Muhammedean becoming is the becoming of becomings: the meta-function of all functionality. All functions of input to output are Muhammedean, small or large, from the smallest f(x) = x+1 to the obtuse partial differential equation, from the function of childbirth to the functions of parliament, protest and revolution, from functions of car and textile manufacture [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Punk and the Muhammedean Influence
Posted in The path, tagged Sufism, punk, taqwacore on May 29, 2011 | 5 Comments »
“Of that day and hour no one knows … ”: the Tailorite Sufi’s rapture
Posted in Cosmology, tagged end of days, feminine, final hour, genesis, Kabbalah, rapture, reading, Sufism, tailorite, text, textuality, yawm al qiyamah on May 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent sermon given by Dr. Immanuel G. Moon, that friendly faced High Reader-in-Residence with the Tailorite Temple of Imanetical Literacy, Qalbfordshire. Not that we have ever been one to impinge upon the embodied piety of those who carry our Books, be they Christian, Muslim, Jewish or otherwise. But today we feel it appropriate to [...]
Death of the Professor
Posted in Love poems, tagged George Orwell, Islam, Nahum Tate, religion, Sufism on May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
‘They can’t get inside you,’ Uma had said. But they could get inside you. ‘What happens to you in this College is forever,’ the Dean had said. That was a true word. There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was take out from your breast: burnt out, cauterized away. [...]
The Song of Songs 2:12
Posted in Cosmology, Tailorite Tafsir, tagged dove, Israel, Kabbalah, song of songs, Sufism on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The blossoms appear on the earth, the time of singing/pruning (Z-M-R) is come and the Voice of the Dove is heard in our Land (Song of Songs 2:12) The verse describes a kind of Divine-Human two phase commit protocol by which the meaning and realisation of life’s genesis and fulfillment is encoded and transmitted from [...]
Threats to national security
Posted in Cosmology, tagged faciality, God, national security, OBL, osama bin laden, security, simulacrum, Sufism, threat, threats on May 2, 2011 | 10 Comments »
From the perspective of humanist politics, you can say what you like about Osama bin Laden, about terrorism, about Islamism and the West. You can probably reach quite a nuanced and sensible position that takes all things into account, condemning terrorism in any form but also recognizing prevalent forms of hypocrisy in the actions and [...]
A King’s Wife: the Emergence of Esther
Posted in Cosmology, Tailorite Tafsir, tagged Deleuze, faciality, Kabbalah, Megillah, Sufism, Zeir Anpin on May 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Esther is a Prophetess and the Jewish wife of the Persian King Ahasuerus. Her story is related within the Megillah (meaning “scroll” or “book”, with the connotation of “a detailed account of events”), a book of the Tanakh (“The Book of Esther” in the Old Testament). Esther is an orphan, raised by her counsin, the [...]
On the revolutionary character of the Kalimah
Posted in Cosmology, tagged Kabbalah, Sufism on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Is the Word/Kalimah revolutionary? There is no Love but Love and the subject is Its slave and messenger. If we see slavery and messaging as a bidirectional (down and up/up and down) flow of Divine energy. Reception and Bestowal from the perspective of archetypical perturbation we think of as our own subjecthood. Love Loving in [...]
