The Book of Change
The Book of Change by Clint Miller CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING
The Book of Change, by Clint Miller This book first published 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NE5 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright 2007 by Clint Miller All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 1-84718-307-7; ISBN 13: 9781847183071
TABLE OF CONTENTS INDUCTION...THE WISDOM OF THE COINS One...Foundations of Beginning Two...Nature of Nothing Interlude of Summation Connotation Three...Engendered Foundations Interlude of Sentiment Enlightenment Four...Probabilistic Foundations Interlude of Suspicion Politics Five... Axiomatic Foundations Interlude of Subtlety Two Equal Functions Six...Random and Coincidental Foundations Seven... Ground Beneath Foundations INVOCATION...THE WIT AND WRIT OF THE PROPHET
THE WISDOM OF THE COINS INDUCTION:
INDUCTION: THE WISDOM OF THE COINS
In order to go away from it The wisdom of the coins is such That every concept is joined with its opposing side, And when the value is thus reduced to nothing, The wisdom of the coins is such That in expending it you shall only That it will burn a hole in your pocket, But the wisdom of the coins is such The wisdom of the coins is such For understanding pays much more For you That it will bring you understanding That no money can buy, The wisdom of the coins is such I. For it. Than you pay Contented. Is a coin pulled out, And you will gradually come to this comfort That no greedy pig can fill our piggy bank When every coin put in Expand it. Nothing only becomes Twice as valuable.
I. The wisdom of the coins is such That it will bring you understanding That no money can buy, For understanding pays much more For you Than you pay For it. The wisdom of the coins is such That it will burn a hole in your pocket, But the wisdom of the coins is such That in expending it you shall only Expand it. The wisdom of the coins is such That every concept is joined with its opposing side, And when the value is thus reduced to nothing, Nothing only becomes Twice as valuable. The wisdom of the coins is such That no greedy pig can fill our piggy bank When every coin put in Is a coin pulled out, And you will gradually come to this comfort In order to go away from it Contented.
For then when you turn on it, You will only turn to it. Will sneak behind you in order to face you, Steadily, yet suddenly, The wisdom of the coins These: inky vocal chords, Can wake you up only by first singing you asunder to slumber. This: thus a lullaby, The wisdom of the coins Is as loud as the silence between jingles in your pocket And as quiet as the space between picketers in a protest. The wisdom of the coins Is as subtly circular as The knowledge brought about by a half-moon hovering in a crisp night sky. The wisdom of the coins II. Pitched in parchment, Tuned and typed.
II. The wisdom of the coins Is as subtly circular as The knowledge brought about by a half-moon hovering in a crisp night sky. The wisdom of the coins Is as loud as the silence between jingles in your pocket And as quiet as the space between picketers in a protest. The wisdom of the coins Can wake you up only by first singing you asunder to slumber. This: thus a lullaby, These: inky vocal chords, Pitched in parchment, Tuned and typed. The wisdom of the coins Will sneak Steadily, yet suddenly, For then when you turn on it, You will only turn to it. behind you in order to face you,
Show you the peace that is war and the war that is peace Show you the pieces of the whole The wisdom of the coins must Open your eyes to the concept of closing them. The wisdom of the coins may Teach you to breathe in By first forcing breath out. The wisdom of the coins will Court you without trial. The wisdom of the coins shall III. Through the holes between pieces.
III. The wisdom of the coins shall Court you without trial. The wisdom of the coins will Teach you to breathe in By first forcing breath out. The wisdom of the coins may Open your eyes to the concept of closing them. The wisdom of the coins must Show you the peace that is war and the war that is peace Show you the pieces of the whole Through the holes between pieces.
The concurrency in this currency: The wisdom of the coins will teach you By outdoing without doing, It will show you the wellbeing in well, being. What outlines without lines, What outlies without lies; The wisdom of the coins will show you Not the air inside of it, But, instead, all the air outside of it. Fill your mind by turning it inside out, Like teaching a balloon to contain The wisdom of the coins shall Teach you to look outward to the inner And inward to the outer. The wisdom of the coins will IV. And the incense in sense. The incertitude in certitude, The insight in sight, The invariability in variability, The insanity in sanity, The inequity in equity, The infractions in fractions, The inaccuracy in accuracy, The inability in ability, The incompetence in competence, The inconsonance in consonance, The inconsistency in consistency, The incapacity in capacity,
IV. The wisdom of the coins will Teach you to look outward to the inner And inward to the outer. The wisdom of the coins shall Fill your mind by turning it inside out, Like teaching a balloon to contain Not the air inside of it, But, instead, all the air outside of it. The wisdom of the coins will show you What outlines without lines, What outlies without lies; By outdoing without doing, It will show you the wellbeing in well, being. The wisdom of the coins will teach you The concurrency in this currency: The inconsistency in consistency, The incapacity in capacity, The incompetence in competence, The inconsonance in consonance, The inaccuracy in accuracy, The inability in ability, The inequity in equity, The infractions in fractions, The invariability in variability, The insanity in sanity, The incertitude in certitude, The insight in sight, And the incense in sense.
