Unsullied Lightness

Man seeks on earth, for what is only in heaven—
Unsullied Lightness

He had been in a great battle, and he was a slayer of men, and had been slain, and a hundred years had passed, and then he was revived, and he was asked, “How long have you been sleeping?” and he looked about, yawned, stretched out his hands (he was very thin, his hair on his head was long, and his beard was very long, and he could see that his forearms were thin, and ankles were very thin: then he looked about at nature, the sun was bright, and everything was green, and the birds were singing, and the earth was marvelous, and he was hungry very hungry and extremely thirsty, and he replied with a hoarse and dried out voice, “Perhaps a day, or part of a day,” he wasn’t sure.
His second reaction was simple, confusion, and horror, when he completely focused on who was asking the question. I’m sure he would not have been terrified had it been the Devil himself, but it wasn’t, the person’s light in his eyes were unbearable.
He did not grow weary of imagining these circumstances, and he didn’t know the dreadful fact, he had been dead for one-hundred years. He was for the most part, vain, and replied to his silent his mind, he’s mind’s eye, his second self, that pure and general act of living was heaven on earth. He absurdly tried to exhaust all the variations of whom this person was staring down on him—all thought there could be no doubt whom He was.
With truth and terror (and perhaps for once with no pretense, his mind returned back to the tremulous eve of his death. But that reality did not coincide with the logic inferred here. Now everything seemed to be a little prophetic. The pieces of his life were coming clear…

And the voice said, looking down upon this man, “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men…”


No: 502 (10-27-2009) JLB (Inspired in part by the Koran, II 261) also, Ecclesiastes Ch. VI: 1