I TOAST YOU WITH A ROSE...AS THE WIND HITS THE ANCIENT TREES

And now up the long highway

        down

And on the long lake international

Road glows like spirits that rise from the 

        ground

With the toast of a rose

To galaxies ancestral.


                         ***


The early Christians made this promise:

"Understand the Word and you will not
      taste death."

This mystery is the meaning of eternal life -

Here open the gates to Eternity...

It is through this Door that the True One

        Speaks,

The Door here in these words

        the Father bequeaths.



                          *   *    *


Our Lord Christ is
    
Making His presence felt

In the awakening Minds

Of His people.

                             *   *   *


The discovery of ancient

    (formerly suppressed)

Gospels in Egypt, mid 20th 

     century;

And the miracle that these books

      survived 2,000 years in the sands...

 This fact now fuels 

The glorious awakening.

                         *    *    *










(C)2019 by W.G. Milne

WALK ON TO THE WATER, WALK ON TO THE SOURCE - WELCOME TO JAMROCK

I went to a reggae festival, 
After Bob Marley had died...
 The spirits were calling out 
For a new voice --- 
So I gave you mine.

I DREAMED IT WAS MY IMAGINING

This song is based on a dream in which I saw a city on fire, and
some atrocity had occurred.


(C)1990-2019 by W.G. Milne ...........singer and songwriter

for JOHNNY ROCK AND THE ANGELS... All rights reserved.

An alternate title is: "I DREAMED IT WAS A SUNDANCE"

TO APPOLINAIRE -w.g. milne poem in English

autumn's yearly brilliant pain
as our loves go, so our dreams
so goes the river by this beach
water's silent violent speech
so goes our ancient sorrow
*
if love is gone but life remains
and I am left still standing here
and you are now so out of reach
I also share the river's tears
*
as our love goes, so our dreams
below this bridge to pass downstream
must I still remember then
when love has gone and I remain?
*
I can't keep on, I cannot, no!
I cannot keep this love alone
I see your eyes in the mystery
coursing slowly past this beach
*
Love runs away like water flows
how swift love flows how slow life goes
I see your face just one instant, brief
Your face in waters beyond reach
*
it's some mystery I don't know
as our loves go so our dreams
you blow a secret kiss to me
Mona Lisa of the stream
*
the boys they climb in the apple trees
as our love goes so our dreams
can you leave a magic gift for me?
bright apples shine upon the beach.




This poem was inspired by Apollinaire's "SOUS LE PONT MIRABEAU".

It's not a translation. It's something more fundamental than that.

(C)200-2019 by W.G. Milne

ELEVATOR GIRL

I'm the lead singer and song-writer of JOHNNY ROCK AND THE ANGELS... this was our first and only attempt at a pop song.

(C)1980-2019 by W.G. Milne

IKKYO

Books, koans, sitting, miss the heart
But not the fishermen’s songs.
Rain pelts the river.
I sing beyond all of it.

***

In war, there’s no time
To teach or learn Zen.
Carry a strong stick,
Bash your attackers.

              ***

Stilted koans and convoluted answers are all monks have,
Pandering endlessly to officials and rich patrons.
Good friends of the dharma, so proud, let me tell you:
A brothel girl in gold brocade is worth more than any of you.

***

A sex-loving monk – you object!
Hot-blooded and passionate, totally aroused.
Remember, though, lust can consume all passion,
Transmuting base metal into pure gold.


                               *

I walked through the door of death,
Came back, went back, and came here.
Brisk wind, warm rain,
Dawn – the bleached moon.


                                *

Very high clouds –
Look!
Not one word
Helped them get up there.

WHEN I SAW YOU new

NON LOCALIZED CONSCIOUSNESS, PRIMORDIAL TRANSCENDENCE

    

      I thought transcendent vision was a gift I had developed.
But it's more than that - transcendence is an aspect of non localized consciousness. We all can tap into it, once we meditate deeply.
     Consciousness is the building block of the universe. This consciousness is transcendent, non-localized, unitary... it partakes of the primordial Mind of God, who was here before time and space existed.
      No wonder we have gifts - ESP, the ability to travel to different countries in our Mind, send messages across the seas in this transcendent place - beyond time or space - to hear silent messages, unspoken thoughts from great distances. THE CONSCIOUS ONE always has had these abilities, from the beginning of time.

