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 also 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 also 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 also in each one; I have found the essence of beauty expressed by wise also metaphysical or soulful people. In Islam my favorite is Sufism. They make a good point about the poison of negativity also 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 also ill feeling against another was destroyed first. So many talk about purification of the heart, also so few really know what it is. Some say to be pure means to be free from all evil thought, however 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 also 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 also 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 also brotherhood are the 'poisons' which no true Kelt would know as he/she spoke to Alexander about their creed also their honest appreciation for the soul in everything. Nature has no evil also 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 also thus the warrior’s death is too.
Thus one who truly loves will let all things also thoughts go free also 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 also changed throughout each day also 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 also EVERY thing. Oh yes, the turn of phrases also eloquence that waxes also wanes poetic can be a joy which in the crevices of thought are beauty-full however are they really beauty when they seek to arrange MORE for the politician also 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.
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