Author: Golden Dawn KingGolden Dawn King Date: May 25, 2007 12:33
I could die at any moment. The real tragedy is that even if I can keep
up my current pace into my 80s, there will still be things I haven't
done. Haven't eaten, beaten, ridden, kicked, bought, sold, broken, or
made, things I just can't do. So, like a 7th year president in the
home stretch, my thoughts turn to legacies. I'm talking about much
more than a few tomes that are mostly plagiarisms of my deceased
mentor and bud Israel Regardie. I want something that will be a much
more permanent representation who I really am, an icon that is capable
or representing my whole life's work. Something that will strike awe
into the masses AND please Tabby forever so much that she will not
even THINK of pursuing another man after I'm gone.
Everyone dies. A few of us truly live. Even rarer is a man who lives
well and leaves a legacy that achieves life of its own. Jesus.
Mohammed. Count Dracula. Real people, or representations of real
people, who are greater in death than they were in life. Think of it:
the silver bullets. The Holy Grail. The Koran. The Shroud of Turin.
Artifacts, touchstones, elements of a physical legacy linked to
something greater than the objects, greater than you or me or time.
What are you going to leave behind?
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