Continuation of Requital Document (Part 2)
Religion and the Patriarchy
While biodiversity genocide is in full swing, the patriarchal religions
stand silent, because they are all tainted with the view of dominion over
nature inherited from the Fall. This silence is evidence of deep
complicity of religion in the plight our planet now faces.
"Who is to blame for the crisis we face? First and foremost, I accuse the
religious leaders of the world. They have fed mankind with with the
dangerous myth that humanity is somehow above nature and that it is our
god-given right to hold dominion over the Earth and subdue it. In many
cases, they have actively encouraged over-population and have gone out of
their way to prevent family-planning schemes They are a disgrace." -
Desmond Morris.
The reason for this is a deep confusion between God and the male
spermatogenic imperative. While the major religions purport to offer a God
which is manifest in every flower and every tree, in fact they are acting
as agents of male reproductive rights. All the features of population
explosion, resource exploitation, exponential economic growth fantasy, and
environmental overshoot to the point of irreversible damage are simple
manifestations of the spermatogenic reproductive imperative operating in
the absence of a compensating feminine nurturing oogenic strategy of
long-tern sustainable investment.
The reasons for this are ludicrously simple. Human social and intellectual
evolution occurred through the dissonance of sexual paradox resulting from
the gender complementation of gathering and hunting. The human cryptic
oestrus, the privacy of human sex and many other aspects of human, and
particularly female sexual evolution, attest to the relatively egalitarian
relationship between the sexes we see manifest in the ancient bearers of
the Rift Valley tradition, such as the !Kung today; one in which both male
polygyny and a consistent degree of clandestine female adultery are endemic
and central to our evolutionary emergence.
With the establishment of urban cultures, a new pattern of cultural gender
repression began, based on male reproductive insecurity and enforced by
male rule of law and frank militarization. Women, over a period of time,
became sequestered in the home, in the fields, in harems, nunneries and
brothels. When God gave Abraham the covenant of seed as the dust and as
the stars in the sky, this was not the God of creation but the
spermatogenic imperative speaking. The chador, female circumcision and the
atrocities of infibulation, the repression of the daughters of al-Llah, and
the Asherah, the evils of sex outside procreation, stoning the female for
adultery, male prerogatives of divorce, the virginity of Mary, the killing
of the girl child, all follow from the rule of the sperm.
Christianity
The Christian church is divided between Catholics, who in addition to Abba
and Christ, worship Mariam as the great mother has been worshipped since
time immemorial, but banish women from the clergy, and protestants who
sometimes admit women to the clergy but insist on a transcendent view of
"God the father" which suppresses the feminine aspect of deity and the
creative potential of nature in a divine order and a clockwork universe
running down from the first creation, in which evolution cannot happen. At
least the pope has had the perspicacity to acknowledge evolution. At worst
we end up in a rapture in which nature will be shed as a husk as if the
destruction were a mere prelude to the divine. At this point the very
knowledge of good and evil has become our worst enemy - a combat myth
between light and dark, leading only to an Armageddon we only narrowly
avoided during the Biblical xenophobia of the Cold War..
The only consideration of rights to life are aimed at male control of
female fertility and reproduction, not at the ecocentric rights of other
species to exist. Genocide of the entire biosphere does not even rank as a
sin. Contraception is opposed because sex is deemed only for procreation
in an era of frankly exploding population, while abortion has become the
subject of ritual murder in the name of religion.
The biblical destiny of the Christian church is clearly to become the
vehicle of the Tree of Life in the immortal age - the Transfoliation, to
care for the Earth and replenish it, to reach with loving care into every
ecosystem, and to teach that nature is sacred. This can occur only
through spiritual democracy and the rescinding of church dogma, replacing
religious authority with living conscience.
The severity of genetic holocaust requires that the church now literally
become the ark of the covenant with nature - a true Noah's ark - in which
we preserve as much of the immortal living garment of diversity as we can
while there is still time. It is time to replant the sacred groves in the
greening of eschatology. This is the sacred fulfilment of every Christian,
every Jew, every Muslim, every Hindu, every Buddhist, Taoist, Shaman and
every follower of spirituality on this planet.
It is meet that after two millennia of domination by Father, Son and Holy
Ghost that there are initiatives under way to give Mariam and the feminine
aspect divine recognition, but it is sheer fantasy to declare a specific
role to Mary as intermediary between God and humanity. Both Magdalen and
Jesus' mother Mariam were free women. The parthenos was almah. Magdalen
was a priestess of the seven familiars and pronounced the exaltation. She
is the source and destiny of Christianity. She was first overthrown by
Peter and centuries later by a circumcised virgin designed to protect male
reproductive imperatives over the free woman. She is but the shadow of
Artemis resurrected from Ephesus and, in her mother image, Isis of Byblus.
