Alpha 60

But no one has lived in the past,

and no one will live in the future.

The present is the form of all life.

This quality can't be changed by any means.

Time is like a circle which turns endlessly:

the descending arc is the past,

the arc that climbs is the future.

Everything has been said

provided words don't change their meanings

and meanings their words.

It isn't obvious that someone

who customarily lives in a state of suffering

requires a different sort of religion

from a person habitually in a state of well-being?

Before us, nothing existed here: no one.

We are totally alone here.

We are unique, dreadfully unique.

The meaning of words and of expressions

is no longer grasped.

An isolated word or a detail of a design

can be understood.

But the meaning of the whole escapes.

Once we know the number one

we believe that we know the number two

because one plus one equals two.

We forget that first: we must know the meaning of plus.

The acts of men carried over from past centuries will gradually destroy them logically.

I, Alpha 60, am merely the logical mean of this destruction.