albionspeak: a draught of language (9.4)
SESSION 56: 6TH NIGHT, 7/8/98
Our invocation: [Scribe]’s own Blue Iguana Gulf - Reef.
Vilansit
10:54 PM
1. Q: [Guide], are you there?
A: I AM
I AWAIT [THE] MESSENGER OF MANY HUES
2. Q: Vilansit, we greet you.
A: I AM GLAD TO SPEAK WITH YOU AGAIN
3. Q: Do you have an exercise for us?
A: I DO A VERY EASY ONE
A Beam from a Prism
4. Q: Instructions?
A: OPEN A SLIGHT CRACK IN [THE]…
5. DARK LAKE WATER & LET
MY SPECTRUM COME THROUGH
CAN YOU SEE IT?
6. Q: Further instructions?
A: SEE IT JUST AS YOU WOULD A BEAM FROM A PRISM -
YOU CAN DO THIS
7. Q: We begin now.
A: EACH HUE A PORTAL [slowly]
EACH A TASK
8. Q: In [Albion’s] dream last night (Ice Cream Truck), he lacked the yellow to
complete his new drawing.
A: IT IS AVAILABLE TO YOU
IF [NO]T AT ONCE THEN…
9. AS SOON AS YOU HAVE FORMED A
CLEAR NOTION OF ITS ABSENCE
Symmetry Begets Desire
10. Q: We are beginning to appreciate the role of absence.
A: DO YOU SEE THAT IT IS [NO]T DARKNESS [NO]T FORGETTING
[NO]T IGNORANCE BUT…
11. A VITAL DESIRE
12. Q: Desire is active.
A: EXACTLY - AN OLD SAYING
SYMMETRY BEGETS DESIRE
[The 1998 sessions are entitled “Symmetry” mostly for their intensive
focus in the first sessions (led by Jane & Don). It seems symmetry is a fascination
shared by all Jewel Net members, a necessary but not a sufficient condition of
membership. We use a piece of a symmetry to intuit the next piece, or the other
half, or (albionically) the whole from the piece, etc.… Thus, symmetry, like
beauty, becomes a doorway to eternity.]
13. Q: We think of Aristophanes’ parable of the missing half in The Symposium.
A: [THE] ONE WINGED BUTTERFLY
[From our lessons on symmetry: To see one wing of a butterfly leads a
flyer to imagine the second. That is, symmetry is employed by all Jewel Net
members as a vital measure. Not all physical (“real”) objects are symmetrical,
of course, but all objects have symmetries in the abstract. Anything can be taken
as the first wing of a butterfly, but you have to start somewhere—as highlighted
in [the story about Homer] mentioned in Session 55.]
If anyone (including Jane) comes along in the future and peruses these
transcripts, I doubt they’d give me (rather than [Scribe]) credit for the last
question, so I better take credit now. I feel if this material ever does become the
object of study ([Scribe] having made his mark), scholars will stake their careers
on such minutia. And generally, I would guess, dividing our separate concerns
is not a difficult task. I would warn them, however, that, for the most part, we
seem to enter a space of one mind and the vast majority of our questions arise
from the æthers between us.
The Butterfly’s Many Wings
14. Q: Can the butterfly, seen from a different vantage, have three wings? [rather
than the two we had discussed at length previously]
A: OUR BUTTERFLY HAS A VAST NUMBER OF WINGS –
I CONFESS I HAVE [NO]T COUNTED
15. Q: Do we ([Scribe & Albion]) only see two wings at a time?
A: NOT NECESSARILY – IT IS SIMPLY [THE] EASIEST PICTURE
16. Q: Surely we could go on to more complex pictures.
A: I WOULD LIKE YOU TO DO SO BUT YOU MUST GO STEP BY
STEP & [NO]T DECEIVE YOURSELVES
I don’t know why, at the time, I felt so sure & confident that I now knew
how to proceed in this manner. While I certainly understand the value and
importance of this process now, I also know my many-minded cricket is an
impatient fool. Obviously though, Vilansit addresses me here more than [Scribe].
17. Q: In a moment of flight, (even) we can see more complex pictures.
A: [YES] BUT RECALL THAT FLIGHT IS PREPARED FOR ON
[THE] GROUND
[Vilansit’s words here strike me as especially true now, in 2018, as I
embark on flight. This is no longer just sound theory; it’s nuts & bolts.]
18. Q: Does a born flyer prepare in some way?
A: ABSOLUTELY – AN EXAMPLE?
