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WAY OF THE SEVEN STARS


Response To That Final Question:

Ignorance is the Bane of Man.
At a distance removed,
Dimly remembered, and
Still not seen distinct,
But yet somehow felt;
What we do sense
Is not reality; is not the Real Thing.
This World is hologram.
Then; for lucid sleep;
For it's just a dream
Within another dream
And we are not awake.

Seven Stars' Song of Revelation

Ignorance is a jail where no escape
Is possible but through knowledge.
Don't fear nor spurn. Dare to learn:

Assent to and accept this world as it is
Before attempting ascent to any world
Aspired to or wished for. Life's glorious!

That That Is can be known but by few.
Not space, not time, not gravity exists;
But as Extension from Field of Thought.

Be subject to neither church nor crown.

Dread naught. Disdain none: Not One!
Absent That That Is, there's Nothing.

That That Is, IS. That That's Not, IS, too.
That That's Not makes That That Is: IS.
That That Is makes That That's Not BE.

By rowing to That That Is, I become "I."
Wind + Water = Wave. As THOUGHT is
The Heart and The Nave of The Wheel.

Worlds are created from Thought alone.
That which we will do is because of that
What we are. We'll become who we are.

Charity, courtesy, civility, compassion,
Are cardinal spokes making civilization;
Chivalry forms center, hub's circle core.

IS is! Be not the slave of some other's I.
This, Creed of our Seven Stars Society;
This, The Teaching of the Seven Stars:

No man can be happy if he should choose
To be exile from his own nature and soul.
ALL IS THOUGHT ILLUMINATING BEING

Precognitive Prescient Prophetic Poetry by WILLIAM O'CONNOR

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Religions and Philosophies

Religions and philosophies are all invented. They are never revealed to us by higher entities; unless one considers one's own brain to be a higher entity (in some people, it actually is). This doesn't mean that; because the tale of their origins is spurious, the religion and philosophy has nothing to teach us. There is always something that can be earned about human nature from the comparative study of religion and philosophy, and human nature is all we really can learn.

Loyalty and Survival

Nations sacrifice their citizens to ensure national survival. That's always been the way of things. Beware patriotism as it can get you killed and shall. The question then is what is it one should be loyal to? The answer is obvious: To one's self; one's family; one's friends, and never ever to any abstractions---always to people. Remember: abstractions can't reciprocate, while people can and will, and we all need help at times. I've seen far too many talented people lose their minds and their lives over abstractions: rags and flags. States come and go; humanity remains.

Conditioning

All societies condition their memberships in subtle ways so as to elicit a desired response when the society is perceived to face danger of extinction. This conditioning applies all the way from the society's newest immigrants on up to the society's highest leaders. It's how all societies survive. Only the very rarest of individuals can hope to resist this cultural conditioning, due to its opaque design and its clever oblique subtlety. The wisest can and do, for they are well aware of its perverse cause---all societies shall eventually sacrifice their own citizens in order to survive.

WILLIAM O'CONNOR

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