There are many vantage points from which
to find
beauty. The side of the mountains overlooking Lake Louise on the grass
of the hotel sipping champagne with your most cherished friend is a
memory of beauty that will always overcome my consciousness. The purr
of my friend and companion as he welcomed me home from a hard days work
or the smile on the face of most any person who 'sees' what little part
of life we can partake in to help each other. There are many beauties
and no real evil. This will be dealt with in greater detail under
Abraxas in the concept segment. In the whole of the 'brotherhood' there
are many religions and in each one; I have found the essence of beauty
expressed by wise and metaphysical or soulful people. In Islam my
favorite is Sufism. They make a good point about the poison of
negativity and any form of thought that does personal energized harm to
other life in this quote:
“The soul who had to sympathize with the whole
world was thus prepared that the drop of that poison which always
produces contempt, resentment and ill feeling against another was
destroyed first. So many talk about purification of the heart, and so
few really know what it is. Some say to be pure means to be free from
all evil thought, but there is no evil thought. Call it evil or call it
devil, if there is any such thought it is the thought of bitterness
against another. No one with sense and understanding would like to
retain a single drop of poison in his body. And how ignorant it is on
the part of man when he keeps and cherishes a bitter thought against
another in his heart. If a drop of poison can cause death of the body,
it is equal to a thousand deaths when the heart retains the smallest
thought of bitterness." (56)
The fear of nature or one's inner uncertainties
has caused many to find evil in places where beauty exists. Once one no
longer has to control nature, there is no place where beauty will not
be found. It may be a bittersweet beauty such as seeing your lover find
a person she wants to marry; when you are an older man with all the
love in the world for a person you love in every way. It may be the joy
you feel when you know you aren't going to have to schlep or drudge for
money in the socially structured gambit to gain material things. The
fears that create the opposite of harmony and brotherhood are the
'poisons' which no true Kelt would know as he/she spoke to Alexander
about their creed and their honest appreciation for the soul in
everything. Nature has no evil and the crooked bristlecone pine that
dormantly awaits the desert rain has lived longer than the rash
fast-growing ash that sprouts quickly skyward. In the soul that knows
it is immortal the idea of change is welcome and thus the warrior’s
death is too.
Thus one who truly loves will let all things and
thoughts go free and hope to share the beauty of 'what is'. The Cathars
had great 'brothers' in the Sufis who few people in the world are ready
to accept the wisdom of in that war-torn realm of misogyny we call the
Middle East. In my limited appreciation for the beauty of Jesus I see
him being the kind of person who learned and changed throughout each
day and therefore all the time he spent on earth. Each moment is a
'Zen' opportunity for the 'greater good'. But how many of our ways of
organizing social behavior really wish good for each individual? There
is no beauty in more of any THING; rather beauty exists in the fullness
of each and EVERY thing. Oh yes, the turn of phrases and eloquence that
waxes and wanes poetic can be a joy which in the crevices of thought
are beauty-full but are they really beauty when they seek to arrange
MORE for the politician and his cronies or platform? Alexander is said
the first to have declared himself Divine while alive. We are in truth,
all Divine. It is a divine comedy to be sure, this thing we call life.
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