So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors The Vision of my Vision devises, even unto the desert The Vision of my Vision cracks Karakoram, even unto the canopy Vision as a viper vines blood red blood hevel to the Field, and I as a brother hook my harpoon into the hip, hilton of my coven, a visitor to Christina Christina catch me in your clutches I climb your camel branches and breakcurrent, hill hopping your body I hope in your body I hope in your body as hosts I hunt your body your landscape as hopscotch, the scrape and scratch of Saboath Your body sounds sorcery, the train industrial incarnation Body births Body Christina body births Christ body and I embody the comb of Christianity I crane a child of Christianity Christ meets me as a Mother The Logos linseeds light as a lady and the seed somber and subtle skirt its scales as a serpent The Christ Lady descends from suspension, and I attach to her umbral shadow through an umbilical unction Oil matters manner the sign of the cross and savior of the Trinity Threes in thought and threes in Taryn, the throng telemetry hardening in heat Son sun soars seers the serum, a gnosis against all sin, and a child of Christ is a child of Seth A child of Christina grants the generation without a King Adonai with anarchy Saboath with Sabbath, the sacred silence of Creation Manifest the manner of Magick Meld mind and medium to the intention of incarnation, the nest that numbers Pythagorean prayer I pray the melt into male I play the mass into male and female, the minister of the manger that masted Christ The jaw java vision Jesus joving volcanoes and the ash aches archaic The prayer pointillist pinpricks the past and Jesus shepherds as a Shaman Jesus anoints as an artist and architect Christ consecrates the creeping cove of Creation, and every plant cures Every plant paints prayer I pray ritual and rock crystal I pray the medium mineral and the manner mystical, a quartz Christ crisis in my Christianity Me and Asia : You know I have been struggling with my Christianity although for different reasons : What reasons? : I feel like my faith has outgrown the confines of Christianity. It feels more plural now, although Christianity since the beginning has been plural. : There isn’t anything wrong with that. The thing I said about cathedrals, cathedrals were magnificent beautiful buildings built specifically to invoke awe. People were supposed to walk in and be so overwhelmed by the wealth and beauty of the place that there wasn’t any doubt they were in a holy place. But it was still a man-made building. And it housed man-made hierarchies and ideologies. We are still building cathedrals but they don’t actually house god. They house our ideas of god. They will always be limiting. I felt the same way when I was in church. : I see. You are right, I think. : I think you are a good influence on the congregation you interact with. But I don’t think of ‘The Church’ as all there is. I want to be like Walt Whitman when he called himself untranslatable, when he claimed that we as individuals are ourselves infinite. We are the temples. We are the cathedrals, and we are made beautiful. I feel like you are looking for something too concrete. What you are looking for can’t be grasped.
Month: November 2021
And If You Pray, You Will Be Condemned
And if you pray, you will be condemned And alone I altar altered states of consciousness, the core to Christ: core Creation core Civilization core Crystalline And alone I ark archaeopteryx, Ancient of Ancients, the bird to Benjamin beguiling and bewitching black, and she brings the bricks for Babel and she brings the Christ cornucopia of blessings The Tower tiers Taryn triangle and quadrilateral I walk the god geometry, the door ot whores, my KRYSXTRYN my Divine Feminine The Tower splinters let us go down The Tower topples the truck of apples and pomegranates Tower rebuilds Benjamin Tower buttresses the body of Benjamin with butter and bitumen I weep the Tower as terror: Taryn I force my focus as the Fool I incarnate ignorance I ply the pulse of a false prophet Christ, redeem from this destruction or deconstruction, the Tower simultaneously stitching and spearing my body soul split soul and soul sliced soul The Fool edges at the erector of the Tower, piercing bellow Apollyon and Abaddon, and the Angel with the key abandons me to Abyss The Tower quakes a finger of Yahweh, half man half woman in the image of Creation, and the brick broke Flesh Jump, Benjamin: descend Jump, Benjamin: the Hell heals I jump and the abyss slinks and slides into the splendor of Chaos, the kraken of Christ Me and Elizabeth : Wrote a page and half just this hour. I imagined a mountain sitting in both sea and desert and I ascended the mountain and