Testament One: The Search for Divinity >>>>> Book One: Genesis II

She looked out upon the Unfathomable Depth and Eternal Expanse and discerned that she was an infant in Time stretching back before the 13.8 billion-year Bang; the 4.5 billion-year production of Earth, her Mother;  and beheld her own Birth less than a quarter of a million years prior to the times of the Great Tribulation.  She looked at him and discerned that he would cause much trouble, for which he would make her bear the blame in the Great Struggle that would ensue before the Great Victory and the Divine Epiphany.

                                                             

She had no option but to endure him, he who in his abundance of ego and crude physicality strove to diminish her for his fear of her Potential Magnificence.  She did endure throughout all time until the Great Tribulation induced the Lucid Evaluation.  She had felt so degraded that she devised unhealthy ways of coping, accepting humiliations devised by him and evolving her own.  Thus did she paint her face, force her body into uncomfortable raiment, and totter forth variously on bound feet and those little stilts, those spike-heeled abominations, thus accepting the crippling of Soul and Body that he had thrust upon her, in which she was duped for two hundred thousand years.

 

But Eternity bestows Time that never ends and provides that temporal space for observation, reflection, and the drama of Existence that led to the Great Tribulation.  She awoke one day and discerned what life could be.  For the first time she imagined the Value of Life beyond marital incarceration and familial formulations that abetted and prolonged her agony, promoted and exalted that degradation of life that humanity perceived at 2020.

 

She took control.

 

She washed her face.

 

She cast aside those little stilts.

 

She tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Move over little brother, until some of your number attain my age:  I will lead.”

 

Thus did she abet the aversion of Impending Disaster that threatened humanity at 2020.  Her Divine Epiphany rescued humanity from extinction and made possible full enjoyment of Eternity, the Cosmos and Earth that would remain whether humanity endured or not.

 

But humanity endured.

 

The victory was her accomplishment, which when he was ready she generously shared with him.

 

Thus did Female and Male unite and did the wheeled engine of their interaction produce Life that had always been possible.  Birds, flowers, rivers, lakes, oceans, skies, clouds, stars, planets, all the world in its botanical and zoological splendor of a sudden became apparent;  with all the world wondering what had taken so long.

 

What, indeed, had taken so long for the Divine Epiphany, the Grand Realization of the Divine Gift of Life?

 

In Time the question would matter a great deal and yet matter not at all, because the Supreme Internalization engendered

 

Life As It Could Always Have Been

 

and

 

All That Life Would Thenceforth Be.

 

She looked fully into the Divine and saw that It was Very Good.

Book Two: Exodus II

On the day of the Divine Epiphany, She saw everything anew.

 

In her Gaze of Enlightenment, interstate highways disappeared, the edifices of commerce receded, fast food conveyors conveyed no more, smokestack factories were factored out, and the multiple tawdry halls of self-medication vanished.

 

She drilled a hole into the multiple chimeras of that which had seemed, and some still thought, real, scarcely believing that She had once however scornfully deemed these to have reality.  These things now appeared as illusion, maya, distraction from Existence, and yet they were there, reminding her of how crude the society with Him at the helm had been:  children abused by priests;  women raped by spouses;  laborers herded into soul-dulling factories, mines, fields where they picked but got no fruit;  destitute folk begging pittances on street corners;  the materially rich but vagabond souls pouring into gala hallways, gawdy stores, gated residential prisons desperately hiding from what they had created and from answers to questions they were afraid to ask.  

 

Her vision became more acute the longer she peered into the degradation before her.  She saw mothers drowning daughters in rivers;  fathers leaving vehicles with sons sealed in solar death;  wives killing husbands, husbands murdering wives, mutual eliminations on pathways to suicide;  humanity killing humanity while spouting all names Holy, acting with hate when the Directors had commanded, “Love!”

 

Then the chimeras vanished.  The illusions were no more.  She saw Humanity as It Could Be.  She made a Covenant with the Good and envisioned a journey Home through a Sea of Hope.

 

She felt unprecedented Power well up within Her.  She was without fear.  She beheld Life in fullness of beauty, clarity of air, purity of stream, fragrance of flower, magnificence of beast, majesty of mountain.  Once drained, the detritus of centuries gave way to what Female and Male had created that was worthy as Nature’s siblings:  visual art, music, poetry, drama, dance.

