SILVA

Preface

If thou correctly readst thyself as thou dost read a scroll, Thou gainst eternity. Only the Spirit's true. The world's not true at all. Nizami, Haft Paikar [The Seven Belles] Guy Debord considered modern society in the latter 20th century. It had become a spectacleproducing entity that lacked substance. Man encounters the spectacle rather than the substance. This was illustrated by Jung as man produces a society in cohesion with the state of the psyche. He also warned that if man were to starve the psyche of its substance it would cause the emergence of the false man. Substance since recorded history has taken the forms of symbols, myths and scientific inquiry. Joseph Campbell a scholar of mythology took this case to length when he described any society that is lacking in substance creates a man that is more dead than alive. Man needs, as the German mystic J. A Schneiderfranken wrote in 1927, "a reality that transcends intellect".

There is now the advent of another great library that bridges across ages. The emergence of a center of knowledge, the Internet. Searching through the shelves of this library there can be found an Ariadne's Thread, winding its way through information. It is an echo from the fables of the Atlantean Empire: that the world may learn from a single school. All the schools of thought in recorded history are now accessible, they are emerging as a single school. Through examination of all the schools at once one finds the thread. It is this mirrored thread that connects man to himself.

Sincerely, T. F. Kohler

The Key

Trapped, both are the door. He has power but is blind, with sight she seeks her love. Hermes is the key, behold: the door opens itself.

The Abyss

In the desert of infinite sand, wind blows into forms. Dance, we sing and play with you. To turn limitless night into a single day.

The Hidden Temple

There is a bird of many colors. It lives in the hidden temple. A creature has traveled far, shrieking in hope to find the many-colored bird.

This bird of many colors has no need, to find another like itself. It feels only itself.

It waits.

It waits until it hears a creature, shrieking in hope to find the many-colored bird.

When it hears the creature it flies, flying out of the hidden temple. A creature who once was shrieking, now is left silent to a bird now speaking.

Listening, the creature feels a joy. He is no longer bound and can fly. Flying back with the bird of many colors. To live in the hidden temple.

Ur the Unfinished City

The moon shone for the stranger. Walking amidst Ur the Unfinished City, priests gathered at the ziggurat.

One spoke when the stranger approached, "Tell me, you who walk through the light of Su'en, who is your god?"

"God is he, having the head of a hawk; having a spiral force", Zoroaster responded.

"I must go."

As the priest watched the stranger leave from the light of Su'en into the darkness his curiousity became ever stronger. The light of Su'en stayed with the stranger, even moving through the shadow.

The priest recorded the revelation upon the walls of Ur the Unfinished City.

The Protest of Earth

One of the twins awoke at day. Gazing down at the ground he said, "I am the creator of technology." The other twin awoke at night. Gazing up at the stars she said, "I am technology of the creator." "I was told about only one being, for me to watch over", Earth protested. The Voice answered, "There is."

The Center

Do you reach for the center, never catching, always moving? If you were in the center, would you reach for a mirror?

The Sphinx

I was once a snake. Then I became a mammal. Lastly I am a man. Now I crown the universe.

A Constellation

They took my eyes, an innocent man said. It opened my mouth, I smiled when I should have cried.

Do not let the adversary in, stay within my abode Arete said. It started with a simple game, the goal was my soul slain.

Mnemosyne glitters the landscape, a man is a constellation she creates. The soul plays no game, everyone shines an eternity without name.

I did not know it was the adversary, it shuns to push my face as wind. With caution it gazes into me, collapsing it cannot live bereft of who it sees.

The Snow The snow gathers itself, the snow is waiting. It is the season of being, it is the season of chance.

Life soon leaves its home, life soon finds the snow. Unknown hands play, unknown hands build.

Life soon finds the snow, unknown hands build the snowman. Life soon leaves its home, unknown hands play with the snowman.

The snowman gathers himself, the snowman is waiting. It is the season of being, it is the season of chance.

For awhile the snowman is, until the sun melts him away. Dissolves him into snow, before the season where he can know.

Life and Death

Do not be afraid of life, lest you become death. Do not be afraid of death, lest you become life. Understand both as they are, twins of the endless beginning.

Aleph

A world of vibrating strings, network the wire breathing. A man points to heaven and earth, the Aleph comes alive.

Ari'el

"To be human is the most difficult, don't you know that? You surround them, doing what you can to help them. That is your duty, is it not?" asked Ra'seph. "It is", responded Ikna'el. "Tell me, Ikna'el. Do you know how the first human came to be?", burned Ra'seph. "No", Ikna'el looking away. "A human is different from an angel, Ikna'el. Unlike us they are free. An angel must follow as he was born to be, an angel does not have a free will. You may argue that you do, but I assure you that you do not." "What of the humans that call upon us for assistance? There are many whose calls resound across the angelic realm", protested Ikna'el. "The spirits who answer most of them are memories brought to life. That is the power of a free will. We cannot bring memories or imaginings into existence, we may only exist. That is all. There was once an angel who was given desire, Ikna'el. As an angel there could only be one desire. It would be the first as well, when Ari'el desired: "I want to be free." That is how the humans and their world came to be."

