....... THE DISMAZE: .......

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 A CALL TO ALL BLANKS:

Whoever YOU may or may not be, I call on you now to listen carefully to me. Why? Because I have something of the highest importance to tell you that may, (most probably for the very first time in your life), enable you to see far more clearly exactly what you, in your own blank mind, really and truly are. Without any argument or doubt you are one of the unchallenged and overwhelming majority of the masses of people that walk and talk in the world today, and judging by the way you control and dominate it, you are the WORLD today! But this situation should never be so, because in your proud little mind you are definitely not what you pretend or imagine your cold heart to be. In reality you are a very shallow and false being, you are not even a Real Person, and certainly nothing whatever like the conjured up image you blindly project through your own empty —- SELF.

BLANKS make up the awesome bulk of Humanity that have, either through downright Ignorance or plain foolish Pride, decided to go it alone. "Who needs a God?" They yell from the tops of their unholy towers. "We are our own gods and we worship our Self, besides who’s more important than what we are?" Then, in precisely the same manner as Cain, their brother before them, they labour away the whole of their lives in the futile occupation of trying to extract all the juiciest ‘Fruits of the Earth’ for their own Self consumption threatening: "To hell with anyone what dares to stand in our way."

Justice can only demand justice, and She does so without any exceptions. There has not been anything created by God that can ever elude HER! For we all in the end must give an account to her rule. And then, when the voyage is over and our days are no more we are obliged, whether we like it or not, to pay either the Terrible Toll for the way we have wrongly behaved in this World, or we must gratefully receive our Promised Reward.

Since the beginning of time there has hardly ever been an era more vile and corrupt than there is in the world today. Disease is widespread and rampant, and hardly ever before has the planet Earth ever borne witness of a more degenerated and selfishly motivated race of so-called HUMAN BEINGS than those that tread on her soil right now. Again I exclaim: ‘Why is this so?’ Have they no conscience? Nothing ever seems to worry or upset them, unless of course it’s a direct and personal threat to their own well being, their own greedy Self. Then see how quickly and suddenly they become concerned as they hurry and tear round like terrified rats in their frantic little efforts to protect, at whatever the expense, that which they wrongly believe in their Self is their own.

I said earlier that BLANKS were not Real People and they’re not. In my mind they resemble sinister forms of mechanical robots whose programs have failed, and like the living dead they wander hypnotically around in graveyards like —- ZOMBIES —- gruesome and horrid specimens in the Wheel of Humanity whose only drive is to their own oblivion.

So, to everyone of you blind and badly misguided souls that dwell in the world today, I implore you all now to stop being so grossly mislead in mistakenly pretending that what happened to this kind and most gentle Man had nothing whatever to do with you. You’re still crucifying Him daily! If you don’t believe me take a good thorough look into the depths of your horrid black hearts, if you still don’t believe me you are BLIND. The whole Earth is fully aware of the Man whom I speak of, (it’s also fully aware that I am speaking the Truth), for all I have said they did to this Man. And if they could do this to CHRIST, whose only mission was to teach them to Love, (their neighbours as well as their own Blank-Self), then they’ll do the same to anyone who has the power to resist them. Nobody on earth remains safe from the never-ending traps and snares they keep setting for each other, and strangely, this is even more so amongst their own kind.

Who was created free and bestowed with more beauty and wonder than words can describe? Who glowed more radiant than any other star? Who was handsome, incredible, powerful, and truly the most magnificent work of God’s mighty hand? Who, in the vastness of Heaven, could be compared unto him —- LUCIFER? He stood next in line only to the —- SON —- and his allegiance was solely to God his creator. Yet he fell! Why? What caused the terrible abasement of this amazing and glorious Spirit? It was PRIDE! Pride in his own self-esteem. Pride puffed up the cheeks of this marvel and turned him away from the Face of his Maker. Pride grew stronger and stronger within him and he became increasingly envious of JESUS who, without equal and being the absolute Stature and Power, was eternally above him in Glory and Might. But, knowing he was spirit and therefore immortal, instead of returning the Love and Respect due to his Lord, he, in his accursed audacity and pride, dared to stand and challenge His Will. We all know his terrible outcome, his light was swiftly extinguished and along with his misguided hosts of arrogant and proud supporters, he was slung headlong from Heaven and into the pit, Oh, how the high and the mighty had fallen! This once magnificent and shining star had now become nothing more than a MAGGOT. This once beautiful and glorious Angel of Light had, through the falseness of his own Self-esteem, now become changed into that horrid and vile familiar figure we all know him to be —- SATAN!

The highest acclaim any man can attain and the highest position he can ever achieve, is being and knowing that he is the absolute master of all that he labours in. So, if he decides to labour in Politics then he must, to fulfill his ambition, and at whatever the price he has to pay, not only become the LEADER of any particular Party but he must also make that Party the leading and governing Force in the land. We’ve now reached the point where it becomes easy for anyone with eyes in their head to clearly define how wide open and beckoning to all are the doors that allow entry into any man made establishment, be it what it may. All you need do is to prove to the others that if allowed to join their Organization you will, whatever the weather and to the best of your ability, dedicate the whole of your life in serving their cause. You’ll swear your solemn allegiance to the Leader, and if need be you’ll be even more than willing to lay down your LIFE, so devoted are you to their cause. Many BLANKS gain entry into Organized Groups by their non-stop tireless actions and deeds, but many more in the manner I’ve described above. They are the crafty people, the lethal and treacherous kind who through the subtle and clever use of their double and sweet-talking tongues, will smile nicely when facing your front, but who will think nothing of knifing you as soon as you turn around!

Sir Jasper: "Greetings Mr K. How very nice it is for you to meet me, please sit yourself down in one of those plush easy chairs, make yourself at home and feel totally free to ask me anything you want. I promise I’ll do my utmost to answer your questions as truthfully as I can. So, if you are comfortable dear chappie, fire away, fire away."

Mr K: "Thank you Sir Jasper. There are many questions I would like to ask you and the first one is this: You are now at the relatively young age of 55, and for more than a decade now you have been right on the top of the tree in your chosen Political profession, but how old were you Sir, when at first you decided to enter onto the tumultuous and very often storm tossed stage of World Politics?"

Sir Jasper: "In my early twenties my friend, about 24 I believe before I began to seriously ponder myself as a great Politician. I didn’t have to go into Politics, I really hadn’t any need to, because even then at that tender age I was already quite an established and very well known personality. I was a writer you see, and I had written several books which had all become ‘Bestsellers.’ Also, I was moving up rapidly in my bid to enhance my reputation as one of the worlds most successful authors. So, even then way back in the old days, I was continually being plunged into the Limelight which I am sure you are most probably aware, is one of those wonderful burdens us famous must bear. Incidentally Mr K. have you ever by chance read any of my books? Some of them have even been made into movies with Hollywood’s highest paid stars in the leading roles! All very exciting and stirring stuff I might add."

Mr K: "I’m sorry to disappoint you Sir Jasper, but No. I’ve neither managed nor found the time to sit down and either read or watch any of your works. To be honest with you Crime, Corruption, Violence and Vice, are not in my line. Oh, I beg your pardon, a few months ago I did get a glimpse of one of your works being shown on T V, but the scenes were so filthy and horrific I hurriedly switched off."

Sir Jasper: "Dear fellow, how boring and humdrum your poor life must be. There’s nothing in the world like a little bit of good old violence and sex to get the adrenaline flowing. My yarns were full of it: Crime, Drugs, Murder, Rape, War, but even more so, explicitly described SEX! It’s the only stuff today’s readers love reading, don’t ask me why but it appears somehow to turn them all on. I myself found it ever so easy stringing stories together from any of these topics. In fact, and in all modesty Mr K. I was excellent, a true master of my own chosen art."

Mr K: "Then why give up such a promising writing career and enter into the uncertain world of Politics? And what on earth made you join the VANEGO PARTY? Didn’t any other organization appeal to you?"

Sir Jasper: "I haven’t completely stopped writing you know, I still do the odd articles now and then for the Newspapers and glossy Magazines etc. Admittedly, it’s not as often as I would really like it to be, but believe it or not Mr K. running the Country does take up a lot of my time. Still, I’m getting on very well with my ‘Memoirs’ which I am guaranteed will be another ‘Bestseller’ for me when I gracefully bow out from the Political Limelight. If you’d like a copy of it I’d be only too pleased to send you one.

"Perhaps I do know a little Sir, but I only found out about the things I needed for the sake of the book, it was simply research and nothing else. In fact I would imagine, I’m almost certain, that it is an entirely different kettle of fish putting the things such as I wrote into practice than simply just writing about them." "For many it would be absolutely impossible dear Friend, but not for YOU! Oh No, I’m more than convinced you would find it simple, ‘a piece of cake’ so to speak. Look at it in this light: You are already one of the Country’s most famous celebrities, your picture is ever in the Papers, and you are often asked to appear on the Radio or TV. So, it goes without saying your fame goes before you, believe me Jasper, you are firmly established in the eyes of the Public, they all adore you for the stories you write. And, besides being a very successful and intelligent person, you are also a learned and wholly worldly wise man in every aspect of life. So don’t ever underestimate your true capabilities because I am telling you truthfully that if you ever decided to join a Party, any Party, its ratings in any Popularity Poll would instantly soar. It would be really wonderful if you joined mine, I’d love you to and I’d personally vouch for you myself, and then, in hardly anytime at all, we’d be working alongside each other in Government House. Yes Jasper, I sincerely believe in my heart that if you entered into Politics with me you would soon be on your way to the top, the VERY TOP! There’s a whole new world awaiting you here, so why don’t you give it some serious thought?"

Mr K: "It goes without saying Sir Jasper that you both thought the whole wide world of each other, the perfect relationship so to speak, he needed you for the good of his Party and you needed him for your own. If you don’t mind me saying so, you were an extremely fortunate young man having such an influential and powerful figure as a friend. There’s not many in this world that can boast such a honour. I recall often seeing the pair of you on TV. and almost every time I picked up the Paper there were nearly always pictures of the two of you in it. It seemed to me at the time that he just loved parading you alongside him, you were his Showpiece; the Vanego Dream; his own Mr. Success; the Whizz Kid of Politics. Yes Sir Jasper, everything that man represented and stood for, in his eyes, you —- WERE! But, as you are more than well aware, there were a few times when he was proud to let you perform on your own. I remember once watching you being interviewed on the Telly by of all people a Clergyman! I readily admit to you that at the time I thought he’d really gotten the better of you, tied you up in knots so to speak because you were practically speechless throughout the whole of the show. Can you recall the occasion? I believe the subject had something to do with your Government wanting to drastically cut back on Local spending in order to spend more and more cash on Nuclear Arms."

SIR JASPER: "Yes, I remember it well Mr K. You are referring to the Rev Humil, and the night he decided to really have a go at me, he still does whenever he gets the chance. I do wish that the Church would keep its big nose out of Politics, I never interfere into its affairs so what right has it got to meddle with mine? Still, about that interview, it may have seemed to you as if he’d gotten the better of me but I can definitely assure you now he had not. And, I wasn’t as you term it ‘speechless’ that night I just simply in my mind chose not to talk to the man. In a round about way I couldn’t because for me to have expressed my true thoughts and feelings, in front of all those millions of viewers, it would have been for me Political Suicide. So I kept my mouth shut and let him get on with it."

Mr K: "Political Suicide! Surely you are not being serious Sir Jasper?"

Sir Jasper: "I most certainly am Mr K. I told you at the beginning of this interview that I’d do my best and be truthful with you, didn’t I? So if you would really like to know the truth about that particular night I will tell you."

Mr K: "Sir, I can hardly wait."

Sir Jasper: "Well as I recall it the Rev Humil, a so-called Man of the Cloth, that night had the nerve to ask me what I would do, if I were the Premier, to solve what he over described as the crucial and terrible plight of the homeless and unemployed, which at that time existed throughout the Land. Then, before I could even reply, he went on and on with a non-stop scathing report of the Government. He condemned it out of all proportion insisting that IT alone was the cause for all the hardship and misery which was happening to many thousands of people. After he had ended his rattling and raving and I had a chance to answer I simply said to him: "What would you do?" To which this vile and over reacting little man exclaimed: "To begin I would completely withdraw and get out of the ARMS RACE." When I heard him say this Mr K. I was astounded, flabbergasted, this man is truly a loony I thought, he’s devoid of all reason and sense, and that was when I decided he wasn’t worth talking to. No, I was not as you say ‘speechless, I just didn’t want to be bothered with a nut. Drop out of the Arms Race indeed, have you ever heard anything so utterly ridiculous? This simpleton had absolutely no inkling of the chaotic and disastrous effects that could follow such a foolish and crazy idea. So, from then on he was on his own, I didn’t even want to consider his folly. Can anyone imagine the consequences that could easily happen to us all if we were silly enough to listen to this man? How could we all survive? No, as far as I was concerned his solution was out of the question, my beloved Premier had to, and at whatever the cost, raise the 40 Billions he so dearly needed to purchase the deadly and brand new ultra-destructive Satellite Missile from our ALLIES. The cash just had to come from somewhere or we’d be left utterly defenceless, and if that happened how could I, or any of my closest friends, ever sleep soundly at night, not sure whether or not we’d wake up in the morning? No, we mustn’t even dream of cutting back costs on our Strategic Defence Policy, or on letting any of our Allies down, to do so would be ludricous. Anyhow, it also gives plenty of people employment and, if you pardon the pun, a good many of my friends make quite a ‘bomb’ manufacturing these goods. So, who cares if some are out of work and a few are left homeless? It’s really a relatively small price to pay for the Nation’s Security, and if that means cutting down overall spending on the likes of the Health Scheme; Education; Grants for this and for that; Transport; Welfare; Pensions; Care for the Elderly and Handicapped; and for any or whatever other form of aid; then I’m all for it, because however high the price we must pay, we must be forever on the lookout in safeguarding ourselves from our ENEMIES."

Mr K: "Jasper, I’m really taken aback by what you have just told me, but I am not all that surprised because I can easily understand your silence that night. As you correctly state, to have aired your views in front of the cameras as you have just done to me, would have finished you off in Politics forever. So why, after all these years, are you mentioning it now?"

Sir Jasper: "Because it happened so long ago it doesn’t matter anymore. Also, I like you a lot Mr K. and I am really enjoying our chat, it’s quite a pleasant change for me to be able to talk openly and freely to someone like you instead of conniving and lying to others all the time. You’re OK Mr K. besides, there’s no possible way you can hurt me!"

Mr K: "No way I can hurt you? But what if I decided to include the contents of our talk in a book I’m intending to write? Aren’t you worried if it were published about the effect it would have on your image? After all what you have just told me is, even if I put it mildly, quite startling —- NEWS."

Sir Jasper: " Me worried? Don’t be so silly my dear chap, go ahead and print anything you want about me, you have my promise that I won’t mind it in the least effecting my image? You have no need to worry on that score because there is no possible way in the world you could ever do it. Quite the opposite I’d say, you’d be unwittingly increasing my standing. Naturally, I would deny that this meeting between us ever took place, then I would simply make out that you were just another one of those glory hunting scandal mongers hell bent in making a bit of a name, and a few coppers to boot, for yourself by slagging me and running me down. There have been many in the past who’ve tried to blemish my impeccable character but none have succeeded as yet."

Mr K: "There are some who may believe me Sir, after all I would only be telling them the straight-forward TRUTH, which you yourself have told me."

Sir Jasper: "I agree dear fellow, several of my harshest critics would definitely believe you, but they mean very little to me. You could even get one or two of the Oppositions Newspapers on your side, there again I have at least half a dozen or so of my own to counteract them. In fact Mr K. I’ve got so much confidence in my own capabilities that I will now reveal, as you deem to term it, other startling —- News! For instance, I have in my possession a personal dossier on every single Member of my Government, and on most Members of the Opposition too. I know intimately each individuals strength, but even more important and beneficial to me, I know their weaknesses also. This is a legacy my Leader, our late great Premier, bequest to me. Oh, what a sad and black horrible day that was for me when suddenly, and from out of the blue without any warning, he was taken away from the world. I miss him so much because he was the only real friend I have ever had in my life. Anyhow, to get back to what I was saying, I have always kept my own personal and private affairs very much to myself and I can safely tell you that I am above reproach, as the saying goes: ‘I am as clean as a whistle.’ This, as I’m sure you will readily admit, is no mean feat in today’s very fast moving Political tide, in fact it’s nothing short of a bloody miracle. Nevertheless this is how my late Premier always said I should be. "Jasper," he would tell me, "there are countless so-called Political Wondermen in this world today who, because of their insatiable lusts and dark inward desires, make themselves easy and vulnerable prey to the vultures all around them. Don’t ever let anything like that befall you my boy, you be the VULTURE, and never become prone, like most of them are, to the endless varieties of corruption and vice which they love to revel in. Vices like: Womanising; Gambling; Alcohol; Backhanders; Fiddles; or any other number of these absolutely career destroying activities. Have nothing whatever to do with them, because if you do and you are found out, your reputation will be left in ruins. Steer well clear of them Jasper, always keep your own nose clean, but play it craftily and gather together as much dirt as you can on the likes of what they are.Then, if you can manage to do exactly as I advise you to, you can rest safely assured that there won’t be a soul in the world with any just cause to condemn you." Ever since that day I have always followed his sound advice, I’ve even seen it with my own eyes the truth of almost everything he told me. Now, as you can clearly picture, I hold the highest and most powerful position in the Land and I can, whenever I want, manipulate and pull the strings of nearly every Member I have in my Party. I can make them obey and conform to whatever I want them to, they’ve no other choice because it’s either they do as I say or they’re out. It is not often anyone raises a finger to resist me, because if they do then they know they are done for."

Mr K: "Are you telling me Sir Jasper, that you are in a position to bully and push nearly every Member of your Government around at will?"

Sir Jasper: "I most certainly am my dear fellow, it is the high price they all have to pay for their silly behaviour. Besides, I’ve got to be tough with them otherwise my great and illustrious Party would, if left to fend with the likes of them, be gone to the dogs in no time. Mr K. you would be really shocked if I were to tell you the truth about the actions and deeds many of my Government Members indulge in, some are so despicable I hate and detest them myself.

Mr K: "You already have my belief Sir Jasper, and I assure you that everything you care to tell me I shall accept as the truth. However, I don’t think for one moment that you can as you put it, shock me."

Sir Jasper: "You don’t Mr K? Well what if I told you that there is a considerable section of my present Government what consists entirely, and I put this really mildly, of some of the laziest and most useless types of any persons you can ever imagine? I’ve labelled this lot my —- TIRED BUNCH. Let me tell you about them. People like these are nothing more nor less than empty and lifeless shadows; inert and indifferent unenterprising social scabs; the sort who couldn’t give a damn about anything except their own miserable and tired Beings. So, because I am stuck with their like, from time to time I have to get tough with them and when I do I show them no mercy. They know that they all have nice cushy and well paid jobs, I know it too, therefore, if they don’t jump when I start to shout, it’s to hell with them and they’re out. This is my strength over them, they are all so terrified of losing their easy and lucrative positions, so much so, that without any questions at all they automatically obey whatever command I care to give them to do. Speaking personally, they are Nothing’s and Nobody’s and their only function as far as I am concerned is in making up the numbers in my Governing Party. Other than that they’re a complete waste of space.

So much for them Mr K. Now my dear fellow if that hasn’t shocked you enough I’ll tell you about another section in the Government. The Member I personally refer to as my —- SPOILT BUNCH, and why? Because it is the truth, they are nothing more than what I can only describe as the flashy flamboyant and totally extravagant pleasure-seeking hedonistic wasters who, just like their colleagues above, think nothing of anything only their own diabolical Self. You can always read about their like in the gossip columns of any leading Newspaper, because they adore being talked and written about, but Oh, how they envy and slimily spite each other. Their problem of course is —- MONEY, they’ve got more of it than they’ve got sense in their heads, and they haven’t got a clue what to do with the stuff. Their lifestyle consists of one lavish ball after another: Champagne; Gambling; Fancy Dress; Dinners; Dances; every good time and luxury their money can buy. To be fair to some of them have earned what they’ve got, but clearly the majority of them haven’t. It’s what they have inherited down through the years without having to raise a finger to get it. What they all boil down to really is that they are the affluent and arrogant brats of my Party, and they are pathetic. Still, just like the others I have got to put up with them and care for their welfare, because it’s in my own interest to do so. I do this very begrudgingly because no-one knows better than I what shameless dregs of a bygone era they all really are. Remember your History lessons Mr K? If so then you should easily recall that the likes of these were once the Rulers of Nations, and it took an awful lot of blood, sweat, and tears, before the terrible yoke, which these leeches savagely imposed on the People, was finally broken. Then they copped it, many were executed and many more imprisoned by the masses refusal to tolerate them anymore, but, as you can see for yourself many have still survived down to this day and age. Needless to say their powers are no more and it takes someone as strong as what I am to keep them in check. However, because some of them still possess vast estates and huge sums of cash, they are in a way the true BLUE BLOODS of whatever Party they choose to support. So, for choosing mine I stand solidly by them and allow them all the requirements they need.

Mr K: "I do admit to you Sir, that I am slightly shocked by some of the things you have told me, but what surprises me most is your own frankness to openly tell me, a relative stranger so to speak, such deep and personal revelations. Doesn’t this bother you?"

Sir Jasper: "Not at all Mr K. not at all, nothing ever bothers me because I am above such things. Let me tell you lastly about another little section in my Party, those who are known by me as my —- DIRTY BUNCH. Now from time to time some of this lot do manage to cause me a little concern, do you know why? Because they are the most degenerated and evil, perversed and unprincipled reprobates, of any Party or Society they choose to support. Again, putting it mildly, they are really loathsome and vile and I truly detest them because they are those who spend nearly every spare minute of their waking lives in no other cause than the filthy fulfilment of their own dirty demented desires. They are nauseating and sickening so much so that even I am ashamed and shaken by their extremely dirty and crudely disgusting behaviour. When a scandal breaks out and a name becomes known to the Public, I’ve got to move like lightning in defence of my good Party’s name, and the scumbag in question knows only too well what to expect from me when his or hers obnoxious deeds have become exposed to the light of day. Then they are done for, finished, and of no further use to anybody. When such problems arise, which of course every so often do, you’ve only got to read the Papers and you’ll know what I mean, I have them instantly dismissed from whatever position they have managed to achieve in my great Party’s ranks. In other words, they are completely severed from me and my colleagues whose names they have blatantly slurred with their immoral and debauched actions. Putting it bluntly they are —- OUT and when they are, nobody, under my express command, will give them so much as the time of day.

Believe it or not I have even been fooled myself! A couple of years ago I had a brilliant young man in the Party who could have easily made it right to the Top. He was so positive and proficient in his work that he often reminded me of myself when I was his age. I really took to this fellow and I showed him off everywhere, (just as the late Premier used to do with me), but, to cut a long story short, he let me down very badly by allowing his silly little willy to rule his head. He suddenly became quite obsessed with some stunning ‘Lady of the Night’ who, of course after a while, began blackmailing the poor chap. Then, when either he couldn’t or wouldn’t give her any more money, she promptly sold her story to the Press and they had an absolute field day with the fellow. When I found out that was his lot, I immediately got shot of him, for not only had he let me down so badly, he had terribly tarnished the Party’s good name. So, by nothing short of his instant dismissal could I again begin to regain our true credibility. Reluctantly, because he was such a bright star for the future, I gave him the boot and he shot downhill fast. His marriage broke up and he started to drink, and the last I heard of him was that he had borrowed a shot gun and blown out his head. Even today, at this present moment in time, I am involved in the process of ridding the Party of another one of these unwanted and troublesome pests. And what makes it even worse this time is the fact that this person is one of my own hand picked Government Ministers, and at any time now his vulgar affairs involving young children could soon emerge into the light of day. I’ve got to act fast with this one and stop it from happening, because if I don’t it could turn out to be the biggest scandal of the century —- Front Page News —- all over the World. I just cannot allow this to break out, it would cause irreparable damage to myself and the Government and easily bring the lot of us down. I must stop it quickly and dispose of the Minister concerned, who incidentally is a revered and household name here, before its too late. I am at present working on a scheme and if all fares well for me it should do the trick. It is certainly tough at the Top Mr K. but I love every second of it and that’s why I joined the VANEGO PARTY. Can you honestly imagine me in any other Organization? Like the silly Opposition for instance? With them the Leadership is shared and all the Policies are decided not by the Premier alone but by a majority vote of the Select Committee. No way Mr K. I must be the outright Leader, the Boss, the EL SUPREMO, and the people of Meglovania love me for being just so. It’s really beyond my comprehension the stupidity of others."

Mr K: "No Sir Jasper, to be honest with you there’s no way I can ever imagine you being other than what you already are. But how, now that you have greatly aroused my own curiosity, in the world are you going to rid yourself and your Party of such a high-ranking Government Official?"

Sir Jasper: "It’ll be tricky old chap, very tricky indeed, but believe me it will be done. For obvious reasons I can’t disclose any of my disposal plans to you right now, but don’t worry about it, I’ve been in tighter jams than this in the past and I have always managed to get out of them smiling. This is only another test of my brilliant integrity, the sort of which helps to make me the undisputed VANEGO LEADER! I am the kind of man who goes ahead and solves his problems in the way that nobody else in creation would ever dream of doing so. The Political World today is, as no doubt you are surely aware, a vicious dog eat dog world where only the strongest survive to dictate all the terms. Many enter; many leave; very few stay; I am one of the very few who stay and in this Great Country of mine there is, and has never been, any other Political Figure quite like me."

Mr K: "With little doubt you are one of the most powerful forces in the Political World today, but surely even you are prone to the odd blunder every now and then, after all is said and done you are only Human the same as the rest of us, —- aren’t you Sir?"

Sir Jasper: "Of course I am dear fellow, we all are, but it is very rare indeed that I ever err and even if I do it’s easy for me to blame it on somebody else, like some incompetent young twit botching up completely what was originally an excellent endeavour. Mr K. I must totally disagree with you for describing me as just being ‘human,’ it just doesn’t sound right when applied to me. Who else in this Land could run it as good as what I do? You are partly right but to be perfectly frank with you I’d much rather the term —- SUPERHUMAN." Mr K: "We could have a very good debate on that issue Sir, but now alas, I feel that our time together is fast running out and I do have a few other questions to ask you before we depart."

Sir Jasper: "Never worry about time when you are with me Mr K. I told you earlier how very much I enjoy talking to you and I meant every word. So sit back and relax and ask me whatever you want."

Mr K: "I am obliged to you Sir, thank you. You said, when you were telling me about the Rev Humil, that in your opinion the Church aught to keep its ‘big nose’ out of Politics and stop, as you put it, meddling in your affairs. Am I to take this to mean that you don’t believe in GOD, and that you never go to Church?"

Sir Jasper: "Dear man, of course I believe in god, I’ve always believed in him and I go to church as often as I am able to. I’ll tell you a little secret about me, something not a lot of people know about, nearly every day of my life I pray and give thanks to my god. I thank him with all my heart for making me just what I am, strong; powerful; commanding; and nothing whatever like the weaklings and wimps I see all around me. As for church I LOVE it, me and my beautiful wife Flavia look forward ever so excitedly to going, especially if the service is to be held in one of our Great Cathedrals. We both dress up to the eyeballs for these colourful and spectacular occasions, and we have such a wonderful time afterwards chatting to all the old friends we haven’t seen for ages. It’s also a golden opportunity for me to sign autographs because there is always a good crowd around whenever I appear in Public. Yes Mr K. going to church for me and my wife is a Great Day out!"

