This is a response to the message from Annette Holden asking for
information about reading matter. I hope that it is appropriate for
me to answer to the whole list.
I work for a non-profit distributor of books on women and development
and we carry quite a few books in this area. Recent titles include
'Feminist Political Ecology', ed. Rocheleau, Thomas-Slaytor and
Wangari and 'Ecofeminism: Women, Culture, Nature' ed. Karen J.
Warren. I would be delighted to send our full catalogue to anyone who
is interested, or we have a web site at www.womenink.org
Tina Johnson, Women, Ink.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 25 21:52:41 1997
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 26 Dec 1997 17:51:57 +1300 (NZDT)
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 17:56:54 +1200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris King)
Subject: Xmas Wedding Vow
Dear Ecofem,
This is the best Christmas gift I can offer you all towards our living future:
A millennial vigil and consummation vow:
The Bridegroom's Sacred Marriage Vow
I vouchsafe to the immortal Feminine the troth of sacred marriage.
I promise to stand by the Bride whatever the cost
to culminate the patriarchal epoch for the future of life on earth.
I unpronounce original sin.
I unpronounce dominion over nature.
I unpronounce the Anathema maranatha.
I unpronounce the death curse on the witch.
I unpronounce stoning for adultery.
I apologise to all women for the sins of man.
Canticle reading:
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death; jealously is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
The following prayer is to offer back the respect that which was stolen.
It is not just a prayer for the Earth Goddess Eve,
nor is it to some 'lesser being' than the male 'creator God' of the cosmos,
but to the immanent "Indwelling" manifest in all life,
to future-directed ethics for the biosphere's germ line and its unfolding,
and to Wisdom consciousness and Quantum chaos.
Even as the wind blows.
There are many more beautiful variants.
It is not the exact words, but the principle that counts.
Many women have chanted its essence on moonlit nights.
It is compensating for, and correcting the balance lost,
between woman and man from the Fall,
through patriarchal dominion,
as wave is to particle, as chaos is to order,
as body is to mind, as ovum is to sperm,
as the Garden is to the Kingdom,
so is this simple prayer of forgiving to the Lord's prayer
in evoking the immortal age.
The Parousia Prayer of Immortality
Our Mother which art on Earth
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Garden come, thy will be done
on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give is this day unfolding life
and forgive us our hubris of dominion.
Illuminate us with Wisdom
for the fruit of your vision.
For thine is the Garden,
the immortal Garment,
and the Tree of Life,
for ever and ever. Amen.
The Gnostic Invocation
Dear Immortal Eve, I humbly apologise to you
for the curse of God and the sins of Man,
and for the desecration of the Garden.
Trample the veil of shame
and put on the garments of salvation,
as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
We are here to reveal that which is concealed.
Things hidden since the foundation of the world.
The Garden will reward you.
The Tree bears twelve manner of monthly fruit.
The fruit is good for food, pleasant to the eyes,
and to be desired to make one wise.
And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
It is my gift to you in apology for the Fall.
In true at-one-ment of the twain.
When the "two become one" again.
Finally I promise to reveal the biological
and quantum-mechanical nature of all this.
love, Chris King - "El Ni�o"
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Chaos is the Mother of Invention - Necessity the Offspring
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Chris KING, Phone: 0064-9-3737599 # 8818
Senior Lecturer Mathematics Fax: 0064-9-3737457
University of Auckland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Private Bag 92019 http://matu1.math.auckland.ac.nz/~king/
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