Throughout it all is the thread of immortality. The baron becomes the pig farmer, and the queen becomes the whore. As one looks forward and backward upon the tapestry, it is always the uninterrupted interweaving of life streams, with corrections and balances. It’s a cosmic tapestry of daunting expanses best described by your bard, “The play is the thing.” Not necessarily the actors, but the play is the thing, the interweaving of all the life-streams, the drama of the life impulse, the action. It should be viewed as a great drama of Life.

You tend to remember the death of a hero, and of a villain; the birth is not particularly memorable. But the death, the final presentation to the world of that soul departing the play, that’s the crowning moment. Sometimes it isn’t even how well one has lived; it is how well one has died. And yet death is feared. The cosmic moment of the soul bursting out of the shell of physicality should be one of extreme joy. Again the bard, “You’ve laid aside the mortal coil.” A glorious life well lived, whether it’s through a lot of pain or through a lot of chaos, is a script to be savored and totally enjoyed.

Each thread is playing its part in this enormous tapestry called Life. Each thread is continuous; it finishes one segment and then is picked up again to go into another segment of its totality of living, in turn picking up the other threads on the way. How many lives have been affected by that continuous thread that goes back to primordial times? And it’s all going on now.

You’re a remarkable species, and when it’s generally known or generally acknowledged that a soul returns lifetime after lifetime, it will be understood that it’s looking at life from a grand viewpoint. To go out in a blaze of glory is a great remembrance for the soul. The heroes in your mythology and your history are always the noble living souls who go out too young in a blaze of glory, an explosion, and it affects the whole world. The Jesus. It makes for great theater. So look at life from this perspective, as the oversoul. How magnificent! How dramatic! For after all, the play is the thing. Live courageously! Live dramatically! Splash upon the scene of the tapestry in an intense, vibrating way, and you’ll move mountains, whole vibrations of thoughts and ideas. To squander a life aimlessly (not that it’s wrong — nothing’s “wrong”), isn’t enlivening for the soul. It’s not a memory the soul will hold on to, or from which it will learn. It’s much like trudging through the streets dragging a cart behind you. Live Life with life, verve, courage, determination. That’s what gets the attention of the gods; step forth boldly and great forces will come to your aid. That’s what magnetizes wisdom and power to you. Celebrate life! It’s a unique experience. Cherish the adventure. Be the heretic. Be the fool. All of the heavens and all eternity is watching. Then when you pass over your soul will say to your self, “Well done.”

What better thing can be said of a human than that he lived well, that he was consciously making things happen. This also goes for the villain, the great villain who plays his part well, and plays out the dark thoughts. The play could not exist without the villain because there could not be the so-called good without the contrast of the so-called evil.

So whatever you’re about, do it well. Be angry, be sad, be happy - that’s better! Live, don’t exist! Live it and live it well. That’s wisdom.

I would make a toast: “Hail and farewell, my brothers. Do it well.”

Posted in Octoberl, 2006.