Creation, the Tree of Life, ecstasy and anguish, God, faith, and will

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You cease being a production of creation, and you become the substratum itself.

I was born in America, the eagle, the male, and then became Canadian, the beaver, the female, so as to join the two into one.

Must the Type ripen upon an Archetypical limb of the Tree of Life, before falling to its death that it might grow itself as a Tree?

When cutting down whole banana trees, the entire tree must die in order to get the fruit.

These are the badges of ecstasy and anguish which are stamped indelibly upon the softened soul that it may cross the borders requiring such visa.

There were thick pageants of love in the madness of equilibrium. For equilibrium is also a madness which in its pendulous grievances grows and dies and plunders all in its changing.

I ceased surrendering to an ‘other’, and God filled and became me.

Faith is the step below communication, before union.

I came to accept that I could do more for others through prayer, than through action.

The Mother is will.

The earth must be your self.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.