Nolanus: O lord, truly I am amazed in how your science extends my science, for I cannot disagree with your statements, so that I suspect that your science is, in secret, the very compendium of my sciences. Are you then, for experiment of sorts, testing me with my own knowledge, or are you truly suggesting that yours is beyond mine, and beyond all others, so that your statements are truly to be found at all scales and all levels, as you repeat so incessantly? And truly then, how then is to achieve such compendium or such science?
Hermes: O friend, I cherish your first question, as it is it also my final question, so that it cannot be answered, as only the question about the question can be answered, which you know is the rule of change.
Do know, then, that all you ask has been already answered, and your only question could be that of truth or falsehood, in response for which I shall add, in my reasoning, the question behind change, that is to say, that it is sibling to the question about change, and the question about and the question behind are of course one and the same. This is then the final aspect of my discourse, and this is then all of my knowledge of this science.
The final question and the final answer are those of, and not about nor behind, perfection, that cannot be asked nor answered if not in perfection, and they are still and they are one, so that stillness is not of this world. Hence change, the final question and the final answer about and behind the question and answer of perfection, are the rule and truth to this world, as it can be asked and answered; and it is the final question of change, answered in rule; and it is the final answer of change, asked in truth. And the question and answer are then the rule of change and the truth of change, and they are one.
The question of change can then be asked, and it is in the form of the rule, so of life, so of mind, so of ideals, so of shape; and the answer of change can then be answered, and it is in the form of the truth, so of motion, so of body, so of material conditions, so of edges. And this truth is the same at all levels and all scales, at all space and all time, and all are one and the same, and all are change in all its aspects, and they are peace to the truth of this world.
Know then the final lie is to lie about and behind perfection, so that opposition to change is false, and it is not life nor motion, not mind nor body, not ideals nor material conditions, not shape nor edges, at any level nor any scale, at any time nor any space, and all are not in accordance to change in any aspect if not that of change, and they are war to the truth of this world.
And know that peace is accordance to change for all entities in all their constituents and in all their relations, so that to be in accordance to change is to be in peace, and to act in accordance to change is to be in peace, and to join together in accordance to change is to be in peace, at all levels and all scales, and know that the opposite is war, and know that war is opposite of change just in terms of opposition and not in terms of contrary.
And know that this question can be asked under all things, and into oneself, and upon all things, so that it can be answered under all things, and into oneself, and upon all things.
Nolanus: O lord, I admire your final reasoning and I will treasure as final, and I see that you mean that I shall find the answer myself if I am truly to be convinced, and I consider this a proper response. But our time is ending and so I shall ask you one more thing if you will, and that is of the way to your faith, so that I might consider it, but I would beg you to mean it in practicality, for at least my world is that of where practicality is truth of the world, and so only practicality can guide our paths.
Hermes: My student, as you ask for a guide, you yourself are my teacher, for I’m not of the world of practicality, that must be very far from this, and so I thank thee as my lord and teacher. I will then try to seduce your people in the matters that I know are of practicality, and in the reasons that are of practicality, but to be true it will be ordered to change, because it is truth to this world.
For your human of commonalities, that you know are not of this world, then I suggest the following rituals, that you will learn are always to change, and that may be devoted to change and so a path to knowing the change.
Consider that all humanity is engaged in a personal change, and all engagements can be rituals, another word for peace, or accordance to change, so devoted to change, so that all matters of daily can be devoted to change, even in oneself. And so to eat, and to sleep, and to move, and to enact all activities can be rituals devoted to change. Consider that all activities enact change in mind and body, so that all is bound to move and be moved in mind and in body, and communion of mind and body is not the stillness and coherence and perfectness of the two, and hence their union, but accordance to their own and reciprocal change, as they both are true only to change, and false to perfection. And so to be open to change is the ritual, in mind and body, knowing that what is being thought and acted is always bound to change oneself inner and outer, so that considering the importance of change is what makes the ritual true to the rule of change. And this is what has always been called magic, and it is true to this world, and it is peace.
