Up until I was about six years old, every Sunday morning was spent in a glass-encased room at St. Bernard’s one holy Roman Catholic Church, in Levittown, Long Island. The glass-encased room was called, and literally was, the Cry Room. Growing up with television, it was natural for me to stand up close against the soundproof glass and watch the show on the other side. Every so often, I’d hear the priest’s voice filter through the loudspeaker above my head. But it was all Latin to me: and back then, it really was!
I see myself now, just as I was then, surrounded by squirming kids and uptight adults, engulfed by the sounds of crying and whining, and I truly believed that was church. Once my younger brothers had grown, I got to be in the main room and the show lost its mystery to me, for the Latin had been changed to English and quickly became routine.
When I was 9, in 1963, two life altering events occurred. By Thanksgiving that year, I was overfilled with images of JFK being shot and John-John during that motorcade. He was just a little guy in a short coat with his knees exposed who saluted as his father’s casket rode by and many of America’s other children also bid goodbye to childhood.
In the summer of ’66, it was reported that John Lennon made a comment to a friend and reporter that the Beatles were more popular with my generation than Jesus was. I agreed with him, for my friends and I knew every lyric to every Beatles song, but nobody ever quoted Jesus.
Lennon made me think about my own hypocrisy, and that led me to drop the institutional church. In the month of July on a Saturday afternoon, immediately after the ritual of weekly confession; I knelt at the altar and mindlessly repeated the same old prayers as the week prior. But on that particular day in '66, in the middle of the three Our Fathers and ten Hail Mary's, it hit me like a light. Those words that I uttered never changed anything, and I got up and walked out, convinced I was doomed for hell, for I had failed at Confession!
I never doubted there was a God, but as John said and I believed, “that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong…Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.”
Lennon said and sang, “You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate …All we are saying is give peace a chance…All you need is love…Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one...Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
“Imagination is evidence of the Divine.”-William Blake
IMAGINE: God is LOVE + God is WISDOM
WISDOM 7:22-8:1:
In Wisdom is a spirit intelligent, holy, unique.
Manifold, subtle, agile, clear, unstained, certain.
Not baneful, but loving the good,
Keen, unhampered, beneficent, kind,
Firm, secure, all-powerful, all-seeing
And pervading all spirits.
Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion and SHE penetrates and pervades all things by reason
SHE is the aura of the might of God and a pure effusion of the glory of The Almighty
SHE is the refulgence of eternal Light, a spotless mirror of the power of God
And SHE who is one, can do all things and renews everything
And passing into holy souls from age to age,
SHE produces friends of God and prophets.
*Wisdom has built her house and SHE calls to all; "Come, eat my food and drink my wine and you will live abundant life and walk in the ways of understanding." [*Proverbs 9: 4-6]
Wisdom calls; "I have built it; will you come? Do you have eyes to see and ears to hear?
Holy Wisdom, the Feminine Divinity: Hokema,
Who was with The Word from the very beginning,
She is One with Him and He with Her;
Pure Being; One God;
One Creator; One Lover of All the Human Family...
Let me tell a little story to illuminate you, if you haven't heard the one about the Rabbi Hillel,
Who lived 100 years before Christ walked the earth
Rabbi Hillel knew that the Hebrew understanding of Hokema;
Holy Wisdom;
The Feminine Divinity
Was the same as the Greek understanding of
The Logos:
The Word.
It was the first Paul and John
Who first understood:
The Word was Good and
The Word was Just The Way;
The Logos;
The Word: The Christ.
It was John on Rubber Soul who gave,
"The Word is just The Way and The Word is Love"
And the Word is Wisdom without Time or Space;
Before the days when the Christ walked the earth a man,
He was already a SHE:
Hokema, Holy Wisdom; the Feminine Divinity
Now, isn't that Good News?
The God Head is One Pure Being;
As much male as female
As much mommy as daddy,
And we are all children of Her Universe;
And **He is the oldest personality because He is the origin of everything;
And everything is born of Him.
He is the supreme controller of the universe,
The maintainer and instructor of humanity.
He is smaller than the smallest.[**Bhagavad-Gita]
He indwells the heart of every atom and
She is beyond the Universe.
Wisdom is calling,
She is rattling your windows and shaking your walls
With some more good news of the
Three witnesses,
And three always beats one
And not just that,
I've got a fourth.
Get out your Good Book sisters and brothers and chew on this;
Matthew 12:31-32, Mark 3:28-29, and Luke 12:10
Are simpatico with Gnostic Thomas saying 44:
'Jesus said: "Whoever blasphemes against the father will be forgiven, whoever blasphemes against the son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven."
Listen to me, God is within every sister, brother and all Creation,
Wake up to your own divinity and
Get a clue Christian:
His ways are not your ways and Her thoughts are not your thoughts
Dominion never meant to rape and plunder,
But to nurture, care and love.
And if you have not love, you have nothing at all.
And on that final day we all will stand naked before The Creator
And we have been warned that there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth
By those who were so sure they were in;
Because they are the ones left out.
WAKE UP Christian!
Hear the wind begin to howl.
