personal jesus

2011-11-01T18:02:00.000-07:00

When they gathered together and were perplexed about the underlying reality of the universe and the plan, and the holy providence, and the power of the authorities, and about everything the Savior is doing with them in the secret of the holy plan, the Savior appeared - not in his previous form, but in the invisible spirit. And his likeness resembles a great angel of light. But his resemblance I must not describe. No mortal flesh could endure it, but only pure, perfect flesh, like that which he taught us about on the mountain called "Of the Olives" in Galilee.

Imaculada. Concepção.

2008-12-14T07:57:00.000-08:00

ouvi o teu cheiro no silêncio, numa catedral de medo quente, profanada pelo sangue que os mortos santificam. respirei os últimos suspiros da tua sinfonia, o teu amor rasgou-me os dedos, nessa noite solarenga as pregas do teu ventre sugavam aves , bandos de homens, as tuas raízes perfuravam camadas infinitas de livros e fogueiras. nadei-te sombra, beijaste-me os joelhos, antes dos alfabetos. sou aquele que não desiste de nascer de novo.
um dia, acabada de forjar a armadura de vitrais, levarei palavras em aquários para dar de beber ao teu útero violentado pela métrica dos impérios.
quando me render ao intervalo dos séculos que o meu corpo abriu.

Ma...

comeste um deus do deserto
com a boca do corpo?

"Sim. Mas a versão oficial é que Ele era alado e dócil como uma pomba, e me regou a língua com agua-ardente, quando me escolheu e violou"

E a versão verdadeira?

"desceu sobre mim do céu e da terra ao mesmo tempo como uma língua de fogo que me incendiou o espírito e transbordou o corpo. comeu-me de tal maneira divina
que a minha entrega rendida
restabeleceu nesse instante o poder da fêmea ancestral"

geraste um messias, um homem, concebido sem te teres manchado, sem a mancha de sangue, imaculada, o que quer dizer que já não eras virgem.

"a versão oficial é de que imaculada ficou a alma, Não deixei mancha nas ervas sim,
mas sobretudo falam de alma imaculada porque eu Era numa rapariga inocente, e o deus também estava inocente. o projecto não era gerar mais uma criatura, era gerar um salvador de criaturas"

e a versão verdadeira?

"se algum significado para além dos rebanhos de cabras e ovelhas que os patriarcas possuem existe na virgindade para os donos das mulheres, posso-te dizer que foi a partir desse dia que fiquei Virgem .

A foda da tua vida, portanto?

"Não, não foi a foda da minha vida, nem sequer a foda do século, nem mesmo a foda do milénio. Foi uma foda eterna.
Ainda hoje e sempre me venho, e choro, sem fim."

o que aconteceu?

"torturaram e mataram o meu filho, coroaram-me rainha de criaturas que não existem e de territórios etéreos fora de alcance, quiseram reproduzir-me em construções de pedra, e encenam dentro do símbolo de mim mesma sua mãe o seu suplício e tortura. diariamente. bebem o seu sangue e comem o seu corpo, num ritual grotesco que lhes promete a vida eterna.
foi o plano que arranjaram para anular a libertação das criaturas planeada pelo deus do deserto contra o império."

...

"e tu? sabes que poderias ser queimado em praça publica por me fazeres essas perguntas."

sim, eu sei. estou a arder por dentro à muito tempo.

Em 754, o imperador Constantino V
estipulou o culto obrigatório
de Maria
e proibiu a entrada
ao céu
de todo aquele
"que não reconheça
que a eterna e sagrada Virgem
é sincera e justamente a mãe de Deus,
superior a qualquer criatura visível ou invisível
e que com sincera fé não busque sua interseção
como alguém que confia em seu acesso a Deus".

São Anselmo
de Canterbury
(1033-1109)
descreveu a Maria com as mesmas palavras
com as que havia definido
a uma Deusa
da natureza *

"poderás ser excomungado e acusado de heresia e blasfémia..."

No domínio ecclesiástico não. Não pertenço à Igreja, nunca fui baptizado. Faço o caminho da floresta, sou uma "creature of the wind".