Mr K: "I am glad you like going to church Sir Jasper, you and your beautiful wife really seem to enjoy the occasion. But now, even though I know you don’t mind, I do feel that I shouldn’t take up any more of your valuable time. However, before I go, I must admit that you have really surprised me somewhat by your frank and open disclosures of all the wheelings and dealings that go on in the World of Politics today. For your frankness Sir I am indebted to you, I also thank you for giving me this interview. As I told you earlier I may write a book fairly soon, so if you are still sure you won’t mind my including some, if not all, of our remarkable discussion within its pages I shall be most obliged. I also assure you Sir Jasper, that I wouldn’t even dream of doing so without your expressed permission."

Sir Jasper: "You be my guest Mr K. put whatever you want in your book and feel safely at ease that it won’t bother me in the least. On the contrary it could perhaps benefit me greatly."

Mr K: "Benefit you greatly Sir! How on earth do you make that out?"

Sir Jasper: "Easily old chap, remember those THREE BUNCHES I’ve just spoken about? Well a book like yours, although I would have to deny knowing anything whatever about it, would certainly put the wind up many of them and it would cause them to behave and lie very low for a while. Yes, they’d have to become a little respectable for fear of becoming tagged with the labels I’ve given them. If you can achieve this you will be doing me a service. So, go ahead and print everything as I have told it to you and who knows you might even have a ‘Bestseller’ on your hands! Good luck to you Mr K. and don’t forget to send me a copy if it ever gets done. Incidentally, what will the book be called?"

Mr K: "I won’t be writing it for fame Sir Jasper, nor for any profit, my only concern is to reveal the TRUTH. To be really honest with you I’m not a bit interested as to whether or not it becomes, as you term it, a ‘Bestseller.’ If by any chance I do gain a little money I can assure you now that every penny of it will go towards the upkeep of my eldest son Steven; for him to be cared for after I’m gone. The title of the work Sir! It will simply be called —- BLANKS."

Sir Jasper: "That, if I may say so old chap, is a very admirable gesture. BLANKS? —- sounds like a very peculiar title to me Mr K. What are they Zombies or something?"

Mr K: "Yes, something like that the —- Living Dead. If it ever gets printed I promise I will send you a copy. Well good-bye Sir Jasper, and I thank you again for your kind and most generous hospitality."

 THE GENERAL RAJIN —- A. INTERVIEW:

GENERAL Rajin: "Greetings Mr K. I’m sorry to have kept you so long, but I had rather an important and urgent matter to attend to. You know one of those things that just couldn’t wait. Are you all right? You look so hot and bothered, let me order us some refreshing ice cool drinks before we commence our talk, you really look as if you need cooling down."

Mr K: "Thank you General, as you have gathered I am a little overcome by the heat and a nice cool drink would be most welcome."

General Rajin: "Before we begin Mr K. let me first of all tell you that only 2 days ago I received a telegram from my old and trusted colleague, Sir Jasper —- P. In it he told me all about your recent visit to him, and how very much he had enjoyed conversing with you. He also mentioned that you could be intending to write a book sometime in the near future, in which perhaps you hope to include a series of talks with Four of the worlds Top Politicians. He also stated that because nobody in their right senses would believe a word of what you wrote, it would be fine for me to answer any questions you ask me truthfully. I’ve always trusted Sir Jasper’s judgement explicitly, so feel free Mr K. to ask me anything you want."

Mr K: "Thank you again General, I must say that I am very surprised to find out that you and Sir Jasper are such close friends. I, the same as the rest of the world, always thought that the pair of you absolutely hated each other. He’s been heard, I don’t know how many times, to say openly that you are nothing more than a renegade and a tyrant over the way you control Aggrovania. I also believe that he was the first to come up with the idea of imposing Economic Sanctions against your Regime. A motion that was swiftly endorsed by most Western Nations. Besides this General, I’ve never heard you say a thing in his favour. In fact, I can recall that you once branded him as a fat Capitalistic Pig!"

General Rajin: "Ha, Ha, Ha, don’t ever let yourself be fooled by what you think you have heard and seen Mr K. No doubt we do seem to be outright enemies in the eyes of the world, but that is only our COVER and all to do with our IMAGE! Of course we must, from time to time, wipe the floor with each other because the Public love it. It makes him all the more popular with his people and me all the stronger with mine. And about those Sanctions, they’re nothing more than a joke, with little if any effect upon me. In my Country I have something the whole world demands —- OIL, need I say anymore? So, as you may gather I have very little bother obtaining whatever goods I require from abroad. Things such as Guns, Uniforms, Tanks, Rockets, etc. Yes, you name it and I can get it because I’ve got my finger in quite a few of those so- called Democratic Western pies. Obviously it is all hush hush, but believe me Mr. K. it works."

Mr K: " It would be naive of me to think otherwise General. I am fully aware of the fact that even with all the supposed Trade Restrictions against you, nothing has broken you yet. But —- Sir Jasper, that is one for the book! Shall we just talk about you now General? How old were you and what made you go into the Military?"

General Rajin: "When I was a child Mr K. there were 11 in my family and we were all brought up starving and filthy in the back street slums of the second largest city in the Land. By the time I was 12 years old all I ever knew about was scrounging and stealing. I still bear the marks on my back for the punishment I once received for simply pinching an orange. Would you like to see them? Then one day a couple of years later, when I was in my early teens, I was halfway through serving a 2 year jail sentence for Theft when an old inmate friend of mine told me that in his younger days, he had spent many happy years in the Aggrovanian Army. "Rajin," he said, "why don’t you stop being such a fool and join up? At least they will put some food into your belly, and you will be kept well out of mischief. Can’t you see that anything is better than being locked away in here? And besides, it’s time you realized that is only a matter of years before they will hang you." I thought a great deal on what he had told me and in the end I came to the conclusion that the old man was right. ‘Where am I heading to?’ I kept asking myself over and over again, but the answer was always the same —- NOWHERE."

Mr K: "It must have certainly been tough for you as a child General, brought up in the manner you were. Even today it’s still a great a pity that in our so-called Modern Age there are so many poor and uncared for children all over the world. I often wonder why many of the more prosperous Nations do so very little to help solve this important issue. Obviously, they are not bothered that much because the problem’s as bad now, if not worse, as it has ever been. I’m no Politician General, therefore I can’t understand the motives, but I do know this, if I were, priorities such as this would be right at the TOP of my list.

General Rajin: "I lost the fingers in a silly firearms accident, but the limp I acquired during combat. It’s the result of a bayonet going straight through my thigh whilst I was fighting for my life and my Country, after we had been invaded by our arch enemies the dreaded Mongees. That was about 20 or so years ago and now as the whole world knows, after a long and bitter campaign against the superior strength of the enemy, we finally managed to rout them. Actually, while they were in complete disarray and fleeing, many of us took the greatest pleasure in unmercifully slaughtering as many of the sods as we could."

Mr K: "You took your old cellmates advice seriously then General?"

General Rajin: "I certainly did Mr K. because as soon as I got out of jail I went straight to Army HQ and volunteered myself for active duty. In those days the Army was always desperate for fine healthy young men, so I had no trouble enlisting, in fact because I was a bit of a villain my record stood me in good stead. After a couple of weeks training I was sent to the front line, but instead of being killed, like so many who went with me, I managed to survive and even became a HERO! And then afterwards, when all the fighting was over, because of my outstanding bravery I was awarded the —- AGGROVANIAN STAR —- the highest award this Country can give. Even better than that, as far as I was concerned, I also received PROMOTION! I knew then Mr K. that I would never be hungry again; nor would I ever again go to prison; this was my life now and I was determined to get whatever I could out of it; my aim was at all costs to get to the Top; from now on being pushed around from pillar to post was over for me; any pushing from now onwards was going to be done by ME!"

Mr K: "You’ve no doubt certainly succeeded General, I’m sure that there’s nobody in their right mind who would try pushing you around today. I have heard though that over the years some have tried to, and without any mercy you have had them branded as traitors and shot. Quite a chilling deterrent for any would be Usurper! So, tell me General, what about the Coup, how did it come about and how did you manage to achieve it?"

General Rajin: "The reason why I was a little late meeting you this morning Mr K. was due to the fact that I was personally supervising the Execution of 10 rebel scum, who’d had the audacity to question and oppose my Authority. After I’d had them shot do you know what I did? I inspected each carcass and spat into its ugly face, then I put a bullet through its brains. Nobody in this Country dares to affront me, if they do they are —- DEAD! Again I apologise for being a little late.

About the Coup? It had been on the cards for years and all it needed was someone with guts enough to pull it off. Needless to say that someone was me. I orchestrated the whole affair from beginning to end and once the Palace had fallen, and the Royals were all dead, Aggrovania was MINE. I was its new —- Commander-in-Chief! During those first early months of my Regime I ordered, on pain of death, my Army to ruthlessly hunt down and slay any Opposition towards me. This they swiftly did and thousands were put to the sword, they were the lucky ones, the others I had thrown into what I now call Correction Centres where they spend the rest of their miserable lives painfully regretting ever opposing me. I have vowed to myself Mr K. that there is only one way the people of this Country should live, my —- WAY!

Mr K: "If all the huge statues and posters of you dotted about everywhere are anything to go by General, then it does on the face of it seem to be that you really are a great man, but be truthful with me, isn’t all of this a charade brought about mainly through FEAR? The whole world is aware of your personal Secret Service, whose only function is to root out your enemies and protect only you."

General Rajin: "Quite correct Mr K. I do as you say have my own Secret Forces. I call them the FACELESS because nobody other than myself, and a handful of my most trusted friends, know who they are. I’m ever so Proud of them and if you will listen I’ll tell you a little about their activities."

Mr K: "I’m all ears General."

General Rajin: "Well for a start, you must first of all understand that the people what make up this awesome unit are not just anybody, they are Specialist. Men and women who, after the utmost screening, have been hand-picked by me to undergo the expert training required for the very high standard of work they will do. By personally selecting them myself I ensure that I will have no betrayal, and I promise them all that as long as they stay loyal to me their Rewards will be great, if not, —- well I haven’t been betrayed up till now.

The Faceless parade under many disguises, and to the ordinary man and woman in the street they are terrifying, nobody knows who they are, they could even be their own brothers or sisters —- ANYBODY! I like this because if they cannot trust anyone anymore it keeps them all on their toes. Also, it acts as a powerful deterrent for any other Organization to rise up against me. To be honest with you they are a very lethal weapon for quashing any trouble or unrest that may occur. They are the highest skilled agents I have in the Land, they’ve got to be because they are MY deadly and unseen shadows who work under the cover of Maximum Security, and they are answerable too no-one except me. In short they are my Hidden Eyes, ever alert listening and searching for any dissent from those who’ve grown tired of my Rule. When they uncover anything, even if it’s only a whisper that unrest is afoot, I am immediately informed and take the appropriate measures. I issue the orders giving them full licence to destroy, maim, and if necessary even —- KILL, all Opposition against my Regime."

Mr K: "Not all that long ago General, a place called Germany possessed a very renowned pack of ‘faceless wonders’ similar to those whom you have described. They called them the GESTAPO! The whole world today is fully aware of the countless evil and treacherous deeds which they performed. Sadly it seems, going by what you have just told me, even today these vile and menacing groups are still to be found dotted about here and there in the world. Obviously they have now been upgraded from the silly cloak and dagger image that they operated under before, because times have changed and so must they. No, now they perform under far more sinister titles. Nevertheless, their work is the same. I suppose that whatever happens in this world there will always be characters like these around. Dark and Weird creatures who, akin to the rats in the sewers, remain only effective beneath the cover of night. Staying unseen and working in secrecy is their only form of protection, for once their ugly faces have become exposed to the light of day they are finished, done for, and of no further use to anybody, least of all to the BULLIES who employed them. Am I right General?

When they are caught out and they know the game is up, what becomes of them then? I believe I know what you’d do General! But this is a gamble they are more than willing to take, for in this grand cat and mouse drama the stakes are most lucrative and very very tempting. At their peak they are, as you have so aptly described General, lethal and faceless demons, the unseen dregs of Humanity, obsessed in no other cause than their own Selfish means, and you are right, they would shop their Brothers and Sisters if they thought it would bring them reward. You want to be careful General, who knows, especially if you ever show signs of complacency or weakness, one of these so-called FACELESS phantoms could get the idea to set himself up in your stead!"

General Rajin: "Ha, Ha, Ha, thank you Mr K. for your very sound advice, but don’t worry about me on that score. I figured that problem out years ago. They have even got SHADOWS watching them! You mention the Germans and the Gestapo, I’m not a bit like them. Their downfall came about because Hitler, like a fool, wanted to rule the world. Everyone should know that such a ridiculous endeavour was bound to end up in disaster. I am more than content in being the absolute Master of Aggrovania, and I don’t give a damn about anything else, the rest of the world can all go to Hell if it wants to, but this Land is MINE, it’s the place of my Birth. Through operating too far afield the Gestapo were stretched to their limits, but my Chosen work only here, and that is why, as far as I am concerned, they are such an outstanding Success. You can detest them if you want Mr K. but I can assure you that they play an essential and vital role not only for me but also for other Great Leaders in the world."

Mr K: "Even so, but what real good are they General if the unrest and resistance to your Regime gets wholly out of hand? You can’t deny that right now, while we are talking, powers are already at work plotting your downfall. Your Army has suffered many heavy losses in the Provinces, and in a number of your largest Cities all hell’s breaking loose. This has surely got to be a cause for very grave concern."

General Rajin: "To a point you do speak the truth, but there is no real threat to my security. Actually I’m not all that bothered about it because it is only a matter of time before these so-called Friends of the People become EXTINCT. Now you know the reason why I arranged for us to meet here on the edge of the desert instead of the comfort of the Grand Palace, it’s a bit of a nuisance but it is for your own safety. Sometimes these situations become unavoidable and again I apologise to you for any inconvenience that you have suffered. I’ll tell you this though, as soon as our talk is over, and you are safely on your way home, I’ll head straight back to the heart of the present conflict and root out a load of those mutinous rabble who are still hiding out in the Capital. And I won’t spare any of the sods, I’ll make them wish that they had never been born. How dare they create so much discomfort for a very special guest of mine? I swear to you Mr K. they will all be dealt with accordingly." 

Mr K: "The discomfort’s no bother General, but I am anxious to know why the People are so restless. Is it because they’ve had enough of your rule?"

General Rajin: "No, Mr K. it’s all because of the total collapse of the bloody Communist Party. Many now have the misguided idea that Aggrovania, like most of the Ex-Communist States, should now be entitled to FREE ELECTIONS. I can’t allow anything like this to take place, if I did Aggrovania would be gone to the dogs in no time, and me along with it."

Mr K: "How in your wisdom do you propose to prevent it General?"

General Rajin: "Very similar as another Great Power did not all that long ago. I’ll pretend to play along with them for a while and I’ll let them hold some of their, what they always term as, ‘Peaceful Demonstrations’ and then, when they stage one of their Main Sunday Rallies, and all of the so-called Leaders are present, I will send in swiftly my Special Reserve Force and machine-gun the whole bloody lot of them down in Capital Square. A good Idea isn’t it?"

Mr K: "One final question before I leave you to your ever surmounting problems General, do you believe in GOD?"

General Rajin: "Of course I believe in god Mr K. how else do you think I am as strong as I am? I pray to him several times daily because I know for sure that he looks after me, and that he approves everything I do. You want to know why I am so ruthless to my enemies? It’s because he tells me for certain that all the actions and deeds I perform, he personally condones. You’ve asked me a very silly question Mr K."

Mr K: "I just thought I’d ask General. Before I go will it be all right for me to include the contents of this little talk in a book I’m intending to write? I would not dream of doing so without your permission."

General Rajin: "Go ahead and do so Mr K. and send me a copy of it if it ever gets published. Address it personally to me at the Palace because it will be the only copy in the whole of Aggrovania, it’ll be banned every where else. Incidentally, what will it be called?"

Mr K: "Simply BLANKS General."

General Rajin: "That’s a funny title Mr K. Can you shoot them? Hee, Hee, Hee."

Mr K: "I’m afraid not General, you would only be wasting your bullets, they’re already —- DEAD."

 THE LADY EVA —- E. INTERVIEW:

Lady Eva: "Good afternoon Mr K. I’m ever so pleased to finally meet you. I have rushed around like the clappers to get here on time, so I hope you haven’t been waiting too long? The traffic in this town is bloody awful, and if ever I can find the time, I must get someone to try and do something about it."

Mr K: "There’s no need for you to rush about on my account Lady Eva, we have plenty of time. I was just about to make a drink, would you care to join me?"

Lady Eva: "Oh, yes please Mr K. if you really don’t mind. Something long and cool to settle me down, I feel quite flushed out after dashing around to arrive here."

Lady Eva: "Let me say again Mr K. how truly pleased I am to meet you. I’ve heard a lot about you from my two old and trusted allies —- Sir Jasper and General Rajin —- and they both told me what a nice refreshing fellow you are. They said also that it would be a welcome change for me to be able to talk truthfully for once to someone like you, rather than lying all the time to others. Sir Jasper really thought a great deal of you, and he admired you so much for your straight forwardness in openly telling him of some little book you were intending to write about Politics, within which, if it were possible, you wished to include personal discussions with some of the worlds Great Leaders! He told me too, that because nobody in their right mind would ever take you seriously, it would be Okay for me to answer your questions as honestly as I wanted. So, ask away Mr K. I’ll do my utmost to oblige, if it is all right for Sir Jasper then it’s all right with me. I trust his judgement explicitly and I know that if he tells me so I have nothing to fear."

Mr K: "I had no idea that Sir Jasper and the General were your very close friends, you each give the impression of being oceans apart. Still, to get to the business in hand, whatever in the first place induced YOU to become one of the worlds Top Politicians? I am aware that your late husband was a household name here, but why, after his untimely death, did you carry on in his name?"

Lady Eva: "After the tragic assassination of my dear husband Mr K. I really didn’t have any other alternative than to carry on in his name. He was such a well loved and very respected man here in Jealvania, and everybody in the Land knew that but for his murderous slaying he would surely have been the next President. Somehow it seemed, I couldn’t let him down!"

Mr K: "It sounds then as if you played on his immense popularity, and that you used the sympathy of the Nation, to get where you are today."

Lady Eva: "Of course I played on his name, but it’s my name also isn’t it? I’ll let you into a little secret not many people know. Although, in the eyes of the Public, my husband appeared to be an able and strong Politician, this wasn’t strictly the truth. In many ways he was in reality an uncertain and extremely weak man. It was I Mr K. —- ME! I was the wings that enabled him to fly; I was the force and the power behind him; I schooled him thoroughly in everything he knew; and if it hadn’t have been for me, he was —- NOTHING! The few who were aware of this fact approached me after the funeral and begged me to carry on in his stead, they told me that it would be a great waste of my bubbly and dynamic personality not to do so. I thought for a while about it and said to myself, ‘why not?’ I had almost made him a Great Leader, so, why in my own right, shouldn’t I become one myself?

Mr K: "Meglovania? What in the world made you go there?"

Lady Eva: "After my poor husbands funeral Mr K. when most of the mourners had left the Grand Reception, the kind and considerate Sir Jasper and his beautiful wife Flavia, both put their arms around me and courteously invited me to come and relax with them, for as long as my poor heart desired, in their fabulous home in the magnificent and picturesque Meglovanian countryside. They said it would do me the world of good, and help me no end in getting over the tragic and ghastly effects of the past few weeks of my life. "There’s nothing better than a complete change of scenery, and a little bit of peace and quiet, after such a shocking ordeal as you have endured Lady Eva. Please do come over and be our most welcome guest for a while, my wife and I will personally take care of you and we won’t mind it a bit, I promise you my dear." When Sir Jasper assured me of this I leapt at the offer."

Mr K: "And you had what you really needed Lady Eva, a peaceful and relaxing holiday. Did things then begin to get better for you?"

Lady Eva: "They were fantastic Mr K. Absolutely wonderful in every way to me, even going out of their way to please me as well as they possibly could. I was treated better than Royalty, and nothing was too much trouble in their efforts to care for my every need. I was given everything I could possibly wish for and —- MORE!"

Mr K: "More? Lady Eva, what do you mean?"

Lady Eva: "Well I hope I won’t offend you Mr K. but I did say at the start of this interview that I would be as honest as I could with you, didn’t I? By more I mean that very extra Special care I was given. You see there were many occasions, especially during the very early hours of the morning, when I would wake up sobbing my heart out over the sad loss of my dearly departed husband. Oh, how I missed him, so much so I could barely handle myself, I’d just lay there crying my eyes out. Then on one particular morning Sir Jasper came into my bedroom, and finding me in so sorry a state, do you know what this kind man did? He laid beside me and held me closely to him, tenderly trying to comfort me and make me feel better! I felt safer alongside him but even so, after all this kindness, my depression stubbornly refused to depart. I turned toward him and I endeared him to please come under the sheets and to love me. This, my dear friend did and he loved for as many times as I wanted him to. Every morning from then on he would come into my room, and he would always oblige me, sometimes our love making would go on for hours and I often felt a little sorry for the man in case he thought that I was taking too much advantage of his kind generosity! But, Sir Jasper always informed me that he didn’t mind it in the least, because as long as I was completely and utterly satisfied, it was worth every second fulfilling my needs."

Mr K: "Lady Eva, I am stunned. Are you telling me truthfully that you and Sir Jasper behaved in this way? What about his beautiful wife Flavia whom he dotes over? Didn’t she know anything about what went on between you?"

Lady Eva: "Hey, cool it down a way dear Mr K. There’s no need for you to get so all hot and bothered, Sir Jasper and Flavia both adore each other and they always will, nothing on earth could ever come between them, least of all me. Of course Flavia knew what went on, there was nothing secretive about any of the wonderful things that we did.

Sometimes I would awake crying very early in the morning, and because they were both very sound asleep nobody heard me, this used to bring me down terrible, so much so that I decided to tell Flavia about it. Do you know what that wondrous woman said? Hugging me softly she kindly whispered: "My dearest Eva, you mustn’t ever let yourself suffer alone in this manner, so whenever anything like this happens again, all you need do is to come into my bedroom and snuggle down closely beside me and Sir Jasper." Can you imagine my joy upon hearing these words? So, from that day onwards that’s what I did. Oh, how heavenly I felt just cuddling and holding them near, I thought I was truly in Paradise. Then, when we were all wide awake, the amazing and virile Sir Jasper would love the two of us over and over again until we were all happier than anyone else in the world. What a man he his Mr K? What an experience to be with? Flavia was his Helen of Troy and I was his Cleopatra, and relaxing between us he would often remark about how envious, he bet, all the men in the world would be of him if they only knew of the two outstanding and absolute BEAUTIES he had, all to himself, laying so close beside him. He loved telling us this Mr K."

Mr K: "Do I understand you correctly Lady Eva, when you tell me that even he beautiful Flavia condoned what went on?"

Lady Eva: "You certainly are Mr K. I’ve already said that the pair of them would do anything whatever to make me forget all my sorrows and pain, and I do mean —- ANYTHING! They just wanted to make me feel happy.

Mr K: "Lady Eva, what can I say except that I am torn between disbelief and disgust over what you are telling me. Even worse, I’m not at all sure whether or not you are speaking the TRUTH, because Sir Jasper himself once told me that there was no way in the world he would ever let anyone tarnish his impeccable reputation."

Lady Eva: "Who’s tarnishing who Mr K? I solemnly swear to you right now that there isn’t another soul in the world besides you who knows anything at all about what I am telling you. Also, I assure you that there is no way I’d ever publicly announce it as I have done so to you. I could never ever hurt my two trusted and dearly loved friends, they mean too much to me. No, Mr K. I am telling you the truth, what benefit could I possibly gain in winding you up? But, if you don’t like what you hear, and it makes you feel so uneasy, then I won’t mind if you want to call it a day and end this interview right now. We’ll do so if it will make you feel any better, only I thought that you were only interested in the truth about me, but if it bothers or upsets you so much, I will understand."

Mr K: "I’m sorry Lady Eva, you are right it is only the truth I am interested in, so please let us continue our talk even though hearing it expressed as candidly as you express it does make it sound dirty, it is after all as you have correctly stated, the —- TRUTH."

Lady Eva: "Bravo for you Mr K. I didn’t really believe for a moment that you were the squeamish type, you are too much of a —- MAN for that. Let me suggest to you now what we can do if you want, perhaps then, if you agree, you would feel a lot more comfortable with me? First of all, while we have been sat here talking I’ve grown to really fancy you, so why don’t we, being as have we have the rest of the afternoon all to ourselves, continue the rest of this interview in the luxury of that large double bed I have in the room adjoining? We could both take off all of our clothes and have lots of fun together, and I promise you that you would not be in the least disappointed with me, I am much too nice and too sensuous to be with."

Mr K: "Thank you Lady Eva, but No. I am happy enough just sitting right here and talking to you."

Lady Eva: "Whatever you say Mr K. it was only a thought. I should have known better than to try it on with someone as strong as what you are, but I’ll tell you this, there’s not many men in this world who could turn me down as flat as what you have. No. Mr K. my sexy and sizzling offer would have driven most of them crazy. How are you able to so easily resist me?"

MR K: "It isn’t very difficult Lady Eva, not so long ago I had the opportunity to be with the most beautiful woman any man could ever hope for. She was, believe me, so absolutely dazzling! I do not wish to be in any way disrespectful to you Lady Eva, but in comparison to her you come nowhere. She’d leave you standing in every aspect of beauty and womanhood you could ever imagine even you in yourself to be. She was truly —- ADORABLE! However, it just didn’t seem right for me to go with her, in fact it wasn’t. So, from somewhere deep down within the very depths of my Being, I somehow discovered the strength I needed to resist her. If I could achieve that with HER Lady Eva, I find it considerably easier to do so with you."

Lady Eva: "She sounds as if she was quite some woman Mr K. Out of this world if you ask me."

Mr K: "You have just hit the nail on the head Lady Eva, she was, as you have correctly implied, —- Out of this World."

Lady Eva: "I honestly believe you are right Mr K. If anyone has any deep Inner Power they should, in my opinion, always use it. Sir Jasper himself enlightened me on this very subject. Let me tell you about it:

I smiled at Sir Jasper and swore there and then that I would always be ready to do anything he said. I am an extremely JEALOUS person Mr K. if my body was the best weapon I had at my disposal to take the Political World by storm, I would by no means hesitate to use it. I told Sir Jasper this and he said: "That’s my clever little girl, now come on back into bed my pretty cream cake, I want to gobble you all up." Oh, what a wonderful and funny character he is."

Mr K: "Judging by the amount of success you have had to date Lady Eva, it does seem that you have used your body to quite some extent. Am I right? If I am then you have definitely nose-dived in my estimation of you, because up until now YOU have been the one person in Politics whom I really admired. In all honesty, I do not approve of your means of attaining your ends."

Lady Eva: "Oh, stop talking like a stewed prune Mr K. You know as well as I do that the World of Politics today is nothing other than a dog eat dog world. Therefore, if my figure and looks are my two most powerful assets in keeping the hounds at bay, it goes without even saying that I’ll use them. You are turning out to be rather an unusual fellow Mr K. I’ve been under the impression that you were the kind who’d believe deeply in the virtue of Free Love?"

Mr K: "I am, as you say Lady Eva, all for FREE LOVE, but, the Love I approve is worlds apart from the kind of thing you so regularly indulge in. Free Love is TRUE LOVE and it comes from within, from the Spirit of the Lover, it is not from without in the sex and the lust of the world. Love is the Wonder which gives itself freely and asks for nothing whatever in return for its favours. It is not what you imagine it to be Lady Eva, a thing of the flesh and something only to bargained with, it is —- PRICELESS and BEAUTIFUL —- and it can never ever be bought or sold; not even by you Lady Eva."