Since the discovery of the ovum two centuries ago, the notion of the virgin
birth has become ludicrous because male sperm is no longer the complete
seed. Therefore God, in replacing Joseph, did not complete the conception.
Mariam, according to the Talmud was descended from princes and consorted
with carpenters and a Roman, one Pantera by name. In truth Mariam and
Christos are coeval archetypal figures of the human stream of
consciousness. They can never be chaperoned into the idolistic fantasy
roles Catholicism has assigned to either of them.
"I was set up from everlasting
from the beginning or ever earth was"
I ask the Catholic church to open to the flood tide of the feminine: to
accept not just the virgin intermediary but the "free woman" even with
"seven familiars" and to bring women into all levels of the church by an
open process of consensus. The hierarchy of religious authority needs also
to be balanced by the soul of the nabi and prophetess - free people who
hold religion and science alike to account, both for religious dogma and
for scientific irresponsibility.
The Parousia is the time to finally bring Jesus down from the Cross of
Torment. Only by celebrating the descent from the cross can we erase this
millennial heritage of guilt and violence that has marred Christianity from
alpha to omega.
"to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning"
Jesus was named the Bridegroom in the light of the sacred marriage:
"as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments"
It is now finally time to celebrate the sacred marriage of the Bridegroom
with the Bride, so that the birth of true fertility can finally be
consummated, to appreciate the beauty of the Song of Songs, to receive the
Bride, and realize she is not merely the Christian church but the immortal
feminine principle manifest in every flower and every tree - the
cytoplasmic inheritance of the body.
Bottom Line:
The Pope has declared the millennium to be an occasion to right the sins of
the Church ... I applaud this and request the following:
*Apology made for blaming Christ's Roman crucifixion on the Jews - a
virtuous step taken much too late. This should be forthcoming from all
Christians publicly.
*Apology required for the Inquisition and Witch Burnings which lasted six
of the last eight centuries and killed as many people as the holocaust.
*Rescind the anathema maranatha.
*Apology required for the suppression of the gnostics.
*Removal of all dogmas which control female reproduction. Allow us living
beings to develop a democratic ethics of diversity and choice. Full support
for contraception and voluntary measures towards population abatement. The
central dogma of molecular biology that DNA makes RNA makes protein was
overturned by the discovery of retroviruses, HIV being a notable example.
Science cannot afford dogma and it is likewise a stain on the nature of
religion.
*Abolish the death penalty in remembrance of Christ.
Islam
Muhammad was a great prophet and Islam carries the prophetic tradition a
step forward from Christianity. Islam is in many ways a purer religion
than the idolistic worship of Jesus and Mary, which Muhammad rightly
commented upon with concern, and rightly named Jesus as one in a line of
human prophets. Many of Muhammad's statements were inspired, but his
inspiration according to al Tabari was amended in the attempt to remove his
acknowledgement of the three daughters of al-Llah as intermediaries from
the Qu'ran which has become notorious as the satanic verses.
Muhammad did not enter Mecca through jihad but through the Sakina of
Hudaybiyah and through the spirit of religious toleration of the Haj that
welcomed all spiritual seekers in a spirit of non-violence and saw 360
images in the Ka'aba including pictures of Jesus and Mariam. Neither can
Islam rule the world or nature through jihad or a shariat of religious
inflexibility and gender intolerance. Just as the crusades were a failure
and offence to Saladin, so jihad is an offence to world peace. Islam has
violated the spirit of religious tolerance in appropriating the ancient Haj
for itself alone.
While Islam often claims to protect the interests of women, history tells
otherwise. Please recognise that the apocalypse is the bridal unveiling.
This means the end of men demanding the chador or burqah. If the female
wishes to wear a veil to protect herself from molestation by men, or as an
expression of her cultural tradition, that is her prerogative, but let no
man henceforth do anything to sequester the female, to tell her how to
dress or how to vote, or whether or not her face or body should be covered.
Cast no more stones against the female, nor any other method of killing or
dismemberment.. You are all guilty of blasphemy against the Almighty. It
is essential for the survival of this planet that the female must be free
at all times and in all places to do as she is want, starting with the
women of Daws, as Muhammad prophesied.