No domínio secular, existem atenuantes... o meu advogado poderá argumentar que sou um poeta possesso...em delírio... não poderão condenar-me a mais do que um tratamento re-educativo pelos ortopedistas do pensamento.

________________________________________________________

* http://www.rosanevolpatto.trd.br/deusamaria.html

देवीमाहात्म्यम ("Glory of the Goddess") [versão 0.05]

2008-08-27T12:28:00.000-07:00

* The quest romance of male sex is a war between identity and annihilation. An erection is a hope for objectivity, for power to act as a free agent. But at the climax of his success, woman is pulling the male back to her bosom, drinking and quelling his energy...Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
The operations of sex are convulsive, from intercourse through menstruation and childbirth: tension and distention, spasm, contraction, expulsion, relief. The body is wrenched in serpentine swelling and sloughing. Sex is not the pleasure principle but the Dionysian bondage of pleasure-pain. So much is a matter of overcoming resistance, in the body or the beloved, that rape will always be a danger. Male sex is a repetition-compulsion: whatever a man writes in the commentary of his phallic projections must be rewritten again and again. Sexual man is the magician sawing the lady in half, yet the serpent head and tail always live and rejoin. Projection is a male curse: forever to need something or someone to make oneself complete. This is one of the sources of art and the secret of its historical domination by males. The artist is the closest man has come to imitating woman's superb self-containment.

3- Artemis de Ephesus

Everything is melting in nature. We think we see objects but out eyes are slow and partial. Nature is blooming and withering in long puffy respirations, rising and falling in oceanic wave-motion. A mind that opened itself fully to nature without sentimental preconception would be glutted by nature's coarse materialism, its relentless superfluity...See nature spuming and frothing, its mad spermatic bubbles endlessly spilling out and smashing in that inhuman round of waste, rot and carnage... This is the chthonian black magic with which we are infected as sexual beings; this is the daemonic identity that Christianity so inadequately defines as original sin and thinks it can cleanse of us . Procreative woman is the most troublesome obstacle to Christianity's claim to catholicity, testified by its wishful doctrines of Immaculate Conception and Virgin Birth. The procreativeness of chthonian nature is an obstacle to all of western metaphysics and to each man in his quest for identity against his mother. Nature is the seething excess of being.

The most effective weapon against the flux of nature is art.

* in "Sexual Personae", Camille Paglia

2- Mary 13 May

The Devi Mahatmya (Sanskrit: devīmāhātmyam, देवीमाहात्म्यम्, "Glory of the Goddess") is the first religious text to define the Supreme Reality (God) as a female principle. It is a synthesis of the then prevailing local Mother goddess cults of Aryan and non-Aryan origin. The three episodes of the text may be considered allegories of outer and inner experience. In it the Goddess is Shakti, power itself, beyond the patriarchal relegation of consorting with any eclipsing male deity or patriarchal construct. Here, for the first time, "the various mythic, cultic and theological elements relating to diverse female divinities were brought together in what has been called the 'crystallization of the Goddess tradition."

The entire text is considered one mantra.

Durga, also called Divine Mother, protects mankind from evil and misery by destroying evil forces such as selfishness, jealousy, prejudice, hatred, anger, and ego. The worship of Goddess Durga is very popular among Hindus. She is also called by many other names, such as Parvati, Bhavani, and Kali In the form of Parvati, She is known as the divine spouse of Lord Shiva and is the mother of Her two sons, Ganesha and Karttikeya.

Vós que recebestes de Deus o poder e a missão de esmagar a cabeça de Satanás, humildemente Vos rogamos que envieis as Legiões Celestes para que às Vossas ordens persigam e combatam os demónios por toda a parte, refreando a sua audácia e precipitando-os no abismo. Ó Bondosa e Carinhosa Mãe, Vós sereis sempre o nosso amor e a nossa esperança.

Senhor Deus, nós Vos suplicamos que concedais aos vossos servos perpétua saúde de alma e de corpo; e que, pela gloriosa intercessão da bem-aventurada sempre Virgem Maria, sejamos livres da presente tristeza e gozemos da eterna alegria. Por Cristo Nosso Senhor.

As transcendent, she is the heavenly queen who descends from time to time to maintain harmony on earth. [...] In her role as cosmic queen, warrior goddess, and demon slayer, [...]

