<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>The book I mentioned yesterday related to the Hermetic Principles is: </div><div>A Story Waiting to Pierce you by Peter Kingsley.</div><div>I only realized after finishing it how it was telling the same story going on since way before our Western civilization picked it up.</div><div>A couple of years ago I had recommended In the Dark places of Wisdom by same author </div><div>but this one is much more connected to what we are exploring now. </div><div>It was very powerful reading for me</div><div><b><font color="#454545" face="BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT" size="3"> </font></b></div><div><font>And below</font><font color="#454545" face="BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT" size="3" style="font-weight: bold;"> is Ahulani</font><font color="#454545" face="BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT" style="font-weight: bold;">’</font><font color="#454545" face="BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT" size="3" style="font-weight: bold;">s poem read yesteday</font></div><div><b style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; font-size: 12pt;"><br></b></div><div><b style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; font-size: 12pt;">Little Leaf - </b><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For Riantee</span></div><div><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Little leaf afloat on an emerald sea, she wonders where she's going.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">So used to her position high in the tree weathering all the storms,<br>enjoying the tender breezes and<br>the early light as it rises,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">knowing her place, her connections feeling her roots deep in the stoney earth down to the last capillary,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">she was known and knew herself.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">she’d come a long way<br>from that tiny seedling when she first unfurled,<br>then years of growing, knowing, shading, withering and falling dissolving and unfurling<br>again and again<br>as the seasons came and went.<br>always different, and somehow always the same.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">And now...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">What is this?<br>How does she do this? How does she be this?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Bobbing along this way and that, not choosing,<br>not preferring,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">sometimes not really caring at all. Yet deep inside...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">that same willingness,<br>that same “yes!”<br>that same “I wonder what's next?”<br>that same “I’ll throw myself in and see what happens!” that sparked her essence,<br>is looking around and getting its bearings.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">This is a ride after all! There's adventure ahead! There's an adventure now.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">New questions. New sensations. New expansion.</span></p></div></div><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; font-size: 12pt;">New awareness. New self.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">And she's remembering, glimpsing,<br>sensing,<br>seeing,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">that<br>she's waving at herself from the other shore, waving from the clouds<br>from the stars,<br>from the infinite sky.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">She's smiling at herself as the little leaf boat. She's smiling at herself as the vast blue sky. She's all of it.<br>All That Is!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">and is not...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">She's opening and opening,</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; font-size: 12pt;">smiling and laughing</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">because what she's always known is true...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">She is not becoming. She always has been.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">leafskyduststarsoceansrootsong</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Now it’s the seventh day.<br>She looks around at her creation</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">and is well pleased.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BodoniSvtyTwoOSITCTT; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">She smiles at herself in the bliss of being for now, a piece of gum<br>on the bottom of<br>an old shoe.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>