The Qu'ran says Isa is surely a knowledge of the hour. No other person is
specifically so-mentioned except al-Llah. Therefore do not seek to harm
the messenger, as Jesus was harmed and killed, or you will reap the grim
harvest, for your actions will be demonstrated in history to be hubris in
the face of God to your bane.. Respect the work that is to be done in the
name of Sakina. By the time you read this, there can be no turning back,
because others will have also realized the truth in this very
communication. The truth which fertilizes cannot die.
Shariat is not the Qu'ran and even the Qu'ran must be subject to reflection
and critical scrutiny. To align church and state into one monolith is an
offence to the freedom of informed society, the diversity of the divine
within each and every one of us, and a continuing threat to the future
unfolding, which is spontaneously creative and shall never conform to
religious edict.
Scepticism is the foundation of science and satire the foundation of true
religion. To cast a fatwa of death for shining a mirror upon the satanic
verses is hubris, an offence to al-Llah and al-Lat alike. The satanic
verses are your Achilles heel. The place of violent injustice to the
female for which your tradition stands vulnerable and guilty. Is idolatry
or blasphemy worse than a death sentence for representing God or for
testing the veracity of belief with satire? Isa himself was accused of
blasphemy unto death. The fatwa is your bane and your scourge.
Bottom Line:
*Establish a sanctuary for the freedom of the female at Daws.
*Rescind all Islamic law and scripture which sequesters, penalizes or
restrains the female in her freedom.
*Rescind jihad and the verses in the Qu'ran abetting martyrdom.
*Return the Haj to the fertility navel of the desert it has always been.
*Free the women of Afghanistan.
*Stop the killing in Algeria, especially disembowelling pregnant women.
*Withdraw the fatwahs on Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin.
Judaism and Zion
Christianity has in many ways been a bane to Judaism and particularly to
the Pharisaic tradition, which has always been a vehicle of social
conscience to its people, and has in no way been responsible for Jesus'
sacrificial death. The Christian church is only now making an apology for
two millennia of frank persecution and for complicity in the holocaust,
within three years of the second millennium, a time shorter even than Jesus
mission in John. This is too little, too late and deserves a deeper
acknowledgement.
"To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion"
Like Christianity, Judaism two millennia later still awaits the fulfilment
of the messianic hope. The basis of such a messiah is not the
exclusiveness of race, nor the Hellenistic vision of Christ as man-God,
but long-term future goodness and real social salvation. The messiah is
the circumcised one who can deliver the goods. Just as Jesus became a
Jewish cultural emigrant, fulfilment of the messianic hope lies in the
return of the nations to Zion. Such a gathering can occur only through an
acknowledgement on both sides, both of the unique tradition of Eden
contained in the scripture, and of the essential oneness of all peoples.
It is thus meet that the messiah of Israel should be a circumcised gentile
Hapiru "and their seed shall be known among the Gentiles," just as Jesus
was the lost messiah, a Jew who became messiah of the Gentiles. This is
the nature of reunion in the Requital - your fulfilment but also the
ultimate poetic irony.
You have been factually at war for every day except the first day your new
nation existed. The mourning will not stop until you have reconciliation.
You still stand a nation whose sacred marriage with the land and her people
is unconsummated, because, despite diaspora and holocaust, you do not
recognise the self in your other - that you have made the Palestinians
Hapiru in their own land. Only by Requital can your destiny be completed.
You cannot "eat the riches of the Gentiles" while you indulge in "robbery
for burnt offering". You cannot be acknowledged as the priests and
priestesses of the path of Eden nor "eat the riches of the Gentiles" until
"in their glory" you can claim just credit. Sakina is your opportunity
for true reconciliation with your Palestinian partners. It is a profound
spiritual honour that destiny has chosen you as the people of Eden to
celebrate the sacred marriage of the biosphere in your holy city. In this
sense, if you receive the nations with openness, you shall indeed become
"priests" and priestesses "of the Lord" because you carry the tradition of
the fall and its very Requital.
In return, I invite back to join you all the nations of Earth to celebrate
their sacred marriage to the land, Terra, Gaia, "or ever Earth was" in each
and every one of us undoing the Fall and again receiving the immortal fruit
of Eve and of the Tree of Life - in the return of the Shekhinah to dwell
again among us. In doing so, I am also bringing the Christian church back
to its origins in at-one-ment.
Bottom Line:
*Rescind all passages of the Pentateuch abetting violence to the female and
the death penalty.
*Apologise to the women of Israel and Palestine for Josiah's precedent in
the destruction of the sanctuaries.
*Rescind circumcision, so that the female shall remain unscathed also.
*Love the Palestinians as yourselves.
*Accept me as your comrade in Eden.
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