I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship.

Rumi

We carry a primordial image of a golden age within us. Oddly, as long as we’re “trying to decide what it is”, its true face eludes us…

The Ways of Silence

the body that springs
from your imaginings, is an ocean
of human sorrow

your fervour does not come from
grief or joy, nor is your mind
on fancies and conjectures

you are the unique pearl
at the bottom of that ocean;
enduring all, patiently growing…

you may not find it
until your final breath, even then;
you may have yet to learn the
ways of silence!

31 12 2024

He who commanded
the sun to give light, also
created darkness…

This Meeting

we escaped the storm,
our house is gone

it should matter
but it doesn’t

this meeting again with you
was worth all that!

Thanks for your honesty, amarynth. I said right away that the problem of what I called semantics is a barrier, that on this topic, is virtually impossible to overcome. Then there’s the individual’s state of consciousness. Generally speaking, a person’s state of consciousness is defined by their level of acceptance. I get what you say about fun, and I entirely agree, however, people need to have a sense of humour and an open mind, in order to have fun, and I found neither, here (apart from yourself).

The topics I ventured to offer responses to outside of the Cornucopia, are topics that I am naturally drawn to, but my well-considered posts written in simple basic language describing simple basic concepts, (this is why I pointed to the reality that truth = divine love, hoping that the concept of love would be a bridge toward some kind of common language), found no acceptance, agreement or understanding (apart from yourself). I’m fine with a lack of understanding and / or agreement, but I found no acceptance, or welcome. On the contrary, random points were taken from my posts which were then subject to a kind of “madman’s ridicule”, by someone, who to all intents and purposes, does not even know what he is doing. I do therefore forgive him, b/c it’s like Aesop’s tale of the lion and the ass, which I will not repeat here.

No matter, it’s all experience and I do not regret my posts, b/c as I said, someone may read them and find something useful. So all good at the end of the day. Thanks for entering the fray and moderating the ‘hiccup’.

“I’ll go there and see what I find.”

I don’t think you could find the nose on your face.

“The question is how does one arrive at the truth?”

One arrives at the truth by wanting truth above all else.

Who is able to listen to the unseen?

Everyone is able to “listen to the unseen”. This is Soul’s birthright. Divine Spirit speaks directly to Soul via the inner Sound and Light. The Sound or Voice of God (Divine Spirit in expression), is referred to as “the music of the spheres” by the Sufis. The Christian Bible speaks of Christ’s disciples at Pentecost; “Suddenly there came from Heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind”. There are many different Sounds that can be heard via the inner ears, a few being the sound of a single note of a flute, the sound of running water, the buzzing of bees, a high-pitched whistle, etc. These are manifestations of Divine Spirit as It moves through the varying states of consciousness or planes of God’s universes.

The Light is easier to contact than the Sound, and will appear at the spiritual eye, as either intense or gentle manifestations of white, pale yellow, blue, lavender or violet, or pink light. The colour reflects the plane or level which Soul is seeing the Light (the various planes of God have an overall colour or tone, for example, the Astral Plane is defined by a pink/reddish tone, the Mental Plane by pale blue, the Soul Plane white or pale yellow etc.)

Divine Spirit also speaks to us in indirect ways, such as intuition, hunches, knowingness, waking dreams, golden tongued wisdom, etc. (this is a phenomenon when words spoken or read, such as certain phrases that catch our attention for no apparent reason, until we cotton onto the fact that something is being shown to us directly related to a personal problem, challenge or the like.

“Can you learn that here on Earth or do you get that ability with birth, or not?”

Every Soul has the ability to hear the Sound and Light. However, it is like a muscle that must be developed through practice. Likewise, Soul must have the ability to disciminate and so test what it receives on the inner planes, for there are as many purveyors of untruth as there are of truth in the unseen realms.

To sum up, one finds truth at “the altar within”, the template for all worldly temples, places of worship etc. How much we want truth is determined by what we are prepared to sacrifice for it. In seeking “the truth” one must above all else, be prepared to accept truth as it is and not as we think we want it to be.

