Bridal Chamber

My Self portrait.
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Holy, holy, holy,

Baptism, Eucharist, and Matrimony.

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And there before me was the sun-like Son.

He wore a crown of light

and sent down a river of fire!

Holy, holy, holy, Christ is come to Baptize:

I enter the stream; my life is washed clean;

he has lifted me up into his Presence, redeemed.

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The reverse-flowing Jordan rises up to the Sky;

my world is laid waste; my ego denied.

It flows into the mouth of the shining-like Son;

holy, holy, holy, a Eucharist now comes!

He hungers for me, to make me his feast;

swallows me whole; my life to complete.

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High inside his Church up in Heaven above

a marriage will wed us forever in love.

I enter the chamber, where two are One only;

holy, holy, holy, the mystery of inner Matrimony.

In his fusion of light, the Priest of the Son

has joined us together. Thy will is now done.

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Through three sacramental rites

I offer up my separate life.

A burnt meal of my ego sacrificed

delivers my Spirit unto Thee realized.

A priestly pronouncement has dispelled my con-fusion,

holy, holy, holy, "Let there be Union."

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Jesus as a serpent-god from bas-relief in Egypt.

This drawing was made by a member of Napoleon's army in 1798, one hundred years before the same face appeared to the world`for the first time ever' on the photograph of the Shroud of Turin.