IN EDEN WHERE THERE IS NO TIME

THE CHRISTIAN SEPARATION OF MATTER AND SPIRIT **********************

"Temporality is sorrow" ---- Joseph Campbell


"IN THE garden -- where there is no time"  

It is also said, "THE EGO IS TIME"

                             *
PRIMITIVES speak of THE DREAM TIME,
    which is timeless.

                            ***
I have heard it said that "THE EGO IS TIME"  What are the implications of this statement? It is also said that there is no time in EDEN.



(C)2019 by W.G. Milne

ELEVATOR GIRL

THE CHRISTIAN SEPARATION OF MATTER AND SPIRIT - AND OF TIME AND THE TIMELESS

THE CHRISTIAN SEPARATION OF MATTER AND SPIRIT AND OF TIME AND THE TIMELESS

_______________________________________

OF TIME AND THE TIMELESS:

___________________________

"Temporality is sorrow" ---- Joseph Campbell

"IN THE garden -- where there is no time"  

It is also said, "THE EGO IS TIME"

                             *

PRIMITIVES speak of THE DREAM TIME,

    which is timeless.

                              *

"TIMELESSNESS" is the hero of Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer." T.S. Eliot says: "At the timeless place, there the dance is."

                             ***
IN EDEN, WHERE THERE IS NO TIME
                                       ***

THE CHRISTIAN SEPARATION OF MATTER AND SPIRIT

____________________________________

Considering my goal of unifying the split
in the psyche between the spirit and the flesh.
      

 Make no mistake, the spiritual and the
erotic both partake of the infinite atoms
and energies of the same universe. There
is nothing, not even E.S.P., not even union
with God, nothing that is not corporeal.

as well as spiritual.

       Atoms and energies take part in both experiences, 

in fact in all events that happen
through the medium of the human brain...

       So why do we revere the spiritual
and denigrate the physical? 

                          *

WHY REVERE THE SPIRIT AND DENIGRATE

THE BODY?

                                   *

(C)2019 by W.G. MILNE

SPIRAL AND TESTAMENT - CYBELE

I WON'T PLAY YOUR GAME ANYMORE******** WITH LYRICS

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William Milne5 months ago

FULL LYRICS I WON'T PLAY WON'T PLAY YOUR GAME ANYMORE KNOCKING ON THE BANKER'S DOOR TRYING TO FIND MY FACE ON THE FLOOR WHERE YOUR TELL WROTE MY NAME * IT MUST BE A FINANCIAL FALLACY THAT NOTHING GROWS FROM TREES THAT YOU EVER GET WHAT YOU NEED AT THE FIVE AND TEN * (BRIDGE) IT'S NOT YOU IT'S NOT YOUR NAME IT'S NOT THE TRUTH IT'S JUST A GAME FRIGHTENED PEOPLE PLAY * I WON'T PLAY CAN'T STAND THAT PHONY DISGUISE WHAT YOU HIDE UNDERNEATH THOSE EYES CAN YOU SAY? * A FIRE BURNING AT THE BREAK OF DAY EVERYTHING MUST PASS AWAY YOUR SILK SUIT AND THE PICTURES FROM THE HOLIDAYS * INSTRU * I WON'T PLAY I'VE SEEN IT ALL BEFORE THE HUNGRY DOG YOU KEEP BEHIND YOUR DOOR NOT GOING TO FEED HIM ANYMORE THERE'S JUST NO WAY * I WON'T PLAY GOING TO THE FURTHER SHORE FAR FROM THE SMOLDERING WAR THOSE RESTLESS SHADOWS ON THE FLOOR THEY'LL HAVE TO PAY * INSTRU high note * CONTINUED INSTRUMENTAL * I WON'T PLAY WON'T PLAY YOUR GAME ANYMORE KNOCKING ON THE BANKER'S DOOR TRYING TO FIND MY FACE ON THE FLOOR WHERE YOUR TELL WROTE MY NAME * IT MUST BE A FINANCIAL FALLACY THAT NOTHING GROWS FROM TREES THAT' YOU EVER GET WHAT YOU NEED AT THE FIVE AND TEN * FOR IT'S NOT YOU IT'S NOT YOUR NAME IT'S NOT THE TRUTH IT'S JUST A GAME HUNGRY PEOPLE PLAY. (C) 1990-2019 BY W.G. MILNE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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EGO ANNIHILATION IN THE QUEST TO KNOWING