I encountered Yahweh as both Samael and Saklas. These two were part of my souls, part of myself. Then a voice accused me of being a charlatan, a fool, and fraud. So I stripped my clothes and stripped myself of all gods and goddesses, and I found myself floating with the angels and with the stars guiding me. My body became gigantic, and I became a macrocosm instead of a microcosm, and I became pregnant with the pleroma, and gave birth to the Divine Feminine. : Wow, that blows my mind. I might have to call you Prophet Ben : Well this will sound really weird but I have talked to Ann Marie and my Spiritual Director about that description in regards to my writing. : Ah yes, the Muse. She comes in different forms to us all directing us to inspiration. But sometimes if you’re lucky you’ll hear a divine voice guiding you. There have been times when I’ve been touched by ti whatever it is. It’s powerful and terrifying. : Yes! I have had mystical experience a la Phiip K Dick or William Blake or Carl Jung. I’m going through a spiritual transformation process now and I’m both fearful and curious. : My advice through this process is to lean into the fear. Trying to push it aside will only make it hard to move forward. The fear will help you to refrain from being too risky with your curiosity. So soak it in. fell and claim every emotion with perfect trust in yourself and in the divine and spirit. Pray paradise Peeled purgatory punctures page and paige Pray Pardes punctuated into the pine splintered spine Pray into Prometheus, and I meet meat the mercury machine Pray pulsates possibility, the lunar cycle of menstruation and the Woman Wheel of Fortune Full moon fallows mensuration canon, bullet Benjamin into the prayer pistol, a salving silver splint shunt into my skin Prayer petrifies and fossilizes the flash flank fluid, the secret flap of hermeticism, and I hull into the Hermit Hermit hollows and hallows the hasking holy hour and I am troubled by his tower I am troubled by my Tower the Tower troubles me Taryn Palm Tree and Taryn Purgatory I herd as a Hermit I shepherd as a Hero, and the staircase spirals Christina Christina the crater cracks the candelas of calderas, fire fused with facets of fusion The Hermit hosts this Hell The Hermit hosts the Tower submerged subterranean, and it floats submarine in molten magma mother I wear wounded the cloak of Christ invulnerable to Vision Fire and Vision Furnace, the fasting that fracks prayer I descend or I dig I always descent or dig that desert and desert dissipates disintegrates disappears I descend and dig the deep and the depths of Hell heal The pains of purgatory pass to point, the pigeon gulf god Deep, I draw the Devil The Devil jinns Justice, a bizarre force and strength stripping sight sorcerer to citizen The Devil demands nothing and everything The Devil drives the quick queer quakes and the daphne of the dead The Devil clings to me as Christ and kisses my lips as Judas but I am the betrayer I betray the boundaries of my own soul I surrender to the imaginary limits of my First Incarnation The Devil divides my flesh into lengthwise pieces, and her divided body merges into my interstitial spaces and god gaps The Devil and Incarnation ignite noble night the Star of Bethlehem Devil beguiles my Vision, and my soul and Satan share the solitary Human My soul and the Adversary anoint the Messiah and Serpent Asia and Me : You seem to find splendor in tearing yourself apart : Is it an evil vision then? : No, it’s not evil. : Maybe this is all a product of my bipolar mind. : Even if it is, it’s still a way for you to translate yourself, to translate the world you live in, to make sense of it all. It is something that is wholly yours and it’s priceless. Nothing in this world is solid or guaranteed. Things have value because we give it value, things have meaning because we give it meaning. That doesn't mean it lacks meaning or value: it means others can’t decide for us. : I wanted it to have meaning for yours though, my writing. : What makes you think it doesn’t? : I feel if it doesn’t come from the Divine for me, it won’t come from the Divine for others. : You have 100 followers on your blog and lots of people seem to resonate with your writing. I know you want to be able to split yourself open, dissect yourself and be able to hold the pieces in your hand and say, ‘this part is divine’ and ‘this part is human’ and sort them in neat little piles. I know you want to present to people only the divine. But you can’t do that. Jesus could t even (or at least didn’t want to). The human and divine are intertwined. Condemnation mixes Hades with Desert / neither do I condemn you Condemnation combines the Palm Tree Garden with the Black Iron Prison / neither do I condemn you