The First Hundred

When studying The Book of Wesley, it is helpful to remember that it was created before the invention of the wheel. Therefore, something had to be invented every time transportation was needed. Some of Wesley’s thoughts are necessarily the forerunners of philosophies that have evolved since. Others have merely been passed over as too preposterous for an enlightened age. Still others yet await an age of sufficient enlightenment for their future development.

It is the task of the reader to decide which are which. It is not likely that Wesley ever did.

Nathan Everett, Editor

July 31, 1981

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1. The entirety of that which exists has being only because it has been remembered from the collective consciousness of humanity. As long as someone remembers something, it exists in what we call reality. It may exist in a different time frame or at a different dimension than we imagined, but it does exist.

2. Imagine all the things in this world that do not exist and have never been, simply because no one has remembered them. Yet.

3. You can positively affect your environment. It is entirely possible for you to control your body temperature, for example, so that you do not feel cold or heat in excess of what makes you comfortable. You may find yourself completely at ease lying naked in a snowdrift. If you are controlling your environment, it cannot affect you.

4. Paradoxically, it is quite a different thing to control other people’s perception of your environment. They are limited by their own illusions of reality. Thus, even if you are completely at ease lying naked in your snowdrift, do not be surprised if someone else perceives you as freezing to death and rushes you to a hospital. They, after all, must act according to their own perceptions.

5. Someone once said, “If you can dream it, you can achieve it; if you can imagine it, you can become it.”

6. This shows the power of the imagination. It is a cosmic law that anything you imagine in your mind and visualize until it is real to you, must come to you. It may not be what you expected when you first saw it in your mind, but its presence will strike you with the force of sudden realization. “Aha!” you will say. “I see it now!”

7. The laws of physics are man-made. They exist by our permission. There is another way—a mythical way—of explaining every physical phenomenon. When it is discovered, its discoverer is liberated from the law that bound him or her until then.

8. It is said that no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. When a person realizes that all things occupy the same space at the same time, the door to the universe is opened and black holes in space lose their terror.

9. Ritual is one of the foundations of humanity’s search for the infinite. Through ritual, we are released from the activities and pressures of normal life into communion with the universal consciousness of humanity.

10. Our greatest danger to spiritual discovery is to allow “ritual” (adj.) to become “routine” (n.).

Editor’s Note: As we’ll discover in these first twenty or thirty verses, Wesley uses a shotgun approach to toss out a variety of concepts, often paired, as a kind of starting point for later discussion. At first glance, he appears to be extremely disorganized.

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11. My most startling revelation was the gender of my soul (if I may use a vernacular and not altogether accurate term). I, a male, embrace a feminine soul. Perhaps, that is what science is alluding to when marking the male as having xy chromosomes and the female with yy. The soul may be universally feminine.

12. Hence, the truth of the myth of the mother goddess—less myth than self-realization at the most basic level.

13. The suppression of the feminine, whether in society or in oneself, can only lead to a man’s spiritual demise. The outward act has an inward consequence.

14. “Creation” is by definition dependent upon its “creator.” It cannot exist apart. There is nothing that the creation can draw upon for knowledge, inspiration, motivation, other than the creator.

15. One might say that the creation is the embodiment of the creator.

16. We as “Creatures” are inseparable from our creator. We are made of the same stuff.

17. Wesley’s Theory of Relativity: The universe, as we generally perceive it, is in constant motion. The chair on which I sit, sits on a floor that is part of the surface of a globe spinning on its axis. In addition, that globe revolves around another, spinning on its axis and revolving around its own orbital anchor. That can only mean there is never a “here,” for the “here” that I was only a moment ago is now “there.” Attached to my spinning revolving globe, I am constantly moving away.

18. I can only say “here” with meaning relative to other things that are moving at roughly the same speed and in the same direction I am, i.e. I am “here,” five feet from that chair “there.”

19.Not only are our various planets and suns and stars in motion, but the very space that surrounds us/them is also in motion.

20. The true secret of travel is to stay still. If one could remain “here”—even for the most instantaneous perception of time—time itself would disappear. The motion of everything else would bring all the cosmos “here” and “now.”

Editor’s Note: I thought for a while Wesley was contradicting himself when he said that all things occupy the same space at the same time (8) and then launched into this “Theory of Relativity.” Then he gets back to all things being “here and now.” Wesley had a unique way of embracing contradictions and not even acknowledging they existed.

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21.To equate this: The Devine Constant or “Here” equals the combined mass of the cosmos times its universal motion. H: Here; T: This; M: Motion. H=TM.

22. I suspect there is no greater motion than the universal motion of the cosmos. Why? It would not be possible to achieve greater motion than the cosmos because you would “arrive” before you got there. You would arrive at a time/place that did not yet exist. By so doing, you would contradict your own existence.

23. This, then, implies that the universal motion of the cosmos is a constant by which all else can be measured. The terms of measurement are arbitrarily set.

24. All life is made of paradoxes. One of the most significant is that while every person is responsible for his or her life, few if any are to blame for it. Thus, we may take charge and affect our own environments, but cannot refuse succor to those who for one reason or another do not.

25. Responsibility may be accepted, but it may not be imputed. It is, then, a position of power and authority.

26. Guilt is imputed. It is passive. It is a position of weakness.

27. One is seldom guilty of that for which he or she is responsible.

28. Innocence is not an antonym to guilt, but rather a synonym for ignorance. Consider the “fall” of Adam. (Adam is non-gendered. “Male and Female created He them and He called their name Adam.”) Adam was promised and received the knowledge of good and evil. In that knowledge Adam lost innocence/ignorance.

