Khem the Revelator

Discourse on Mammon II

2011-02-22T02:21:00.000-08:00

In the beginning was the term...

Not By Bread Alone

2010-09-18T14:11:00.000-07:00

Even more than bread,
man needs a reason to live--
a bad one will do.

Discourse on "Doing" IV

2010-06-26T12:48:00.000-07:00

The expert makes a fetish of his tools;
the sly man makes a technology of sin.

Discourse on Standing Armies

2010-05-18T21:20:00.001-07:00

The professional soldier
is already half a traitor.

Discourse on Music

2010-03-20T17:01:00.000-07:00

A sufi knows he has come to
the end of Knowledge when
a little birdie tell him so.

Just ask Noah.

Khem contra Descartes

2010-01-03T19:56:00.001-08:00

I am, therefore, I think.

On the Terror of the Situation II

2009-12-18T23:41:00.000-08:00

Man was made immortal,
and what he sees is what he gets.

Discourse on Dis

2009-12-13T20:44:00.000-08:00

Objective science worships God
Objective art worships the Goddess
Objective religion worships the God Dis

On Being a Sufi II

2009-10-11T13:57:00.000-07:00

A sufi is one who laughs at God's
cosmic joke from the inside.

The Essen(c)e of Christianity

2009-09-16T23:36:00.001-07:00

Peter is His Rock,
but John is the Apostle
whom the Lord loved best.

Discourse on Method

2009-09-10T01:41:00.000-07:00

Between "No" and "Yes",
the sufi strives at all times for
the most untenable position .

Discourse on "I"

2009-09-08T19:21:00.000-07:00

The highest King rules a nation of One
The greatest General marshals an army of One
The sweetest Voice sings for an audience of One
The innermost Order is a brotherhood of One

Discourse on Humanism

2009-09-01T01:46:00.000-07:00

The Earth was made for man,
but there are times when it is
overrun with gods.

On the Spirit of Dis-cernment II

2009-08-20T15:02:00.000-07:00

To another who would know
the living God:

Heaven is a Dis-topia.

Discourse on Right Religion

2009-08-12T21:29:00.000-07:00

The ecumenical
is first cousin
to the dilettante.

Discourse on Humility

2009-08-12T09:58:00.000-07:00

Just as a man is born
against his will,
so he is born again.

Khem contra Einstein

2009-08-11T23:02:00.000-07:00

Not only does God
play dice with the Universe,
He does so in deadly earnest!

Just ask Newton.

On the Spirit of Discernment III

2009-08-11T12:52:00.000-07:00

Seek and you shall find;
provided that you seek
until you find.

Discourse on Homer

2009-08-03T10:49:00.000-07:00

Achilles' heel was bruised by the Serpent's head,
and Moses rode out of Egypt on a Trojan Horse.

Discourse on Conscience

2009-08-02T12:59:00.000-07:00

The sufi is never less
than aesthetically perfect
in all his moral judgments.

Discourse on Sacrifice

2009-07-31T16:48:00.000-07:00

The truest love is in
the cruelest choice.

On Secret Societies

2009-07-29T19:23:00.000-07:00

The sly man's way is to
keep his friends close,
but his enemies closer.

On Anointed Majesty

2009-07-29T15:00:00.000-07:00

So the people are fruitful and multiply,
God divides the King -- for love's sake.

Just ask Humpty Dumpty.

Discourse on Values

2009-07-29T14:53:00.000-07:00

Who works just for money
is already half a thief.

Who plays just for fun
is already half a fool.

What the Serpent Knew

2009-07-29T14:47:00.000-07:00

Crawling is still motion,
and man can still eat dirt.

Even in Arcady, there was
(intentional) suffering.

Discourse on Making "Sense"

2009-07-29T14:27:00.001-07:00

Only a sufi wonders what
Knowledge must feel like.

Discourse on "Hell"

2009-07-29T14:15:00.000-07:00

If God is a consuming fire,
then God forbid that "I" and
the Father should be One!

Discourse on Utopia

2009-07-29T14:08:00.000-07:00

The preamble to the constitution
of the republic of Heaven begins:

"We the People..."

Even in Arcady there were
founding fathers.

Discourse on the "Soul"

2009-07-28T17:57:00.000-07:00

If man is immortal, I wonder
not that so many are dead,
but that so few are men.

The Holy Planet Purgatory II

2009-07-28T17:52:00.000-07:00

The Earth was made for man...

Where he can choose to
make time or to do time.

Discourse on 666

2009-07-28T17:48:00.000-07:00

The Beast is just a man,
his soul bereft of Beauty.

Discourse on Baphomet

2009-07-28T13:10:00.000-07:00

Even the Son of Man
has somewhere to lay His head,
inside of John the Baptist's!

On Esoteric Christianity II

2009-07-28T13:05:00.000-07:00

Omniscience follows from but two premises:
Christ and Satan are "I" and He is immortal.

