Kosmoautikon: The Wound of Genesis is Traceable (Book Three)

By Mark Chandos

With the third volume of his project, Kosmoautikon: The Wound of Genesis is America’s epic poem. Mark Chandos presents his masterwork of the science fiction epic genre. Kosmoautikon tells the story of a future man after the exodus from Earth as humans depart to fill the galaxy with new man-like creatures, Homo Faustus. The author takes the reader on a magical journey through a new conception of the universe and into the heart of the human genome.

From Kosmoautikon:
What totems devise monuments of fixed
veracity? Peering in a glass to read the genome,
man and woman mark symbols, tapping at
them with dull talons. My poem, permeable
sieve, misprision to every new phylum.
Thought, I test, is not fixed, but reformed in
time, and what is time but divided thought?
Disunion in my eye circles to the center.
Since there is no perfect communication,
ear to ear, there is art: my poem preserved
as snarled and frozen imprint of my mind.
And you, because death seems dithering,
assert the gem-like crystal goblet . . . still solid.
You, tapping against the cracking glass with talons.

Mark Chandos’s essay, Modernism as Pangaea, introduces a bold new interpretation of modernism. He states that his “aim is to present a strong theory of poetry. Yet there can be no advance in Western poetry until the elephant in the room has been faced. Philosophy and poetry have failed to keep pace with the successes of scientism.” Kosmoautikon faces this challenge directly.

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• Release date: Apr 25, 2019
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Mark Chandos

MARK CHANDOS is America’s epic poet and philosopher. Witnessing the collapse of traditional Western civilization, Chandos recovers the highest Western concepts and embodies them in a new linguistic codex. He believes that there will be no recovery of Western literature until there is a new language of the Western achievement. Deeply studied in history and philosophy of the Ancient world, Chandos reexamines ancient mythologies showing that they have always been misinterpreted. He believes that only our generation is able to understand the real meaning of the combined narrative of all epic literature, from Gilgamesh to Homer, from Egyptian myth to Greek myth. In his essay, A New Theory of Poetry, Chandos shows there is a linguistic schism in American society (between scientific and vernacular speakers. He demonstrates that epic poetry is essentially a prophetic vehicle and formulates the idiom of consciousness. He makes a race for supremacy. Why should the reader Read the KOSMOAUTIKON Epic Cycle? 1) KOSMOAUTIKON has information of the long count of the Human Condition. No other work of American literature observes the ancient origins of the human genome. No other poem projects the force of the strong poet into a Space faring civilization. Only the KOSMOAUTIKON contains the long count of human civilization. 2) KOSMOAUTIKON does not repeat any modernist clichés. Modernism can only detect modernism. Modern literature can only regurgitate modernist linguistic codices – a fascination with disease, medical mythos, and the omnipotence of laboratory science. KOSMOAUTIKON accuses the madness of this modernist experiment. Instead, KOSMOAUTIKON detects the astral position of the human mind. A story is told that places man in a position of power in relation to the universe. Modernism makes treats men and parasites. In story Theory man is the center of all things, since only the human has a terra- forming mind. 3) KOSMOAUTIKON creates a new linguistic codex to project a new advance in the human Genome. A new linguistic structure must always prepare the way for any human advance. “I had to remove your planet – and then your bones.” 4) KOSMOAUTIKON tells the story of Rogue males. Who are our rogue males? Alexander, Christ, Cesar, Dante, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Henry VIII, Edward De Vere (Shake-speare), Beethoven, Francis bacon, Oscar Wilde (the list is long). The point? Western civilization has been made by dangerous rogue males. No other modern text would even dare to discuss the power of the rogue male. Where else will the reader find the truth? Modernism seeks to inoculate, medicate, or incarcerate the rogue male – early. Yet what is the truth? There will be rogues makes again – and they will change the human genome. This is the story of KOSMOAUTIKON 5) There is no other document that contains future speech. No Western person can be educated without first reading KOSMOAUTIKON. It does not matter your opinion of poetry or the poet. You have to deal with it. Most googled favorite lines from KOSMOAUTIKON: 1) We had to remove your planet – then your bones. 2) Observe my second sweat condense the juice loving bark, my song recovered stitch all numbered kiss close fit . . . 3) . . . then fix my sleep at that beam all-speeding from glow emitting north, my eye abreast a lover's shard of light. 4) The cauldron planet still beaconed red Five…You will not miss the globular element of your fire-burned ancestors. 6) When you could not yourself believe. I made you diamond tablets of belief. When you yourself could not detect the sky, I wrote the sun for you each day new. When you by yourself were congealed as frost, I dipped your brittle mouth still blue and flaked. When you could not lift your hands yourself to count, I raised your arm to rage against the beats of breath.