Lady Eva: "I don’t know what you are rattling on and on about Mr K. Everyone knows that everything in this world, including love, has its price. If you don’t believe this you’re nuts. At this precise moment in time I am enjoying enormous success as a Top Politician, but this hasn’t always been the case because it was damned hard graft campaigning throughout the length and the breadth of Jealvania during my early days. What if I did use my charms now and then? Like Sir Jasper said they would, they helped no end in my long and often uphill struggle for Power. You don’t get anything in this world for nothing, all you get you must pay for. I have something of the highest calibre to sell, and I have sold some of it for the highest price I could get, the Presidency of Jealvania. For a woman alone in this world I honestly believe that I have done very well for myself, don’t you agree?"

Mr K: "Politically speaking it does seem that you have done well Lady Eva, and like Sir Jasper and the General before you, you have also been very frank and open with me during this interesting discussion. Now alas, our time together is fast running out, so, the same as I asked them for their permission, will you let me include the contents of our talk in a book I’m intending to write? I won’t if you think it would do you any harm, especially those startling revelations involving Sir Jasper and the beautiful Flavia."

Lady Eva: "Go ahead and write what you want Mr K. If you want to tell the world about Sir Jasper and Flavia and Me, you may certainly do so. Do you think for a moment that anyone will believe you? You know they won’t don’t you? Actually everyone will think you are an idiot, a crank, with nothing else better to do than to go around slagging down some very nice people. Do as you please Mr K. but remember when everyone laughs at you, it was I who warned you."

Mr K: "Thank you again Lady Eva, if I do become a laughing stock of course

I will always remember it was you who told me I would. Before I go there is just one more question I hope you will answer. Tell me, do you believe in GOD? And do you ever say your prayers or go into church?"

Lady Eva: "If I may say so Mr K. that is a very silly question to ask me. Certainly I believe in god, and every day I pray to him as I stand naked in front of my mirror admiring my beautiful body. I’m always asking him to help me stay younger looking and gorgeous as you see me now. Also, I thank him over and over again for the incredible Wonders he allows the Cosmetics People to perform. I honestly believe, actually I’m quite certain that he hears my every word, because look at me now, I really am —- SOMETHING —- aren’t I Mr K?

Mr K: "So, as he forecast to me he would, Sir Jasper has cleverly averted his terrible —- SCANDAL."

Lady Eva: "What was that Mr K? I didn’t quite hear what you said."

Mr K: "Oh, it was nothing Lady Eva, I was only just mumbling. Yes, by all means give Sir Jasper my kind regards."

Lady Eva: "I’m given to understand that your book will be called BLANKS Mr K. What are they? Sylphs or Nymphs or something?"

Mr K: "No Lady Eva, a Sylph or a Nymph wouldn’t be seen dead with any of them. I will send you a copy if it ever gets published! Good-bye Lady Eva. No doubt you and Sir Jasper and the beautiful Flavia, will all have a wonderful time when you meet up again!"

Lady Eva: "Couldn’t you stay for a little longer Mr K? I don’t know how to say this, but I think from the first moment I saw you, I have ................."

Mr K: "I didn’t quite hear you Lady Eva, what did you say?"

Lady Eva: "Nothing really Mr K. I believe I was just being silly."

Mr K: "Good-bye again my Lady, please try to be good!"

El Ova: "Greetings Mr K. I do trust that apart from yesterday’s slight inconvenience you have found everything here to your taste? Don’t worry anymore over the matter, because all those who were concerned and responsible for the delay have now swiftly been dealt with."

Mr K: "Inconvenience? I’m not sure that I know what you mean El Ova, and what makes you think I’ve been worrying? Honestly, I don’t think I am with you."

El Ova: "The inconvenience you suffered yesterday awaiting your morning tea!"

Mr K: "My morning Tea? I’ve already forgotten all about that. How did you know about it El Ova? I never complained or told anyone about it."

El Ova: "Mr K. I make it my business to know everything what happens here in Avarivania. I wouldn’t have minded any other visitor getting that sort of treatment, but I had specifically informed all concerned that YOU were here as a Special Guest of the State, and that you were to be treated as such! How dare they disobey my orders by keeping you hanging around all the morning for your cup of tea. I cannot and I will not tolerate such flagrant and disrespectable behaviour."

Mr K: "If anyone was to blame El Ova, it was me for not giving the House Boy a tip. I can’t understand though that he and his mates should be sacked simply because of that."

El Ova: "Who said anything about being sacked Mr K? At this precise moment they are at Police HQ awaiting transportation to the icy Northern Region, where they will all serve 12 years hard labour for Civil Disobedience."

Mr K: "I hope you are joking El Ova, because if you are not I am going. I have no intention of staying a second longer in such a severe State as you deem fit to run. I feel really terrible, as if it were all my fault that these poor souls should be punished, and for what? Of all things a —- Cup of Tea!"

El Ova: "I am not joking Mr K. I can assure you of that. They were found guilty and away they will go. Avarivania is a haven for criminals from all over the world. I personally allow them free entry into this Land. Con-Men, Killers, Terrorists, Thieves, I welcome them ALL, and they all know that because of my utter rejection of the Extradition Laws they can abide safely and securely under my wing. The only conditions I impose upon them are that they, the same as the ordinary citizens, accept and obey, on pain of death or life imprisonment, my two Golden Rules: 1. Never to attempt to defraud or steal from the State. 2. Never disobey any orders whatever that are issued by —- ME! They broke my second rule so they can consider themselves really lucky they are only losing their freedom."

Mr K: "Then I will bid you good-bye and take my leave from you now El Ova."

El Ova: "Hold on Mr K. I have no wish to upset your stay in my Country, if you really feel so bad over what’s only the Law of the Land, the Law that we all have to respect, then just for this once and personally to please you, I shall have them released."

Mr K: "It does make me feel guilty El Ova, but if you are prepared to free them right now then I’m obliged to you for your leniency."

El Ova: "Everything’s in order Mr K. I hope now that your mind is at ease? They will all be back at their work within the hour and you can bet your boots that the next time you order anything from your hotel room, it will be at your door before you’ve had time even to put down the phone ."

Mr K: "Thank you El Ova. I realize that different places have their own different Laws that the inhabitants must adhere to, so don’t think for a moment that I am trying to meddle in the Laws of your Land. It was only because I was directly involved I objected. Will we begin the interview now?

El Ova: "By all means Mr K. but before we start let me first of all say that I’ve recently been in contact with my very good friend and ally Sir Jasper —- P. He told me quite a lot about you, how he personally admires you, also about the little book you are intending to write. He really thinks the world of you Mr K. even though deep down in his heart he believes your book will be a complete waste of time. He reckons that the truth which you plan to reveal will sound a thousand times more stranger than fiction! Therefore, if I wanted to, I could go ahead and answer your questions truthfully with absolutely nothing to fear. ‘Who,’ he told me, ‘ in their right mind would believe an unknown like you before such world renowned LEADERS like us?’ So, let’s begin and I promise to answer you as honestly as I can."

Mr K: "The first question I would like to ask you El Ova is this. "What made a man as rich as what you are enter into Politics?"

El Ova: "20 or so years ago Mr K. I was summoned into this very same office we are sitting in now by my late great Father. "El Ova" he said, "I have something important to discuss with you, sit yourself down and listen very carefully to me." I sat in the same seat you are sitting in now and he was sitting where I am. He continued: "Dear boy from this day onwards do you know what I intend to do for you?" "No Father," I answered. "Son, with your full co-operation of course, I am going to steer you towards becoming the Supreme Head of State in Avarivania! Tell me, what do you think of my brilliant idea?" Being somewhat taken aback I replied: "Father, not a soul in the world knows more than what you do how greedy I have always been for Ambition and Power, but as for imagining I could ever reach out and grab for myself the highest Position in the Land as you are proposing, well, I just don’t know." Never being a man for mincing his words he smiled wryly at me and said: "Well what do you say then, is it Yes or is it No?" "Yes Father, of course, I am absolutely thrilled with your brilliant idea." I replied. "Good" he answered, "then pay close attention to me and I will tell you exactly how we between us will accomplish it."

I’ll never forget that day as long as I live Mr K. Here’s what he went on to tell me: "El Ova, it goes without saying that one day all which is mine shall be yours. As you are already more than aware I am one of the richest men the world, I may even be the richest, so as far as myself is concerned, and as a means of ensuring your very own future, I have decided that I have had as much as I can take from this so-called Government Administration of ours. Not only do they tax us unmercifully they now aim to hit us for six with all sorts of ridiculous trade restrictions and other such money wasting project. Like I’ve said: ‘Enough is enough’ it’s high time someone did something about it and who better than —- US? We not only have the means but also if it comes to the crunch, we have tremendous clout both financially and industrially on our side. My boy believe me, we can between us achieve whatever we want in this world so let’s go ahead and change this Country to suit us; to make it work the way we want it to work; or in other words, let’s run the Nation in the exact same manner as we run our highly successful Business Empire!

If we carefully look at all of the facts, we will find that we have on our own payroll almost half of the entire workforce in the Country! they can be safely controlled and are like sitting ducks in the palm of our hand; 90% of the banks are ours; the docks and most of the factories are mainly owned and operated by us; then there are all the other small businesses what produce anything from toilet rolls to ice cream; we are the major shareholders in them all. So my son, if you are with me in this exciting venture, let’s go the whole hog and make a take-over bid for Avarivania in the same manner as we have taken over other ailing concerns. Let us make it into an enormous SUCCESS, what do you say?"

That Mr K. was how someone as rich as I entered into Politics. My Father had decided that he needed to control and run this Country as he saw fit, and this he achieved through ...  ME! You should have seen the look on his face the day I was sworn into Office as the —- Supreme Head of State —- he was so proud of me I thought he would burst, "My son," he said afterwards "between us we have done it and from now on we’ve got the rest of the world at our feet. But, you must keep it in mind that I won’t always be around to guide you and help you because, even with all our wealth, it is obvious that someday I will surely die. Until I do though I am going to teach you all you will ever need to know about staying in Power. From now on you have got to be Ruthless because if you’re not and your Opponents ever get wind that you are a weakling, they will tread and trample all over you and grind you into the dust. Run it exactly the same as we run our Business Empire and spend as much money as you need to for bribing and buying others off, or for whatever other means it will serve, Deal with troublemakers instantly and never ever be afraid of letting the whole of Avarivania know that you, and only —- YOU —- alone, are its Supreme Head of State. Remember always that you are the man with the money and therefore you, and nobody else, gets to pull all the strings. You have the wealth my dear boy, and if you use it wisely it is bound to ensure you of this. Come now, let’s have some fun and join in with the celebrations of this our most memorable and heart-warming day; I truly believe that I am happiest man in the world."

Mr K: "It seems El Ova, that the same as father before you, you are definitely not sort to be trifled with. Tell me, did you encounter any difficulty getting elected after your 3 solid years of extensive study?"

El Ova: "None Mr K. no difficulty at all, to tell you the truth my Father, as he had said he would, had fixed it for me to represent a medium sized City not far from here just along the coast. Needless to say, and by sheer coincidence of course, we just happened to have two giant Oil Refineries there that between them roughly employed about two thirds of the local population Somehow, and nobody quite knows how, word got around that if I were defeated in the forthcoming Election one of the Plants would be closed down thus causing a large number of people to lose their jobs. However, since nobody knew for certain which Plant it would be, they all decided to bat safely and I automatically walked the Seat! A very tricky man my Father, wasn’t he Mr K? I’d say that next to my good friend and ally Sir Jasper —- P. he was just about the cleverest man I ever known. Incidentally, both those Refineries are still functioning at full blast and bringing me in enormous profits."

Mr K: "Knowing how you and your father operated El Ova, I wouldn’t mind betting that after your first easy victory you rapidly shot up through the ranks of your PARTY to get where you are today."

El Ova: "You would win your bet Mr K. I made great strides in getting where I am. Most of my so-called Opponents were easily bought off by my Father and me, and those who couldn’t always seemed to meet with some sort of nasty calamity. However, there was no way anything could ever be attributed or connected to me because my Dad always made damn sure that as the Figurehead of the Nation I remained perfectly —- CLEAN!"

Mr K: "Obviously it didn’t pay anyone to get on the wrong side of your father and you El Ova, it’s also easy for me to understand how you shot up through the ranks of your Party, but what about the Opposition? After all is said and done Avarivania is still a so-called Democracy isn’t it? So, how do you manage to deal with them?"

El Ova: "The Opposition Mr K. please don’t make laugh, I have them all bought and sold and eating out of the palm of my hand. They are only Opposition because I personally pay them to be so. I do this to make myself appear fair in eyes of the world. If I didn’t fork out there would be no such Movement. Do you understand me?"

Mr K: "Yes El Ova, I understand. In other words what you are really saying is that this Country is a One Party State which hides under the banner of Pretended Democracy. Am I correct?"

El Ova: "You’ve got it in one Mr K, There hasn’t been any real Opposition in Avarivania for the past 8 years!"

Mr K: "But there is another Party here that seems to vigorously oppose your Administration, it has a Leader and a Name, am I really expected to believe that this is not so?"

El Ova: "Believe what you want Mr K. it doesn’t matter a fig to me, but I am telling you the —- TRUTH."

Mr K: "I’ll take your word for it El Ova, for like Sir Jasper and the others you have no reason whatever to lie to me, Now I am really beginning to wonder that if I included this revelation, along with all the other incredible material, in the book I’m intending to write who in the world would bother to believe me?"

El Ova: "You put it into your book Mr K. you have my full permission to do so. As you have just stated: ‘Who would bother to believe you’ when you imply that not only am I the Leader of the Government here, but I control also the entire —- OPPOSITION? Believe me Mr K. all who do bother to read your work will really think you have cracked."

Mr K: "You could be right El Ova, but the Truth is the Truth and that’s all I’m concerned with. I am not all that worried about whether or not I’m ridiculed for it, so into my work it will go and I thank you sincerely for your kind permission in allowing it to do so. I must admit to you though that I find it absolutely amazing how you have orchestrated such an ingenious cover up. Your Opposition is most convincing in the way which they travel the world forever running you down and pretending that the sooner the better you should be ousted from Office. They’re so trained and professional!"

El Ova: "They are only Actors Mr K. good ones though don’t you agree? And so they should be for the money I pay them. Remember I only told you this because as I said earlier I would tell you truth. This means that besides myself and Sir Jasper, YOU now share one of this world’s most closely guarded secrets. When Sir Jasper first heard about the way I had engineered all this he said it was nothing short of sheer brilliance."

Mr K: "There is something special in the way you have managed to fool the rest of the world with a stunt such as this. So why do you El Ova, being as clever as what you are, give sanctuary to the worlds most wanted and evil criminals? Why do you allow these people such easy access into your Country? Surely they should a deported and made to pay for their terrible crimes?"

El Ova: "If I were in their shoes Mr K. I wouldn’t like it one little bit if the Law was breathing heavily down my neck and I had nowhere to run to. That’s the reason why I let them all come here, what if the only prospects I had to look forward to were either a rope around my neck or the rest of my life spent in prison? Can’t you imagine how grateful I would be to anyone who offered me a Safe Haven? Those that do come here are extremely grateful Mr K. and it’s very rare I ever get trouble from them. They also, prior to being allowed entry, have already transferred into my Banks all of the assets they so adequately possess thus contributing very generously to the wealth of the Nation, and every year they pay me a large premium in Cash, otherwise, they don’t get their annual visas renewed without which they are finished. As long as they stick to my two Golden Rules they can stay here for as long as they want. They can rob and kill and terrorize each other if that’s what they wish, it doesn’t worry me, but if they get caught committing such crimes, then the same as the rest, they must let the Law take its course and they will receive whatever the punishment which justifies their crime. If they behave I am happy, but if they ever try crossing swords with me then they are lucky to escape with their lives. They are all fully aware of the conditions I impose and of the consequences for breaking them. But, if they all adhere to my Rules they know they’ll be safe in my Land.

See how easily many things can be achieved by having the worlds Super-Crooks under your roof Mr K? I also hire them out from time to time to other World Leaders whose hands must always stay clean when there’s some dirty work to done. Believe me, I have at my beck and call experts in every aspect of life, men and women who would do anything for me, and I do mean —- ANYTHING."

El Ova: "I’m sorry about that Mr K, but it appears that some sort of financial problem just cropped up in the City and they want down at the Exchange immediately to straighten it all out. If you’ve any more questions to ask me could you please make them as brief as you possibly can"?

Mr K: "I’ve only one El Ova, do you believe in GOD?"

El Ova: "Yes, I do believe in god Mr K. and I pray to him everyday asking him to make me richer and richer. I’m sure he hears my prayers because the money just keeps flowing in. Also, I always go to church whenever it is convenient for me to do so, only a few weeks ago in one of the worlds most beautiful Cathedrals. I had to go to Meglovania because Sir Jasper had asked me to attend the funeral of one of his high-ranking Officials, it was such a sad and moving experience. Mr K. I have got to go now, but I’ll see you later at the Banquet I am holding in your honour tonight. By the way I’ve been told that the book you may write will be called BLANKS. What are they cash drafts something?"

Mr K: "No El Ova, the BLANKS I will be writing about are not worth a lot. I’ll be at the banquet tonight but I can’t stay for long because I’ve been booked onto an early morning flight."

We are back, the mythical trips and the fairytales are all over and once again we have returned to what everyone terms as Reality. It goes without saying that there are no real Kingdoms and Rulers like those I have just described are there? No, of course there is not, they were just simple figments of my extremely vivid —- IMAGINATION —- or were they? Dear Reader, if you are a BLANK look carefully all around you and take a really good look at the world and the things that are in it. Can you see what I see? Now look even closer than you have ever done before into the depths of your very own —- SELF. Do you still see what I see?

When I began this work my original intention was to set out and describe the various actions and deeds of everyday BLANKS in all walks of life: Politics; Business; Law; Education; Military; Religion; Entertainment; and even more so the General Public. However, I believe now that there is no need for me to embark on such a tedious task, because whoever YOU are reading this book, your own understanding must surely tell you that the four Main characters I’ve recently described abound not only in Politics, but in all the other categories too. They are the Fountain Heads of the majority people who dwell in this world today, the banners under which all BLANKS whoever they may be parade! In order for me to explain a little more clearly exactly what I mean, I will choose at random the General Public from the foregoing list. So, let us see now how they measure up!

We have, (unless we are all totally blind), each seen for ourselves the countless and arrogant people that thrive in this field, you know kind I mean: The jumped-up and puffed-up with their fancy airs and graces who are forever strutting about here and there atop their high horses; the high and the mighty conceited snobs; the big-headed and stuck-up bores; the swanky Lord and Lady Mucks. We have all seen them haven’t we? I have! I’ve seen them everywhere I go: Parading in streets, sitting in pubs, on busses, in town, on holiday, at work. I’ve read about them in the Papers, seen them on TV. heard them on the Radio, met them at functions, I have seen them —- EVERYWHERE! Dances, socials, the doctors, and Yes, they absolutely love going to Church. Sadly, wherever I go or whatever I do they abound all around me, these haughty and vain SELF-centred people are the Sir Jasper —- P’s of this world.

Dearest Reader, again I ask you to look all around you and especially within you. Which one of the FOUR are you most akin to? Which one of these flags does your own —- SELF sail under? Can you honestly deny that they don’t effect you? Not even one of them? You could be telling the Truth because if you have already taken a look into the depths of your soul, and in all honesty you feel that you are not a Proud or an Angry, nor an Envious or Greedy person, then all I can say is God Bless —- YOU!

But, hold on a second lest I forget, what about Sir Jasper’s other three problems? Those he referred to as his TIRED BUNCH; SPOILT BUNCH; and DIRTY BUNCH; are you also immune from these? You are! So, besides not being a Proud or Angry, Envious or Greedy, person you’re neither a Lazy, Wasteful, nor a Lustful, one too. Are you sure? Are you telling me that you are free from the bonds of these terrible —- SEVEN? If you really are then I’ve only one question to ask you: "What on earth are you doing down here with the rest of us ordinary mortals?" You must either be a Saint or an Angel, and this being so you should not be here in this ‘World of the Senses.’ Don’t you know that only angels and saints are above such worldly devices?

The world we dwell in is nothing other than the fallen ‘World of the Senses’ and it was PRIDE which caused it to fall. I speak the Truth when I tell you that every good man and woman who ever lived in this world wrestled nearly the whole of their lives combating the devilish powers of these awesome Sins. So, if you still pretend that you are immune to them and that they don’t effect you, then I’m afraid that if you sincerely do believe this of your Self, you must be a LIAR; the very worst kind; because you are lying to your own dear Heart. It’s time you tried to stop being fooled by your Self and for once in your life faced up to reality instead of avoiding and dodging the issues. Be sincere in your Being and let your own Heart make you readily aware of the Great Truth that if you only live for your Self alone you are —- DEAD!

Be determined not to give in to it and stop doing what it wants you to do all the time. Fooling and kidding you are its favourite pastimes because it knows that as long it can keep convincing you that there is nothing in the world for you ever to worry about, everything is fine. Steadfastly refuse to be soft-soaped by its weak excuses and vain explanations, ignore it and order it for once to be silent and still, force it to be so if you must, then see how quickly its power diminishes when it knows you mean business. This is so because it hasn’t any real power to resist a strong and active determination. You must see your SELF clearly for the cowering and trembling sham that it is. And then, when you have nothing to keep filling your mind with meaningless worldly thoughts, you will soon discover the warming and soothing glow of the peace and the quiet that’s within you. Your mischievous and troublesome pest has been bound and gagged for a while, So, what is there now to boss you and order you around? Lie back and relax for all the Time in the world is now yours, and it’s without any interference from anything inferior to what you are. In this tranquil state consider what you, the —- REAL YOU —- honestly and truthfully are.

What is this jumped up little Self that has controlled and dominated you since the day you could walk? How could this obnoxious thing inside you cause you to be everything you are not? Don’t you know that we are all, each and every single one of us, Brothers and Sisters; Princes and Princesses; Royal Heirs to the wondrous work of God’s mighty Hand! Sadly though, how many of us know and feel this in our Hearts? Oh, if only we could know what we in our silly little Self really are, we would be so ashamed of what we have all turned into. For by choosing to become our own little bosses in our own little worlds we have completely erased the —- BEAUTY we each have within us. It’s time we stopped drifting aimlessly around among the swine of this ‘World of the Senses’ and time we stopped being blinded by searching for answers outside of. We must look —- WITHIN, into the amazing and beautiful depths of our Being. The outside world is false and a lie and in time it will pass away, but inside our world is Real and it will endure forever. The answers we seek are within us, in the Lasting and not the passing.

I said earlier that a man’s Self was the driving force in the soul which dominates and governs him throughout every second he spends in the world. I have spoken the Truth. But, why is this so? It is so because it acts through the might and the power of the WILL. ‘The will is that which has all power, it makes heaven and it makes hell.’ Here William Law speaks the absolute Truth because what we all are in our Will we are in our Self,

Many BLANKS have probably tried hard at sometime or another to do as I have suggested, they have sat down in a nice quiet spot and they’ve really taken a good heart-rending look into the depths of their Beings. Perhaps they have also asked this simple little question: ‘Am I truly satisfied with my-Self for what I my-Self am?’ If they have done so sincerely then the answer can only be NO, because if they say otherwise they Lie. However, if in all honesty and truth they do answer No, then they will soon begin to feel uneasy and slightly concerned about what they should do for the better to improve what they don’t like with their lives. If they have lived badly they will make promises to their Self such as: ‘I won’t do this or that ever again, I’ll stop behaving like so and so, I will try being nicer to everybody.’ Maybe these promises will last for a while, but they won’t keep them up for very long, they cannot, because as soon as they depart from their peaceful and quiet surrounds, and they have again re-entered into the hustle and bustle of everyday life, all of their very good intentions will soon disappear and be completely forgotten in their manic and futile efforts to again keep up with the Jones’s. They have only experienced what is commonly known as a ‘Prick of Conscience’ which is something they very soon get over.

A small number of the BLANKS who have experienced a little of what I’ve just said do try, often very hard, to live better and more satisfied lives. For quite a long while they do extremely good and very charitable works which gives a deep inner joy and makes them feel happier. Even so, after a time these brave few will also drift back again into how they used to be before. Why is this so? It is so because on their own they are Powerless to subdue and control their own SELF-WILL long enough to completely master and control it. There is only one way in the Whole of Creation how this can be done and that way is —- CHRIST. Why is Our Lord called our Redeemer and Saviour? What are we to be redeemed and saved from? The simple answer is our Self! The soul of every person born into this ‘World of the Senses’ must, no matter what the cost, be ‘BORN AGAIN’ in Jesus. The soul that does this, that goes to its Maker and in Humility and Love asks Him to please have mercy upon it, instantly begins to leave not only this world behind but also the Pride and the Lust of Flesh that go with it. Because then, through the Grace and the Power of the —- ONE LIVING GOD —- it has already began in earnest the eternal conquest of its own deadliest adversary, the —- Self.

Understand me clearly when I tell you that this is what your life’s all about, it’s for you pursue the true knowledge of what you really are. But, believe me, this simple Truth will always remain a mystery to you if you spend the whole of your life in the world in only that what YOU think you are in your Self. Your Self is nothing other than your own Cain who keeps murdering your Abel; it’s your Bad that’s forever bent on slaying your Good; it is your own vile Mob within you which crucifies your Christ!

There is no other power in the World or in the whole of Creation which can alter you one iota unless you and your WILL desire it. All what you are in your Self and your Will is simply an out-birth of the one and the same driving Force which is alive and active and working in you.

Dear Reader, perhaps having read this far you have already realized that you need to do something about your Self. This being so, you may be saying inwardly: ‘It’s all right for him telling me that before I can be master of my own terrible Self I must be ‘Born Again’ in Jesus. How do I do this? How can I approach god and ask him to comfort and console me considering the horrible life I have been living? If there is a so-called god, supposed to be kind and loving, why hasn’t he listened to me when I’ve tried to get near him? I have prayed many times but he doesn’t hear me, and I have never felt any form of reaction in the depths of my Being. All I’ve ever experienced is Darkness when I have switched off from the world. I don’t believe he is the there, there is —- NOTHING —- there only my Self on its own.’

These are really very excellent questions and they deserve to be answered accordingly. Whoever asks these sort of questions just don’t know how close to their GOD they really are.

I can’t speak for anybody else in the world, but I can tell you a little about me. In practically the same manner as the BLANK above I began to realize that all was not right in my life. I looked back and I pondered upon the many things which I had done in the world and I felt most uncomfortable, I didn’t like it one little bit the useless little thing that I had turned into. I felt really ashamed of my Self for I had turned into something I knew I was not. I became very frightened, I needed some help but from where? No-one in the world could help me and my mind kept filling it-Self up with countless confusing thoughts which left me in a turmoil throughout the whole core of my Being. I knew a sort of crisis was looming near inside me but how or when it would break I had no way knowing.

I’ll tell you what happened to me and how it all came about: Many times before I had been in the Darkness, the Nothing, and the Silence, of my very own Being. Wherein I had tried hard to approach my God begging Him please to comfort and console me from the terrible state I was in. I didn’t know it at the time but the Darkness and the Nothing and the Silence I found within me, ( the same which is within every soul born into this world), was and could only be my very own Eternal Nature. It was in here where my God was to be found, in here in the eternal Darkness —- Nothing —- Silence I possessed within ME, that’s why I say that any soul who’s witnessed these Wonders in their deep innermost Being, even though they haven’t even realized it, they have already glimpsed into ETERNITY where the One True Living God dwells. They have peered into the Lasting and not the Passing; into their own Immortality; which lies forever in them!