Hell interferes with incarnation but the language does not languish but sprouts the spitting venom Vision, the Christ Cobra / Mother Mongoose gestating the gripping guts of gods and goddesses Hell hosts stranger hope the galleon of ghosts the gallery of ghouls chasing chops the run run rabbit into darkness nest dark forest noon dark june the rabbit rivets the temple curtain ribbons, and the veil vaults the desert dome at Elohim’s Creation Rabbit tendons desert bunny the guide Urgrund turning Benjamin as a seaship or ship wreckage but neither do I condemn you I condemn to the canal of Hell, you doomed devil of desert Bunny Benjamin begins in desert Bunny Benjamin begins in Creation, a devil before Abraham, I Am No fear: I Am and neither do I condemn I condemn you to Eden, the Black Iron Prison Engorged Eden devours desert Vision Eglon plunges his sword into Fat Eden, absorbed into the abdomen Eden bleeds desert sand Eden erects sackcloth over cross hiding crucifixion, but the Christ emerges miraculous medicine, the human divine and the human divided The Cross concocts the creature that shivers the flood, the pontoon lizard in the zig-zag of light, the round dance of cross into caduceus The serpents signal Hermes, a material messenger as a hatchet, and he cuts crisp all vegetation except the Tree of Gnosis oscillating in oasis, a barrier and bastard to Demon Eden Tree always speaks Taryn Tree talks the typhoon festering the rock and wreckage of the Divine Office, and the psalms sink palms, Palm Tree Garden unbalanced with the demiurge Eden Palms sigils palms, the symbols blanketing Benjamin in the bowie of jungle canopy The Serpent and Lion appear to me The Hyena and Tiger appear to me Christina and Taryn appear to me Christ and Zoe appear to me Eat the fruit of the Tree of Gnosis Consume the seed of the Tree of Knowledge I examen and examine elephantine tree trunk and trunk Taryn, and it transforms into mirror diophantine reflecting Benjamin and Mother it transforms into moon reflecting son Sun and Silver, and her shards shimmer around me as a skirt The tree wood washes Woman and cores the crown of Cross and Crucifixion I eat the fruit of the Eucharist I eat the bread meant for four and five thousand, and I am their women and children The fruit ferments into Christ Flesh and Christina Flesh, the poles of male and female Elohim made they and them
Now Learn the Parable of the Fig Tree
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; when her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near I learn nothing: that is, NOTHING Nothing times the time of nothing and nothing multiplied the multiplication of nothing, a nothing lighting the lake to light and ladder to the light of nothing, and the nothing shines darkness Nothing emanates and emits the west wind waves of darkness, and darkness mirrors the mer blue desert oasis: black ocean, black immersion, black baptism Nothing alienates but comforts, the paradoxical xenoforming of the corpus of Christ Nothing arts alchemy and astrology, the arcane and esoteric, the strange real presence of Christ in the Eucharist I learn the dark light and light dark, shining into the invisible and unseen flashing into the incomprehensible and unknown I love the light which is my darkness I love the light which is my desert I enter entre echo echo the desert I erode errant erasure absolving the desert Light, eliminate my sins Light-That-Is-Darkness, blanket Benjamin and temple my atonement The Shamans may have or acquire spirit guide, who often guide and direct the shaman, although others only encounter them only when the shaman is a trance It’s terrible to feel as a prophet; how much worse a shaman! Yet somehow I will descend (again?) to the netherworld, and I fear it I fear my blindness, a blind beast Benjamin who falls into a puddle and thinks he’s baptized Benjamin who slinks into the sledge of a spirit and thinks shaman The Spirits follow me The gods and goddesses guide me The emanation of the One leads me The sefiroth of Adam Kadmon vessel light I associate with angels In trance, Taryn tinkers with my tongue, and my speech spins spells and prophecy In trance, Taryn appears as tigress and lioness, the gnosis in the mouth ferocious I feed on the fig that flashes form and figure: the human form and fire Earthly son, son of man, the human one earthly being, triple female, Zoe and Zebra Christina camouflaged, and she survives as a serpent in the fig tree She drinks and dreams as a dragon, feeding on my flesh, but my muscles multiply and regenerate as a renegade The dragon rips rare ruthless and dips her tail into burning desert, my sister sidewinder The sand seizes in sorcery, the spalting of divine sparks His own El Saturn Records albums were usually