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KOSMOAUTIKON:

The Wound

of Genesis Is

Traceable

BOOK THREE

WITH ESSAY:

MODERNISM AS PANGAEA

Mark Chandos

Copyright © 2019 by Mark Chandos.

ISBN:      Softcover      978-1-7960-2983-3

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CONTENTS

KOSMOAUTIKON: THE WOUND OF GENESIS IS TRACEABLE

List of Characters

Argument Book One: Escape from Sapiens

Argument Book Two: Girl on a Dolphin

Argument Book Three: The Wound of Genesis Is Traceable

CANTO ONE

In Your Atom Is Ark

Atomic Thirst

I Dreamed Last Night of Machines

Political Interlude: Are Spacemen Free?

Dice of Chanced Nightmares

CANTO TWO

Interlude: In the Womb Ship

She Says You Are One of These

Delegation of Ship Captains

Build me Ships of Solid Gold

Other Tentacle We Share with Beasts

Vargus Speaks to the Crew: Did You See the Light?

Riot in the Theater

Egyptian Days

Cheda Commences Pilot Training

Jurate’s Letter

CANTO THREE

In the Theater: A Masque for Children

Prologue (Play Starts)

Act One: Rocket Men

Act Three, Scene One: First Encounter

Act Three, Scene Two

CANTO FOUR

Act Four: To Know One True Thing

Act Five: Return to Ship

In Bridal Chain Now Mounts Her Church

Nehi Hussein Nampour Rises to His Feet

Roll Call of Armies

Aaron Speaks to His Nation

Interlude: Saada Does Not Give an Inch

CANTO FIVE

Marriage Minus Jupiter

Girl Diaries (Sung by Jurata with chorus.)

Jurate Sleeps

CANTO SIX

A Wheelchair of Gold

Return Journey

CANTO SEVEN

In Our Atom Is Ark

Release of Girls to Crew Population

CANTO EIGHT

Interlude: Aaron’s Elegy

Fix My Sleep at That Beam

Attack Beyond Mars

My New-Braise Tongue

The Helpless Robot

Incantation

CANTO NINE

Leave Behind All Moisture

Death Caked in Alphabets

You Have All the Time in the World

Ahead of Heavy Frosts

Silence! Bring Me the Tools of Life!

Some Girls Refuse to Mate

Vargus Gathers the Females in Lithuania

A Voice from Imastu Orphanage

CANTO TEN

The Observer Changes the Observed

Where a Tailor Made a Seam

To the Senate

=Song

The Tablet of Destinies

What God Yet God

I, Cheda

MODERNISM

AS PANGAEA

Reality Is a School of Poetry

White Apollo Must Die

Alphabet in Chains

No Image Is Real

Athena Did It

Everything Said Is Somehow Real

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KOSMOAUTIKON:

The Wound

of Genesis Is

Traceable

(To be recited.)

BOOK THREE

It is now known that astrology has provided man with his continuing lingua franca through the centuries. But it is essential to recognize that, in the beginning, astrology presupposed an astronomy. Through the interplay of these two heavenly concepts, the common elements of preliterate knowledge were caught up in bizarre bestiary whose taxonomy has disappeared. With the remnants of the system scattered all over the world, abandoned to the drift of cultures and languages, it is immensely difficult to identify the original themes that have undergone so many sea-changes.

Giorgio de Santillana

Art is simply a possibility for absolute conquest. For the artist, to complete is to die …There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

Filippo Marinetti

New systems of nature were but new fashions, which would vary in every age; and even those who pretend to demonstrate them from mathematical principles would flourish but a short period of time.

Jonathan Swift

It is not the function of the poet to relate what has happened, but what may happen – what is possible according to the law of probability or necessity.

Aristotle

I hold it that thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. If you could write it on paper, you can find it in the heavens.