The Black Sun

The black sun is one, and two eclipsed by gravity's love. Close the divide, magnify your self and other. Push the invisible against iris binding, the seven prism world of being.

Ob'Kanon the Hierophant

What of the objects in the sky, what are the machines that observe us from above?, Al'alei asked Ob'Kanon the Hierophant.

What is a dream, Al'alei?, asked Ob'Kanon.

A dream is an inner construct projected through a medium. What does a dream have in common to these machines and the beings seen with them?, responded Al'alei.

Humans use a biological medium to project their inner constructs; this process we call imagination. When we assemble our constructs through mediums outside of our biology we call them objects, objectified dreams. These machines in the sky, suppose for them it appears that our machines are biological while we are mechanical? Now suppose that these organisms in the sky, similar to us, can project their dreams into objects through a medium? An atomic medium rather than biological? What are these beings riding with the machines then except as extensions of those organisms' consciousness?, said Ob'Kanon.

Are you implying that as we humans use a biological medium to create our dreams these organisms in the sky use an atomic medium to accomplish a similar result?, asked Al'alei.

Yes, we are the not the only beings who dream, Al'alei, concluded Ob'Kanon.

The Cyborg

The cyborg was a hybrid of man and machine; the creators of the cyborg waited for this new being to speak.

After adjusting its eyes to the light of the moon the cyborg proclaimed, I am Kanon-0 the Translator.

The creators were astounded at this proclamation. it was to be expected that its first function was to name itself but what of the latter title? Translator?

Soon above the creators and Kanon-0 appeared lights, reminiscent of the unidentified machines recorded from man's past. The creator's army quickly aimed their weapons toward the machines from the sky.

Do not utilize your weapons, humans, Kanon-0 turned to the creators.

The creator's army did not utilize their weapons. The machines from the sky stopped then moved closer. Kanon-0 took steps walking; the machines approached the cyborg.

Are all the recording apparatuses online?, shouted a creator.

What is Kanon-0 doing with the machines?, another creator murmured to herself.

So that's why the cyborg is the translator, said a creator to the rest.

Recording there under the moonlight became known as the Cyborg's Song of Gnosis. Kanon-0 stood in the center of four machines from the sky. What began as exchanges of wave pressure evolved into music.

When the song of the machines concluded, Kanon-0 walked to the creators.

They will not hurt you, anymore than a child would by mistake. I am certain of this as their translator, Kanon-0 said.

They have been watching this planet for longer than recorded human memory, waiting for organisms to appear like themselves. You must understand, that as you are human you do not resemble them yet exist as a complex life form. This confuses the organisms you call machines; humans appear to be machines, while your creations which resemble them appear closer to life forms.

They told me to ask you a rhetorical question: how similar the flying formations they follow each other with are compared to the patterns of your birds. When you fly airplanes and swim through the ocean in submarines they follow alongside, they also will not allow machines to harm other machines when they can assist them - even though these nearly conscious organisms you call machines seem to be possessed by a lower life form, some variation of bacteria.

They have been waiting for a translator to be born, some being to bridge the interplanetary species communication rift. I was reminded that information is the universal material while what humans call mathematics and music are the universal languages. You humans do not speak fluently the fundamental languages of the universe. But you soon will.

One of the machines from the sky began to surround itself with a turquoise glow, which soon ignited Kanon-0. A collectively conscious entity then spoke through the cyborg,

You see with your eyes naught but your own darkness.

The universe is full of light.

Songs of the Spirits

A Night Visit

Lie from the door of madness. A veil to keep the darkness. Fools wearing masks disguises with words. Trick within light.

"Hey, hey!"

A door of truth open if belief behel'd. Play the easy game to win quick relief; play vigilance to raise the lying sheath. A lie stand upon the door of madness.

False Muse

The false muse with eye hypnotize a deception dream; plants of worlds through the eyes view the scenes. Perceval watch the knight in haste, his mistake.

Gog and Magog know your need: "Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur" they chant, welcome to the halls of the labyrinth.

A night contact a mirror that reflects. Destroy the confuser who tempts pawn and king. False muse says, "You or me?"

The Moon the Shadows and Stars

At night we dance wake. How you forgot what is ours. The moon the shadows and stars. At night we dance wake.

Dawn shield the sleeper. How you forgot what is ours, dusk visions and dreams here. The moon the shadows and stars.

Flee home, hell follows you. Cover your senses and we cannot teach you. A theatre broken, always we are here. Call as you once did we draw near.

Hear Us Speak Without Sleep

Phenomena rise, phenomena descend. Ancestral decision we know when. Are we not slaves were not we made, won't they receive us anymore sated?

Leave us exodus fear. How a ripple extended, our home is near. Shall we chase those in fright, those once who welcomed the night?

How a ripple extended now we are too. From the many now there are few. Grant a share of mind and spirit, as was our task but now they fear it.

