albionspeak 2: the gates of dis (10.5)
SESSION 61: 5TH NIGHT, 9/22/99
Our invocation: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 35, “No more be griev’d at that
which thou hast done…”
10:25 PM
1. Q: [Guide], are you there?
A: I AM AT [THE] PROW
2. Q: We are back in our boat?
A: JANE & VILANSIT SIT OPPOSITE YOU TWO
Twins
3. Q: Vilansit, we greet you.
A: I AM GLAD TO REACH…
4. FROM MY SHORE TO YOURS
5. Q: Jane, we’d hoped to hear from you again. The same face as a few nights
ago?
A: [THE] FACE IS [THE] SAME BUT I AM AGAIN ROBED AS
[THE] TWIN OF VILANSIT
6. Q: Are your robes the same colour tonight?
A: EACH WEARS HER OWN COLOUR
I [THE] FLAME [Jane]
§ & I SEA [Vilansit]
7. Q: Is there an exercise?
A: ONE INVOLVING OUR COLOURS
[Albion] SEES FLAME
SCRIBE SEE BLUE
Note the asymmetry: Vilansit addresses me by name and [Scribe]
by role, changing from third person to second. This allows her pun.
Flame & Sea-Blue
8. Q: Any particular form?
A: [NO] RATHER SEE [THE] PLATONIC FORM OF [THE] COLOURS
9. Q: We begin now.
A: WAVE OF FIRE
TONGUE OF WATER
10. Q: A chiastic structure.
A: NOW A QUESTION FOR EACH
ALBION FIRST
11. Q ([Albion]): I’m ready.
A: DESCRIBE WHAT YOU FELT OR OBSERVD IN [THE] PRESENCE
OF FLAME COLOUR
12. Q ([Albion]): Straining to visualize, I had to see a light and a flame before I could
move toward its edge and catch the flame colour. [Aloud I add: I had to
work so hard to get the colour I didn’t feel much.]
A: NOW SCRIBE GIVE YOUR RESPONSE
13: Q ([Scribe]): I feel the “form” of a colour is not the same as seeing the hue. I
went to Vilansit’s port (= chakra 1); feelings associated with the colour
are oceanic marine spaciousness & a sense of remoteness & detachment.
A: WE ASK YOU FOR A REASON
14. Q: Please tell us.
A: [THE] EXPERIENCE SHOWS YOU NOT ONLY WHERE YOU ARE
BUT ALSO YOUR LINK TO [THE] TWIN WHOSE HUE
YOU SAW
15. Q: Tell us about the first notion.
A: [Albion] – YOUR DIFFICULTY HERE
AN ANALOGUE TO YOUR STRUGGLE ELSEWHERE
Platonic Colours
16. Q ([Albion]): What specifically is analogous?
A: YOU DO HAVE A TALENT FOR SEEING FORMS OR IDEAS
YET YOU INSIST ON GOING BY WAY OF A LITERAL OBJECT
WE ARE NOT ASKING YOU TO VISUALIZE IN [THE] OLD WAY
BUT TO…
17. TAKE HOLD OF A FIBER
IT BEGINS IN JUST THIS WAY
18. Q: Tell us about the second notion.
A: [THE] SEARCH FOR [THE] FORM OF THAT COLOUR IS LIKE
[THE] SEARCH…
19. TO FIND ME JANE [THE] LAST]
TO BE BORN IN TIME & WHO MUST ALSO SEND
YOU MY PICTURE
20. Q: Is it a task to pursue the flame colour as a means to find you, Jane?
A: IF YOU CANNOT SEE MY COLOUR YOU CANNOT SEE ME
CANNOT RECEIVE MY IMAGE
21. Q ([Scribe]): Vilansit, where am I?
A: AT A POINT WHERE KNOWLEDGE BECOMES BODILY
22. Q ([Scribe]): That is such an un-Platonic point.
A: NOT AT ALL
[THE] DEEP EYE SEES IN JUST THIS WAY
IT CAN SEE WITHOUT EYES
IT CAN SEE IDEAS
IT FEELS SO TO SPEAK WITHOUT GRSPING
23. Q ([Scribe]): What is my link to you, Vilansit?
A: YOU HAVE BEEN PREOCCUPIED WITH MY BLUE HAVE
YOU [NO]T?