Lendo, no contexto do Devi-mahatmya acima e abaixo citado, o excerto de uma carta da irmã Lúcia a falar sobre António Salazar (imagem acima), aquilo que concluo é, mais uma vez, desconfiemos sempre da transcendência e das formas de harmonia na terra transcendentemente"ditadas". Não existe, fora do discurso e dos sonhos, tal coisa como a transcendente Virgem Santíssima que desce dos céus; existe a terra e as suas criaturas e a sua creatividade; imanência.

[...] As immanent in the world Durga is equated with the earth.
she is the world, she is all this.As the earth itself she conveys cosmic stability [...] She is the foundation of all creatures and that which nourishes all creatures [...] she provides the world with food from her own body.

http://sai_maa.tripod.com/Mata/jaimatadi-2.htm

A Virgem Shanti não existe fora do mundo dos mitos criado pelo discurso humano. E o "poder" apropria-se do discurso pela posse dos meios amplificadores da propaganda.

(aproveita-se esta ocasião para celebrar a visita de Diamanda Galàs a Lisboa no passado dia 1o de Maio, na aula Magna. Foto entre os santos pastorinhos)

http://www.diamandagalas.com/guilty_guilty_guilty.htm

1- Durga Mata

The Devi-mahatmya makes a point at several places to say that she is the world, she is all this. As the earth itself she conveys cosmic stability. She is the foundation of all creatures and that which nourishes all creatures. As the embodiment of the earth she supports, protects, and mothers all beings. As Sakambhan she provides the world with food from her own body. In her role as cosmic queen, warrior goddess, and demon slayer, Durga in effect protects herself in her aspect as the-earth itself.

As immanent in the world Durga is equated with the earth.

As transcendent, she is the heavenly queen who descends from time to time to maintain harmony on earth.

http://sai_maa.tripod.com/Mata/jaimatadi-2.htm

The Devi Mahatmya (Sanskrit: devīmāhātmyam, देवीमाहात्म्यम्, "Glory of the Goddess") is the first religious text to define the Supreme Reality (God) as a female principle. The text is a compilation and synthesis of far older myths and legends, skillfully integrated into a single narrative.

The entire text is considered one mantra.

Devi Mahatmya (DM) is based on the Samkhya philosophy.

It is a synthesis of the then prevailing local Mother goddess cults of Aryan and non-Aryan origin.

The three episodes of the text may be considered allegories of outer and inner experience.

Written sometime around the sixth centuryAD in Sanskrit it tells of the Goddess's various mythologicalexploits. To this day it is used in the worship of the Goddessand is greatly revered by her devotees.

Her most important roleis to protect the world from demons and she does so from timeto time by assuming various forms. The author of the DM, thatis, has clearly modeled the Goddess in important ways on certainmale gods of the Hindu pantheon.

The Goddess's character, or "personality," however, is distinctiveand centers around her most popular epithets Ambik and Candik.The former name emphasizes her motherly qualities and the lateremphasizes her fierce qualities.

The Goddess as the fierce motherexpresses a coincidence of opposites.

This aspect of her character,it is argued, expresses the ambiguities inherent in human existenceitself.

The Goddess expresses both the Hindu emphasis upon thewarm, nurturing nature of existence (the world of dharma andthe abundance of prakrti) and the emphasis on the ephemeral,limited, painful aspects of the phenomenal world.

http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/XLVI/4/489

Domingo das línguas de fogo

2008-05-11T12:24:00.000-07:00

Feast of the Coronation of the Emperor of the Holy Spirit

This description of a unique Portuguese feast, related to the Order of Christ, seems to me to be resonant of ancient mysteries and inner workings. The description was extracted and condensed by a friend from "Do Imperio do Espirito Santo ao Imperio da Filosofia" by Antonio Quadros, pp 326 - 339, in Memorias das Origens, Saudades do Futuro:

It is a "unique" Feast created by the Portuguese, for Portuguese citizens only or those of Portuguese speaking countries or communities, to experience as a Pentecostal act.