Einstein

Feynman taught Turner this lesson: Don’t try to solve a problem until you think you have the answer. That approach was the opposite of how particle physics usually worked. In particle physics [supposedly], the math came first… But Feynman had taught Turner that sometimes you didn’t need to do the math first. To leap to a conclusion first. To imagine what the universe might be, and then go back and do the math until … it matched. To imagine what your life might be, and then go back and do the work until …it matched.

Richard Panek

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream …

Jeremiah 28

The story of the sciences in the twentieth century is one of a steady loss of certainty. Much of what was real and machine-like and objective and deterministic at the start of the century, by mid-century was a phantom, unpredictable, subjective and indeterminate.

Brian Arthur

The apparatus used in the [scientific] experiment is believed to exist outside our own minds on the strength of an inference … the material or external world in general is an inferred world and that therefore particular experiments, far from taking us out of the magic circle of inference into some supposed direct contact with reality, are themselves evidential only as parts of that great inference … We should abandon the distinction between scientific and non-scientific thought … Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

C.S. Lewis

It’s immensely important that great poems be written, but it makes not a jot of difference who writes them.

Ezra Pound

In ancient times, the memory of all sacred knowledge of an astronomical and metaphysical nature was retained in the general consciousness of human society in the form of allegorical myth, and there existed a rigorous code of accuracy in repetition and transmission. Thus the most advanced experiential and perceptual knowledge could move easily between different cultures and languages and be safely handed down in reliable and constantly vital pictorial form from generation to generation. Over the millennia, however - particularly in the West – the background and sacred nature of these ancient mythic metaphors and allegories degenerated into mere folk tales … a degeneracy which began with the onset of purely rational thought in Late Greek culture.

Giorgio de Santillana

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Argument Book One: Escape from Sapiens

Aaron, the last living member of a ruthless political dynasty is responsible for the destruction of Non-Western nations on a dying Earth. His mission is to terraform Europa for habitation. This is his solution to ensure that Anglo-Western civilization will survive outside of our solar system. This will be the race of humans that colonize the Galaxy without limitations of carbon-based life.

Aaron destroys life on earth. He has no choice since earth’s atmosphere is toxic from the release of radiation and the carbon dioxide of an over-industrialized planet. Earth was already locked in ice and storms before Aaron reduced the last populations of enemy countries. This war was the result of a coalition of nations against the Anglo-American West. The takeover of Australia by Asian hordes was the final cause of Armageddon. China lost every city and all its dams along the Yellow River. One billion people were incinerated – or drowned. America lost New York, Chicago, Washington, and LA.

Aaron’s companion in this voyage to Jupiter is Talon, the greatest scientific mind of his age. Talon has made the machines Aaron now uses to build RingWorld around Callisto moon. Talon suffers from a rare bone disease and lives in a wheelchair. Talon has already secretly set in motion his plans to translate his own broken body into a new powerful life form based on methane and ammonia. Aaron and Talon have channeled their learning and science into the minds of their new race of men. For the first time in zero gravity a new species of man is made.

Aaron’s new-made creature, Tan-Dem (later called Cheda) speaks in poetry. In contrast, Replicants, machines, and workers speak prose. This verifies, in Aaron’s view, that poetry is man’s greatest achievement.

Aaron’s men begin their lives at the moon Callisto, building giant factories funneling up the minerals from the broken moon below. With these minerals, Talon’s factories produce an artificial RingWorld around Callisto. Though dangerous, their audacious project is the best hope for the further survival of the mind of men beyond the nursery of the earth. Robotic arms build two ships each month, in preparation for the 300 Slavic girls arriving.

The crews of the thirty spaceships become desperate after three years and the men are unable to support the emotional pressures of space flight never offering the hope of returning to earth. Aaron’s military commander, Vargus, finally destroys the earth – after final negotiations for world peace break down.

China still tried to use her remaining masses to control the earth’s resources. Modern technology allowed peoples to make intimate contact, but this only ensured the earth was destroyed by the same advanced technology. Thus modernism turned out to be irrational. The earth became a snowball in three years.

Vargus arrives at Aaron’s station at Callisto after this last extinction on Earth. The conditions of life at Jupiter contain new astrology of life. Many of the crew retreat to the gravity and shelter of Callisto’s oxygenated caves to regenerate health.

