The Still Sky is Rent – Heaven Falls in Shards of Glass – Bright Snow of Mirrors

The Magickal Mass: Black Sun, Snakes & Stars was performed at EsoZone 2008.

THIS IS A FICTION – JOIN THE FACTION

I am no man, I am dynamite. I am a bringer of glad tidings like no one before me.
I am the philosopher with the hammer.
There are more idols than realities in the world. This little essay is a great declaration of war regarding the sounding out of idols, not just idols of the age, but eternal idols, which are here touched with a hammer like a tuning fork: there are no idols that are older, more assured, more puffed-up – and none more hollow.
I am the first immoralist. This calling follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts. Moral and religious judgments are based on realities that do not exist. There is no such thing as moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

1:3. Every man and every woman is a star.

1:29. For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union.

I:58. I give unimaginable joys on earth: certainty, not faith, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.

II:9. Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

II:20. Beauty and strength, leaping laughter and delicious languor, force and fire, are of us.

II:22. I am the Snake that giveth Knowledge & Delight and bright glory, and stir the hearts of men with drunkenness. To worship me take wine and strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet, & be drunk thereof! They shall not harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this.

III: 17. Fear not at all; fear neither men nor Fates, nor gods, nor anything. Money fear not, nor laughter of the folk folly, nor any other power in heaven or upon the earth or under the earth. Nu is your refuge as Hadit your light; and I am the strength, force, vigour, of your arms.

III:60. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.

MUMON’S ZEN ADMONITIONS
Obedience to rules and precepts is a ropeless snare. Giving license to desires is the way of heretics & demons. Escape into silence is false Zen. Ignoring the karma of causation is to fall in a pit. Constant wakefulness of the absolute is to wear a yoke and chains. Think good & evil to dwell in heaven & hell. Dogmatic fidelity to Buddha and Dharma is imprisonment inside two iron mountains. Concentrating upon concentration’s breaks wastes energy. Just sitting forever meditating is dead. Proceeding is against the truth. Retreating is against principle. Neither advancing nor withdrawing is like being a breathing corpse. Tell me, what will you do? Work with great persistence to awaken in this life! Stop wallowing in sorrow.

“The Way of the Sword and the Way of Zen are identical, for they have the same purpose – that of killing the ego.” – Yamada Jirokichi

There are many Ways. Buddha’s law is the way of salvation, Confucius’ way governs learning, there is a way of healing, of poetry, of tea, of archery & many other arts. Each must practice according to their taste.
It is said the warrior’s Way is to wield the sword & pen. Even without talent, a warrior must diligently practice with these dual tools of his craft. The warrior’s mind must always accept death.

Step by step walk the thousand mile road.

Mu Ryu means “No School”.
The flesh is the student. The sword is the teacher. The fight is the test.

“Yes, these are bruises from fighting. Yes, I’m comfortable with that. I am enlightened.” – Fight Club

“The exercising of weapons putteth away aches, griefs, and diseases, it increaseth strength and sharpeneth the wits, it giveth a perfect judgment, it expelleth melancholy, choleric, and evil conceits, it keepeth a man in breath, in perfect healthe, and long life.” – George Silver (1599)