is the long division,
the long, sad history of mankind as the Divided
and the Divider, even when mathematics tackled
the curve all it did was divide it into straight
lines. To the human eye the horizon looks
straight, and straightness is much more proper
and manageable than those troublesome curves.
If we could witness without prejudice we
would have little use for a discipline that only
applies because of our weakness for perceiving
and existing in a fragmentary way.
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If we perceived the Universe as the name suggests
i.e in its entirety, we would have little need
for mathematics. It is more often the language of
domination, it is strict in its method of
communication and the manner of its
understanding, over valued and exploited by
societies whose selfish requirements have
proliferated uncontrollably. Mathematics is
language boiled down, reduced to its most crude
and binary residue and it only applies if we all
agree to closely adhere to its convention. And if
we decide to deviate from the rules, dividing one
by zero, for example, all hell breaks loose.
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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY
There is a belief, oh my Brothers Sisters, that
Science Technology are laying down the tracks
and happily steaming us towards the Promised
Land. Let us hope it is the Promised Land and not
those grey, old, gas chambers. Long ago
Science acquiesced to the Mind /Body distinction
and sided with the Body, thus becoming a
Biologically biased discipline. A disciple to
the cult of the body, using the faculties of the
body, now aided by instruments of magnification,
to doggedly sniff out the trail of causality in
order to find that which so ever gratifies the
fanatical demands of the body and all its
superfluous cravings, in evermore sophisticated,
yet pointless ways.
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These instruments by enhancing the ability of the
senses only serve to magnify their inherent
flaws. Who knows, if we look far enough and
strongly enough into that cold, black space we
may well end up viewing our own backsides.
Scrutinising a thing too closely, too
microscopically, conceals, rather than reveals
its essential beauty and truth. Science
Technology is now more a competitive disposition
for gaining an advantage beyond what is necessary
for day to day survival. A mentality more
concerned with advances, than mastering
traditional crafts, skills and techniques. In
the Medical field it is the desire to cure the
many and manifold emergence of illnesses that are
caused by desire itself.
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In the field of Scientific Exploration, when man
discovered the world to be a ball he divided it
into longitude and latitude, captured it with
this navigational net and thought it was his and
his to play with ever since. Aggressive
commercial expansion, supported by force,
colonialism and the slave trade were soon to
follow. When the mind has become a slave to
science the body is sure to follow, more often
than not someone else's. There is also an
assumption my Brothers, that Natural History
chronicles the rise of man. And that man in his
sentient form is the best, most noble expression
of consciousness.
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Let us hope it is the rise of man and not his
descent. Can we be sure we are evolving rather
than revolving on the Great Wheel of life and
that we are ascending rather than descending?
Even in the so called Science of the Mind they
try to explain the intangible with the tangible
and bridge this gulf using the very methods born
from the mentality that created this gulf at the
outset. I.e using the body to understand the mind
rather than the mind to understand the body.
Science is forever discovering and exposing its
own limitations, or in truth the limitations of
the senses. You men of Science answer me this?
There are good scientists and bad scientists, but
are you good Men or bad Men? And when you peer
into the light and speak of its measurable
properties,  do you see The Light ...Or only
Shadows?
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My Scientific Brethren, there is an inner light,
that casts no shadows, that is unwavering and
constant, not in terms of velocity but in terms
of presence, in the sense that the sky is
consistent regardless of climate. Your Scientific
knowledge is too much about understanding than
awareness, an understanding that is too tactile,
too spoilt by manhandling. You do not need eyes
to see your own mind. This method of observation
is purely untainted by the senses. And this
Science of the Mind and its discoveries may well
prove fruitful. If Scientific knowledge is about
grasping, then awareness is letting go. You must
choose which offers the truth.
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CULTURE? OR LACK OF
If Culture is the vehicle of a society
transporting future generations towards the
wholesome, then this one is racing the wrong
way, by assuming the Human Race to be a race in
the competitive sense. This Culture is
notoriously fickle, capricious and unsure of
itself, too easily high jacked by commercial
pressures. Oh my Brothers Sisters how it
relishes novelty, fashion and individual ambition
above all else, forever prostituting itself for
sensual favours. Not only that, it is a fussy,
microscope culture where perfection is
championed, but even the icons of perfection are
consistently scrutinised for imperfections in
body and character until paranoia and depression
reigns supreme.
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Look at this secular society, Oh my Brothers,
there is a fondness for mistaking what people do
with what they are, as in the old days, when a
name referred to a profession and thus a
usefulness or status within a community. But
people still relate to each other as if they were
tools, functions or utilities and treat them
according to their ability to serve our
ambitions. The importance of them being good at
what they do, seems greater than whether they
attain to the moral good. Certain Artists,
Entertainers and Scientists are valued highly
for their ability to dazzle and distract us,

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albeit superficially and temporarily, from a
state of mind deadened by this utilitarian method
of interaction. So that the old aristocracy and
the opulent merchant class power base have only
been superseded by the rise of the Celebrity
class. Only within a society so dulled by the
cult of the ego are Celebrities allowed so
perversely to flourish and peddle their facile
novelties and stimulants. Hollywood, for example,
the world capital of celebrity, has lured more
people to their destruction than is
comprehendible, even if they succeed, they lose.