New life forms are explored as Aaron faces his own being and the ghastly acts he has committed on Earth. What is Homo sapiens outside its nursery planet? How many worlds are still encoded on the human genome – waiting to be released – each already formed and perfect? What new mental formations are revealed from a change in the human language? Facing this new condition of man at the edge of the solar system, Aaron creates an enchanted space for a new linguistic idiom – as advanced as the speech of science. Aaron demonstrates by this achievement that science is only another school of linguistics. That is to say, science (using its own symbols) is a school of poetry.

And if true, what does this say about modernism?

Argument Book Two: Girl on a Dolphin

Voices appear to Aaron and his crews. He finally executes judgment on the killer, Stendahl - a sentence he has long delayed for unknown reasons. Aaron hopes that after Stendahl’s death his voice will also return to them to tell Aaron what astrology of space has been entered. Are there new laws of Being that he is still unaware of? This plan has other consequences. The men are growing restless and losing faith in their mission so far from Earth. There is a crisis of faith that the crews will all survive to see another future of men. The crew begins to repeat rumors of Aaron’s strange birth.

Commander Vargus arrives with 13 Russian ships containing the last pilgrims from dying Earth. He has with him 300 Slavic women, from the former Russian Federation. This changes the military structure of RingWorld since for the first time there is a large population of civilians in his military command. The strains on Aaron are almost to the limit of his competence. He retreats inwardly into his plans for a future galaxy of strange new Beings. Will they be human men? Has Aaron rejected the female creature in his effort to cope with his challenges? Will the alphabet (as left-brain science) finally eradicate the role of women as carriers of human life

He makes Vargus his second in command and sends him with a mission to the moon of Europa. At Europa Vargus is to extract a new supply of water and to place the tiny moon, Metis, on a course of collision with Europa. The same plan is made, next, for the small moonlet, Thebe. Aaron’s mission (or was it Talon’s plan originally?) is to create the conditions of future life on Europa by burning off some of the water, exposing rock, and creating a stronger atmosphere on this planet. It is an audacious challenge to attempt to change the tectonics of another planet – the first time ever by humans - in effect, to grow planets for continued human survival outside of earth.

Tan-Dem, his alien son, is now called by his people Cheda, meaning He talks to God. He seems to be uncannily involved in the lives of each of the crew. Cheda seems to hear and know what everyone says in the ships.

The moment the moonlet Metis enters Europa, a new being appears on Callisto. Aaron is challenged by the appearance of a girl that arrives in the company of his son Cheda. She claims to be a stowaway. But he knows she was not. He never expected a challenge from this quarter.

Aaron relies on his rational mind (a progeny of a male alphabet) to hold together his practical command essentially a military enterprise. Aaron decides his greatest achievement, his only chance at immortality, is to permanently seed his nation’s language into an empty and barren infinity.

Argument Book Three: The Wound of Genesis Is Traceable

Aaron nears completion of the Galactic moon-ship. Vargus has returned from his mission to manipulate the smaller moon of Metis to impact into Europa. The first collision with Metis burns off half of Europa’s immense salt ocean. Metis broke the crust of Europa and exposed the hot interior of the frozen planet.

Thebe’s collision into Europa reforms the biosphere of the planet. The effect, as planned, is a further reduction of the salt oceans and an increase of temperature at the core of Europa. The result of these impacts is the formation of shifting, continent-sized tectonic islands. Subsequent volcanism spews oxygen and nitrogen into a nascent atmosphere.

The heat of volcanic activity, combined with a heavy cloud cover, slowly raises the temperature of the planet to liquefy half of the remaining ocean ice. Talon’s scientists have made a virus-driven compost that will exponentially reproduce biological fauna in the space of 10 years – on over a third of the planet. This fauna virus is dangerous but effective. Aaron’s artificial greenhouse gases commence a long warming process.

Europa is now raised in its elliptic further from Jupiter’s rays and appears as a twin moon with Callisto – so near are the two moons now to each other.

Within a few years, there will be the first domes of habitation established on Europa. The planet is twice its previous size and contains a gravity more suited to human-like creatures. If the scientists are mad, the specific species of the madness are irrelevant. Science, the male progeny of the left-brain alphabet, exposes its ultimate concept – a sterile world without women.