 

She briefly beheld a counter-vision in which babies would sail the River to Destruction unless she acted immediately.

 

Fully bolstered by Divine Epiphany, having seen with clarity Life as it Could Be, She confronted Life as It Had Been and forcefully declared:

 

“You must let my people go.”

 

Book Three: LND II >>>>> The Divine Law of Human Values

Divested of His Toxic Psychic Control and having led Her people in an Exodus from the Bonds of Human Degradation, She felt great waves of tension escape her body and her soul.

 

Free now to create Life as It Should Be, She summoned the Divine Clarity that She felt within Her, suffused as She was with Unmasked Truth, and spoke thusly to Her people:

 

1     >>>>>     Understand that Love is the essence of the Divine.

 

2     >>>>>     Think Lovingly.

 

3     >>>>>      Speak Lovingly.

 

4     >>>>>      Act Lovingly.

 

5     >>>>>      Work Lovingly.

 

6     >>>>>      Strive Lovingly.

 

7     >>>>>      Concentrate on Love.

 

8     >>>>>      Meditate and pray with Love.

 

9     >>>>>      Unite all faiths in Love.               

 

10   >>>>>      Heal all carnal and spiritual wounds with Love.

 

She then spoke thusly to her people:

 

“You must examine all that you once thought was true.  You must oppose all that has been Toxic.  Manifest anger when you must.  Recoil not from confrontation.  Be forceful in battle with the Guardians of Toxicity.  Convert these when you can, defeat them when you must, let them know unequivocally that they must unite with the Good or be gone.

 

Walk

 

with Courage.

 

with Love,

 

toward the Land of Promise,

 

the Realm of the Good.”

Book Four: J-E History II

Clear now as to Her Values, She searched for Divinity in history, poetry, and prophesy.

 

Peering through the Tunnel of History, Female saw the story told by Male, that tale in which domination guided action, thought, and the contents of the story as told by him.  She endured the litany of judges, kings, and rivals;  she noted that even queens collapsed in the mire of corruption and amidst the snares set by him.  Life as seen by Male consisted of incessant warfare, territorial acquisition and loss, the constant striving to separate one people from another, the quest for power for the sake of power, the desire to subdue the Other, whether on the battlefield on in the harem.  Female knew that much of history had been grim and that most of the events conveyed by Male were either factually or thematically true.  But he had dominated the recording:  So much had gone untold.

 

She spilled out of the Tunnel of History onto the broader Plain of the Past.  There she gained the perspective of a wider field of vision.  She came to understand that the nature of the search and the quality of deeds exhibited by Male were grounded in something very important.  Male wanted meaning:  why he was Here and where he was heading in Eternity.  He wanted security:  perceived opponents loomed, presumed enemies abounded, others in the land seemed to be competing for what he wanted and seeking to take what he had.  And he ached to know the course of Creation, the nature of the Source, the path to deep connectedness with the Divine.

 

Moving farther from the Tunnel of History, roaming farther and wider on the Plain of the Past, Female discerned that Male’s search had been profound but that his pathways had been errant, his conclusions mundane, his actions destructive.  Female felt the poignancy of Male’s boastfulness, his pride, his quest for power, his desire to dominate.  She knew that all of these had arisen from Fear, the Enemy that he projected onto his fellows, life, her.          

 

Her sojourn led next to the Path of Eternity:

Nature, Music, and Art motioned her ahead to a  Land that promised meaning, security, connectedness.  Poets and Prophets led her forward through Echoes of the Past and Promise of the Future.  She discerned the Echoes, comprehended the Promise, and took abundant joy in what this meant for Male and Female in connection with the Divine.  

Book Five: P-S Poetry II

Clear now as to Her Values and with Deep Insight into History, she felt the Passion of Poetry pressing forth as she called out to the Divine  >>>>>

 

I Discern now that

You are

as

You are,

and

Life is

as

It is.

 

I shall never need to

doubt

again,

though I remain

full of

Wonder.

Life:

full of

Misery,

full of

Joy,

Evanescent

and yet

Eternal,

I

and each one of

Us

Inextricably Connected

to

Each Other,

to

You,

to events

Sorrowful

and

Felicitous,

One

and the

Same.