Oh my Brothers Sisters these false Prophets,
Idols and Starlets only sparkle when a culture
has reached its twilight. Let us pray for the
wheel to turn and the coming of the Dawn.
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AMBITION
Ambition is sitting on your shoulder forever
whispering in your ear and Poisoning your well.
It is the enemy of serenity. If one must harbour
ambition, make it to be rid of ambition. Oh my
ambitious Brothers Sisters the only failure in
life is to not find God.
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QUALITY
That which has preoccupied everyone from
Philosophers to Gossipers. It is the fuel for
every meaningless bar-room conversation,
tittle-tattle, wasted enterprise, Religious,
Cultural, Aesthetic and Ethical debate, even War.
To force a subjective position into a supposedly
objective one, more often than not Physically or
by Sophistry. It is too much to do with the
sensual realm. Oh my Brothers Sisters because
there exists no firm ground upon which to survey
and measure such matters, Quality can only exist
paradoxically when the preoccupation with the
Quality of everything is no longer an overriding
concern.
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CREDO
In a Society lacking cohesion everyone has an
opinion, and the right to this opinion is
cherished highly, as if this right alone
compensates for a complete lack of Ethos. Freedom
of speech is considered a God given entitlement,
won for us by the Noble Sacrifices of our
forefathers. Do we then have opinions worthy of
such Sacrifices? Oh my Brothers Sisters we wait
with baited breath for the Edifying Rhetoric to
pour forth like Honeyand still we wait. Alas my
Brothers Sisters if there is such speech it is
drowned out by the cackle and bleating of
farmyard animals, blurting out their opinions and
beliefs, casually disregarding ancient, hard won
wisdom with a childish arrogance and
self-centredness that is nothing short of
astonishing.
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JUDGEMENT
Can you not suspend your judgement indefinitely?
Is the need so great, the demand so urgent to
relate to one another in such decisive terms?
Mankind is a judgemental species But to judge is
mental, my Brothers. Can you not save your
judgment for the Jury? Judge not your Brothers
Sisters not even those who do judge. Else the
Judge will be Judged and the hangman hung
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BROTHERS IN ARMS
The pacifist is at war with himself. He
certainly is My Brothers and when the Battle that
forever arises within the frontiers of the
individual has spilled over and is no longer
confined to the individual, the last line of
defence has been breached and therefore conflict
with another is inevitable. This is where all
Wars are initially fought. War is the worst
example of mankinds inability to deal with his
internal struggle for restraint and tolerance. It
is the unavoidable consequence of an internal
Battle that has been lost. You Brothers in arms,
If you are armed then you have abandoned the true
Universal nature of Brotherhood for the love and
loyalty of a certain few. Hope it is for good
reason .
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You Crusaders Revolutionaries do you kill
tyranny when you kill the tyrant? Do you destroy
hatred and prejudice with bombs and bullets? The
real War is with suffering, this is the common
denominator of all that is living, transcending
sexual, racial, and species distinctions. You
who are so keen on War, would you forfeit your
Son? Can you weigh up the greatness of the cause
and like Abraham sacrifice your Son to influence
the outcome? Could you fling your beloved child
into the inferno? Send him into War and consider
him lost, whether he marches home or not. If it
finally comes to War my Brothers both sides have
lost.
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DEATH
Oh my Brothers Why do we Die ? For those
agitated by such questions, Death will visit you
again and again until the question has dissolved
rather than is solved.
To die is not a tragedy
my Brothers Sisters, it is the Fear of death
that is truly Tragic. There is a prevailing
belief that death is something terminal, a
radical change in the Biological concept of a
human being. A vague and paradoxical idea of
non-cognition based on cognition. Death is nought
but an undisclosed journey, it is best approached
like any foreign venture, with an open mind and a
heart full of curiosity, humility and patience .
If you are a good Guest my Brothers , Sisters
then Death will be a good Host.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ???
Q. To Be or not to Be? That is the question'
  A. Not to Be and not to Question That is the
answer, But do not seek death or life my Brothers
Sisters but seek the deathless...the breathless
realm. And why frequently ask questions? Oh my
curious Brothers when questions just breed
questions. Why keep scratching our heads, when we
can lose the itch. Oh my Brothers Sisters
Question the very need to question?
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THE WAY OUT
As the sun through evaporation reverses
precipitation, so does enlightenment Liberate us
from the material realm into which we have fallen
and the tyranny of its laws. Do not look to Me'
Oh my Brothers Sisters for liberation, Not I
but here let the eyes take refuge Here and
never There . Between the words, between the
lines, the thoughts and urges. To the breath it
self from which all words are born, return to
the breath and then beyond, into the gaping,
silent spaces, always from within, truth speaks
loudest, because even the profoundest Words, my
Brothers, are only signs pointing to the
wordless. The Word of God is silent yet it can be
heard. For Truth is a silent Guru
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THE END
Oh my Brothers Sisters merge your mind with the
sky and blend your body with the earth. Then the
great dividing horizon will be no more. Oh
keepers of time and watchers of clocks. The
minutes will no longer comprise seconds, the
hours minutes, the days hours nor the years
months. And time will drain into the abyss like
sand through an hourglass. The tragedy of birth
will be no more and the end of days will dawn...

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