Becoming Spiritual with metaphors of hedonism (wine, sex & beautiful maiden) part 2
Becoming Spiritual with metaphors of hedonism (wine, sex & beautiful maiden)
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Anyways. What youth doesn't experience some kind of apprehension at fear of NOT attaining (or attaining) Romantic Union (as a beloved husband and wife does with each other) in a true chaste Bahai Marriage? IMHO there is a certain kind of way to trick the mind away from being unchaste in the midst of loneliness in A LOT of Bahai writings telling us forget our lives for spiritual ecstacy, be patient, and take a certain amount of pain of facing our enemies and adversaries we ever experience true loving Union. The Seven Valleys seems to suggest this very vividly:
At last, the tree of his longing yielded the fruit of despair, and the fire of his hope fell to ashes. Then one night he could live no more, and he went out of his house and made for the marketplace. On a sudden, a watchman followed 14 after him. He broke into a run, with the watchman following; then other watchmen came together, and barred every passage to the weary one. And the wretched one cried from his heart, and ran here and there, and moaned to himself: "Surely this watchman is Izra'il, my angel of death, following so fast upon me; or he is a tyrant of men, seeking to harm me." His feet carried him on, the one bleeding with the arrow of love, and his heart lamented. Then he came to a garden wall, and with untold pain he scaled it, for it proved very high; and forgetting his life, he threw himself down to the garden.
And there he beheld his beloved with a lamp in her hand, searching for a ring she had lost. When the heart-surrendered lover looked on his ravishing love, he drew a great breath and raised up his hands in prayer, crying: "O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman, and riches and long life. For the watchman was Gabriel, guiding this poor one; or he was Israfil, bringing life to this wretched one!"
(Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys, p. 13)
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At last, the tree of his longing yielded the fruit of despair, and the fire of his hope fell to ashes. Then one night he could live no more, and he went out of his house and made for the marketplace. On a sudden, a watchman followed 14 after him. He broke into a run, with the watchman following; then other watchmen came together, and barred every passage to the weary one. And the wretched one cried from his heart, and ran here and there, and moaned to himself: "Surely this watchman is Izra'il, my angel of death, following so fast upon me; or he is a tyrant of men, seeking to harm me." His feet carried him on, the one bleeding with the arrow of love, and his heart lamented. Then he came to a garden wall, and with untold pain he scaled it, for it proved very high; and forgetting his life, he threw himself down to the garden.
And there he beheld his beloved with a lamp in her hand, searching for a ring she had lost. When the heart-surrendered lover looked on his ravishing love, he drew a great breath and raised up his hands in prayer, crying: "O God! Give Thou glory to the watchman, and riches and long life. For the watchman was Gabriel, guiding this poor one; or he was Israfil, bringing life to this wretched one!"
(Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys, p. 13)
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My first thought: Have you ever read Song of Songs?? It's the book of the Bible wherein Solomon declares and describes his love for God in a very sexualized context. It's a weird read, given that you don't often see something like that, but fascinating in its symbolic dimension.
My next thoughts: Hedonistic metaphor for the spiritual is a good and necessary thing. Like how Jesus spent his time among the lost and those in darkness, you want to be able to speak to those who need these teachings the most. In other words, you want to communicate your message of detachment and spirituality to those who practice hedonism and materialism, those are the people who need detachment and spirituality the most, after all.
And to communicate to those people, what better way to describe things but with hedonistic and materialistic metaphor?? Speaking in a language they would understand and be able to process.
My next thoughts: Hedonistic metaphor for the spiritual is a good and necessary thing. Like how Jesus spent his time among the lost and those in darkness, you want to be able to speak to those who need these teachings the most. In other words, you want to communicate your message of detachment and spirituality to those who practice hedonism and materialism, those are the people who need detachment and spirituality the most, after all.
And to communicate to those people, what better way to describe things but with hedonistic and materialistic metaphor?? Speaking in a language they would understand and be able to process.
No I haven't. Solomon was the son of David who defeated the Giant Goliath built a Great Temple had almost 1,000 wives many of whom were mind controlled sex slaves & spoils of war (if you really think what a kingdom entails without the balance of a queen in monogomous union) is still venerated and today in the Occult world especially Free Masonry. His kingdom fell apart shortly after he died. He was the bane of the Jews ever since. Abdul Baha says somewhere Israel fell into discord after Solomon's reign of terror.
Okay so I'm gonna get around to fetching & pasting that Ocean Software's search results for "SOLOMON" where Abdu'l-Baha essentially says spiritual Judaism's peak was with tyrant Solomon and if you are so determined to contradict me. Why are you hesitating to show some kind of quote to support otherwise? Are you even the least bit of a Bahai advocate or apologist? Or Are you somekind of weird Talmudic jew following crap that according to Bahais is either fraud or rendered obsolete a long time ago?
I guess why I brought up this old last jewish King with any semblence of an advanced civiliation for those ancient times is he was an elitist and a hedonist and in a sense corrupted. Good article here why: https://www.gotquestions.org/Solomon-wives-concubines.html If you want to discuss King Solomon some with me some more please start another thread.
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