I note that here our question numbers err, so from here on out
the written and typed transcripts will show a discrepancy of six questions.
24. Q ([Scribe]): Yes, for a month or two.
A: GO TO [THE] FIRST LETTER OF BLUE ON YOU…
25. YOUR BOARD
IT IS AN IMAGE OF MY BLUE
A water color rainbow underlies our board’s circle of consonants
(the vowels being on the interior). [Scribe] immediately went to the letter
“B” on the left—my side of the board—although this hue is duplicated
symmetrically on the right. Vilansit, of course, never indicated which
letter or shade of blue applied to her; and in my dream several years ago,
A Vilansit or Two, twin Vilansits were represented by much brighter shades
of red and blue than my watercolor shows. But [Scribe] was certain, and
his knowledge of colour far exceeds my own.
1 & Z
26. Q ([Scribe]): It’s a rough approximation.
A: NOW READ [THE] TWO SYMBOLS BELOW B & READ [THE]M
AS TWINS –
WHAT DO [THE]Y STAND FOR?
The one exception to the circle of consonants is the numeral 1,
which I included on this revised board solely to accommodate our [Guide].
27. Q ([Scribe]): [1] and [Z].
1 is beginning.
You are chakra 1.
1 is the first natural number in an infinite system.
Z is the end.
Last in a finite system.
A: YOUR ALPHABET OF LEARNING IS AT AN END
YOU FEEL THIS AS A LOSS
Vilansit here refers to [Scribe]’s completion of The Nine Men, his
81 steps.
28. Q ([Scribe]): That’s true, Vilansit.
A: [THE] TWIN OF THIS IS THAT SOMETHING IN A NEW SYSTEM
IS BEGINNING
[THE] NEW IS INFINITE & I WILL HELP YOU
In past discussions which touched on infinity, our interlocutors
have always politely steered us back toward the finite. This marks indeed
a new realm.
Twins That Trade Places
29. Q ([Scribe]): [Albion] was saying in our discussion earlier that he and [Scribe]
began as twins.
A: [YES] BUT TWINS THAT TRADE PLACES
30. Q: Please go on.
A: IT IS NOT JANE ONLY WHO TAKES ON DIFFERENT FACES IN TIME
31. Q: But have [Albion] & [Scribe] really ever traded places?
A: [YES] IF YOU WERE EVER TWINS
32. Q: If so, we passed through a chiastic structure.
A: AND NOTE ANOTHER ONE
JANE IS OUR Z
33. Q: Our circle’s last member in time?
A: [YES] AND YOU COME TO HER BY WAY OF VILANSITS FIBER
34. Q: Why, Jane, is being “Z”, last in time, important?
A: IS IT [NO]T SOMETHING YOU & I SHARE?
Here I am reasonably sure Jane addressed me specifically (and not
also [Scribe]), although, aside from our being future contemporaries, I’m
not sure what she means. (I will here acknowledge a private concern:
Jane & I seem slated to know each other. That’s wonderful, but where’s
[Scribe]? And just how long from now are we talking about? Of course,
I really do believe I will live beyond a hundred years.)
35. Q ([Albion]): Do you, Jane, emphasize here the feeling of being last?
A: I AM EMPHASIZING A LINK THAT CANNOT BE MADE IF YOU
DO NOT CARE TO SAVE YOURSELF
36. Q ([Scribe]): Once again, Jane, you are the expert on fear.
A: I PREFER NOT TO BE BUT…
37. EVEN IN YOUR CASE AM I NOT
LOCATED AT [THE] PORT OF FLAME & FEAR?
Jane’s Chakra
38. Q ([Scribe]): That’s true, Jane. Chakra 4, the flame, is where I feel fear (also
absence).
