Volume One, Issue Two
As 1ce we were, 1ce we shall b again.
What does "one" mean? It is perhaps the most misunderstood and least contemplated concepts of all humanity, yet is also a word of unrivaled importance.
2 uncover the source of r misconceptions, we travel back 1ce again 2 the initial separation - the lie and subsequent fall from grace in the Garden of Eden. After the incident with the fruit, Adam realized he was one man, Eve was one woman, and the 2 were not the same. Up until then, they lived in complete happiness. But now, in shame and embarrassment over their difference, they separated themselves with clothing made of leaves. They realized they were both different than another one walking through the garden - God - and hid from him as well.
2day, there is rampant use of the word 'one' as a term of separation. "I'll take one of those,"..."this is the last one," "we're number one," "someone," "no one"... Used this way, the word imposes boundaries - verbal barriers and walls of separation between otherwise like objects and beings.
Buried in the rubble of layers and layers of implied separation there rests a gem of truth. One is not the smallest number, but the greatest. If all the world's "ones" were added 2gether, what would that b? One. Wholeness, completion, totality. ONE.
ONE has been r mission ever since that fateful day in The Garden... returning 2 the oneness we already r. Living as one individual instead of the one collective has created a thirst in r souls. We all long 2 b long 2 some thing, some 4ce greater than rselves, yet may not know y. We all have a soulneed 2 "reconnect" 2 the tremendous source that now only lingers as a hologram in r minds, a deja vu from whence we don't quite remember.
Perhaps this is no more apparent than with the xploding popularity of the internet. One person fires up a computer and is soon communicating with one other person at a computer hundreds of miles away, and then another on a computer thousands of miles away. Distance and age disappear. Income, physical traits, occupation and origin no longer matter. The individuals "connect." It is no longer one person + one person + one person... all have b come one.
One day we will return 2 this oneness in all aspects of life... we will remain connected 2 one another without relying on the blind, 4ced equality of a computer screen 2 do so. We r here 2 gain the knowledge and enlightenment 2 do this on r own, 2 re-member we r already members of a oneness devoid of stereotypes and preconceptions... a unity that crosses all cultures, creeds, ages and mindsets. It is r one quest and r one destiny - ONE - 4 as 1ce we were, we shall b again.
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