TRINPsite: 'Include the Neutral Name' (Model poem)

INTRODUCTION

[TO RECORDER]

INCLUDE THE NEUTRAL NAME

Let the name of the supreme not be invokèd^*,
but let the name of the supreme be included:
NANANAN^**.
NANANA· NA·· NA··· NA···· NAN^{*** |****}

Let the name of the all-neutral not be invokèd^*,
but let the name of the all-neutral be included:
NANANAN^**.
NANANA· NA·· NA··· NA···· NAN^***.

Vinsent Nandi

*	the grave indicates that the e may be pronounced unstressed \|a\| (schwa) or \|i\| for poetical reasons, provided that the last vowel of included is pronounced in the same way
**	pronounced ideally, in theory, \|nahNAHNahn\| (actually, in practice, \|nah-NAH·n·ahn\| or \|na-NAH·n·an\|); with stress on the central syllable; may be deleted if the poem is sung
***	this is the chant proper
****	the first three lines and the first reading or singing of the chant may be deleted

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The so-called 'prose poem' appearing in the Book of Symbols, at the end of chapter 5 (Denominational Observances), in the 41st year after the Second World War, was simply named Neutralist Chant. Eleven years later it was renamed Include the Neutral Name. Here the poem or song as found in the Model can be both read and heard.

In chorus the Neutral Name is the same song sung by an imaginary quire —a normistic 'choir'— in this case of three persons. To hear it click the speaker (for a page-external player) or the arrowed button (for the page-internal player) below:

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The neutralistic chant proper has been 'symmetrized', that is, turned into a piece of symmetrical music. To hear this composition click the speaker or button below:

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