Probably dates back to the early 14th century by way of Dom Dinis, Isabel his Queen, the Franciscans of the Convent of Alenquer (note: Queen Isabel purportedly had a prophetic dream in which she saw the plans for the (future) Church of the Holy Spirit in Alenquer and immediately sent word to the "judges" of that town and ordered them to send four masons and six workers to begin construction of the foundations on that site...), intimately tied to the Order of Christ who took it on its voyages of discovery and settlement to Madeira, the Azores and elsewhere. The Feast is however circumscribed to those places where Portuguese is spoken, in Brazil, in the Azorean immigrant communities in the USA, and here and there in (continental) Portugal, namely Penedo and Tomar. It is strongest however on all the islands of the Azores where it has deep roots.

The feast joins the sacred and the profane in a grassroots and spontaneous fashion, and to which, in older times, royalty, the aristocracy and the knights also joined in a display of universal brotherhood...

...the symbolic tongues of fire of the Divine Paraclete, all bear witness to a grand universal project...

What this feast does on an annual basis is to ritualize the prophecy of the future Empire of the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of Truth, which is called ruah by the Jews; pneuma by the Greeks and spiritus by the Latins...

The Feast of the Coronation of the Emperor of the Holy Spirit symbolizes also another prophecy: not only peace on earth and good will among men, but also the reconciliation among the three great religions of the Book, perhaps among all the religions of the world through the means of the symbolism of the hovering dove, the tongues of fire and the Spirit of Truth...

http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/espirito.html

Pós-Revolução-Spirit (ou um regalo de dia na Regaleira) [versão 0.02]

2008-04-27T12:17:00.001-07:00

Man is tethered Spirit is Free

Man gets tired Spirit don’t

Man surrenders Spirit won’t

Man seems Spirit is

Man crawls Spirit flies

Man dreams The spirit lives

What spirit Is man can be

What spirit Is
The man can be

Now we tread the fresh fields,
the higher ground and the summer slopes that man may someday climb on.
We are in the swing.
Chandelier-like dancing and we feel everything.
High on the wine of life.

Untethered and free.

What spirit is man can be

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Texto: "Spirit (extended version)"; Waterboys.
Imagens: Quinta da regaleira e praia das maçãs
por 0.03
e por Luis Pereira (2ª foto) http://www.pbase.com/lmrp/quinta_da_regaleira

Happy Easter

2008-03-22T12:37:00.001-07:00

These many professing Christians suppose they are gathering together on Easter to commemorate the anniversary of the precise moment Jesus Christ rose from the dead!

They believe they are celebrating the resurrection.

Easter: The English term, according to the Van. Bede, relates to Eostre, a Teutonic goddess of the rising light of day and spring, which deity, however, is otherwise unknown.... "That the apostolic fathers do not mention it and that we first hear of it principally through the controversy of the Quartodecimans are purely accidental" (The Catholic Encyclopedia, article "Easter," emphasis added).

"Easter: The annual festival observed throughout Christendom in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The name Easter (Ger. Ostern), like the names of the days of the week, is a survival from the old Teutonic mythology[and] is derived from Eostre, or Ostara, the Anglo Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the month answering to our April, and called the 'Eostur-monath,' was dedicated. This month, Bede says, was the same as the Mensis Paschalis [which meant "Passover" month], 'when the old festival was observed with the gladness of a new solemnity.'

"There is no indication of the observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the writings of the apostolic fathers.

"The first Christians continued to observe the Jewish festivals, though in a new spirit, as commemorations of events which those festivals had foreshadowed. Thus the Passover, with a new conception added to it of Christ as the true paschal lamb and the firstfruits from the dead, continued to be observed, and became the 'Christian Easter'" (The Encyclopedia Britannica, eleventh edition, emphasis added).

http://godkind.org/easter.html

uma orientação espiritual completamente nova

2008-02-12T13:09:00.000-08:00

O Cristo e A Rosa do Coração A preparação e o começo do processo de renascimento do homem celeste exige um princípio religioso, uma orientação espiritual completamente nova. Quem procura o sentido da vida já não deve considerar Cristo como uma personalidade histórica ou um embaixador sublime de algum lugar exterior no mundo material. Tal pessoa tem que reconhecer Cristo como uma força desde toda a eternidade e experimentá-la como um ser ilimitado, presente em todas as partes e em todo o tempo.
A Obra, a cruz, que os Hierofantes da Luz e seus servidores realizaram, realizam e realizarão por amor à humanidade desde o início dos tempos, é transformada em Cristo em uma cruz com Rosas, símbolo da libertação do encadeamento à nossa ordem natural. Por ele, esta Força, este Campo de Força de Cristo, não é um conceito abstracto, mas sim uma realidade concreta, perceptível e compreensível para todos.

