MY FRIENDS THRILLING PSYCHOANALYTIC CONTRAST BETWEEN FALSE FAITH AND TRUE FAITH IN THE FORM OF TWO CORNERSTONE OLD TESTAMENT PERSONALITIES. “ISHMAEL AND ISAAC: TWO FACES OF FAITH”~~A POEM EXPLORING THE NATURE OF EACH OF TWO OPPOSING ASPECTS OF BIBLICAL FAITH. The faith of devils is a lawless vacant womb Of barren fear and trembling, the demon tomb Of its own dry life of dark desire’s void~~// It can bait, fascinate, infatuate, captivate, Like gifts; prate, fabricate, articulate like sales pitch; Like adroit turns and twists Of schizophrenic fits of personality It can improvisate, duplicate, impersonate reality-- Especially the actuality of true spirituality! It eschews the supremacy of Yahweh’s rule of law; It issues from its own evil, fatal flaw: An illegality innate, reprobate, Eating desolate the soul’s distillate, the God-awe! Immaculate as angel of false light, It assimilates, stimulates the spiritual senses, Insinuates to destroy Faith’s defences With the pure, forking flash of the white- Streaking brash, bright obscurity of lies and blight Of the pride that instigated, illuminated, Inflated it, alienated it from its lightning strikes That one day fell from the heights of the Morning Star! Cast down to earth, in horrors steeped, from far Beneath the burning dungeons of the howling damned It can obfuscate innocent eyes that are craven, crammed With novitiate’s naïvete of worship blind, perfective! This Hagar bastard-faith perspective Does vacillate, capitulate, dawdle with envy, mock And violate the holy commands; It hates, recriminates that it can’t reverse the hands And promises of God’s prophetic clock In order to vindicate, validate its prior birth As the seed and stock The Almighty should have preferred! Despite its boast, fake testimony, mirth Of lying signs and wonders undeterred, False faith, unfastened from God’s Law, no power finds, And binds and blinds the Samson of our strength (Our trust and obedience), having shorn the length Of our protected power that dallied with subservience To transgressor’s hour that overthrew Horeb’s Ten Words and sense as we wallowed in the arid heat intense Which crept throughout the lustful impotence That slept within the lap of our illicit Delilah impudence! The faith of devils is a lawless vacant womb Of barren fear and trembling, the demon tomb Of its own dry life of dark desire’s void. Ishmael is dead as any desiccated, Negev dendroid Fossil petrified by some damnation asteroid, Itself electrified with torrid bitterness Because no Mother Sarah matrix lays claim To the delinquent, wandering bastardy as name! Isaac lives, lush with the life of Mount Moriah’s fame! The faith does still defy the desert rock to bloom Belief bound to obey the kindling, knife, and flame Of the sacrificial Thus Saith The Lord” Which must always dominate the whole devoted life, Notwithstanding personal passions, possessions, Family, friends, country, wife: Whatever a Gerizim, or Temple Mount, Gethsemane, a Calvary Hill appoints or demands, It knows belief, as love, in truest honour stands When duty’s act makes willing progression From merely emotive verbal profession To loving faith living in heart’s obedient concession! The Faith of our Father, Abraham, alone creates, Alone avails to supplicate, regenerate, “Them who…were all their lifetime subject to bondage”— Servitude to the searing waste of moral-spiritual turpitude! Only the Sacrificed Living Faith of God— Nothing but the Lawful Faith that’s trod The Dolorosa to death on The Cross, To Resurrection’s “First-Begotten” from the loss And death of sin, can find the Lamb within The thickets of life’s dense tribulation! The patriarch’s trust translates Moreh’s situation Into the Mount of the Son’s Transfiguration! We are “heirs of God”, share with Christ royal egality: All by His obedience unto death, His loyal legality! The Negev Desert (ancient Bible land Abraham traversed countless times), Israel.
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 21:42:44 +0000
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