THE END TO OUR WAYWARD PERCEPTIONS

percept and precept is the difference between taken and taking ... whether an impression takes or you take a principle and adhere to it ... whether a pathway is cut among the old byways of your brain or you discover one outside yourself and determine to follow it ... each is an anagram of the other ... there's always something of the precept in every percept ... and of course a precept without any percept is deaf dumb and blind insensitive without feeling ... the one is an entry into this world the other an exit ... an ongoing introduction and upcoming farewell ... a gnostic graduation is something like what we all intend ... with each of us a degree in something like musicology ... each percept a note in the precept's score hurrying down the assembly line to join its fellows in the song ... each its assigned place amidst the ensemble ... here a color there a pang ... here a crash and there a swallow ... oh what a foul smell our iniquity does hang about us and what a sweet taste our deliverance in the mouth ... the word of truth ... to purify the air ... the meaning of the truth ... to stabilize our flight ... precept the flight plan ... ETA the eternity of salvation ... percept redeemed