Assim como nossa Terra possui um campo de radiação que alimenta e guia o homem terrestre, que está submetido à dualidade, também a Terra Original, possui um campo de radiação, o campo de radiação de Cristo.

Cristo, essa Força Crística é a animadora dessa Terra santa. Este campo rodeia e impregna o campo de vida terrestre, mantém-no perpetuamente em movimento com uma única meta: impulsionar a corrente de vida humana à ressurreição do homem verdadeiro, o Homem Alma-Espírito. Fazendo com que o ser humano colabore e desenvolva a sua Rosado Coração.

http://www.rosacruzaurea.org/por/finalidad.htm

"A humanidade ingressou numa era de inquietação e revolução de âmbito mundial. Começaram a vacilar os antiquíssimos princípios; começaram a mudar as normas e os conceitos que, até agora, regeram o ordem social, em muitos setores a sociedade humana chegou a um estado de crise. Torna-se cada vez mais visível, para todos, que a humanidade perdeu a noção da finalidade da sua vida. Parte da humanidade ainda nutre uma pretensa noção, mas não reconhece que se trata apenas de um eco moribundo da Sabedoria original."

in "O Caminho da Rosacruz nos dias atuais", lectorium rosicrucianum.

Domingo das línguas de fogo

2007-11-13T08:18:00.001-08:00

Feast of the Coronation of the Emperor of the Holy Spirit

It is a "unique" Feast created by the Portuguese, for Portuguese citizens only or those of Portuguese speaking countries or communities, to experience as a Pentecostal act.

...the symbolic tongues of fire of the Divine Paraclete, all bear witness to a grand universal project...

http://www.thornr.demon.co.uk/kchrist/espirito.html

"Não o esqueçamos neste altura do nosso livro: era o projecto político da sinarquia templária, herdada pela Ordem de Cristo, o Império (do Espírito Santo) acima dos Reinos e dos vários Cultos de origem bíblica monoteísta e até dos pagãos.
Mas tal projecto só seria verdadeiramente viável através de uma teoria laicista, qual a preconizada por um Dante, que, sob o domínio carismático de um Imperador directamente ungido e coroado por Deus-Espírito, pudesse esbater o poder radicalista das ortodoxias religiosas. Se todo o domínio espiritual fosse destas, o diálogo tornar-se-ia impossível devido ao rigorismo teológico dos eclesiásticos.
Mas se, mesmo com o predomínio religioso do Cristianismo, o acento recaísse sobre o Espírito Santo, sobre a Terceira Pessoa, sobre o Quinto Evangelho ou sobre o Evangelho Eterno, quiçá fosse possível aceder à concepção de um

Deus
Homem de outro Deus maior

, no verso de Pessoa, de um Deus-Espírito no qual coubessem o Deus trinitário do Cristianismo e ainda Jeová e Alah, e mesmo o Deus Desconhecido ou aqueles Deuses únicos e recônditos cujo Mistério subjaz a todos os Politeísmos.
Como aboná-lo?
Talvez começando por recordar a tolerância religiosa vigente em terra portuguesa até que a Contra-Reforma entre nós penetrasse ; a liberdade de que gozaram islamitas e judeus...

in "Portugal, Razão e Mistério", por António Quadros, volume II, página 154

Christ in the House of His Parents. Sir John Everett Millais

2007-11-05T09:26:00.000-08:00

Sketches for Christ in the House of His Parents. Sir John Everett Millais

Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting the Holy Family in Saint Joseph's carpentry workshop. The painting was extremely controversial when first exhibited, prompting many negative reviews, most notably one written by Charles Dickens. It catapulted the previously obscure Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to notoriety and was a major contributor to the debate about Realism in the arts.

