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6: Contraception and Sexual Pleasure
Cardinal Sin 1997 "Condoms are only fit for animals".
The banning of contraception constitutes a grevious moral corruption of the
Church. It's aim is basically to reinforce male reproductive rights and to
out-populate the Church's competitors. It is immoral, selfish and
oppressive to women. The extremes of the moral irresponsibility of the
Church are illustrated in the following: On 12 November 1988 at the
International Congress of Moral Theologians in Rome, the pope said: "Even
for people infected with AIDS or for those who want to use condoms to
prevent AIDS," the Church's moral doctrine "allows no exceptions".
Sex is a key part of the social communion that is the loving fertility of
the church. Life is the sexual dance between wave and particle, chaos and
order, male and female. Life and sexual pleasure are physical expressions
of divine love. I abrogate original sin, apologise to all women for the
sins of man and release the female from the curse of violent punishment for
adultery.
Nov 96 John Paul: "Worrisome consequences have been produced in the sexual
sphere of life by a false sense of freedom provided by contraception, which
is both an incentive and a tool. Unbridled hedonism and a disdain for life
is at the heart of the modern world's moral quandary. The 'Gospel of Life'
must be maintained by educating children to recognise their vocation as
carriers of life, in responsible collaboration with the creator."
The ongoing nature of life is the sacred fulfilment of sex. It is
essential for spirituality to keep this close link between biological
fertility and our immortal line of being, but sex also fulfils an essential
bonding function for social peace, and family life. To suggest sexual
pleasure within contraception is 'a false sense of freedom' is erroneous
and makes sexual pleasure captive to religious dogma. Wisdom is the key
to responsible sexual pleasure, not constraint by edict.
7: Bringing Jesus down from the Cross of Violence
"As far as it lies in our power we should make Jesus climb down from the
cross and go on living. In this way we can erase the image of a terrible
God that matches the intellectual void of Christian Theology. This image of
a God who wills the death of his own Son for the sake of a holy cause and
who would if necessary also the death of other human beings, for other holy
causes, grows pale and gives way to another image of deity: the image of
gentle deity, a deity of the living and not of killing" (Ranke-Heinmann
1992 274).
The epoch of death and violence is over in the Renewal. It is a tradition
which must stop in order to bring world peace. I am here also to bring
Jesus down at last.
Oct 97 "At the Vatican's request, a Sao Paulo artist is giving Jesus Christ
a face-lift for the third millennium, concentrating on a more dynamic look.
Claudia Pastro, aged 48, Brazil's leading religious artist is to design a
new 'evangelising Christ' to replace the predominant image of what Pastro
describes as a "suffering despairing" saviour."
This document is redemption mundi for the Church. It is clearly more than
a cosmetic adjustment. The living Christ is more than a 'dynamic look'. I
am not an evangelist but here to liberate, to 'open the prison to them that
are bound' in true freedom.
However John Paul II says that Mary "lovingly consented in a maternal
spirit ... to the sacrifice of the victim that she had borne" (encyclical
on Mary "Redemptoris Mater 1987). This is a statement equivalent to
abetting male sacrifice on the part of the Goddess, especially when the
high-Marian doctrine is taken into account. I abrogate male-sacrifice and
return Easter to Eostre's Ovum of Renewal, both to cure the pain and
suffering for all, and to give back the stolen festival of renewal of all
life to this 'maternal spirit' in the Transfoliation.
It is essential that the violent tradition of the Crucifixion, which in
itself represents an incorrect, blood-sacrifice view of the father God ends
naturally in the Reflowering. It is not adequate to just do a cosmetic
public-relations job. The need for change is fundamental to carry the
tradition of the church from violent death to burgeoning life.
8: The Death Penalty
This applies particularly pertinently to the issue of the death penalty.
While the Catholic church and John Paul oppose the death penalty (with
notable qualification in the case of abortion), other Christian sects,
particularly in the US, see the use of the death penalty as divine justice.
This long tradition is one in which the Catholic church is also
inextricably implicated.
Uta Ranke-Heinmann (1992 270) notes: "In 1210 Innocent III ordered the
Waldensians, who were against the death penalty to swear the following oath
if they wished to return to the Catholic church: "Concerning the secular
authorities, we assert that they can carry out a blood judgement without
mortal sin, so long as they proceed to impose the death penalty not out of
hatred but out of justice, not rashly but with due reflection". As late as
1985 Cardinal Joseph Hoffner wrote "The holiness of the divine order proved
its power even in this age through the death penalty". "Christianity is a
religion that glorifies one execution - the execution of Jesus - because
the Church sees in it an act of redemption through blood. Thus for
Christians the death penalty is the prerequisite for their redemption. The
death penalty has been, as it were sanctified as the instrument of this
redemption. God is the supreme advocate of the death penalty, since he
condemned his son to death and willed his crucifixion as the means of this
redemption."
I thus abrogate for all time the death penalty, in healing the curse of the
blood-sacrifice of the crucifixion upon humankind. Lets us provide for the
living always the best possible life we can in a spirit of peace rather
than retribution and blood lust.
