. . . this thing of darkness . . . (a channelling)

(cornellextension)

What if it were to come to pass --

the passage no one

wants to imagine:

a massive                 

                            short circuit,

and all the lights

all over the earth

go out.

Even the sun

is shrouded

Our refrigerators would sputter

to a stop;

our cell phones blink

out into silence,

our automobiles would run

for a time, but

so what?

Where would we go?

The stores would empty fast;

the gas pumps flicker into impotency,

the wells, too.

Best to stay home and use the fuel

for heat

or light

or suicide.

What would happen then

when nigh
every little thing in

our throw-away culture becomes

garbage

simultaneously?

There we would be, 

all of us,

clinging to our chilly

planet home

as she spins and turns

on her usual inconceivable path

in the machine of the universe.

Mindless, numb,

intent on survival

we would be rendered

the very animals that we are.

~ ~

If you met me on the road

in the deep dark endless night

you would sense it was me and I

would know it was you.

Would you kill me

and eat me

and use my skin to make yourself

an extra layer of skin

to fend off the cold?

You might, mightn't you?

But would it really make sense --

me, the one with the brain too large, and

you the one with the will of equal size

For the moment, of course, you would be convinced

the conquest was just,

its outcome satisfying --

that is until the light

returned, and there you would be,

dressed in a little bit of me

and mindless;

                                              the ruins of society

                                               would surround you,

                                                                  and you

                                                 would have no clue

                                      how to fix it.

~ ~ ~

We human creatures

are mind, body and spirit, combined,

each of us to varying degrees.

If the lights all went out

the element in us

that hides in the dark

(the element that many pretend not to own)

would emerge,

and flourish,

its anger equal

to the disgust

we leveled towards it in broad daylight,

its exploits as large as the repression

we bound it with.

~ ~ ~

(alangalvin'sblog)

~ ~ ~

So,

I woke up last night

with these words

in my mouth,

words that would be sense-

less in the primitivity

such a black-out would produce.

I stared into the darkness,

felt the familiar contours

of my frame

and prayed

for wisdom --

not for me,

but for all humans

who refuse to acknowledge

our comforts are temporary,

and our hidden desires 

capable

of the extra ordinary.

( sisu )

. . . this thing of darkness,

I acknowledge,

                   mine. . . . . .

(Prospero, Act 5 The Tempest)

Another Trinity -- from "God the Infinite" by Hazrat Inayat Khan

(photo by Makropoulos)

". . . the Spirit of God is incomprehensibe

because that which comprehends itself

is intelligence, God's real being;

and comprehension has nothing to comprehend 

in its own being.  No doubt, in our usual terms

it is the comprehending faculty in us which we call

comprehension; but this is not meant here, for intelligence

is not necessarily intellect.  Merit is something which is comprehensible;

it is something which is clear and distinct, so that it can be made

intelligible; but intelligence is not intelligible except

to its own self.  Intelligence knows that I am; 

but it does not know what I am.

"Such is the nature of God.  Intelligence would not have knows its own power

and existence if it had not known something besides itself,

so God knows Himself by manifestation.  Manifestation

is the self of God, but a self which is limited, a self

that makes Him know that He is perfect when He compares

His own Being with the limited self which we call nature.

Therefore the purpose of the whole of creation is the realization

which God Himself gains by discovering His own perfection

through his manifestation.

"Among Christian ideas there is one which, if we can solve its riddle,

helps us to discover the truth of life.  It is the idea of the Trinity.

What keeps the soul in perplexity is the threefold aspect

of manifestation, and as long as the soul remains puzzled

by this, it cannot arrive at the knowledge of the One.

These three aspects are the seer, sight, and the seen;

the knower, knowledge and the known.

In point of fact, these are the three aspects of life.

One aspect is the person who sees; 

the second aspect is the sight, or the eyes,

by the help of which he sees; 

and the third aspect is that which he sees.

That is why one cannot readily accept the idea

that what one sees is the same as oneself,

nor can one believe for a moment that the medium

by which one sees is oneself, for these three aspects

seem to be separate and to be looking at one another's faces,

as the first person, second person, and third person

of Brahma.

"When this riddle is solved by the realization that the three are one,

then the purpose of the God-ideal is fulfilled. . . . "

(from: The Unity of Religious Ideals,

by Hazrat Inayat Khan)

(If you have time, read this alongside

some of my entries about 

the Creation,

the Palindrome,

and God's Desire

to See Himself)

thank you for reading 

this blog--

Three In One

1.

(from rtjones  - nice blog )

The human being, is in essence

the representation of the three of God's most ineffable,

most unmanifestable

aspects

Our bodies, don't forget, are just really the vehicles

that those three aspects live in

while living on 

planet earth.  

At the time of Creation

(the First Fall)

it was found

by the Almighty

slightly by accident

that he could better represent himself

in his constituent parts

than he could as a whole

because

to represent himself as a whole

would be to represent

the Everything

Twice

and that's just impossible.

Because Everything Cannot Be doubled.  

So the only way he could create

the Everything

was to create the Nothing

because

the Everything and the Nothing

contain the same things

at the same time.

Because in order for their to be

No Thing

You have to know the

Every Thing

2.

It's the place of the double negative,

the place of the palindrome:

The place where the left and the right meet

Where the mirror image meets

that which is reflected.

We look up into space, and we see No Thing

Because during the time we occupy our bodies

we contain Every Thing;

when we move to the realm of the everything

these bodies are nothing.

It's funny:

we think our soul mates

are people just like us;

when in fact it makes the most sense

for a soul mate to be a mirror

opposite.