Vilansit’s Dream (a Story)
19. Q: Yes, please.
A: WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL I USED TO HAVE…
20. A STRANGE &
FRIGHTENING DREAM -
I HAD IT WITH…
21. UNVARYING REGULARITY ON [THE] NIGHT
OF [THE] FULL MOON
I CAN…
22. SUGGEST WHAT I SAW BECAUSE [THE] SCRIBE
RECEIVED AN IMAGE OF IT EARLIER
[NO]T A COBWEB [NO]T A LOOM [NO]T A MAZE
23. BUT A VAST ARRAY OF FILAMENTS EXTENDING & DIVERGING
THROUGH ENDLESS ARENAS OF DARKNESS -
I HAD [NO]…
24. LANGUAGE FOR THIS
INDEED I STILL DO NOT
I GREW AFRA[i]D TO SLEE[p]…
25. AS I WATCHED [THE] MOON WAX -
MY AUNT - WHAT WOULD I HAVE DONE WITHOUT HER? -
SAW MY F…
26. FEAR ONE EVEN…
27. EVENING WHEN SHE DINED AT
OUR HOUSE -
CAN’T YOU TALK TO [THE] GIRL MY MOTHER SAID
SHE IS QUITE DISTRACTED
28. SO MY AUNT MADE ME TELL HER OF [THE] DREAM
SHE LAUGHED
MY DEAR SHE SAID YOU HAVE BEEN VOUCHSAFED A VISION
FOR WHICH…
29. INNUMERABLE WISE MEN PRAY IN VAIN ON
[THE] STEPS TO…
30. [THE] RIVER EACH DAY
[THE] ENDLESS INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL THINGS
IN ALL TIMES
DO NOT FEAR
31. AND SHE WHISPERED TO ME [THE] NAME OF ALIAH
32. I HAD TO BEGIN LEARNING AS WELL -
TO BE EQUAL TO [THE] GIFTS I DID [NO]T ASK FOR -
DON MIGHT SAY [THE] SAME
33. Q: Our minds are so set on flight we forget it’s not the answer to everything.
A: CONSIDER KNOTS WHCH REMAIN TO BE UNKNOTTED
WHE[THE]R ONE FLIES OR [NO] [sic]
34. Q: Is the untying of knots different for a flyer than for a non-flyer?
A: IN GENERAL [NO]
A Flyer’s Early Steps
35. Q: We have the sequence to guide us. What does a flyer have to help her
prepare?
A: I INVENTED STEPS FOR MYSELF
I INVENTED EXERCISES
I ALSO LONGED FOR INSTRUCTION
36. Q: What was your goal?
A: IT WAS IN ESSENCE AN UNDERSTANDING OF MY EARLY DREAM
37. Q: Please tell us more.
A: A FILAMENT LINKS SOMETHING TO SOMETHING -
WHAT IS IT TO GRASP ONE END?
WHAT IS IT TO READ OTHER PEOPLE?
38. Q: Can you tell us about when you entered the karass?
A: I DID [NO]T HAVE A SINGULAR & LUCID MOMENT OF CHOICE
ANYMORE THAN YOU
IT WAS RATHER THAT I…
39. DISCOVERD A DEEP STRUCTURE THAT
I DID [NO]T HAVE TO BE PART OF…
40. BUT SOMEHOW WAS
I SET ABOUT TRYING TO UNDERSTAND [THE] LINK & NEVER
SOUGHT TO UNDO IT
Albion’s Second Drawing
41. Q ([Albion]): Vilansit, have you any comment on my drawing?
A: [THE] FIRST DRAWING WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU BEGAN
INSTINCTIVELY TO INCLUDE IMAGES OF EACH OF US
[THE] SECOND DRAWING IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT CONTAINS
AN INTUITION OF COMPLEX SYMMETRY
[THE] THIRD IS TO…
42. BE A PICTURE OF YOURSELF AS YOU EXIST
BOTH IN TIME & WITHOUT
IT MUST BE TRUE TO WHAT YOU KNOW ALREADY
MORE IMPORTANTLY IT IS TO BE A MEANS FOR YOU TO SEE
FEATURES THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW OF AT THIS MOMENT
[Scribe] noted that I’d gotten more information on this single drawing --
one step in my sequence -- than he had on fourteen poems/steps in his own. True
enough, but my work did not give me results I could so readily interpret. I wanted
to ask Vilansit about this drawing because she provided us with such important
and surprising information on the previous (first) mandala. I did not expect her
to link the recent drawing to the others. And having gotten such a full response,
I was content to turn to another issue. It was [Scribe] who needed to ask the next
question.