 

No longer need I

Question

where

You

are in my times of

Tribulation.

No longer shall I feel

Your Presence

only in my

victories,

successes,

and the

triumphs

of those

who have been

dearest

to me.

For

You

Abide,

and

I

Live:

That is all I need to

Know.

 

I

Comprehend

now that

I,

by which I mean

We,

Live Fully

When we pursue

Knowledge

and spend our

Time

with maximal

Sincerity,

Efficiency,

applying then what we

Know

to our

Best Lived Lives

of

Wisdom,

Compassion,

guided always,

above all,

by

Love.

 

Thus,

in the

Depths of My Sorrow,

in the

Ebullience of My Joy,

I henceforward shall

Know

that for everything

there is a

Propitious,

Divinely Bestowed,

Season.

 

How blessed

am

I,

Female

of your

Creation,

to receive from you

this impetus to gain

Knowledge,

this

Opportunity

to

Live

with

Wisdom,

and to impart this to

Male,

My

Brother,

Friend,

Lover,

for in our

Perfected Union,

Divine Love,

we are

Microcosm,

Macrocosm,

You,

the

Divine.

Book Six: Prophecy II

Clear now as to Her Values, with Deep Insight into History, and with the Passion of Poetry having hastened Her on the Road to Divinity, She sought Divinity in Prophecy and became Prophet:

 

She peered into the Core of Past Life, finding the pervasiveness of Immorality, Grief, Tribulation, Destruction.  Though personally incorrupt, She felt sullied by association.  All around Her She saw people worshiping idle idols, putative power, glamorized gluttony.  She observed the oppressiveness of the material, the insubstantial moorings on the Ship of Things, the elevation of the self over the good of the fellow. 

 

Her anger welled. 

 

Her frustration bellowed. 

 

And in that raging ire, She envisioned most momentous scenes: 

 

Beasts raged,  Goats bleated, Rams butted, locusts swarmed, crops failed, forests blazed.  Humanity---painted, tainted, infested, tested---  fell from the plains into the Lion’s Lair and beneath the sea into the Fish’s Bloated Belly.

 

She arrived at the Core of the Present and saw the same: 

 

Mentally deranged beggars gestured on street corners, people deformed by history found no solace in the present, babies lay untended, cocaine killed souls, opioids obliterated bodies, alcohol deluded spirits, priests molested boys, families abused girls, men oppressed women, religion attacked religion, humanity murdered humanity, ignorance abounded, and everywhere the absence of Meaning took toll. 

 

Then of a sudden She turned and directed the Radiance of Redemption toward Souls in Exile, indicating the way to Life as Life Should and Will Be.

 

She spoke forcefully, reminding them:

 

Recall The Divine Law of Human Values for Life as It Should Be:

 

1     >>>>>     Understand that Love is the essence of the Divine.

 

2     >>>>>     Think Lovingly.

 

3     >>>>>      Speak Lovingly.

 

4     >>>>>      Act Lovingly.

 

5     >>>>>      Work Lovingly.

 

6     >>>>>      Strive Lovingly.

 

7     >>>>>      Concentrate on Love.

 

8     >>>>>      Meditate and pray with Love.

 

9     >>>>>      Unite all faiths in Love.               

 

10   >>>>>      Heal all carnal and spiritual wounds with Love.

 

She then spoke thusly to her people:

 

“You must examine all that you once thought was true.  You must oppose all that has been Toxic.  Manifest anger when you must.  Recoil not from confrontation.  Be forceful in battle with the Guardians of Toxicity.  Convert these when you can, defeat them when you must, let them know unequivocally that they must unite with the Good or be gone.”

 

Life as It Should Be will henceforth be Life as It Will Be.

 

You are delivered from Exile of the Soul and according to this Divine Law of Human Values shall your Spirit be redeemed.

 

Thus shall you walk

 

with Courage,

 

with Love,

 

toward the Land of Promise,

 

the Realm of the Good,”

 

the Land Led by Woman,

 

with Love

for all

Humankind.

 

We are

 

Microcosm,

 

Macrocosm,

 

You,

the

 

Divine.