by Felicity Artemis Flowers
from an alt.pagan post, 11/17/94
You breath in, you breath out. As you breath in, you breath in the life force, the power that is your birthright. As you breath out, you exhale powerlessness, exhale victimization. As you breath in, you breath in power, the power of life and of love. You exhale despair, exhale self-hatred. Inhale self love, self knowing, wisdom. And with that power and knowing that is your birthright, imagine all over the world, all over this globe, the people of the earth finally, finally, take my poor bleeding son off that cross.
Hes been up there for so long. They never leave him alone. He is always bleeding there, tortured in our psyches. Lets take him down, pull out those nails, gently, lovingly, lift him off the cross and lay him at last to rest in the earth, in the fertile earth. And together with the cross that has been used for his torture, bury them together in the sacred womb of the fertile earth, never to be seen again around anyones neck as a little gold charm, or anywhere at all. No longer the symbols of suffering or torture and victimization would energize the psyche of the human race.
That symbol is never to be seen again. Instead the human family is united, never to be manipulated into violence or annihilation by the politicians or religious leaders. And in that place where we have buried these symbols, see a tree growing. Watch it grow, watch it bust from the earth. This is the tree of life, this is the wisdom of the goddess, that life is sacred, its our bottom line, is what we know. Let truth be born in this place so that all of the spiritual symbols that we use, are of life, and all of life, the rock, the star, the tree, the womb, our bodies, are all religious symbology. Let this image permeate human consciousness so that the people of this planet will finally stop torturing themselves and others.
As we will it so it is done.