Discourse on Salvation

2009-07-28T12:24:00.000-07:00

Whether the Dream is from the Word
or from the Poppy -- rest is rest.

Discourse on Courtesy

2009-07-28T12:18:00.000-07:00

The Earth was made for man...

For immortals condemned to dwell in finitude,
the social graces are a matter of life and death.

On the Spirit of Discernment II

2009-07-28T11:51:00.000-07:00

Truth might wear a veil
not to cover its mystery
but its banality.

On the End Times

2009-07-28T11:41:00.001-07:00

One man facing reality is a revelation;
all men facing reality is an apocalypse.

Discourse on Greed

2009-07-28T11:34:00.000-07:00

To extract Blood from a Stone
is the Alchemist's highest aim--

and the Banker's.

Why the Unbelievers are Fools

2009-07-28T01:24:00.000-07:00

Even the Dead can bury the Dead,
but not even the Living can wake the Dead.

Discourse on Leviathan

2009-07-28T01:22:00.000-07:00

The Body Politic is a Beast,
best governed when its powers
are divided--for love's sake.

Discourse on Objective Art III

2009-07-28T01:21:00.000-07:00

The Beauty of the Flesh is in its flaws;
the Beauty of the Spirit--in its sins.

Just ask Venus.

Discourse on Awakening

2009-07-28T01:15:00.001-07:00

The Book of Life
is man's to read.

Discourse on Fate

2009-07-28T01:11:00.000-07:00

All the world's a stage...

and Freedom is to play
a role well or badly.

On Being a Sufi

2009-07-28T01:10:00.001-07:00

It takes "I"
to know one.

How Not to Have Your Reward

2009-07-28T01:08:00.000-07:00

Life without Meaning is Heaven.
Death without Meaning is Hell.

On the New Covenant

2009-07-28T01:04:00.000-07:00

It is better that

everyone dies for his own sins;
without Beauty, Vice is boring!

Discourse on Anti-Christ

2009-07-28T01:02:00.000-07:00

In a world given over to evil,
who else would be Messiah?

On the Spirit of Dis-cernment

2009-07-28T00:59:00.000-07:00

To one who would know
the living God:

Reality is Dis-information.

Discourse on the Unbelievers

2009-07-28T00:57:00.000-07:00

Who worships not the living God is
doomed to make a fetish of His works.

On Squaring the Circle

2009-07-28T00:53:00.000-07:00

Between the Word and the Flesh
are 360 degrees of separation.

To Another Who Seeks the Holy Grail

2009-07-28T00:49:00.000-07:00

Would you accept eternal life
if you could never rest?

Or enter the gates of Heaven
if you could never leave?

Discourse on "Doing" III

2009-07-28T00:47:00.000-07:00

It is one thing to be a sinner;
it is quite another to be an
original sinner.

Discourse on Enoch

2009-07-28T00:44:00.000-07:00

God keeps his secrets by telling them
only to one who will not be believed--

like a snake in the grass.

The Holy Planet Purgatory

2009-07-28T00:42:00.000-07:00

The Earth was made for man...

where he is free to serve a
life sentence or a death sentence.

On the Second Sight

2009-07-28T00:39:00.000-07:00

Should they Is Realize knowledge is finite,
all God's people would be prophets!

Discourse on Irony

2009-07-28T00:37:00.000-07:00

In the Book of Death everyone's a hero.
In the Book of Life everyone's a critic.

Discourse on Discourse

2009-07-28T00:35:00.000-07:00

The language of the mind subdues the tongue.
The language of the heart subdues the mind.

Discourse on Vice

2009-07-28T00:34:00.000-07:00

Nature is UnNatural--
including human nature.

Khem contra Keats

2009-07-28T00:32:00.000-07:00

Beauty is not Truth--
but who would buy
the ugly Truth?

On the Holy Spirit

2009-07-28T00:29:00.000-07:00

Unless it is full of Meaning,
a hole is just a hole.

On the Terror of the Situation

2009-07-28T00:27:00.000-07:00

There is a fate worse that death:
to have nowhere to go when you die--

not even a pinhead to dance on.

Discourse on Creation II

2009-07-28T00:24:00.000-07:00

God is Fire and in
Ice is His Image:

Only the God of Is Real

Could have made the Earth
Out of smoke and mirrors!

Discourse on Advertising

2009-07-28T00:23:00.000-07:00

A lie in the mouth of man is
a vaunt in the mouth of God.

On the Spirit of Discernment

2009-07-28T00:21:00.000-07:00

The Word became Flesh through
ordinary rules of grammar.

On the Second Death

2009-07-28T00:19:00.000-07:00

Spirit means Meaning --
and yet who will shed a tear
for a burning book?

Discourse on Vanity

2009-07-28T00:18:00.000-07:00

God makes man in His own Image
as man makes soup in his own pot.

Apocalypso

2009-07-28T00:17:00.001-07:00

Shiva only knows --
all times are end times!

