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THE APIARY

“Thy Soul,
The BeeKeeper;
Search deeper,
While mind and heart
Stirring a hole
- or swirling in a whole.
Be kind. Be true.
Feel it too.
Be humble, -
Everything, around us,
- Even the core
of thy being, -
In God’s Hands,
It is alive…”

Translated from Romanian Language

PRISACA
~ PREDOSLOVIE ~
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ADAPTARE
(urmând Linia Poetica a Versifica?iei, spre cuprinderea ?i pastrarea Esen?ei)

"Sufletul tau,
Prisacarul;
De cau?i în adâncul sau,
A fi cu mintea ca olarul,
Din gol, a-i da o forma
?i pe-împletirea inimei
Ce-n vâlvataia-i de-aur,
Al mierei vas o-întorna,
Gusta-vei pe de-a-întregul,
Scumpatatea.
Fii bun, fii darnic,
Adevarat ?i harnic.
Smerita coarda a iubirei,
Afla-într-un fagure,
Deplinatatea!..
- O, cânta, mugure,
- - Vibreaza, frunzo,
- - - Scânce?te-o, floareo, -
Pe-a lumei arsa jertfa,
A mângâierei vis,
Obladuit-a Mânei,
Eternul paradis!..
Sa mul?umim lui Dumnezeu,
Aceea-i Simplitatea!.."

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TRADUCERE
(în contextul ini?ial al Însemnata?ii din Esen?a)

"Sufletul tau,
Apicultorul;
Cauta mai adânc,
În timp ce mintea ?i inima
Amestecând un gol,
- sau învolburându-se într-un întreg.
Fii bun. Fii adevarat.
Simte-o si tu.
Fii umil, -
Totul, în jurul nostru,
- Chiar ?i miezul
fiin?ei tale, -
În mâinile Domnului,
Este viu…"


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Translated from Romanian Language

THE APIARY
Chapter I:
LANDSCAPING
(Fragment)
I.
"I feel spiritually unfulfilled, but I have a fulfillment that I keep for the humble Woman, sharing my experience. I can't imagine it, and refuse to imagine it, at this time, because such a mistake brings nothing but suffering. Therefore, I can only think of it, in a meditation upon her meaning into my life, so that my unfulfillment, without suffering, will become an expectation of the one who, being next to me, beside me, aligned to my being, will feel the comfort of my presence. Only this very thought, anchored in a Reality, is so satisfying to me that even without having her by my side yet, it satisfies me, towards my fulfillment, considering it a duty to awaiting. This brings no harm. What can be more sublime than, as between two unfulfillments, to give birth to a shared love, in which two entities merge, toward a Unity between two roads intersecting eachother for a common path of life, a simple, humble walking of two souls?!.. What could be more useful, in a memory of what did not happen, to collect for the moment of soul fullness, which I share with that Woman who completes me, - and what could be more sublime, for the sleepless dreamer, who without to imagine something impossible, he only contemplates an experience specific to Reality, - the same experience, shared, in which he feels that needs only the one to which himself, ultimate completes the Woman he is waiting for?..."


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Translated from Romanian Language

THE APIARY
Chapter I:
LANDSCAPING
(Fragment)
II.

"I haven't known yet, the Woman who truly loves, and only as only as Woman truly knows how to love, in her insight, in what is Depth of Love, - and if it was given to me to know some of these remembered ones, beloved Friends who have honored me with their presence, I have the feeling of bliss that in my remembrance, Women such as these, to encounter, along my path of life, was to learn from them a more much insight upon love, which I should keep for the one who would complete me, in all the meanings of a union between what a man and woman is, completely. Few women, true Women, I would have met on my way, and with whom I would walk for a while, side by side, through this forsaken graveyard of the world, - but each of these remembered dearly ones, are in my thoughts, emotions and memories like dew drops in a morning in which all the blades of grass sing back to me, about Love, as those that brought my love to a closer level of perfection. Being incomplete, their memories completing me..."

