Seeing is Believing!

[J Asher]

I was abandoned at the entrance of a fire station, by parents I never knew.

As a soldier and medic, I often witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I’d long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

“Why must the innocent suffer most of all?”

I didn’t know to even hope for an answer.
Yet, the answer surely came.

“They need not suffer as they do.”

A voice unlike any other.
I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow, Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

“Read aloud.”

Before me is an open book and I begin.

--John Asher

Theaphanies

 

[TransmutingSoul]

I was abandoned at the entrance of a fire station, by parents I never knew.

As a soldier and medic, I often witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I’d long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

“Why must the innocent suffer most of all?”

I didn’t know to even hope for an answer.
Yet, the answer surely came.

“They need not suffer as they do.”

A voice unlike any other.
I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow, Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

“Read aloud.”

Before me is an open book and I begin.

--John Asher

Theaphanies

Good to meet you John. Regards Tony

 

[nPeace]

I was abandoned at the entrance of a fire station, by parents I never knew.

As a soldier and medic, I often witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I’d long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

“Why must the innocent suffer most of all?”

I didn’t know to even hope for an answer.
Yet, the answer surely came.

“They need not suffer as they do.”

A voice unlike any other.
I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow, Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

“Read aloud.”

Before me is an open book and I begin.

--John Asher

Theaphanies

Welcome John.

 

[nPeace]

I was abandoned at the entrance of a fire station, by parents I never knew.

As a soldier and medic, I often witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I’d long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

“Why must the innocent suffer most of all?”

I didn’t know to even hope for an answer.
Yet, the answer surely came.

“They need not suffer as they do.”

A voice unlike any other.
I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow, Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

“Read aloud.”

Before me is an open book and I begin.

--John Asher

Theaphanies

Are you the souce of the idea on the page you linked, or someone else?

 

[Sgt. Pepper]

I was abandoned at the entrance of a fire station, by parents I never knew.

As a soldier and medic, I often witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I’d long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

“Why must the innocent suffer most of all?”

I didn’t know to even hope for an answer.
Yet, the answer surely came.

“They need not suffer as they do.”

A voice unlike any other.
I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow, Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

“Read aloud.”

Before me is an open book and I begin.

--John Asher

Theaphanies

Welcome to Religious Forums. I hope you enjoy your time here.

 

[J Asher]

Are you the souce of the idea on the page you linked, or someone else?

I produced this original and unique material.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 12

Earth and Heaven connect
and in a flash, you awaken.

No tear you shed is wasted.
No upwelling of love is for naught.

The truth you must
have to prevail offends
neither conscience
nor reason.

Together, we transform
destruction into life renewed.

Now and forever
you shine forth,
a living jewel.

I speak to you
of love undying;
for indeed, you are
the heirs of eternity.

Beauty unmatched will rise
within a wreckage of flesh.
Then the ruin falls away,
to reveal what has been
wrought therein, shining forever.

Love beyond purchase
by all you have, is given
freely for who you are.

For the pure love of light,
each flower opens to this world.

Flesh is a vital step, upon
which you now tread to rise.

For a moment, see yourself
through My eyes;
where you shine
more lovely than the stars.

My child, I love you fiercely
and beyond all telling.

In you, I find My joy.
In you, My heart
walks upon this earth.

Your every moment
and act of virtue
make a luminous imprint
upon eternity;
fully and forever revealed.

From out of silence
comes the voice of reason,
unheard in the din.

My truth is not
stiffly fixed and static,
but is the ever-rising
expression of Loving Wisdom.

Even your bones
forget one another.

Though together they formed,
were born, grew and worked
in your purpose, even so.

Scattered, buried or burned,
even they forget.

I do not.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 11

Those loved and lost
seem absent beyond recall,
yet they are by your side
and know your courage.

Stars are given by which
you may set your course
and many worthy paths
lead you home.

Resuming Eternity,
you reawaken to
incorruptible truth.

I welcome you back home;
to the warm embrace of all
those you have ever loved.

Your Eternal Family.

You were not created
for static perfection,
but to accomplish
a far greater wonder.

Through freedom
of will and experience;
you embed the indelible stamp
of your individual journey
as a unique and intricately
layered being.

You demonstrate such
courage in choosing this life
and the challenges
facing you along the way.

At last, you learn to create
far more than destroy.

Overcoming adversity,
you rise to strength
beyond arch and pillar.