In an earlier work called ‘SELF-EXPOSED’ I described what happened to me. Here’s what I wrote: ‘I was by now only a pale shadow of the person I had been before. Outwardly, to world, I still appeared the same to the people who knew me but inside my life was a mess. I had become as it were two entirely different persons and I was very mixed up. I couldn’t, not for the life of me, understand what happening. Why, after all these years, was I suddenly going to pieces?

The most beautiful woman I had ever set eyes upon was dancing before my mind. She looked absolutely dazzling in her wonderful adornment of diamonds and gold, and as she danced she was beckoning me to her. Her beauty was such that words of mine can ever describe. I was completely obsessed by this wonder before me and blind with desire I started going towards her, closer I drew and then when I was ever so near, she, with a smile on her lips, reached out with her arms to embrace me. Something seemed wrong, so very wrong, this isn’t real this is crazy. My God what’s going on? What’s happening to me? No. No. Jesus my Lord, she was almost upon me. Jesus help me. Have mercy on me. Please my Lord —- PLEASE.

I was struck as if by a streak of Pure White Lightning. Body. Soul, and Spirit, all that I am, my whole Being, arched and shook as though I’d been electrocuted. The woman was gone, vanished in the flash, and before me now seated at a table was a Man. I stared hard into the face of this Man, he looked so stern and yet at the same time so calm and gentle, he was staring back at me and I had the peculiar impression that this Man knew everything about me there was to know, even more than I knew myself. Then, very slowly and deliberately, he nodded to me and was gone. But, his meaning was clear, Kneeling before me now was another man, his skin was black and he was as a slave from the olden days, he was knelt in the midst of great light, in a humble prayer of thanksgiving, and this beautiful light, far brighter and lovelier than our very own Sun, seemed only be shining on him. He raised up his head as he prayed in the light and I saw straight into his face, he was smiling, smiling with joy as if he’d —- FREED!

BLANKS, however bad you all are in your own poor Self know now of a certain Truth, I was just like you and if anything even worse. I’m telling you all this to give you some —- HOPE —- because I honestly believe that most of you, had you been given what I had received, would not have behaved with the same pompous attitude as what I did. I grew extremely Proud and Arrogant in my Self; I became Envious and very Suspicious in my Self; I was Angry and Violent in my Self; I also tasted the Greediness and Meanness in my Self. This went on for many years, and although I couldn’t understand the reason for it then, (I do now), I just couldn’t stop my Self from being so.

All that had happened to me was this: Whilst I was in my Darkness looking for my Lord, my SELF had ingeniously tried to distract me by creating a great vision of beauty before my mind; it had with amazing skill and power conjured up this fantastic Creature of Temptation and Lust in order to lure my mind away from thinking on God; it seemed to take it for granted that being mortal I’d be unable to resist the charms and desires of this incredibly fabulous —- CREATURE! Oh, how my Self almost triumphed. Oh, how hard I tried to resist her. But I could not, however hard I fought against it, stop from going to possess her as she beckoned me to her. And then, when I truly thought I was lost, with a desperate and soul-rendering cry out to my MAKER, I flung all that I was on His Mercy. She’d gone, vanished in the flash, and my Self, unknowingly to me, had suffered its Death-Blow.’

This is why for a number of years afterwards I lived my life in a form of illusion. It was nothing other than my very own Self knowing that its days of domination and control were numbered, it was having its final fling by hurling all what it still had in its power at me in its dying and forlorn effort to once again try to regain its awful hold over my —- SOUL. If I had embraced that beautiful and enchanting woman only God in Heaven knows what sort of a creature I would be today. I shudder everytime I think about it, because if I had I know one thing for sure, I would not be writing this book!

Like I have said many changes took place during those next couple of years, then one afternoon I again, as I had so often done before, entered into my Darkness to search for my Lord.... ‘I am not good and there is not a trace of any goodness within me.’ This is a shocking statement to make but it’s true. I have searched with all the power of my Being into my Heart of Hearts, seeking in great earnest to see if there is only a little of goodness within me, I found none, none of my own. So I looked about me to see where I was. I was surrounded in DARKNESS, all I felt, all I tasted, all I heard, even all I could smell, was Darkness. I was on my own in an eternity of complete and utter Darkness as if I’d been buried alive. But, don’t I know this Darkness? It seems a familiar Darkness. Is this my soul? Am I this dreadful and terrifying night? I turned to look at my body, it lay quiet and still very peaceful and calm. And then, the most fearful thought I have ever known flashed into my mind: ‘What if it died?’ If my Body perished now this Darkness would be all that I am forever and ever. I would be damned to all eternity in this, the everlasting Darkness of my very own HELL. This was far more frightening to me than all the fears of Lucifer’s Fires, (they are his hell), but this one is mine of my own making, it’s the Hell —- WITHIN ME.

Slowly, I started to tremble at what I’d become, convulsions flew up and shook through as I broke down in fear and began to cry, my body started shaking and jumping as I struggled to get free from the ultimate realization of what I now was, this madness within me. (to be in this state when the soul leaves the body must be the most terrifying and most pitiful experience that can ever befall any Human Being). I instantly thought of Our Lord, He had helped me before would He help me again? I didn’t deserve it but I knew of nobody or anyone else to turn to. Who was there now anywhere, as I was silently slipping into the jaws of my very own Hell, who could do anything to save me? There was only my Maker, the GOD who had made me. ‘Jesus’ I cried out. ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.’ Over and over again I kept calling His Name; softly then loud, loudly then soft. ‘Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.’ After a while I sensed I was slowly becoming calmer, I had stopped crying inside and my panic began to ease. Somehow it seemed that by calling out to my God my whole Being became soothed, my body again became peaceful and at last everything around me grew still and was perfectly calm. I looked all about me in my Darkness, above, below, everywhere, I then knew for certain just what it was.

And God said: ‘Let there be light’ and there was light and God saw the light that it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness. Those were the Holy Words what penetrated into my Darkness and burned forever into my mind. ‘God saw the light that it was good.’ There was no —- LIGHT —- in my Darkness, no Goodness at all, I am steeped in Sin and the Darkness is only its cloak.’

I am not an intelligent, nor for that matter a highly skilled person, I am the same as what you are; I am not some kind of religious freak trying to scare the daylights out of you with brimstone and fire, I am the same as what you are; I am not an angel nor a saint pretending to be holier than everyone, I am the same as what you are; I am not a theologist nor an expert on the church and religion, I am the same as what you are! But, I am a honest and a truthful man and what I have told you about me and my Self really did happen, and in the exact same way as I have described it. So, open up your eyes all you BLANKS in the world, can’t you all see that if something as remarkable as this can happen to such a pathetic little creature like me, then surely a similar wonder can evolve within —-YOU?

While we remain in the ‘World of the Senses’ the Self cannot be completely annihilated, this only comes to pass when we have finally let go of our corruptible and worldly flesh. So, for as long as we are alive in this world it will still try to make us err and do wrong. But it is much weaker now and it lacks the power and the strength it once had before, for it has been smitten with the overwhelming FORCE of the Lord, and it must always bow down to the might and the power of the Spirit, the NON-SELF. Still, given half a chance, it will if it can try it on and that’s why I said earlier that all good souls must everyday be on their guard to combat this threat. Lots of dear souls, by allowing their Self to again regain the upper hand, have slid back into the mire and the mud and have vanished forever.

Dear Reader, having almost come to the end of Part One of this work, I would now like to finish off by telling you the unfortunate, although very predictable, outcomes of the FOUR characters we have met in its pages.

The crunch came about 2 years ago when the Country went to the Polls. The VANEGO PARTY was almost wiped out! Of course Sir Jasper held on to his seat, but only just and with a vastly reduced majority. The rest of his Members are history.

Afterwards, rather than being known as the Leader of the Opposition Party without any clout, Sir Jasper retired and nowadays he and his beautiful wife Flavia are rarely seen anymore. They never have their pictures in the Papers, nor are they ever seen on TV or heard on the Radio. They do however, so I am told, still attend the odd Dinner Party and go to the Theatre now and again, but not very often. Today their lifestyle is nothing as near as the ballyhoo and publicity it used to be before. I imagine that this is because they are what the Journalists call ‘Yesterday’s News.’ The last thing I heard about Sir Jasper —- P. was that he had hidden himself away somewhere hoping he could again re-discover his earlier writing skills. Who knows, he may again someday produce another —- BESTSELLER!

I hope you don’t mind me writing this letter but I thought perhaps you would care to know how things are going with me today. Remember our interview? Well shortly afterwards I visited Meglovania to go to a funeral which Sir Jasper himself had asked me personally to attend, and as usual I jumped at the very chance to be near him. But, Mr K. while I was at the Service and again later in Sir Jasper’s house, I started experiencing inwardly a lot of strange and very unusual feelings, the kind of which I’d never in my life ever experienced before. They seemed to swell up from within me and I could not, however hard I tried to prevent myself, stop from thinking about how shallow and false everything in the world, including my —- SELF —- really were.

About a week or so later while I was trying my best to relax and unwind, of all the people in the world I suddenly thought of YOU! Don’t ask me why but you just seemed to spring into my mind. Maybe this was because I already liked you a lot —- you know I do don’t you Mr K? After thinking about you for a while I decided to inquire a little further into You to discover whatever it was that made you Tick. I didn’t find out much because there isn’t a lot about you for anyone to know, you seem to keep yourself very much to your self. However, I did manage to come up with the fact that you had written a little book entitled ‘SELF-EXPOSED’ which you were trying to get published somewhere in Britain. So, with the aid of my own special resources, I managed to get hold of a copy of your transcript. Incidentally, before all this I had been avidly reading and studying the BIBLE. I couldn’t stop myself from doing so because all I wanted to do was to know about JESUS. He, so it seemed then as it also does now, was somehow rapidly be coming all that really mattered to me, and apart from my deep Inner Feelings for Him, the Holy Bible was the only other means I had in the world to be near to Him. Then, not long after I had begun making inquiries about you, I experienced the most vividly revolting and most wonderful day of life, and it all happened so suddenly. One minute I was being thrown about like some crazy cork in a storm tossed sea of shame and remorse and unworldly fear, the next, without any warning at all, I experienced what you so aptly described in your book as the ‘Lightning flashing like fire across the midnight sky.’ Can you imagine my deepest joy when only a few weeks later I read what you wrote? After that it only seemed natural for me to get in touch with you and tell to you about it.

Ever since that remarkable day I have slowly but surely managed to dispose of everything I have ever owned. At first I found that this was very hard for me to do because I had so many prized possessions. Also, and no one knows this better than what you do, what made it more difficult for me was the fact of my terribly —- ENVIOUS —- nature. But I did it and now everything I ever owned, including my own personal Fortune, I given away anonymously to many of the various Charities throughout the world. Then with just one small case containing a few private requirements, chiefly the Bible and your little book, I dropped completely out of sight and ended up here in this very remote and pain-stricken Land.

There’s not a soul in the world who knows where I am Mr K. nor does anyone here know who I am! YOU are the only man on Earth I have mentioned it to. I am at last happy with the life I lead now, also I know that I can trust in you never to reveal my whereabouts to anybody, if that is the way I so choose, and I do. Remember during our interview when I offered my charms to you to and you turned me down flat? On reading your book I now easily know why. I beg of you now to please for give me for the way I ridiculously behaved that day. I was really very stupid and it is the one thing I will always regret ever doing. But, as I have said, those days are far behind me now and I have, of my own accord, chosen to spend the rest of my life in the service of all those in need. Mr K. there are so many of them!

When I was a lot younger, even long before I married my ill-fated husband, I had already accomplished myself as a Nurse. Maybe this is why I have chosen to come all the way out here and work amongst some of the poorest and most down-trodden people in the world. I do try my best Mr K. to give them a little comfort in their sickness and sufferings. Apart from nursing there is no other talent I honestly possess, so what right have I to waste it when so many cry out? I also feel that at last there is something of ME I can give freely to others. I care for and I love these people Mr K. for they are all so very BEAUTIFUL. Believe me, I have never known feelings like this before, I never ever even knew I possessed any? They all seem to accept me simply for what I am to them, their friend! Isn’t this a far cry from what I was only wanted for before, favours from my high position to enrich the Greedy, and my Body for quelling their Lusts?

Take a close look at me in the snapshot I’ve enclosed Mr K. I’m nothing like the beauty I used to be before, am I? Glamour and all the glitter that goes with it doesn’t worry or bother me anymore, because I have long since seen through the sham I once was and I truly hate my —- SELF —- for so being.

Dear Reader, when I first read this letter tears of joy streamed down my cheeks, they still do everytime I re-read it. I looked at the picture she had sent me, in it she was holding in her arms a little tiny and naked child. Her hair was now cropped very short and she was wearing an old and very well worn Red Cross uniform. I looked into her face, it was now showing a few wrinkles and her eyes were sunken a bit back into her head, she was smiling her wonderful smile and it seemed as if it was aimed straight into me. ‘Who,’ I said to myself, ‘ would ever believe now that this was once the sparkling and vivacious Lady Eva —- E. the Ex-President of Jealvania? The very same woman who once had the whole wide world at her feet?’ I looked again at the photo and into the face of this woman, and then I saw it! I saw a Beauty and a Joy such as the BLANKS of this world can never behold, shining out towards me from the eyes of this woman. Eva now was no longer anything that even resembled a BLANK, Eva was now what she had always been before she had even entered into this ‘World of the Senses’ and what she shall always be after she leaves it, a —- Princess of Light!

Dear Reader, perhaps you be saying to your Self: ‘Why does this fellow get so carried away? Nothing of what he has said is real, it’s just something he’s made up along with the rest of it. Things likes this never happen here in the Real World, do they?’ I agree with you, it may seem to you that I have made this all up. But, can YOU honestly and truthfully tell me that the things I have told you don’t occur? If you still insist then I have only one question to ask you: ‘Have you no —- IMAGINATION?’ I have! I am not speaking here about that thing we know as our worldly dreams. No, I am talking about the Divine Faculty that flows freely forth from the SPIRIT. It alone is the only active and creative Imagination what really works, so very much unlike the thing we use now in our idle day-dreams as a means to escape, (for a short while), away from this world and into the perilous realms of fantasy and illusion. The worldly imagination is the cause and the reason why Drunkenness and Drug Addiction is so rife in the world today. Many of these poor souls, our own Brothers and Sisters, are really very eagerly seeking for some peace of mind in a world that is sick. But, being led in the wrong direction they fail often tragically to find their true goal, and they end up as easy prey to the many forces of EVIL that are forever on the look-out for anyone they believe to be weak. May God in His Mercy bless these dear souls and unfold in their Hearts the only true ‘Way’ which can lead them to Freedom. Freedom from the countless bonds of Corruption and Sin that abound all around us here in this ‘World of the Senses.’

 In Part One I chose to embark upon an amazing and imaginary journey which took me to four of this worlds most Powerful and Richest Nations. I not only visited these Lands, but I also granted myself an exclusive and personal interview with each of their very distinct and illustrious LEADERS! Sadly though, towards the finish they had all, except one, become the pitiful and wretched victims of their own blind and futile worldly passions. This of course came as no big surprise to me, because to my way of thinking it is simply and without any doubt the extraordinary —- ‘Way of the World.’

The first whom I met was the one and only Sir Jasper —- P. He was the eminent and extremely arrogant Premier of Meglovania. He is now eternally swallowed up in his PRIDE. The second was General Rajin —- A. He was the cruel and extremely ruthless Ruler of Aggrovania. He is now eternally slain in his WRATH. Fourthly there was El Ova —- G. He was the ultra-mean and extremely rich Supreme Head of State of Avarivania. He is now eternally choked in his GREED. These three, who once strutted about on the world stage as if it were their own, are now the everlasting victims of their own Inner Passions, their very own —- SELF.

Of the quartet the only one in the work to survive was the third person I’d met, the stunning and extremely vivacious Lady Eva —- E. The phenomenal and over-possessive President of Jealvania. She also would be eternally wallowing now in her own ENVY had she not somehow found the Power within her to change. For Lady Eva had, through the gross misuse of her startling beauty, and even more so through her cunning and scheming envious Nature, cleverly managed to mould herself into one of the worlds most desirable and sought after women. The whole planet loved her and everyone, specially the males, drooled forever all over her. Putting it mildly she was the ultimate Success Story and the kind of —- SUPERSTAR that this world never seems to tire from ranting and raving over. Perhaps it would be only fair to say that the same as Cleopatra before her she could be genuinely classed as the worlds most outstanding Beauty, for this charming and enterprising young lady had, the same as Cleo, this whole wide world at her feet!

Not a soul in the world knows where she is except me! She sent me a letter in which she explained what had happened to cause such a dramatic change in her life. Since receiving the letter we have also on one occasion met, and that’s what Part Two is all about —- THE MEETING!

Towards the end of the previous chapter I briefly touched upon the faculty of DIVINE IMAGINATION, a power we all possess deep within us. This heavenly marvel and amazing power however remains almost totally hidden and far out of reach from the BLANKS of this world. Why is this so? It is so because it is so precious and rare that it cannot become vibrant within us until it has first of all been kissed by the Spirit of the Lord, and for us to receive such a Kiss we must be wholly prepared. This wonderful blessing flows from God’s Spirit straight into ours, our own —- NON-SELF —- (the highest and most noblest part of what we all are) and our lower Self, no matter how hard it may struggle and fight to resist it, simply can’t comprehend it.

This amazing power within us results in an active and truly exciting Creative Imagination which can and does work great wonders, that is why I am writing Part Two, so that —- YOU too if you so desire can become fully aware of one of the Great Wonders which lies buried and almost completely unknown in the depths of your Being. If, through the Grace of God, you can find your ‘WAY’ and understand what I write, then rest assured in the Holy Truth that you also, although you may not be even remotely aware of it, are and can only be an active and creative and living integral part of God’s Holy Wonder —- His DIVINE IMAGINATION!

My chief intention in this humble work is to take you, if you are so inclined, along with me on a journey which will take us both down an often narrow and sometimes hazardous road at the end of which we shall both arrive at the foot of an exceedingly high and beautiful Mountain. Regretfully, then I must leave you because this Mountain can only be climbed by —- YOU. It is a task you must undertake on your own because this sacred and fabulous Mountain is yours and it belongs to no other person but You! Still, don’t worry too much about this, because during the time we spend travelling together you will if you really want to, easily acquire all what you need to achieve your exciting and tremendous ordeal.

"When you see a man standing before you look at him in wonder and say to yourself here stands now the THREE WORLDS." Dear Reader, you may be wondering to your Self. ‘I don’t know what on earth he means and what’s so remarkable about that?’ I will tell you: He meant that whenever you glance or set eyes on any Human Being you can behold in that person before you not only a worldly creature, but a heaven and hellish one too! Or, putting it in other words, you see before you the basic Make-Up of the whole of Creation. All that there is, is standing there in the shape of the person whom you are beholding.

He goes on to say that the Three Worlds are entitled as follows: 1.The Dark Fire World. 2. The Heavenly Light World. 3. The World of the Senses. The third is obviously the one we are dwelling in NOW. Again you may ponder: ‘What has any of this got to do with me?’ I’ll explain: In the soul, (your soul), a man, (you), stands in the Abyss of Hell. In the spirit, (your spirit), a man, (you), stands reaching Upwards to Heaven. And, in the body, (your body), a man, (you), stands containing an extract of this whole wide World of the Senses. In plain and simple everyday language Jacob is telling us that the soul is Darkness; the spirit Light; and the body a mixture of —- BOTH!

‘Still,’ you may wonder, ‘how can any of this be possibly connected to the fundamental cause of the Whole of Creation, and where do I fit in? What is the union between the Universe and me?’ The answers are simple: Darkness and Light are, and they can only be, the two absolute and Eternal Opposites without which there is nothing be it in Heaven or be it in Hell, or be it even here in this fallen ‘World of the Senses,’ that could possibly —- EXIST.

So come on, come along with me down the Path to the Future. If you are a BLANK and it worries you so always remember —- I was one too, and so was Lady Eva! We both changed and so can —- YOU. So come, bear with me for a while, I promise you I will do everything I can to draw you out from your terrible Darkness and stand you in the brilliant and wonderful Light that remarkably is you, the —- REAL YOU.

Lady Eva: "Forgive me for a moment Mr K. but I am still a quite dizzy by the shock of the —- HAPPENING! I’m still so full of surprise. Seeing you, well, it was so unexpected. How on earth did you get here? Why didn’t you tell me you were coming? You are a very naughty man Mr K. If I had known that you were coming all the way out here just to see me I would have made myself a lot more presentable for you. Just look at the state of me, I’m a right old mess aren’t I? Oh, Mr K. if only I’d known?"

Mr K: "Dear Eva, please do not fret so. We are together now for a while so anything otherwise doesn’t really matter."

Lady Eva: "You are quite right Mr K. But I do have another dress besides this dusty and shabby old uniform. I would so much have preferred wearing it for you, it’s so pretty......"

Mr K: "Lady Eva !!!!!"

Lady Eva: "I’m sorry Mr K. but you know what we women are like, don’t you?"

Mr K: "I do my Dear, I most certainly do. Come on now you must try to unwind."

Lady Eva: "I am fine now Mr K. I believe 1 have nearly regained my steady composure. So, you would like to hear all about me? I’m afraid there isn’t a lot I can tell you because everyday in this barren and dry wilderness is more or less the same as the other. It is a far cry from the last time we met, remember Mr K? In that expensive and luxurious suite of Mega City’s grandest hotel?"

Mr K: "I will never forget it!"

Lady Eva: "Incidentally, Mr K. did you ever write the book which you said you may do? BLANKS or something similar you said you would call it?"

Mr K: "Yes, I did write the book, but don’t worry about its contents because it hasn’t been published, although I do have some hope that it may be soon. Anyhow even if it is who, as you said at the time, would ever believe what I’ve written? Didn’t you yourself call me a nut and say I’d be laughed at?"

Lady Eva: "I know I did Mr K. and I am truly sorry for calling you such. I now know for certain that you are not a liar and that what you say is only the truth. Besides, everything 1 revealed to you about myself was the truth and that 1 can personally vouch for. So who knows, perhaps there may be some who will believe what you write? I have an awful lot in my life to answer for Mr K. I pray and I pray that somehow 1 can make up a little for my terrible past, and 1 hope against hope that someday 1 will be truly forgiven for my many sinful deeds. Can you forgive me my Darling?"

Mr K: "Dearest Eva, I would like you now to listen very carefully to what I have to say. After you had decided that you’d had enough of the life you had been living and you packed it all in and left JEALVANIA. You then got rid of everything you possessed in the world and very generously gave away all the proceeds to those whom you thought it would benefit most. This considerate and most kindest of acts helped a great many in need, and what you did was a very good thing. Ever since then you have spent the whole of your time out here in this wild and very often hostile and desolate land, risking your life daily and slaving away tirelessly without even so much as a thought for yourself or your Being, in your relentless dedication to the wants of the poor and the suffering. The people out here love you for being what just you are their —- FRIEND —- and this is another good thing. In the years that lie ahead of you, and because of the undying Devotion and Love that’s within you, you shall gradually grow stronger and stronger in Beauty and Stature until the wonderful day arrives when you will change again into that which you have always been a —- PRINCESS of LIGHT —- and on that great day you will feel the whole wide world tremble in fear beneath your feet, for in that same instant this cruelly wasted and desolate Land will also once again become as it originally was, an abundance of Blossom and Bloom. As for the people for whom you have cared and loved so much they will all be yours! And you, as their Queen, will rule over them in a Kingdom the like of which this ‘World of the Senses’ has never known. Believe me Lady Eva, for being what you are today all I have said will come true, and this is an Amazing Good Thing. So, of course Dear Eva I shall always forgive you."

Lady Eva: "Oh Mr, K. you don’t half go on trying to make me feel better. What makes you say such exciting and wonderful things?"

Mr K: "It may sound strange and perhaps a little hard for you to believe everything I am saying right now, but before I leave you, I know for sure that you will understand everything clearly. Haven’t you just said that you know I’m no liar?"

Lady Eva: "I did Mr K. but you must please forgive me, I’m afraid that at the moment my mind isn’t very clear, I can’t comprehend exactly what it is that you mean."

Mr K: "Do not let it bother you for now and stop looking so bemused. Remember what I tell you now, and believe me before I depart ALL THINGS will become as clear as crystal to you. You have my word that this will be so."

Lady Eva: "Do you know Mr, K. It hasn’t really sunk into me properly and I am still finding it hard to believe that it is actually —- YOU —- sat down here talking to me. How did you get here? You just seemed to appear from nowhere. I looked around and lo and behold from out of the blue there you were ready to embrace me. I’m not dreaming all this am I? Because if I am I never ever want to be woken up. It was all so very sudden!"

Mr K: "I assure you my Lady this is not a dream and all which is happening is REAL. But, don’t ponder too long on how I got here, let it just suffice that it was ‘Out of the Blue.’ I am here because I have many things I need to explain to you; many wonders in your mind to show you; but mainly I am here because I —- LOVE —- you."

Lady Eva: "Oh my Darling Mr K. I LOVE you so very much too, and I do not mean this in an earthly and fleshy manner, such as the way I offered myself to you before. I wanted you then solely for my own Self-satisfaction. No, this time I know that there is a part of me which belongs only to you; and that a part of you is so very much mine. This I am sure Mr K. is TRUE LOVE, it feels like TRUE LOVE, it tastes like TRUE LOVE, and it is the only way I can honestly express the deep and wonderful heart-felt thrill I enjoy of knowing for sure without any bounds this pure and magical way that I LOVE you."

Mr K: "Dearest Eva, remember always that we are not two we are —- ONE. Now, how would you like to tell me a little about what you do out here? I know you work awfully hard, doesn’t it ever get you down? I also believe that besides all the hardship and poverty, there is also a Civil War taking place! Isn’t that enough to frighten you and make you want to pack it all in?"

Lady Eva: "It is hard work Mr K. but in all honesty it doesn’t gets me down. How could it? I love all these poor innocent and long suffering beautiful people, they are my dearest FRIENDS. They all trust me and love me and the satisfaction I receive, simply from looking into their eyes, is all the reward I could ever dream or hope for, it is far far more than I really deserve. Honestly, to see a great big pretty smile on a young child’s face, or a huge toothless grin from a funny old man, this isn’t just terrific Mr. K. it’s Heavenly! Truthfully, I cannot think of anything more precious on Earth. Only a few weeks ago a young mother with four small children approached me while I was resting for a little while, and laughing all over her face what do you think she held out in her hand and offered me? I couldn’t believe it. lt. was a Chocolate Biscuit! Wherever she got it from I will never know, it was the first l had seen in years. Anyhow, I looked at the gift she held out and politely said: "My dear, this is a lovely thing you are doing, but honestly, I cannot accept such a present from you. You must share it with your little ones." "No. No, Sister Eva," she beamed. "No, No, it is for you, isn’t it children?" "It is for you Sister Eva," they chanted, "for you our dearest and lovely nurse." I gratefully took the biscuit, but after they had gone my feelings immediately took charge of me and I burst into tears. I just couldn’t stop myself from doing so. Oh Mr K. they are so loveable to me here. So much different from those faceless and heartless shams I dealt with before; and the reason why they are so wonderful is because unlike Shams, these poor and innocent Angels of Heaven are —- REAL!

