Re: Alice's request!

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In a message dated 9/15/2001 5:26:29 PM Central Daylight Time,

cloudhand@... writes:

> And the pains which I endured in one body were powers which I wielded

> in the next; and I grew in strength till at last I stood before him

complete,

>

> with a body like his own and equal in might - exultant in pride and joy.

> Then he ceased and said, " I love thee. "

> And lo! his form changed and he leaned backwards and drew me upon

> him,

> And bore me up into the air, and floated me over the topmost trees and

> the ocean, and round the curve of the earth under the moon -

> Till we stood again in Paradise.

>

> From 'The Secret of Time and Satan' by Carpenter

Yes!! Finally somebody that explains how the appearance of duality can trick

us but that the dark is really our lover because without it we would never

know light. Thank you.

Sam in Texas §(ô¿ô)§

Minds are like parachutes; they function best when open.

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

" Minds are like parachutes; most people use them only as a last resort. "

~Ben Ostrowsky

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And so at last I saw Satan appear before me - magnificent, fully formed.

Feet first, with shining limbs, he glanced down from among the bushes,

And stood there erect, dark-skinned, with nostrils dilated with passion;

(In the burning, intolerable sunlight, he stood, and I in the shade of the

bushes);

Fierce and scathing the effluence of his eyes, and scornful of dreams and

dreamers (he touched a rock hard by and it split with a sound like thunder);

Fierce the magnetic influence of his dusky flesh; his great foot, well-

formed, was planted firm in the sand - with spreading toes;

" Come out, " he said with a taunt, " art thou afraid to meet me? "

And I answered not, but sprang upon him and smote him.

And he smote me a thousand times, and brashed and scorched and

slew me with hands of flame;

And I was glad, for my body lay there dead; and I sprang upon him again

with another body;

And he turned upon me, and smote me a thousand times and slew that

body;

And I was glad and sprang upon him again with another body -

And with another and another and again another:

And the bodies which I took on yielded before him, and were like

cinctures of flame upon me, but I flung them aside;

And the pains which I endured in one body were powers which I wielded

in the next; and I grew in strength till at last I stood before him complete,

with a body like his own and equal in might - exultant in pride and joy.

Then he ceased and said, " I love thee. "

And lo! his form changed and he leaned backwards and drew me upon

him,

And bore me up into the air, and floated me over the topmost trees and

the ocean, and round the curve of the earth under the moon -

Till we stood again in Paradise.

From 'The Secret of Time and Satan' by Carpenter