A: ONCE YOU KNOW THAT I CAN BEGIN TO WORK WITH YOU
AT OVERCOMING IT
39. Q ([Scribe]): That’s a task you & I share, Jane. You are my working partner.
A: SO FAR YOU & I HAVE DONE LITTLE -
NOW I CAN BEGIN
While I acknowledge Jane as our resident fear expert, I have
never felt anything for her but warmth and parental love. Also, while I
know almost nothing of my own chakras, I do know one thing: that Jane
(and not Albion) resides at chakra 5, the heart chakra. She, and not my
own self, is the point at which I set my compass, my origin. The other
chakras remain dark to me.
40. Q ([Albion]): I think of you at chakra 5, not flame & fear.
A: A CONTACT IS SUCH A DIFF…
41. Q ([Albion]): A different link?
A: EXACTLY
& NOW ONE MORE TASK
[Albion]’s Assignment
42. Q ([Albion]): Go ahead, Jane.
A: IT IS FOR [Albion] TO ASSIGN ALL HIS EIGHT PORTS
IT IS A TASK TWINNED TO [THE] FLAME TASK
[Thus far in albionspeak I have not addressed chakras. My circle
count eight in the human energy body, but to this date our lessons had barely
mentioned them. Scribe discovered his own, rather easily it seems, once he
experimented with (I think) Sufi meditation. Sufism lasted a year or two;
and [Scribe] had grown quite accustomed to his chakras.
[By “assign” Jane means I must match each of my eight chakras
to an individual member of my Circle, each whom significantly comes with
a distinct colour. Recall how the Nine Men are each named for my Circle’s
members plus the Jewel; this practice follows similarly, minus our karass
center (which has no singular color). Thus I was tasked with intuiting which
voice/face/colour should correspond to each energy port. To be clear, I had
no experience or awareness of chakras to this point in my life, except for a
few outrageous & anomalous experiences, such as my Fool on the Hill acid
trip, which completely unwound chakra 4, my solar plexus. Otherwise, this
world was new to me.
[What remains fascinating to me is that both Scribe & I had to
"assign" our chakras; they were not, as our physical bodies seem, that which
we’re given, the cards we’re dealt. (figure vs. place) While good food &
exercise keep me fit, I didn’t assign my hair color or modest height.
Stranger, in assigning me this task, Jane gave me a year to intuit my correct
assignment. But, of course, if a correct (or objective) assignment (pre-)exists
for me to intuit, what does it mean to choose?
[My gut tells me this probably amounts simply to another temporal
paradox/knot—almost an issue of semantics or infinite formal systems.…
Outside of 3-d all knots come untied.]
43. Q: We seem to have come full circle, Jane.
A: [YES] FOR THIS TIME
NOW FAREWELLZ?
Farewells
44. Q: We choose the order in which we spoke to you.
Good-bye, Jane. Thank you.
A: LOVE TO YOU [Albion]
[THE] EXPERT ON FEAR WOULD LIKE TO SEND YOU COURAGE
SCRIBE - OUR PARTNERSHIP BEGINS WITH A Z
JANE
45. Q: Good-bye, Anand. We know we spoke to you only a little this time.
A: IMMERSION CONTINUES & I AM ALWAYS LISTENING
ANAND
46. Q: Josef: We traditionally say a farewell that is not a farewell, because the
dreamwork continues.
A: MY SONS EACH DREAM IS PRACTICAL IF YOU MAKE IT SO
I JOSEF SPEAK
47. Q: Don, your twin sessions delighted us. We’ll miss you.
A: GOODBYE
MANY CLUES REMAIN ALONG [THE] PATH
48. Q: Vilansit, you shared your night generously. We look forward to hearing
more next time.
A: IT IS GOOD TO TRADE PLACES SOMETIMES
I SHALL WORK WITH YOU BOTH ON COLOURS
49. Q: [Guide], our oldest friend—where would our flower be without you as
a butterfly?
A: A DAIMON LOVES NOTHING SO MUCH AS LEARNING
MAY THESE STARS LIGHT YOUR PATH
[Guide]
1:06 AM
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