29. Adam was never guilty, for how can guilt be imputed against one who does not know good from evil?

30. The important thing to remember about the “physical” world as we know it is that it is anything but physical. All the cosmos in its final analysis is a network of relationships—not between things, but among realities.

Editor’s Note: Understanding his namesake, John Wesley, Wesley Allen’s apparent confusion about what is Biblical and what is spiritual and what is just hogwash seems less contradictive and more a record of his expanding universe. John Wesley was the founder of Methodism back in the 1700s. J. Wesley Allen was named in honor of the religious leader by zealous parents.

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31. The creation of energy out of mass—i.e. burning wood for heat and light—is essentially the breaking apart of networks. Since disruption is the primary factor, it becomes virtually impossible to take the appropriate quantities of heat and light and mold them back into wood, or to re-establish the network.

32. The more basic the network that is disrupted, the greater and less controllable the energy that erupts from it. Thus, severing the branch from the tree creates one type of energy (motion). Disrupting the basic structure of the branch itself creates a less controllable energy called fire. Disrupting the elemental network of the fire (the hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, carbon) can only create an even greater explosion of uncontrollable energy.

33. There must be some way of expanding the network, tapping its energy, without disrupting the network itself.

34. Networks also exist among the separate realities of people.

35. The significance of the “Christ event” (death and resurrection) is not in its uniqueness, but rather in its commonality to the human experience. The deepest mythology is marked by the continued struggle of light and dark forces.

36. While the sum and substance of humanity’s dream has always been to dwell in the light, all good gifts that are given to humanity (in mythology) are brought forth from the forces of darkness (or stolen from them). Christ, the leader of the force of light in Christian mythology, brings forth his gift from the deepest oblivion of hell.

37. If there were no such thing as darkness, the light could not shine. It would be dull, lacking contrast.

38. Embrace the dark and the light without losing either, and you will be at one and at peace.

39. It was once believed that for every individual there was one other, and only one, that would perfectly complement and fulfill him or her. Much sadness worked within those who did not or could not find their special ones. Far more likely, however, is the idea that for every individual there is a group of people that will complement and fulfill him/her in a variety of unique ways.

40. This knowledge exemplifies loss of innocence in yet another way.

Editor’s Note: Wesley has a habit of backtracking. In the coming sections, we’ll see him revisit the light and dark issue and attempt to explain them mathematically. It should be noted that everything Wesley learned about math and physics, he learned from music. Therefore, his math sometimes looks a little strange.

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Editor’s Note: In reading this, it is helpful to note that The Book of Wesley was conceived, if not set to paper, during a time when Wesley was separated not only from one he considered his soulmate, but also from the rest of living beings. He sat alone, creating an entire world out of the thoughts in his mind and then watched as his mind was unable to hold that world together and it disintegrated around him. It is no wonder that he was constantly looking for the “Why” in attempting to explain the “What.”

41. The linking of souls is different than the traditions of coupling either as two individuals or a group. Soul-mating is a deliberate act, much like lovemaking, but the bond is at a level of intimacy seldom, if ever, achieved on a physical plateau.

42. Nor is soul-mating restrained by physical limitations. It knows no bounds of time or place. In fact, it is a rare and exquisite experience to share a close time-space with one’s soul mate.

43. The more knowledge that is gained—usually through the shared experience of others—the more difficult it is to live according to traditions originating in the innocence of a time past. In the new, urban society, for example, it becomes nearly impossible to have two people who can fulfill each other completely. Each tends to expand in different directions and at different speeds. Thus, satellite relationships become more prevalent in the more urban environment.

44. Refusing to accept the knowledge received leads to a distortion of the tradition—not a return to innocence. We call this warping the innocence. In the present case, it leads to a possessionist posture. One’s claim on another person becomes a property right, reducing the other’s perceived humanity or self-worth.

45. Accepting the knowledge and its implications grants freedom and individuality to each of the partners. But it does not mean that one would not occasionally yearn for that lost age of innocence, just as we, millennia separate from it, still yearn for paradise.

46. The Transient Conscious. Another paradox is that the Conscious, while separate from the physical, is inseparable from it. One cannot exist without the other. Yet, the Conscious is not limited by the physical. The physical is the chosen expression of the Conscious.

47. It is therefore possible that a single physical entity might be the joint expression of more than one Conscious. Perhaps revealed in the psychological expression of schizophrenia.

48. It is equally possible—the Conscious not being bound by physical limitations of time and space—for a single Conscious to express itself in more than one physical. Hence, the phenomenon of a person being able to see glimpses of past and even future lifetimes. And, it could certainly not be considered beyond the realm of possibility to live simultaneous lifetimes. Thus, a derivative of our earlier recitation of physical law (8): It is possible to be in two places at the same time.

49. Language is an encumbrance to communication. Perhaps one should say not language, but words. The mind does not think in separate words, but, like our earlier networks, in relationships of connections or, figuratively speaking, in pictures. Since we have only one method of input for our thought patterns—sensual perception—our words are defined only by our experience.

50. Our words communicate with another person only when our experience base is the same or quite similar.

Editor’s Note: The concept of simultaneous lifetimes (48) finally made it into one of Devon Layne’s novels in 2017 when he published Yelloweye: an Erotic Paranormal Romance Western Adventure.

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51. True and accurate communication can exist in only two circumstances: a) The experiences and networks of the communicators are identical, or b) one or more of the communicators is able to directly impress their sensual perceptions into the mind of the other(s).

52. Shared intimacy at this level is the greatest personal risk an individual can take.

53. The reason we cannot reverse the effect of fire (31) and turn energy (heat and light) back into wood, is that not only would one need the same amount of energy, but the same energy.