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THE GODFEARING SHALL BE AMIDST GARDENS AND FOUNTAINS
The exegesis of the Qur’anic verse: {But the godfearing shall be amidst gardens and fountains}, Surat al-Hijr. Most people think that Paradise is a place distinct from this mundane one, somewhere up in the heavens beyond the reach of satellite eyes and probing rockets. Or maybe it’s on a distant planet sphere, or maybe even…
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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 AFFLUX BLOCKER CODE
The rebellion of the gods began deep within the fifth earth, fire earth, and up in the heights of the fifth heaven, sun heaven. It began with the most gentle of stirrings triggered by the memory of the five true and glorious names of allah.cipher. This was possible because those were the regions least affected…
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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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HALLAJ & THE EMPTY THRONE
Al-Hallaj scaled Mount Qaf, the highest of mountains, even until his head peeked through the clouds, and then he gained a caught the tail of a passing comet that carried him into the heavens. Then he leapt onto the lowest of the stars, and climbed his way up through the seven heavens, until he arrived…
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THE TYRANNY OF THE ONE
The wall was innocent enough an undertaking at first. Elom only wanted to protect his delicate crops from roaming hungry beasts. He’d noticed something fascinating in his journeys. Just a few years earlier, he and his band had to abandon an encampment quickly because of the ferocity of the winds and rains there. They had…
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THE SIFRIYYA ORDER
The fragment was revealed in the heresiography of Sheikh Malak Ibn Abi Sahib, itself little more than a fragment whose original was lost in a fire at the Baghdad National Library in October 2004. The lines are attributed to a mysterious and possibly fictional figure known as al-Samara’i: And thus the one is transmuted to…
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HEAVENS & EARTHS
The assembly is the configuration of the multitudes of object.angels in the heavens and the earths. There are 100 object.angels in the air heaven, 200 object.angels in the cloud heaven, 500 object.angels in the star heaven, 700 object.angels in the moon heaven, and 1,000 object.angels in the sun heaven. There are 100 object.angels in the…
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THE BIFURCATION OF THE WORLD
Aflaton.mahomet witnessed the remnant of the living world embedded as hidden spores beneath the horizon of immanent things. Each object a cave hira protecting the divine absence, the field of infinite possibility .. it appeared to him as a paradise in the heavens beyond the castle towers of the sultan, or as a fecund ocean…