Aaron experiments with the human skeleton – to make a higher advancement in the human body and mind. A similar re-engineering was already performed thousands of years before – when Homo sapiens were made from the black-footed ones. The purpose now is to create a race of men able to survive in low gravity environments based on other forms of mineral – ammonia and methane – and not dependent only upon oxygen and carbon.

Book Three contains a masque performed by the children of the crews. They gather in a large amphitheater to hear a story of the future success of their great project. But who wrote the play? Is it propaganda – or is it an actual prophecy of the future?

Three hundred girls from several orphanages in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Ukraine slowly begin to mix two by two with the crews. The men see these women at the performance of the play and are crazed with sexual interest. All insurgency is curbed – since Aaron has promised to release these women to the ship’s population of desperate human men. The young girls have been reformed by Aaron’s intensive re-education. They speak uneasy English and have learned hundreds of poems by heart. They not only have an exotic and charismatic Slavic beauty, they are, eccentrically, willing to mate only with the men who support Aaron’s visions.

The supernatural appearance of the teenage Jurate has transformed Aaron. He composes a new interpretation of marriage – and performs the ceremony. Each couple (with twenty-five Replicants as crew) will be assigned spaceships to reach the uninhabited regions of space.

This strategy changes everything in RingWorld. There is now a brighter future for the crews. The human issue of these unions forever changes the nature of Homo sapiens. They have a lighter skeleton, larger eyes, and brains – and exhibit a powerful spiritual perception of second sight. Homo Faustus is born.

Yet there is revolt among the male creatures on Callisto. In a cave, they seize Aaron. The Furies have returned for the cause of male injustice and place him on trial for unhinged acts of scientific barbarisms. This brings his work and the scientific philosophy of an entire male (Western) civilization into sharp focus. The female Furies of Athens return for the blood of the House of Atreus. They confuse Aaron with Orestes, also, incidentally, present at the birth of male Western civilization.

A question is raised in the poem. What is space – and how does the vacuum differ from a man’s mind? A man fills both entities with his perceptions. What, after all, is Western civilization? What quality made the West different from other civilizations? Western rationalism, in truth, is finally revealed as nothing less than the civilization of the male-dominated alphabet. The last 2500 years of Western violence, murder, hate, and science were – in truth – the result of the rational alphabet, beginning with the Hebrew and Greek forms of writing. Death (aggressive, weaponized rationalism) is lodged in the alphabet. All the sciences, the machines, the profitable market of fake seeds, foods, and medicines – are wrathful children of the rational alphabet. None of these male, left brain machines could have come from the oral culture of the Great Goddess. A great reckoning awaits. But what is Her price?

The scene opens as Aaron conducts his eccentric medical operations. A new language is used to address the newly created genus – Homo Faustus.

CANTO ONE

In Your Atom Is Ark

1 (Chorus comes forward, speaking.)

i

One day you’ll wake without your legs,

wiping a pungent, phosphorus smear

from your eyes. You will turn your neck and

see your shoes are out of reach.

Seven skulls and slime on sheets remind you,

yes, you are stuck with all your days.

The evil you cannot take back, the

broke glass wand taken from your hand,

and your long descent from primate phylums

you, ignorant, once claimed as ancestors.

This generation shall not see land again

until our story is told.

You will run to the beard of Jupiter.

There, you will call out, like a cat cornered

in an alley. Crushed by dark teeth.

But there is no one else

in your mind to fix a lie.

Only you.

(In spaceship, Aaron works on a body – supine on a table.)

ii

Aaron. When I smoke the bones of Western men

the bodies cough and shudder with chill.

Shivering, they ask for warmth.

I know –

your prior state was a sporus chamber.

I have placed you on a humid tile. Yet

it is your new condition that chills you.

I perceive merit in your claim. The root

of sentience is fragile with bias. Who first

told you that you are primate? It was spurious.

That was the prophecy of myopic men.

Until you have my speech, you have no

dimension – no prescience. No symbols

cling on your brain. Look. Nothing exists,

not even world, unless you have this mind.

World has no fixed appendage. Only a

mind is here. I have opened your valves. Spread

yourself promiscuous to inspection.

(Blood gushes from a wound.)

Ah, this is my intent. I see your lips move.

Do you already search with precognition?

Tell me where the itch of bias populates?

Do you stumble? I see your eyes still search.

Why? For what? What besides – what world next –

hides on the genome? So much data inert?

Is the wound of Genesis traceable?

It is not