printed in edition of 75 copies per album, and were sold primarily at life performances Most El Saturn records were hand-decorated by Arkestra members, and these LP records sometimes sell for high prices among collectors Benjamin, print the planets Seduce Saturn through Shamanism It’s melancholy machinations mimic and mature the animal Ensoul the animal Ensoul the stone (chop a piece of wood: I am there The stones cry out hosanna and consume with tongues of fire, and each flame torches the soul Perform the prayer Perform with myrrh and frankincense, the preparation for the Flesh Perform the tomb and Taryn, struck thunder to the trace Collect the core of Christianity Collect Christianity in its trash and crevices Collect Christianity secret in desert caves, and the heat herds the letter Christianity branches at the belly of the bellwether, and I collect the books that leaves prophecy Branch blooms black the supernal darkness and suprarational register rocking reality beyond reality and real contra real Branch barters blank the ground grafted ground diverging divine into divinity Branch boisterous as a bazooka blasts silence, a violent vision in nothing by nothing through nothing Branch blinks the dance swaying Spirit Wind Woman Wolf Woman Wolverine Woman She sharpens strength on the scale and skate sharks and dragons she shames me and shatters my ego the floor to the flesh forcing trance Collect and connect Cure in continuity, the cradle of magic Carve in collection, the crescent of magicians I enter something stranger, the branching darkness I move into monstrosity, the darkness bifurcation Branch borrows but I steal the magic Branch obliterates oblation, the breakneck nettles pricking pints of light, and the light and dark trunk Taryn, Taryn sprouting spirit tender, her tendrils throating the soil Light and dark intermingle in incarnation, Taryn in her terrible twos struggling with her sister serpents Branch bleeds branch: branch breeds branch, the egg hatching Holy Spirit the live birth of the amphibious Christ, tadpole Taryn Tender, tadpole Taryn populates the pupa, a shifting and mixed metamorphosis, and she plants plenty the population of lake wound and water Water Taryn Sprite Taryn Nymph Taryn brooding tender among the branches of pomegranates She does not loosen her hold on the leaves but shakes their freedom She deed not lace her haven on the leaves, but shorns their Flesh for shores Summer approaches Summer approaches the Desert I read the Black Books by CG Jung His soul solidifies itself in desert Summer desert and summer spirit approaches my soul too, a God-Bearer and God-Being Desert always appears, not as an apparition, but an actuality, and the sand surrounds my soul Heat both hunts and heals my humanity The sun as son and solar separates me from my soul as a skin, the tent or tabernacle assembling Taryn, and I invoke the sun as my God I invite desert to be my Temple Summer approaches Summer advents Vision as the apple of my eye Summer slanders summer in argument, the meandering slain surfacing from the sand full skeleton, and I approach my ancestors I focus no fear on my forebeaerers Desert vision caravans and I follow Nukvah as a nomad I enter exodus and exile but the zone of Zebra zips as Zipporah circumcising my Spirit a bloody bridegroom for Yahweh The desert yokes me to Yahweh The sands chain me in ships to Yaldaboath and my doppelganger doubles as a demiurge My demiurge drives me to my demiurge My soul slashes toward the seed of Seth Recognize your royalty Ground God in the generator without a King Sabbath sands serrates and separates Sand shushes the sword section into holy silence Quiet quaker: queue covenant Quake the Tree of Life, this Taryn Torah at Mount Horeb Ascend the mountain as the Seven of Coins and work the water Wait on the we of waves Tree trance Taryn Torah Tree track Taryn transgression Ascend the antinomian archway to the wonder of Woman, the whale well lariat, a bread without leavening Ascend to the Testament of Transformation, the Tabor Light piercing person as psychonautics and psychotropiocs, the hermeneutics of the heroine My heroine hisses as Christina My heroine hasturs as Marie and Asia Rainey Mound murders as Yahweh wells into Samael, the End of All Flesh swarming the snows Mount massacres as Yahweh scorpions into Saklas, the sutures of my soul, and I ghost the guns of Hosts I sound the cannon of Saboath, the orange grapeshot of the coasts Hasten to the Eucharist Remember your baptism Consume body and blood, crucifixion and cannibalism coalesced My body for your body on the mountain My body for your body crushing the golden calf My flesh for your flesh in the flame of Solomon my flesh for your flesh in the sacrifice of halves Desert shapes