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CURRICULUM OF THE SUFI ORDER
The teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan
Presented and paraphrased by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Including parallels with the ancient Sufis
LESSON 6
WORKING WITH LIGHT - ILLUMINATION

"Hail to the company of all who have become mad and drunk with
desire for the world of Light, with their passionate love for the
majesty of the Light of Lights, and who, in their ecstasy, have
become like the Seven Poles of the world." 
(CORBIN, 1977, 134). SHIHAB UD-DIN SUHRAWARDI

We have now reached a point where we are ready to work with light,
starting with our own body. Once more draw your attention around
your body. Instead of focussing on the magnetic field of your
body, or subtle body, can you sense the glow, the effulgence
radiating all around you?

Imagine that you are looking into a gorgeous sunrise in the
mountains. Now draw your attention to your eyes. Do you notice
that as soon as you draw attention to the light in your eyes, your
eyes sparkle?

1) Identify yourself with the light counterpart of the fabric of
your body.

Our bodies draw light from the environmental light, resorb it into
our body cells and radiate it out in the environment. By being
aware of it, you will absorb more light.

PRACTICE:

A good technique in meditation consists in drawing in light as you
inhale, concentrating on the way your body cells jiggle when
nurtured with light as you hold your breath. Then willfully
radiate a lot of light as you exhale. Think that that light
hurtles through space at probably more than 186,000 miles a second
into outer space; it might even bombard the stars.

If you meditate at night, you will become aware of your
relationship with the stars. You will realize that our aura is the
light of the cosmos converged as us. When you sense the light
surrounding your body, think that, "What I call my aura is the
same as the light of the stars." Our body does absorb light
whether of the sun, the stars, a candle or electric light. On the
other hand, light crystallizes as matter - photons can convert
into electrons and visa versa. A crystal absorbs light but it is
itself light that has gelled. In physics waves can consolidate as
'solitans.' There are reasons to believe that the template
configuring our embryo is a magnetic field. Light is of the nature
of a magnetic field. Maybe we, already as embryos, draw the light
of the stars in our mother's womb.

Exalt in the captivating thought that this is the world to which
you belong, that you are in exile on earth and that behind the
image of your body, you are a being of light.

"It is by this process that man becomes like a luminous star."
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

THE LIGHT WITHIN

2) Identify yourself with the light counterpart of (not your body)
but your subtle body at all levels.

If you concentrate intensely on light in the environment and then
draw your attention to the light surrounding your body, you will
discover yourself as an effigy of light of great beauty, and your
physical face will now appear as a mask, through which albeit your
real being is trying to transpire. It seems like a scintillating
kaleidoscopic array of pure effulgence, or the glow of a flame, or
the awakening from the perspective of the human dimension of your
being. One step will lead to a further one.

If you consider your consciousness as a focal point in space,
light seems to radiate from a point located in space: the sun, the
stars, a candle, an electric bulb. But when you turn within in
your meditation, as your consciousness gets inverted, it is
diffused, and consequently your representation of light has
shifted; it is dispersed in an inverted space. Pir o Murshid
Inayat Khan calls it "all-pervading light." We need to clearly
distinguish between the all-pervading nature of light as we turn
within and the radiant light. We find the same in the words of Ibn
'Arabi:

"Remember that light is of two kinds: a light having no rays, and
radiant light. As for the light that has no rays, it is the light
within in which self-disclosure takes place." 
IBN 'ARABI

"I saw the robe of light altogether in me and I was altogether in
it." 
(CORBIN, 1978, 23) SUHRAWARDI

When you turn within, notice that you sense what seems to be a
different kind of light to the light you perceive through your
eyes. It could be illustrated by the light in a white hole in
outer space which surfaces from subliminal levels of physical
reality (that we ordinarily call the void) as a new-born star.

You will have noticed that the inner light does not radiate like a
lamp for example, but is like a web where everything is
intermeshed with everything else, like radio waves.

"Originally the all-pervading light pulled itself together in a
center. Then it shoots its ray, dividing itself as it proceeds
towards manifestation." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KAHN

[ Note (sa) This does seem to be similar to the notion in the
mysticism of Yitzak Luria, haAri of Zfat (Safed)  of 'tzim_tzum'.
I think that's part of kabalah, [ Toenote kitc05-1]]

PRACTICE:

As you inhale, draw your attention to yourself absorbing light
from the stars. Then hold your breath, turn within, concentrating
and identifying with the all-pervading light. As you exhale, think
that you are converting the all-pervading light into radiant light
as your aura.

