Category Archives: Gnomonic Verses

NOTRE DAME 2019

Posted on April 18, 2019 by

St DOMINIQUE VENNER (died 2013)Via Viatores Quaerit. St Augustine(The Way seeks Travellers). On Tuesday,Sanctus Dominique,May his Name be Blessed,despairing of that peace of mind men seek,awakened from the dream of his unrest,to find within the Vision of his Mental DisarrayHis … Continue reading →

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TRAVEL LOG

Posted on April 13, 2019 by

When I was very youngthere was something called “Grownups”.(Like dinosaurs they are now “extinct” –the stage after “endangered species”). Occasionally, a Grownup would say,“I was miles away!” We children would look at the Grownupwith wonder.How did he do it without … Continue reading →

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COMPUTER TEMPLES

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

The Faith Homes of the World,Buddhist, Moslem, Christian,have acquired spiritual bolt-onsbuilt by enterprising entrepreneurswhose Collection Boxesfunnel the money into hands that have slipped in between the sheets. Thou shalt not kill.(But need-st not striveofficiously to keep alive.) Thou shalt not … Continue reading →

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BUTTERFLY’S EGG

Posted on April 6, 2019 by

Nature’s miniatureopalescent crystal ball. Explore it from outside-inand your finest scientific eyesare lost in its unimaginable vastnesswhich opens onto the totality of the outer universe. Nothing can be seenby blinded scientific eyesof the everything there.For the would-be observer dissolves. Explore … Continue reading →

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SERPENTS

Posted on April 3, 2019 by

The Serpents dance hypnoticallyfilling the Void with Thought.And in their game of wish-fulfilmentthe Sons of Man are caught. Slaves to the Dream Creations,enflamed by its Hot Desires,craving ever-new sensations,singed by the Ancient Fires,they sinkfrom brightness into embersfrom cinders into dust,with … Continue reading →

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DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE

Posted on April 2, 2019 by

Ethics is the highest science,concerning itself with survival,not merely knowall. A man without Ethics,ever thinkingnever seeing,is already drowning;ever sinking ever lowerin his diminishing sea of being. .

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SQUARING THE CIRCLE

Posted on March 30, 2019 by

How glad I amthat I am hereand not somewhere else. (If I weresomewhere else,I’d be here.) No escape, then! .

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