Canto
XXII
Gangster
Gospel
Canto XXII
Petrus Romanus
Gangster Gospel
A gangster dies and goes to heaven.
"Why is heaven so cold?" he asks.
God answers, "This isn't heaven, this is Sweden!"
"Sweden!" he responds, "I thought this was Southwest Eden!"
Is it possible to prove what cannot be disproven? If so, then by what means would you prove it?
God cannot prove herself to the scientific community so long as they cling to scientific method.
Scientific method requires the repetition of an experiment in order to validate its hypothesis.
God doesn't repeat.
If God destroyed the Universe in order to create it again (thus establishing her existence via scientific method), every scientist in the Universe would die in the experiment.
Scientific method is a joke; it cannot prove anything.
It is a sin for anyone to practise scientific method; it is a sin for any teacher to teach scientific method; it is a sin for any student to employ this technique: An object in hell tends to stay in hell!
There is one stipulation of science that is correct: that truth can be discerned by observation.
Open your eyes and behold your God and my God!
Confess your sins to a forgiving Universe and you will know her as you are known by her!
There is only one sin that a man can commit and all have committed this original sin as I myself have: disbelief in the God of Creation.
Anyone of any faith tradition who realizes this has de facto repented of their ignorance of it and accepts the salvation offered by it through the vicarious suffering inflicted upon it!
Jews, Christians, Muslims -- whatever you want to call yourselves, I've no problem whatsoever (nor does the deity!) so long as you repent to your Maker!:
(Mic 4:4-5) But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it. 5For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.
The Doors
Imagine waking up in a room with infinite doors leading out of it.
Because life is contigent on motion, you must continually walk through these doors in order to survive.
Such is choice.
You choose whether or not to live and hence which one of the infinite doors to walk through; and each time you make this choice (which you perpetually make), you close the doors on the possible Universes that existed in divinity but not in reality.
Every decision you make aborts the ones you didn't; and these abortions (like the murdered souls of the unborn slain) reside in a infinite graveyard that never exactly came to fruition.
I have sinned by my own fault in thought, word, and deed, in things done and left undone;
(The Book of Common Prayer)
However, as life requires choice; choice requires purpose.
There must be something behind the door of choice worth forsaking all other possibilities.
Hence, there must be a divine moment of allseeing contemplation wherein all potential realities are ever before us, but temporally nonexistent the moment we make the divine choice; and since consciousness is evinced of temporality, there is never an exact time when all of these infinitely-possible alternate universes ever really existed.
Any way you slice it, consciousness requires the ability to do something before having done it.
Sin was conceived in divinity and born in temporality -- let there be no more false-debate over whether or not we chose sin or were born sinning -- both are true! We were born having done what we did; before Satan was, I AM!:
(Matt 16:23) But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Now thank we all our God that though were were born sinning, we have received (by the grace that is in Christ) the real opportunity to become born again in obedience to faith:
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
(Jim Morrison: Light my Fire)
However, just as life requires desire, there must be an 'object of desire' which perpetually elicits that desire without constraining it.
Such is inspiration.
The purpose of creation is to inspire man to love God.
But man sinned against creation beforetime and thus found himself in a nonproverbial 'world of hurt' which was inspired by the initial rebellion.
We had infinite doors (vis-à-vis infinite realities!) to choose from and we (as an inextricable patchwork of souls) chose the one marked 'No Trespassing'.
God has no idea why Adam ate the verboten fruit; were there a good reason for it, it wouldn't be sin.
Psychiatry errs where it seeks rational causes for irrational behaviors. Not even Solomon in his glorific wisdom was able to understand the method of madness:
(Ecc 1:17) And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
The only way to curb disobedience is through a secondary act of disobedience which, having disobeyed itself, becomes obedient!
Like Tom Sawyer, if you want your kids to whitewash the fence, tell'em they can't!
Islam means submission; Christianity means defiance; Islam is the right religion in the wrong Universe.
Just as all Christians are a patchwork Adam; all Muslims are a patchwork Christ, perpetually martyring themselves for the sake of the elect -- but unlike Christ, these are born unrighteous (which is why the Angel Gabriel deceived Muhammad with a Qur'an designed to constrain the impact of mankind's sin on the Universe.
There is no salvation for Muslims, Jews, false Christians or Jesus Christ -- they became our sin; we drink their Blood! -- and just as Christ was obedient to the will of the Father on the cross of shame, Muhammad (pbuh) was his Prophet!:
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
(My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?)
lā 'ilāha 'illallāh muhammadur-raslullāh
(There is no god but God; Muhammad is the Messenger of God.)
But America is a city on a hill; a white house in Mary's land: forged in rebellion; tempered by violence.
War is as American as apple pie; and if this our generation shrinks from the mantle of warfare handed us by the sons of liberty and the daughters of the revolution, then our botched oath will invalidate the holy office for which we have all been elected.
