#without end

Thanks for the message, Anon. 😃 Yesterday was the first time I missed acknowledging their anniversary on its day. Real Life sometimes has inconvenient timing. I appreciate your reminder.

Lauren Lyle kindly provided a lovely photo from Richard & Sammie’s July wedding.

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There is no final poem, just as there was no original poem, and if there was a tree that held a knowledge of good and evil then we have done nothing with that knowledge, moving back and forth between the two, perplexed as sparrows in a storm batting their small heads against windows they don't see. The poem is betwixt and beyond, within and out, not the apple eaten, but the planets themselves the apple and core, and we the hungry, open, O---

Greg Olsen, Without End

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Our Destiny

“The closer the approach to one’s Prototype, ‘in Heaven,’ the better for the mortal whose personality was chosen, by his own personal deity (the seventh principle), as its terrestrial abode. For, with every effort of will toward purification and unity with that ‘Self-god,’ one of the lower rays breaks and the spiritual entity of man is drawn higher and ever higher to the ray that supersedes the first, until, from ray to ray, the inner man is drawn into the one and highest beam of the Parent-SUN. …

Yes; ‘our destiny is written in the stars!’ Only, the closer the union between the mortal reflection MAN and his celestial PROTOTYPE, the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations—which neither Buddhas nor Christs can escape. … Those who believe in Karma have to believe in destiny, which, from birth to death, every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does his cobweb; and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral, or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. Both these lead on the outward man, but one of them must prevail; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable law of compensation steps in and takes its course, faithfully following the fluctuations.”