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Translated from Romanian Language

EDELWEISS
Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXX.

“I probably will count on fingertips, those who would really love what they are doing. In rest, everything feeds the human ego, the desires, the appetite for illusions. There comes the owner of the place, to make the deal with the one in charge for gathering the workers. If everything is pretty much negotiable, what about to really count on a large scale, all the things?! But who has time, to count these? I haven’t seen so often a landlord, to count the moments of the lives of those who are requested to complete a task – in this case, the wall surrounding a property. One say that since the rightful owner of the place is preoccupied only about the task being completed, regardless of all what takes from the sketch to the final outcome, one should not question authority in such matters. Because all what takes, is the right chief or engineer, and the right people who would work as a team as the indications provided. But I do wonder, at some point, does really any of them know what involves whole process? The one with the sketch, or the plan, comes to lay it flat on the table, and claim: this is the way it has to be done, after analyzing the perimeter of the place. The other one comes and consulting the landlord, over the estimated price for the materials, establish what has to be done next. The landlord, thus, has a view of ensemble of how the project will look like when finished. It agrees, or just bargain, upon case. Then the one in charge with the teamwork, fix the schedule, upon agreements. All go happy, upon settlement. The right time comes, and the team arrives. They have the tools, they have the muscles, they have the brains. And all, occur as normal as it should. They say. All of them, say it. The workers say they are satisfied with the task given, with the fixed schedule, and with the payment. Those in charge, come once in a while to overwatch the process of building the wall. They have dealt with all paperwork. That’s only a surface, to count. But who’s really counting in depth, all these?! Nobody. Yet, I’m the questioner, and then, I ask the landlord why he wants this wall being built. I ask then, what is really its satisfaction, upon the completion of such a wall. I ask also, if knows from where these materials come from, and what was the process of delivering each of them, who’s providing and under what circumstances. Funny way, if not weird, to look upon things. For at their surface, all looks neat and clear. But in their depth, requires a different approach. Yes. Logical. Or too logical, for even the common landlord. What business has the landlord, to know from where those stuff came for? When one just pays for all, does not count an origin. When one just open the wallet or just sign off a check, with ease, has no concern, for these all. These, don’t matter. Under the devise of “I’ve got money, I can afford” or “on what I’ve just gave these money for?” there’s always, something missing. One can not count, in complex issues. Who cares from where the construction materials came from? Or, who’s managing those?! Or, who’s loading those?! Who’s packing, - who’s delivering? As when bargain over the price, for even a brick, who does that? One does not care how that brick was made. All it wants, is cheaper. Same, in working. Who’s really treasuring the work of a man, the effort of a human being, into even making a simple, common brick? But I have seen people making bricks, in a desert. I have seen the struggle of a woman and two little girls with the hands in molding clay, under the heat of the sun, and nobody asking there if any of them needs fresh water, nobody there to ask, if such process is painful, what their bodies have to endure, and how their hearts feel, working like slaves. This example, is one among billions. Nobody truly cares, how a brick is made, - why would someone care how a wall is built?! All feed the human ego. “
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EDELWEISS
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- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXXI.