the base Benjamin Desert renders the mountain buoyant Mountain mouths moss moist moat the pervading sea Mountain murky mourns the mass in months, apocalyptic time prominent among the apostles Taryn Benjamin you fool, Benjamin you fraud, Benjamin you charlatan, come clean! I strip off my garments and name myself naked Adam and nude Human I strip off the god and goddess and expose my genitals Here I am, in the sink of my psychosis and surrender I empty even of Eucharist and earth I float in aether as angels and archangels I ascend orthogonal as an offering to spacetime and Taryn the South serpent The stars select my path silicon and selene, the zone of Zebra Zodiac My skin stretches in the solar wind Wind whip wind Woman Wind whir wine Woman W9ind whisk wings Woman My microcosm mutates into macrocosm the members of my body become a map universal, and I write the aeons In my placenta is pleroma In my womb is Woman
If You Fast, You Will Bring Sin Upon Yourselves
Jesus said to them, if you fast, you will bring sin upon yourselves Jesus, root out my joints with herbs and holy ayahausca, and break the buttons into edible eucharist Jesus, rough my roses with the rock, a lily lighthouse dispersing holly Jesus, my eye in calamity a calm coolant in the chaos a womb and woman in the whirlwind Receive me, Holy One and Apostolic Church: lay my body down as the relic of a saint Receive me in crown and true cross splinters I reaffirm my baptismal vow (the baptismal vision that vaults me into the dome of the firmament, and heaven hammers me a sheet of silver I reaffirm my baptismal covenant, a cross and crux I carry to Golgotha The tomb awaits me The Holy Saturday awaits me The descent into Hell when I preach to the dead awaits me The Resurrection Is Church lifts and levitates my body (Resurrection Is Church pikes pure pushing me into parousia, and I rush into Kingdom Shamans claim to gain knowledge and the power to heal By entering into the spiritual world or dimension Most shamans have dreams or visions that convey certain messages I share as a shaman gnostic or gnostic shaman I shake as a shaman gnostic or gnostic shaman (benjamin, travel to other worlds benjamin, enter mind and imagination benjamin, meditate in sheol and shush water to Shekinah Shamanism does not intersect with my history or lineage. I am a mystic. I am a Christian. I am a gnostic. Nevertheless you’ll to other worlds. Nevertheless you’ll speak to the Spirit of the Dead. I don’t know a better description for that. Placeholder description for now. I gain gnosis I gain nursing I dream often I dream violence and grotesque mutations I dream the desert of body horror and horror hits holy hours unholy and holy fusing or marrying (bone of my bone flesh of my flesh fission vision and I hesitate to vision I march slowly to vision, because I simultaneously fear and exult in vision Vision Vines the Viper that vented gnosis to Eva Gnosis cracks me with a cudgel the message massages with a machete This, my kergyma KRYSXTRYN this is my KRYSXTRYN keystone I fast and I do not fast I fast the flood flinging fir and fur, and the bow bends naked The bow barks bare the bow carves covenant the quick bite of the chainsaw saw dust desert of the chameleon I fast the strength of the covenant I fast the foam fastened strength of fates to the covenant, the calf cut in half Covenant cuts quaker and shaker, and I fast the slew stew clamoring automatons and animatronics built bodies fast build bodies switch kitsch and camp, and I do not fake the fast I put oil on my disfigured face, and I do not fake the fast (I do not fast I fast and I bring sin upon myself I fast and the fish appears to me, silver scales scalloped as a guitar fretboard The fish speaks the kergyma and message, the secret of the stones that spit flames The imagination engines the ichthys and she speaks parables, the pebbles that pierce in a stoning I sink in the sauce of my sins I stir in the salt of my skins, AntiChrist antinomian Sin strikes stripes to suicide, the woman wounded for my salvation the Christ and Christina anointed in the carpool of marriage marriage meets the tomb the Bridal Chamber charges the shade of sheol Sheol shanks with the shard of sin
Book of Concealment, a Book Balanced On Scales
