in the likeness of our god

the cruel gift the dark gaze

the neoconic birthmark

yelling heil hitler heil hitler

we're hitler hailing

calling forth his ghosts

for new hungry hosts

for new examinations

and new exterminations

for new-jews re-imagined 

by the sure purification

of the ole human race

to form a new people

in the likeness of our god

*Reflections of Jean Sulivan:

  -Was it necessary to hold God back?

  -Your mission is to turn us back toward our center so we can find strength and love in ourselves.

  -People were so attached to formulas justifying submission and pain that the formulas had become sacred.

  -The benevolent backward glance one gives to an age past is never anything but disguised pity.

  -Hers was a system of social pressure justified by pious ideology, which neutralized criticism while permitting the wealthy to further enrich themselves and the powerful to rule.  Because of it, my mother was never able to connect the Gospel that lived within her and her social existence.  The message of liberation gave her neither assurance nor pride, and was ultimately only an inner melody distinct from the conventional language that did her thinking and directed her life.

  -...if we consent to be what we are and descend to the immemorial common basis of reality, we will happily discover that we are being guided.

  -...no society, however just and free, could be human if each person did not have his and her own space.  One needs space in order to have access to one's own spirit - not as a shelter, but as a springboard.  I also insisted that today and the present moment are more important than any projects or plans.