The lamp has not gone out
Halfway through the making, the sea was told her bounds.
The sun learned his path, the moon began to change.
The stars still answered when called by name.
And then the part nobody tells well.
Something was taken.
The light went out of our clothes.
The evening which always pursued us, consumed us.
Here we are. The middle of something.
The fruit is still sweet. That's the trouble.
The sea still keeps her bounds, so someone still means it.
Whoever was walking toward us in the cool of the day
is still walking.
We don't know which way the garden is.
The Daily Reading
Scripture ·
Holy Wisdom is not stored; she is spent, and she is inexhaustible only in the spending. Those are not the verbs of something kept in a box. They are the verbs of something that comes looking for you while you are still deciding.
Book Three
The Scriptures and The Gospel
Book Three is twenty-five books told on one gold thread. Volume One, the Scriptures — given, seen, built, stripped, kept alive through the long waiting. Volume Two, the Gospel. Between them the hinge, The Veil and the Light, where the veil tears into a door and stays open. Two chapters are given now: the first and the twenty-first. The rest are set, not yet cut. Books have always been issued in parts.
Two chapters are open. The other twenty-three are set, not yet cut; the shelf lists them all.
The Method
What makes these pages.
Every sentence here was drafted by a machine and kept, cut or corrected by one man, this one included. The machine does not tell; it illustrates. A page earns its reading by being true, good and beautiful, or it does not earn it at all. The method says plainly how the work is divided.