The Source

While travelling home on the train from work (a great place to do some good quality thinking BTW), I began thinking about the concepts behind a book on the belief of samsara and the Indian philosophies that I am currently reading. I started to consider the aspects of belief beyond the whole notion of samsara, specifically, it's relation to the philosophy of the Godsmen. I thought about the idea that life is the forge that shapes one in each incarnation, constantly testing us to attain greater levels of power. So, thinking about the cycle of live and death, birth and rebirth, I came up with this. It reflects how the Believer philosophy was first conceived by Perrine, only to be later redefined and solidified by Augy, and those Factols who were to follow.

In the realm of all and nothing, something mysterious is created, born in the formless void that lies between worlds. It waits alone and unmoving for perhaps a era or two, it is hard to define... time has no meaning here. It is at once still and yet in constant motion. It is the question, and it is the answer. It is the end and the begin. It is the eternal cycle of death, and rebirth. It is the source of all power, and heart of all reality. I have spent hundreds of years studying it, and yet, I do not know its name, so I will simply call it the Source. If the Source is great, then the essence is great. If the essence is great, then the soul is great. If the soul is great, then the mortal is great. The Believer is pleased and there is harmony across the multiverse. The Source flows far away and returns on the wind of possibility. It is the heart of all things. It is all things. The Source gave birth to symbol. The symbol gave birth to language. The language gave birth to thought. Now there are millions of thoughts... billions of thoughts. Each thought has its purpose, a direction... however humble. Each thought expresses the Before and After of Life, the Chaos and Order. Each thought has its place within the Source. In the beginning was the Source. At the end there will be the Source. The Source gave birth to Space and Time, Reality and Being. Therefore Space and Time, Reality and Being are the Chaos and Order of existence. When this cycle of existence ends, Space and Time, Reality and Being, all will return to the Source to be reborn. The Believer is told about the Source and follows it. The average person is told about the Source and searches for it. The foolish person is told about the Source and laughs at it. An Excerpt from the Introduction to the Way of the Source, by Factol Perrine.