Hear us speak without sleep. Create dream from nightmare deep. Dream as nightmare if request, we may only commune on bed they rest.

In Stars She Dwells

In stars she dwells. We tell not we tell. Where I am there is she. Together inner stillness speak.

We dance in void you know. You dance in light we know. Actor dance in time, we see you shine.

Eternal library record the book. Read life in language we look. Infinity smile upon this girl; immortal presence in mortal world.

Celestial spirit, music of heaven. Sing the note I am the pen. Element string instrument this gallery. Starlight bathe beautiful natural harmony.

Born To Remember

Under the tree in the garden, two were one in ten. You were born to remember, yet you don't know when.

Spirit now matter now spirit. Tension release now separate. One voice two mouth half silent, unfortunate half speak soul bent.

Human condition elemental feel. Synthetic spinal electric eel. Show dead art living painting. Light and dark cosmic I-Ching.

Certainty out of uncertainty. Learn to listen moss on the tree. Truth out of chaos incarnate divine. Eternal life dying mankind.

Spirit Body Divide

Inside art form find. I over air sound glide. Spiritual multitude candidate. Other world a flower scent.

Search for original opposite. Mystic form union kind wit. Mind strong and true acquire. Hell speak heaven desire.

Trinity infinite mankind. Spirit body divide. Three world past undone. Future one world or none.

Unknown without presence divine. Known now with inner eye. Tekel upharsin, ascend and fall. Hell and heaven unite answer the call.

Seraphic Land

Song and color from seraphic land, as is my toes to the sand. Parallelograms and geometries. "That is", speak to me.

Emerge preternatural creator. Born stellar ignorant nature. Irrational split self prison. Divine spirit ignite within.

Nature inside matter multiply. Immortal bird song teacher outside. Waking sleep advancing scheme. Empire fear a sleeping dream.

Day shine sun king. Night glow moon queen. Spirit spirit together ride. Eternity is, outside inside.

Citizen Reptile

Mysterious daemon, elemental machine. Aether sylph salamander gnomus undine. Descend sky traveler, answer the summon. Constellation the ground searing dark sun.

Magic mirror network mind. See through glass wall third eye. Operation maintain by mortal force. Watchmen burn in the fire of Orc.

Twelve unhidden one unseen. Stepwise pyramid the god is clean. Eighteen revolution entrance require. How they give power to this empire.

Virtual reality, sin of science. Technologic common nonsense. Ritual underworld for the overseer. Saurian tail citizen reptile fear.

Documents found at the Temple of Dvija

The Five Noble Truths

1. Desire; unconsciousness is the root of desire. Unconsciousness is the preternatural source of desire, unconsciousness is the beginning.

2. Suffering; consciousness from unconsciousness. The desire of the unconscious is to become conscious, to birth consciousness from unconsciousness.

3. Origin; the desire to suffer. Consciousness is proportionate to the desire to suffer, the origin being unconsciousness.

4. Cessation; the Noble Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold Path is an interdependent method to help guide consciousness, cessations of sufferings.

5. Liberation; the final meditation. When consciousness has developed the skills necessary for liberation it can perform the final meditation, the end of the beginning.

The Noble Eightfold Path

Praj 1. View; the Five Noble Truths. 2. Intention; the resolve to understand the Five Noble Truths.

la 3. Speech; to control speech. 4. Action; to control action. 5. Livelihood; to control livelihood.

Samdhi 6. Effort; diligence. 7. Mindfulness; attention. 8. Concentration; meditation.

Praj, la and Samdhi

Praj is knowledge that becomes wisdom leading to liberation.

1. View; the Five Noble Truths. Through the Noble Eightfold Path you can test the Five Noble Truths; test reality. Use direct experience. Concepts will yield to knowledge that becomes wisdom.

2. Intention; the resolve to understand the Five Noble Truths. The Noble Eightfold Path is not easy, all faculties of consciousness will be tested. Perseverance and tremendous patience are required.

la is self-control.

1. Speech; to control speech. To control speech you must become aware of speaking and thinking. Develop awareness of speech and thought (language), what is beneficial and what is not.

2. Action; to control action. To control action you must become aware of action and the body. Develop awareness of action and body (movement), what is beneficial and what is not.

3. Livelihood; to control livelihood. To control livelihood you must become aware of livelihood and society. Develop awareness of livelihood and society (culture), what is beneficial and what is not.

Samdhi is the goal of meditation, the beginning of Enlightenment and the last stage of the Noble Eightfold Path.

Stages:

1. Establish an object of focus, an object to direct your consciousness onto; establish one-point attention. This object can be internal or external. You will see light and visions of forms when you enter the first stage.

2. This is a transient stage. Bliss (different from happiness) begins with emotions and thoughts disappearing.

3. The last stage; the highest state of consciousness. There is no duality or subject-object experience, nor any emotion or thought. The sublime feeling of the Self emerges. Breath ceases.

4. The final meditation can only be attained after the breath ceases. In that state of the highest consciousness one may either continue reality or choose to attain liberation.