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VIRGIN EARTH
She lies before me, featureless and freshAs the savannah on the first dawn.My white salt, her blood-red ironMeet there on the restless landscape.She is my blessing, and I am her glory,I rejoice, or rather whisper to myself.This before me is the one true object,The actual event, and I am her witness.At that her strata quake…
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ALLAHU CIPHER SONG
To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavensAnd all the beings there are upon the earthLike my arms and each hair and finger on themAnd my two eyes and all the worlds they seeAll they’ve seen wherever my feet have beenEach and all belong to me and I to all of themEvery blessed and profane…
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EPIPHANY OF THE MAP
It found me unexpectedOne day standing in qiyamUnfurled there before my eyesI spy the eternal sketchThe map I’ve been searching forThey said it marked out treasuresCherished by all human heartsAll the sages testifiedFind that map, the world is yoursI sailed all the seven seasTraversed every continentOpened so many volumesAnd raided so many gravesTo find that…
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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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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 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…
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PARADISE
There is adistant land remotebeyond imagination righthere before meplacid and joyfulshrouded only bythe thinnest ofveils three moleculesacross but ittakes about athousand years topierce through eachone of them
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THE DREAM OF REASON
Lu-3Y continued to operate according to her coded instructions for several decades after the last of the homo sapiens exhaled their final breaths and the flesh of the creatures dissolved into the earth. She pressed on with the calculations and data gatherings and recalculations as she was tasked so long ago. She devised novel questions…