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musclebrains
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Better, imho, to be found by god than to seek god. God finds you when you battle an angel, the perfected image of the human. You surrender to your own imperfection, like Jacob. Rilke:
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hiearchies?
And even if one of them pressed me
suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying…"
You also meet god in the body. Read Steinberg's "Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion" or Bataille's "Tears of Eros":
"The meaning of eroticism escapes anyone who cannot see its religious meaning. Reciprocally, the meaning of religion in its totality escapes anyone who disregards the link it has with eroticism....Dionysos is the god of the feast, the god of religious transgression. Dionysos is seen most often as the god of the vine and of drunkenness. Dionysos is a drunken god, the god whose divine essence is madness. But, to begin with, madness is itself of divine essence. Divine, which is to say, it denies the law of reason..."
If ever I saw god, it was in the wounds of my lover and several hundred friends as they died of AIDS, unloved, of a disease brought on by the hunger for love.
I envy people's sentimental concepts of god. God is more terrible and more beautiful than a Biblical parable.
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hiearchies?
And even if one of them pressed me
suddenly against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us.
Every angel is terrifying…"
You also meet god in the body. Read Steinberg's "Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion" or Bataille's "Tears of Eros":
"The meaning of eroticism escapes anyone who cannot see its religious meaning. Reciprocally, the meaning of religion in its totality escapes anyone who disregards the link it has with eroticism....Dionysos is the god of the feast, the god of religious transgression. Dionysos is seen most often as the god of the vine and of drunkenness. Dionysos is a drunken god, the god whose divine essence is madness. But, to begin with, madness is itself of divine essence. Divine, which is to say, it denies the law of reason..."
If ever I saw god, it was in the wounds of my lover and several hundred friends as they died of AIDS, unloved, of a disease brought on by the hunger for love.
I envy people's sentimental concepts of god. God is more terrible and more beautiful than a Biblical parable.