This world is where the brave
grow strong in love and wisdom.

Man’s unequal law
too often results
in punishment by others,
far more guilty.

The violation of natural law
is self-destruction;
inflicted by and upon oneself.

The law is first honored
by the true justice
of its construction
and application.

Justice is a fully human value.
The law is to approach that value,
or it is less than nothing.

Do not allow law and virtue
to remain in opposition.

 

[Trailblazer]

I was abandoned at the entrance of a fire station, by parents I never knew.

As a soldier and medic, I often witnessed firsthand and closeup, the suffering of innocent women and children.

I’d long been deeply troubled by such memories, until I was finally overwhelmed and cried aloud,

“Why must the innocent suffer most of all?”

I didn’t know to even hope for an answer.
Yet, the answer surely came.

“They need not suffer as they do.”

A voice unlike any other.
I turn and She is there.

Beautiful and familiar somehow, Her light embraces me and within it, I awaken.

She places Her hand upon my head and says,

“Read aloud.”

Before me is an open book and I begin.

--John Asher

Theaphanies

Welcome to RF. We appreciate creative people here and we need more of them.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 10

Here in this place,
now at this moment;
deep in a remote
and silent wilderness,
or in the crowded
loneliness of a city;
even when you know it not,
I am with you.

Long before
the merging of bodies,
your imperishable essence
was conceived in a union
of pure spirit.

In the womb was your body
formed, molded and nurtured,
woven layer upon layer;
crafted to a purpose.

Your physicality is a composition,
arranged for your worthy use.

In detail beyond that which
your eye may perceive;
each tiniest portion of you,
formed in love.

Well do I know and number
every pulsing of your heart.

In the midst of deep suffering
and bottomless sorrow;
when stricken by
confusion and uncertainty;
though you may stand
a lonely vigil, I am there.

Even as you are transfixed
and stare unblinking
into an abysmal darkness;
be strong and patient,
be still and listen.

Hear My gentle voice,
asking you to step back
from that edge
and look upward.

You are never forsaken,
nor forgotten;
never abandoned,
nor discarded.

You are accompanied
throughout all change
and in your darkest night.

In every moment you are loved
beyond measure and description.

Not because you are perfect,
but because My love for you
has no limit.

I am in the warmth of sunlight
and the quenching of rain.

I pour forth My gifts
of warm light, clean air,
fertile ground and living water.

I provide that
generous abundance
by which this hopeful cradle;
your nest-world
is nourished and filled.

Each universe and the worlds
within are vessels of life.

You are not the only flower
in My vast gardens.

Even those twin trees;
of Knowledge and of Life,
are but two among many.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 9

I prefer you to walk in peace
on the earth than walk on water
and dwell not upon the past,
but this very moment.

Even now,
you are embraced on every side
by miracles awaiting your notice.

There is more
to your life and being;
far more to understand
and become than
you will yet imagine.

Though you learn much,
the mystery remains.

Many would teach you
to despise yourself and thereby,
cause you unseen pain
beyond their power to inflict.

No longer be an accomplice
to your own harm.

Reclaim those keys which reveal truth.

For it is in the full exertion
of your most human faculties,
that love is with wisdom,
joined to power.

Long before the babe’s first cry
and after the last sigh of the old;
prior to your eye’s initial
opening to light and far beyond
its final closing upon this world;
each of you is deeply known
and treasured.

Not a single gesture, smile,
memory, moment of joy;
not one particle of wisdom,
nor your smallest loving action
is ever lost or forgotten.

In every understanding
which leads you forward;
in each flash of insight
and inspiration;
in your rise to Loving Wisdom
I rejoice and know sorrow
when you lose your way.

I feel with you, pleasure and pain;
share in your suffering and joy.

Every instant forever retains
its fullest meaning in
this sacred journey,
your ascent of dead matter
to living spirit.

Not for worship do I perform all,
but in loving generosity.

That life unfolds
and you ascend
to know and fulfill
your joyful destiny.

That which may now seem lost, is not.

Gentle, fierce and more
relentless than death, is love.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 8

In the forest laid low by fire,
a first flower rises from the ash
to begin the eternal process
of reclaiming ruin
for life and beauty.

In verdant fields,
I yearly offer you
living bouquets
of delicate wildflowers,
reaching toward the sunlight,
unfurling to dance
in the warm breeze.

You are blessed with
this most lovely world;
of splendid variety
and deep meaning.