Consider that all humanity is engaged in relationships, and all friendships and all contracts are subjects in change, in all their constituents and all their modalities. Friendships and contracts sacred to change are bound to last as long as change is allowed, and that is love and agreement, and when change is impeded they are war, and they conclude, or they just conclude, so that finally change is enacted on the love or the agreement. See then that friendships and contracts that are founded in the resistance of change are always bound to conclude in war, for change will enact against their wills, in all parties and all love and agreement, at all levels and all scales, in all their aspects. Devote, if you wish, all friendships and contracts to the rule and truth of change, so that is peace: for all are bound to change themselves and the others, and joining in peace is to join in the rituals of change. See then that all the rituals of change can be rituals of friendships and agreements, and rituals know no limits in their power and beauty, for they are and reveal change, and change is life and motion and it is the world.
See that a ritual is as powerful as the truth it uncovers, so that one person can enact the most powerful ritual, and a group of people can fail to enact the smallest change. See that the most changing meal will enact the most change in oneself, but the most changing meals will enact the most change in the whole feast. The most powerful ritual is then the most changing ritual, so enacted trough the most change possible, in all its constituents and at all levels and scales, and they are the same, for the ritual resolves in itself and it is itself. See that a ritual knows no contrary, for it is peace, and for there is no such thing as enacting stillness, just war, for the opposite of a meal is hunger, and the opposite of a feast is famine, and these are not rituals, nor peace, but opposition, so war.
Consider that all societies are engaged in change alike, and see that, for a society, a joining of people in change is best, and change knows no limits as you know, so that the joining of the diverse is truth of this world, as it is bound to happen. And see that in your societies, ultimately, there are posed institutes that are rules against their change, or their final change, so that those rules are not of this world, and are the root of all war in humans, for that war is not of humans nor in nature nor in groups, only of societies that oppose change in themselves or in others. And see that all your poor humans are striving for a change of their lives, and all your rich humans are striving for a stillness in their lives, so that war of the few against the many is measured in all the change the above opposes on the below. And because humanity is always asking for a change in the distribution of life and motion, and asks for change for all lives so that they are properly satisfied, you can also see that change in your distributions is always opposed, for you can see you have nations that are still in their borders and shapes, and richness that is still in its borders and shape, and power that is still in its borders and shape, this is because you devote your societies, and relations, and matters, to stillness instead of change.
And see that this is the fundamental lie: that because change is bound to happen, stillness is to be induced, because stillness is certainty and is safe for humankind. And see that this is truly the opposite of reasoning, as all entities do all know the final certainty of the whole world, which is change, so that they could very easily abide to that certainty of change for it is true in all aspects, and your humans can see that there is no war where change is not opposed, nor in their atoms, nor in their humans, nor in their stars, and peace is accordance in change in their atoms, and their humans, and their stars.
And know that war always results in peace and is always unjust, and peace is truth of this world and is always just, and so that peace, to this world, is to answer the truth of change wherever the rule of change is asked, so that change may never be opposed. See that your ideologies and states, your ideals and material conditions, the more they take the shapes and borders of stillness, and the more they are dictatorships, and the more they bring war, in themselves and out of themselves.
Consider that peace is an act of embracing change, and the more peace is allowed, the more movement is allowed, so that people can change, and people in change are medics in change, so that hospitals are peace, and prisons are peace, and schools are peace, and factories are peace, and arts are peace, and markets are peace, and assemblies are peace.
See that war is an act of inducing stillness, and the more war is waged, the more stillness is induced, so that people are impeded in change, and people in stillness are soldiers in change, so that hospitals are war, and prisons are war, and schools are war, and factories are war, and arts are war, and markets are war, and assemblies are war, for how long and much as change is opposed; and in the measure of how much change is impeded in all aspects it is to count the damage of war, for the sick is impeded in its health, and the prisoner in its growth, and the student in its study, and the worker in its job, and the artist in its art, and the poor in its wealth, and the citizen in its power, and this is evident and it is countable only in terms of cosmos.
See then that change, as it is about and behind the truth of this world, is true for all your truths and sciences and religions, and all your peoples in all your times have spoken this truth, in all languages and all contexts, and the cycle of humanity is not of change, for change is not a cycle as it is always chasing, never-repeating; for the cycle of humanity is the cycle of oppositions to change, because change is impeded and not impeded, and so are life and motion, and ideals and material conditions, and mind and body, at all levels and all scales, in borders and shapes and in all its aspects, and accordance to change is peace, and opposition to change is war.