The Mummery Book
As Sacred Theater

True art is a participatory process. Mind, heart, body, and breath must, as a single whole, voluntarily yield to be possessed by Beauty—Beauty in all her myriad guises, from the grotesque to the sublime. Truth may be intuited directly, thereby—unmediated by thought or mere desire.

Adi Da Samraj has likened The Mummery Book to a seashell waiting to be found on a beach:

The
Herein
Parable
I
Made
and
Speak
Is,
In
Form
or
Shape,
Like
a
creatureless
Sea-Shell—
an
Incorporeal
Mirrored
Curve,
or
Watery
Palindrome.
As
Such
a
Spiralled
Thing,
It
Is
As
If
a
Vaporous
Helix
of
the
Light
and
Shape
of
Form
Beyond
Is
Left,
by
Me,
for
you
to
Find
and
Keep,
in
your,
forever,
wanderment,
along
the
endless
driftwood-beach
of
life
and
mind.

Adi Da Samraj invites us to learn the secrets hidden in this seashell, by bringing it to our listening ear:

To
Understand
This
Sudden,
Lighted
Parable
of
Mine,
Hold
Me
to
your
little
ear
of
heart,
with
love.
And
Listen
to
Me,
Resounding
there.
And
Look,
within
your
private
room,
behind
the
eyes,
for
Me
to
Play
My
Play,
and
Parable,
Divine—
of
True-Heart's
here-Upon
Descending
Fire
and
Un-caused
Light
of
Truth.

The true enactment of The Mummery Book takes place in an extraordinary theatre. That extraordinary theatre is the theatre of your own mind—not just the thinking mind, but mind in its coincidence with all of reality, internal and external.

The enactment you watch before your eyes is merely a support to what Adi Da Samraj has described as "a performance-assisted subjective process". You are, therefore, directly invited to participate most intensely in the enactment of The Mummery Book by allowing the players in the physical theatre to simultaneously play in the "little room" behind your eyes. In doing so, the physical theatre itself may be regarded as the inner room of mind projected externally, in order that its contents may be felt and seen and known for what they are.

But what is the nature of this play? After all, a "mummery" is a "hypocritical, or pretentious ceremony or performance".

With the help of the players, or "mummers", that will appear and play during this enactment, you may find the narratives and archetypes that ceaselessly churn beneath the surface of waking awareness gradually, or even suddenly, rising to conscious view. When hidden from view, these depth levels—which are not merely personal, but universal in nature—bind us to the unconscious mummery of an uninspected life. Brought to light, these binding archetypes may potentially be understood and transcended in the direct intuition of prior freedom.

Apart from the narrator himself, the two principal players in The Mummery Book are Raymond Darling and his beloved, Quandra. Raymond and Quandra epitomize the primal principles of male and female, which in ultimate terms reflect the apparent divorce of subject from object, of Consciousness from Its own Radiance, or Light. Thus, the "Parable Of The Divine True Love" referred to in the subtitle of The Mummery Book is the story of their Divine True Love realized to the degree of perfect Oneness—the Indivisible Conscious Light that is Reality Itself.

The Divine True Love Is He-and-She—
A Raymond Is In A Quandra,
and She Is He—
The Only True Love-Story,
Always and Already.

The Divine Love-Bliss Of He-and-She
Is One,
not two.
And It Is Only Me—
The Only Person Of The Heart-of-hearts,
Divine and Bright and True—
That has Told This,
My own Love-Story,
in the feeling-heart of you.