Do not despoil your home,
for you are not alone here.

Neither this world,
nor the life upon and
within it may be owned.

You are a worthy part of this vast,
unfolding masterwork of life.
Begun in a process
older than the stars.

You are each a living note
in the song of all creation.

A song of such beauty
as to inspire many
to struggle against
hopeless odds and
of such power
that one alone may well prevail.

You now perceive
but a fragment
of all you are given.

Otherwise, you would be
overwhelmed to breathless tears;
by that beauty which surrounds
you and reveals Me.

I nourish the born
and the unborn,
composing the bond
of mother for child,
deeper than blood.

My touch is that gentle breeze
which stirs but a single leaf;
the delicate breath of
each sleeping infant.

Too often have I observed
the workings of inhuman will
serve oppression.

I well know
the continuing anguish
a few inflict upon so many.

Only those who have
endured suffering
are able to fully greet
the arrival of joy.

Your time of weeping
falls behind and is no more.

In the darkness
and through the pain;
I whisper softly to you
of undying love.

I delight in you,
My beloved child.
You give Me joy
simply in your being.

Of your reverence, I am worthy;
not by power alone is this so,
but by love.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 7

You cannot securely rise
to fulfill your destiny
until freed from that
which binds you still.

Free will is yours,
its promise and peril both.

You remain free to choose.

Without your complicity
or complacency,
you shall not be overcome.

When surrounded by
the hostile or the uncaring,
you do not stand alone;
for I am with you.

Evil is arrayed
that your free will
is surrendered
and reason overthrown.

Yet, they have no power
that you do not grant them.

You experience the reality
of your immortal self
and are immersed in that light,
which dissolves fear.

Strength beyond all former limits,
awaits your moment
of greatest need.

For an age, or an instant;
we pause to begin anew.

For the sake of this
troubled world, we resume.

No longer ruled by
the imaginings of men,
you rise above the dust
and ashes of the past
with something most precious.

Life itself unfolds
in My loving embrace.

Look, listen, feel and remember
all you truly are.

You do not need to believe.

As parents do for children,
I make sacrifices.
I do not make sacrifices
of My children.

You are no inert lump of clay,
but a unique being;
with whom I have
a loving relationship.
Not to shape you to My use,
but to share eternity.

Through every wound of flesh,
celestial light enters to meld
with your own lustrous creation;
uniquely faceted and imperishable.

The luminous core within
connects each to all.

That inmost particle,
already perfect;
is who you now
and are forever becoming.

Essential in this moment
is to know love
is stronger than hate.
For now, that alone is enough.

One breath proclaims
truth sufficient to heal
this entire world.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 6

You are made to rise
in eternal majesty;
not given as a gift unearned,
as though alms,
for you are no beggar.

You rise not upon innocent blood,
but by Loving Wisdom,
augmented by grace.

You are My child
and true heir to all that I am.

You do not yet know
your own full value.

Any parent worthy of that title
willingly suffers
for their child’s sake;
for to truly bear a child
is to end self-obsession.

Conceived neither
for submission nor
My selfish glory,
you are worthy of love;
for so have you been made.

You were created in
Our image and likeness;
by We, who as One,
lay the living
foundation of worlds.

As part of Me, I know you;
neither slave nor sheep.

Though you are forever My child,
your childhood now
draws to a close.

Let fall the veil.

My spirit flows within each of you,
the sacred heirs of eternal love.

You are not meant
for mindless conformity.

There are lessons
which prepare you
and from needless suffering,
I would gladly have you spared.

I deny you no opportunity
to confront and overcome
meaningful challenges,
that you achieve
your immortal rise.

I guide homeward those
lost by this careless world.

I make eternity worth having.

By Loving Wisdom, your wounds
are cleansed and life healed.

Thus is your world
remade a garden.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 5

Woman is neither the downfall,
nor the weaker vessel.

At such risk to her own life
and health does she bring
forth all the new, that no man
may rightly dictate her terms.

Until one half of humanity
utterly ceases to oppress the other,
what has been accomplished?

I share your anguish
without relief;
for I will not ask from you,
that of which
I am Myself unwilling.

Those that say one thing
and do another, are hypocrites.

Better an honest unbeliever
than a hypocrite.

May they rise above
that unworthy illusion
of a secondhand pardon
gained at another’s expense.

Do not pander to tyrants;
nor serve injustice
by your effort or silence.

