I want to record the memoirs of a teacher as he was applying the lessons of his own teaching on his first TRUE student. In a way, this is the beginning of a textbook the compilation of which will endure the course of my life. But this will be the living record of It. I have decided today, 3^rd March, 99 that this, along with being the last year that will have such a cool name, will also be the year that I will name this book. The significance of numbers at this time is truly appalling. The day today is Tuesday, (third day of the week) and the date is:

3/3/99 the third of the third month.

333|99

How would you complete this sequence? That is a puzzle I put out today, my Proof will be forthcoming. (In the meantime you can write and ask me, and I'll decide if I want to tell you. Or if you are ready to know .. because the proof is actually multidimensional& :-)

People who are intrigued are invited to write to author. I will give you credit in these here pages if something you say even leads to an idea. Credit is hereby formally given to Arthur C. Clarke for the seed of the idea that becomes the core of the 6^th chapter - Electromagnetic Space Elevator. This chapter is 99, the Final chapter. This statement is directed towards a potential student who knows that.

I am writing my mind in these pages. As everyone, I am to be known to many people as many things, far more so than I can myself presume. It is with exuberant joy that I had anticipated the arrival of the most important single entity in my life, the perfect student/teacher relationship. I will put it plainly. The great boost for whatever I have the potential of becoming had long awaited the advent of The RIGHT student. For one who knows me it's amazing how many things that statement proclaims.

I am a teacher, and that is the goal of my life. I desire to be a spectacular father and a Great teacher, God-Willing. This here is my running autobiography, as well as that of my primary student/teachers, that I will write at the pace of this life. I have begun it (in earnest) since my first poetic successes. That would put it around Spring 92 (Choice). Note that 92 adds up to 11, 1+1 becomes 2.

What an opportune number. A highly acclaimed and always controversial figure in Islam, Ali ibn -e- Abi Talib founded the highly successful and largely misunderstood art of Islamic Mysticism, which came to encompass a number of very ancient and well established schools. One such school was the ancient Arabic wisdom called "Ilm -e- Abjad" which is now known of as "Number Valuing", or is more unfairly categorized as numerology. (To satisfy some curiosity before it becomes anoying, a very significant example one of the schools of thought originated by Ali was Ilm -e- J`afr, which is the sound basis of calculation of star tracts with respect to time in your life and what that can tell us. This art is far superior to astrology, though it shares the same basic commonality of looking outward to find more within. This also resulted in the origination of al-gebra in later years. But let us not get side-tracked.. We had started talking about Ilm-e-Abjad.) Letters in "the Natural Language" have numbers assigned to them, and the numbers are guides which have to be read with the correct tools. This wisdom is thousands of years old, and it's roots are as mysterious as the ruins in the south of Arabia where fine stone tablets of extremely fine craftsmanship can even now be found, and no one has even tried to figure out what advanced ancient culture could have left those behind. There is something to be said for cultural wisdom. There is more to the wisdom of the people who's language has 1400 names for what the English simply call "LION" than we can casually explain away. Arabic wisdom comes from sources so confounding that it is not easy, or sometimes even possible, for someone from the 'outside' to understand unless they know how to think within the fascinating mindset unique to the Arab. That's why there is a term for all NON-Arabs, and that term is Ajmi.
(The term Ajmi ended up being used only to mean Iranians, because they were the first "outsiders" to embrace the religion as an entire race.) But once again we are getting sidetracked. We were talking about Ilm -e- Abjad (The Wisdom of Numbers) and about how you need tools, literally, in order to interpret them. These tools are namely a translation to the phonetic sounds of "The Natural Language" from which the correct valuation of the letters can be ascertained. But there is only so much complication we can go into at this stage. Those who wish to know would have to UNDERSTAND that a teacher waits for the student to identify himself.

Here I leave it to the student to observe the significance, especially at this time in history (- mine and the World's -) of what this number can mean. Once again, those who are with me, follow what I am talking about.

