THE COSMIC JOKE
AN AETHYRIC ADVENTURE
A Meditation on Key 0 of the Tarot
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread…”
This short film came about in a very Fool-ish fashion, as I decided to learn 3D animation by exploring the possibility of telling the tale of The Fool, and the Fool’s Journey’s final destination in The Universe, using only a sphere and a cube to explore the epic themes of this peculiar Occult Adventure…
One thing lead to another, and what began as a quick render of a glass sphere inside a glass cube soon spiraled, like an un-coiling Serpent, into a 15-month technical binge that almost drove me stark staring mad…
And, as The Fool is won’t to teach those who wander wherever the Way will take them, you tend to arrive at the End of your Wandering, and feel you should immediately start again, knowing what you know now, having walked such a Perilous Path so naively at first…
Isn’t creativity just like that? You learn so much making something, that by the end you feel like only now are you even vaguely prepared to begin the task you just, supposedly, completed…
Anyway…
I hope you enjoy a having a Fiddle with the Riddle that I have tried my best to unravel for the curious…
Come Laugh at The Cosmic Joke š
I’ll meet you Inside, where No-Thing looks like Every-Thing…
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A Meditation on Key 0 of the Tarot
The Script

0
N0N
ZER0
N0T
TA0
N0R
IAā¦
0
THE FOOL is a (k)Not
That Unravels
Why?:
Space is a Point
Whose Ground is the Sky.
THE FOOL is a Be-
Within every -Cause
The Four-Play
That leads
To a Pregnant Pause.
THE FOOL is a Sum
That Calculates:
NAUGHT!
The Witness
To every derangement of Thought.
THE FOOL
Is a Void
That gave birth to the Spark
In the eyes of both parents
Naked in the Dark…
That gave Life to that Being
That calls itself “I”
…Gaia – Ouranos…
The Earth and The Sky
The brilliant punchline
Preceding the Joke:
A Wordly-Wise shell
Needs an Innocent yo(l)ke –
A Way
Where there’s none,
For All Ways are One
For the Aethyr that Breathes
When the Logos has spoken,
And Fools fall through Cracks
Where the Kosmos is Broken…
And all Explanation
Is Frivolous,
Token:
A Throw-Away Gag
That becomes rather choking…
Oh! Come!
With me, now!
You know I’m Only Joking!
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The formula of creation:
That which IS can only be SELF
All that has BEING is I
Supreme
Created by WILL,
Is-ness the space surrounding self-hoodās point.
All that is I has BEING
Supreme
Sustained by WILL,
Selfhood the point projecting Is-nessā space.
WILL is the Innate Quality of SELF
There can Be no Other:
All is SELF, exploring within
I + WILL = BE = I
BE =Ā In+1 = In + WILL = Be = I
WILL is the Nature of SELF
Nature is Action Over Time, Exploring Recursion
I + WILL = BE =
Thus is Man made in Godsā Image:
Know, Dare, Will, Keep Silent
GOĀ
Crazy Wisdom.
Foolish Insight.
Pure Madness.
A Moebius Strip of Non-Sense.
Lost in the fractals that bloom
Throughout the liminal threshold
between the Infinite Appearances and
No-Thing
Now Sing:
I will be that I will be
The First,
Unborn, Undying;
Preceding possibility:
I AM (WILL BE!)
Un-caused, Un-trying;
This effortless infinity
Boundless, beyond knowing.
Perfect in Eternity,
This Universe the growing
Of the Light by which you know Me
In your heart, without denying
That you might have played a part
In the Virgin Motherās crying
For the Fool, taking the journey,
Being bound by, and untying,
All these dreams of separation
From the One
Unborn,
Undying.
See,
The Fool Springs forward, like rabbits at Easter
Refined by his Airs, but compelled like a Beast
Ah! You see, from the Latin
āFollisā ā āBag of Windā!
Amoral adventurer,
Sainted, and Sinned:
Lacking Dimension, eluiding all Form
Arriving from Nowhere
To summon a Storm
Like Yahweh of Old,
Should the Fool be so bold,
To descend
through the three Sacred Veils
as told
by the Great Kabbalists
And the Maenads,
All pissed,
All seeking Alchemical Gold.
Ecstatic or serious,
Ever Mysterious:
Seeking Alchemical Gold.
To define such fine wine
With a label, Divine
As it may Be and should so aspire,
Is just oxymoronic,
Infrequent yet Chronic?
The Lowest
That somehow is
ā¦Higher?
Dionysus, Apollo –
Which Madman to follow,
From Frying pan
Into the Fire?
Letās go Higher.
Adding the Fool
To your School,
or your Doctrine
Is just adding Zero to Something.
Nothing changes
Or rearranges,
Distant friends remain Strangers,
Expecting exchanges,
Including No-thing
To your Stuff
Can be Dangerous,
trust…
But marry the Weirdo,
Transcend all your fear, though
Demonstrably prove
The error of Lear, so
From Nothing comesā¦
Something?
Or so it appears
And, again, calm your mania
Assuage your fears –
MY GOD, ITāS SO STEEP!
At the Cliff Edge:
LEAP!
And then
True Zero
Become, as you must,
Thy Self
Unmasked
Unveiled
But Just
The Whole Universe,
Thy Self,
True Zero
Become,
TRUST
.
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
~ Galatians, 6:3

2 Comments
DosOrixas
Please let me know what you make of all this below…!
Mark
Extraordinary! Iāve watched this 5 times now and Iām still understanding new elements with each viewing⦠so rich. Applause.
So you are a Tarot master and now a 3D animation artist too�
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