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Sunday After-Noon contemplation:
"Then,
on Sunday, I seek peace with
the kingdom of his Earthly Mother, for none can live long, neither be
happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and does her laws. For my breath is
her breath; my blood her blood; my bone her bone; my flesh her flesh; my bowels
her bowels; my eyes and my ears are her eyes and her ears.
"I tell you truly, I
am one with the Earthly Mother; she is in me, and I am in her. Of her I
was born, in her I live, and to her I shall return again. It is the blood of our
Earthly Mother which falls from the clouds and flows in the rivers; it is the
breath of our Earthly Mother which whispers in the leaves of the forest and
blows with a mighty wind from the mountains; sweet and firm is the flesh of our
Earthly Mother in the fruits of the trees; strong and unflinching are the bones
of our Earthly Mother in the giant rocks and stones which stand as sentinels of
the lost times; truly, I am one with our Earthly Mother, and he who clings to
the laws of his Mother, to him shall his Mother cling also.
"But
there will come a day when the Son of Man wfll turn his face from his Earthly
Mother and betray her, even denying his Mother and his birthright. Then shall he
sell her into slavery, and her flesh shall be ravaged, her blood polluted, and
her breath smothered; he will bring the fire of death into all the parts of her
kingdom, and his hunger will devour all her gifts and leave in their place only
a desert.
"All
these things will he do out of ignorance of the Law, and as a man dying slowly
cannot smell his own stench, so wfll the Son of Man be blind to the truth: that
as he plunders and ravages and destroys his Earthly Mother, so does he plunder
and ravage and destroy himself. For he was born of his Earthly Mother, and he is
one with her, and all that he does to his Mother, even so does he do to himself.
"Long ago, before the Great Flood, the Great Ones walked the earth, and the giant trees, even those which now are no more than legend, were their home and their kingdom. They lived many score of generations, for they ate from the table of the Earthly Mother, and slept in the arms of the Heavenly Father, and they knew not disease, old age, nor death. To the Sons of Men did they bequeath all the glory of their kingdoms, even the hidden knowledge of the Tree of Life which stands in the middle of the Eternal Sea. But the eyes of the Sons of Men were blinded by the visions of Satan, and by promises of power, even that power which conquers by might and by blood. And then did the Son of Man sever the golden threads that bound him to his Earthly Mother and his Heavenly Father; he stepped from the Holy Stream of Life where his body, his thoughts, and his feelings were one with the Law, and began to use only his own thoughts, his own feelings, and his own deeds, making hundre ds of laws, where before there was only One.
And
so did the Sons of Men exile themselves from their home, and ever since
have they huddled behind their stone walls, hearing not the sighing of the wind
in the tall trees of the forests beyond their towns.
"The
Book of Nature is a Holy Scroll, and if you would have the Sons of Men
save themselves and find everlasting life, teach them how once again to read
from the living pages of the Earthly Mother. For in everything that is life is
the law written. It is written in the grass, in the trees, in rivers, mountains,
birds of the sky and fishes of the sea; and most of all within the Son of Man.
Only when he returns to the bosom of his Earthly Mother will he find everlasting
life and the Stream of Life which leads to his Heavenly Father; only then may
the dark vision of the future come not to pass.
After this manner,
therefore, I pray to my Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 'Our
Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and
send to the kingdom of our Earthly Mother the angel of Joy, that our hearts may
be full of singing and gladness as we nestle in the arms of our Mother.
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