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Here, I invite readers to view a digital collection of a physical book about the continuation beyond birth and death. Nothing ever ends and nothing ever begins from scratch. Use this basis. of knowledge to not only understand the workings of the universe, but the inner workings of yourself.
8.5x11in magazine booklet, Richmond, VA, 2026
Even from the One disparting come the Many.
Twofold the birth, twofold the death of things
For, now, the meeting of the Many brings
To birth and death and, now, whatever grew
From out their sundering, flies apart and dies.
And this long interchange shall never end.
Whiles into One do all through Love unite;
Whiles too the same are rent through hate of Strife.
And in so far as is the One still wont
To grow from Many, and the Many, again,
Spring from primeval scattering of the One,
So far have they a birth and mortal date
And in so far as the long interchange
Ends not, so far forever established gods
Around the circle of the world they move.
But come but hear my words For knowledge gained Makes strong thy soul.
For as before I spake, Naming the utter goal of these my words, I will report a twofold truth.
Now grows The One from Many into being, now
Even from the One dis-parting come the Many,
Earth and awful heights of Air; from them apart, the deadly Strife
And shut In equipoise, and Love within their midst
In all her being in length and breadth the same.
Behold her now with mind, and sit not there
Fire, Water, With eyes astonished, for this she inborn
Abides established in the limbs of men.
Through her they cherish thoughts of love, through her
Empedocles