“Our only real duty and purpose is to return far enough to the root of our civilization that we can remember—then help it remember—its sacred purpose and task.
And, naturally, the only question is how.”
Peter Kingsley, Catafque
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THE ORPHEUM
The Tragic History of The Recent Return of Orpheus, or, The First Room In Three Books
BOOK ONE: THE MUMMERY BOOK
The Parable of Divine Tragedy, Told By Means of A Self-Illuminated Illustration of The Totality of Mind.
BOOK TWO: THE SCAPEGOAT BOOK
The Previously Secret Dialogue On The Avatarically Given Divine Way of Perfect-Knowledge-Only, Once-Spoken In A Single Night of Conversation, Between The Captive Divine Avatar and Great Sage, Raymond Darling, and His Captor, The Great Fool, and False Teacher, and Notoriously Eccentric Super-Criminal, Evelyn Disk—Herein Fully Given, Without Evelyn Disk’s Later and Famous and self-Serving Revisions, but Exactly As It Was Originally Tape-Recorded, by Evelyn Disk Himself, In The First Room, at the State Mental Facility, Near God’s End, and Presented in Exact Accordance With The Recent Revelatory and Complete Recounting, Given To The Waiting World of Intelligent and Receptive Persons, By Meridian Smith, Who Was, As Usual, Inexplicably Present.
BOOK THREE: THE HAPPENINE BOOK
The Childhood Teachings and The End-of-Childhood Revelations of The Famous “Infant Sage”, Raymond Darling— Compiled from Raymond Darling’s Original Handwritten Manuscripts, and Privately Held Tape-Recordings, Discovered in The First Room By His True Servant-Devotee, Meridian Smith, After The Miraculous Disappearance of The Avataric Great Sage.
“Why do you think I call you to attend this
“Mummery” puja every year? Many reasons, of course, but, not
only to attend it, but also to perform it for one another,
participate in it as a performed puja. Among the many
reasons for that is obviously-I hope obvious to you-so that
you’ll see yourselves reflected in it, see how your
religion business is not very unlike ‘Saint and Ear‘. It’s not
it.”
The Mummery Book –
A Parable is to Purify and Illuminate the mortal, human heart. Therefore, This Parable of Mine Is a Purifying Fire, of all-Illuminating Brightness, That will, forever, Burn a Living Light, within the natural Fire-place of your incendiary heart of ego’s “I”.
This Parable of Mine Is The One and Inmost Revelation Of The Divine True Love That Is. This Parable Itself, Is like a Sea-shell, Left, by Me, for you to Find and Keep, in your, forever, wanderment – along the endless driftwood-beach of life and mine – in search of Everlasting fuel, for Heaven’s never-kindled Blessing-Fire.
To Understand This Parable of Mine, Hold Me to your little ear of heart, with love. And Listen to Me, Resounding there. And Look, within your private room, behind the eyes, for Me to Play My Play and Parable of True-Heart’s Fire and Light of Truth.
from The Mummery Prologue
If Only
Steve Brown
Greek Theater and Adi Da’s Revelation
‘The Mummery’
Steve Brown
The Mummery, The Scapegoat, The Happenine
