The Chronicles of the Sky-Veil: Chapter VI
The Eternal and the Temporal
The Chronicles of the Sky-Veil is a mythopoetic journey through the silence between worlds.
In The Chronicles of the Sky-Veil, the nameless man on the Journey Across the Sky-Veil writes his journal in the empty book given to him mysteriously in a satchel while sleeping. He reveals his thoughts as the Journey unfolds. In The Chronicles, the reader discovers the man’s hidden thoughts and the remembrances transforming him from a wanderer to an heir of the Majestic Highlands.
This is not sentimentality or mere imagination. It is not theology or philosophy. It is the story of the nameless man’s remembrance-in-the-world—told in myth, rooted in mystery. His is a journey from the Grey-Beneath to the Highlands of Majesty, through rose and flame, shield and crown.
From the Nameless Man’s Chronicles of the Sky-Veil1
The mortal mind could not grasp the eternal through the Sky-Veil unless the eternal first drew near, creating pathways of understanding within the temporal realm. The Sky-Veil itself embodied this subtle threshold, shimmering with reflections of an infinite world beyond.
There were two ways the eternal touched the temporal—through symbolic reflection or through decisive moments that rippled across existence. In the Sky-Veil cosmology, both pathways intertwined in luminous unity. The earthly realm of queenship and royal splendor, as embodied by Hera, was never merely itself. Rather, Hera was a symbolic mirror reflecting the timeless majesty dwelling beyond the Veil.
Aphrodite, bearer of divine beauty and liminal harmony, guided mortals through her gentle presence, offering symbolic glimpses into the eternal realms. In her softness and subtlety, Aphrodite drew my heart toward realities my mind alone could not grasp, crafting pathways of intuitive knowing through analogical experience.
Athena, flame-bearer of wisdom and discernment, heralded momentous events—moments charged with eternal significance that resound within the mortal sphere. Through Athena’s guiding gleam, I witnessed events whose meaning reverberated far beyond immediate comprehension. Her wisdom bridged the seen and unseen, making the eternal perceptible through powerful moments of symbolic import.
Together, these heralds enacted the alethic dance of the Sky-Veil. Their presence provided an intellectual vision, an intuitive recognition of the eternal manifested within the temporal. Through their glimmering lights, what was eternally present2 became near;3 the unseen became seen, the forgotten became remembered.4
Such was the nature of their alethic language of nearness—crafted to veil the sacred from the casual gaze yet reveal profound pathways of the saints to those whose hearts sought sincerely and whose minds were prepared to receive wisdom. It was through the gentle but purposeful heraldry of Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera that the timeless manifested within the temporal, guiding me toward resonances of Being.5
The journey through the Sky-Veil was thus marked by alethic discovery, the movement from symbolic reflection to lived experience. Each step taken in the heralds' guidance deepened my understanding, transforming the weight of grandeur in the eternal realm into the revelation of nearness in the temporal. Through their shimmering lights, the eternal Kingdom beyond the Veil became vividly present.
Enjoy “Athena's Everlasting Stride (Canticle)” from my album Mythic Canticles, available on my music site.
Lyrics ©Walter Emerson Adams. Music and vocals by Suno ©Walter Emerson Adams.
Athena strides past chariots of flame Across the ages, time unfolds the same Her wisdom often finds a home to dwell A higher nature guides Athena well She vanishes and reappears unveiled Yet known in mystery by tales she’s hailed The vestiges of all Athena grants Her voice and song float high aloft as chants Athena steps by rivers winding swift Her mind perceives the waters bring a gift Her legacy unfolds by striding at the brink Athena knows where wisdom seeks its drink The waters which Athena stoops to sip Derive above the high Olympus tip She shares her wisdom from the river’s source Reflecting light by night to steer the course
✦ Sky-Veil - The threshold of Being in this mythopoetic cosmology, representing the veil between the mundane, flat world of day-to-day existence and the enchanting retrieval of Being—between symbol and meaning, longing and fulfillment. The Sky-Veil refers to this as moving from “forgetfulness” (flat world) to “remembrance” (enchantment gleaming around the divine we have always known but forgotten). It is across the Sky-Veil that hypostatic heralds of Being—embodied symbolically by the goddesses—shimmer, and through which the soul journeys in mythic wonder toward divine encounter. Saints dwell beyond the veil in the Highlands of Majesty and the contemplative Grove Beyond; the goddesses, as “hypostatic emergences” foreshadowing divine virtues, herald through the liminal “space” in the world we encounter.
✦ Presence - Not a thing, but the shining nearness of what is.
In the Sky-Veil, Presence is not a metaphysical entity or spirit, but the felt nearness of Being—the shimmer where the world reveals its depth and substance. It is the touch of Being in its most radiant clarity, not as a being among beings, but as the grounding that makes beings present at all—Being.
Presence is the weight of meaning in a moment, the sudden stillness where the world no longer hides. It is not summoned; it arrives. It does not explain; it reveals. The goddesses of the Veil are not presences themselves, but heralds through whom Presence shines.
To encounter Presence is to stand in the clearing where the veil lifts and what-is steps near.
✦ Nearness - Not spatial proximity but a mode of disclosure—the drawing-near of Being itself in moments of unveiled significance. It conveys a presence that is not fully present, a proximity that is not measurable, but rather experienced in the heart’s intuition and the soul’s readiness.
In Heideggerian terms, nearness belongs to the mystery of Being’s self-showing (aletheia). It is the threshold where the veil stirs but does not part, where the divine does not arrive as an object but becomes luminously felt. Nearness is not what we possess but what approaches us, like the breeze that carries meaning without language. It is the quiet shimmer before revelation—the silent resonance that moves before the Word.
In the Sky-Veil, nearness is the air the wanderer breathes when the heralds pass by, the fragrance of the rose before it is seen, the warmth of the flame before it is touched. It is the grace of Being brushing against the soul, unseizing, ungraspable, yet unmistakably there.
✦ Remember/Remembrance - To remember is not to recall facts or events, but to stand again in the nearness of what is.
In the Sky-Veil, Remembrance is not the retrieval of memories from a personal or collective unconscious. Rather, it is the unconcealing of what has always been—the letting-be of Being—in the manner of Heidegger’s Ereignis, or the event of disclosure. To remember is to dwell where Being has touched us and where the meaning of one’s path begins to shine through the fog of exile.
The wanderers of the Dark Forest or Grey-Beneath do not lack recall; they lack remembrance of what is near. And when a herald shines, it is not a call to novelty or “hidden” knowledge, but to recognize presence. One does not learn the meaning of the Sky-Veil; one remembers it. That is to say, one stands again in the unveiling light of what was always there, waiting.
Remembrance, in the Sky-Veil, is a step beyond the calculative, syllogistic metaphysical and into the poetic, where the world is no longer a stockpile of objects to be measured and explained but a revealed place of meaning.
✦ Resonances of Being - Subtle unveilings of presence that shimmer across the landscape of experience—traceless traces of the nearness of Being. These are not figures of imagination or fragments of archetypal consciousness, but events of nearness, moments in which the hidden truth of one’s life quietly resounds through presence.