Eie

Eie is our greatest resource, the golden key given to us by he of my same name who helped to found the desert community of the Outer Township nearly two hundred years ago.

Having realized that there was no internal coherence to any human truth; that no religion or philosophical system would bear greater fruit than any other, and that any given system of sufficient power, be it metaphorical or mathematical, would yield similar results in the view of ultimacy; that no single system of thought was any more prior or necessary than any other: these reasons and realizations compelled Ad af'Adabeie to resolve the Arbitrary Philosophy.

His system revolved around oneself; that there was nothing but Self, and that there was no limit or delineation of Selfhood: infinite extent, infinite intent. Adabeie was compelled to resolve that further there was no inherence of this Selfhood, nor that this Selfhood was necessary or fundamental: it was merely useful, a fiction, a figment of the eternal imagination wherein possibility coalesces with experience and thus forms the first filaments of the future, along which we are drawn, filaments which have no necessary end or association, filaments which may disperse as we traverse them or which may remain constant.

His view was purposefully Western in its intent but decidedly Eastern in its awareness. He felt that current systems of his time could not be reformed, and that none could be saved; that indeed there was not only no reason for salvation either by religion or by realization, only freedom from delusion but recognizing delusion and making use of it as one recognizes skills upon learning a new instrument, or partaking in a new activity. There was no coherent Self to worry about: no damnation, no redemption. Only freedom in the emptiness of That Which Is Arbitrary.

Adabeie then set out to develop his freedom, and at this time he was employed in a physics laboratory embedded into what we now call the Autopian Range. He and others regularly experimented with high-energy fields and particles, and as such his realization regarding the arbitrary nature of the abstract world (this of course was only made possible by the much ignored Catastrophe of Von Neumann centuries earlier) found a fertile field in which to develop, through wandering arguments and conversations.

At this time the lab began to operate independently, as the Ismist government, recently elected and compelled to suspend all secular studies withdrew funding and advocated a full-shutdown of the lab's properties. This was a time of great upheaval for the City which came to be Autopia, for its mass was such that it could not sustain itself. It was so vast that it would neither feed itself nor expel its own waste sufficiently.. it was analogous to a cell which has become bloated and sickly, restrained by an inability to innovate and evolve.

Autopia clearly survived, mainly by differentiating, whereby a ruthless sieving of the populace was held, those who were suitable, both in interest and ability, to the new goals of what is now called the Inner City, and those who resisted or were unable to envision or stomach the new ideals were left in the Outer City.. those of the latter category had in many ways a greater freedom, but freedom without structure (and the two need not conflict) is aimlessness, and it was the utter extend of possible lives which left the Outer City adrift.

The purpose of those living in the Inner City was unknown to the outer half as the two began to associate less and less, neighbors though they were.

All the while, the laboratory in the desert was forgotten, and by the time the cataclysm happened, Autopia had a rudimentary Cradle, and was thus mostly spared by that horrendous belching of the earth's bowels which toppled entire continental shelves and vacuumed away entire seas into vast caverns underground.

The deserters, as they now called themselves, had sheared away from any pretense of identity; among them were enlightened Christians, Mohists, Taoists, and others; none were observant of these divisions, nor had any who bothered to call themselves this or that had done so out of that obligation to familial inheritance, but rather out of exploration and curiosity. It seemed no mistake then that they, detached as they were from ideas of the past and now from any duty to serve the City which had set them loose, should explore a new, hilariously untruthful philosophy fostered by the very members of their community.. they were ripe for the Eie.

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We say that the Eie begins where you are, and to find out where you are, you must begin by choosing to stand on the spot where you are and circumnavigate that point.

Are you further from your foot than you are from your hand?

If one standing across the room can see you, it is not because some part of you extends to them, thus connecting you? One might say, "My Self reflects light," but we might say, "Nothing is reflected, nothing reflects."

Thus the distinction that you draw, arm extended and finger pointing outwards, slowly turning, is not one which severs you from the world around you but rather binds you to it, a seed of recognition. The Eie is not so much defined as it is experienced.

We say that as far as abstract truths are concerned, all is fiction: as soon as the mind moves, one has already lied; it is for this reason that lies are not crime in our philosophy, as lies are essential to communication.. it is rather good faith that we adhere to, not truth. It is also for this reason that the more advanced esoterics of the Greater school and the major prophets do not deign to speak.. they have more to say than words allow.

This is likewise the reason for our calligraphic script and our meandering intonations, which do not make use of grammar as typically conceived. There is nothing prescriptive about who we are or what we are doing, or how what we are doing should be done.

Abadie therefore made use of the notion of the Philosophical Body, or rather, That Which Eie Examines.. it is the subject of the inquiry, and the Eie is what dissects the Philosophical Body.

All of this is Arbitrary, and insomuch as it is Arbitrary it is also Consistent. But this consistency adheres to not outer or inner law, no necessity, no expectation.

It is our New Science.

It is the source of our technology and our power.. it is how we encountered Void.