Gnosis

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Gnosis

A page is turned, a sentence is read,
Without warning something suddenly shifts.
A flicker becomes an all consuming flame.
This bonfire beckons you on as a world witness

Like a spontaneous human combustion
To awaken from within the full inner mind,
A blazing whirl of warmth enfolds you tight,
Blanketing you in the offer of supernova insight.

In this instant, all the dead tomes and grimoires
That laid shelved, dusty, and unabsorbed without,
Are given new life from a swift and certain knowing
In a brilliant fiery flash of complete transparency.

The Maya, The Dukka, The delusions,
The grand madness, dissipate serenely
Into a clarity, an unflinching certainty.
Left is only the “I” who has existed
Throughout the eons of ages.
Here is the thinker of thoughts,
The knowinger of all that is known,
The creative within the creator.
This is the silent self that longs to live
As one inside the single same self who,
In this miraculous moment
Is graced with the eye of Gnosis

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knight4696 commented on Gnosis

09-18-2009

An excellent piece. Filled with beautiful imagery as only the poet swiftbird2C knows how.

Merlyn commented on Gnosis

09-17-2009

No way, Man! You cannot say that you are Gnostic after a piece like that. Sure, it is confused but aren' t we all. You are Beautiful. Wow!

swiftbird2C

09/17/2009

A Christian Gnostic that distrusts organized religion. I feel it is better if possible to let the silent voice teach and inform us.

magoogle commented on Gnosis

09-15-2009

Stunningly beautiful with such clarity. Am being moved beyond words.

swiftbird2C

09/15/2009

This subject is aptly beyond words, so I thank you.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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