The Flame Series
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| The Flame Series by S.O.B.S. |
🔥 The Flame Series 🔥
Welcome, cosmic traveler. Here’s the S.O.B.S. scroll on burning, creating, and letting go. Pick a spark:
🔥 Part 1 — The Fire of the True Artist
“A true artist has to be willing to destroy what he’s created.”
Rick Masters said it with a match in hand, a canvas going up in smoke in To Live and Die in L.A. But it’s more than movie magic. True creation is as much about what you let go of as what you keep.
- The Burn: Masters burns his work—not because it’s bad, but because it no longer serves him. Yesterday’s vision doesn’t belong in today’s flow.
- The Zen Angle: Monks build mandalas over days, only to sweep them away. Beauty is impermanent, life is movement.
- The Stoic Lesson: Marcus Aurelius: “All that you see will soon perish; those who witness its perishing will perish too.”
- Creative Truth: Picasso, Bacon, and countless others destroyed works to keep evolving.
High Thought: True artists—and anyone awake—must sometimes destroy their work. Strip the old shell, and let your next vibe come through unfiltered.
Stoner Proverb Scroll: “A joint burns to ash, but the fire rolls on.”
🔥 Part 2 — The Cosmic Bonfire
The principle of burning your own work isn’t just human—it’s cosmic. If even God obliterates worlds, what does that say about the art of letting go?
- Divine Destruction: Floods, Babel, Sodom. Not punishment—reset. Creation is alive, not static.
- Stoic Tie-in: Marcus Aurelius: “All things are in a process of change. You yourself are subject to continuous transformation.”
- Job Reminder: “The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.”
- The Cosmic Studio: Universes as canvases, ages as sketches. Some kept, some burned. Destruction completes creation.
High Thought: If God is willing to destroy His creations, why fear burning yours? Creation without destruction is only half the story.
Stoner Proverb Scroll: “God rolls galaxies like joints—sparks them up, lets them burn, and then makes another.”
🔥 Hendrix: The Guitar Sacrifice — The Flame Interlude
If human and cosmic artists burn their work, what about legends? Enter: Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop, 1967.
- The Ritual: Hendrix soaked his Stratocaster in lighter fluid, ignited it, kneeled reverently, smashed it, and tossed the charred fragments to the crowd. Not chaos—ritual.
- The Quote: “I decided to destroy my guitar at the end of a song as a sacrifice. You sacrifice things you love. I love my guitar.”
- The Meaning: Destruction became creation; sacrifice became legend.
- Cosmic Echo: Even God burns realms. Hendrix burns a guitar. Letting go sparks the eternal.
High Thought: You may have to torch your best work—not out of spite, but as homage to tomorrow’s flame.
Stoner Proverb Scroll: “He didn’t just burn the guitar. He set a match to his past, and watched his legend rise from the smoke.”
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