02-06-2021, 08:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-05-2021, 11:10 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
CALLING ALL BADASS WEIRDOES. . .
. . . KEEP MOVING ONEWARDS! (Desert-of-Error Sessions Remix)
Eppur si muovo!
--- [traditionally attributed to] Galileo Galilei, ca. 1633
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves
Comments re. The Iron Horse:
"Seriously, every song on this album is my theme song for daily situations. Walking down the street like a badass. Walking into a Costco with my shades on like a badass. Walking through the front door of a house party with a hottie on my arm like a badass. Vacuuming my carpets like a badass. Doing my laundry like a badass. This album is for situational badassery."
"....and here I thought I'd discovered some long forgotten really cool group lost in the back pages of time that nobody had ever heard of..."
"This is a fantastic soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist."
I’m a crêpe
I’m a weird dough
What the hell am I doughing here
I donut belong here
https://genius.com/Radiohead-creep-lyrics
Translated by William C. Chittick, from Jami's Diwan.
Abd Al-Rahman Jami was a 15th-century Persian Sufi mystic who is regarded as the last great classical poet of Persian literature. Jami's discussion of Divine Love is based upon the metaphysical exposition and elaboration of the experiences of mystical love by the school of the Spaniard Ibn Arabi (died 1240 C.E.).
The Three Forms of Knowledge
Ibn El-Arabi of Spain instructed his followers in this most ancient dictum:
There are three forms of knowledge. The first is intellectual knowledge, which is in fact only information and the collection of facts, and the use of these to arrive at further intellectual concepts. This is intellectualism.
Second comes the knowledge of states, which included both emotional feeling and strange states of being in which man thinks that he has perceived something supreme but cannot avail himself of it. This is emotionalism.
Third comes real knowledge, which is called the Knowledge of Reality. In this form, man can perceive what is right, what is true, beyond the boundaries of thought and sense. Scholastics and scientists concentrate upon the first form of knowledge. Emotionalists and experientialists use the second form. Others use the two combined, or either one alternatively.
But the people who attain to truth are those who know how to connect themselves with the reality which lies beyond both these forms of knowledge. These are the real Sufis, the Dervishes who have Attained.
--- Idries Shah, The Sufis (1964)
“Know that that which is referred to as other-than-Allah, or the universe, is related to Allah as the shadow is related to the person. The universe is the shadow of Allah. . . .
You only know the universe according to the amount you know the shadows, and you are ignorant of the Real according to what you do not know of the person on which that shadow depends. Inasmuch as He has a shadow, He is known, and inasmuch as one is ignorant of what is in the essence of the shadow of the form which projects the shadow, he is ignorant of Allah. For that reason, we say that Allah is known to us from one aspect and not known to us from another aspect.”
--- Ibn Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (early 13th century)
82.10 Questioner: Why does this partaking in the original thought have a gradient radially outward? That’s the way I understand your statement.
Ra: I am Ra. This is the plan of the One Infinite Creator. The One Original Thought is the harvest of all previous, if you would use this term, experience of the Creator by the Creator. As It decides to know Itself It generates Itself into that plenum, full of the glory and the power of the One Infinite Creator which is manifested to your perceptions as space or outer space. Each generation of this knowing begets a knowing which has the capacity, through free will, to choose methods of knowing Itself. Therefore, gradually, step by step, the Creator becomes that which may know Itself, and the portions of the Creator partake less purely in the power of the original word or thought. This is for the purpose of refinement of the one original thought. The Creator does not properly create as much as It experiences Itself.
---- Social memory complex Ra (via channel, late 20th c.)
All through eternity God unveils
His exquisite form.
In the solitude of nothingness
He holds a mirror to
His own Face and beholds
His own beauty.
He is the knower and the known, the seer and the seen;
No eye but
His own has ever looked upon this Universe.
God and Love are as body and soul.
God is the mine, Love is the diamond.
They have been together
since the beginning …
in every beat of every heart.
--- Jami (15th c.)
“If it had not been for this love, the universe would not have appeared in its source. Its movement from non-existence to existence is the movement of the love of the One who brings into existence for this purpose. The universe also loves to witness itself in existence as it was witnessed in immutability. Thus by every aspect, the movement from immutable non-existence to the existence of the sources is a movement of love, both in respect of Allah and in respect to itself.”
