Microcosm and macrocosm, God, memory, Asclepius, Hermes Trismegistus, and the heart

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I found out why the microcosm is necessary to disentangle the macrocosmic knot. I was trying to untangle a rope and at first, by loosening the entire knotted area I was able to unwind each end of the rope a little at a time, then loosening again the tangled centre, I could unwind a little more at each end, repeating this procedure a great number of times I had coiled up the greater part of the rope in two separate coils with a smaller knot growing tighter in the centre. In the end no more loosening could be done- I had to admit that there was a knot which could only be undone by binding one of the coiled ends tightly and entering it into the knot, weaving it through the gnarled blockage and in the end liberating the whole from the tangle of itself. So I say to you, hang loose and empty, letting God disentangle the whole, but when the time is ripe, strike forth with the force of the little self, and break the ice completely.

And all those whom I have loved fade away slowly in memory just as the sound of their voices carries into space becoming fainter and fainter as I rise away until they are barely audible and then no more.

I dis-integrate from the parts and disperse into the whole.

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The ‘I’ disperses into the ‘AM’ throughout.

“How quickly, Asclepius, you have lost your hold on the true doctrine!”

                                    Hermes Trismegistus

The heart is like a step-down transformer, turning divine love into the magnitude a human can receive.

A person seeks experience because they are not experiencing their self.

God is contiguous with my consciousness.

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These selected fragments are excerpted from unpublished writings by Jack Haas; selections from the notebooks 1990-2005.