FOUNDATIONS OF BEGINNING ONE:
ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF BEGINNING
Before existence Nothing is an inaccurate word Because the word is something. Non-existence is an inaccurate word Because the word exists. Could only be non-existence. This means nothing. But we know intuitively, indubitably, Before must exist on the side opposite After. We can only perceive the side of After; We can never perceive the side of Before, Beginning is a coin with two sides. I. Beginning. Just as we did not know we had begun Before our And when we ourselves have come to an end We will not know it, For a similar reason, everything we know will come to an end; On the underlying side of the coin. On our face of the coin Counteracted by the underlying implications To a world that needs know no true Nothingness. These words will never fail to negate themselves due to their face-value These sentences are something to describe Nothing Without falsely yet faithfully implying the existence Of the other side. But, worry not, for we can never speak of one side of a coin In one-sided terms
I. Beginning is a coin with two sides. We can only perceive the side of After; We can never perceive the side of Before, But we know intuitively, indubitably, Before must exist on the side opposite After. Before existence Could only be non-existence. This means nothing. Non-existence is an inaccurate word Because the word exists. Nothing is an inaccurate word Because the word is something. But, worry not, for we can never speak of one side of a coin In one-sided terms Without falsely yet faithfully implying the existence Of the other side. These sentences are something to describe Nothing To a world that needs know no true Nothingness. These words will never fail to negate themselves due to their face-value On our face of the coin Counteracted by the underlying implications On the underlying side of the coin. For a similar reason, everything we know will come to an end; And when we ourselves have come to an end We will not know it, Just as we did not know we had begun Before our Beginning.
Landed on the solid ground of By the coin of Beginning. As the existence of Because Is the face of our world. But our perspective deserves no precedence, The face of this coin Nothing existed before the Beginning. The coin of Beginning lies between Loud enough to sound like a Big Bang. The coin of Beginning landed on Nothing because The coin of Beginning landed with a clink II. Nothing. Our world is part of an infinite amount of hypothetical anything Implied when the coin of Beginning Nothing is all that can exist on the side of the coin opposite anything, And our world qualifies as anything because any world qualifies as anything. Before the Beginning, On which the coin of Beginning could land. Nothing was the only solid ground around, Nothing is hypothetical to our world, For our world is forever separated from Our world s existence is as hypothetical to Nothing existed before our world s existence. Facing us, thusly And Nothing Nothing Everything. Nothing
II. The coin of Beginning landed with a clink Loud enough to sound like a Big Bang. The coin of Beginning landed on Nothing because Nothing existed before the Beginning. The coin of Beginning lies between Nothing And Everything. The face of this coin Facing us, thusly Is the face of our world. But our perspective deserves no precedence, Because Nothing existed before our world s existence. Our world s existence is as hypothetical to Nothing As the existence of Nothing is hypothetical to our world, For our world is forever separated from Nothing By the coin of Beginning. Nothing was the only solid ground around, Before the Beginning, On which the coin of Beginning could land. Nothing is all that can exist on the side of the coin opposite anything, And our world qualifies as anything because any world qualifies as anything. Our world is part of an infinite amount of hypothetical anything Implied when the coin of Beginning Landed on the solid ground of Nothing.
