Our True Self is Love.
Christ’s Sermon
the Magna Carta
of Love’s Reign:
where Love rains
we are soaked
and the False Self washes away.
Early on
women preached and prophesied Love
in Church!
And Augustine marinated in
Manichean theosophy
Italian scepticism
Neo-Platonic mysticism
until he discovered Love
and conversion.
But when Patriarchs
settled the Canon
of Scripture
and blew everyone away
including Gospels of
Thomas, Magdalene and Philip
the nonviolent Reign of Love
in Jesus and Paul
subverted into Apocalypse
in Revelation –
the rain of blood
up to horses’ saddles.
Things devolved further
until Meister Eckhart
preached Love
to tormented and bewildered
Peasants.
Following the Crucified
brooks no romanticizing Love
always a hard workout
Salvation won non-violently
in fear and trembling.
Now salvation of humans
and salvation of nature
inextricably bind each other
and we know
matter flows
the reign of lava
evolving, self-transcending
into higher and higher
consciousness
until God reaches down
or emerges up
into infused contemplation
called by Ignatius of Loyola
“consolation without previous cause” –
a gift we neither cause nor deserve
of God’s all-embracing
Presence.
In Pure Land Buddhism
monks invoke Buddha
till Enlightenment:
the Realization
Pure Land is in us.
But even internal Pure Lands
flow impermanently
unlike the Rain of Love.
Eternal God:
not ever-lasting but
ever-Present
“I Am”
NOW
without time.
As Wittgenstein wrote:
“Eternal life belongs
to those who live in the
Present.”
Eternal Life is NOW
life in permanent Love of
Presence.
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