41. The conscious use of routine is a powerful educator when used in an Eternalist manner. It's the definition of how things get accomplished in multiples.
42. We have HARDCORE routines and SOFTCORE routines that stress Eternalist values. Both can be very successful, especially when a TIME LIMITATION VALUE is applied to it.
This is an unedited intro. It may well change before the publication of the book this summer.
I just want you to know what I envision.
At the Time of this writing, Eternalism in the form I've proposed is a relatively new religion, though throughout Time there have been like minded intellectuals who shared the philosophy with the world as it was. To my knowledge none addressed these ideas in a social manner, as in 'let's join hands and sing about this', Eternalism, when it becomes part of a social gathering, instilling a social nature among devotees, becomes a religion by all definitions.
I write this not because I want to avoid paying taxes. I firmly believe that religious organizations should pay taxes. No matter how firmly they believe in their business's mindset, they are businesses. Of course, all religions are mindsets. You pay them to keep you in their mindset, which, believe me, is a full-time job.
I had a conversation last night with my editor/publisher Shoshana Mahrohn. We talked about the book's proposed layout. A book that's been very influential to the Eternalist movement is James P. Carse's FINITE AND INFINITE GAMES. I strongly advise anyone interested in Eternalism to read it. The format is somewhat like the Christian Bible, with short, numbered pieces running consecutively through seven chapters. The contend mixes fact and fiction so well that it puts the reader in a state of oversight, as if flying above the ideas, picking and choosing them when and where they are needed in the reader's lives.
We'll be using a similar format, so that the reader can get as much out of it but reading randomly as reading linearly. My content is somewhat different from Carse's, there's a broadening of genre once again. You'll find autobiographic paragraphs, nicely scattered throughout. And the use of trance language, that is, the ability to draw a reader in using techniques like Seductive Phrasing and Rhyme Rhythms. Have you noticed how many commercials use these techniques?
Before praying to Time, it is important that your mindset is one of longing, in the pursuit of knowledge over belief. Be alone in a quiet spot. Later you will learn how to pray to Time in groups. Close your eyes, then seek images out of the dim lights behind your eyelids. Remember the images.
A novice should study this initial prayer before the actual prayer takes place.
A PRAYER TO ETERNITY
Live in me as I live in You. Put Life in me as I put Life in You.
Be good to me and I will be your constant companion.
Teach me Your secrets.
Fly me through Your channels of Beauty.
I will strive to be honest to You and to myself.
Thank You for the ride so far.
Love me as I love You.
Put Love in me as I put Love in You.
Allways in all ways.*
(* 'Allways in all ways) is our equivalent of 'amen'.
