ascahn’sahna’shoreshik
Sermon Twenty-Seven
he Scripture of the Word,
First:
‘All language is based on meat. Do not let the sophists fool you.’
²Second:
‘The third walking path explores hysteria without fear. The efforts of madmen are a society of itself, but only if they are written. ³The wise may substitute one law for another, even into incoherence, and still say he is working within a method. This is true of speech and extends to all scripture.’
⁴Third:
‘Do not go to the realm of apology for absolution. Beyond articulation, there is no fault. ⁵The Adjacent Place, where the Grabbers live, is the illusion of the vocal or the middle realms of thought, by which I mean the constructed. ⁶This is how I stole the certainty of the Chancellor of Exactitude, perfect to look upon from every angle. ⁷When you come out of the vocal, you can never be certain.’
⁸Fourth:
‘The truest body of work is made up of silence: as in the silence that results from no reference. By the word I mean the dead.’
⁹Fifth:
‘The first meaning is always hidden.’
¹⁰Sixth:
‘The realm of apology is perfection and impossible to attack. Thus, the wise avoid it. ¹¹Trinity in unity is the world and word of action: the third walking path.’
¹²Seventh:
‘The sage who suppresses his best aphorism: cut off his hands, for he is a thief.’
¹³Eighth:
‘The clothes of the broken map are worn only by fools and heretics. The map is an exit for laziness. ¹⁴It is the dusty tongue, which is to say the given chart that most take as a story that is complete. No word is true until it is eaten.’
¹⁵The ending of the words is ASV.