The One That Makes My Heart Sing

the one that makes my heart sing,
has a way about him I can’t
quite put my finger on –
he sets my mind at ease and
lays my fears to rest

the one that makes my heart sing
knows the secret of the stars,
the radiant sun and moon –
and yet is humbled by small
acts of kindness

the one that makes my heart sing
awakens the love within –
knowing that only love
is capable of bursting the
fetters of ignorance

the one that makes my heart sing
sings a song beneath his breath –
a song older than mountains,
and the song the soul sang before the
beginning or end of time

when I steal a glance
at the one who makes my heart sing,
I forget everything I was doing, and want
to follow to the ends of the earth,
to the end of my days!

Simplicius, in his emphatic way, cuts through the glut of information re: Syria decisively;

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/syrias-fall-in-depth-analysis

He reveals Russia’s takeaway, via Russians With Attitude;

FIVE LESSONS FOR RUSSIA

Doom and gloom are somewhat appropriate, but it is more important to think about the future now. What does the fall of Syria tell us?

1. False Peace is Death. A bad faith ceasefire is a recipe for disaster and after Minsk and Astana should never be repeated. False peace is worse than war, because false peace means you still have to fight the war later, but at a disadvantage. No green busses or green corridors for the enemy, no deescalation zones, no freezing of any lines. The enemy has to be defeated completely: victory is a prerequisite for mercy. Until that is achieved, no ceasefires, only death under FABs.

2. Collapse is always sudden. The Assad regime resisted NATO-Israeli aggression for 13 years. And then it fell in a week. Mistakes, systemic errors and structural attrition accumulate until a critical mass is reached, and at that point the smallest impact will bring down the entire house of cards. Likewise, our current enemy in the main theater will resist stubbornly, until he will not be able to anymore, and then we will see Big Arrows. All our efforts should be focused on damaging the enemy’s war-waging capabilities to reach that critical point.

3. Infantry is King. A single full-sized, dependable Russian infantry brigade (or a Ukrainian one, for that matter) would have been able to defeat the Jihadi advance for good. They were completely overstretched and to a large degree their offensive was a bluff that only worked because the SAA didn’t even try to resist, they just ran. We had our own experience with a lack of infantry in the SMO — it led to the Kharkov oblast debacle in fall ’22. No matter what anyone says, no matter what technological advances there are, the infantry unit was and remains the central actor of history, upon which all else depends.

4. Empire is secondary to the Nation. There was a loud public debate among patriotic circles in Russia when the intervention in Syria began in 2015. Personally, I was opposed to the intervention because it seemed absurd to me to send Russian men to die in a foreign desert while Russian people are suffering under the yoke of Banderite occupation just across the border. We were told by Kremlin propagandists that “Palmyra is a symbol for all mankind” and the Donbass is just, eh, the Donbass. Whatever. Now, Jihadi dogs will get to loot and destroy all that archaeological treasure of all mankind, and we have to fight for the Donbass, anyway. Was it worth it? I have always been staunchly pro-Assad, but a single square mile of Russian land in Novorossiya means more to me than the entire Middle East. A nation should have its priorities in order.

5. You can’t change nature. Some peoples and countries are just unreliable. They will never have stable polities unless compelled by overwhelming force or foreign occupation. They will never build working institutions on their own. You can’t just offer them a comprehensive reform package and then shrug when they refuse to implement it. They will always be shitty client states if you work with them within a civilized framework. We know how to work around local particularities in other parts of the world, so we should let Middle East policy also be guided by this knowledge. They are not Warsaw Era-pact allies you can let do things on their own.

The foregoing circumstances could act as a catalyst to remind Russia of the existentiality of the current global conflict. The stakes are everything and Russian leadership may now see just how critical it is to make sure that the West is decisively defeated in Ukraine.

Simplicius also points out the decisive impact Syria’s economic strangulation imposed by the US (via commandeering the easternmost third of the country and stealing Syria’s oil etc) played in its fall.