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From: tyagI@houseofkaos.Abyss.coM (tyagi mordred nagasiva)
To: alt.magick
Subject: Burning Bibles 451 :> (9408.bblburn.ttm)
Date: 49940824
Quoting: |sahr@thuja.FSL.ORST.EDU (Kevin Sahr)
and "Theophane the Monk (Idries Shah?)
|Please; if it is your inclination to tell me to simply toss the
|bible in the fire and forget about it, I would prefer that you
|enjoy your opinion in silence....
:> Here you go:
"I've been going there on retreat each year for the past forty years.
Each time it's the same, yet somehow always different. The first
time I went I forgot to bring my Bible. When I asked the guestmaster
if I could borrow a Bible, he said, 'Wouldn't you care to write your
own?'
"'What do you mean?'
"'Well, write your own Bible - something of your own on the order of the
Bible. You could tell of a classical bondage and the great liberation,
a promised land, sacred songs, a messiah - that kind of thing. Ought
to be much more interesting than just reading someone else's Bible.
And you might learn more.'
"Well, I set to work. It took me a month. I never learned so much about
the official Bible. When I was finished, he recommended I take it home
and try to live according to it for a year. I should keep a journal of
my experience. But I shouldn't tell anybody about the project, nor show
anyone the books. Next year, after Christmas, I could come back for
another retreat.
"It was quite a year. An eye-opener. Most certainly I had never put so
much energy and alertness into living by the official Bible as I was
putting into living by this one. And my daily meditations had never
been so concentrated.
"When I arrived back for my next retreat, he greeted me very warmly,
took into his hands my Bible and my journal, kissed them with greatest
reverence, and told me I could now spend a couple of days and nights
in the Hall of the Great Fire. On the last night of the year, I should
consign my two books to the flames. And that's what I did. A whole
year's wisdom and labor - into the Great Fire. Afterwards he set me
to work writing another Bible.
"And so it went, these past forty years. Each year a new Bible, a new
journal, and then at the end of the year - into the flames. Until now
I have never told anyone about this."
_Tales of a Magic Monastery_, by Theophane the Monk, pp. 43-4.
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