Discourse on Evolution

2009-07-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

If the cat is a man
and the horse is a woman,
then the ape is a red herring.

Natural Law?

2009-07-28T00:11:00.000-07:00

Reason has no part in Nature.
Hence the Earth is a greater mystery than Heaven;
the Flesh -- a greater mystery than Spirit.

Discourse on Suffering

2009-07-28T00:01:00.000-07:00

The Wisdom of ordinary suffering:
nothing is true; everything is permitted.

The Wisdom of intentional suffering:
if nothing is true, nothing is permitted.

How to Become a Son of God

2009-07-27T23:59:00.000-07:00

God desires what any Father wants --
a son to carry on His Tetragrammaton.

Discourse on Immortality

2009-07-27T23:57:00.000-07:00

When a man dies, he goes to meet his Maker.
If his Maker is not God, he knows he has gone to Hell.

On the Word Made Flesh

2009-07-27T23:53:00.000-07:00

God made man out of Pi
so He could have His cake
and eat it too!

What Solomon Knew

2009-07-27T23:51:00.000-07:00

Let me tell you what is
in the heart of man:
it is the mind of God.

Let me tell you what is
in the heart of God:
it is the mind of man.

On the Pagan Religion

2009-07-27T22:22:00.001-07:00

Meet the new God --
same as the old God.

Discourse on Alchemy

2009-07-27T22:20:00.000-07:00

A Tincture of Vice
is the Elixir of Life.

Khem contra Eliot

2009-07-27T22:18:00.000-07:00

This is the way the world begins
This is the way the world begins
This is the way the world begins
Not with a bang but a yod.

On the Tower of Babel

2009-07-27T22:17:00.000-07:00

To confound the idols of men,
God wrote the Book of Life
in Body Language.

Discourse on Civics

2009-07-27T22:15:00.000-07:00

A republic of fools
cannot but descend into
rule by anointed bureaucrat.

Discourse on "Death"

2009-07-27T22:14:00.001-07:00

Time standing still
is still Time.

Discourse on Justice II

2009-07-27T22:13:00.000-07:00

The price of Grace is that the ordinary man
is as banal when he succeeds as when he fails.

Discourse on Objective Art II

2009-07-27T22:10:00.000-07:00

There was a crooked man
He walked a crooked mile
He painted a crooked picture
And called it the Mona Lisa

Discourse on the Law

2009-07-27T22:08:00.000-07:00

The laws of Men are written in Ink
The laws of God are etched in Stone
The laws of Fate are clad in Iron
The Spirit of laws are written in Blood

North America: A Prophecy

2009-07-27T22:04:00.000-07:00

Uncle Sam bought
Old MacDonald's farm

IAIAO

Discourse on St. Judas

2009-07-27T22:02:00.000-07:00

Salvation is accomplished

when God forgives man his rebellion,
and man forgives God His treason.

On Esoteric Christianity

2009-07-27T22:00:00.000-07:00

Believe on the lord Jesus Christ,
and thou shalt be sly.

Khem contra Conventional Wisdom

2009-07-27T21:59:00.000-07:00

On the contrary -- it is the Body
that wears the Soul as a garment.

Discourse on Gravity

2009-07-27T21:58:00.002-07:00

Spirit matters.

A Sufi is a Sufi

2009-07-27T21:56:00.000-07:00

not because he is in a school,
but because a school is in him.

On the Mystery of Mysteries

2009-07-27T21:55:00.000-07:00

In the beginning was the Word;
and the Word was made Flesh.

The rest is gravy.

On the Great Work

2009-07-27T21:53:00.000-07:00

The death of the Body
is justified by its Beauty.

The death of the Soul
is beautified by its Justice.

Discourse on Genocide

2009-07-27T21:51:00.000-07:00

The last words of a dying race
are gasped in the conqueror's tongue.

Finem Respice

2009-07-27T21:49:00.000-07:00

To remember the beginning,
remember to fear the end.

Discourse on History

2009-07-27T21:47:00.000-07:00

Man accepts only those gifts of the Spirit
that come to him from the barrel of a gun.

Discourse on Tyranny

2009-07-27T21:45:00.000-07:00

The State is intolerable

where the King is the measure of all Justice,
or the people are the measure of all Beauty.

Discourse on Doctrine

2009-07-27T21:43:00.000-07:00

In the beginning was the Word.
In the end was the Cliche.

Khem contra Pythagoras

2009-07-27T21:40:00.000-07:00

Only the Man who Rules
is the Measure of all things.

To One Who Seeks the Holy Grail

2009-07-27T21:38:00.000-07:00

Can you, like Moses, part a Red Sea of blood?
Or, like Noah, build an Ark inside your own body?

The Book of Life

2009-07-27T21:36:00.000-07:00

is a love letter addressed by God to His Image,
and all of Creation lives in the postscript.

How To Have Your Reward

2009-07-27T21:32:00.000-07:00

Conformity was invented so even the Dead could have gods.
Celebrity was invented so even the Dead could be gods.