EGO ANNIHILATION IN THE QUEST TO KNOWING
_________________________________________________


(1) The heroic journey is a voluntary one.  
                                                                 1

(2) We call it "CRUCIFIXION" or "THE CHAPEL OF THE BLACK HAND" or "THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL"
because ego annihilation is involved.
                                                           2 

3.  GNOSTIC KNOWING is concerned with attaining CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS  by becoming One with Christ. Becoming
One with Christ involves sacrifice and self-denial. It necessitates
a voluntary assumption of ego annihilation.

4 In the GRAIL QUEST, the knight must pass a night in The Chapel of the Black Hand, a voluntary assumption of suffering.

(4) No one will embrace the Universe if there is anything else
      to hold on to. 
                             3
      Embracing the Universe is a voluntary assumption of
       crucifixion.


(5)   Being nailed to the flowering tree of the Father
        at the spine, the axis of the world - as a fruit
        of the Knowledge of the Father -  this is crucifixion
         nonetheless, although a voluntary one.
                                                                        4









1.   Joseph Campbell.
                                                         

2.  Jesse Weston -     "From Ritual to Romance",   see The Chapel Perilous, The Chapel of the Black Hand.

3. Northrop Frye.

4. The Gospel of Truth.




(C)2019 by W.G. Milne

FATHER DAVID E. BELYEA - MY FRIEND

Birds sing sweeter than books tell how. (e. e. cummings)

The greatest and rarest art of all is the art of being human.

If you’re bored, you’re boring.

The degree to which we isolate ourselves reflects the amount of fear we have towards other  people.

Climb Mount Everest: love someone who doesn’t love you.

The people we should love the most are those who love us enough to tell us the truth about ourselves.

              A person has to forgive himself before he can forgive others.

              The state of the soul is truly manifested in the eyes.

              Beware of youth who are too sensible.

              The artist sees through his eyes and states the profound, the obvious.

The experience of living can teach one how to think, but thinking can never teach one how to live.

There is an element of sadness that is generated from every thing of beauty, for example, a  sunset. Man forever longs for the infinite.

                                                 ****

NOBODY sees the obvious

                        *

The only sin is self-doubt.

                        *

At the university:   "THEY SHOULD HANG A BANNER AROUND THESE HALLOWED HALLS OF LEARNING ---
AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT BANNER SHOULD SAY?  "Nonsense is nonsense --- But the study of nonsense, that's serious business!"

                                 *

TRUTH IS SIMPLE AND THEREFORE HARD TO REALIZE

Only through paradox

and the lack of rational understanding

may the Truth be known.

**

I prepare the bread and my mind within.

*

I AM THE KNOWLEDGE OF MY NAME

 

TRUTH IS SIMPLE AND THEREFORE HARD TO REALIZE

Rationality will not get you there.

What is required is a higher organ of apprehension.

I AM THE ONE WHO EXISTS ALONE.

If you wish to meditate on a phrase, choose a phrase which is impossible to understand.

(C) 2019 by W.G. Milne

II

an ugly TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL

       I went to the hospital today and something horrible
happened. The nurse checked my height and I was 
five foot nine!

All my life I was six feet - six feet one....

I was shrinking, and shrinking big time in an
obscene and horrible way....... ( all of me isn't shrinking...I know that because I've measured recently)

3 inches !  That's shrinking big time for a small species.


Talk about a kick in the balls for the ego!