“If barely found someone to really care about human nature at all, what to expect of the so-called civilized society, anyway?! The landlord, does not care from where all the bricks come, or how they are made. So like most of the people, living the futuristic dream coming true, if would be to count or track on something, they will mostly imagine that since all is mechanized and fully technological development, the workers just overwatch the machines, making all the hard jobs. They just can’t imagine a world in which some working like in medieval times, or they just can’t imagine a world in which people working like slaves or just replenishing the dreamed robots who just ease the task of mankind. Many people, nowadays, just exalted over the idea of such a progress, to invoke how the machines were invented to ease the worker’s jobs. Even more, among them, are to be found plenty who would even boast in vain over the technological progress, where the development – as they have seen in various presentations – is to such scale as all becomes easy in the world of man. Man invented the machine, saying it is to help him, but actually, it has proven the opposite. Man built the machine for more productivity, because of the greed. Modern man, was not satisfied with the efficacy of a simple worker, and invented the machine, to replenish the work force. Modern man, invented the methods of constraining people into work more faster, faster and faster and faster, and to process more and more amount of stuff. “Time is money” – they have said. Yet, less time to work, means faster working, but the thing is that if a man can make a brick faster, it is required from it to make more bricks – and if possible, to work as faster as possible, so that the efficacy to increase. Then comes the selection process, the employer must hold the right persons, who could process more bricks in less time. That would be more profitable, for the more bricks they can make in the working schedule, the more benefit the employer has. Then, of course, if it is possible, to find the right people, meaning, those who does not require much, for their work; the less one to be paid and the more efficacy might have.. well, that’s the right employee! Heh! Modernism! Modern men say: we invented the machine, because the employees, can not compete with it. The employer say: indeed, such a benefit, with such invention, because this machine can make bricks all day long, while the workers, have needs. This machine we invented, does not require much, than electricity, and look! It takes by itself all the ingredients, and mix them, and lay them on the mold and then can process so many bricks per hour! How much money, I would have to give to an employee who will come to carry the aggregates, how much, to the one with the molding, how much, to the one with the pallet, to clear the area for new processing? How many bricks can produce one person per hour, and how much I would have to pay it? How many workers, how much money?! I’ve got the right solution, now! Here is the machine who can work one hundred times faster and make thousands of bricks per day, all with the same quality, all in the same parameter, all deposited in the proper shape, and yeah, such investment! I have paid for this machine – calculated, an entire salary for twenty employees, for one year. But this machine, does the best job and actually, I will even buy more. More machines, more bricks; more bricks, more money; more money,.. well.. I will make a fortune, and expanding my company. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand, now. It is easy to understand. Human ego, to fuel human greed… “

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EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM

EDELWEISS
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- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXXII.

“From the same human ego, the greed determines humans to behave as animals, despite their banner of civilization risen to the clouds. Even more, as the human being surpass the animal in intelligence, this greed fuels a different direction, in which even the animal, if would have this gifted conscience, will be amazed, to see a human turned into a beast, and even farther, to such resemblance. The greed doesn’t keep count on social class, status, rank, or level. It enwraps the heart leading the human to a path of evil, from where once amplified, inflicting harm upon itself and others. From the same greed, flickering little by little with sparkles in one’s mind, human wants more and more, without being satisfied with what already has. This greed has the same rooting, which is human ego. Feeds the heart and mind with desire to have, to get, to obtain, obliterating one’s conscience so much as to even fully blind it, developing evil from within, out, spreading it into the world like a plague. Modern times, has shown the greed of mankind, into what they have done, in the name of progress and evolution. Modern people have shown how greed dominates their being, from the little things to come in their possession, until the big events to accomplish, without any regards of repercussions. The ego thus is fed in a permanent state of mind and heart, all the feelings get distorted and from here one, blindness. While some are feeding the greed for any material things to be acquired, others feed it to obtain different advantages, fueling the desire of possession over information, knowledge, power, authority, and list can go on with domination over others. If greed doesn’t keep trace on what choices has one or another, it becomes contagious, from person to person, transcending – indicating in the same time that there is something beyond this development of greed: comes from within the human, but also, from outside; while the human being is the one among two natures, and has its own choice to make in matter of good and evil, comes a different aspect, that of influence; the human being, thus, can be influenced from an external factor, to shelter greed in its heart and mind; this external infliction, comes from another being, - human, or.. non-human. Then, one can discern that the greed is tied to evil, and thus, evil, inflicts human beings, through the demons; devils, indeed, being those who bring this seed of evil, deceiving the human being to accept it, and shelter it in its mind and heart, from where in fertile ground, gives birth to a whole tree, that is grown in deceit until maturity, its fruits being shared to everyone else around, and spread like a plague, worldwide. Aware of not, the human being growing the seed of greed is being led to a dark path, as from wandering and spreading evil without even knowing what is happening to it, and doing atrocities, although a big leap, carries the same elements of obscurity. The evil rise in human heart and progressively, from inside, out, it is spread, being visible often through the actions and reactions who inflicts upon what surrounds it, through the harm done even deliberate, in last stages. Modern people say they have conquered the universe, boasting with their inventions, but they weren’t able to conquer their own ego, at least, in most cases they have shown they are not capable to conquer themselves. Modern people, forged an empire of lies and deceit, and built their own prison, and its just a matter of time, until to really see what they have done, where their so-called progress and evolution led, for Reality is the only one who confesses the obvious deceit, the fail of mankind being visible day by day, in a process of acceleration of darkness and evil on worldwide scale.“


