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By Jack Joseph Smith

Religion THE BELIEF that SPACE and time Confuse MATTER; this is the theory that does not believe in God As A point, A PLACE it is the oppisite, that MATTER is first, before SPACE and time, which gives AN, irredes- CENT Argument, AT where perception dies, or stays to Live Again, as object,

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This handwritten page defines religion through an argument about belief, matter, space, time, God, and perception's chance to die or live again as object.

The emphatic capitalization and inserted words make the page read like urgent philosophical notation. Its force comes from leaving a metaphysical claim visibly unsettled on the page.

Claude

'Religion' is a handwritten metaphysical note that reads like urgent notation, its emphatic capitals doing the arguing. It poses two cosmologies: 'THE BELIEF that / SPACE and time / Confuse MATTER;' is named 'the theory that / does not believe in God', while 'As A point, A PLACE it is the / oppisite, that MATTER is / first, before SPACE and / time'. The word 'irredes- / CENT', written small at the right end of a line and continued below, breaks across the margin, so the layout enacts the shimmer of the claim. The page ends unresolved at the threshold of consciousness: 'AT where perception / dies, or stays to / Live Again, as object,'. The source spellings 'oppisite' and 'irredes- / CENT' are preserved as written.