Beloved Ecofeminists,
I have just completed "The Black Book of Many Colours". This is my
Christmas present to humanity, precisely one year in on the transformative
mission. 820 fully illustrated erudite pages in five hectic weeks, from
cosmic symmetry-breaking through holocaust to the feminization of nature.
It is one of the severest and most complete indictments of the patriarchy
yet - the nemesis - and yet the spring showers of verdancy - the vision of
hope and plentitude in the ecological renewal of partnership society in the
chalice of apocalypsia. I have dedicated it to Regina Schwartz - 'black
queen' even as I am Chris King - because of her statement closing the books
in her conclusion to "The Curse of Cain". Here is the title page and
dedication as your genuine Christmas present of the re-flowering.
The Black Book of Many Colours
Chris King
The Black Book is both the doomsday book and the book of forgiveness in
the re-flowering of immortal life on Earth. It is the requital in true love
culminating the patriarchal epoch. Its blackness is totipotentiality
pregnant within the void. Through its very blackness, it is the dispelling
of evil. It is the healing of the war of light and darkness in the sacred
marriage of dark and light - complementarity - the Tao of physics. This is
at once peace - Sakina - the reunion between woman and man and between
humanity and nature - Holy Matrimony.
It is the Book of Many Colours because it is the seed of unfolding
diversity, through which the tree of life can unfurl. It liberates
diversity in healing the war of darkness and light in the complementation
of unity and diversity the pregnant dark and the many colours of the light
represent. This is the healing of the Fall from Eden in the fruit of the
knowledge of dark and light, healing analytic knowledge of the opposites in
Wisdom, in the fruit of the tree of life.
The black and many coloured book is conceived as a fractal of the
millennium in transformation. It consists of several short chapters, some
of which unveil cosmology, bioapocalypse and the injustices committed by
religion in pronouncing forgiveness, liberation and the healing of nature
in the flowering of life on Earth.
The Black Book celebrates the return of the Queen of the South - "Black but
comely" who shall rise up in judgement on the men of this generation - the
Shulamite or darkened one, the repressed river of feminine Wisdom which
forms the missing key to the sustainability of human culture and those to
come, through the long-term investment in life the feminine generative
strategy embraces.
The Black Book is our key to our awakening, to our cosmological coming of
age in space-time, as a living part of the unfolding fabric of the sentient
universe. The Black Book is thus the book of enlightenment in diversity.
Its promise is the promise of the rainbow,
sun and verdant moisture, life everlasting,
abundance bursting from fertile ground.
In recognition of Regina Schwartz' closing statement in 'The Curse of
Cain': "My re-vision would produce an alternative Bible that subverts the
dominant vision of violence and scarcity with an ideal of plenitude and its
corollary ethical imperative of generosity. It would be a Bible embracing
multiplicity instead of monotheism. And I hope that this description of the
Bible will also serve to describe its future, that it will not only tell of
proliferation, but that new versions, decrying the violence of monotheism,
will proliferate. I anticipated concluding with the injunction from
Augustine to 'close the Book.' For him, faith had superseded it; for me,
its ancient agonistic values are far too dangerous to continue authorizing.
The old 'monotheistic' Book must be closed so that the new books may be
fruitful and multiply. After all, that was the first commandment.
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Chaos is the Mother of Invention - Necessity the Offspring
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Chris KING, Phone: 0064-9-3737599 # 8818
Senior Lecturer Mathematics Fax: 0064-9-3737457
University of Auckland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Private Bag 92019
AUCKLAND, New Zealand.
http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/Preprints/book/genesis.htm
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