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PAGODA
I returnto this peakand seed its soil,my fathermother,with the dustof a thousand landsso that this templemight becomethe blessed Kaabaof a new order.
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SHAHADAH
The fire crackled and glowered, penned in by the ring of stones. I gazed into it, descended into its depths until I could hear it as a roar that blocked out the world or the illusion of a world. The flames leapt forth from their bounds and charged outward, shrieking like banshees into every opening…
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MOUNT TOMORR
His is a fearsome face, sharp and disfigured, rocks assembled to conceal the absence of god, while we terrified monkeys flee to His stony skirt, clutching at its substantiality, even as an all-consuming hidden hole opens just on the other side. He loomed here long before I became aware, I just a blind protrusion of…
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ALPHABET OF THE GOD TO COME
I landed on this strange planetwhere every creature is branded,an eternal letter etched on its skin.No one knows their brand’s origin,Nor do they know what it means,each the sound from a languagethat doesn’t yet exist, but might one day.The letters will merge on an unknown dawn,And together form a poem of many lines.The words will…
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DOGMA
The sheikh took a drag from the unfiltered cigarette, then pushed the smoke through his pursed lips like a steam train. Then he replied: “This diversionary world branched from the real world 15 thousand years ago. It began as just a tiny aberration, a wall constructed around a garden in Mesopotamia, in order to conceal…
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THE GATHERING
Indeed, your lord is allah, who created the heavens and the earths in six days and then sat upon the throne. Chapter of the Heights, verse 54. I sought out that lord upon the throne on high, but found the throne was empty. There were thousands of millions of luminous beings encircling it and chanting…
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MAGICAL ARKESTRA COSMOS
The cosmos is the tense silence at the beginning of a Sun Ra concert, like a membrane of darkness, the forces of mayhem building on just the other side of it. A baritone note pulses on the hammond organ, and the knock-knock-knock of the dionysian drum visitors who want to come in and spread a…
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THE DIVERSIONARY HUMAN
The diversionary human is a composite of many gods and values coming together in history — hand gods, soil gods, cloud gods, tool gods, rain gods, drought gods, insect gods, plant gods, animal gene gods, brain gods. It is the convergence of these that caused the rupture at the outset of history. The diversionary human…
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THE TWO WORLDS
There are two worlds in our cosmos: No-World and One-World. The inhabitants of One-World think that their world is the only true world. It is reality and life. They can see the shores of No-World from their places, but it appears to them a bleak wasteland, a place worse than death, the opposite of existence.…
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THE ATOMIC EYE
Every atom is a microscopic eyeball floating in space, and peering into every other eyeball. There’s a cosmos in each one, with its own suns and solar systems, planets and asteroids, and millions of gas clouds and magnetic fields and zigzagging forces of every kind. On the teenytiny planets floating in each ball, there are…