SCIENCE OF 
THE IMMORTALS 
(SOTI)

COMMENTARY

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Line 1:  "The SOTI Aphorism is a message - ..." 

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The SOTI Aphorism is a message directed to all levels of 'Understanding.'

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Line 2-3: "To Palaces and Temples..." 

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The SOTI Aphorism is DIRECTED TO ALL, thus to Emperors, to Kings, to Queens, Elites and State persons and to the masses. 

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Line 4:  "Who inhabit the 'Havens of Hovels'..." 

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Such is the lot of the SOTI Aphorism - which is directed not just to the occupants of Palace and Temple, but to the Hosts and Hoards who inhabit the 'Haven of Hovels.'

 

Lines 5-8:  "Like a donkey or mule..." 

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The SOTI Aphorism carries a 'burden,' an 'idea burden,' an 'intellectual burden' - as a carrier of ideas, of useful import.  The donkey and mule are not the noblest of 'bearers' - since unlike the horse, they are regarded primarily, as 'beasts of burden' - not ignoble, but inelegant.

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Line 9-10: "It stalls... It halters"

 

The SOTI Aphorism is marked by this 'inelegant stalling' - a feature, if you search for it - and through its competent use, it is discreetly concealed.  In brief, the SOTI Aphorism is 'awkward' - and so it seems to 'stall' and sometimes not to flow at all - with its one word play and awkward punctuation and line arrangement and so on and so forth.  "It stalls, It halters" - but continues...      

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Line 11: "And then suddenly..."

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Like a beam of focused light - 'Things' peep through.   (NOTE: In The Science Of Abstract Consciousness you have 'It' meaning an individual expression, 'Things' meaning multiple expressions and 'Other Things' meaning a miscellany of things)

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Line 12-13: "Quirkily..."

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Have you ever seen a burdened donkey or a mule make its way down a country road?  I haven't, but I envision a picture of such things from paintings, postcards and the odd film or video clip.  "Quirkily" - Is how I imagine the process of this 'beast of burden' - not "ignobly" - for that would be unfair, since the burden is not its own. 

 

Thus such is the fate of the SOTI Aphorism - it too bears a burden, not of its own making.  "Quirkily" - because those who fashion such things as SOTI Aphorisms, think that by such a manner, can be achieved this simple process - which is to Think! and so this 'quirky form' is adopted. 

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Line 14: "Stubbornly"

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One often gets the impression with a SOTI Aphorism, that its message is 'uncomfortable' - not just to the hearer, but also from the bearer - why is this? 

 

How can an Aphorism be stubborn?  This 'reluctance to give a message' - is a feature of the 'stubborn SOTI Aphorism' - since what it gives you with its left hand, it seeks to take with its right - and I'm being honest here - what it could say simply, it may stretch out and what it should expound more fully, it compounds into a word - why?  You know the answer - to make you Think!  In this lies, its 'stubbornness.'

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Line 15-16: "It upturns... Its load!"

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It is not just stubborn - but it will throw over both you and the goods - your goods (intellectual baggage you carried in your head) and then what?  - "Its load" which may be also yours (intellectual baggage you carried in your head) to what avail?

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Line 17: "And you sit there..."

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You should take time to pause and consider the situation you are in - intellectually!  

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Line 18: "On the floor..."

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The SOTI Aphorism often refers to a 'Fundamental Principle' or 'First Principle' - as either a starting point or an ending aim / purpose.  Thus "On the floor..." refers to a foundational premise or root, upon which later thought is 'laid' or 'built' or 'grown.'

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Line 19: "Bemused - ..."

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"Bemused" - speaks for itself - time to consider a neutral attitude is required, maybe even a smile as one rubs, one's wounds. 

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Line 20: "To THINK! ..."

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Ahh at last.