The Feminine Face in all her Names
Graves Jan 1945 The White Goddess: "The Protestant Churches are divided
between liberal theology and fundamentalism, but the Vatican authorities
have made up their minds how to face the problems of the day. They
encourage two antinomous trends of thought to co-exist within the Church:
the authoritarian, or paternal, or logical, as a means of securing the
priest's hold on his congregation and keeping them from free-thinking; the
mythical, or maternal, or supra-logical, as a concession to the Goddess,
without whom the Protestant religion has lost its romantic glow. They
recognize her as a lively, various, immemorial obsession, deeply fixed in
the racial memory of the European countryman and impossible to exorcize;
but are equally aware that this is an essentially urban civilization,
therefore authoritarian, and therefore patriarchal. It is true that woman
has of late become virtual head of the household in most parts of the
Western world ... and can take up almost any career or position she
pleases; but ... it is easier for her to play man's game a little while
longer, until the situation grows too absurd and uncomfortable for
complaisance. The Vatican waits watchfully."
Aug 97 "The pope is reported to be leaning to the institution of a papal
dogma declaring Mary as the Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of all Graces, and
Advocate for the People of God urged on by a petition of 4,000,000
Catholics including Mother Theresa, spurred on by a rash of marian
apparitions from Medugorgie and other locations. If the drive succeeds,
Catholics would be obliged as a matter of faith to accept three
extraordinary doctrines: that Mary participates in the redemption achieved
by her son, that all graces that flow from the suffering and death of Jesus
Christ are granted only through Mary's intercession with her son, and that
all prayers and petitions from the faithful on earth must likewise flow
through Mary, who then brings them to the attention of Jesus."
The Marian condition is a confirmation of precisely the situation Graves
prophetically described in submitting The White Goddess to T. S. Eliot the
week of my birth on the 'Hanford' Epiphany. Christos and Miriam are
coeval. It is right for the Female to be brought into equal status with the
male, but not through contrived role-playing as 'intermediary between
Christ and humanity'. This will further divide the orthodox church and
remove Christ nature ever further from direct gnostic access. Christ
nature is our natural endowment, our gnostic source tradition of
illumination, not something removed from us. High-Marianism with a
celibate male clergy is historically the tradition of Cybele (Willis 1993).
Mari� needs to be free to be the full expression of the Goddess in all
humanity to be catholic, and celebrated through free natural expression,
not papal edict. Mary should be freed completely to represent the Female in
all her names and in all her forms, to be celebrated in the Ovum of Renewal
at Eostre and in all celebrations of femininity. Nothing less is true
catholicism, and forgiveness in the dark light of history.
Feminine Wisdom Democracy
To complement the orthodox church, it is essential for the feminine aspect
to be reborn as Wisdom in her gnostic and primeval nature - 'from
everlasting or ever Earth was', not inferior to or subject to the male or
transcendental aspect of divinity. This can only happen through a
consensus democracy in which women have at least an equal share in
conceiving the reflowering transformation and the sustainable continuity of
unfolding life.
I thus call on women to come together in wisdom with men of like spirit to
freely conceive Wisdom democracy, the gnostic soul of humanity, in the
spirit of Renewal (King 1997), to become a spontaneous movement of
illumination and living partnership in fertility, with all reproductive
issues to become the ethical domain of Wisdom democracy, in respect for
both the democratic ethic and the greater investment women have to make in
reproduction. The test of this movement, as was true in its gnostic
origins is not quantity, the size of its following, but the quality of its
insight.
The Democratic Ethic and Abortion
Oct 1997 Pope John Paul thundered against abortion yesterday in an address
to more than 100,000 people in Rio de Janeiro. "May the abominable crime of
abortion, shame of humanity, not condemn the unborn to the most unjust
execution that of the most innocent human beings."
Abortion is a difficult ethical issue which will take a good deal of
further soul-searching to resolve. This issue cannot be dictated by
celibate men in the church under the exclusion of women, particularly those
whose bodies are involved. It is right that spirituality should uphold the
protection and continuity of all life to maintain life's sanctity, but the
issue needs to be decided through democratic ethical debate in wisdom by
the living of each generation, not moral absolutism.
It is unforgivable for the Catholic Church to call for stricter penalties
against abortion in the Phillipines knowing a death penalty bill is
proposed. This makes hollow the stand of the Church elsewhere against the
death penalty and indicates that the Inquisition against womankind is still
alive in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Christian-inspired murders in clinics in the US are a deranged wholly
irreligious act of war.
Both these actions have tarnished the Christian tradition.
Embracing the Church with One Heart
The Church is vast and her faithful span the planet. I have not come to
destroy the Church but to fulfil her in the unveiling or 'apocalypsia'. I
thus call for a dialogue of peace, love and concord between the Wisdom
democracy and the Church in its ecumenical sense, so that we can preserve
the immemorial affections and beloved traditions of the past and the great
heritage of agape and spiritual commitment invested over two millennia, so
that 'she' can all the better burgeon and flower as the bride (and
husbandman) of paradise and offer the solace and hope 'she' has always come
to represent despite many dark episodes. In this way the Church's
universal spread across the Earth can also at once become an ethical and
spiritual inspiration to restore paradise to the planet. This is the
greatest virtue in the preservation of the Church.
In the marriage of the orthodox Church and Wisdom democracy, the two
traditions, orthodox and gnostic, split in the founding of Christianity can
at last become one again, just as female and male.
I invite you all to consecrate the flowering of immortality in joining the
Jubilaeum with Sakina Biodiversity Requital Jerusalem Epiphany 2000 in
celebration of twelve nights of renovation.
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