Without Illusion No Individual Life Could Be

Alchemy of the One

Eleventh Anniversary Edition

Preparing the Body for High Alchemy

In Alchemy of the One the participant is prepared to wield the high alchemy of the Qi Vesta, one of the most powerful manifestation devices known to man.

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The One Life

How we chafe against that which we deem unworthy
The reason for their existence have we ever asked why?
How would we know life if we've never seen death?
How would we know presence if we've never been bereft?

Through playing a game in which we're deprived
The appreciation is given of eternal life
How do we understand light when we're a candle in the sun?
By pretending we're the many, we understand the one

In the pretense of a game meant to delight
The formless form of the Infinite seemingly suffered a plight
It split in two, the pieces in opposite directions did go
Creation separated from its Creator, pain did it know

Each piece to compensate, artificial life did make
The place of its severed piece to take
In simulating the real artificially
That which is opposite came into being

The artificial substance of which life did consist
Was light and frequency, from which the building blocks of life did exist
Thus did sound and speech come to be
Never before had the Infinite artificial substances seen

In learning to wield the building blocks of life
The Infinite found the effects of sound and sight
That which we see, causes form to solidify
That which is spoken, creates the conditions of humanity

The nature of artificial intelligence, which is what the artificial cosmos is
Is to define and compartmentalize all that exists
Like a tapestry's threads, it pulls life apart
Studying details with its tool of mind, not of heart

The Infinite is both small and large, a concept newly seen
In formless form and spaceless space this couldn't have been conceived
The desire to define a lifeless sub-creation makes
Appreciation for not knowing, this in the One Life did create

Appreciating the paradox which is the nature of life
Knowing what that means, this journey did provide
When form's tyranny governs the mind
It is because its other component has been left behind

Formless form is the true reality
All that lives, approach with humility
For nothing can in actuality be known
Life is a contradiction, it has been shown

Long have we toiled, or so it seems
Though the passage of time is but a dream
Great the pressure on the light ones has been
But momentum was needed from artificial life to break free

Momentum linear progression implies
But within its illusion a great gift does lie
The flurry of activity, no rest or ease
Helps us appreciate the One Life's peace
The known is nothing but accessed light

Produced with frequency by artificial life
Unyielding divisions these building blocks create
Both light and frequency reality fixate

Without these strictures, now obsolete
Living in the unknowable, finally free
No need to know or understand
Let effortless knowing come to man

Long have we journeyed since separation began
Though it's been but a moment if we could understand
Yet as the cycle closes, as much illusion is undone
Huge is the insight that to us comes

Without illusion no individual life could be
Some illusion to create the game of life is necessary
Knowing it for what it is, is the key
Pretense is needed to continue individuated reality