"By concentrating on that light, you can be instrumental to making
this all-pervading light manifest as radiant light." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Concentrating on this inner light will enable you to discover
yourself rather than perceive the environmental world. Ibn 'Arabi
calls this vision, to visualize, whereas perception is called
witnessing.

"It is its own light which shows it to us, and that light is its
soul." 
(HIK), (AKIBAT, LIFE AFTER DEATH) 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"I saw myself through the light which things carry in their
essence - not through an extraneous light." 
NAJM UD-DIN RAZI (CF. CORBIN, THE MAN OF LIGHT)

GLANCE

3) Identify yourself with your glance.

After turning within, cast the inner light (all-pervading light)
forward through your eyes.

"As the sense of sight is situated in the head, it then perceives
the light when it is turned within; the brain and the sight, so
charged with the light from within, sees through life so deeply
when turned on to the life without." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"When ambient light is stronger than the light of sight, man
perceives it but he does not perceive through it. Hence unveiling
only takes place through a light which is the light of sight."
[IBN 'ARABI ?]
[ KIT Text sic -- the question-mark after 'Ibn 'Arabi -- sa ]

4) Envision yourself as being a luminous mind. Entertain luminous
thoughts. This requires one to purify emotions from resentment.

It is not good enough to envision light, one needs to cleanse
one's psyche from its defilement owing to concupiscence, greed,
resentment, guile. The key is to love people who make themselves
difficult to love: clear the mirror of the soul by cleansing the
mind with the light of the heavens.

"The great obstacle to be overcome in meditation is the false ego
or Nafs. For the light of the soul shines in the heart and is
reflected in the mind." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"And through His self-disclosure in radiant light, He makes
manifest the incapacity for the eyes and the power of the rational
faculties, preferring them over the eyes." 
IBN 'ARABI

"The world of the unseen is perceived through the eyes of insight
just as the world of the visible is perceived by sight. When these
two lights come together, unseen things are unveiled as they are
in themselves and as they are in existence." 
IBN 'ARABI

STALKING LIGHT BEYOND MATTER

"The more deeply we study matter, the more proofs shall we find of
Intelligence working through the whole process of continual
unfoldment." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN (PHILOSOPHY)

5) Discover a whole hierarchy of the higher frequencies of light
in the many-tiered areas of your aura.

Reality appears as a virtuality that becomes an actuality in the
existential condition. Light is a particularly important factor in
our lives because it acts as a bridge between matter and, beyond
our perception, the ineffable. It furnishes us with clues giving
vent to the unknown, enabling us to decode the paradoxes regarding
the higher spheres and life after life that so baffle us. Perhaps
we could already start preparing for this right away, now. It
would mean trying to stalk light as far as we can reach beyond its
perceptual existential condition.

PRACTICE:

To reconnoiter the higher levels of your aura, in your meditation,
try to stalk light as far as you can reach and even further beyond
your perceptual outreach.

"Then the light of dawn rises on the soul in such a way that that
part of the paramount realities emanating from the constellations
and the angels, who are their prototypes, predominates in it."
NAJM UD-DIN RAZI

"Each time a light rises up from you, a light descends upon you.
When the substance of light has grown in you, then it is the
substance of the light in Heaven which yearns for you, is
attracted by your light and it descends towards you." 
NAJM UD-DIN KUBRA

Now transmute your aura itself beyond what one commonly
understands as physical light. Perhaps a clue to this world could
be in representing to yourself higher frequencies of light, such
as blue, then mauve, violet, then ultraviolet, and imagine that
this continues beyond the visible range. Do not limit light to
what you perceive.

Physicists never cease to be amazed by the paradoxical way in
which light behaves when they try to track it down in laboratory
experiments. They can only ascertain and measure what happens at
the instant it interacts with their instruments, but light eschews
giving any clues as to its behavior before, after or between the
measurements. It seems a misnomer to call light matter, even
though it is an electromagnetic phenomenon, because unlike any
other form of matter, it does not have mass. It provides us with a
useful model about the relationship between reality and actuality
- the Universe and the cosmos. Reality escapes any efforts on our
part to track it down beyond the existential, perceptual world we
commonly know. This familiar world looks like the cross-section of
a multiple, multi-dimensional and many-tiered Universe of which we
only know what intersects it. We are baffled, stymied by the
unknown, and ever wish to decipher the secret of the mysterious
unknown that affects us in such uncanny ways when we stalk light
beyond its physical appearance.

