Verse 38
I will not bow to the pale planet, though I honor what it reveals.
Liber Caeli - Chapter 56
Verses
Verse 39
It reveals that the known boundary belonged to knowing, not to reality.
Verse 40
It reveals that orientation belongs to bodies, not to awareness.
Verse 41
It reveals that strangeness requires comparison and comparison requires memory.
Verse 42
It reveals nothing about Brahman, because Brahman is not an astronomical object.
Verse 43
Do not make liberation depend on discovering one more world.
Verse 44
If a thousand planets were found beyond Uranus, the witness of their discovery would not become the thousand-and-first.
Verse 45
The eye sees the telescope; the mind understands the planet; awareness knows the mind.
Verse 46
Find the last instrument and you will find another object.
Verse 47
The seeker wishes to escape the cosmos. Ask whether awareness is located inside the cosmos to begin with.
Verse 48
The answer is not a belief. Look.
Verse 49
When the looking becomes simple, even the word enlightenment feels overdecorated.
Verse 50
Let Uranus remain cold, blue, distant, and entirely innocent of your salvation.