Posts in Chronological Order

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 3:20 a.m. Let’s continue on Orphic Sayings [LXVI. LABOR. Labor is sweet; nor is that a stern decree that sends man into the fields to earn his bread in the sweat of his face. Labor is primeval; it replaces man in Eden,—the garden planted by God. It exalts and humanizes the…

Thursday, October 14, 2021 6:20 a.m. Alcott gets easier to read and understand. Is it that his prose is less clotted, or that I am more familiar with his phrasings, or is it that we are entering easier into his thought? In any case, slide-switches set to maximum focus, clarity, receptivity, and presence. Saying 75:…

Saturday, October 16, 2021 4 a.m. To continue, then. [LXXXII. OBEDIENCE. Obedience is the mediator of the soul. It is the organ of immediate inspiration; the hierophant of the Godhead. It is the method of revelation; the law of all culture.] This is clear perception, provided only that one realizes who, or rather what, one…

Sunday, October 17, 2021 1:30 a.m. I was thinking we would resume work on the Orphic Sayings, but first I want to tell of a thing that happened, and describe it as best I can – which is only poorly, as it happens – and maybe get a word or two about it from you…

Monday, October 18, 2021 7:25 a.m. Okay, open for business. I got that you had something more to say about consciousness and awareness. In fact, I remember an idea coming to me (that’s how it felt) of a comparison with Hemingway. Yes. Think of it this way: All the terrain within your eyesight. Everything within…

Saturday, October 23, 2021 3:45 a.m. We were discussing Orphic Saying 85, Baptism. Shall we resume? Are you up to it? Well, I think so. I guess we’ll see. The things I didn’t understand in it – and there were more, the closer I looked – do not seem to be clarified by considering the…

Sunday, October 24, 2021 3:35 a.m. Setting slide-switches to maximum focus, receptivity, clarity, presence. Shall we resume with Orphic Sayings? I get the feeling we have already gotten most of what we will get, but let’s finish. You don’t know that. Let’s proceed. [LXXXVI. CARNAGE. Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.] Anything more than…

Sunday, October 24, 2021 9 p.m. Rather than wait for an arbitrary time past midnight, let’s have a session now. Maximum clarity, focus, presence, receptivity. Gentlemen, Orphic Saying 91? [XCI. GENTLENESS. I love to regard all souls as babes, yet in their prime and innocency of being, nor would I upbraid rudely a fellow creature,…

Monday, October 25, 2021  8:55 a.m. I’d like to finish with the Orphic Sayings. Slide-switches: maximum clarity, focus, receptivity, presence. [XCVII. IMMORTALITY. It is because the soul is immortal that all her organs decease, and are again renewed. Growth and decay, sepulture and resurrection, tread fast on the heel of the other. Birth entombs death;…

You may wish to read this first with the headings and then without them, and see which way the cumulative message comes clearer. REFORM. We have come to the beginning of a new era, another period of cleansing. REFORMERS. Reformers can be very uncomfortable companions, but they are in 3D, not of it. They work…