
RT @nick_routledge: @pretentiouscox Echoes of Milton: "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light." What is hell, after all? Nietzsche, interpreting: “In time of peace, the warlike person attacks himself.” First through Gethsemane, to Eden. Healing, through and beyond the death-waking. Here, Rumi:

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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. But there’s a difference with this dream. Everything cruel and unconscious done in the illusion of the present world, all that does not fade away at the death-waking. It stays, and it must be interpreted.

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All the mean laughing, all the quick, sexual wanting, those torn coats of Joseph, they change into powerful wolves that you must face. The retaliation that sometimes comes now, the swift, payback hit, is just a boy’s game to what the other will be. You know about circumcision here. It’s full castration there!

@brent_waggoner Bingo.
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