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EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM

EDELWEISS
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- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXXIII.

“Old story new: the poor share the same greed as the rich, whole world is founded on slavery; while the poor complain over richness of others who doesn’t deserve it, they inherit the same greed, for most of all would do the same, under such circumstance of changing their lifestyle, or just advancing on social classes; one more thing which indicates the same greed, is the obvious fact that only under certain conditions, the poor ones, help eachother, as in rest, the poor become poorest, trapped in the same desires, passions, lusts, endless dreams and fictitious hopes for the better. It was always, this way; just that the recorded history, is not properly preserved, or better said, it is fixed, modified, from a generation to another, to hide the royalty under a sea of lies. A generation comes and learns about heroism, which is nothing but rape, theft and murder – masked under different laws, in which all are permitted under special circumstances, - hidden from the sight of the world and thus lies weaving the new clothes of presenting the kingdoms and empires, the princes and the queens, the emperors and their conquests. Heh! So laughable, when to think over such idea of education, which is nothing else but indoctrination, dictated by the ruling classes, by those assigned to overwatch all what happens into the territories drawn over the chessboard on which all with power of decision, to move the pawns wherever it matches the players, wherever is suitable for the variant of the game. Learning about the criminals of the world, has been a fashion, till decades ago, when all started to collapse, already, as if children in schools had a click somewhere in their hearts, to just reject the charade embalming the presence of history at their class; slowly by slowly, the tyrants will be forgotten, as they are replaced by the new ones, trained and formed upon the new, modern system that has been built in the same purpose, of reviving the old Babylon. Where there is no need anymore, to remember the birthdays of the royalties, their battles, their conquests, their registers with dates, wealth, or countless wording, all are being left to oblivion, - the new replacing the old, empowered this time, to rule, to conquest, to subdue. Human ego, rooting to evil. Nothing new, under the sun. Just that the methods of control, have been perfected to new levels, up to even people embracing openly their prison, worldwide, - even demanding the chains, the imprisonment; it is indeed, the world all have built, upon the same precepts and laws, the same inventions and theories, the same lies to be spread widely and as much as it should until the core of deception to merge with the human being who lost along its path any form of real perception. But that is until Reality strikes. For with each wave, the chains of the people are felt more and more heavier, as the years passing, and social classes melt into a unitary whole awaiting the trial, with each echo, the despair of the world splits the earth and the sky, and then, the richness is felt like a damnation as much as poverty, the life becomes meaningless for both rich or poor and nobody, anymore, seems to find a relief, while the world leaders chat in vain for a union of all, under one banner, in the affairs of a state, in the hope of an empire and a promise of immortality, - blinded, of course, trapped in a waving of deceit, to lead mankind in its trials. Barely if someone, to be found here or there, to think upon how a brick is made. Barely if someone to really understand that God watches the hand of a little girl molding clay in the heat of the sun, and for her sufferance, still spares the world to not be devoured by hungry beasts. How much weights a simple, common brick?! It weights as much as the greed of an entire world. “


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EDELWEISS
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- Chapter I:
The ALGORHYTHM
XXXIV.