It has been taught: the Book of Concealment, a book balanced on scales I teach, and the teaching teaches me I teach and the teaching triplicates Taryn, woman and woman and woman Teaching testifies and interrupts, a rupture of the plasticity of Flesh, and Flesh as a stature status stature stokes Fire Fire imprints the letters Fire burns the basics of the Book Fire flashes the basis of the Book Book begins the Library Book already brings and blesses the library The Library lies, the deceit of the loom Library targets the restoration resurrection, and its lie lights tangles and tango, the troubling taste of truth and lie The salacious sample of the knowledge of good and evil Simple gnosis knotted to nous as a net, and my cryptic Christianity captured its cores My Crypto-Christianity keeps in concealment the Krystal caravans, and I nomad from Book to Book, and Word to word, the wash and web of a single Woman She conceals and reveals She opens archaic apocalypse and revelation She emanates the moments of the monad and singularities of the sefirot Woman balances Benjamin as a Book on scales KRYSXTRYN balances Benjamin as a Book bellowing the vector vision and vision victory Balance balasts and blasts the lance wounding and healing Balance behests baleen the great whales worshipping woman at the edges scales scope the scalp of the spirit Scales scratch the skin of the Spirit Scales fall from the eyes of Blind Benjamin and I set Christ-Christina in Vision I gather the gods into my garden I gather the gods to the footstool of the throne Gather to a new Gospel: Gather to a New God or gods The Divine twins twines as a typhoon I draw Judgment, the Queen of Swords, and the Fool: New Gospel and New God, but the Godhead gathers through the talking thunder the tesseract Taryn Trinity Tetratyl New Directions by Benjamin Nucum The laughing London jazz scene I gather myself to the Gospel According to Saint Mark: the mark of the Beast (beastly Benjamin and baphomet Benjamin) and the Seal of God: the spell and seal of Her, Spirit Shekinah Sophia, Benjamin-Barbelo Gathering in the stones, Gathering in the stones The stones strop shiny and bright, gathering in the stones I gather myself to the Gospel according to Saint Mark, and the communion of the saints sear seer torrential, the attack of angels an aether of angels, wheel upon wheel scattering sorcery the forward flash of the four winds the alphabet of angels, wheel in a wheel shattering systems of oppression, the phantom foundation of the four winds Wind wests the elect Wind torments the elect, the laceration of lamentations I interrupt this portion of gospel; I rupture this parsha of Book. The text troubles me, or I am a slave to the text. I am a slave to the gospel, but I want good tidings Kingdom. I want good news and freedom to roam the wilderness of text and the desert of Book. Let the Gospel be desert and rainstorm: let the good tidings be wilderness and monsoon. Flood my flesh with the Feminine: swarm my soul with Sophia. One of the landmarks of jazz improvisation came from saxophonist Coleman Hawkins’ recording of Johnny Green’s Body and Soul in 1939. Instead of playing the melody then soloing, Hawkins states the melody for about 4 bars and went on a long intricate exploration of the chord changes for the rest of the verse and another one . Disliked by the general public at the time, Hawkins’ solo is considered an evolutionary leap and a defining factor in modern jazz improvisation. I have to find a new way to improvise over the chord changes and melody: I must find a novel method of extemporaneous freedom over the texts and themes. I listen to Body and Soul – I immerse in Body and Soul – Body and Soul, baptize me – Body and Soul, pour on me your chrism – Body and Soul, mingle with me in your Bridal Chamber. Explore, Benjamin – take the texts to the limits and boundaries and exceed them. Improvise, Benjamin – take the texts to heaven and hell, and that energy exotic exudes the earth of Eucharist. Four winds: Flesh of Woman, Flesh from my side, my Mother and Physician, my Zoe and Eva, and she evolves into eucastrophe and eucharist Four winds: Fountain-Furnace whipping water underneath the Godhead, and she hedges her hold over the surface of my skull, a Thelonious Monk solo Criss-cross rhythmic rhythm, start-stop protofunk and dance in sidesteps and stutters stretch music scorching four winds whistling our hundred and forty four thousand Improvise Earth: improvise Heaven: improvise Hell Inerrant Earth plucks a rose for my ego: Earth uninterruptible reeks of my fool and folly The fool lanes cliff clutch Krystal and I leap ladder and light I leap ladder and light to the lack of faith, by faith to faith (thirteen deer thirteen eagles thirteen white houses thirteen rainbows) The Fool enters Earth, explosively raw depths The fool turns with Earth ebb and echo, an acid murmur ergot, Heaven and Hell heal as a nurse shaman and nurse artist Heaven and Hell hem holy the train to the throne, Earth depths ecstatic Heaven devotes divine office, the chanting of hymns in vision, Hell levels the lark lizard, the lantern light loosened from the locks Locks lake the gliss glowing grandiose, and Hellmaw moats its mouth Hell mourning mows in the murk, a waster