The Beginning (and How to Get There) ['Gnostalgia' 1]

          _1_

The path to the center is arduous.

Into the backward

inward circling

of the past

          he found himself
transported back to
the beginning of time,

projected out of
the profane world

returning to

remember his origin

or remember himself consciously

recalling his total existence

          in a rite of passage
he went back to
the origin of the world

and witnessd the original
cosmogony

by descending along the ladder of memories

down

to the bare earth

of his being.

          _2_

Entering consciously into death

in a fit of passion

he enterd

the depth

the source

the origin

nameless

in and out of

the breath.

The union was the union with

the full Self

the one true complete original

Self of which

our little lives are

such finite fractal fragments.

          _3_

All was vertigo.

Through endlessly cascading corridors of metacosmic memory

he fell, never quite touching bottom.

He shut his eyes for a moment,

thinking

      All the dualities and opposites
      all my sins and virtues
      all this dazzling chaos was

      the tensors
      bending me
      to the breaking point.

Then he opend his eyes.

That's when he saw the Aleph.

[to be continued ...]