The early Christian and Gnostic and Roman world tended
to think in dualistic terms - good vs evil; the spirit vs lust,
the evil material world, vs the invisible spiritual world.
The Greeks were more pantheistic; they thought
more in terms of unity and the goodness of all things.
Lust was not a problem in the thinking
of the Greeks.
(A) Without lust we would not exist. Sex is the
source of our being.
(B) Desire is the powerful enemy of the soul.
These two statements (A and B) express the paradox
of love, the difficulty of making any final judgements
about this subject.
It is in the obsession with lust that the difficulty
resides. If you see and pursue only the sweetness
of the fire, you are living in one of the hells.
But it is a pleasant hell. It must be one of the
upper hells, until you see your bones dissolve within
you with ageing.
When this starts to happen,perhaps it's best
to focus on the heritage of light, to take a step
out of impermanence, and build your
spiritual residence in the eternal.
NOTE: IS THIS A REPEAT FROM ABOVE?? WK
(Note: pantheism vs dualism))
The fire, which is the lust in our loins
which is unconsciousness, which
will lead us to a deep, dark and narrow
place...if we continue in it's grasp.
to those who
partake of the light, --are borne in the light ---
to these the fires are purifying and not
ultimately destructive...
Those whose Identity partakes of the Father,
those who are born in the Chrism of the Christ,
are not cast into a dark and narrow place
where shadows torment the souls...
The early Christian and Roman world y thought
to think in dualistic terms. The Greeks thought more in terms of
unity of the world the goodness of all things in the Universe,
including desire.
(a) Without lust we would not exist. Sex is the
source of our being.
(b) Desire is the powerful enemy of the soul.
These two statements express the paradox
of love.
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I went to a dinner at a rich relation's house. There were a number of people sitting around a dining table in a smallish room - (14 men , 10 women, all lavishly dressed)
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I went to a dinner at a rich relation's house. There were a number of people sitting around a dining table in a smallish room - (14 men , 10 women, all lavishly dressed)
It was at that moment, as I entered, that I thought this: " I can kill them all with my bare hands, teeth and nails and fingers."
There was a lot of meaningless polite patter, and I hated it - especially with the luxurious surroundings...
It was then that I began to question my own true nature.
It was then that I began to question my own true nature.
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