You ask me about the Civil War? Well Mr K. the fighting’s been going on now for years. We are closely involved in it because many of the wounded from either side are brought directly to us for treatment. As far as I know I believe that this is the only decent Medica1 Centre for hundreds of miles. Often, when there has been bloody aggression, the casualties are very heavy and when this occurs then it is all hands to the pumps so to speak. Have you ever seen M.A.S.H on TV? That’s exactly what it’s like when all they start pouring in. Don’t ask me what the War is about I haven’t got a clue. I don’t know how or why it began, or whichever of the sides is right in the matter. I only know that because it’s the norm in every War, both sides ardently claim and swear that ‘god’ is on their side. This being so, then at whatever the price the Enemy must therefore be thoroughly destroyed. I love my God Mr K. and the God I love hates and abhors the flavour of War. So, I do not know, and to be honest I simply just don’t want to know, the kind of a so-called ‘god’ these people so misguidedly serve. The ‘Ones’ who cause these conflicts however, rarely appear to suffer from it, it’s always it seems the Innocents!"

Mr K: "I understand Lady Eva, but tell me truthfully how does the life you are living now compare with the one that you led before, when you were so well off in the very rich and prosperous land of JEALVANIA?"

Lady Eva: "There is absolutely no comparison at all Mr K. I never lived what I could really call my own life then. To be honest with you, as a Human being, 1 simply did not EXIST! Of course, there was some kind of person which acted and moved and appeared to be me and all who knew me, including myself, took it for granted that this particular person was me. But it wasn’t Mr K. it definitely was not the absolute and positive —- REAL ME.

For all those years, almost half a lifetime, I had been living a life of illusion being fooled by my Self every single day into falsely believing I was what I was. Then, and magically through the Grace of God, I slowly became more and more aware of the gross uncertainty of everything around me. In earnest I began questioning all that there was about ME, and gradually at first I started seeing and understanding far more clearly the real truth of what I as a Human Being really and truly was all about. I understand WHO+WHAT+WHY I am quite clearly now thank goodness, because at last Mr K. I have discovered the —- TRUTH!"

Mr K: "Would you like to tell me about the Truth which you have found Lady Eva?"

Lady Eva: "You know I would Mr K. 1 have never had and I shall never have any dark secrets to hold back from you. Remember when you interviewed me in Mega City? Well my life then was at its peak so to speak. I had reached the highest point of what I now term as my ‘wasted years.’ I had not only become one of the worlds most foremost Rulers, I was also very rich, famous, and beautiful, the conceited and envious owner of houses and land. Nearly everyone in the world adored me because I had everything anyone could possibly hope for, simply putting it mildly Mr K. I was a SUPERSTAR! But as I have already mentioned sadly, throughout all those years it was not the real Me who was living. Everytime I cast my mind back and recall how my life was lived then, I can easily see through the fake which I was. No, it was not me who was living that life then, it was some hideous and terrible force; some irrepressible and uncontrollable power; what acted and moved in the depths of my Being. I was only as it were it’s instrument or slave, a BLANK empty shell, whose only function was to obey and conform to all of its bidding. IT being nothing other than my very own obnoxious and terrible —- SELF.

A soul is indestructible, it is immortal, or in other words it can never die. Therefore, whatsoever moves the soul at the body’s demise that very same force shall move it forever. If the soul is ALIVE at the time of its death it inherits Heaven because the Kingdom of Light is its home. But, if the soul is already DEAD at the time of its death it inherits Hell because whatever a person is outwardly in the eyes of the world, it is the very same inwardly out of sight from the eyes of the world, the only difference being in the outer it can deceive and pretend because here all things, including the Truth, can be hidden for a while. Whereas, in the inner it can’t because there all things, including the Truth, are eternally revealed, —- be they in Light or be they of Night.

The great Truth which I have discovered Mr K. is simply this: The world we all live in now is made up of countless and diverse creatures and things and it is nothing other than a Creation of Contrasts. This has to be so otherwise there would be no distinctions and we’d never know anything. What knowledge could we ever have of night if there wasn’t any day? Or, whatever would be straight if nothing was crooked? Things can only be known by their Opposites, and it is exactly the same with MAN! Man is a Threefold Being consisting of nothing more nor less than Body, Soul, and Spirit, and if, in his ignorance, he is totally unaware of his soul and his spirit, then that man lives solely for the sake of fulfilling his own bodily needs. If, being less ignorant, he is aware in his soul that the body can be easily manipulated and used by him to perform whatsoever he wills. He can, although still blind to his spirit, through the power of SELF achieve many great aims simply by forcing the body to conform to its needs.

The vast majority of those who live in the world exist in this manner. They spend almost the whole of their conceited miserable lives completely engrossed in their Self, caring little and worrying even less about anything other than that which ensures, so they blindly believe, their own Self-interests Don’t they understand that the opposite of Life is Death; the opposite of Darkness is Light; and the opposite of Evil is Good? Every single thing in the whole of Creation must have its OPPOSITE. It is the fundamental Law for all that there is including —- MAN. But, where are these opposites in man? They are, and can only be, found —- WITHIN! The soul and the spirit are the TWO opposite and opposing forces within every Human Being who’s born into the ‘World of the Senses.’

When a man acts and moves solely under the power of his own devices, he can only do so through either the body or soul. If it’s with the body, he can only survive via his animal instinct and he can never become anything higher than an intelligent creature. If it’s through his soul, then he is completely dominated and controlled by the power of the —- SELF.

With the Self, (soul), a man can cheat, deceive, slander, and even kill, in his unrelenting quest to gain any satisfaction. However, in his NON-SELF, (spirit), he cannot because he doesn’t need any satisfying! Cheating, and Deceiving, Slandering, and Killing, are deeds of evil that are born in Darkness and terminated in Death. Therefore, if the soul has the power to perform every obnoxious and foul deed under the sun it can never on its own be anything other than a Form of the Darkness. And what is its OPPOSITE? It surely can only be the Power of the Light!

In the Non-Self, (spirit), a man has no need to pursue any sort of worldly satisfactions, he has no wish to because he already knows in his heart that all the good that exists truly belongs to him. Be it ever so little here in the world but ever so much in eternity. He is also satisfied with whatever he owns even if it is, and it’s very often the case, —- NOTHING!

So, how can a person ever be rid of such an awesome and overwhelming thing as their Self? How can they ever hope to dwell in the peace and the serenity of their Non-Self? They cannot, at least not on their own, for no matter how powerful their own efforts might be to combat their Self a much greater FORCE is needed to subdue it. Sadly though this is a force they all lack because, again under the influence of their Self, they just don’t believe it exists.

In your book ‘SELF EXPOSED’ you described Mr K. how you experienced your own Self Confrontation. You wrestled for a long time fighting the problem, well so did I. We both had to and so must everybody else in the world, because unless it is challenged head on there is no other way of gaining the victory. I cannot speak for anyone else but from my own experience I can tell you how I fared during my painful and very harrowing ordeal. Sometimes, because of what happened to me compares very similar to your own experience, I would like, if I may, to use some of the same words and terms which you used describing yours. I hope you don’t mind me doing do so, do you?"

Mr K: "Dear Eva, you speak as you wish and do not worry about using anything of mine. I spoke from the spirit and the spirit is God’s, so how can I possibly stop you from using what in all reality is His? Please my Dearest continue."

Lady Eva: "Thank you Mr K. I feel a lot easier now.

When I first realized that something within me wasn’t as it should be, I started, in mildness of spirit, to enter deeply within into the depths of my Being. I could feel that there was something very wrong with me, and that something of the utmost importance was missing from my life. It did not take me very long to find out and realize that on my own in this state I was quite useless, because it soon became abundantly clear that I needed some HELP. I dearly wanted a friend or someone, being far more braver and nobler than I, who could untangle and unveil whatever it was I desired to know of my Self. This, seeming to be a reasonable request, prompted me in humility to pray long and often to Our Lord for such a power to come to my aid. Time after time I prayed and time after time nothing happened, I was so bad in my Being it seemed hopeless. I used to spend hours and hours gazing into the Oceans of Darkness which I knew were all mine. In silence I’d lay there detesting and hating with all the strength I could muster my very own Self. Oh, where Oh, where, I kept pleading from the depths of my Being can I ever hope to find such a —- LOVE?

No comfort came near me and nothing ever seemed to be happening to me, there was nothing whatsoever except the extreme Darkness and that ever so deadly Silence. Time carried on and on and the weeks and the months dragged by, but I would not give in because of the very strange and unusual feeling I could almost feel growing inside me. This feeling grew stronger and stronger, and then after a while it seemed to whisper to me, (without any words), saying that the secret to the whole of my Being lay in here, in the black and dark silence of my very own —- SOUL.

In the eternal vastness of the oceans of everlasting Darkness deep within me, I in frailness of spirit was feeling as though I was being tossed like some cork on top of a bottomless sea. Suddenly, from somewhere, I fancied I heard a noise which sounded similar to that of an extremely high-pitched and shrieking howl. Wondering whatever it was I turned and glared hard into the direction it seemed to be coming from, and then I saw —- IT. Hurtling at great speed and coming straight at me I spotted, to my absolute astonishment and amazement, this unbelievable and smouldering gigantic black WHEEL! It was spinning and whizzing around like some dreadful huge missile as it sped like grease-lightning directly towards me, and then, just as I thought I’d be crushed in its path, a few feet away from me it screeched to a halt. Amazed, I stared hard at this quivering and great smoking hulk. What is it I wondered? Then, before my very eyes, and to my utter surprise, it in a flash divided itself into three, and then slowly like triplets of fear they each began whirling around and about me. I watched captivated and spellbound, as if in some form of a trance, suddenly two of the wheels, ablaze and erupting like volcanoes of fire, shot swifter than arrows and disappeared out of sight. The other just hung there ominously before me. I looked at this horrible object and starting to shake for I saw that on its rim numbered and looking straight at me were these four hideous and terrifying zombie-like EYES! The wheel slowly turned and clicked to a halt, and there glaring right at me was —- EYE No 1:

‘I am the EYE of your PRIDE’ boomed a voice from out of its centre, then in a flash, and catching me completely by surprise, there sprang out and landed upon me this gigantic and stinkingly rotten Peacock-like bird. This disgusting creature settled roughly astride me firmly embedding each of its feet deep into my naked and heaving breasts. I screamed out in the agony and pain that it caused, and the more I screamed the deeper into me it dug its razor sharp claws. With my eyes almost bulging from out their sockets I looked on aghast at this unearthly creature, and I saw that from its head to its tail it was absolutely covered and crawling with maggots and lice that were dropping and falling down upon me. It felt as if I was being tortured all over with millions of red-hot needles as these obnoxious and extremely vile vermin ate into my flesh. Then, before I could even blink, in an instant it had pecked out one of my eyes and as it lay dangling on the side of my cheek, it pecked at it again and again until all of the colour had exploded and run down my face. It then did the same to the other. Suddenly, its claws still pinioned into me, it spun completely around and slowly proceeded from out of its backside to lay hundreds of dung-like looking eggs into my blood-stained sockets. These eggs hatched out almost immediately and from them there sprung into being these innumerable grinning and stenching very small devilish and rat-like creatures who, upon their arrival, swarmed all over me until I was completely lost in their midst. Then, as if by some given signal, they ravenously began to devour me. Helpless in my agony and pain I just lay there unable to bear it no longer. Oh, how I prayed that I could die. I yearned to be dead, but somehow I knew that I could never ever die, I was immortal, I just couldn’t be dead.

Suddenly, I was whole once again, but alas I found myself again staring straight into that hideous EYE. Again boomed the voice and again came the Peacock-like bird, and again it all happened as I have described. How many times I went through this ugly and most humiliating ordeal I will never know, but it seemed to go on forever until, as it had done earlier, the Wheel again spun around and slowly clicked to halt. And there staring straight at me and into me was —- EYE No 2:

‘I am the EYE of your WRATH’ roared the loudest and most terrifying voice I had ever heard in my life from out of its centre. Then out from it leapt the craziest and most Bull-like beast I have ever set eyes on. Knocking me straight onto my back this extremely horrible and snorting demon started trampling and stamping all over me at will. I couldn’t do a thing only lay there on the ground and watch my beautiful body being broken and twisted all up. Then, as I lay there helpless, this hideous creature began urinating all over me from my head to my toes, and this revolting and foul-smelling fluid, like some deadly acid, burnt agonizingly into my cuts and my wounds causing my flesh and my skin to smoulder and stink like the fires of hell.

After what seemed to be forever it threw me headlong again onto the ground and urinated all over me again. I couldn’t stand it anymore, I didn’t want to be anymore, but of course I was and what could I do? Over and over, I don’t know how many times, I suffered this terrible ordeal, it seemed endless. Then, as it had done before, the Wheel again slowly spun and clicked to a halt and ogling straight at me was —- EYE No 3:

‘I am the EYE of your ENVY’ hissed a voice from out of its centre. And, even before the words had died away, there appeared in front of me the most grotesque and venomous Snake-like fiend I could ever imagine. So terrifying was this slimiest of all creatures that no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t stop myself from shaking throughout the whole of my being. This abominable Worm, the basest of all other things, began hovering menacingly upwards and downwards between my naked and outstretched thighs, and I could clearly see that the whole of its horrible shape was covered in large rocky scabs, strewn here and there with wide open and weeping puss-ridden sores.

Again I wanted to die and to be no more, but as I lay with this abomination sliding into and out of me at will I knew I just couldn’t. Until, as it had done so before, the Wheel again spun around slowly and clicked to a halt and there madly looking straight at me was —- EYE No 4:

‘I am the EYE of your GREED’ growled a voice from out of its centre, from out of which pounced with jaws open wide the most detestable and murderous Pig-like being I have ever encountered. Instantly it charged my bare form to the ground and then, to my astounding amazement and utter astonishment, as I lay there it devoured my right breast all the way down to my ribs, it then did the same to the other. It then roughly snapped at my foot and began eating my leg all the way up to my trunk, it then did the same to the other. Next it was swallowing my hand and my arm right the way up to its socket, again it did the same to the other. All I could hear was the sound of my breaking bones, and all I could see was my flesh being torn and ripped apart from me again and again by the horrific black teeth of this ravenous beast. Suddenly it was looking me straight in the face, and as it did so, large drops of its disgusting spit drooled from its jaws down onto my face. It went into my eyes, my mouth, my ears, my nose, my hair, upon which with its blood-soaked tongue, this ogre from hell started licking me all over. ‘This is too much.’ I moaned and I groaned. But, then I had a thought, if this creature devours me I won’t be anymore!’ I had no such luck for as soon as this thought had struck me, I found myself again looking at the EYE, and again this murderous Pig-like thing was pouncing upon me. As it was so with the other Three Eyes this also went on and on seemingly forever until, and to my great surprise and relief, I was suddenly WHOLE again and the Wheel, with its hideous and zombie-like EYES, as it was in the beginning just hung there before me.

My respite didn’t last for long because less than a second and as if by magic, there again re-appeared and came to its side the other TWO WHEELS. Trembling with fear I watched as they began to ominously encircle around me. ‘What now?’ I cried tearfully. ‘What will befall me now?’ Staring hard into these other Two Wheels I gradually began to make out, amid the columns of stinking and sulphurous smoke they emitted, that each of them contained a FACE! But, they were not ordinary faces and far from it, they were the two most pitiable and torturous faces I have ever beheld. The one, who’s pallor was a fearsome grey, was filled full of desolation and wretchedness. It was swept through and through with unbearable grief and remorse, and its eyes were nothing but sadness and sorrow. In a voice filled with utter despondency and gloom it began crying out to me wailing: "Eva, Eva, my name is —- DEATH."

The other had no colour in it at all, it was so disfigured and repulsive, so mutilated and deformed, so grotesque and loathsome, in fact it was the ugliest and most inhuman face I have seen! It also, in a high-pitched and wailing voice filled with terror, cried out to me saying: "Eva, Eva, my name is —- HELL."

In a twinkling the Three Wheels had instantly become ONE again. I was still crying my eyes out as I stood and gazed at its smouldering hulk, and after a short while I began hearing, from out of its centre, this most commanding and very powerful voice which kept repeating over and over again: "Eva my dear. Do you know who I am?" "Do you know who I am?" "Do you know who I am?" "No No I don’t." I replied. "But please I beg you go away and leave me in peace." Ignoring me completely the Voice carried on:

"WHEEL of —- EYES, WHEEL of —- DEATH, WHEEL of —- HELL. I am the WHEEL of the WHEELS. —- The WHEEL of NATURE and the WHEEL of BECOMING. —- For I am the WORM and I never DIE. I am your SOUL and I stand in the ABYSS of HELL! I am the formula of all that is known and unknown; all that is seen and unseen; all creatures and things in the world, even the world, I am the cause that controls and dominates whatever there is or will be, I am the Intangible World. Every HUMAN whoever was, is, or will be, I am alike in them all for no life is a Life unless I am the ROOT —- I am the SOUL —- I am the LIFE!

Eva, know me now under my most glorious title, I am the SELF, the driving force of all HUMANITY, and with my four great POWERS there is nothing on the Earth to withstand me."

In a much quieter and gentler tone it then whispered softly to me and said: "Eva my dear there is no need for you to ever to be afraid of me, haven’t I always cared and looked after you here in the world? For not only are you exceedingly beautiful and rich, you are also the Envy of millions. There are so many my dear woman, who would do and give almost anything just to be in your shoes. I have certainly done you very proud so why, why throw all that you have away? Are you still not satisfied and do you still want more? Then see, I shall give you more! I offer you more glory and riches than you in your heart could ever hope to dream of. Come and see what I, your very own SELF, can give you."

Then from within the depths of this colossal Wheel I saw, set in the midst of a landscape of breathtaking natural beauty, the most magnificent and striking building I have ever seen in my life. It just stood there like one of those castles you see in a Fairy-tale, reaching upwards from the side of a hill with its brilliant white walls and its gold topped towers gleaming and dazzling in the fabulous light of the sun. Everywhere I looked I saw lakes, animals, it was all so outstandingly beautiful, so picturesque, so wonderfully perfect. And then, I just couldn’t believe my eyes, I saw standing on the path leading into this wonderland the figure of a man! He was stood there beckoning to me and calling out my name. This man was you Mr K. it was YOU! Oh how my poor weary heart leapt for joy when I spotted you standing there, you know the depth of my feelings for you don’t you? You were calling to me: "Come my dear Eva all this splendour is ours, come as quickly as you possibly can into my arms." As if being drawn by a magnet I began running as fast as I could towards you. I could not and did not stop myself because all that mattered to me was that you were there. Closer and closer I came to you and then, as I was about to fly into your arms I stopped, suddenly I realized that something was wrong —- very wrong. This couldn’t possibly be REAL! I looked at you and with a smile on your face you reached out with your arms to grab me. And then I knew for sure that out of all the people in the world, YOU would never ever be the one to tempt me. So what’s going on? What is happening to me? I turned swiftly around and fled as fast as I could back into my DARKNESS: "My God." I cried. "Jesus, Jesus, my Lord. Oh my dear sweet Lord Jesus save me, save me please from this terrible mess that I’m in. I beg you my Lord. —- PLEASE —- have compassion on a sinner like me."

Like a bolt from out of the blue I was struck as if by a streak of pure White Lightning. Body, Soul, and Spirit, my whole Being, all that I Am, arched and shook as though I’d been electrocuted. Thrown to the ground I just lay there tingling and trembling and sobbing with fear, crying out over and over again to my Lord. Suddenly a Voice was softly whispering to me, it was the kindest and most tender and gentle Voice I had ever heard, it was saying: "Rise up my child, rise up now and stand in the LIGHT of LOVE. Fear no more for your terrors have fled you. Know that from now onwards all shall go well for you. Go and seek Mr K. for he, through ME, will reveal many wonders unto you. Depart now in peace dearest Eva and remember that I AM is with you always."

Slowly I rose to my feet and I looked all around me, I sighed with relief when I saw that the man who had been beckoning to me had gone, the mansion had gone, and thank God that horrible WHEEL also had gone. Everything had gone, vanished in the flash, and only I alone remained standing tall and strong in the soothing rays of a Pure White Light. And this beautiful Light seemed only to be shining on ME.

Next thing I was back in this world again, but from that moment on Mr K. I knew what I had to do. The rest you know about. My life now has completely turned round and I am happier now than I ever could have hoped to be before. Of course my SELF still tries it on from time to time trying I suppose to regain some of its lost power over me, but this doesn’t really bother or worry me anymore for since I have been ‘BORN AGAIN’ I can easily resist its advances.

Being ‘Born Again’ Mr K. is the greatest yet simplest Truth which I have discovered within me. It not only unveils the true and exact meaning of what my life is about, it is also my only —- SALVATION. Every soul who has been born into this ‘World of the Senses’ should diligently search as hard as they possibly can for this Truth in an untiring and relentless effort to find it. Otherwise, if they do not, they will never be able to understand clearly that under their own power, and controlled entirely by their very own Self, they are absolutely Nothing, and are heading into nowhere except the Darkest depths of their very own —- HELL. Don’t you agree Mr K?"

Mr K: "Yes Lady Eva I do, because since you have been ‘Born Again’ in the Truth you cannot speak otherwise. Let me tell you how happy and pleased I am for you, your courage has proved exceptional, truly outstanding, and your valour has proved your worth. There are not many who could have endured such a terrifying ordeal like you, most would have fallen at the first frightening fence, for so awesome and overwhelming is the uncontrollable power of the SELF. You are indeed a very remarkable woman my Love."

Lady Eva: "Oh Mr K. stop praising me up and saying all those nice things about me all the time, I wasn’t a bit brave in fact most of the time I was absolutely scared out of my wits, especially when I was confronted face to face with that WHEEL. But, as nasty as it and those horrible Beasts were, the worst part was when it conjured me up that image of YOU! Shudders still run through me everytime I remember that nasty moment, because only God alone knows what would have become of me if I had not stopped from rushing blindly into your beckoning arms. I honestly believe I would have died on the spot and I’d now be spending the whole of Eternity forever and ever trapped in my very own —- HORRORS.

So powerful and terrible is the Force which the Self entwines around its victims, it binds and blinds it into almost total darkness, inducing them to believe that they alone are all that matter in this ‘World of the Senses.’ It hides them so easily from the Light! But was is it really? It is nothing but —- SIN. How? Because being sin it could only originate through sin. The Self is our sole inheritance of ADAM’S Original Sin, it is nothing other than a disobedience and turning away in order to usurp its own authority from God. In this state a soul whether it knows it or not is already Dead, and its only redemption is to return once again to its MAKER, and to throw all that it is Body, Soul, and Spirit, onto the eternal Love and Forgiveness of Christ its Creator. For it’s only then, when He sees how ashamed and how sorry we truly are for what we have done to His magnificent creature, will He in His Mercy, comfort and console the child whom He Loves. Only then will He send unto us the —- SPIRIT of LOVE. We know this is so don’t we Mr K?"

Mr K: "It is the greatest and most profound Truth in the whole of the Universe Lady Eva, for if this were not so then why is God? Who is Jesus? And what are We? Without this great Truth everything is meaningless, the same as we in our Self are and can only be unless we have been KISSED by the Spirit of Love. It was for this end and this end alone why God Our Father in heaven, sent down unto us His Only Begotten —- SON. Jesus is our Redeemer and

Saviour; HE alone can give us His COMFORTER; because He alone is the only ‘WAY’ we have in the whole of creation of enabling us to be rid of our terrible Self."

Lady Eva: "Dear Mr K. I love so much listening to you speak about such wonderful Truths, I loved too reading your book. Incidently have you written any other works besides ‘Self-Exposed’ and of course ‘Blanks’ which I haven’t read yet? If you have I would so dearly love to read what you’ve written!"

Mr K: "I will send you a copy of ‘BLANKS’ Lady Eva, and yes I have began another work entitled DARKNESS + LIGHT which I haven’t quite finished. However, and since we have now met again, I have been thinking about incorporating it, along with a text of our present re-union, into the transcript of BLANKS to turn it into a larger volume. The idea really strikes me don’t you agree?"

Lady Eva: "Whatever you decide to do Mr K. I know it will be good. You do what you honestly believe to be best, only please, don’t forget to make sure that somehow I’ll get a copy from you. I know you won’t let me down, will you Mr K?"

Mr K: "Of course not Lady Eva. How could I ever forget you? As it so happens I have a transcript of DARKNESS + LIGHT with me which you can read whenever you want to."

Lady Eva: "That is terrific Mr K. I will be so happy to do so. But first of all, and I won’ take no for an answer, I want you to come with me now to my quarters for some little refreshment. You are not going to refuse me, are you?"

Mr K: "On the contrary Lady Eva, I feel highly honoured. Besides, I feel a little tired and a short rest would be believe me most welcome."

Lady Eva: "Then come my Dear Mr K. Hold onto my hand and walk along slowly with me."

We both strolled hand in hand down the dusty and winding road which led to the Hospital camp, we didn’t say much save for her asking me why whenever I addressed her I always said Lady Eva? "You know I’m no Lady Mr K. so why call me so?" I answered her question by gently and honestly telling her that to me she was a —- REAL LADY —- and would always be so. She then beamed her beautiful smile at me and I fancied I saw her blush, but saying nothing I simply smiled back at her and we walked on in silence. So happy we were just to be touching each other.

Dearest Reader, please don’t think for one moment that I have forgotten all about you, I honestly and humbly assure you that I definitely have not. —- YOU —- are with me always at the very forefront of my mind. If this were not so then I couldn’t possibly be writing this book. So never I implore you ever think otherwise.

From the innermost and secret depths of my being, I firmly believe that the Holy Bible is God’s written word. I also believe that every sacred word it contains each have their own intimate and personal meaning to the person, or persons, who read them. You and I could both be reading identical passages and when we have finished the message which you derive could be altogether different to mine, although we have both been reading the very same words! This is how the Bible should and ought to be read. Otherwise, if we only took notice or listened to the commentaries of others, it would simply be just another plain and ordinary instruction book instead of the inspiring and timeless —- WISDOM which it is and can only be.

Perhaps, whoever you may be reading this book, you may be thinking to yourself: "What’s so special about that? A small child could easily figure out what he has just said." I couldn’t agree with you more, maybe I do sound a little childish. But, doesn’t St. Paul tell us: "Those who wish to become wise must first become like little children?" So, apart from the undeniable truth that Darkness and Light are both co-eternal and positive realities, from them there now emerges another great Truth: "God saw the light that it was good." This commanding statement by Moses has given rise to a second amazing and wonderful truth, the light was —- GOOD! So, if the light was good then what is the darkness? Obviously it is the lights contrast, therefore, it is and can only be —- BAD. "The light shineth in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not."

If as a small child I again reflect on my understanding, I now find that from these few simple verses I have now personally acquired two precious and eternal Pearls of WISDOM. I know for sure that both the Darkness and the Light exist, I know also that the one is good and the other is bad, but, is there anything else I should know? "And God divided the light from the darkness." They are DIVIDED! And what have I now? I have two separate and distinct Identities; two entirely opposing Truths; two Kingdoms; two Principles; two different Worlds; and the TWO WORLDS are apart because it is God’s Unbending Law that they be so, therefore apart they must remain for all eternity, or for as long as the God of Creation wills them to be.

Again you could be saying to yourself: "So, he has a Dark World and a Light World which he honestly believes exist. What if they don’t and it is all a myth? We have all heard, at sometime or other, about the existence of heaven and hell but nobody knows for sure whether or not they are real, because nobody has ever came back to the world and proved it." Again I agree with you, and you are certainly not alone with these thoughts, for there are very few souls in the world who can state with true conviction that they do exist. The simple question I ask is this: Why are so many so blind? Is it because their own frail reason and understanding refuses to give them the proof, so by miserably failing to grasp this truth in their minds they conveniently choose to ignore it? Reason and Understanding are of little or no avail in the exciting quest for God’s Truth. A FORCE far more flexible and powerful is needed for such an enlightening quest. However, their uses will come later after the Truth has been revealed through Love to the heart.