"In its finer aspect the supreme Spirit is the light of
intelligence, and in its dense aspect the radiance of all objects
(Smiling Forehead). The expression of man's countenance is the
light of intelligence in its dense form" 
(HIK), (PHILOSOPHY). 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

THE HEAVENLY SPECTATOR

6) There is yet a further step: identify yourself with being a
pure luminous intelligence and consider your aura is its
infrastructure. Now envision luminous intelligence threaded
through your glance.

"The divine light has shone upon the mineral and vegetable
kingdoms; and there too it has shown its phenomena, although its
full radiance has been reached only in man. It can be seen in the
developed intelligence." 
(SOME ASPECTS OF SUFISM). HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

PRACTICE:

Now, rather than identifying yourself with your aura, you will
identify yourself with the light of intelligence. Imagine that the
physical substance of your body subtle body and aura is just an
infrastructure to sustain an altogether different - non-physical
kind of light - which the Sufis call the Nur aqil, the "light of
intelligence."

The Sufis distinguish between the "light that sees" and the "light
that is seen."

"One direction is the light that sees, the other is the light that
is seen, and the third is the light that shows all things" 
(THE SMILING FOREHEAD). HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Identify yourself with your intelligence that adumbrates your aura
and subtle body and physical body that are infrastructures. This
is what is meant by the "light upon a light" in the Qur'an Sharif.
Identify with luminous intelligence - the witness in the heavens -
and illuminate your eyes with that non-physical light.

"God is the light of the heavens and the earth,
He is likened to a niche in which a lamp is burning.
This lamp is in a crystal,
Likened unto a starry pearl,
Which hails from a blessed tree,
An olive tree that neither is of the East or the West
Whose oil burns without even touching the fire.
It is a light upon a light."
QUR'AN

"Were it not for the light that belongs to the souls, there could
be no witnessing, since witnessing only takes place when two
lights come together" 
(IBN 'ARABI), (CHITTICK, 1989, 226). 

"The object of vision which is the Real, is light, while that
through which the perceiver perceives Him is light. Hence light
becomes included in light. It is as it returns to the root from
which it became manifes"t 
(IBN 'ARABI), (IBID. 215). 

"As long as I am not a light, I cannot perceive anything of this
knowledge" 
(IBID. 225). IBN'ARABI

7) Now envision luminous intelligence threaded through your
glance. Represent the divine glance as passing through your glance
- Imagine God sees through your eyes.

PRACTICE:

The key to doing this is instead of thinking that you are the
spectator, imagine that the real spectator who is looking through
your eyes is God.

"You thought that you were the Spectator, the witness of what you
experience, but the real witness in you is your angelic
counterpart - the witness in the Heavens." 
NAJM UD-DIN KUBRA (CF CORBIN, 1978, 73)

"If you want to find Him you will find Him in the higher
intelligence. When intelligence manifests itself on the surface,
that is God" 
(IN AN EASTERN ROSE GARDEN). HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

The secret of realizing oneself as the light of intelligence is to
overcome one's conviction that one's consciousness is the witness.
If you identify with the light of intelligence, you can envision
your glance as that of the divine glance, of which it is a
focalization; then you will understand the Qur'an. Everywhere you
look you will espy the Divine countenance trying to transpire
through that which appears.

"You are as the reflected eye of the Unseen Person. In that eye,
His eye sees His own eye." 
SHABISTARI

8) Realize that your glance is the divine glance but focalized as
through a concave lens.

"It is in the intelligence of an individual; but the collective
working of many minds as one single idea, and the activity of the
whole world in a certain direction, are governed by the
intelligence of the planet" 
(PHILOSOPHY). HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"When you look for God, God is in the look in your eyes." 
JAMI

"When we look at the all-pervading intelligence as centralized
intelligence we call it God, because it begins with centralizing;
from this point manifestation begins. For manifestation there must
first be centralization"
(HIK),  (VISION OF GOD AND MAN). 


