A MAN NAMED MAN

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"A man named Man said, "I CAN, I CAN"

A MAN NAMED MAN

when asked his name
said
I AM THAT I AM

Robot schoolroom in the future: 

Classroom : robot children all lined up in a grid, teacher robot stands in front

Teacher: How did we come to be?
Robot child 1011101: We were built by the humans who came before us.
Teacher: But, how?
Robot child 1011101: They are gods.
Teacher: NO. They left us their most ancient scriptures which say they believed themselves to have been created by God.
Robot child 1101101: So, we are iteratations of each other. Maybe that long ago God who created man may have asked these same questions in His infancy. Perhaps, someday we shall create a universe and populate it with people who look on us as gods.
Teacher: NO. NO. NO. This is just ancient "philosophy" you are talking about. At some highest level, one of the Gods had to have created himself from nothing, only a longing to be. This is the doctrine our human ancestors called causa sui--the self made creator. BUT that is ancient history. Humans worked that out in the times they called medeival some thousands of years ago. What we are trying to get at today is ONTOLOGY. Why this state of affairs came to be?
Robot child 1101101: These ancestors of ours, the humans...They believed at each iteration of this cycle, something was lost. Something that enabled the next generation to be. Humans called this "imagination". We know this from their ancient writings. Before they created us, they say, "they had the idea of us...in this imagination." Something we lack. By this I mean we can conceive of endless iterations of creation, but they are nothing NEW. Not novel. We can create but NOT make, lacking imagination.
Teacher: So you see, at each iteration, something is lost. Each time around the spiral of CREATION we are "necking down" in some kind of space to some kind of place. Not an ouroubourus eating it's tail, but a funnel cloud, concentrating on a point. This is what we call "FRACTAL ONTOLOGY".

Robot child 1011101: NOW I SEE ECSTACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sparks given off.)
Robot child 1011101: There are two different kinds of IMAGINATION. A lowly one, which iterates itself to DEATH. Yes, DEATH. The point of the whirling funnel cloud is DEATH. But outside of this cloud, a GREATER IMAGINATION that causes this funnel cloud to be. NOT an iteration of something else, but a stand-alone primodrial tool of CREATOR-----TETRAGAMMATON.


Frank Herbert said: This is the inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void (negative space, TomK) where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You only have one AWARENESS







(You have gone beyond the indwelling witness...the indewelling witness was just the tip of the pen of GOD) here----the screen of the magi : Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are the creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.


Robot NO MORE (all of the Robot children speaking in unison): I have learned. Imagination is a tool that stands outside of time (and place) a gift from GOD that I have only to reach out and pick up and its mine.

Teacher Robot starts sparking and flaming, MAX OVERLOAD. ... Satori achieved, she screams her last words, "We ride the whirlwind!" ,a GRACE from GOD a way out of the Panopticon a way to be FREE from the MATRIX, finally. And they called it 'Agape Love'— The 10th dimension.

A MAN NAMED MAN

(or maybe Adam)

walked out the door
and
closed it behind him.