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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
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