--- Ibn Arabi, Bezels
. . . KEEP MOVING ONEWARDS! (Desert-of-Error Sessions Remix)
Eppur si muovo!
--- [traditionally attributed to] Galileo Galilei, ca. 1633
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_yet_it_moves
Comments re. The Iron Horse:
"Seriously, every song on this album is my theme song for daily situations. Walking down the street like a badass. Walking into a Costco with my shades on like a badass. Walking through the front door of a house party with a hottie on my arm like a badass. Vacuuming my carpets like a badass. Doing my laundry like a badass. This album is for situational badassery."
"....and here I thought I'd discovered some long forgotten really cool group lost in the back pages of time that nobody had ever heard of..."
"This is a fantastic soundtrack to a movie that doesn't exist."
I’m a crêpe
I’m a weird dough
What the hell am I doughing here
I donut belong here
https://genius.com/Radiohead-creep-lyrics
Translated by William C. Chittick, from Jami's Diwan.
Abd Al-Rahman Jami was a 15th-century Persian Sufi mystic who is regarded as the last great classical poet of Persian literature. Jami's discussion of Divine Love is based upon the metaphysical exposition and elaboration of the experiences of mystical love by the school of the Spaniard Ibn Arabi (died 1240 C.E.).
The Three Forms of Knowledge
Ibn El-Arabi of Spain instructed his followers in this most ancient dictum:
There are three forms of knowledge. The first is intellectual knowledge, which is in fact only information and the collection of facts, and the use of these to arrive at further intellectual concepts. This is intellectualism.
Second comes the knowledge of states, which included both emotional feeling and strange states of being in which man thinks that he has perceived something supreme but cannot avail himself of it. This is emotionalism.
Third comes real knowledge, which is called the Knowledge of Reality. In this form, man can perceive what is right, what is true, beyond the boundaries of thought and sense. Scholastics and scientists concentrate upon the first form of knowledge. Emotionalists and experientialists use the second form. Others use the two combined, or either one alternatively.
But the people who attain to truth are those who know how to connect themselves with the reality which lies beyond both these forms of knowledge. These are the real Sufis, the Dervishes who have Attained.
--- Idries Shah, The Sufis (1964)
“Know that that which is referred to as other-than-Allah, or the universe, is related to Allah as the shadow is related to the person. The universe is the shadow of Allah. . . .
You only know the universe according to the amount you know the shadows, and you are ignorant of the Real according to what you do not know of the person on which that shadow depends. Inasmuch as He has a shadow, He is known, and inasmuch as one is ignorant of what is in the essence of the shadow of the form which projects the shadow, he is ignorant of Allah. For that reason, we say that Allah is known to us from one aspect and not known to us from another aspect.”
--- Ibn Arabi, The Bezels of Wisdom (early 13th century)
82.10 Questioner: Why does this partaking in the original thought have a gradient radially outward? That’s the way I understand your statement.
Ra: I am Ra. This is the plan of the One Infinite Creator. The One Original Thought is the harvest of all previous, if you would use this term, experience of the Creator by the Creator. As It decides to know Itself It generates Itself into that plenum, full of the glory and the power of the One Infinite Creator which is manifested to your perceptions as space or outer space. Each generation of this knowing begets a knowing which has the capacity, through free will, to choose methods of knowing Itself. Therefore, gradually, step by step, the Creator becomes that which may know Itself, and the portions of the Creator partake less purely in the power of the original word or thought. This is for the purpose of refinement of the one original thought. The Creator does not properly create as much as It experiences Itself.
---- Social memory complex Ra (via channel, late 20th c.)
All through eternity God unveils
His exquisite form.
In the solitude of nothingness
He holds a mirror to
His own Face and beholds
His own beauty.
He is the knower and the known, the seer and the seen;
No eye but
His own has ever looked upon this Universe.
God and Love are as body and soul.
God is the mine, Love is the diamond.
They have been together
since the beginning …
in every beat of every heart.
--- Jami (15th c.)
“If it had not been for this love, the universe would not have appeared in its source. Its movement from non-existence to existence is the movement of the love of the One who brings into existence for this purpose. The universe also loves to witness itself in existence as it was witnessed in immutability. Thus by every aspect, the movement from immutable non-existence to the existence of the sources is a movement of love, both in respect of Allah and in respect to itself.”
--- Ibn Arabi, Bezels