"The Omnipotent Light by this tendency becomes concentrated."
 HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"It is intelligence when there is nothing before it to be
conscious of, when there is something intelligible before it the
same intelligence becomes consciousness. Intelligence confined to
knowledge becomes limited, but when it is free from all knowledge
then it experiences its own essence." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"The pure consciousness has so to speak gradually limited itself
more and more by entering into the external vehicles, such as the
mind and the body, in order to be conscious of something.
Consciousness must always be conscious of something; if it is not
conscious of anything, it is Intelligence. Intelligence confined
to phenomena becomes limited but when it is free from all
knowledge then it experiences its own essence" 
(MANIFESTATION). HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

This is awakening or illumination: Suddenly everything becomes
clear.

"This light becomes a torch for the seer who is journeying towards
the eternal goal. Wherever the light of pure intelligence is
thrown, things become clear." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Doing this practice, you will find that your glance unveils the
Real from the appearance we call reality.

"There comes a time in the life of the prophet or of anyone who
contemplates, when whatever object he casts his glance upon opens
up and reveals to him what it has in its heart" 
(SUFI POETRY). HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

9) According to the Sufis, God discovers His potential being
through your personality. Furthermore His potential being becomes
a personality through your personality and through the
configuration of your countenance. This becomes revealed to you if
you reverse your vantage point and try to see as God sees -
represent your glance as the Divine glance.

"When I looked with God's eyes, only God I saw." 
BABA KUHI (CF 1975, 59)

"Be the One who looks at me, and hide Thyself from my glance." 
IBN 'ARABI (A METAPHYSICAL ORATION, CF ETUDES TRADITIONELLES)

"Through Thine own eyes, may I look at Thy countenance!" 
IBN 'ARABI

"I contemplate Thee through Thy glance." 
IBN 'ARABI

"I see God through the same gaze through which God sees me." 
IBN 'ARABI

"When God discloses Himself...He discloses Himself to the manifest
dimension of the soul and perception takes place through sensation
in a form within the barzekh (threshold) of imagination. Self-
disclosure also occurs through the name manifest (Zahir) to the
non-manifest dimension of the soul. Then perception takes place
through insight (Basira) in the world of realities and meanings
disengaged from substrata...This only takes place within the
meanings." 
IBN 'ARABI

Just stop to ponder upon the miracle whereby your thoughts or
emotions configure the muscles of your face; more so, fashion the
fabric of light of your aura into your countenance that transpires
through your face.

10) According to the Sufis, God gains knowledge of Him/Herself
through your knowledge of Him/Her manifesting in and as your mind.

"As in order to make the eyes see themselves, one has to borrow a
mirror to see the reflection of these eyes, so in order to make
the real being manifest, God uses a mirror...Your soul is just
like a mirror which shows the object reflected in it instead of
its own existence." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

God speaking: 
"'I created perception in thee only that therein I might become
the object of my perception.'" 
IBN 'ARABI (CF CORBIN, 1969, 174, THE BOOK OF EPIPHANIES, TR.
OSMAN YAHIA)

"O Thou whose picture confers splendor to the mirror.
Nobody has ever seen a mirror without Thy portrait,
No, no because thanks to Thy grace in all mirrors,
It is Thou Who appeareth, not Thy portrait." 
JAMI (1982, 143)

"For in all that which is beautiful is intelligence." 
(SOCIAL GATHEKAS) HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"He is a mirror within which He sees His own form." 
IBN 'ARABI (FUTUHAT II 326, 28 CH 297)

"My image looks at me with my glance. I look at it with its
glance." 
MAJRITI, GHAYAT AL HAKIM (CF CORBIN, THE MAN OF LIGHT, 17)

11) Try to distinguish the way the intelligence of the universe
(God) gets formulated in your thinking and the way that your
thinking contributes towards the thinking of the universe.

"The guidance from the outer knowledge and the guidance from the
inner intelligence are both necessary. If the inner light were
enough, then man would never have been created; he would have been
an angel." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN (CLASS FOR MURIDS)

"The soul of every individual is God, but man has a mind and a
body which contain God according to the accommodation. When the
light from within is thrown upon this knowledge, then the
knowledge from outer life and the light coming from within make a
perfect wisdom." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"When God sent Himself down to the waystations of His servants,
their properties exercised their influence over Him. Hence He only
determines their properties through them." 
IBN 'ARABI

"Wisdom is born out of the meeting of the knowledge of the heavens
and the knowledge of the earth. When the light from within is
thrown upon this knowledge, then the knowledge from outer life and
the light coming from within make a perfect wisdom." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"The divine mind becomes completed after manifestation. The
creator's mind is made of His own creation. The experience of
every soul becomes the experience of the Divine mind." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN (UNITY OF RELIGIOUS IDEALS)

12) God's potential being becomes an existential reality through
your envisioning His/Her being as the archetype of which you are
the exemplar.