Moses under the cover of his veil, and John in his mysticism, are here both relating unbounded Wisdom for me to acknowledge. They are really telling me something which God desires me to know, so it is up to me, in my own sincerity to figure it out. FAITH assures me that I was created by God; I am nothing other than His Delightful Child; He alone is my FATHER who loves me. And my Father, like any other good father here in the world and who loves his son; does not want me to be distant and ignorant of Him. No, He wishes always that I ever be near Him, and that I play an active and full part by partaking with Him in all of the wonderful work which He does.

As I have already said: ‘I have a Dark and a Light World within me that through their division exist as two separate and independent Kingdoms.’ And now, without any aid from my own uncertain Reason and Understanding, I must travel alone into the Mysterious Realms where they are forbidden to tread. Where are these Realms? And, being alone what do I possess to assist me? These Mysterious Realms are everywhere, in the world, in eternity, but even more so, they are —- WITHIN ME. What do I have to assist me? Only two priceless jewels called Faith and Light! Faith is an eternal part of my Being which, with its power and strength, always accompanies me wherever I go. My Light, is a tiny spark from the Eternal Flame of —- DIVINE IMAGINATION. My Faith is my strength and my Light is my life without which I would be powerless and blind. These two priceless jewels are all I require.

‘All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made.’ I am a creature so I am a thing, and being a thing I was made by Him. But why, from amongst all His great and wonderful works of Creation, did the Living God choose to make me? Who + What + Why am I to merit such Royal Esteem? And what have I ever done to merit God’s most precious gift of all —- ETERNAL LIFE?

In my own Self I am absolutely NOTHING at all only that which I was before God took me out of His Darkness. —- Darkness! His Darkness —- the First Principle —- THE ORIGINAL ESSENCE —- out of the depths of which all things created proceed. This is so because: ‘In Him and through Him all things have their being.’ But how and with what did God make the Heavens and the Earth and ME? What did He use and where did it come from? The answer can only come from HIMSELF ALONE and according to the Divine Mystery of the HOLY TRINITY. For although God is the One Original Essence, He is also Threefold in Persons! Therefore, there must lie in His Darkness the Originalness of all the wonderful works of His hand. This is the deep and unfathomable and unsearchable depth of God which no man in his reason dare plumb, because to put it simply it defies all comprehension. Many times I have tried with my reason to fully understand why the whole of my substance and being are mine purely as a gift from God. Because what could I ever in my Self have to lay claim to the wonder that’s me? But it doesn’t matter how hard or how long I try it is hopeless, and if I continue to persist in this manner I will never ever know Who + What + Why am I. In this vocation my reason must stand aside as if it were dead, for it’s my Faith alone which tells me that I am what I am because God is what He is! If this were not so there would be nothing whatever only —- GOD!

Love is Beautiful, Love is Magnificent, Love is Wonderful, Love is God. Love is Complete, Love is Perfect, Love is Whole, Love is God. Love is Excellence, Love is Grace, Love is Virtue, Love is God. Love is Glorious, Love is Splendid, Love is Supreme, Love is God. Love is Love and LOVE is GOD.

In my substance and being am I really and truly a part this Love? Is the ‘Essence’ within me a tiny spark of God’s Original Essence? If I am not then what else can I possibly be? Is this tiny spark the Light which shines in my Darkness and my Darkness comprehends it not? Am I an eternal Spectrum? A minute Atom evolved from the sublime ORIGIN of all that there is; including my —- LIFE? My Faith assures me I am and I have to be so, otherwise, how could I possibly exist?

Not long ago in eternity but aeons before the very first foundations of the Earth were laid, my Father took from Himself a part of His Love and I WAS! Now why did God do this and why did He cause me to be? Could it be that He did it in order to behold Himself? Is it through me, (His creature of Love), He beholds His Beauty, His Magnificence, and His Wonder? Is it through me, (The joy of His Heart), He beholds His Completeness, His Perfection, and His Wholeness? Is it through me, (The delight of His Eyes), He beholds His Excellence, His Grace, and His Virtue? And is it through me (His Child), He beholds His Glory, His Splendour, and Supremacy? —- Is this the reason I am what I Am?

In my original ‘Essence’ I am the image and likeness and revelation of LOVE. In me and through me God beholds the whole of His Majesty, for I am beautiful, magnificent, wonderful. I am complete, perfect, whole. I am excellence, grace, virtue. I am glorious, splendid, supreme. And why am I so? I am so because I am a ‘god’ insofar as I am His Child alive and active and glowing in Him, and He is my God ever glowing in me. Other than this what else could my Father mean when He commanded: —- ‘Let there be LIGHT?

Concerning what has been said so far about Darkness and Light: i.e. Light being good and Darkness its opposite, also that in God and through Him all things have their being. The question our Reason now asks is: ‘If all what’s been said is true, that all creatures and things have their movement and being in God, then surely it must follow accordingly that these TWO WORLDS —- Darkness and Light, are contained in Him too? If this is so then who needs God who, even in the slightest measure, commands evil?

Through its own pathetic shallowness Reason is bound to ask this for it cannot ask otherwise. But I earnestly and fervently implore every soul born into the world never ever to dwell on such terrible and inconceivable thoughts. God alone is —- ETERNAL LOVE. Perhaps at this point I appear to be a little mixed up and contradictory, but bear with me and I shall, as well as I am able, try to clarify this amazing phenomenon by explaining what everything was in the beginning; is now; and will be; forever.

The goodness of God breaking forth into a desire to communicate good was the cause and the beginning of the creation. Hence it follows that to all eternity God can have no thought or intent towards the creature but to communicate good; because He made the creature for this sole end, to receive good. The first motive towards the creature is unchangeable; it takes its rise from God’s desire to communicate good, and it is an eternal impossibility that anything can ever come from God as His will and purpose towards the creature but that same love and goodness which first created it; He must always will that to it which He willed at the Good, the unchangeable, overflowing fountain of good that sends forth nothing but good to all eternity. He is the Love itself, the unmixed, unmeasurable Love, doing nothing but from Love, giving nothing but gifts of Love to everything that He has made; requiring nothing of all His creatures but the spirit and fruits of that Love which brought them into being. Oh, how sweet is this contemplation of the height and depth of the riches of —- DIVINE LOVE!"

The beautiful and spiritual pen of William Law has here made it abundantly clear to anyone whose eyes have been opened that, confirming my belief, God alone is the one and only —- ETERNAL LOVE. But still the question remains: ‘If God is all Light and Love, then what has become of His Darkness?’

Since the beginning of Time there has been only a few chosen souls who have ever been allowed entry into the mysterious and unfathomable depths of GOD’S BEING. Of those that have, some can only speak to us in silence about the wonders they have seen, others in brief and sporadic sentences. But in the person of Jacob Boehme (1575 - 1624), we have one of the most amazing Christian souls of all time. His experience and visions of the Eternal Nature of God, and of the soul including Man and the Cosmos, is such that if it were not for the want of adequate words, (like those angels converse in), in which he tries to relate to us the treasures and marvels which he has observed in his spirit, his influence today would be immeasurable to the people of Earth. In the words of the beautiful Evelyn Underhill: "He remains one of those cloud wrapped mortals who must be re-discovered and re-interpreted by the adventurers of every age."

Keeping these words well in my mind I will now enter into what I have termed as the MOTIONLESS DEEP, (for reasons I’ll explain later), but which J.B. describes as the MYSTERIUM MAGNUM, or in even simpler words —- THE STILL MYSTERY!

 Before anything ever was: Darkness and Light, Creatures and Worlds, Plants and Things, —- EVERYTHING —- there was only the ‘Still Mystery.’ In this ‘Stillness’ there was not as yet any ground, it was groundless; any cause, it was causeless; any base, it was baseless. There was no centre-point, it was pointless; no beginning, it was beginningless; and no end, it was endless. Here, there was no light or darkness, no good or evil, no great or small, no hot or cold, and no thickness or thinness, for ideas such as these can only be grasped when the different, the definite evolves. In here there is everything and nothing. For it is an —- ABYSS wherein all is as yet asleep.

Having not yet come forth from this ‘Stillness’ lies the Holy Trinity —- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, —- here also lies the whole of Creation with all that there is in Heaven and Earth. And, stirring deep in the depths of this unbounded Stillness there moves an ungrounded and unoriginated —- WILL!

"A will is thin or obscure, as if it were nothing, therefore, it is desirous, it willeth to be somewhat, that it may manifest somewhat, therefore it desires itself, for there is nothing other as yet that it wants. So it goes forth searching to possess itself and to behold itself in itself. To do this the first thing it does is to fashion for itself a MIRROR in which it may see itself. But, what sort of mirror, and what are its qualities?" To J.B. (who has visited here), it is simply a two-way mirror of combined Reason and Imagination! A mirror which shows infinitely more than ordinary logical forms.

This mirror, to the Divine and Imaginative —- EYE —- which looks into it, reveals the entire totality of all that can be and will be, in every shape, every colour, and every form. Also, it reflects the —- HOLY TRINITY; for there is nothing whether it be in Heaven or upon the Earth which did not, at the outset, become manifest in this mirror. J.B. often refers to this mirror as God’s visibility, or the eternal Wisdom and Idea, but his favourite designation is that of a —- MAIDEN —- . So, what was just a mirror is now a maiden who stands, on the threshold of eternity, before the One God who has given Himself up to Self-manifestation, and who, as if so to speak, by showing Him His Kingdom, His Power, and His Everlasting Glory, gently encourages Him to behold Himself. SOPHIA —- (the eternal Idea or Wisdom) is referred to as a maiden, because it doesn’t give rise to anything, it only receives and throws back the likeness. And even though it is co-eternal with the One, it is not the One, it is simply the friend of the —- ONE!

The ungrounded, incomprehensible Will, which is the One, is nothing yet everything, apprehends and finds itself, and the unity beholds itself as a trinity, and the trinity beholds itself as a unity. This is how the very first Will, without any beginning, and which is neither evil nor good, generates in itself the One Eternal Good as a comprehensible Will, which is the ‘Son’ of the unoriginated, ungrounded Will; it is in here, in the One Eternal Good, in the ‘Son,’ where the very first Will grasps and finds itself, and the ‘Son’ and the Will (God) are, without beginning and end, the same forever and ever. The ungrounded, unoriginated, Will eternally lives and moves through its begotten ‘Son’ so bringing itself into an everlasting Visibility of itself. The first Will is the —- FATHER, the generated Will the —- SON, and the going out of the Father, through the Son, is the —- HOLY SPIRIT.

Still, as yet in this first mirroring we haven’t arrived or reached the LIVING GOD. "It is a life, and still it is no life, a figure of life and an image of life." So far God sees Himself only as a means of Becoming; and He beholds in the mirror only a wealth of His Glorious Potentiality; which as yet has not been realized. Here everything is a kind of Magic, the magical images without reality. This mirroring is a Life yet no Life; a Spirit yet no Spirit; a Self-awareness but as yet only a dim and dreamy Self-awareness. Sophia stands before God as if in a vision, a morning dream of eternity, prophetically revealing to Him what He can become and what He can make of Himself.

So, how does God become Living? How does He become Triune? J.B. takes great pains to tell us that this can only come about by means of the —- ETERNAL NATURE. Nature is the medium of all manifestation, which not only acts but it also provides a Contrast to the Maiden, —- the eternal Idea. God, in deep and peaceful thought, contemplates Himself and all His Wonder, as the Maiden shows them to Him in the mirror. The Will becomes thrilled, and what it sees in the mirror it desires that it shall be something more than just an image; it shall become REAL! Not only does the Will become desirous and eager, but Wisdom too, Sophia, thrills with rapture and yearns and longs for the manifestations of the marvels and wonders of Wisdom, even though —- SHE herself is all these marvels and wonders. In this marriage of joy and desire, of imagination and desire, the eternal Nature hidden in God is aroused, and it now comes forward as the Contrast of the Idea. The birth of the eternal Nature completely depends upon the magic of the Desire, and it is the only means of turning non-existence into existence without the use of material means. For whatever is born and comes into being arises, in the last resort, from Desire and Imagination.

Here we have one of J.B’s most characteristic features, in that he interprets Spirit —- even the Spirit of God —- as desire and imagination, as Will and Fancy. And here he stands in direct opposition to those who exclude any form of fancy in God. A God without fancy, who is only pure reason, pure thought, and a bare and BLANK intelligence, is for J.B. an abstract God and not an actual Living Spirit. Also, and without any doubt, a God with no fancy could not, in any way, have created such a world as the one we all live in, because this world, both in its nature and history, is moulded and influenced everywhere by fancy, is actively saturated by the single principle, which reveals itself in an endless wealth of separate forms that are incapable of being merged in general conceptions. But, there could be no fancy in God unless there were nature in God, and J.B. by the very fact that he speaks of a Mirror of Imagination, already points to nature as a potency in God Himself. For fancy is precisely, in the form of ideality, the connection between Spirit and Nature. Therefore, because God is the unity of Spirit and Nature, He is not only Intelligence but Fancy also. A —- FANCY —- born of His Light and radiated through and through by His Wisdom.

The will is the innermost thing in a man; and fancy, the forming and image-shaping energy, is its necessary compliment. It is impossible to will, or to hate, or to love, purely the abstract, but only that which shows itself in an image and shape. The will cannot act without imagination, because a will must have an object; but any object posited by the will lies in the future and must be pictured by imagination. A will must determine itself according to motives, love or hatred, hope or fear, good or evil, and all of these things are IMAGINATIONS. The difference between all Human Beings depends upon this. "Where thy treasure is, where thy spiritual and volitional image is, there also will thy heart be!"

The nature concealed in God is through the divine Desire and Imagination, awakened and started into action. The nature is not matter and it must never be confused as matter in God. Matter is not original, it is only a by-product; and we would have a more accurate idea of the Eternal Nature if it were defined as a kind of spiritual —- POTENCY —-. This spiritual Potency is impersonal and selfless, yet, according to J.B. it is "A will that has fountains of forces, that pour forth in an infinity of many thousand times ten thousand particular wills. For life consists of many wills. Each of the forces in the eternal nature has its own will, and each of these wills is against the other. And life would be sheer hostility, unless all these powers of life gained a gracious Lord, under whose control they may abide, and who is able to break or bend their strength and their will."

With the springing forth of the Eternal Nature a denseness appears in contrast to the pure light and spirituality. This denseness is vital, for without it the light cannot succeed in showing its glory. It is a thickness that offers itself as an opposite to the thin. The thinness is pure spirituality, the thick the condition in which the thin, (Spirit), gains its life and its fullness. Now, we have at last arrived at what I referred to earlier, we have a —- CONTRAST!

The Divine Will has divided itself into two in order to found an eternal distinction. God has been obliged to do so for His necessity to reveal Himself as the Living God. He has founded an eternal contrast in Himself by producing, if we may so say, an Anti-Divine Will, a Will which is born from yet separate from the Unity. There are now TWO centres in God, the Nature-Will and the Spirit-Will. The Nature-Will is the particular or Self-Will in contrast now to the Universal Will, which wills the one and the whole. It is the No-Will in comparison to the Yes-Will; the Will of Discord in contrast to the Will of Harmony.

How this is caused is better understood in what J.B. terms as the SEVEN NATURAL PROPERTIES, by which he means the form-giving, nature- fashioning energies. "Nothing gains shape in nature without the aid of these Seven Forces." The properties consist of two separate triads: The first is the negative and a DARK triad, where nature shows that even with all its power, it is, and can only be, an unsatisfied hunger and an anxious and eager restlessness. This triad is made-up of properties One, Two, and Three. The second is the positive BRIGHT triad wherein the nature surrenders itself and is transformed into the Light for the shaping and showing forth of the eternal Glories. This triad consists of properties Five, Six, and Seven. The fourth natural property is the Lightning; it is the CENTRE-POINT for the transition from Darkness to Light. —- Four is the centre of Seven.

If we look at these triads a little closer and in more detail, we will discover that the Dark Triad with its three natural properties subsists as so: PROPERTY NO ONE:- is an inwardly seeking desirous will that demands only itself. It is an austere, self-contained, gloomy and misty, harsh and sharp. hard and cold, force which desires to be alone. It cannot and will not stand anything other than what it is, therefore, it absorbs and consumes everything into and for, itself. It is called —- CONTRACTION.

PROPERTY NO TWO:- is quite the opposite, it is an outward bound moving desirous will which demands to spread itself abroad into widespread multiplicity, self-diffusing and self-propagating itself in every direction. It is called —- EXPANSION.

The two properties cannot escape each other and are therefore forever locked in a deadly combat. One tends inwards the other outwards; the one longs to hide and to hide everything into itself, the other longs to be revealed and to outpour everything out from itself; the more the one strives inwards, the more the other strains outwards; the one wishes to be still and the other always on the move; one seeks to withdraw and the other seeks to run. But, these conflicting forces are inseparable, they cannot ever be free from each other and they are therefore inevitably forced into collision. This absolute antagonism finally turns into an endless spinning and whirling, like the wild revolutions of some gigantic and horrifying WHEEL. It is a crazy and without end friction, and it heads into nowhere for it has no goal. And then, from all this appalling and dreadful restlessness there uncontrollably evolves the most terrible Anguish. This is the end result and it is —- PROPERTY NO THREE.

"One cannot remain in oneself and yet go nowhere." Both these contrasts desire to go their own separate ways, but they cannot break free from each other; they yearn to be apart, but their union is indissoluble; so, together they spin and whirl in wild confusion and frenzy. Anguish is, and can only be, the endless product of such dissension and tension. It is called —- ROTATION.

So, how then can nature be freed from this terrible torment? It cannot through nature because nature, in its own strength is helpless. A whirlwind as such can only be calmed by a force far higher and altogether mightier than nature, by that which is above and outside it, by God, the Eternal Freedom! Nature’s innermost essence is hunger, restlessness, and tension, which can only be satisfied, stilled, and calmed, by FREEDOM. So, there is awakened in nature a dire need for God and His Grace; an anxious and yearning desire for Freedom. Freedom also yearns after nature, so through the nature it may manifest itself. God is forever Holiness and Love, but before Holiness and Love can be revealed, there must be something which needs it, something that needs releasing from torment.

Thus, the higher desires the lower and the lower desires the higher. But, nature will not at first and of its own accord readily give up its chaos and subject itself to the —- IDEA. It simply cannot on its own. A conquest must take place, and the conquest only happens when Freedom, (The Spirit), allows its Light to streak forth into the absolute darkness and confusion of nature. An incredible terror tremor, like an enormous shock-wave, passes throughout the whole of nature. It is the Lightning Flash, —- PROPERTY NO FOUR —- which is the very first contact of Spirit and Nature. And nature, quite stunned at first, responds immediately with an amazing and joyous surprise, for through the Lightning, all that was gross, dark, and selfish, in nature’s desire has automatically melted away. Nature’s properties (One, Two, and Three), have swooned and sunk out of their selfishness becoming as those without any power of their own, now they are gentle and mild, and they willingly surrender themselves to the will of the Light, accepting without question only its Force and its Power. The Lightning, at first terrified, is transformed into a beautiful and mildly shining white light.

The Bright Triad begins with PROPERTY NO FIVE. Here all the powers have been condensed into the gentle unity and love of Wisdom, under whose peaceful dominance they have all been gathered. Hostility and strife has disappeared, and the powers dance and rejoice over the amazing change that has just occurred!

They are friendly and they all love one another. PROPERTY NO SIX. is the next plane into which they are led, into Intelligible Sound. Here they become select and are heard, because there is nothing but wondrous harmony here, and the tones correspond with the visible. Sound-figures and Light-figures abound in harmony and love. And what we term as music here in the world is very coarse indeed compared to these heavenly sounds, for no human ears or eyes are capable of hearing and seeing such pleasantry. Only the angels know anything of this.

PROPERTY NO SEVEN. is the conclusion. Here all the other properties and powers are gathered into a harmonious whole. The Seventh Natural Property is the —- ESSENTIAL —- it is Wisdom formed into Reality, Life, and Corporeity. Wisdom —- the image in which God, in His Imagination and Love, first beheld Himself in the mirror, in which He first desired His own actuality. It is now accomplished. Here is God’s all-encircling Universe; His Home; the House of the Holy Trinity; the Uncreated Heaven; It is His —- KINGDOM of unspeakable Beauty, "To describe it I have neither pen nor tongue. Even if this Maiden (Wisdom) happen to lead anything of it into our heart, yet the whole man is too cold and dark for us to be able to utter of it even so much as a vestige."

In eternity there is no such thing as succession as we have here in the world, there everything moves in a circular motion, nothing is first and nothing is last, all is simultaneous, and each individual power presupposes the others, for here all is constant agreement and unity. No-thing stands outside the another in eternity, yet it is different from it. The Seventh Natural Property is the REALITY and WHOLENESS; and if we were allowed to look into all the Properties, we would behold nothing only the Seventh, the Glory of God, for all other lies in concealment.

Created nature is a derived outbirth of the uncreated, being so it therefore consists, (however many the various different forms), of the Uncreated Properties. Here we have Contraction, Expansion, and Rotation; there is Lightning and Light; and we have Sounds and Tones with countless figures and colours. "A natural world, whether uncreated or created, would certainly be unthinkable if God were only the thin Spirit in which Deism imagines; if He were only pure Thought; if He had no fancy and could not perceive; or if God were not only the All-Knowing, but also the All-Seeing, All-Hearing, All-Tasting, All-Feeling, and All-Smelling God." So too, we have this natural world transfigured as the Uncreated Heaven, the fullness and pattern of the Glory of God and Creation when it is finally brought to —- PERFECTION!

The ‘Wheel of Birth’ in respect to the whole of creation was seen clearer than anyone by the prophet Ezekiel, when he was allowed to behold the Glory of God in a vision which he recorded for us in chapters i and x of his book. He gives us the ideas, but we must keep in mind that Holy Scripture only shows us the Glory of God as it is when it is turned towards the creation. The prophet saw or heard a whirlwind out of the north (the Almighty Will of God), and then he beheld a thick cloud and a fire infolding itself, circling and whirling about itself. We must think of this cloud as quivering with flame, and as if made one with the whirling fire. In this fire, which runs and whirls in itself, we have the ‘Wheel of Birth.’ It must also be noted that the self-infolding fire had a ‘brightness’ about it, and there was the appearance as of burning brass or amber rising out from the centre of the fire. The brightness that the prophet beheld round about the whirling fire is the splendour of light into which the fire is to be transformed, and the ‘burning brass’ out of the midst of the fire betokens the lightning, and the transition of fire into light. Out of the centre of this whirling and self-circling fire, this Wheel of Birth, this Centre of Nature, proceed the actual forms of life, the living creatures or cherubim, who represent the creation and the powers of creation, and who have, themselves, a glowing and radiant appearance. The prophet beholds the marvellous four wheels that move by the side of the cherubim, and his vision inspires a holy awe. For in each of the wheels there was another wheel equally large, so that each wheel could direct itself towards the four corners of the world; and their rims were full of eyes, as a sign that these wheels, which are emblematic of the circularity movement in the divine cosmical order, are intended to serve the living omniscient, and wise God. The cherubim go round about between the wheels, and these princes of life stretch out the hands which they have under their wings, and take coals out of the Fire, coals from the ‘Hearth of Life’ from the ‘Centre of Nature’ in order to execute the Lord’s Will, whether it be to make alive, or to perform the judgements of the Lord, and to afflict the sinful world with great outbursts of the terrible power of God. Even so, everything that’s been mentioned so far is only the substratum, the basis for the highest, it is simply the Vehicle. For far above all this, the prophet sees a vault, and above the vault, a Throne, and upon the throne, the LORD in the appearance of a man, with a brightness round about Him, like that of the rainbow that is in the sky in the day of rain. Ezekiel’s vision emphasizes quite clearly the fundamental Properties of Jacob Boehme. Darkness, Fire, and Light, the last being the gentle brightness which encircles the whirling fire. Moreover, the Prophet tells us that the fire proceeds from the Darkness, and the Light from out of the fire!

This turmoil and unrest can only be eased when Freedom, Wisdom, Love, and Light, descend into it; then it becomes the helpful basis for life and the activities of love. Love cannot exist unless it has a powerful Self which willingly denies and surrenders its-Self to it, because without the stinging and hard force of Self the imparting power of love only leads to a vague fusion with the illimitable. Without the austere and sharp element in Self, the gentleness of love would degenerate into effeminate sentimentality. For life is only good and wholesome and sound when the restlessness and the anguish of Self, with its sharp, vehement, and passionate element, its hungering and its thirsting, is subordinated to higher forces and powers by which the willing and trusted subordinate to the higher power of the Light, then the ‘Wheel of Birth,’ set on fire through the disorder and chaos in the natural foundation, produces an evil and pernicious inflammation in the centre of its blind forces, this may spread itself into the whole make-up of the soul, even penetrating the entire intellectual and spiritual constitution, if this happens the only result is, and can only be, total and utter confusion. Desire and Fire are what J.B. has in his mind when he not only finds in the Centre of Nature the Foundation of Life, but also the Foundation of —- HELL!

He frequently designates the Centre of Nature to a Fire-pregnant triangle, a triangle that smoulders dimly, not as on fire. This triangle consists of the same Three Properties as the ‘Wheel of Birth.’ This same awesome triangle exists in the eternal Nature of God; but in God it is eternally outshone and covered up by the Light. It dwells in every creature, in —- EVERYMAN. And it must be our aim to allow the Spirit to be Lord, to keep this triangle hidden and unable to rise to the Light, and so preventing its fire to break forth. As it is in God, so also it must be in every true Christian, it is to be eternally quenched by the Light, by the Love of Our Lord, the Wisdom, Gentleness, and Humility, of the Holy Ghost.

Another name given to the Centre of Nature, is the Life-Worm. The ‘Worm’ (or Serpent) is the same as the ‘Wheel of Birth.’ Viewed objectively this ‘Worm’ is the Fire, (the same Self-infolding fire that Ezekiel saw in his vision), viewed subjectively it is Desire. As long as the ‘Worm’ is subject to the power of the Light, freely allowing its Properties to furnish the ESSENTIAL CONTRAST which life requires, the inward feeling is that of true repose and harmony. But, if the ‘Worm’ crawls out from its fettered and concealed condition and acquires its own Self-conscious being, it becomes hellish. As it develops, the ‘Worm,’ which in the beginning is impersonal, grows into its own personal entity, and the more it reaches the point until towards the end it is not so much the personality who is lord over the ‘Worm’ but the ‘Worm’ who is the lord over the individual. And when the ‘Worm’ attains complete dominion, it becomes the Dark Fire of Hell. "Their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched." (Mark ix. 482.