The painting was immensely controversial when first exhibited because of its realistic depiction of a carpentry workshop, especially the dirt and detritus on the floor. This was in dramatic contrast to the familiar portrayal of Jesus, his family and his apostles, in costumes reminiscent of Roman togas. Charles Dickens accused Millais of portraying Mary as an alcoholic who looks

“

...so hideous in her ugliness that ... she would stand out from the rest of the company as a Monster, in the vilest cabaret in France, or the lowest gin-shop in England.

”

Jesus was a "wry-necked boy in a nightgown who seems to have received a poke playing in an adjacent gutter."^[3] Other critics suggested that the characters displayed signs of rickets and other disease associated with slum conditions. Because of the controversy Queen Victoria asked for the painting to be taken to Buckingham palace so that she could view it in private.

Do You Want the Baptism With Fire?

2007-11-03T18:02:00.000-07:00

Do You Want the Baptism With Fire? Are you sure you know what it is?

Question:

"What is the "baptism of fire"?"

Answer:

The "baptism of fire" is only mentioned in two places in the Bible:

"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." (Matthew 3:11)
"John answered them all, "I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire."" (Luke 3:16)

John the Baptist said that Jesus will baptize people with the Holy Spirit and with fire, and there are several interpretations of what this might mean:

Some people believe that Christians will automatically be "baptized with fire" at the same time that they are baptized with the Holy Spirit (such as the "tongues of fire" that came onto the disciples at Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4). In other words, being baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire is essentially one act (one baptism).
Another interpretation is that Christians need to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit after salvation, but we also need to receive a separate "baptism of fire" which will "set us on fire" for the Lord (or for evangelism, etc.). In other words, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of fire are two separate baptisms for Christians. A similar view says that Christians will be refined by "fire," which would also mean that the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the baptism of fire are two separate baptisms for Christians.
A third interpretation is that Christians will be baptized with the Holy Spirit, but non-Christians will be "baptized with fire" (i.e. the "lake of fire" in Revelation 20:15). In other words, Christians will never receive the "baptism of fire."

http://www.layhands.com/WhatIsTheBaptismOfFire.htm

Todos os Santos (All Saints)

2007-11-01T18:24:00.001-07:00

The Sunday following Pentecost is dedicated to All Saints, both those who are known to us, and those who are known only to God. There have been saints at all times, and they have come from every corner of the earth. They were Apostles, Martyrs, Prophets, Hierarchs, Monastics, and Righteous, yet all were perfected by the same Holy Spirit.
St Peter of Damascus, in his "Fourth Stage of Contemplation," mentions five categories of saints: Apostles, Martyrs, Prophets, Hierarchs, and Monastic Saints (PHILOKALIA [in English] Vol. 3, p.131). He is actually quoting from the OCTOECHOS, Tone 2 for Saturday Matins, kathisma after the first stichology.

St Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain (July 14) adds the Righteous to St Peter's five categories. The list of StNicodemus is found in his book THE FOURTEEN EPISTLES OF ST PAUL (Venice, 1819, p. 384) in his discussion of I Corinthians 12:28.

The hymnology for the feast of All Saints also lists six categories: "Rejoice, assembly of the Apostles, Prophets of the Lord, loyal choirs of the Martyrs, divine Hierarchs, Monastic Fathers, and the Righteous…."

Some of the saints are described as Confessors, a category which does not appear in the above lists. Since they are similar in spirit to the martyrs, they are regarded as belonging to the category of Martyrs. They were not put to death as the Martyrs were, but they boldly confessed Christ and came close to being executed for their faith. St Maximus the Confessor (January 21) is such a saint.

http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSM=6&FSD=3

2007-11-01T18:24:00.000-07:00

The Be(a)st Of Both Worlds

2007-10-27T18:33:00.000-07:00

"You can love god, you can love the planet, you can love the human race, and you can love all things. But the best way for human beings to show love is to love one another. It's the way we spread love throughout the universe."

