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Reasons For Seasons

Honey. 
A question.

One?

For now.
Subject to chain-reaction change.

As long as we're clear
about our lack of restraining rules.

Quite so, dear.
I'm wondering about that line
"Jesus is the reason
for the Season."
What was the reason
before JesusSeason?

I mean,
Joseph and Mary
and their parents,
What was their reason
for this Season?
Whatever they called early Winter
back in better
and perhaps somewhat cooler atmospheric days?

They had Hanukkah
I suppose.
But it was more of a political victory celebration
and I'm not sure if it was in December.

What about the Solstice
or fertility rights and wrongs
and other confusing
and often bloody industrious
things of that sort?

Solstice maybe.
But fertility and harvest thereof...
Well, doesn't sound like the reason
for this Season.

Maybe the butchering and harvest part
if you're in retail
within Christendom.

Or hospitality.

Speaking of hospitality,
didn't that visit to Bethlehem
have something to do with an end of year inventory
or census
or something about adding things up
and planning for the future?

So the reason
for this Season
was death and taxes?

Maybe sales tax revenues.
They used to count productive heads.
Now we add up business profits
as Sacred Advent
anticipates income tax Season
with dread.

A very warming thought
dearest.

I think we would do better
to sing
Jesus is A good reason
for the Season.

More of a traditional excuse
for blatant commercialism
and collecting taxes from poor people
for most of Christendom
wouldn't you say?

You're so cynical
in the morning.
And by evening
comatose.

That's right dear.
A range of cynical through comatose.

Which probably has something to do with this dark Solstice.

Another reason for Advent Season.

Another question comes to mind.

Of course, dear,
as we both knew,
your curiosity grows insatiable.

What if Gaia
is just another name
for Holy Spirit?

And Holy Spirit
was just another KingJames name
for Spiritus Mundi
of Greek nondualistic nature-spirit mystics
speaking with Rabbinical scholars
over two thousand years ago,
while Jesus listened?

What if a post-millennial
Second Transitional Coming
of Indra's NetZero Polyphonic Age
was another way of feeling
CoMessianic Sacred Becoming
one Body of continuously Holy EnSpiriting Christendom?

Christ
as ethological reason
for CoMessianic Advent Seasons
gifting grace forward
through Matriarchal Gaian Mundi EnSpiritus.


Any good Jewish son,
in historical times and languages of Jesus
the Nazarene,
would know,
If a question of authentic interpretation of teaching,
of Original Intent
of a divine law or teaching,
a nature-spirit rule,
such as a WinWin Golden MultiCulturing Rule,
were to co-arise,
It is our unchanging exegetically orthodox Tradition
that discerning authorities
must turn to Rabbinical lines of the Teacher
to discover contextual evidence
for Original Intent.

It might, then, be important to Jesus the Nazarene evangelists
of truly good news,
to remember Greek nature-mystic nondual philosophies
embraced by pre-industrialized,
AgrarianCentric 
Gaian EcoSystemic MetaPhysicians
of natural-spiritual polypathic wisdom,

Listening and watching MotherEarth's 
spiraling Win-Win revolutions
and Win-Lose LeftBrain reactionary over-investments
in retributive justice
against egocentric hubris,
and older root degenerative messages

To Lose ecopolitically
predicts to Lose ecologically
predicts to Lose biologically
predicts to Lose psychologically
throughout post-industrial
Great Transitional
ReStoration
of Original NatureSpirit Gaian Issues
and Intent,
Ecological Deep LivingWater Means
and Sacred Wisdom WombWays.

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