THIS IS CALLED THE MYSTERIOUS UNITY
Ode #19 - Transcribed Poetic Dictation, Fractal Ode
[Tininess is as much God as bigness
Fractal
At no level of magnification/minification is God any more or less God~
This Ode reminds me stylistically of the 34th Missive, THE THRESHOLD, which included an exhaustive dictation of lesser-known Delphic maxims, shown in quotes to indicate to me and other readers/hearers that they are intentionally presented as references to a prior written record. Here in the 19th Ode, the entire body of the dictation is given in the context of quotation marks. Even the epigraphic first line (appearing also as the final line) is from Laozi. “Mysterious Unity” is Xuán Tóng (玄同), also translated as “Profound Sameness”. I recognize several sources/traditions in the Ode, all talking within this wheelhouse. Roughly in order of appearance: several Upaniṣads, the Bhagavad Gītā, the Avataṃsaka Sūtra//Huayan Jing, the Enneads of Plotinus, the Zohar, the Qur’ān, Wisdom of Solomon, Ephesians, Meister Eckhart, Spinoza, Daodejing. I’ll add some favorites of mine here in the foreword, by my own conscious election:
“To view the great from the small—one cannot grasp it.
To view the small from the great—one cannot see it clearly.”
…
“That is also one; this is also one.” (Zhuangzi, Chapter 17)
“[The sage] sees the small as equal to the great.” (Chapter 7)“The Way[/Dao] is one and without division.
In the vast it is vast; in the small it is small—
yet it is not more or less.” (Ban Zhao, Collected Fragments)“The One is everywhere and nowhere,
not greater in the greater nor lesser in the lesser.” (Hypatia of Alexandria, preserved by Synesius)
] Received 12/2/2025 | 2:05-2:12pm
Companion Missive #19 - HYPERINTENSIFICATION AMPLIFICATION (9/15/2023)
Listen to the Recitation:
THIS IS CALLED THE MYSTERIOUS UNITY
“He moves and He moves not; He is far and He is near; He is within all this, and He is outside all this.”
“The Self is smaller than the small, greater than the great… dwelling in the secret place of the heart.”
“Thou art the woman, Thou art the man… Thou art the blue-winged bird, the cloud… Thou art all that is born.”
“Thou art the small, Thou art the great.”
“Brahman is all: from It are born breath, mind, and all the senses… from It arise the worlds… It is the inner essence of all.”
“He has hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads, mouths everywhere… pervading all.”
“This entire universe is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest form…
Yet beings do not dwell in Me; behold My divine mystery.”
“In each jewel, the entire net is reflected… and in each reflection, the whole is again contained.”
Mystery #4: “The small contains the great.”
Mystery #5: “The great contains the small.”
Mystery #6: “One is many; many are one.”
“The One is present to all, yet not divided among them.”
“The One is nowhere and everywhere; not greater in the great nor lesser in the small.”
“The Infinite does not change; it is the same above and below.”
“A point that contains all points.”
“The primordial point (keter as a nekudah) contains the entire cosmos in undiminished fullness.”
“He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.”
“For you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things you have made.”
“One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.”
“God is the same one God in the angel and in the soul, in heaven and in the smallest creature.”
“Each thing, in whatever degree of reality, expresses the essence of God.”
“Whatever is, is in God, and nothing can be or be conceived without God.”
“The Great Dao flows everywhere, to the left and to the right.
All things depend on it for life, yet it does not claim ownership.
It accomplishes all, yet takes no name.”
“There is a thing confusedly formed, born before Heaven and Earth.
Silent, vast, standing alone, unchanging,
moving everywhere without exhaustion—
it may be called the Mother of all under Heaven.”
“The Dao is empty, yet in use it is never exhausted.
Deep—
the ancestor of the ten thousand things.”
“The valley-spirit never dies;
this is called the Mysterious Female.
The gate of the Mysterious Female
is the root of Heaven and Earth.”
“In ancient times, those who attained the One:
Heaven through the One became clear;
Earth through the One became steady;
spirits through the One became vital;
valleys through the One became filled;
the ten thousand things through the One were born.”
“The Dao is constant and without name.
Though the uncarved block is small,
none in the world dare make it their subject.”
“This is called the Mysterious Unity.”
