Telling the Truth about Immortality IV

Foreward

We will attempt in this work
to utilize our previously stated definitions
in establishing a series of protocols
best suited for the artistic interpretation
of Immortality
in the Modern Myth.

However,
we must be sure of one thing
before we continue.

We must understand that the Supernatural
is not, intrinsically, the work of our Immortals.

In neither,
our literary consciousness
nor any
historically established moral consciousness.

If we are to Speak the Truth of Anything
it is our obligation
& our purpose
to Look On our Subject
in absolute isolation
& outside of influence.

We look through the Microscope
or we don’t look at all.

Methods

I find no great burden in proclaiming
that our historical canon of Myth
has failed to express even one word
on the Truth of Immortality.

But for all its flaws,
it is our Form
& from it we must establish our foundation.

That is not to say,
that our Myth’s monumental catalog
is, in any way, an inadequate means
to our projected ends.

For our classical Myth is primarily
stories of men
& few stories outside of Myth
have provided
so profound a portrayal of Man
that they still ring of prophesy
in their depth & their accuracy.

So, through our Hero we run this course.

A.
Finding signs of Immortal Life
i.e.

The farm is ablaze
Our Hero becomes suddenly enlightened
A plan enters his mind

The Wife, the Kids, The Horses, The Dogs
in that order
he will spread wings & swoop up each of them

Our Hero appears to leap into action
but
a split-second refinement of the plan
has altered his course

It happened so fast
that the exact moment is entirely unreadable
was it
before the step
the heel on the floor
the pivot of the ankle
the leap?

Impossible to say he just leapt into action
though his course was changed,

Our Hero knows that the children must survive,
He rationalizes on behalf of his Wife
who would live as a walking Ghost
to only wisp away
if she survived to a world without her children,
so he leaps.

To the children in the barn’s loft
he leaps.

B.
Where there is Smoke, there too, is fire

Let us now look for the evidence
in the Supernatural
then we can dispute
as to what hand our Immortals might play.
i.e. in chronological order of occurrence

1.) Fire
2.) Enlightenment
3.) Heroism
4.) Doubt
5.) Time
6.) Fate
7.) Love

Now, let us refine our findings
by choice & circumstance
to fit our artistic needs.

Fire is a high likelihood,
it has baffled man since it’s inception
& despite having dissected
it’s very fabric,
Man can do little more than
estimate the proximity
of a likely occurrence,
& only by model,
attempt to predict it’s behavior.

To accept Fire
as a device of our Immortal
we must then presume
that the Fire’s path
is aligned with our Immortal’s path.

So in the objectives of our Fire
we too can look upon
our Immortal’s unseen nature.

We look closely at Fire,
it starts when a volatile material
is fed enough air
& left to the heat long enough
as to sustain it’s being
by ushering others into it’s condition.

We know Fire is a three-legged table already
& if even one of it’s needs
is swiped from it
she collapses & disappears.

We make decisions;
it is a work of art before it is a Myth,
it requires our intrusion
to fulfill the promise of its definition.

So our Fire will be a She
& we will call her Byzantine.

Byzantine may escape Mortal Reason
but she is still as much the Slave
to the Designs of Life
as any Man
& as our Hero’s embodiment of Fire
Byzantine, too,
will abide the same laws of creation.

Byzantine by design
is an unstable entity
whose contact with oxygen
& exposure to heat
causes a reaction in her
that consumes & assimilates
all it can
just to maintain itself
& she is, in her way, doomed
to a bi-polar existence
or more accurately
a nature which fluctuates with potential
but can never sustain itself
in its actualized form.

We can decide now what form
her motives will take
but we must be careful
to not interject with
those petty Human traits
that we drag with us
from & to the grave.

C.
We return to her condition,
if we are to embody Fire
than we can also
safely embody Heat & Oxygen as well.

We know our old friend, Oxygen
is always ready to make compounds
with almost everybody else.

We know he is Third in succession
for largest domain in the Universe
behind Hydrogen & Helium.

We imagine then
his scope of knowledge
surpasses all but two other Immortals.

We know his coupling with Water,
sustains all life on Earth.

Do we detect a Mythological Creation tale
in the ether of scientific Truth?

If the Father to our orphan Mortals,
the Third most powerful Immortal
in all of the universe
lays with Water
how do you think that affects
Fire’s social standing?

We find our great Irony here
for Byzantine needs Father Oxygen
to achieve her anthropomorphic destiny.

What role would our ethereal Heat,
(we will call him Q)
have to play in all of this?

We know Q too,
though he is certainly more enigmatic
than our friend,
the Big O.

He is almost as if an Omen
in his seemingly prophetic appearances,
existing only in the movement
of Energy,
from one body to another.

A potentially willful Harbinger
whose sudden appearance
in Byzantine’s Immortal life
ushers in a transfer of power?

As good a plot as any.

D.
To further unfold the fabric of our Myth
we need only continue this formula
chronologically along our Culprits.

The most crucial elements are
our choice,
the acceptance of circumstance,
the adherence to progressive logic,
& the knowledge
that we may only seek our Morals
from the Chaos.

Afterward

In Some Thoughts on Immortality
I touched upon predestination
& it’s role in Myth
in a fairly negative light
but
I want it to be clear
that predestination
is only the perceivable state
of true Chaos.

We can assume then that our Immortals
are free of that perception
& though they would clearly see
the futility of will,
they would not concede to its invalidity.

In this we find a defining conflict
between Man & Immortal.

Where Man’s will
is rendered useless
& thus
invalid in his struggle,
Our Immortal’s freedom
from the Human Condition
frees them also
from it’s hopelessness.

If we then assume
that the Future is still
the same blank slate
to our Immortals
as it is to Man
then it would appear
subjectively
as though
in the Universe of Man & Immortal
the Eternal call the shots
if only because
their shots still matter.

Frankly, that Method was exhausting.
I can’t say whether I’ll continue
to provide further examples tomorrow,
but I would welcome some feeback,
if only to encourage
this amount of effort in the future,
so come back anyway for something, tomorrow.