Pan-Worldly Things: The Hermetic Realm of the Opposites

By Craig Matheson

Pan-Worldly Things: The Hermetic Realm of the Opposites comprises twelve lyrical poems designed to prompt readers to entertain an amalgam of concerning matters through a rhymical, rhyming standard. The cadenced framework is measured for offering a sound, counterbalancing sway upon certain solemn subjects bantered about the book.
The book is founded in endless wonder over why Cosmic Things seem metaphysically flanked by two contrasting poles, such as with Cosmic Matter (Planetary Realms, magnetically set between North and South Poles); Cosmic Matters (Political Realms, rhetorically set between Far Left and Far Right speech); and Cosmic Concepts (Mental Realms, mentally set between Absolutist and Open-Minded perspectives).
Overall, the book's Socratic design is intended to energize more interest in contesting certain narratives rather than to end dialogue through scare tactics.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Release date: Jul 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9781666781977

Craig Matheson

Craig Matheson authored DaVinci’s Mental Code (2022) under the penname Palibor Iversune. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 1998 with a degree in marketing. Over the years, he has become an endlessly curious student of world history, seeking to understand why the various time-tested theistic philosophies have lasted in practice to the present day.

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Pan-Worldly Things

The Hermetic Realm of the Opposites

Craig Matheson

Pan-Worldly Things

The Hermetic Realm of the Opposites

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06/13/23

Table of Contents

Title Page

Spirit to the World

Freedom vs. Safety

Might is Alright

Dead People Don’t Lie

Opposites, opposites, everywhere . . .

Wisdom vs. Intelligence

Worth Their Salt

As Above, so Below

Bi-Polar-ity vs. Dual-ity

Socrates vs. The State

Pan-ic, Pan-demic, Pan-global, Pan-Hermetic

The Seeker’s Path

Frances Mackie-Matheson

You will always be in our hearts.

Love, Kent and Craig

Spirit to the World

It can seem a sort of intoxicant,

such apparent Spirit to the World,

Thick with affair to collar intent,

leaving some dizzy in swirl.

Amid younger years, there’s more innocence 

being stirred by fantastical things;

With time, grows need for dark cognizance

if a goat-god uncannily rings.

What a monkey sees, a monkey may do

in the realms of mania and play,

Where games and tricks, such as switcheroo,

could raise higher urge for parlay.

As more experience is gained across time,

many patterns come naturally learned,

If heads then inflate by delusions of prime,

a good bridge more likely gets burned.

What’s mine is mine . . . and I want yours too!

The Narcissist’s Way in extreme;

always computing for how to accrue,

To Act Less Human Than Machine.