Christ, Adam, Mary, Sophia, Eli and Lucifer, Parvati, the eucharist, and Zen

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We are the miracle and mystery of this implausible happening.

Christ has merged with Adam, Mary with Sophia, Eli with Lucifer, and the difference between above and below, inside and out, is extinguished without conflict, contradiction, or effort.

            At a certain point She has, the Goddess, become Gauri, a manifestation of Parvati. Now there is no difference between inside and out.

The living eucharist of mind and matter, spirit and soul, Christ and Sophia, the body and the blood, all meet in the heart. And so one need only trust in the Spirit of Christ, and the Soul of Sophia, both which are within you.

The spirit knows what the soul does not. But the soul feels what the spirit does not. And what the soul feels is love. And when love does not exist the soul feels sorrow or rage. And for that the soul lives a truth which the spirit will never know. Not, at least, until the spirit loves the soul.

Sixteen years earlier I had begun my inner journey after reading some Haikus and a couple of books on Zen Buddhism. That was when my old reality began to crumble, and I set off on an odyssey through the labyrinth of myth and madness which took me on an epic that came full-circle, back to the portal of true liberation.

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These fragments and quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.