It was 2 in the morning, and the Seeker was walking around the neighborhood. Firefly, thought he, as an illumined unit of flesh and awareness flew before him and disappeared again in the dark. The moon, like a half of brie in the sky, was illuminating
the path. And on the other side of Bradford St. was paradise.

Small cozy houses amid trees that must have been there for centuries. One of these trees was overhanging the street, its branches and leaves hanging down, enfolded in cobwebs of fog. When Elvis Costello said "They lead you half-way to
paradise, they
leave you half-way to bliss" he was speaking about incomplete task. It has become up to us to complete it.

"We could do nothing for them, so we did not" was the false thought of the time. Except I could and did. It was wanted extinct and buried; but his love and respect for it only grew the more this was being done. Along with it grew passionate rage. And
when they asked Balaam to curse, and instead Balaam blessed, he had been doing nothing different from what he was now doing.

"Bad crop," was said. "The worst generation." Not exactly, he said, and he meant it. He loved these people, and he was willing to live for the beauty that
they had envisioned and put in craft. And if he was to deal with what they were
dealing with, he
was game.

He was loathe to learn incomplete lessons. A lesson that is a function of an interest or a worldview was bound to be full of distortion and fallacy and either error or deliberate lies. It was said that the Jews were hard-headed - would not they have to
be in order to be the people of God? Would not they have to suspend their judgment from what the world told them in order to carry on the work? Would not
that be thought psychotic by those who equate each society with the whole of reality and want to
define people by reference to their status within it? And would not they have to go elsewhere besides the societies that hate them for insight and wisdom and
personal truth?

He was loathe to learn incomplete lessons. The wrong lesson learned, he reasoned, is worse than no lesson learned at all. And better than both is right
lesson learned, which can only be a result of complete perspective. To see all the forces involved in
a situation, he reasoned, was higher form of justice than dumping on singular people who were used as emotional garbage dumps for the civilization. And so he
traveled, read, explored, spoke to people from many cultures and occupations and ways of thought.

They ask Balaam to curse, but he blesses. You might call it enabling; however the choice was to help beauty to thrive and have beautiful existence. No change
was required; why change something so sublime? Rather clear the paths, improve the condition,
and then she blossoms into resplendor and sets example for the future that beauty is good and viable and very much part of the real world -

- when people use the reality of their actions to make it so.

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