Returning to the Holy Trinity, we began with the ‘Still Mystery’ —- the Abyss, in which a Will arose. The Will sought and formed for itself a Mirror (The Eternal Idea), in which it could behold itself of becoming Three-fold in an everlasting Kingdom. But, as yet there were no real or actual differences in God; the whole lay simply as in a magia, as a pure image. For the manifestation of life and reality, and for their actual development, there was the need of a contrast, this being the Eternal Nature. The Eternal Will (God), united with the Eternal Idea (Wisdom), creates out of itself the Eternal Nature, and by so doing gains Life, Actuality, Definition, and Attributes. In so far as the One Eternal Will enthrones itself as Lord over the Fire and the Dark Nature Principle, God exist as the —- FATHER! And, in so far as the One Eternal Will makes itself as Lord and bearer of the Bright Light Principle, that gathers into its unity the in exhaustible powers that come forth from the Father, God exists as the —- SON! Without the Son, the Father would remain a ‘Dark Valley.’ But the Father, in His infinite desire for manifestation and love, begets the Son through the Fire or Lightning (the Fourth Natural Property). He begets Him as the —- WORD of POWER. Without the Son we can only imagine the Father’s character as that of severity. The Son is true Gentleness, He is the Father’s Heart, Love, Light, and Beneficence. He is, as it were, the Key and the Keeper in the Holy Trinity. For the Son unlocks the Light Principle, then the Love flows forth, and everything is enabled to stand in the Fire of pure and heavenly Love. From the Father and the Son proceeds the Spirit. For when the Light of God is born in the Father, so, in the kindling, there goes forth a Spirit rich in Love, Odorous, and of pleasant Taste. This Spirit is the Eternal Will in so far as it sets itself as Lord over the Principles of Fire and Light in their union, and it develops, shapes, and fashions the manifoldness which is contained in the Son, and so confirms the Eternal Birth of the Holy Trinity. It is the —- HOLY GHOST! The artist that forms and shapes, and completes the eternal Wonders.

Thus God is one single inseparable Being, but Three-fold in variety of Person, one God, one Will, one Heart, one Desire, one Joy, one Beauty, one Lord, one Abundance of —- ALL THINGS —- without Beginning and without End.

By Triad we are now thinking of the Holy Trinity, and not of the others that were discussed in the Nature Process. However, there is a Fourth element which belongs to the Trinity: not as a fourth Person, but an impersonal thing, which is different from God, yet inseparable from Him, in other words, the Eternal Product that is developed through the process which has already been described as the Seventh Natural Property —- the Glory of God —- the Uncreated Heaven. J.B. also designates it as the ESSENTIAL, or Wisdom formed into actuality, the Maiden who generates nothing, but reflects the wonders of the Triune God; His image and all His innumerable Riches. In the ‘Still Mystery’ the Maiden stood before God, displaying to Him all His hidden glories, now she shines them forth in revelation. The Maiden, the Wisdom, the Glory, the Uncreated Heaven, the Unlimited powers of the Living God. (Symbolized here in our own created world by the STARS in the sky).

This Light is not a created light, it is not the stars or created spirits; it is the —- UNCREATED LIGHT. ‘The seven lamps of Fire burning eternally before the Throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.’ (Rev .iv .5), i.e. the seven eternal fundamental powers that penetrate and illuminate the infinite multiplicity of the riches of the Glory of God. And, God acts in the world with the powers of His Glory, and reveals Himself both according to His Wrath and according to His Love. At certain moments in time, and with many various symbols, God has shown His Glory to human beings, but no two persons, either prophet or saint, have ever precisely beheld the very same vision.

J.B. cannot explain this more fully, for he knows that it is impossible for us to know God outside of Nature. Outside of Nature, the Deity is called Majesty; but in Nature He is called Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; Wonderful, Counsel, Power! "For whatsoever is without Nature could in no wise help me. I could not in eternity either see, feel, or find it , because I am in Nature and generated from Nature." Jacob Boehme cannot, and will not, recognise nothing as living, unless it is in —- NATURE!

So, whoever you may be who is reading this book, you now have a brief and simple outline, I emphasize the word simple, of the amazing and wonderfully enlightening doctrine from that humble man of god —- Jacob Boehme. In his works J.B. has sown for us here in the world the seeds of Divine Wonder, and it is now up to each individual to reap, if we are so inclined, the fabulous —- LILY. If you believe and understand, be it ever so the little, what this Pillar of Christianity tells us, then, as I said earlier, go seek out his works.

In his last published work, which he wrote in 1941 during the German occupation of France, Nicolas Berdyaev again gave Jacob Boehme’s doctrine of the ‘UNGRUND’ a central place as the foundation of the true philosophy of freedom and ‘personalism.’ He describes him as: "The first man in the history of human thought to see that an ‘existential,’ groundless freedom lies at the basis of All-Being —- the passionate desire of the ‘Nothing’ to become ‘Something,’ the desire of the darkness for the kindling of the fire and light. And the ‘Godhead,’ at the depths of which this Ungrund lies, is that ultimate ‘mystery’ which is the basis of the God of Love, whom we worship in Christ Jesus."

Before concluding this chapter, I would like —- YOU (The Reader), to read something from the Teutonic Philosopher’s work! I sincerely believe that if every soul in the world would read, and understand clearly, what the great man aims at, then this world, and everything in it, would be a far better place than it is. I have chosen the Preface from his enlightened work ‘THE THREE PRINCIPLES,’ and here, in his very own words, is the simple yet deep and personal truth about our very own Being!

That it may be understood how all this is, I will describe the —- THREE DIVINE PRINCIPLES —- that therein all may be declared, what God is, what Nature is, what the Creatures are, what the Love and Meekness of God, what God’s Desiring or Will is, what the Wrath of God, and the Devil is, and in conclusion, what Joy and Sorrow are; and how all took a beginning, and endures eternally, with the true difference between the eternal and transistory creatures; especially with Man, and his Soul, what it is, and how it is an eternal Creature: And what Heaven is, wherein God and the holy Angels and holy Men dwell; and what Hell is, wherein the Devils dwell; and how all Things originally were created and had their Being. In sum, what the —- ESSENCE —- of all Essences is.

Whoever you may be reading this book, I leave YOU now to glimpse into your very own eternity, and to see clearly just where you —- STAND!

Lady Eva: "He‘d been out playing in the rubbish tip and had fallen on a rusty old tin nastily gashing his poor little leg. The Doctor has stitched him up and given him an injection, he didn’t like that, you should have heard him yell! Oh Mr K. just look at the state of me, while you were asleep I decided to tidy myself up a bit by putting on my one and only best dress. But look at it now! It’s covered all over in bloodstains and I look terrible in it. Oh, I did so want to impress you so."

Mr K: "Lady Eva, you will always impress me, and you don’t have any need ever to go out of your way trying to do so. You still look very nice in your pretty best dress, in fact, every time I look at you, you seem lovelier and lovelier."

Lady Eva: "You always say the nicest things to me Mr K. But honestly, am I not a right mess?"

Mr K: "Please dear Eva, let’s not go into all that again!"

Lady Eva: "I am sorry Mr K. but for just this once I really wanted you to see me looking as good as I possibly could for you. Anyhow, did you have a good rest before you were so rudely awakened by the loud noise that went on outside the hut?"

Mr K: "I did, and I now feel most refreshed. Tell me, for how long did I sleep?"

Lady Eva: "You had a good hour Mr K. While you were sleeping I read through the text that you gave me and to tell you the truth I thought it was wonderful, not only for me but for anyone else who will read it. I love dearly reading whatever you write about Mr K."

Mr K: "I am not so sure that it is that well written, but it is the TRUTH, so I am pleased that you liked it."

Lady Eva: "Liked it Mr K. I really loved it! You think so much of your good friends Jacob Boehme and William Law, don’t you? And judging by what I have read in your own works concerning them, I, for one, am very glad that you do. They are, without any doubt, two of the most powerful and Christian Minds of all time. How is it that the pair of them, especially Jacob, have such a tremendous effect upon you? Has this always been so, for you refer quite regularly to them in your writings?"

Mr K: "No, it has not always been so Lady Eva, and as for the effect they both have on me I easily comprehend it; but to try and explain —- well, I don’t know whether I can, I have never been asked to do so before, and I am not so sure that my explanation will please you. Still, for your sake my Dear, I will do my best.

Many years ago, when I was still nothing other than an empty BLANK, I happened one day to be in a bookshop, I was just having a look around and from time to time glancing through some of the many books that were available there. Then suddenly, and for no apparent reason, I picked up a certain book, paid for it, and promptly rushed home to read it. The contents of this book were such that I, being a BLANK, could hardly understand anything about what I was reading, but somehow, I do not know why, I was absolutely fascinated by its contents; the more I read, the more and more engrossed I became involved with it

Anyhow, to cut a long story short, a few years later I experienced the most amazing event in my life when I, throughout the whole of my being, Body, Soul, Spirit, all that I am, went through exactly what Jacob Boehme perfectly describes as the ‘Lightning Flash,’ and from that moment onwards his astounding doctrine became clearer and clearer to me. Now, in my own Being, I can easily identify myself with the mysterious THREE WORLDS for my soul within me is my terrible Dark Fire World; and my spirit, which l hardly knew, is my Heavenly Light World; and this miserable body of mine is the —- CROSS —- between the heavenly and hellish World of the Senses.

And that Lady Eva, is more or less how it all started with me. I still cannot of course understand most of what Jacob is trying to tell me, his repetitiveness and incredible symbolism is putting it mildly too far above me. Often I am left absolutely amazed and wandering completely lost to his meaning. But, thanks to the eloquence of William Law, (his most devout admirer, and as far as I know his finest exponent), whenever I read his work now I always find something! Something which is for me an exciting and eternally new eternal treasure concerning my very own IMMORTAL SOUL, of which before I had no idea ever existed within the depths of my Heart.

Lady Eva: "I believe this too Mr K. But please continue and tell me why you and Jacob Boehme are so absolutely sure about this most amazing phenomenon. "

Mr K: "Dear Eva, had I not experienced this wonder for myself, I would still be the same now as I used to be before, a BLANK! And, as I was then, I would still be controlled and driven on by nothing other than my own disgusting and miserable little —- SELF —- and its four horrible Powers; I would still be trapped in my own —- Dark Fire World! I was quite unable then, not with any positive or true conviction, to know anything about anything other than the material and transistory things which pertained to this world and my-Self. God was simply a ‘god’ to me then, someone who would punish me most severely, so I’d been taught, if I didn’t behave properly. Heaven was a place where only the so-called good people went after they passed over, and hell was its opposite where the bad ended up. Nothing really counted for much in those days unless they were absolutely congenial to me and my-Self; how could it be when the whole wide world, and everything in it, had to revolve around —- ME?

However, now my own personal life is an entirely new and vividly exciting experience; so completely and utterly different from the banal and mundane condition in which I existed before. Then? all I was, was just another dying and doomed insignificant little BLANK of this World of the Senses. Now, I believe, I am a living and creative Child of Eternity!

Oh, all you poor poor BLANKS of this World of the Senses, I love you all so very very much; for you are all, every single one of you, my Dearest and such astonishingly beautiful BROTHERS and SISTERS; my very own Family and Friends; I hope and I pray with all that there is of me for the Light of Pure Love to stream freely into your golden souls; casting aside and destroying forever that eternal misery which you so dearly and misguidedly pride in your SELF. Only then shall your divine and heavenly eyes be opened; only then shall you surely behold the eternal glory and wonder of the —- REAL YOU —- for then, your True Birth will be plainly manifested to you, and you will know, beyond any doubt, that the Living God, in His utmost reality, is no other Person than your dearest and most ever-loving FATHER, and you, you to Him, are His dearest and most forever-loving —- CHILD."

Lady Eva: "You love your Father and the whole of His creation so very much, don’t you Mr K? So do I, and I love You so very much too. It is so sad for me to understand why so many of these Princes and Princesses of Light who, blinded by their false light of Self, fail to find the true joy and rich love of life which is theirs, if only they want it."

Mr K: "It is a frightening sadness Dear Lady, because if only they could see clearly, they would all overcome! All they really need to do is to get rid of their blindfolds; and to shake themselves free from the proud and miserable shackles of —- TIME; and then, humbly enter into the Peace of Eternity. The blindfolds are nothing other than their very own Self, that has been relentlessly blinding them since the very day they were born into this World of the Senses. It alone is the darkness which hides them from the Eternal Truth of Who + What + Why they are. It very cunningly deceives them into believing that anything other than what takes place in this little world doesn’t mean anything; it convinces them that while they are here, why don’t they go out and grab everything they can from it? Go, go out and make yourself rich, become famous, and the richer and more popular you become, the taller and stronger you’ll stand in the world. All eyes will look up and respect you; no man shall dare harm you; all will be frightened of you; for you, in your very own Self, shall be mighty. So go on, go out and take what you can, you are only here once and you are a long time dead; so go, go ahead now while you still have the chance, and get what ever you can.

YOU ARE A LONG TIME DEAD!!!! It doesn’t tell them that this kind of life is the road into Hell; neither does it truthfully tell them about the eternal agonies and everlasting pains of Hell; quite the contrary, it allows them to laugh and ridicule the thoughts of such a ludicrous place, causing them to forget and not worry their poor Self over such mythical tales. And so it prevails undaunted and untroubled in its Pride, Anger, Envy and Greed, often scaring them and always forcing them to bow down and bend to the power of its Will, until, in the end, it completely and utterly dominates and controls everything they do."

Lady Eva: "Oh, how absolutely right you are Mr K. I was exactly how you have just described it. I did the most disgusting and horrible things imaginable because of this awesome and hellish Force deep within me; things I did not intend and was sorry I did; but because I was so enslaved in my Self I could not, though sometimes I tried very hard, stop myself from so doing. IT, my Self and not I, dictated every action and deed of my life, and I, just like some silly and stupid dummy, was nothing other than its own Selfish Slave."

Mr K: "Lady Eva, in your own words you have just hit the nail straight on the head ‘A Slave to your Self.’ For by being bound and tied up so tightly in the dungeons of your own extremely envious Being, you were hopelessly incapable of doing anything about your pitiful condition, because simply were not —- FREE! And this is the same pitiful condition of every BLANK in the world! In their Self they are helpless and useless, but try telling them this them this and all they will do is laugh in your face. "

Lady Eva: "I never thought I’d ever become —- free —- Mr K. But, even though the price I paid was terrible at the time, I did, and now, for the first time in my life, I am truly happy."

Mr K: "Dearest Eva, you certainly earned your Freedom, and how did you earn it? Because for the first time in your life you stood fast and held your own GROUND; you refused once and for all to let your Self overpower you. True, during your ordeal, you would have fainted and died, and been swallowed up forever into the gaping jaws of your Self, if you had not thrown the whole of your Being upon the Mercy and Love of Jesus Our Lord, but before doing so, it was —- YOU —- alone who bravely battled on face to face with that deadly adversary which dwells deep within you. You were willing to die rather than to go on acknowledging your Self’s insidious hold over you, until, with your last ounce of strength you cried out in despair to your Saviour. Instantly your ordeal was over, and you, Dear Sweet Eva, were —- BORN AGAIN —- in the Spirit of Love.

Lady Eva: "But if they all had to go through what I went through, don’t you think that it would frighten them so much so they’d be too scared even to try?"

Mr K: "That is why one has to be brave. But about yourself: You must remember that you were one of the world’s outstanding figures. You were rich, famous, and a very glamorous woman. You were a —- SUPERSTAR —- in every sense of the word. So, and this is the truth, it must follow that the higher one rises and swims in the pleasures and lusts of this world, then the higher is the price to be paid for their Freedom. This is so because then the Self has so much more to lose, so obviously, the harder it will retaliate and strive to retain what it falsely believes is its own; it is very reluctant to give in.

This is not so with everybody, because the greatest majority are insignificant little BLANKS —- like I used to be —- and as it was with me, so for them, one or two confrontations and it is over! Either you succeed or you fail. If the Self overcomes and overwhelms you, then know that unless you can obtain the strength to engage it again, you are lost. But, if you are triumphant, it can never again, with any real power, find the strength which it needs to seriously engage you in combat. And here now is the miracle, later, after it has made a few pathetic attempts to try and regain its lost sovereignty, it gives up and willingly enjoins itself to our hearts; becoming an ally and a friend, and the tremendous power and the strength in everything we do! When all this has occurred, then know for a truth that the ‘Eternal Birth’ has happened Within You.

Thence we have a question to ask: Is it possible for man to experience this birth through certain things which, although they are divine, yet they come into the man through the senses from without? I refer to certain ideas of God, such as, for example, that God is wise, merciful, or whatever ideas that are creatures of the reason, and yet divine. Can a man have the experience (of the divine birth) by means of these? No! Truly No. Even though (these ideas) are all good and divine, still he gets them all through his senses from without. If the divine birth is to shine with reality and purity, it must come flooding up and out of man from —- GOD —- within him, while all man’s own efforts are suspended and all the soul’s agents are at God’s disposal.

Lady Eva: "Dear Mr K. Honestly I could just sit here for hours listening to you speak about all the things that I love so much. What you have just quoted was beautiful, the finest description I have ever heard concerning the Love of the Eternal Birth. Please tell me, which one of your Treasured Friends uttered these wonderful words?"

Mr K: "They were spoken over 600 years ago by —- Meister Eckhart —- a Dominican monk and celebrated Christian mystic and scholar. It seems so incredible that even with so many Christian Minds for us to explore there are still so few people in the world who are not BLANKS. So many dear souls who are forever far far away from their heavenly home."

Lady Eva: "It is surprising Mr K. But it still must be put down to their own Selfish ways. Jacob Boehme was absolutely right when he said we must all give an account for our lives in this world, and that there would be no excuses for us when we die. How could there be since God has sent us so many of His Messengers of Love? Even so, and to Humanities greatest shame, they remain almost completely ignored by the vast majority."

Mr K: "It is sad Lady Eva, so very sad."

Lady Eva: "Before I burst Mr. K. you have got to tell me the title of that book which you bought in the bookshop!"

Mr K: "It was called: ‘The Poems and Prophecies of William Blake.’ And, I am pleased to tell you, I now get along fine with William and his works."

Lady Eva: "One other query Mr K. Why did you say in your text when you were describing the ‘Still Mystery’ that you would call it ‘The Motionless Deep’ for reasons you would explain later? "

Mr K: "Dear Eva, not long after we met today, I promised you that before I departed —- EVERYTHING —- would become as clear as crystal in your understanding. Can you remember?"

Lady Eva: "Of course Mr K. But I thought at the time you were just trying to please me."

Mr K: "No my Dear lady, I meant all what I said. Come, take hold of my hand and let us walk back again to the place where we met, and as we walk, I will tell you all about my —- Motionless Deep!"

"My Dearest Lady, I am a man and I have been fashioned and formed in the image and likeness of the only One and true Living God. Therefore, being a man, I am a Threefold Person, for my being and substance, all that I am, consists of nothing other than Body, Soul, and Spirit. Compare me now to the Living God, in whose image and likeness I have been made. The Living God is a Triune God, (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost), —- Three Persons —- ONE GOD. The Deity is the Holy Trinity, so, albeit to a much lesser degree, it must follow that I am a ‘trinity’ too. The Trinity is God; again to a much lesser degree, I am a ‘god’ also! How can this possibly be? Because God is my Father and I am His ‘son.’ My Father heaven is God and I have, in my make-up, all of His powers to become ‘god-like’ too. Jesus is the —- ONLY —- Begotten Son of God, He is God, the same in the Beginning, the same Now, and the same Forever and Ever. I am not, and I cannot ever be, God. I’d be a fool even to think so. Neither can I ever dream of comparing myself to Jesus. He is the —- UNCREATED —- I am the created; a simple soul and a living soul; into whom He (Jesus) breathed His Own Breath of Life —- the Holy Spirit!

If, (in my Imagination), my Father said to me: "Son, gently take hold of My hand and come quietly with Me back to the Beginning before the Beginning when there was no Beginning, to the Uncreated Mystery where, before I created the Heaven of Heavens and the Angels and Creatures thereof, —- I AM." I would be very afraid; and I would reply: "Father, as I am, I am not worthy to accompany You into such great wonder." But, (again in my simple mind ) and my Father said: "Never be frightened when you are with Me my child, rest safely in the knowledge that you have already proved your worthiness to all I possess." Then I would go.

Perhaps, in a flash, like the twinkling of an eye, or the shooting of a star, we would be travelling swifter than arrows backwards and backwards through Time, through the beginning of Time and into Eternity, through the beginning of Eternity, till we have arrived at the —- MOTIONLESS DEEP!

If again my Father said: "Son, we are here at the place which my trusted servant and friend Jacob Boehme rightly termed the ‘UNGRUND’ but which you shall call ‘The Motionless Deep.’ This is the place where the ALL and the NOUGHT evolve! Where everything that is —- IS, and what is not —- IS NOT. Look closely all around and about you, for here everything is as yet undecided. Peer fervently deep into this sea of total Indifference and then tell Me what it is you behold."

"Child, you shall not and will not ever be lost. Here before you lies the KEY to the whole Mystery of Life! For here, mixed and silent and travailing, is the —- SIGNATURE of all THINGS —- including the wonder of —- You!

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the only One and True Living God, I am the Uncreated and Unchanging Father of Lights, I am without Beginning and I have no End; the —- SAME —- forever and ever.

"As you have stated correctly there are many more abler persons in the world, but they are more suited for doing other things. Believe me when I tell you that it is because you are not brilliant or clever, but because your true nature is basic and simple, precisely why you’ve been chosen. As you are already no doubt well aware, I have used numerous souls throughout the ages for expressing my loving concern to the Peoples of the Earth. But, sadly, hardly any of the masses listen to them. All I want for them is to understand and realize how much I care for them, and how much I LOVE them. So, rather than choosing or selecting high-ranking University Scholars, or Top Theological and so-called Religious Experts, I have, in my Heart, decided on —- YOU. Why? Because for a number of years you have been making slow but steady progress in your own unrelenting search for the Truth; you have never tried to force or impose your own deep and fervent and personal views upon anyone else; and you have always, deep in your heart, remained true to my WORD. Also, for many years now, you have been an avid and staunch admirer of two of my most faithful and trusted friends: Jacob Boehme and William Law. So now, again using mainly the very same words I gave unto them, I will impart into your being the Great Truths which they spent the whole of their lives trying to instil to the world. For your part, you shall afterwards, in plain and simple words, write it down for the People, who then, having read your work, if they are sincere in their hearts, will know and understand for sure that —- I AM —- is not the high and mighty and far distant God whom they imagine me to be; but that I AM is a truly caring and loving Father who desires every single one of His Children to KNOW Him and LOVE Him.

‘If the looking-glass of Wisdom were not, no fire or light could be generated; everything takes its original from the Mirror of Deity.’ Jacob Boehme is here shedding great light upon which many prefer to remain in the dark. By so doing and shunning my Eternal Wisdom, they misguidedly believe, causing others to do so too, that I AM is a very jealous and most angry revengeful God who, if not automatically obeyed, will cast every poor soul into the Fires and Torments of Hell. This is a cause of great sorrow to me for I have never even so much as raised up a finger to hurt anyone. I do not wish to be served by robots or zombies; I do not desire extreme and terrible punishments for all who upset me; neither am I the so-called ‘god’ who is the cause of all the grief and the suffering and the countless —- WARS —- in the world. No. I AM is the Living God who’s only desire is to be known and loved by His children, to give to and share with them without measure, His everlasting wonders and joys, and, to prepare for them an eternal life with Him in the Peace and the Happiness and Blessedness of His —- Heaven.

Every single one of my Children who, being fashioned and formed in my own Image and Likeness, can, if they so desire, easily regain entry into their own DIVINE IMAGINATION —- their very own Power to Create! For, although to a far lesser degree, this Vast Sea of Indifference which you behold before you, this ‘Still Mystery,’ they each also possess on a smaller scale; it is theirs, their very own —- MOTIONLESS DEEP!’ You know that this is so my Child, for you are, with Lady Eva beside you, already creating deep within your immortal soul your very own —- NEW EARTH —- which shall be yours forever when you depart from the bits and the pieces and return once again to the Whole. Lady Eva is part of the Wonder that’s —- YOU! She dwells deep within you in your very own World; a world similar, save for a few different names you have given to some of the Nations, to the one you are living in now. But, when you change all what is in you shall also CHANGE! Because then you will be Free from the endless limitations that surround you and blind you now. And then, with your Lady beside you, your New World will be as you both in your hearts wish it to be.

Every soul I have created I have given its own —- FREE WILL —- a Will which can choose and decide for its own. If it chooses to stay in the darkness, then Eternal Darkness is all it inherits when it finally departs from the world. But, if it desires and longs for the light, then Eternal Light is its everlasting crown when it says good-bye to the world. This cannot be otherwise; for every soul is its very own —- JUDGEMENT!"

 Mr K: "Dear Lady Eva, I know that you have been listening very carefully to me, therefore, by now, you have probably apprehended the Truth about what I’ve just told you. Have you?"

Lady Eva: "I think so Mr K. Am I correct in believing that if it were not for you, in your —- MOTIONLESS DEEP —- I, and this world and this universe where I have been born and bred and brought up, simply would not exist?"

Mr K: "Yes, Lady Eva, you are absolutely correct."

Lady Eva: "You will have to bear with me for a moment Mr K. because I am more than a little stunned upon hearing this knowledge from you. I feel quite shaky and weak inside. But, even so, I also know, that whatever you tell me, is the TRUTH. I know for sure that this is so because, from somewhere deep within me, from the very depths of my Being, I have a truly remarkable and wonderful feeling that you, more than anything else I know, could never lie to me. I believe this Mr K. with all that I am."

Mr K: "Dear Lady, I also possess the very same feeling as you, it’s called FAITH. And, as you feel now, I too know that if it were not for my Father in Heaven, I, and the world and universe in which I am living, could never exist. Of this I have no doubt."

Lady Eva: "But how is it all so Mr K? I honestly had no idea that you came from anywhere other than this same world as I! You visited me in Mega City, and even now you are here beside me! I’ve read your work, I also have my own Bible, and, the same as you do, I love so dearly my precious Lord Jesus! Please Mr K. you must clearly explain this most phenomenal Truth to me, because, honestly, I’m not altogether sure of the difference."

Mr K: "It will be explained clearly my lady, but first, let me say something which I hope shall help calm you down and ease your stunned mind. In your heart you truly believe that the world you are in now, is yours; you believe rightly. You look at me and see me right here beside you; you see rightly. From the depths of your Being you feel within you your undying love for Our Lord; again, you feel rightly. Perhaps also, at this present moment, in some confusion you are wondering how, if it were not for me and my Imagination, the world wouldn’t be, you wouldn’t be, and Jesus wouldn’t be? NOTHING whatever would be, because nothing could possibly exist. Yet it does! The world; you; and Our Lord; all exist as you believe, see, and feel, them to be. For you know that everything, whatever it may be, —- IS."

Lady Eva: "I think I understand you Mr K. but what puzzles me is this: If myself and the world are, as you tell me, your own creation from your Motionless Deep, then whom should I serve? Am I wrong to believe and trust in my Lord? Or should I serve you, seeing that if it were not for you 1 wouldn’t exist?"

Mr K: "Dear Lady Eva, you serve no-one but —- GOD —- I am not God, I am as you are and you are as I am. We are Brother and Sister, Lover and Friend, Soul and Spirit! I didn’t create you for myself Sweet Lady, God, in my heart, created you for me! He is so fully aware of how much I need you. Neither are you, nor the world, nor anything you see, hear, feel, taste and touch, just simple figments of what many would only describe as the end result of an extremely vivid and wild worldly imagination. No, Lady Eva, God alone is the Father who created and loves you; and you alone are the child who loves Him. He is your Maker not I. I am simply the world wherein He desired you to be. The same as I exist only in the world wherein He desired me to be! Only God can create, He created the Temporal world and He created the Spiritual world, for He alone creates —- ALL WORLDS!

In my earlier work —- SELF-EXPOSED —- I have included a chapter which specially describes how, in our Non-Self, God alone creates by working in us and through us. In that work, as indeed in my every work, I have drawn freely upon the wisdom of far wiser souls than my own. I have done so because I feel in my heart that WISDOM doesn’t belong to either that man or this man. No! SHE is nobody’s slave! SHE belongs to us all! SHE is the freedom of Truth! Therefore, this really being so, I have and I shall always, if needs be, express as loudly as I can the words of all such great ‘Christian Lights,’ if it is the only means that I have for promoting the —- TRUTH. I am sure in my heart that none of them would deny me this right to Wisdom, the same as I am also sure that I couldn’t possibly deny anybody the right to my own.