43. Q: Why is [Albion’s] planet half a face & half a soccer ball?
A: [THE] BALL IS COMPOSD OF FACETS ONLY A FEW OF WHICH
ARE SEEABLE FROM THIS VANTAGE
ANY ONE OF THEM IS WHAT WE CALL A FACE
[I omitted the obvious from my commentary: For us, faces & facets are
clear allusions to the Jewel. And months earlier when I fashioned/intuited my
“soccer ball,” I was fully aware of this.]
From [Scribe]’s tone I caught a hint of disbelief or skepticism: How
could a soccer ball represent [Albion]? Was this not perhaps a projection of
[Albion]’s smaller self (at the end of the kite)? While I think he accepted my
account that the image was the result of genuine immersion, I also think he
found it maybe distasteful or silly. I, on the other hand, did not see the image
in this way at all; I found it to be no more or less alien than any other on the
picture. I knew, for instance, that while a soccer ball had been my model, this
image was surely not a soccer ball; it was at least as much a Buckie ball of
Carbon 60 [which shares the same 32-paneled geometry of hexagons &
pentagons]. Remember, I don’t really see anyway; I think in abstract
geometries first. It’s also the case that others who’ve seen the picture have
missed the soccer ball entirely.
By this time we’d felt we exhausted another year’s supply of questions,
and it was time to say good-bye to each of our friends in turn. Having only
spoken with [Guide] and Vilansit, however, we did not know if the others were
even present.
[For the record (as of 8/18), I never completed or even started my
"third drawing," at least as Vilansit outlines it here. First, I switched to painting.
Leonardo undoubtedly learned from his Last Supper not to mix certain paints.
It took me two drawings to realize that "magic" marker doesn't last. The lighter
colors fade almost immediately. Neither mandala shown here above looked like
its photos even after a single year. Poor Leonardo had no photocopies.
[And when I turned to painting, I completely altered my genre & medium
of thought. I didn't even consider another mandala or a geometric figure. I
painted two realistic street scenes I photographed in Italy (where the second, my
diptych, took twelve years to paint). It's (fortunately) amusing to me now that I
"failed" Vilansit's assigned task, for what I achieved in realism far surpassed
anything I'd considered before. This is one example, I think, of the convolutions
of Albion, as addressed by Josef in Session 85, Ch. 9.2. Both paintings hang
prominently in my house (i.e., even my wife approved!).
[Only in the final editing of this website did I find the numbering error here,
which is reflected in my typed originals.]
Farewells
45. Q: We wish to have parting words with each member of our mandala.
Is this possible?
A: IT IS - GO AHEAD
It’s become tradition now for us to part with each our friends in the
order that they appeared, with the exception of [Guide], who is always both
first and last.
46. Q: Jane the teacher [the commanding face she presented in the first two
sessions], you will be in our thoughts.
A: [Albion] - PONDER FEAR
SCRIBE - PONDER VALUE
I WILL MISS YOU THOUGH I AM NEVER FAR
LOVE - JANE
[Signed with a kiss, finally, after teasing us with her non-signatures in
previous sessions… Note also the asymmetry in Jane’s address: She calls me
by my name, but Scribe is addressed by his role. (A clue.)]
47. Q: Anand, our ferryman, thanks to you for attending to loose ends.
A: I AM GLAD TO CONVEY YOU
INTENT IS [THE] VEHICLE
48. Q: Don, thanks for your talk on symmetry & for giving us a clue to [xxxxx].
A: IS IT TOO MUCH TO HOPE THAT YOU MAY FIND ME IN HIS
STRICT MUSIC?
49. Q: Josef, we continue to refuse good-byes to you. We know we need you
for dreaming.
A: I GIVE YOU BOTH MY BLESSINGS & SPEAK ESPECIALLY TO
ALBION -
REMEMBER THAT DREAMS…
50. ARE [THE] WATER TO [THE]
GREEN WORLD
WITHOUT THEM IT BEGINS TO WITHER
51. Q: Vilansit, thank you for your story.
A: FAREWELL -
IF YOU CALL ON YOUR OWN COLOURS YOU WILL CALL
ON ME AS WELL
ALIAH HAIL
52. Q: [Guide], our oldest friend, farewell. We are glad to have learned
more of our own history.
A: IT NEED [NO]T BE HISTORY
IT MAY BE YOUR PRESENT
ONLY LET [THE] STARS OPEN ONE BY ONE
- [Guide]
7e: Session 56
Images & Attributions (in order of appearance)
1. Banner: Rhiannon C. 2016
a) Jewel Mandala (2): D.C. Albion 1994
b) Jewel Ouija Board (2): D.C. Albion 1994
2. Jewel Mandala (2): D.C. Albion 1994
3. Phi Mandala: D.C. Albion 1998
4. Phi Mandala, Planet Albion detail: D.C. Albion 1998
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