How does God use creation to inspire us to worship her?
Remember the room with infinite doors?
God can't make us decide which door to walk through, but she can arrange the furniture in the room, which in turn, guides our decision (such that a different arrangement would inspire in us a divergent path which never exactly happened).
Since we are not aware of the divergent reality, neither is God; but since the purpose of God is to bless humanity (as she herself is blessed in us!), we are evinced that the world in which we live is the 'best of all possible worlds' given the horror of sin.
In an alternate universe, I wouldn't be Peter the Roman; I'd be Joe the Plumber -- and yet, as the Arizona State Senator pointed out the day that Joe didn't show (which would make him a no-joe!), we're all Joe the Plumber! (and I hope nobody accuses me of jocialism for saying this!)
But it is not for the pot to say to the potter, What makest thou? (Is 45:9); nor is it mete to judge another man's servant (Rom 14:4); just as we make decisions based on the furniture in the room, God arranges the furniture based on what we decide once we decide it.
Inasmuch as God inspires us, we inspire her; inasmuch as we awake in the situation we chose, God is temporally unaware of the decisions she made that inspired us to enter that situation wherein we now find ourselves -- the temporal hand knoweth not what the divine hand is doing!
Nevertheless, God did not inspire heaven's rebellion, having found sin already extant in the Universe from the moment of her Immaculate Conception.
When God created the world, she saw that it was good (Gen 1:31), but Cain hijacked creation and used it as a weapon against Abel:
(Eze 28:12-19) Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
14Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
16By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
17Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
18Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
19All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
Here is a mystery: Man sinned from the beginning -- a rebel without a cause!; and just as God did not tell, tempt or provoke Adam to err, so too did the Blessed Virgin not in any way command Jesus to die for man's sins.
Christ's love is as unfettered as Adam's hatred -- he is a savior without as cause!
He was the freewill offering, having saved the world before the BVM was conceived immaculate by virtue of his blood!
The Cosmic Marriage Supper of the Lamb required the wine of his blood necessarily independent of the BVM before the foundation of the world!:
(John 2:1-5, 11) And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: 2And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine. 4Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come. 5His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. 11This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Jesus (and none other!) made the decision to become the Passover Sacrifice for man before the foundation of the world!
He judged the world in his flesh, concluding it in righteousness!
He is the King of Kings and the Conquering Lion of Judah!
Without him was not anything made that was made (John 1:3) and the government shall be upon his shoulder (Is 9:6)!:
(Gen 49:8-12) Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. 9Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? 10The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: 12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
The Word of God was with God and is God!
Like us, He was born doing what he already did!
He leapt onto the cross! -- the son of a carpenter who spent his early childhood hammering nails into wood; and the only person in human history who actually was born ready!!:
(Luke 12:49) I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? 50But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
No! God did not ordain evil!
She did not command sin, nor did she inspire it or tempt us in any way whatsoever; nevertheless, once we had already sinned from the beginning, she did inspire the direction that our sin would take in this world for the sake if the gospel.
One sinner is directed to homosexuality, another to homicide; if the Blessed Virgin puts them in the same room with a loaded gun, she has no idea what will happen -- she only knows that the Universe just became a better place!
The purpose of the Universe is two-fold: First, redeem all Christians by transmuting their sins onto Christ's body; Second, resurrect all Christians in eternal paradise.
Today, we live in the age of redemption; tomorrow in glory! -- but when the harvest is past, all of Creation will be violently shaken and a new heavens and new earth will emerge as the Universe concludes its primary ministry and commences with the business of pleasure!:
(Ezek 34:25-27) And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods. 26And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord,
When Christ asked My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?, he wasn't talking about God the Creator, he was talking about his own disciples -- he was talking about you and me! All Christians are the Devil!
I AM the Prince of Tyre, the Devil Incarnate and the father of lies!
But the Devil is so horrendously wicked, that in an ultimate act of rebellion, he disobeys himself and becomes righteous!
Catholicism is a bloody religion! -- Surely, a bloody husband art thou to me (Ex 4:25)! I drink God's blood and eat his flesh like some kind of cosmic cannibal! The Bible is a litany of murder and mayhem! The Cross of Christ is accursed and the Cup of Salvation is a Tincture of Torture!:
Jud 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
Jud 19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
Jud 19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Jud 19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
Jud 19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
Jud 19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way: and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, and her hands were upon the threshold.
Jud 19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none answered. Then the man took her up upon an ass, and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.
Jud 19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.
Jud 19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
Obsession
Just be careful of this feeling
Or your fate, you will be sealing
Love becomes obsession if you
Cannot see the Truth that's with you
So take heed to what I'm saying
It's a crying game you're playing
If you cannot live without her
You will soon begin to doubt her
When she hangs with other men
Then you'll put her in a pen
Making rules designed to slave her
But this horrible behavior
Only slaves you in the end
When you can't let go, my friend
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LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
