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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:25:31 -0400 (EDT)
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell One, who is not, we see: but one, whom we see not, this: Surely this is not that: but that is assuredly is. What, and wherefore, and whence? for under is over and thunder: If thunder could be without lightning, lightning could be without under. Doubt is faith in the main: but faith on the whole is without: We cannot believe by proof: but could we believe doubt? Why, and whither, and how? for barley and rye are not over: Neither are straight lines curves: yet over is under and clover. Two and two may be four: but four and four are not fate: Fate and God may be twain: but God is the same thing as eight. Ask a man what he thinks, and get from a man what he heels: God, once caught in the fact, shows you a fair pair of feels. Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is ditch: The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a which. More is the whole than a part: but half is more than the soul: Clearly, the soul is the body: but is not the body the whole? One and two are not one: but one and nothing is true: Truth can hardly be false, if falsehood cannot be two. Once the mastodon was: pterodactyls were common as ox: Then the mammoth was God: now is He a prize cocks. Parallels all things are: yet many of these are you: You are certainly I: but certain I am not askew. Springs the rock from the plain, shoots the stream from the cock: Cocks exist for the hen: but hens exist for the rock. God, whom we see not, is: and God, who is not, we dee: Fiddle, we know, is didle: and diddle, we take it, is see. __