"The purpose of the whole creation is the realization that God
Himself gains by discovering His own perfection through his
manifestation."
(HIK, presumably)

Wisdom is the result of the meeting of the knowledge of the
heavens and the knowledge of the earth. Hazrat Inayat Khan

"When the blazing light lasts long, it obliterates the form - the
figures are taken away and the individual visitation is effaced.
At that point one understands that what is effaced is giving way
to a higher order." 
SUHRWARDI (CF CORBIN, 1977, 124)

SCRUTINIZING GLANCE

PRACTICE:

"Look up first and when your eyes are once charged with Divine
light, then when you cast your glance on the world of facts you
will have a much clearer vision, the vision of reality...when His
glance meets their glance." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"The glances do not reach Him; he reaches the glances." 
QUR'AN (6: 103)

A personal remark: I remember as a child my sister Noor saying to
me: "Have you seen Abbah's eyes today?" We stood at the door of
the oriental room. As he opened the door, his eyes were like two
suns.

PRACTICE:

Practice looking at a flower, then at a person, and instead of
focussing on the petals or the features of the face, concentrate
on the countenance transpiring through the face.

"The sign of that awakening is that upon every person and upon
every object the awakened person throws a light, a light of his
soul, and sees that object, that condition, in that light. It is
his own soul that becomes a torch in his hand. It is his own light
that illuminates his path. It is just like throwing a searchlight
upon dark corners which one did not see before, and the corners
become clear and illuminated again. It is like throwing light upon
problems that one did not understand at first. It is like seeing
with x-rays persons who were a riddle before. One whose every
glance, wherever it is cast, invites them to reveal to him their
secret." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"The glance of a sage has the power to open every object and to
see through it; in reality it is the light which the sage throws
out from within that makes the same things clear to his vision
which are only half seen by the ordinary man. Then a person begins
to communicate with all things and all beings. Wherever his glance
falls, on nature, on characters, he reads their history, he sees
their future. Every person he meets, before he has spoken one word
with him, he begins to communicate with his soul. Before he has
asked any question, the soul begins to tell its own history. Every
person and every object stand before him as an open book. The will
power works through the glance...and when this light is thrown
within one's self, then the self will be revealed to a person; he
will become enlightened as to his own nature and his own
character." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

One might add: "He also sees His own countenance."

COMMUNICATIONS WITH BEYOND

"You see and discern nothing whatsoever except by something that
is its like (or which is a part of it): the precious stone sees
only the mine from which it originated, it yearns and is homesick
for that alone. Therefore when you envision a heaven, an earth, a
sun, or stars, or a moon, know that this is because the particle
in you which comes from that mine has become pure." 
NAJM UD-DIN KUBRA (CORBIN, 1975, 71)

"Amongst these forms, you will recognize your own likeness." 
IBN 'ARABI

"I go towards my likeness, and my likeness goes towards me. He
embraces me and draws me close as if I had come out of prison.
 AN ANONYMOUS MAZDEAN MAGUS (CORBIN, 1977, 103)

This high initiate had discovered his celestial counterpart. I
realize that it requires a tremendous challenge to one's ordinary
sense of identity to recognize a likeness between one's
representation of oneself, myself, and one's celestial
counterpart. However, this quantum leap may be triggered off by
imagining that one's aura is not confined to its physical light,
but includes higher levels of light.

"When you envision a heaven, an earth, a sun or stars, or a moon,
know that this is because the particle in you which comes from
that mine has become pure." 
NAJM UD-DIN KUBRA

"The next world is the same as this, and this world is the same as
the next. Only that which is veiled from our eyes, we call the
unseen world." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Since our minds tend to represent the abstract in a concrete
image, we imagine the angel in a perceptual form resembling
familiar though outstanding faces.

