As Well As From Any Other

The realization of the total being can be attained from a basis in any one of the states
because of the equivalence of all these contingent modes of existence when
regarded from the standpoint of the Absolute.

It can then be obtained from the human state as well as from any other.

I read this in The Multiple States of Being by Rene Guenon page 21 in my translation.

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And what can I say about that?

It is poetry already.

As well as from any other.....

Which is to say from driving from walking from eating a Big Mac from under tall elms
        from the bath tub or from a swivel chair in the face of a computer but especially
        from sitting in a moderately used out house while taking in the subtle fragrance of
        many peoples shit which in a muted state is a cozy sort of thing but I just made
        this up about the out house because it is such a little noticed phenomenon,

Not about the coziness of outhouses which is true but I am sure that for epiphanies and
        paranormal phenomena in general outhouses are no more special than the average
        bath tub.

On the day I read these words I went about all my affairs wondering whether it was true
        being only philosophy and lacking confirmation in the recalcitrance of things,

And that very night I was looking at protista under my microscope which I often do rather
        than walk in the woods because the woods are so polluted and with protista
        pollution is generally not at all a disadvantage the most common purifications
        being like olives and sun-sets to many of them and I saw a vorticela unwind with
        caution the coil on which he had affixed himself to a bit of rubbish.

Slowly with great caution sniffing the currents with the cilia waving around the mouth
        end of his bell shape he ventured out for a bit of bacteria or perhaps algae or
        maybe just for the adventure of it which we not knowing him from the inside
        as he does himself should not be so arrogant to dismiss out of hand but observing
        him behaviorally in the approved modern manner I saw that he did indeed
        venture,

And then looked up.

I fancy he saw my eye and such an eye it would have been to a vorticela going about his
        business on the slide which had been his home only for three or four minutes
        during which he probably forgot any other home he had ever had for I fancy that
        vorticela with their conspicuous lack of gray matter have very short memories but
        again who are we to say because they clearly so do much else without the aid of
        gray matter,

And I heard him say Ah Hah!

With my own failing ears I heard this though you will argue it was only with my inner or
        mystical ears in order to denigrate it because all sorts of drivel gets heard with the
        mystical ears but

So help me Infinite Absolute he did he said Ah Hah and I knew that some tiny epiphany
        had blown whatever sequences of molecules that serve him as neural pathways
        somewhere deep within his cytoplasm or at least as deep as his tininess would
        permit.

And being persuaded as in the modern manner that whatever is provided us by metaphor
        or inner immediacy must be confirmed by the data of the senses if it is to be
        honored as knowledge I knew that I was at one of those critical junctions of
        general importance if only I thought if only this is replicable.

And in that brief epiphany he leaped over algae over the unsavory nematodes and
        annelids, the arachnids with all their spinning of new worlds and the slime molds
        with their imperfect attachment to individuality and over the vertebrates,

He leaped over ten thousand human incarnations and over the seven states of
        advancement in a single bound,

Transcended the 99 Koans threw off a million now un-needed embodiments.

And sprang into the infinite beyond time space,

But then his coiled tail sprang him back into the shadows of the algae and the cellulose of
        dead things and there he hid for a long time fearful that I might steal his
        enlightenment.