(2a. - read through 3, read 2a, then return to 2a;

read through 2, 2a, and 3 and then whatever. . . )

3.

Let me please get back to the point I began with:

every individual human

embodies

the three most ineffible aspects of God,

and remember, as I said

a couple days ago,

the reason our bodies are so damned beautiful

is because

he loves these aspects of himself

the most.

We are the most sacred, because we are the closest to No Thing

The three most unrepresentable aspect of God

that we are obliged

to contain within us

are imitated within each on of us -

in our personalities.

They are:

God the Creator

God the Father or Ruler

God the Child

Thus, each one of us has at least these three aspects

of our personalities.

2a.

And wouldn't it be interesting

if our soul mate shared one 

essential aspect - the Child -

but was the exact opposite 

of OurSelves in one or two

of our other aspect??????

Then, when we meet back

in heaven, for lack of a

better word, we know we

would be everything.

EVERYTHING

both the positive & the negative;

we would be perfect.

A soul that has reached the end of its human path,

in terms of reincarnation, is generally a very lonely

soul, because they have reached a point in their 

evolution where they know the biggest challenge they

could give to themselves on this earthly plan

would be to make their earthly double

their exact opposite,

with one

qualification:

they would

share the

same Child,

because

the child

is the essence of our earthly, heavenly being.

4. 

I was talking to my sister tonight.

She was telling me about her old

childhood friend, who I'll simply call

OldFriend.  OldFriend was always a bit

of a rebel. She ran away from home

at 16; left home for Alaska at 19 or so.

I don't know middle years, because

my sister lost contact.  Somewhere in

there, OldFriend met a man (Oh, I should

mention, OldFriend was always a knock-out;

her voluptuous body always made me shudder

and feel inadequate.  But OldFriend had troubles

with men, as we all do.  Anyway, OldFriend met

a man, a foreign man.  She married him;

they produced three daughters, with the help

of a test-tube. OldFriend lives with the man, her 

husband and the father of her three daughters who look

nothing alike, sometimes.  Other times, she's running.

Away from something, towards something; who knows.

She bring her girls with her,  Right now they're doing it

in an RV.  OldFriend showed up at my sister's house; the 

girls are now around 14, and they've been home-schooled for

the past 4-5 years.  Clueless.  (so sis says)  And angry; they

all wear their hair really short and don't bathe much.  One of them seemed to really

like my sister, and smiled and was kind to her.  And thanked

her for lunch, for a walk, for hospitality.  The other two refused

all kindness.  They did not speak or look at her.  Of the three, one is more 

mannish; one has a few learning disabilities (she's the one who

liked my sister); one is I-Don't-Remember-What, but she was

different. As sister told me about them, and their stand-offish

yet happy-to-see-you mother, I said, "her daughters are the three

primary aspects of OldFriend, and only one of them likes you."

Sister laughed, because she knew I was right.  There was a a part of

OldFriend who always liked being with my fussy sister, but most of the time,

OldFriend didn't want to have much to do with her.  I remember that from our

childhood.

Using my equation from above, about how each of us are imitating the three most

ineffable aspects of God in ourselves, one might venture to guess that 

OldFriend's three personalities, embodied so fully in her daughters

are the Father, which is a wanderlust, the Creator, who may be the girl who likes 

my sister, and the Child is the other, who 

my sister said was the nasty girl.  But the girl who likes 

my sister may also be the Child, because my sister is an Eternal Child.

We each have these Three Aspects, 

but in some of us, one of the aspects

is more pronounced than the other. 

We all have an element of the Father,

the ruler; we all have an element of

the Creator; we all have an element

of the Child.

To find someone who is completely compatible is so difficult,

because a completely compatible person has to be compatible

in all three of these areas.  We can have friends,

like my sister and OldFriend, who we like to see some

of the time, but we'd rather not see Most of the Time,

because two out of three of their essential aspects

are different from our own.

The core of all of these three aspects, for each human,

is the Child, because we are all

children of God at our core.

We are born perfect, and it is society

that fashions the Father aspect in all of us

--

this is called the process of socialization

(by the way, that comes right after the mirror stage)

--

The Father aspect in us is what Freud called 

The SuperEgo, that element of the tripartite

personality that enforces and controls the other two

more primordial urges.  The SuperEgo

makes us able to "pass" in society.

Psychologically, we gained the Super-Ego

when we ate that damned apple. The

SuperEgo, that Third Part of our

personality that God didn't want

us to have was the part that made

us the Maker of Laws;

(For the Disciple John who was giving us

his version of the New Testament, the Testament

inspired by the word of Jesus,

In the beginning was the Word

That Gospel should go first;

because it is the most accurate.

That Gospel readjusts the time frame we

use when reading the story; 

the beginning

of the New Testament should acknowledge

that after the fall of man,  a new time began,

and it was a time in which hu-mans had the capacity

to make their own laws.

The beginning of time as we know it, 

began when Hu-mans

were expelled from the Garden

For

Before that, 

we were

Creator

and Child --

yes,

we imitated the

Creator who is God

but we were all

his children

We were not him.

If we can find our inner child,

we will also find our creative spirit

at the same time, because those two aspects

are at the core of our being.  

As long as we have bodies, though,

the best way to live in society

is as a responsible child,

a child who recognizes that as long as we live

in this World After the Fall,

we have to also follow some rules.

When all humans begin to see that

perhaps we'll start on our path

back to the garden.

(I have to end this with this funny word list link,

because they made me think of palindromes

check it out:

merriamwebster