I invite you here, (sooner you Special people who read this NOW) to partake in the creation of the world's first fact-iction. Those who have read this chapter at the end will unfortunately have to re-read the book a second time with this knowledge in order the share the wonder. And I am not just talking about the knowledge that writing this book is a LIVE performance, one which is creating just as much as it is being created. Knowing that I'm writing my future into existence, to read that future is a trip into the mind of this man who is exposing himself completely. You are finding out about everything - HIM. Yet that is only one aspect of it all. But do look at the tremendous advantages of this one aspect alone. For example, how do you dig dirt on a man who exposes all his mistakes for himself and his students to learn from? How do you de-fame a man who is known inside and out by the WORLD's peoples? [.edit permission on apostrophe when appropriate]

This book is a series of seeming paradoxes the solutions of which live inside the authors imagination. He is awaiting his time before exposing all of them, though some of them have started being shared. Those of you who had the good fortune of reading these pages while I hosted them at the now defunct HotBot, might remember only questions, and few answers, circa 1995.   This time around, the answers grace the time-space accompanying the questions. 

As you have no doubt guessed, I AM one who loves to play with time. At this point, I believe the student and the interested reader will benefit alike from a smattering of my initial poetry.

Which brings us to the formal introduction of the QUEST Trilogy. 1

Do you notice how I've started to play with time? No, not just in the poetry, my intelligent companion; but also in verse, and in the book. This book will throw you off in time, as there are many times (& places) I say more than one thing about different times of this life and others. As well as about other times. (Think of an event under discussion as a stake that I say many things around, and therefore, many things through..) I like time-play because not every mind can follow thoughts scattered in different places which together say far more than the words would seem to; and therefore I use it in many fun ways - thought travel. [You will benefit from reading Allan Lightman's beautiful adventures with time-play in the Great book "Einstein's Dream."] I use time here to change the frame of reference as well as to mask a lot of the significance of what must be laid out in the open while also obscuring it sufficiently, only for my intelligent companions to understand. (I use "companion" more in the cereberal sence than the traditional, meaning readers/friends/fellow seekers.) You Understand if you are among the few capable of being one.
If you have a question, I expect you to ASK. If you wish to allege something, have spine enough to bring it to me FIRST, and then make an issue of it. I hereby proclaim that I will refuse to address any allegations that haven't been first addressed to me personally by the allegator. Do you notice the choice of that word, and how many things I am saying with it? [This is dual-dimensioned talking, how one word, idea or sentence applies to, and results in, more than one - in this case 2 - conversations.] Rumi writes like that.  His work is never saying any one thing at any one time.  It is up to the depth of the reader how far he can follow.  The Quran takes this to the infinite degree. I say that only because it is the perfect example of multi-dimensional conversation.  Not because I am trying to convert anyone. I just want for you to understand me and therefore knowing what I know is to your decided advantage. Nothing here about my religion.
This statement was only a very small beginning. You still have a way to go before you can understand  my basic anchor to spiritual security: what it means for a BOOK to be a Living Miracle.  The very word "Book" itself has so many meanings that a simple conversation on it would span pages, if not ages.  The Quran itself has confounded countless by using the term for something other than Itself.   Imagine, the supposed Book to end all Books, begining its second and largest chapter, A-L-M saying: "A-L-M. THAT is a Book of which there is no eQual." And mind you, this mysterious A-L-M does not mean the book itself.. it issomething other than IT, because it is being refered to as something external - THAT. If it had been the Quran itself, it would have been refered to as "This".

But that got us off the track again. I enjoy doing that as well. De-railing and persuing interesting tangents far enough to lay the foundation for a thought to flower into a full fleged idea to be developed at a later date. The orginal track was that I would like people who have complaints or disagreements to bring them to me first. Please. I have never cared for detractors, so don't think you will get me to change my opinions or my beliefs simply by massive criticisms. I will simply acknowledge that you don't know what you are pointing fingers at. *smile*

*smile*

Also, I wish to congratulate all those enlightened souls who had the curiosity to read 99 first. There is a lot said in this here space and time.

With that I beg your leave.

More to come soon....

Certainly sooner than you expect. :-)

Bas - AZ

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