Way

The Way of the Dream

Codex 1

• The Dream dreamed is not the Dream.
• The Avatar named is not the Avatar.

• The Unknown bounds the Dream and the Waking.
• The Named is mother of the Dreamed.

• Freed from desire you experience the Art.
• Caught in desire you see the evocation.

• Yet Art and evocation rise from the same source.
• This source is called the Chaos.

• Chaos born from Chaos, the Portal to all understanding.

Codex 2

• Beauty begets ugliness.
• Good creates evil.
• Coherence produces incoherence.
• Difficult supports ease.
• Long defines short.
• High depends on low.
• After follows before.

• Therefore the Adept acts without action, teaching without speech.
• Things arise and she lets them, they vanish and she releases them.

• Having without possessing, she acts without expecting.
• When her work is done, she forgets it; thus it lasts forever.

Codex 3

• Overesteem rulers and the people become powerless.
• Overvalue talismen and the people will steal.

• The Adept leads by emptying minds, filling bellies, weakening ambition, toughening resolve.
• He promotes simplicity and freedom from desire, creating confusion in those knowing and acting.

• Practice inaction and all will fall into place.

Codex 4

• The Dream is a well; ever used, never emptied.
• Infinite, it is the Source of all:
  • Dulling will,
  • blinding insight,
  • quenching lucidity,
  • scattering resilience.

• Chameled, always present; dreamsmiths unknown; older than god

Codex 5

• The Dream is impartial, giving birth to good and evil.
• The Adept takes no side, welcoming sinners and saints.

• The Dream is like a bellows, empty yet infinitely productive.

• The more spoken, the less comprehended.
• Hold to the Balance.

Codex 6

• The Dream is the great mother,
  • empty yet infinitely creative,
  • giving birth to the limitless saga.

• Unseen, everpresent, use it effortlessly.