After the Darkness

The edifice of existence was complete and flawless. Each phenomenon in its own place, was in its own special place, without transgressing the bounds of the “pre-eternal” and the “eternal”. Our task — flocks of sheep — in the order of existence was not to create, but to accept. Until reaching the lofty station: — being cooked in the kitchen of the Whole, being dissolved in the stomach of the Whole — in that age, the age now gone, with its edifice collapsed upon the head of the Whole, “and wholly” collapsed and gone forever...