“While people’s stupidity goes on an on with praising royalties, worldwide massacres unveil the greed of mankind. History is being re-written with each generation that passes, for a new learning period in which the worthy scholars wearing the heroism banners further with concocted fairytales to enchant the blind masses, so as in ancient times theatres fully operational, preparing the waves of the culture of lies about to be spread from one corner of the earth to the other, to places in which rhetoric conquer the minds of the clever ones, poetry and writings to spoil the desires of both rich and poor, while painting to depict even grotesque ranked to eulogy. And this is how history is made, for the likeness of the crowds, embalming them with nice little stories of conquest which are far away of reality depicting treachery and murder, - here is how the heroism is born, out of theft and rape, saturating the greed of royalties and the blindness of the masses too large to recognize what’s obvious under a deeper look with the horse glasses in the shelves of the academia, - here is how the banners of civilization were risen, through the massacres done by the rulers beset by the state of action, through the same lineage of those Scribes and Pharisees from the old Judaism condemning Christ, which by their genealogic chain spread their branches in secrecy, through sects and secret societies to dictate the edicts of lawlessness and governance over the world. One could be amazed, to find a whole labyrinth of endless lies depicting history, if not shocked of how much evil could mankind conceive until boasting these days with its inventions; just that these stories, are not to be told openly, but just whispered to the ears of those understanding the foundation of this world, for in rest, nothing is really permitted or rightly said, allowed, and slices of the truth, if there are, being grabbed in hurry and just thrown to ludicrous. It becomes insanity, for the commoner, to even mention of these paths of finding what’s really going on with this world and with the people, as while everything is on the verge of collapse – even the society itself – and thrown by a controlled demolition to Anarchy, the dream for a better sight is widely spread, nurturing the idea of progress and evolution of mankind. In a world in which truth is truth only when comes out of the mouth of the state, through the edicts of governance and laws made-up over night and presented as valid in the early morning, everything that can be said, is to be called non-sense, - or in the modern context – misinformation, misleading. In a world in which truth is valid only from the expertise of academia, everything else is just thrown to the garbage bin of the modern terminology in a wording gamut called theory of conspiracy. In a world in which the actual truth is suppressed by any means possible, being replaced with a surrogate who can not be even challenged, under the premise of fact checking, it is imperative to silence, even when allowed to speak, for a counted time in the hourglass, as who’s invited to speak freely, it becomes like the culpable brought to the scaffold awaiting the executioner’s sword. It is more simple, to just show a brick, to the honorable ones treasuring lies and deceit, for none of them don’t know truly what is made of. It is enough to just indicate the angles of a brick, to the pitiful ruling classes, to let them know why masonry hits the corners of the Law. It is enough to use a scutch hammer with two combs on each side and leave some marks on a brick, to just show everyone else among the listeners that they barely if scratched the surface of what’s truly going on into their world, the earthly kingdom of the insane… “


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EDELWEISS - Vol. I/Chapter I: The ALGORHYTHM

About 20 years ago, whilst living (and working) on the island of St. Kitts, I was present when one of my work colleagues professed to the room (a few of us were in the Staff lounge), that he was an Atheist and didn’t need God because he was in full control of his life.

At the time, I considered what he had said to be a bold statement, because most of the island’s population were of a varied, and highly religious orientation. I was astonished, and wondered what about this life of ours we could ever truly be in ‘control’ of? Nothing.

Even as a child, I had learnt about the effect of God’s presence in the lives of men, and remember using prayer to access His help with a problem or two that I had. I wasn’t a ‘Christian’ then, but had been exposed to Biblical teachings by my mother, grandparents and other close relatives, then later, at schools and different churches (e.g. Catholic, Anglican, and Seventh Day Adventist) over time, and I believed.

I said to my colleague that if he truly believed that he didn’t need God and was in full control of his life, then he should “stop breathing”. Of course, he could not do so (if he wished to remain alive), and appeared a bit confused by the thought, because he hadn’t expected that sort of response.

What real control do any of us have? Not even the breath we breathe is ours. It belongs to God.

Blessings everyone!

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