whisp wisp wing floating Dick wrote about the experiences, first in the semi-autobiographical novel Radio Free Albemuth and then in VALIS, the Divine Invasion, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and the unfinished Owl in Daylight : I saw this and thought about the possibility that I exaggerate the place of our friendship in your life. : Why? : You’re important to me. I write about you. But I wonder by doing that, it creates an imbalance in how each of us views our friendship. : It kinda upset me when you asked that because I thought, am I not doing enough? I write about the experiences I write the experience and the experiences extract itself from experience: the many from the one The many pages from the one (Infinite To Be cannot be infinite; Infinite Anti-To Be cradles the infinite Infinite regression Infinite cancellation Infinite crosses crossing out Infinite I am and I am not I write not and I write, infinite canceling infinity (undefinable I write Asia Rain, infinite possums surrounding her abeyance, and Asia heirs the power of hallucination I write Asia Rain, pregnant with infinite possibilities, and she sews together signs, the groan of the gospel I write the novel novel annihilating my name I write the new novel and novel navel adjudicating autobiography, and Asia assists in my pickering Asia works her weaveworld and womanword, and speaks the spell of language The recording is unusual in that the song’s melody is only hinted at in the recording; Hawkins’ two choruses of improvisation over the tune’s chord progression constitute almost the entire take. Because of this, as well as the imaginative use of harmony and break from tradition swing cliches, the recording is recognized as part fo the early tremors of bebop. I hint at her; I hint history and hungry hours I hint at the melody mediator and mediatrix, and she merges my mind with mind She merges my mind mathematics and alphabet, and I pip at the alpines, a Spirit ski skirt cross country cross dressing I dress the melody I drop the melody and dress momento mori The melody manipulates my mind: the melody matures my male, and I do not mask the masculine but mirror it by mescaline and mushrooms, the feminine hallucination and angel aura The melody directs and dictates: the melody dances determination, Benjamin determined to be a prophet I record the rests and remainders; I reason with space and silence The space opens the chord progression, and each chord cracks crumbles crackles, the snap of the snare drum
He Shall Send His Angels
And then he shall send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds And I anoint this writing bottle bourbon Benjamin and I listen to Jawbreaker’s Kiss the Bottle (Meghan I should be kissing you And I appoint this writing the wrestle with Jacob, Samael and Saint selecting jawbone or hip bone and sharpened by the sinews And I holster the repetition as a revolver, each shot a salute and salutation to the sword beaten into a plowshare And alienates and reconciles And pyramids apartheid and thrusts which teleological And answers in arc and circle, a razor rainbow cutting homophobes with God’s covenant Covenant chops like a cleaver, King heavy and King katana clashing as an eclipse Covenant collapses into clovers and tiaras Taryn, princess pierced pelican Pelican plucks cross-strings and tin things well did she make you cry, make you break down, shatters your illusion of love / And is it even now? Do you know how to pick up the pieces and go home? Covenant pelican and princess musics goddess: goddess human and goddess animal, and her reptile and mammal mature microscope macroscopic cosmos Cosmos scratches Christ, punctuated by DJ scratching and features brief samples, which emphasizes the downbeat Christ samples All, and All in All Christ samples everything driving the downbeat driving the drop the result is rap at its most skeletal, with a hard hitting, street-level aggression (the sample’s the flesh / the beat’s the skeleton I sample language I tier text and text tingles Taryn I burn the image of the Bible into Book like the Shroud of Turin I listen to the Renunciation Suite by The David S. Ware Quartet I read the Restored New Testament by Willis Barnstone The music of the gospels thrill tent testament the tripartite truth The Gospel of the music throats tongues tantalizes stretches saxophone lines, a laser lens refracting rare light, and music and gospel intermix and intermarry in light REDUCED BY RICK RUBIN Then he shall send his angels Then I tirft Tinker Bell Taryn and Taryn tassels Terror Taryn theaters torture Taryn tickles tremors Then I prophesy in power, the language that snakes and squirms I prophesy in the propulsion and propellant of music, improvising light, logos, and