III by All-Night Vigil

(i the ascetic cast off material comforts that bound him to the ordinary world - and the modern man?

ii Spiritual asceticism is ripping out the interior of the palace and leaving only the facade standing.

iii The nothingness from understanding is a fear deeper than any other, even - not understanding.

iv Is short term thinking a kind of clairvoyance about the future of the soul?

v There is a great terror in the question - what identity is there in the eternal?

vi Division is almost always illusory - every thing influences every other

vii I am a bundle of disparate processes; I have no access to myself

viii Can I believe vi and vii?

ix The mystical begins by the overcoming of understanding and - trying to understand

x Only the emergent soul can hope to turn the scalpel back into ore.

xi once the lights come up - where is it that I find myself now that the projection reel is spent?

xii will I know how to leave - today? Should I have shut my eyes before the end?

xiii could I have if I had wanted to? )