portal six text
“Swinburne’s translations from the Grooves of the music of the Sixth Portal are missing.”
toweroftheonesong_0ewsx4 portal six, portals
“Swinburne’s translations from the Grooves of the music of the Sixth Portal are missing.”
toweroftheonesong_0ewsx4 portal five, portals
There was a girl
She was beautiful but sad
Voice was like the Song itself,
But I couldn’t understand it
Floating beautiful sound
Selah
I AM the Beginning and the End
I AM Now and Ever Shall Be
I AM the Thoughts of All People, of All Ages
I AM the Remembrance of All Things.
I Remember.
I Remember.
toweroftheonesong_0ewsx4 portal four, portals
My Sweet Girl,
I hear nothing in my ear but your voice. I hear it in all things. I see it take shape, in the world around me.
In the melodic patterns of flying things. . . .A flock of birds, having taken flight upon being startled by the crack of a
stick underneath my feet. . . .
Falling leaves, blown by the wind and spiraling slowly in and out of my reach. . . .
My path, as it opens before me, leading to all possibilities and all other paths, intersecting the routes and rotations of beings and galaxies. . . .
Doorways and openings, portals leading beyond what I know. . . . Even here your voice guides me. . . .
Through the Outer Courts of the Temple, and past the veils. . . . and to the entrance to your Holy Place. . . .
Gates. . . .bridges. . . . empty corridors and labyrinths. . . . stairways, spiraling into Infinity.
The Summit of things. . . .Cathedral spires. . . . altars. . . . mountaintops. . . .
The temple of your body. . . .
Your eyes. . . .
Reflections, the visual echoes of something seen. . . . Mirrors. . . . Shadows. . . . The Shadow that pursues me. . . .
Old photographs, the images of time past, now present in the viewing. . . .
Images of keeping time, and time passing. . . . hourglasses. . . . clocks. . . . stopwatches. . . . yesterday’s entry in my notebook,
now thrown away in the trash. . . .
Spiraling things. . . . galaxies. . . . mandalas. . . . the ripples in a puddle as I watch the rain fall. . . .
The streak of lightning that precedes a thunderclap. . . . tornadoes. . . . tsunamis. . . . whirlpools and waterfalls. . . . crescendos
in nature, all. . . .
I see them there before me, and your voice resounds in and above them all.
The scenes of my life, laid out before me and connected to every story that has ever been told. . . .
The constellations, weaving that story in white light across the firmament. . . .
You and I, engaged in a kiss. . . .
Oh yes, I remember your voice, my sweet girl.
toweroftheonesong_0ewsx4 portal one, portals
There was a girl
She was beautiful but sad
Voice was like the Song itself,
But I couldn’t understand it
Floating beautiful sound
Selah
From the Tower of the One Song
I Heard My Own Voice sing the Worlds into being.
There was only One Word I sang, over and over,
And that was Your Name, My Love.
From out of the Soundless Nothing, she arose.
The Song was in her eyes, and all
that existed was but the echo of her sweet melody.
The Song was alive and had within it
the power to give life;
And from within her Song the Word formed worlds,
and their number was without end.
There was only One Song,
It was all the Songs.
And within every song,
There was the One Song.
The Song is God.
I AM the Song of God.
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My Sweet Girl,
I have begun to translate the Grooves. Their beauty is beyond measure. The music, even as I speak, exists and whirls around me. It flows through me. I am but a channel.
The Universe around me pulses with the thrum of its life. People’s conversations flow around me, in rhythm with the flow of the world itself. I hear them go by, and all are in motion with the whir and hum of this world.
The Universe sings its Song in a thousand layers in every moment we experience. It is a love song. The songs – they are just a part of the One Song that is always changing, yet they are the Song itself. There is only One Song. It is all the songs. And within every song, there is the One Song. They are the songs that have existed since before the foundation of the world, waiting to be discovered. But the foundation of the world and its end are right now, as we speak.
There is just one Word that the Universe says, again and again, if we have ears to hear, and that is Love. That is not to say that there is not sadness or pain. But that is not the end of the story, or Song. The end of the story has already arrived. Even now, even in the midst of death and cruelty and suffering, Love has already overcome all.
Let them who have ears, hear. And let you hear it, most of all, for each note sings Your Name. To that music, I shall always be true.
Ever yours,
Nicholas