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Transcendence is defined as passing beyond illusion while leaving reality intact.

The line is aphoristic and clean, and its force comes from that precision. It refuses any spiritual language that escapes the real world, making transcendence a clarified relation to reality rather than a retreat from it.

Typed on Music Distributing Company letterhead under the title 'Magical Margin', the page holds one line: 'Trancendence is going beyond illusion; not reality,'.

The aphorism distinguishes two kinds of beyond: real transcendence leaves illusion behind but does not flee the actual world. The title's margin suggests that the magic lies at the narrow edge where illusion ends and reality begins, and the trailing comma leaves the definition open, as if more could follow.