7 Feb 15: A man is only a man
if he is in conflict with evil and devoted in humility with faith.
Confronted with the devastation he had caused the Jordanian pilot did not fall
to his knees in acknowledgment, proving himself morally dead. I sent a copy of
the Isis vid to my brother because I believe he has
an inherent disgust at the spiritual decay of this civilization, even if he
partakes of it. I hear this decay every day where I train from the mouths of the
men, many elder, who mouth vulgarities, boast their inebriation, mock women and
are obese of mind and heart. The conflict of Muslim austerity with this
worldliness, sexuality, mind control and consumption, the solo call to prayer
in a single human voice vs. the cacophony of noise in every American media
shows the rottenness of the European west, which demands that everyone bow to
its right to exist but respects no one but itself and its own belief in freedom of expression, ie. in sodom,
child murder, drugs, and lust. When a fruit falls from its tree it lies in rottenness,
food for wasps who feed off its sweet decaying flesh. It is the vision of the
birds of Ezekiel 39.17f, a version that appeared in the 20th anniversary of
Ygdrasil, here
Written late 70's in Austin in an efflorescence that included Taliesin, this poem came out within a month of
Angel Standing in the Sun, written near that time, especially since they both occur together in the same verse in
Revelations 19:
And I saw an angel standing
in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in
the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together to the great banquet of God, but not to forget Ezekiel 39.11 and on of the banquet first. Together with both, last night I picked up Rapture in Progress from its finish fire at the kilns.
This was the 20th
anniversary issue of
Ygdrasil. The long running effort of Klaus Gerken.
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