Fear and Love.

                                         

It has been said that there are only two things in the world: Fear and Love.

Whatever is not Love is Fear.

Anger and violence and evil are Fear.

Fear flourishes in the darkness.

But the Light that comes from God dispels the darkness and our fear dissolves like a dream.

And the Light is all about Love.

Life, Light, and Love.

God gives us Life.

He shares His Light with us.

And He gives us His Love.

Love God and love your neighbor.

Love even your enemies.

And God will be with you.


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Achilles.

Hail Achilles!

Summoned by Fate

To Die in Glory

By Paris' Arrow.

Slain in Battle

For Helen's Fame.

Fixed in Memory

His Immortal Name!


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Patroclus.

Ancient Warrior.

Immortal Beloved.

Legendary Lover.

Faithful Friend.

True unto Death.

Mourned and Honored.

In Memory Lives!


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Living Sculpture!

Your body

Is rounded

In beautiful

Symmetry.

Your features

Evoke

The God-Kings

Of Egypt.

Your bearing

Demands

Our deep

Admiration.

Like some

Radiant Vision

Of Living

Sculpture!


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Secret.

It's a secret.


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Gay King.

In the shadow of

Agamemnon

He brings out

His Love.


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The Dove.

There may be

Evil

In our world

But

There is also

The Dove.


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The Great Leap Forward.

                                     

What the Age of Aquarius will bring is a great leap forward in our thinking.

And this has already begun.

No longer will we be subject to negative ways of thinking which do not correspond to the reality.

Religious concepts like: Original Sin, Virgin Birth, Penal Substitution, Bodily Resurrection, Redemption through the Blood of Christ etc. are no longer acceptable to an educated public.

Still to come are transcendent ideas about God:

God is beyond our human concepts of sin and evil.

God is beyond our dualistic thinking.

God is panentheistic and immanent - i.e. God is everything and more and God is in everything and everything is in God.

There will be no devil, no hell, no judgement.

We will be free!


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Finding Favor.

Finding favor with God is not being favored in the sense of preferential treatment.

Finding favor with God is being nearer to His Nature and His Will.

It is being close to God.

The Bible says that certain people found favor with God.

One of these was Job.

And Job certainly did not come in for preferential treatment.

There are certain individuals who from time to time find favor with God.

And these are people who have a certain mission to fulfill.

But it does not indicate prosperity or good fortune.

It may, in fact, result in the opposite from a worldly perspective.

Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, J.F.K., Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin.....

All of these were assassinated.

Because they challenged the Status Quo of our world.

Jesus said that the way of the world was evil.

So, far from being God's Will, God challenges the way of the world: the worship of money, the culture of privilege, the persecution of minorities, the oppression of the poor.....

God is on the side of the weak, the poor, the marginalized, the alien.....

So cry out to God!

He will hear.


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Sex Crime.

For the love of Big Brother.


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Hidden.

And all hidden things will be revealed.


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Light.

A light in the darkness.


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Evil.

They love the darkness for their deeds are evil.


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God's Nature.

                            

"To love is to know me,
My innermost nature....."
        - Bhagavad-Gita.

Love God and love your neighbor.

Give love to those around you.

For God is Love.


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Greek Kings.

Gay Men

In the Castro

Inherit

The Hearts of

Greek Kings!


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Bring Him Home.

Bless him.

Turn him from evil.

Open his heart.

Bring him Home.


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The Waters of Aquarius.

"Then afterwards
I will pour out my spirit on all flesh;
your sons and daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions."
Joel 2:28 (NRSV)

"let justice roll down like waters,
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
Amos 5:24 (NRSV)


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Write-Off.

                            

God does not hold us accountable for our mistakes.

He writes off our debts.

How many parables did Jesus tell of the master writing off debts?

How many times did he say: "'Your sins are forgiven.'"  Matthew 9:5 (NRSV)

It is inevitable that we will make mistakes

We cannot know everything from birth.

So it is really just a matter of degree.

Jesus said: "'Those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick."'  Matthew 9:12 (NRSV)

"For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.'"  Matthew 9:13 (NRSV)

He also said that he who is forgiven more will love more.


[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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Left.

                            

By associating anything left-wing or liberal with the devil the right-wing political forces not only ensured a political victory but they claimed a moral one as well.

But this is simply not true.

It may be an unconscious association with left spiritually which has always associated the left hand with the devil.

But this is merely superstition.

So beware of anything which tries to label liberalism as the devil.

It is a scapegoat and a delusion.

And it is simply not true.


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Fear.

                            

Violence, greed, and evil are caused by fear.

Those who grew up in insecure economic times sell out their principles in order to gain financial security.

And they never feel as if they have enough.

So they hoard and accumulate and they rationalize their privileges.

They ignore the poor and blame them for their own poverty.

They may resort to violence.

They may even turn to evil and Satan to get what they want.

But fear is at the root of it.

Faith is too risky.

And idealism is for fools.

So if you want to change the world you must look to people's fears.


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Infinite Love.

                            

Love is the only thing that actually increases the more you give it away.

Once we find our soul - the divine spark within our hearts - we reconnect with the source of love.

Our soul is the part of us that loves.

And once we learn to give love we find that the source of love is infinite.

So open your heart and give love to others.

And your life will be transformed.

Jesus said to love God and love your neighbor.

Do this and you will be Home at last.


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Make Love.

                            

Rather than being passive channels of God's Love we should learn to use our own hearts.

In this way we will fulfill Jesus' commandment to love and increase the love in the world.

So open your heart and give love to those around you.

Make love.

And live!


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Transformation.

                            

God's Love

transforms

all the bad things

into

good things.


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Fear and Love.

                            

There are only two things in the world:

Fear and Love.


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Civilization.

                             

An archaeologist who was convinced that war was the stimulus for civilization set out to study ancient cities.

What he discovered, however, was that it was not war that was the nursemaid of civilization but trade.

We could learn a lot from this today.

It is not war that will bring prosperity.

But peace.


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Love.

                            

God is Love.

The Egyptian Wisdom of the Heart is love.

The greatest yoga is the yoga of love.

Buddha's Way of the Heart is love.

Jesus' commandment was to love.

Islam is to be lost in love.

The heart of all the world's religions is love.

Because God is Love.


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Light.

                            

Let there be light.

Ra is the sun god.

Krishna is the god of light.

Buddha is the enlightened one.

Jesus is the light of the world.

Light is a chapter of the Koran.

All the world's religions revere light.

Because Light comes from God.


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Life.

                            

God is the creator of all life.

Ankh is the life-force.

Vishnu is the preserver of life.

The Bodhi tree is the tree of life.

Jesus is the bread of life.

The Koran says God has power over life.

All the world's religions associate life with God.

Because Life comes from God.


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The Bridegroom.

The wedding day!

He prepares himself

With meticulous care.

The pure white suit

Is his to wear.

The long, slow wait

Through suffering great

Delivers him

Through Heaven's Gate

To the Banquet Hall

Where all's prepared

To live in bliss

His soul laid bare!


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Lifequake!

                                       

Instead of the Satanic association of sexual orgasm with death I suggest that we refer to the pleasure of orgasm as a Lifequake!

Sex is an expression of life itself.

We experience a surge of life through our body and a climax of love for our partner.

Sex leads to life not death.

And the experience of sexual orgasm makes us feel fully alive.

So a Lifequake is an appropriate term for sexual orgasm.
                                                                                   

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Looking for Love.

Bless him.

Touch his heart.

Find his beloved.

Consecrate his love.

Bring him home.


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