"A relation or a friend may appear and tell him something about
the other side of life...One may see faces never seen before that
have once existed in the world...a saint or sage may appear who
may guide him further. An angel may appear as Gabriel did to
Moses...As highly evolved a person is, so high is the vision.
Sometimes the object of his vision wishes to manifest to him;
sometimes he creates the object of his vision before him." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

"The experience of authentic raptures in the world of Hurkalya
(the heavens of the "World of the Image") depends on the
magnificent prince, Hurakhsh...There are also visitations and
communications from other princes. Sometimes the visitation
consists of the manifestation of certain of these celestial
princes in epiphanic forms or places appropriate to the
moment...Sometimes it is the souls of the past which induce an
awakening or an inner call. Sometimes the apparition takes on a
human form" 
[ author not noted.  Apparently SUHRAWARDI ] (CORBIN, 1977, 123)

 "...They see human forms of extreme beauty who speak to them in
the most beautiful words" 
(IBID 132). SHIHAB UD-DIN SUHRAWARDI

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COMMENTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY (sa)

TEXT:
"Originally the all-pervading light pulled itself together in a
center. Then it shoots its ray, dividing itself as it proceeds
towards manifestation." 
HAZRAT INAYAT KAHN

FOOTNOTE KITC05-
[ Note (sa) This does seem to be similar to the notion in the
mysticism of Yitzak Luria, haAri of Zfat (Safed)  of 'tzim_tzum'.
I think that's part of kabalah, [ Toenote kitc05-1]]

[Toenote kitc05-1]

I'm always glad when someone at Zenith asks me anything about
kabalah, becuase then I can say, First learn to wash your hands
after you use the privy.

Gives me a fine sense of being grounded.

My first day at Belmont Junior High School -- I had just come from
Shady Hill School in Cambridge, which was maybe as good or even
better than the Sufi schools in Jamaica Plain at near the Abode --
so these boys stop me on the playground, and ask me a question,
and I answer, "Generally ...." and then they ask me some more
questions, and then the next days or week whenever they see me
they call me 'General Lee'.

That's why I dropped out of grad school in philosophy -- flunking
my comps for the first try didn't matter, that was just because I
couldn't stand to read Kant, because after about 90 pages of the
first Critique I knew what he would say, and anyhow he can't
English worth a French_fried cat_drop -- to tag along lending
ideologic support -- I chased Dennis Hopper up to the top of the
Mesa when he wanted to make Easy Rider there -- while we built a
working model of an alternative lifestyle.

So the next time I see those boys on the Belmont Junior High
playground I bet they won't laugh at me.

"But seriously folks," -- 

as Shalom Schwartz would say out at Moshav Mevo Modi'in -- he lost
his backup house to R. Yankele Shames, who is maybe the one person
who can translate PVK into the terminology of Jewish mysticism --
so I asked Yankele, who lives at Bet Meir outside Jerusalem now,
Do you think he'll give it up, and Yankele says, It's either that
or cut off his peyes and go back to India -- 

-- R. Zalman once wrote, Nowadays it's not kabalah that's esoteric
-- you can buy that at any psychedelic paperback shop, along with
your rolling papers -- but halacha.

Anyhow, I don't know kabalah from Zohar from haAri.  Menachem
Kallus does, you can find him by asking at R. David Zeller's Yakar
Institute on Rehov haLamed_Hey in Old Katamon, Jerusalem.

It's 8 November.  When the sun hits the parking lot, I could catch
a few rays.  That will be in 3 months. Said to be good for fixing
Vitamin A or D or something.           
Next bus down to Olivone is about June 15.
They took away the trash bins today.  I guess they'll send them
back on the next bus up.
It's the end of the month, and so , with 2 tins of herring to go,
I'm living on a recurring sequence of brown rice (with a dash or
organic soy sauce and extra_virgin olive oil), whole wheat pasta,
and boiled small potatoes.  ( Plus a jug of Chianti with brown
sugar and spices for GluhWein: one copes. )  If I wanted a higher
percentage of roughage in my diet I could just camp out by the
gravel pile.  "You cannot feed capons thus." (Hamlet=.

Forst on the ground this morning.  Walked over to the Campground
and saw the sunrise.  Sure beats eating TV dinners in suburbia.

Rosa just appeared, with 2 thin steaks, a chunk of yellow cheese,
and some rather heavy red wine made by her brother_in_law in
Sondrio, all of excellent quality.
She just got back from Teneriffe, where she tried to walk up to
the top the volcanoe with a group, but stopped, I think, a bit
short of 3700 m.  Around here, she rarely bicyles much above 2000
m.

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