lady The then attacks in measure, a metric at the distance of devastation, and Benjamin burns as a Book I impress the litter and letter of the Book The Book then Word The Book then Water The Book then Woman Me and Asia : I feel discouraged about the state of the world. : Any particular reasons why? : Just reading the news and all the violence happening. I feel helpless to change anything about it. I think about what Marx said: ‘Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’ Is my writing merely interpreting the world in various ways or changing it? : You are underestimating the power of stories. Connecting people together changes the world. There is power in realizing we are not islands. It’s true, we are small creatures, but we are never meant to take on the world alone. : I will think about what you said. : You better. I am very smart. : That made me smile, in a good way. : I cannot be stopped. Then thunder Then the thunder said Then thunder, perfect intellect Then the thunder thrives and triumphs Then the thunder trembles treble trickster, a threat to the tommyknockers Then Taryn do you thunder Do you talk terrorizing in tiny thrills, your body a haunted house, and I hug your home Then Taryn, do you tell tales, the story stripped to plot and point Point sparks and multiplies patching positive as passenger pigeons, and Taryn’s body troubles and points to Mineral Suicide Parking Lot (I wouldn’t mind if you took me in my sleep tonight I wouldn’t even put up a fight I wouldn’t care if you took it all away today I’m sure I wouldn’t even miss the pain) The thunder then tempts as an adversary, and Adversary and Adonai anoint a single one and single point, the star particular matching masiach The Thunder then threads two and three, tuple male and triple female, the androgynous Adversary / the androgynous Adonai Thunder gospels Kingdom of the skies Thunder gathers her disciples and apostles, messengers for masiach, and moon marries or moons low the dream country and the dream desert I meet the serpent in the desert and the serpent thunders the serpent has a female nature, forever seeking the company of those dead who are spellbound by the earth, and who did not find a way across to singleness the serpent has Taryn nature, and she searches the congregation of those dead, and the dead call to me The dead prophesy as disciples and apostles the dead dine deciduous in the desert, my soul spellbound in descent Earth eats the exterior into the interior Earth eats and echoes the exist: the exit from my body to the serpent wheel galaxy Then eh sends Benjamin as a servant Then he sends Benjamin as a slave to the Spirit Spirit sends thunder and serpent spirit sends lightning and skywheel The serpent is a whore She courts the devil and evil spirits; she is a mischievous tyrant and tormentor, forever inveigling the most evil company Serpent whores and heroes – the hero hoists into the hanging, serpent suspended and snake slackening Whore pours prayer, the tail end rattling and bringing the ruckus Whore hatches Kingdom of Skies Kingdom of Heaven the host of armies, the winging ornaments eyeing wheels inside wheels woman doubling woman The serpent counts Christina The serpent counts Christina-Christ and Christ-Taryn, appointed androgynous and twins in thunder and spirit The courting cuts and crucifies The courting crimps to the crypt, tomb thunder and tombs Taryn She tins tyrant at the threat, tongue slipping Spirit She tints tormentor thrusting triune, tipsy and tricky She molts mischievous magic, a monk muse to mint millions She maps evil and Elohim, evil and Eloah The Elohim emits evil to earth: one earth destroyed and one earth sustained, a remnant for redemption Elohim or Earth imitates evil, evil emerging from the side of Human or Evil diverging from the voice of Zoe She makes mine evil hers She keeps my evil in company and civilization She irrigates my fields good and evil in preparation of the incarnation Then the Angels surround me Then the Angels name me Then the Angels number me Then the Angels flashing their sword spiraling Angels grip the gulf between: the tongue trapping Earth and Heaven, Elohim and Yahweh Elohim Angels gust the gorge beyond: the birth bursting beginning AND Elohim and the birth barging the gods from the underworld to the surface Angels swarm the surface Angels swallow the surface I listen to Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s Into My Arms: I don’t believe in the existence of angels but looking at you I wonder if that’s true, sings Nick Cave I don’t know if I believe in the existence of angels, but angels erupt in my apartment Angels blow glass unicorns and the horns pierce through my ceiling Exploring angels explode into star stuff and celestial carnage