Nothing has therefore created our world. Is dependant on the dominant implication of Nothing at its opposite side. Nothing has thus created us; Will always be Nothing. Everything that exists in our world or in any other hypothetical world Is absolute. The opposite side of everything the opposite side of anything The role of Nothing in the implication and creation of All possible hypothetical worlds While the role of Nothing in the implication and creation of our world Is absolute. Is merely one out of an infinite amount of hypothetical worlds Serving that same purpose, However, The role of our particular world in the implication and creation of Nothing As viciously circular as our sided view of the coin of Beginning. On the side of the coin opposite us. This relationship is Our world is implied and thus created by a perspective From the oblivious ground of Nothing From the infinite and infinitely hypothetical anything On the side of the coin opposite It. Nothing is implied and thus created by any perspective Of the coin facing us. Just as Nothing is only possible as an unthinkable and unfathomable oblivion Implied by our consideration of the hypothetical imperceptible opposite side Implied by the hypothetical consideration of the opposite side Of the coin facing Nothing, Nothing created all other worlds. Our world is only possible as one in an infinite set of worlds Nothing created our world. III. (In turn, turning over that coin) God must be Nothing. Accordingly, through a strikingly similar definition: If God is the Being Who created us and our world then
III. Nothing created our world. Nothing created all other worlds. Our world is only possible as one in an infinite set of worlds Implied by the hypothetical consideration of the opposite side Of the coin facing Nothing, Just as Nothing is only possible as an unthinkable and unfathomable oblivion Implied by our consideration of the hypothetical imperceptible opposite side Of the coin facing us. Nothing is implied and thus created by any perspective From the infinite and infinitely hypothetical anything On the side of the coin opposite It. Our world is implied and thus created by a perspective From the oblivious ground of Nothing On the side of the coin opposite us. This relationship is As viciously circular as our sided view of the coin of Beginning. However, The role of our particular world in the implication and creation of Nothing Is merely one out of an infinite amount of hypothetical worlds Serving that same purpose, While the role of Nothing in the implication and creation of our world Is absolute. The role of Nothing in the implication and creation of All possible hypothetical worlds Is absolute. The opposite side of everything the opposite side of anything Will always be Nothing. Everything that exists in our world or in any other hypothetical world Is dependant on the dominant implication of Nothing at its opposite side. Nothing has thus created us; Nothing has therefore created our world. Accordingly, through a strikingly similar definition: If God is the Being Who created us and our world then (In turn, turning over that coin) God must be Nothing.
(And an incessantly personified variable we have coined for Nothing). For us, this relationship has resulted in an uncountable number of gods Beginning Due to His accurate perception of all hypothetical implications of His own For Him, this relationship has resulted in an uncountable number of worlds Opposite us. Opposite Him, Just as we can only perceive Him hypothetically, considering the side God can only perceive us hypothetically, considering the side We are forever separated from God by the coin which landed in the Beginning. IV. Sided Existences Beginning Due to our inaccurate perception of all hypothetical implications of our own Since The Sided Nothingness. After The
IV. We are forever separated from God by the coin which landed in the Beginning. God can only perceive us hypothetically, considering the side Opposite Him, Just as we can only perceive Him hypothetically, considering the side Opposite us. For Him, this relationship has resulted in an uncountable number of worlds After The Beginning Due to His accurate perception of all hypothetical implications of His own Sided Nothingness. For us, this relationship has resulted in an uncountable number of gods Since The Beginning Due to our inaccurate perception of all hypothetical implications of our own Sided Existences (And an incessantly personified variable we have coined for Nothing).
For the only solid implication Of the existence of our world on our side of the coin. Of the existence of a solid God on the other side of the coin, Just as God is only a synonym Our world is merely one of the infinite and infinitely hypothetical implications Chance chose for the coin of Beginning to be tossed, And there was nothing but God (Nothing Himself) on which it could land. Nothing chooses nothing. Choice is nothing but chance for Chance is Nothing, too. God did not choose to create our world or any other world. Can we gaze through the coin To find comfort in the concept. It is only because the coin of Beginning lies between us and it. And only by finding comfort in the coin If this concept seems hard to grasp, And God is Nothing. God, In God s image, Through God s perspective, To amount to Nothing, It is only because we were all created by Meaningless, pointless, and devoid of any true significance If human life seems, in the long run, If human life seems, in the long run, V. We are
V. If human life seems, in the long run, Meaningless, pointless, and devoid of any true significance If human life seems, in the long run, To amount to Nothing, It is only because we were all created by We are God, In God s image, Through God s perspective, And God is Nothing. If this concept seems hard to grasp, It is only because the coin of Beginning lies between us and it. And only by finding comfort in the coin Can we gaze through the coin To find comfort in the concept. God did not choose to create our world or any other world. Nothing chooses nothing. Choice is nothing but chance for Chance is Nothing, too. Chance chose for the coin of Beginning to be tossed, And there was nothing but God (Nothing Himself) on which it could land. Our world is merely one of the infinite and infinitely hypothetical implications Of the existence of a solid God on the other side of the coin, Just as God is only a synonym For the only solid implication Of the existence of our world on our side of the coin.
NATURE OF NOTHING TWO:
TWO: NATURE OF NOTHING
Nothing is impossible. Impossible. And on the opposite side of the coin, Do not oppose each other; For on our side of the coin, We must clearly see that the two sides of the coin of Beginning, While opposite each other, Thus, through this simple demonstration built into our own language, Nothing is impossible On the side of the coin of Beginning opposite us. The opposite side of anything and everything possible is The opposite side of anything and everything possible is Is to imply a doubled infinity, Which is, at best, impossible, and at least redundant. A countless set of possibilities on our side of the coin of Beginning. To consider the side of the coin opposite the infinite set of possible things We exist in one of many worlds: The coin of Beginning has imposed this accordance onto us In relation to Nothing and all of Nothing s more revered names. One side of any coin must exist in accordance with its opposite side. I. Anything is possible, Nothing.