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The Hearkening

"The Hearkening" In the woods a clearing bare of all leaves and trees, with exception one The ground is borderless, yet hallowed dirt and sharp rocks They call this place, The Place of the Skull The woods disappear in thick mist A tree stands tall branches outstretched devoid of all leaves Not Dogwood, a tall barren pine maybe cedar, maybe cypress no Hollow Hills hanging tree, this, a titulus affixed IESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDAEORVM Footprints, singular mark the loose soil at the base of the tree a blood red crown of flowers Corona de Cristo Thorns There, with patience, He watches There, with patience, He waits Torn, The captive monk named Cyrene walks barefoot towards the tree compelled to bear another story for He, he hesitates, opening himself like a book he lowers himself to the ground and supplicates there is time "There", is All of Time, temporal paradox there, He waits Cyrene, “The Hearkening” is in his name An open book, he supplicates The other walks forward, speaks to him softly, “Here is a story, just for you, for today. Listen closely to me, for it is in your name.” (LadyLabyrinth/2019) gvlm/scm Easter 2019 Luke 23:33 https://youtu.be/pnWWWyxb5kQ Peter Murphy/"Fake Sparkle or Golden Dust" NIV John 19:19 Luke 23:26 John 10:14

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Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:13:00 PM

“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.” DH Lawrence

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 4/21/2019 7:55:00 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 4/21/2019 7:25:00 PM

Now this - this is BEAUTIFUL. "The Sophia of Jesus Christ", The Nag Hammadi Library - [http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sjc.html]

Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
Date: 4/21/2019 6:26:00 PM

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/lionheart_1015885?title=lionheart&id=1015885

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:12:00 PM

SIMON OF CYRENE. Below, Wiki; And (Revert notes under Shiva re: SIMON OF CYRENE - (2) Surviving Crucifixion; (3)Nag Hammadi Library; (4)Second Treatise of the Great Seth; (5)SUBSTITUTION HYPOTHESIS; (6) Islam).

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/21/2019 8:17:00 PM

SIMON OF CYRENE, Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_Cyrene

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:11:00 PM

Ziziphus spina-christi

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/21/2019 10:03:00 PM

Crown of Thorns - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_thorns

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2019 6:07:00 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziziphus_spina-christi

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:11:00 PM

In the Levant, a hundred years ago, it was called sidr (associated with the Lote-trees of the Quran) and was common in the Jordan Valley and around Jerusalem.here were some folklore traditions that said the trees were protected by benevolent spirits or dead saints (weli). By some traditions, it was the tree from which Jesus' crown of thorns was made.Matthew George Easton argues that the spina-christi is too brittle to be bent into a crown, and suggests another local plant which he says is called "nabk" may have been used to make the crown of thorns Jesus wore.

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:08:00 PM

“Nabk”/Ziziphus Lotus

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:11:00 PM

Ziziphus lotus is often regarded as the lotus tree of Greek mythology. It is thought to be referenced in the Odyssey, consumed by the Lotus-Eaters as a narcotic to induce peaceful apathy.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:09:00 PM

In Arabic-speaking regions the Ziziphus lotus and alternatively the jujube are closely associated with the lote-trees (sidr) which are mentioned in the Quran, while in Palestine it is rather the Ziziphus spina-christi that is called sidr. Elsewhere in the Arab world the European and Chinese jujubes are also associated with the Lote-trees (sidr).

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:09:00 PM

A sacred lotus tree planted near the temple of Vulcan in Rome was said to have been planted by Romulus, who is said to have been a contemporary of the composer[s] of the Odyssey (8th century BCE); it was still standing some 700 years later, in the time of Pliny the Elder

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:08:00 PM

The nineteenth century English explorer, Richard Francis Burton reported seeing an ancient sidr tree in the mosque containing the Prophet Muhammad's tomb in Medina. It was in a garden dedicated to the prophet's daughter, Fatimah. The fruit from the tree was being sold to pilgrims and its leaves used for washing dead bodies

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:07:00 PM

Corona de Cristo/Euphorbia milii

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:07:00 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_milii

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:06:00 PM

Titulus

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:06:00 PM

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/INRI

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:05:00 PM

Peter Murphy, “Fake Sparkle, or Golden Dust” Lyrics.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 2:05:00 PM

https://genius.com/Peter-murphy-fake-sparkle-or-golden-dust-lyrics

Lady Labyrinth

Date: 4/19/2019 2:04:00 PM

(1)Shiva;(2) Surviving Crucifixion; (3) Nag Hammadi Library; (4)Second Treatise of the Great Seth; (5)Substitution Hypothesis; (6) Islam; (7) Cardiologist's perspective; (8) Salvador Mundi/Da Vinci x 3; (9) Forensics defending authentication of Shroud.

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2019 6:09:00 AM

(1) Shiva/["The Trimurti is a concept in Hinduism in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified by the forms of Brahma the creator,Vishnu the maintainer or preserver and Shiva the destroyer or transformer. These three deities have been called "the Hindu triad" or the "Great Trinity"."] https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/deities/shiva.shtml

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2019 6:01:00 AM

(2) Surviving Crucifixion http://www.humanreligions.info/jesus_survived_crucifixion.html

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2019 5:31:00 AM

(3) Nag Hammadi Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2019 5:24:00 AM

(4) Second Treatise of the Great Seth/Simon of Cyrene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Treatise_of_the_Great_Seth ["Second Treatise of the Great Seth is an apocryphal Gnostic writing discovered in the Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi codices and dates to around the third century. The author is unknown, and the Seth referenced in the title appears nowhere in the text. Instead Seth is thought to reference the third son of Adam and Eve to whom gnosis was first revealed, according to some gnostics. The author appears to belong to a group of gnostics who maintain that Jesus Christ was not crucified on the cross. Instead the text says that Simon of Cyrene was mistaken for Jesus and crucified in his place"].

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/20/2019 5:20:00 AM

(5) Substitution Hypothesis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_hypothesis

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 11:21:00 PM

(6) Islamic Perspective, Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_views_on_Jesus%27_death

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 10:07:00 PM

(7) A Cardiologist's Perspective/"The Swoon Hypothesis" -https://www.reviewofreligions.org/11445/jesus-christ-did-not-die-on-the-cross-a-cardiologists-perspective-2/

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 9:26:00 PM

(8) Salvador Mundi/Da Vinci - (8.1) [https://youtu.be/N382dggI4C0]; (8.2) Article dispelling Da Vinci of faking Shroud [https://www.gingkoedizioni.it/the-turins-shroud-leonardo-da-vinci-is-innocent/]

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 8:54:00 PM

(8.3) Da Vinci /Camera Obscura - https://youtu.be/GneGHYpyyPg

Lady Labyrinth
Date: 4/19/2019 8:53:00 PM

(9) Forensics defending authentication of Shroud of Turin/Jesus. Good Shepherd Productions - https://youtu.be/pdwnTpWXi3M