None who seek power
over others are wise.

No victory is there
in ruling over a ruin.

Do not sell your honest labor
to those whose wealth
comes by way of corruption;
for in so doing,
you will have contributed
your own effort and value
to reward a thief.

Those who betray justice
and leave the corrupt
to retain their loot are complicit.

By derision and violence,
the lost seek to force
their rampant will
upon the knowing.

Until such wrongs
of the past are corrected
and not memorialized,
how shall the future improve?

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 4

Love does not flourish,
nor does wisdom thrive
in the long shadow of fear.

Fear is not reverence.
Fear is not
the beginning of wisdom.

Only those who
do willful harm
to the innocent
have cause to fear.

It is not We who change,
but you who are now
ready to understand
rather than merely believe.

It is from your own judgment
that you require saving.

No longer seek to move
forward while looking behind.

No matter how loudly,
long or often a lie is told;
it does not become true.

None are made guilty
by another’s act;
nor can any be
made pure, thereby.

Do not bully the helpless,
nor swindle the honest.

Do not enrich the corrupt,
nor impoverish the destitute.

May none bask in luxury
while children starve.

Slavery, in any form
is an abomination.

To free a slave is admirable,
to end slavery altogether is miraculous.

That same help
you have provided
or harm done to anyone,
you have done to yourself
and to Me also.

Become the awakening
conscience of this world.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 3

Good and evil are well recognized
by the intentional causation
or alleviation of suffering.

I require no violence
to forgive My children.

No scripture which demands
or sacralizes murder is true.

Does your own loving conscience
not tell you this already?

No spirit can truly
gain their own rise
atop the virtue of another.

I do not form covenants
on a slippery foundation of blood.

One of true conscience will not
follow evil; nor call evil, good.

It is when most believing
themselves righteous
that they become
truly monstrous.

Spilling innocent blood
works no ritual magic
to absolve the guilty.

To be forgiven,
simply do no more harm.
By this, I am well pleased.

Truth requires
no threats or coercion.

None may rightly manifest
their own destiny
at another’s expense.

How is a land promised to you,
if you must murder to obtain it?

My truth is not buried
in the dust-choked past.
It lives here and now.

I incite you all to peace
and mutual advantage.

For I so love the world,
that I have never made
tortured flesh any part
of forever embracing
My beloved children.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 2

As the child awakens
and smiles, does the loving
parent not smile in return?

The guidance of yesterday
does suffice no more,
even if it were whole and true.

I demonstrate why you
may wisely dare to hope.

I convey the needful truth
and now I speak to you.

Unworthy traditions polish
their empty container without,
harbor and protect filth within.

Forgiveness simply
requires no violence at all.

You are not punished
for your sins;
but suffer by them
and therein is
their fully sufficient evil.

Death is not final
and none are forever lost.

Suffering ends, while
all which is gained remains.

Unconquerable are those
who awaken to recall eternity,
while ensconced in flesh
to this most worthy purpose.

I prefer you to walk in peace
on the earth than walk on water
and dwell not upon the past,
but this very moment.

They move to self-fulfill
a prophecy of doom,
rather than prepare
a better future.

Even now, you are embraced
on every side by miracles
awaiting your notice.

Submission to mindless zeal
consumes many in the flames
of unquestioning obedience
to they know not what.

You, in whom
there is no surrender;
will save this world.

 

[J Asher]

Theaphany 1

I am the Unrivaled One,
whom all inevitably seek.

Natural as your urge to breathe;
closer than your own blood,
am I to you.

My secret,
waiting to be sought,
wanting to be found;
treasure beyond purchase,
freely bestowed.

I am that Eternal Source of Life,
which now flows through you,
departing only to return.

From you,
I withhold no good thing.

Arms outstretched to you,
I beckon.

To the newborn,
I offer a first breath
and receive from the dying,
their last.

When you know Me deeply,
you recognize Me in all that lives.

I am Keeper of the Living Record.
None are lost to Me.

I preside and do not need to rule.

I remember
those the world forgets.
I listen
to those the world ignores.
I cherish
those this world discards.

From confusion to clarity,
I raise you.

Across infinity,
throughout eternity;
there is but one of you,
far beyond rare.

Travel the world, but to find Me,
be still and listen quietly within.
For there, I await you.

Awaken, My child.

 

[J Asher]

Good to meet you John. Regards Tony

Thank you, Tony!