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MUHANNAD & THE DARK CAVE
Muhannad cowered in the darkness of the cave, pulling the woolen blanket closer to his face. It was the only sensory impression available for him to hold onto, other than the damp, cold, amorphous nothingness that pushed inward through his nostrils and in through the holes of his ears, and soaking into the pores in…
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HEILIG HOUSE
Heilig House: An Artistic (and Religious?) Revelationby Burt Sommers, for the Atlanta Daily PicayuneJanuary 10, 2011 You wouldn’t expect to find a place of pilgrimage in a 1960s era Atlanta suburb like this one, much less in an unassuming tan stucco craftsman-style home on this tony side street. But the Heilig House is turning heads…
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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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ESCHATON
The eschaton was born from a microscopic holeIn the recoiling ground of paradiseWhere the once-bitten apple struck it,Black seed of destruction to come,Pregnant mother of hope.The children of men shrunk backFrom this riot of the godsThey erected towers to plug the gapAnd paved the latitudes and longitudes,But the divisions only widened and spreadRaining down from…
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THE COMPLETE EXEGESIS
Al-Khattab undertook an exegetical work called Al-Tafsir al-Shamil fi Maarafat al-Kamil, or The Complete Exegesis Toward an Understanding of the Divine Perfection. It began simply enough, aiming for a comprehensive synthesis of the preceding centuries’ scholarship on Qur’anic interpretation. Al-Khattab was well into the third volume and the exegeses on the Chapter of the Cave,…
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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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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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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…