Approaching Apokalypsis Teleiosis
The prophetic poem Apokalypsis Teleiosis contemplates the culmination of divine purpose—the moment when revelation reaches its fulfillment and silence follows.
The poem unfolds in five movements, each drawing the reader deeper into a journey from divine articulation to fulfillment. Its use of Greek and biblical language is not ornamental but intentional—forming a theological vocabulary that bridges scripture and philosophy. The capitalization of words like Word, Breath, Fire, and Light serves as a kind of “visual theology,” intensifying as the poem progresses toward unity.
This is not a vision of divine ending or abandonment, but of ineffable transformation—a passage into that which exceeds our categories of presence and absence alike. Rather than following familiar apocalyptic themes of sovereignty, judgment, or renewal, this vision moves beyond such categories entirely. The divine is not framed in terms of rule or absence but as a transformation beyond presence and absence alike. It does not end in proclamation but in ordained silence—the stillness that remains when all has been spoken.
This final movement invites contemplation rather than conclusion. The closing line, “In Light beyond light, all is whole,” is not an answer but an opening—a gesture toward the mystery that lies beyond both prophecy and language itself.
The author notes, accessible after the poem by clicking on the button, provides more information about the structure and specifics of the poem.
Apokalypsis Teleiosis (A Vision of Fulfillment)
Γέγοναν. ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὦ, ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ τέλος.
(It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.) — Revelation 21:6
I. Logos Tetelestai (The Word Fulfilled)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God,
And all arose from His breath—
Light from void, form from welter deep.
The Breath that shaped Adam from dust
Now settles silent in the wind.
Not lost, nor cast aside in ruin,
But drawn unto the end ordained.
No faltering step, no shadowed doubt—
All Will is met, all Purpose whole.
II. Epistrophe (The Return)
The Fire that set the stars in course
Fades not, but meets its destined Rest.
The Name that called the dawn to rise—
El Shaddai, Elohim, I AM—
Now slips beyond the grasp of time.
Not in despair, nor weary sigh,
Not in surrender, nor retreat,
But in the fullness of the Path,
As ocean answers to the shore.
III. Gnosis (Divine Knowledge)
I AM Alpha and Omega, the Spark, the Ember’s end,
The Shadow stretched across the arc.
I AM the Hand that formed the hand,
The Dust that walks, the Flame that thinks.
From Me to Me, from seed to bloom,
From silence into vaster still.
Not lost, not less, but all complete—
The Die returns unto the Forge.
IV. Eschaton Kairos (The Fulfillment of Time)
Now breathless waits the sacred Sky,
Now sound itself resigns to hush.
No temple stands, no altar burns,
For worship folds into the Vast.
The Voice that thundered from the mountain,
That split the sea and called the dead,
Lies hushed within the closing Dawn.
No fear, no cry, no wrath, no woe—
Only the quiet after all.
V. Epekeina (Beyond)
Here fulfills the prophet’s final sight,
For where He goes, none else may gaze.
Not death, nor night, nor vanquished might,
But passing into more than Being.
A hush beyond the thought of man,
A stillness more than endless void.
The First has met the final Dawn—
The circle breaks, the mirror fades,
Purpose achieved in Perfect Light.
(In Light beyond light, all is whole…)
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