The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity is a book of 66 prose poems written by American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac, first published in 1960 by Corinth Books, New York City. The book is Kerouac’s sutra on Buddhist philosophy, in which he describes a "Golden Eternity" that is paradoxically everything and nothing.^[1]

The 66 prose poems or "meditations" deal mainly with the nature of consciousness and the impermanence of existence. The main influence is

upbringing and influences, evident in this work and others.

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