As promised, I letterpress printed my ASCII Mercury sigil.
Good thing, too! — because after writing “Creation redescription” I was startled to discover that my divine Boolean operations map with uncanny barnumite neatness to this configuration: Plus, divine Andness. Zero, divine Notness. Open parenthesis, divine Orness.
I decided to print the sigil as the oblivion object in a blind spot demonstration, which exemplifies nihilitude (a present nothing which leaves nothing missing, showing very clearly how blindness is the furthest thing from darkness.) It is by nihilitude that the Trickster tricks, so I cannot imagine a better vanishing-appearing figure than Mercury, the trickster angel, for this vanishing act transpiring on my little magic paper strip.
Instructions.
- Orient the strip so the asterisk is on the left, and the Mercury sigil is on the right.
- Hold the strip arm’s length from your face.
- Close your left eye, and keep your right eye open.
- Focus your eye on the asterisk, while focusing your attention on the sigil.
- Maintaining this dual focus, slowly move the strip closer and closer to your open right eye.
- Notice when the sigil is no longer there, absent, while leaving no trace of absence.
- Say: “Nihilitude: Nothing is present so nothing is missing.”
- Remember that all but the tiniest sliver of reality is submerged in nihilitude. (“Exnihilated”)
- Thank God for the shelter of nihilitude, which is the precious gift of moral existence.
- Seal it with “Amen.”
There comes a perilous point in a person’s life when the decision can no longer be evaded or postponed:
Either seem sane, or be sane.