The Optimist

by

Frank Valentyn

Politely attract your attention, ma'am
note: anthropologically speaking
there's only one species
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
twice clever
and beautiful by design
their gods, fashioned in their image
of perception

There's underlying unity
of aim and inclination
and therefore single thrust
towards perceived purpose
ah, do not question, do not question!
it's meant by design
to be a sacred game
played beyond your understanding

That's not rape, murder and pillage, see
but satanic turpitude
don't hold Him or Her responsible
for bending to temptation
it's one side of a dualistic coin
comfortable from one side only
unless you pay in full

There's teleological justification
in cause and effect relation, see
there's a sweetness purely
in its pseudo-random distribution
or even, its absoluteness in fluctuation
and, which is cause and which effect
is legislation by inclination surely?

It all makes sense beyond
and beyond, and beyond that
I personally guarantee
as voluntary mouthpiece:
darkness is purely absence of light
play the game -
the Chalcedonian decree
is obdurate on the scale of hardness
it applies solely to divinity
not you, not me
who only have total dominion
by appointment

Listen to the distant birdsong
it has ancient beauty
there's no diffraction of soft echoes there
when you comprehend Fixed Action Patterns
no duality, or even bi-unity
truly seen beyond the phase of blindness

From "Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation"; Gramercy Books, New York: It is difficult today, when one wades through these laborious arguments between the Eastern and Western branches of the church over the divinity of Christ, to realise the manic antagonism they aroused in both camps. The Monophysites [rejecting Origen's teachings on metempsychosis, reincarnation and believing Christ to be wholly divine] continued to provoke strife and discord until the year 451, when a specially summoned Church council, loyal to Origen's teachings, split Christ into two separate natures, human and divine. The well-intentioned decision known as the Chalcedonian Decree, while protecting the teachings of Origen, became, in effect, the launching pad for all the black mischief that followed. Indeed, the split between the Monophysites and the Vatican eventually reached such violent proportions that "one of Justinian's first public acts was to make the patriarch of Constantinople declare his full adhesion to the creed of Chalcedon" (Encyclopaedia Britannica). This constitutes solid evidence that, prior to Theodora's arrival on the scene, Justinian was in complete sympathy with the Origenist leanings of the Church of Rome; yet in 453, at Theodora's urging, he permitted a local synod to discredit and condemn the writings of Origen. Very much as the hero of Orwell's 1984 "purified" the public files of the newspapers by rewriting political history and eliminating all reference to previous "Big Brothers," Theodora now pursued a campaign to obliterate all and any passages from the Bible which might reduce to absurdity [all clear reference to reincarnation, which had previously been an integral and canonical part of the Church's teachings] her hopes of instant apotheosis upon departing this life.) [All square bracketed comment by author, FV]

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