The chapter I am referring to is called ‘The Cosmic Man,’ and here Lady Eva, if you recall, are some of the main points from it:

..... Before we die we have already set into motion the beginning our own ‘New Earth’ which shall be ours when we depart from the world. This ‘New Earth’ will then either be our Heaven on Earth or our Hell on Earth, for as I mentioned earlier: ‘All things in this World of the Senses are only an extension of the mind of man.’ I now say further: ‘I am the world! I am the sun, the planets, the stars, the oceans, the mountains, the forests, I am them —- ALL —- even the People. Everything I see, hear, smell, touch and taste, in this my external material world is only a mirrored projection of my internal spiritual world.’ How can this be? Because, there is in my being an ‘Essence.’ It is an ‘ESSENCE OF LIFE’ and this ‘Essence’ contains all life. This ‘Essence’ was imparted into my being by God the Creator of All; it is an ‘Essence’ of the Living God alive and active and working in me. The ‘Essence’ is from God, it is God, and in me and through me He Alone is creating a New Heaven and a New Earth. This ‘Essence’ can never be annihilated and even if I myself were to burn in Hell for all eternity my ‘Essence’ would still be the same; Pure and Holy, it is Untouchable, it is God. It is the ‘Essence’ out of which all things were made that have been made and, it’s within us all.....

The Lord of Eternity is the first God, the world the second and I the man third. God, creator of the world and everything that is included in it, directs and rules this as One Whole and gives it unto my authority and this makes everything the object of my activity. I am a —- MICROCOSM —- and all that takes place in me takes place in the cosmos. In me Spirit and Nature are one. God must become man in me and I must become man in God. Heaven must become earth and earth must become Heaven. I was created by the Word of God but I fell from God’s Word of Love into God’s word of wrath.....

..... In His most wonderful mercy Our Father awoke again in Adam’s image of wrath His Beloved Son of the deepest humility, love, and mercy. Jesus, who with the Spirit of Love quenches the soul of aroused anger, thus Christ Jesus transfigures the wrathful man into the Holy Man. Adam who was the natural son of God, created by Him out of His own nature, but who had lost his sonship and heritage and by so doing was driven out and with him all of his sons, —- US, it was for him and if for him, US why the Son of God died on the Cross, for Christ died of Man’s Self in the wrath of the Father and in the will to Self was buried in eternal death, but He rose again in His Father’s Will and lives and reigns eternally in the Will of the Father who’s Will is Love, but and understand this clearly, Human Nature must always be preserved and that God did not cast it out entirely so that a brand new ‘strange man’ should arise from the old. No, the new man must arise from the nature and quality of Adam and from the nature and qualities of God in Jesus, so that the man should become Adam -Christ, this is what is meant by man’s birth in God and for his entry into Divine Life. Christ is the Man Absolute, the Heavenly Man, Man born in God as the Only Begotten Son of God so that the Adam-man —- US —- who were destined to become a God-man, a Christ-man, we were already born all of us before Jesus suffered in us, but Our Lord had to rise from the dead of Adam’s and our natures (Self), and Judas, as the will of the serpent (Self), had to be crushed and die in the death of Our Lord together with his evil will, for it is only then after this takes place that the man-Adam can become an Adam-Christ.....

..... Man is a centre between God and the world, therefore he is neither a mortal being of the world, nor a finished process of creation. Only in man is God revealed in His integrity: hence at the creation, God could not have His rest until man was created. Man is the pinnacle of creation and therefore stands above the angels. God is God even to the devil. He is the creator of everything that is, but, only in man is He a Father or wishes to be a Father. God became man and not an angel in order to save man from his fallen state. He sent His Heart —- JESUS —- to men stretching out His Hand to them in order that they should become participators in sonship. Only through Christ is power given to man to realize his true destiny as the pinnacle of all creation. Man who should have become God in miniature (microtheous) became the world in miniature (microcosm) but still has not lost his predestination and duty to become a microtheous. Man is the centre, the extract, the ideal, the focus of the universe. Outside of him everything is only the shattered members of creation; in him everything fits into a beautiful harmony —- the microcosm. Man is a sort of general centre of feeling, touching all, enjoying all, and making all his own. In so far as man by his dual nature is a mirror of the truth itself, in the sense that all the laws of everything that is feeling is rooted in his own law, by so far man is divine nature. The only good will in any man is —- CHRIST —- in him.....

Dearest Eva, because I believe that it is of the utmost importance for you to understand clearly what I, as a Human Being, really and truly am, I have, with the fine Christian minds of Nicolas Berdyaev, Jacob Boehme, Franz Baader, and St. Symeon, again deliberately refreshed your memory concerning this vital Truth. I have done this only to make you as fully aware as I possibly can of the Power and Glory of God our Father in Heaven. Also I have tried to illustrate how He, even through a wretch and a sinner such as I, will always shine and triumph forever in His wonderful —- LOVE.

Every soul that dwells in the Time World where I dwell, has within its depths the Beauty and Wonder of God. For the —- ALL —- is contained in us all. Every soul is truly a ‘god’ in its own right. For it is God’s —- WILL —- that it be so. Oh how I pray for all the —- BLANKS —- in my world for them to feel and realize for sure how close and akin they all are to the One Living God. If only they could really know for sure that in their amazing souls they each possess His miraculous Power to direct and control their Eternal destinies With God working in them and through them they are, and can only be, Princes and Princesses of Light. But, in their own so-called lives without Him, sadly all they become are the Sons and Daughters of Darkness, because without the Light there can only be Night! Dear Eva, I know that you understand me but there are so many who don’t. They just waste away their precious Gift of Life on their futile and meaningless Self, and instead of inheriting Eternal Joy and the Glory within them, they end up sadly as slaves in their very own Hell."

Lady Eva: "Forgive me for a moment Mr K. but I must interrupt you in order to say how clearly I do understand nearly everything you are telling me. Of course there are still a few points I’m not really sure about of which I know you’ll explain in due course. A little while ago, as you were speaking, I suddenly remembered something Our Lord said and when I did, all what you have told me struck home. It was His reply to the throng who were heckling and ready to throw stones at Him, He said to them: ‘Before Abraham was, I AM.’ As those words hit me Mr K. you had rung my bell, for they prove beyond any doubt that all what you say is the Truth, because if Jesus, being the God-Man, the All-Man, and the absolute Cosmic-Man, is alive and active and working in you and through you, then it must follow that you also, although as you always stress: ‘to a lesser degree,’ are a Cosmic-Man too. I now no longer doubt whether or not I am a living soul in your ‘Inner World’ because I now know for sure that I am. It is now all so plainly clear to me that before I ever was, you already —- WERE!

Mr K: "You know I shall Dear Lady, there can never be anything ever left undone or unspoken between us, for all that I am is yours and all that you are is mine. So ask what you may and I will tell you whatever your heart needs to know."

Lady Eva: "One point I am not really sure about Mr K. was some thing you mentioned earlier when in the words of Franz Baader you said: ‘Outside of him, (meaning the man —- You), everything is only the shattered members of creation; in him everything fits into a beautiful harmony the —- Microcosm. What I don’t grasp here is, if everything outside of you in your Time World is only the ‘shattered members’ of creation why is it the same in here, in your deep Inner World? We both know that it is far from being a ‘beautiful harmony’ don’t we Mr K?"

Mr K: "You are quite right Lady Eva, but if you recall what my Father told me when He said: "for you are, with Lady Eva beside you, already creating deep within your immortal soul your very own —- NEW EARTH —- which shall be yours forever when you depart from the bits and the pieces and return once again to the Whole. Lady Eva is part of the wonder that’s —- YOU! She dwells deep within you in your very own World; a world similar, save for a few different names you have given to some of the Nations, to the one you are living in now. But, when you change all which is in you shall also CHANGE! And then, with your Lady beside you, your New World will be as you both in your hearts wish it to be." "When you change all which is in you shall also change!" Change is the key word here Dear Eva, and this cannot come to pass until in my mortal body I die to this World of the Senses; then, I will have departed from the ‘bits and the pieces’ and has my Father has told me: Returned once again to the —- whole —-."

Lady Eva: "So what will you do with your Time Mr K. until you depart from your World?"

Mr K: "There is quite a lot I must do, but it doesn’t worry me too much because, thank goodness, the work has already begun."

Lady Eva: "What exactly is your work Mr K. and what does it entail?"

Mr K: "My work Lady Eva, is nothing other than a continual process of purification, which also entails an absolute separation of my Self from the world!"

Lady Eva: "Does this mean then that from now on until the end of your Time, you will hide yourself away in some cell praying to Our Lord for forgiveness?"

Mr K: "Oh No my Dear Lady, contrary to what many believe, God doesn’t demand such drastic and futile action. Simple honesty is all He ever asks for. What it really means is this: I must, in my own sincerity, rid myself of all that is rotten within me, and also, take no part in the evil and unbelievable happenings which go on around me."

Lady Eva: "Whatever is rotten in you Mr K?"

Mr K: "Considerably less now I hope than when I began Lady Eva. As I have always maintained there are four major causes of rottenness to the soul: Pride, Anger, Envy, and Greed, destroy all four and the soul becomes pure, but, if any one of these evils remain the soul stays tainted."

Lady Eva: "But I already thought that you were free from these evils Mr K! Otherwise, how can you still do the good things you do?"

Mr K: "One would have to be a SAINT, a chosen Man of God, to be absolutely free from these evils Lady Eva. No my Dear, there are not many who are that pure, especially not me. For instance, I, through my own fiery nature I suppose, still have the occasional outbursts of Anger. It can sometimes be due to righteous indignation, but more often than not it is my temper at fault. I admit it is nothing now compared to what it used to be in the past, but it can still be upsetting."

Lady Eva: "What about the other three Mr K. Pride, Envy, and Greed, do these still effect you?"

Mr K: "To be really honest with you they do not, at least not to any great extent. With regards to Pride: I know that only through the Pure Love of God I have been given my beautiful —- LIFE; for this precious gift, this greatest of all honours, I bow my head down low to my Lord and give thanks. No, my Lady, I have no Pride, I have only a sincere and humble joy deep within me. Concerning Greed: I have never been a greedy person because all my life, I have always believed in equal and fair rights for everybody in the world, and this, regardless of Race, Colour, or Creed. Here you can detect a cause for my Anger, for nothing makes my blood boil more than for me to know that there are so many idle and rich wasters in the world who think nothing on spending thousands of pounds clothing and feeding their miserable Self, whilst, at the same time, countless little children and old folk struggle and perish through the lack of such simple amenities like blankets and food. This, in my eyes, is one of humanities greatest shames."

Lady Eva: "What about Envy Mr K? As you are well aware, it was my strongest vice!"

Mr K: "When I lived in the world only for my Self in the world, I was very often Proud; very often Angry; sometimes I was a little Greedy; and even now and again I used to get Envious; but, of the four evils Greed and Envy were the least of the bunch. Of course I have experienced each at their heighth, but thankfully, they were the two less powerful in me, especially Envy. Maybe this was because I have never to any great extent been a really jealous and envious person. The sun sheds its rays upon everybody, those who have it and those who don’t, so what else need we worry about so long as the sun keeps on shining?"

Lady Eva: "If, as the greatest sin from which all others spring, Pride has been well and truly mastered in you Mr K. why does even now a little bit of Anger still persist?"

Mr K: "It is because the world I dwell in is an imperfect world Lady Eva! It is a world where nothing can be perfect because if it were it wouldn’t be here. This world only seems perfect to those who, in their Self, believe they are perfect, the Proud; the Envious; the Angry; and the Greedy; or, to put them all in a nutshell, the —- BLANKS. Every soul in this World of the Senses must change, it must evolve into what it really and truly is and not remain as it only appears to be. This is its Duty, its Life, its Destiny, if it doesn’t, then sadly its Light is extinguished and it perishes."

Lady Eva: "In my heart Mr K. I know for certain that you need not ever worry about anything being rotten in you."

Mr K: "Even so Lady Eva, I must still be ever on my guard daily, it is so easy to slide back again into one’s old ways. There have been many fine souls who, by choosing to rest on their laurels, have relaxed in their vigil and done so. They think that they have beaten the devil, but, as a roaring lion, Satan is never still in this world, he never gives in and is always on the look-out and ready to pounce on anybody who in their illusion believe they are —- holier than thou."

Lady Eva: "This being so Mr K. how can you not in your world avoid being a part of all the evil and unbelievable happenings that go on all around you?"

Mr K: "By preventing everything without me affecting everything within me and accepting only the —- GOOD —- I experience in life."

Lady Eva: "At this present moment in your Time Mr K. how great is the difference between your outer and inner worlds?"

Mr K: "There is, I honestly believe, a remarkable difference Dear Lady, for most of the many disgusting and horrible events that happen daily without have ceased, thank God, to have any bearing whatsoever within me."

Lady Eva: "Could you tell me how this has been brought about within you Mr K?"

Mr K: "By the wonderful means of —- DETACHMENT —- Lady Eva!"

Lady Eva: "But how Mr K. can you, or anybody else for that matter, become really detached from the world which you live in? How can it be possible?"

Mr K: "You already know the answer to this Dear Lady, for you are yourself almost completely free from the world in which you live. Isn’t this so?"

Lady Eva: "I am what I am Mr K. only because I have denied my Self. Oh? I am with you now Mr K! How silly of me! Unless we are ‘Born Again’ this just cannot be, can it?"

Mr K: "No, it cannot Lady Eva."

Lady Eva: "Even so Mr K. I am still here in my world, still a living part of what goes on around me. Am I not?"

Mr K: "Of course you are, you are a very important and vital part of the world which you live in. To be honest with you I shudder to think of what it, or I, would be like without you. Concerning the difference between my outer and inner worlds I will explain to you now, but to make it easier for me to tell you I must start at the beginning when I was of course as most people are a —- BLANK:

When I lived in this world entirely for my own Self-satisfaction, I was truly a living and inseparable part of it. Everything that happened in it had its own special effect upon me and whatever I did had, to some small extent, its effect upon it. This was so because my Self had no other alternative way to express itself. Where else could it turn to except to the things which pertained to this World of the Senses? Imagine me now on the day I was born into the world; I am truly an innocent babe born into —- TIME —- in my soul, my inner world, everything is pure and holy, and free from all forms of contamination or pollution, it is an exact and beautiful likeness of this world when it was first created by God. In my body also everything I see without me, in my outer world, is pure and holy, for being innocent I am ignorant and untouched by the evil which surrounds me! But, being born in the Original Sin of my first father Adam, who had chosen the world and everything in it before God his Creator, what other choice did I have but to begin filling my inner world, my soul, with the charms and spells of the outer? Adam had in his-Self become worldly, and by so doing he had cursed all the —- CHILDREN —- who would follow him. So, as Time began to go by, I, in my very own —- Self, proceeded slowly at first to start filling my beautiful and wonderful world with the sins of the outer.

Dear Lady Eva, all what has taken place in this fallen World of the Senses in which I live, the same has taken place in my soul —- WITHIN ME! The whole history of the outer is a Chronicle of the inner; there has been no difference whatsoever for everything the Old Testament testifies, testifies to me! All the great names and happenings of Time are nothing more or less than the thoughts and ideas of my Mind! Abel was my good and Cain was my evil, my evil triumphed over my good. Goliath was my evil and David was my good, my good defeated my evil. I have built cities and great nations within my being all peoples are alive within the contours of my unfathomable mind; Egypt, Greece, Rome, were once magnanimous within me, today they are the same as they are in; the outer, —- Ruins, for like any great ideas which seem good at the time, they soon fade away when their use is no more.

And so Time continued to go by and I, right up to the Time of the Birth of Christ, spent my life in the constant battle between Darkness and Light. In my Old Testament! And then, Jesus was —- BORN!

What happened? I failed miserably to kill the Child because His Parents had hidden Him from me! He then began growing stronger and stronger within me and suddenly He was a —- MAN! He preached to many of my subjects telling them that I was nothing more than a thief and a murderer; many listened to Him and began taking Him seriously; they started asking me questions which I didn’t want them to do, for I feared that if too many of them believed His words I would be cast aside and my power would be no more. So, I carefully planned with my-Self His destruction. Firstly, I sent a band of my most tried and tested soldiers to go and arrest Him, which they swiftly did. Then, tied up and bleeding, I paraded this Man before a throng of my own choosing; next, I jeered and taunted Him; I called Him a liar and a troublemaker; I hit Him and I spat upon Him; and when my people saw this, would you believe it, when they all saw that He never fought back, they started cheering and shouting for me? ‘I’ll fix Him once and for all now.’ I thought to my-Self. "Friends," I yelled to the mob. "This little man says He’s a King. He also tells me He is the Son of God, but when I asked Him where His Kingdom was He replied: ‘It is not of this world.’ He is obviously crazy and dangerous, so what shall I do with Him?" ‘CRUCIFY HIM; CRUCIFY HIM; CRUCIFY HIM.’ came the screams from my loyal supporters. "But He is a King." I sarcastically reminded them. ‘We have no King only our-Self.’ They chanted. ‘KILL HIM; KILL HIM; KILL HIM.’ I did, and as I stood on the hillside and watched this Man, whoever He was, die on the Cross; I thought to my-Self: ‘That’s the end of it, there’ll be no more nonsense in me.’ Little did I know then that this was only the Beginning!"

Lady Eva: "It’s absolutely amazing and quite frightening hearing you talk like this Mr K. But I know it is the truth because in one way and another I, in my-Self, have also experienced what you have. I clearly see all my thoughts and ideas for what they really and truly are. Are all souls in the world like this?"

Mr K: "If they thoroughly know their Self and understand what I am aiming at they are Lady Eva. Unfortunately the vast majority of them are completely vice versa, being utterly controlled and dominated and enslaved by —- IT. The Self, which can only yearn and lust after the comforts and transistory things of the world, has so blinded them that if they heard me now they would call me a nut! I know they would because the same as them, I was a miserable —- BLANK who would have thought so too."

Lady Eva: "You are right Mr K. But please, carry on telling me about your - Self. What happened then when you did discover that after the death of the Man on the Cross your troubles were only Beginning? What did you mean?"

Mr K: "I mean exactly what I say my Lady. When the Child had been born into my ‘inner world’ my Old Testament days had ended for He, unknowingly to me at the Time, just by His Birth had heralded in the —- NEW."

Lady Eva: "Do you know this for sure Mr K?"

Mr K: "I’ve no doubt now whatsoever Lady Eva, and it didn’t take me all that long to find it out either, for soon after His Death there began arising in me, throughout the four corners of my kingdom, a host of great and powerful VOICES all proclaiming His Word! ‘He was the Truth and I was the Lie,’ they signalled, and their words spread like wildfire through the nations of my being. Naturally I hunted them down and as many of them as I could lay my hands upon I put to the sword, but as soon as one Voice was quietened, in no Time at all, another arose in its place. Relentlessly this conflict raged on and on in my soul until towards the end I could barely stand anymore. What more could I do now? I was all mixed up and terribly afraid in my-Self as I witnessed both my worlds, (inner and outer), collapsing like cards all about me.

Soon I began to experience a powerful sense of foreboding, as if some gigantic climax was looming quite near, so I fled from my worlds and in secret, I tried to listen to the Words of the Man; as hard as I could I tried to understand Him; and then, slowly at first, it began to dawn on me that I, of all people, needed and wanted —- HIM! I cried bitterly within my Being, for what would such a Man ever want to do with me? I, who with my-Self, had slain Him and His followers daily? He had been right all along about me, for I was in my - Self nothing but a cheat and a liar; I was a thief and a murderer; and I was, even to my own blind eyes, an unforgivable wretch. Anguish and torment ravaged me daily and there was not a thing I could do to gain peace in my mind. I stood alone naked and trembling and forsaken in my-Self; for all in my ‘Inner world’ turned their faces away in disgust and hatred of me, and I, in my own disgust, began hating the outer! The rest Lady Eva, you already know about. Our Lord forgave me and pardoned me, and He washed me —- CLEAN in His Spirit of Love. Ever since, I have firmly detached my-Self from the trimmings and trappings of this ‘World of the Senses’ and I have taken only its Good —- JESUS —- and with Him alongside me, I have begun the wonderful task of rebuilding again in Love my beautiful —- SOUL."

Lady Eva: "I do know the rest Mr K. you told me all about it in your earlier book. Oh Mr K. let me tell you now how pleased I am that you are what you are. I dare not even think about what I would be if you were anything other. Are you going to let me know how you are faring now in your ‘inner world’ compared to the outer, or, as you so aptly put it, in your ‘New Testament’ in contrast to the Old?"

Mr K: "Of course my Dear Lady, you know I am, but while I am telling you, you must always bear it in mind that everything I say to you has no bearing whatever here in this part of my ‘Inner World’ where you are today. You have been here now for some considerable Time, cut off and more or less isolated from the rest of your ‘world.’ Whilst this has been so many changes have occurred all around you; and this being so, nothing I shall tell you has, as yet, any reference to —- HERE —- where you live and work. I have a reason for this which I’ll explain to you later. Now to the difference between my —- TWO WORLDS!

The most important difference for me Lady Eva, is Feeling! A unique and patient God-given feeling and longing for the eternal wonders and glories of LOVE and of TRUTH! Nothing throughout the whole of my Being seems to matter to me anymore except that I feel that I must keep going on and on discovering over and over again the amazing and countless everlasting attributes and qualities freely given to us by Our Lord in these two virtues to all those who Love Him. This is my ground; it is my base and my foundation upon which, in my ‘Inner World,’ I am steadily re-creating and making and shaping my own —- Our Own —- NEW EARTH!

TODAY :- Anger and Anguish abound; Bloodshed and Bullets abound; Corruption and Crime abound; Death and Destruction abound; Envy and Evil abound; Famine and Fear abound; Gambling and Greed abound; Hatred and Horror abound; Idols and Idleness abound; Jailers and Jokers abound; Killers and Kinks abound; Liars and Looters abound; Maniacs and Muggers abound; Nastiness and Numbness abound; Obesity and Oppression abound; Parasites and Plunderers abound; Quislings and Queers abound; Rats and Racketeers abound; Starvation and Sinners abound; Terrorists and Tricksters abound; Ugliness and Ungodliness abound; Violence and Vileness abound; Wars and Wastrels abound; Xenophobes and Xoanon abound; Yappers and Yellers abound; Zanists and Zombies abound!

Perhaps I cannot do a lot to alter and change what goes on without me, I’m too little and weak. But, through the beautiful Spirit of Love, I am able to prevent all this chaos within. BLANKS are unable to do this because how they act outwardly they act the same, if not worse, inwardly; for without the Spirit they just cannot be otherwise! That’s why —- Satan —- is laughing his head off at them, for he knows without question that when they all die they will tumble like flies straight into his web.

No Lady Eva, our ‘NEW EARTH’ will not be anything like this, for in our world:- Amiability will prevail; Beauty will prevail; Concern will prevail; Delight will prevail; Equality will prevail; Fairness will prevail; Godliness will prevail; Heaven will prevail; Innocence will prevail; Justice will prevail; Kindness will prevail; Love will prevail; Music will prevail; Niceness will prevail; Openness will prevail; Peace will prevail; Quality will prevail; Righteousness will prevail; Sweetness will prevail; Trust will prevail; Unity will prevail; Veneration will prevail; Warmth will prevail; X’s will prevail; Youth will prevail; Zeal will prevail! These virtues, Dear Eva, all stem from the eternal powers of Love and of Truth, therefore, if they are our Blessed Foundations, our ‘world’ must follow their course."

Lady Eva: "Dear Mr K. I know now for certain that in your ‘Inner World’ you really KNOW YOURSELF. You have told me the Truth for I wanted no part of my ‘World’ either. So, in more or less the same way as you, I opted out!"

Mr K: "You now understand clearly just what I meant by DETACHMENT my Lady. We can’t help being a part of the wind, but we don’t have to go wherever it blows!"

Lady Eva: "Has the whole of my ‘World’ except for where we are now, truly changed that much Mr K?"

Mr K: "It certainly has Lady Eva. Meglovania; Aggrovania; Jealvania; Avarivania; and all the other Vania’s are no longer anymore. Their only traces are what you see all around you —- HERE!"

Lady Eva: "But why Mr K. are they still, to some extent, existing out Here?"

Mr K: "Because at this moment in Time my Dear, it just cannot be otherwise. I am still a part of my world, it is an imperfect world, this being so, until I depart from it forever it must stay also a part of me, an imperfect part of me! I have told you I’m not a Saint; besides, it serves as a true reminder to me of what I could once again sink into!"

Lady Eva: "But what about all of the people Mr K? Are they too, the same as the places, no longer anymore? Surely, it can never be that they all deserved to disappear forever from the face of your ‘inner world.’ Have they?"

Mr K: "No, of course they haven’t Dear Lady. Every good thought and idea I have ever had are mine forever, and they again all rise up in triumph on that Special Day when we become —- ONE! But, until then they must rest peacefully within me, the same as yours are doing in you. However, it will be totally different for the others, for when that Day arrives they shall be forgotten forever."

Lady Eva: "When will that Wonderful Day be Mr K?"

Mr K: "When I have completed my time in my Time World."

Lady Eva: "But what if I should be killed out here, or through illness or disease died before you Mr K?"

Mr K: "Sweet Eva, you cannot and will not ever die for you are immortal. No, my Dear, when I come to meet you, you will simply be —- CHANGED! And not only you, but the whole of your ‘World’ all around you. You will again become what you have in your Heart always been, a —- Princess of Light! Then, when you open your eyes and behold all of your Glory, I will be there beside you, your —- Prince!"

Lady Eva: "This all sounds so exciting to me Mr K. Will it be really as beautiful as you say it will?"

Mr K: "All what I have told you will be, this I promise you my Lady."

We had now come to the place where earlier in the day we had met. Taking both her hands in mine I looked into her eyes and then sadly informed her that my Time World was calling me back. I had to return and finish the rest of my life; our —- MEETING —- beautiful though it was had come to its end.

Lady Eva: "Beloved Mr K. I love you so deeply and although I long ever to be with you, I do understand why you must go away and leave me. Will it be a very long time before we are together forever again?"

Mr K: "It will be no time at all my Lady; keep me always dear in your Heart as you are ever in mine, and remember, that a span in Time is less than a blink in Eternity. Come, embrace me my LOVE for now we must part."

Tenderly we embraced each other, and as I stroked her soft hair and kissed her gently on her lips, —- again —- that wonderful Light shone brightly around us. With a tear in my eye, I looked once more into her face; into every amazing part of her; and then, as if by magic, she was —- GONE.

Hello again my —- FRIEND —- I call you my friend because if you have read this far then there must be something special about and within you. Is it called —- FEELING? If it is then it is now quite obvious to me that you are no longer a —- BLANK. Otherwise, you would have soon got fed up with my work and  long ago tossed it away.

As it was with Lady Eva so too have we come to the end of OUR short journey together. We have reached the end of the road and you have arrived at last at the foot of your Beautiful Mountain. Here I leave you in the Peace of the Lord, for my work is now done and everything else is now up to —- YOU.

Stride forward in earnest my Friend and climb your Beautiful Mountain, I promise you that every step you take towards its peak is another step further away from your —- DARKNESS. So go on, surmount it and when you do you will be standing forever in the Brilliant and Wonderful Light that is you, the Amazing and God chosen beautiful —-  YOU.

 God Bless You Always

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