Month: October 2014
ROVING REPORTER RANTS – VANITY, CELEBRATION AND PRAYER
I was reading one of the Bible translations early this morning as I was just getting up… before coffee. I looked in the book of Ecclesiastes and I saw the phrase, as translated, “Everything is meaningless”
The translation I’m used to is: “Everything is vanity.”
‘Vanity’, however, has a connotation that the word, ‘meaningless’ does not have. Vanity is best translated as
’emptiness.’
I like the word ‘emptiness’ not just because it has a
Buddhist resonance.
“Meaningless’ suggests a search for meaning has taken place.
‘Emptiness’ suggests an attempt at self aggrandizement
has taken place and failed. All attempts to puff up the ego result in ‘emptiness’. This is a lesson people of our kind have to
learn again and again… learn painfully this lesson many
times.
Power and Grace and fertility rest only in
the mind of the Creating One, the One who rides the clouds, the Lord of the meeting rivers, the Lord of Abraham, of Isaac, the Lord of Israel and New Jerusalem (a city rarely built in the physical world) Lord of Albion and of the Semites, Lord of the gentiles, Vishnu of the Hindu, suchness of the Buddhists, Allah of the Sufis, Lord of all creation: he who makes galaxies instantaneous with making quantum foam – sub atomic particles and waves that we never dreamed of in past centuries.
As above, so below. As within, so without; as internal so external, male and female as one. The Eye at the core of the burning, unfolding crucible of creation, all glory to Him, the source and the Seed of Life. With the heart of Christ who intercedes for us, who purifies and forgives us with unending Mercy.
The One who cannot be named, the one with many names,
the I AM at the timeless point in the midst of time.
The Mind at the core of things. The source of all that is holy,
the bell that rings on the hill, throughout the ages,
calling men to meditation and prayer.
(C)2014 by W.G. Milne
ZION DREAM: MAGDALENE AND APHRODITE
ZION DREAM: MAGDALENE AND APHRODITE
I believe in spiritual love
the love of the one
whom we keep denying…
denying the existence
of the One whom we
embody
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I believe in sexual love
the cruelties and the
mercy of the Goddess
Aphrodite
*
I am not sure which is higher
spiritual or
sexual love
and I don’t care which
is higher
*
She has taken
every part of me
cock and balls
soul and heart
*
I have given you
all my songs
*
I am left standing
on the shore of the beautiful
River Lethe
watching the shades
race past
*
chasing
the corruptible?
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I have nothing more to say
about higher or
lower love…
there is divinity
at every turn
*
blindly in the dark
I feel my way
towards you
*
feeling towards
the light in
your embrace
*
moving blindly
i feel my way
in darkness
*
guided by
the warmth of
your smile
within.
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II II:II
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thru us
the mind of the
creating One
arises
within us
*
as we learn to laugh
and dance
with the stars
*
twirl and dance
the stars reside
within us
*
rubies are hanging
from the trees.
*
(C)2014 by W.G.Milne