"This book is about sex. Sex is not Love. Love is not sex. But the best of both worlds is created when they come together"

2007-10-26T19:09:00.000-07:00

Aquele que nunca pecou atire a primeira pedra

variantes da grande Deusa Mãe da Ásia

2007-10-10T10:12:00.000-07:00

Na origem destas reminiscências situar-se-iam o culto e o mito da Afrodite Mylitta, nome pelo qual os Gregos designavam a Ishtar assírio-babilónica, a Astarte anatólica, a Afrodite de Ascalão - todas as variantes da grande Deusa Mãe da Ásia, em que se vêm concretizar tendências ao mesmo tempo uranianas, ctónicas, às vezes amazónicas; o mito de Ônfale, rainha da Lídia e amante de Hércules, não passaria da versão helenizada da hierogamia da grande deusa com o seu princípio masculino, Belos-Herakles, deus solar. As relações de Ônfale com Hércules, sujeito à rainha pela volúpia, seriam apenas uma figura da subordinação do deus, princípio fecundante, à grande deusa que representa por sí só a soberania e o poderio criativo divinos...a característica fundamental do culto desta deusa é justamente esse de exigir a prostituição das virgens nos seus santuários e o "sacrifício da castidade" das matronas. Quando o "patriarcado" triunfou defenitivamente com a Roma republicana e as Doze Tábuas, antes de encontrar a sua expressão suprema no principado imperial, o mito asiático de Vénus, mãe da raça dos Iules, continuava ainda a obcecar os espíritos, de tal modo que...

(P. Klossowski, in Origens Cultuais e Míticas de um Certo Comportamento das Damas Romanas)

PANTOKRATOR

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PANTOKRATOR

PANTOKRATOR

The primary transference of the title "Pantokrator" to refer to Christ rather than the Creator was a result of the Christological shift that occurred during the fourth century, reflected through iconography; Christ Pantocrator and has come to suggest Christ as a mild but stern, all-powerful judge of humanity.
Paul uses Pantokrator once (2 Cor. 6:18). Aside from that one occurrence, the author of the Book of Revelation is the only New Testament author to use the word Pantokrator. The author of Revelation uses the word nine times

Rev 1:7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

Rev 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Perante o silêncio internacional

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Em 1950, quando Mao pede à China para dar o "grande salto em frente", o Exército de Libertação Chinês ocupa Lassa, a capital do Tibete. Perante o silêncio internacional, os chineses iniciaram um "programa" de dizimação da cultura e sociedade tibetanas, sob o pretexto de ajudar os tibetanos a regressarem à pátria-mãe chinesa e de os libertar do "jugo do feudalismo".

A destruição da cultura do Tibete e a opressão do seu povo foi brutal nos anos seguintes ao levantamento nacional resultando na morte de 1.2 milhões de Tibetanos, ou seja, um quinto da população. Muitos outros foram presos ou deslocados para campos de trabalho. Foi levado a cabo um processo de destruição de mais de 6000 mosteiros, templos e outros edifícios históricos.

Com o início dos confrontos armados em 1959, o Dalai-Lama foi obrigado a deixar o seu país e exilar-se na Índia, em Dharmsala. Actualmente Dharmsala é a sede do governo tibetano no exílio que, liderado pelo Dalai-Lama, se dedica à causa da libertação do Tibete, através da não-violência . Juntamente com seis milhões de Tibetanos espera que a comunidade internacional reaja à situação do seu país.

http://www.casadaculturadotibete.org/estatutotibete.html

A convite de várias instituições, nomeadamente a Casa da Cultura do Tibete, a Fundação Kangyur Rinpoche, a União Budista Portuguesa, a Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa e a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Sua Santidade o XIV Dalai Lama visitará Portugal pela segunda vez.

Prémio Nobel da Paz, autor de vários best-sellers a nível mundial e referência incontornável do séc. XX e XXI para muitos milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo; defensor incansável dos direitos e dos valores humanos fundamentais, bem como do equilíbrio ecológico; promotor entusiasta do diálogo inter-cultural e inter-religioso; promotor do diálogo entre a espiritualidade budista e a investigação científica de vanguarda, nomeadamente no domínio das ciências da mente; chefe espiritual e temporal da nação tibetana em exílio; mestre espiritual, filósofo e erudito budista, cujo ensinamento é seguido por milhões de seres humanos, budistas e não budistas.

http://www.uniaobudista.pt/actividades.php?show=budismo&activ=118

Personal Jesus

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