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from Book of Love

Jon Leon

Holy Fire

I give my love to God

so that God can give it to you

I feel I am always right there

kneeling

you write to me in letters

of the stone upon your altar

and I wonder, have you dispensed with all named things

regarding the path I had begun before our last meeting

according to these notes

I had begun a process to aid those in my company

in the spring of the previous year

about the third month

what I have been able to demonstrate

I live in that presence

I don't even call God God

many have no idea

what bliss I serve

may those who have ears 

may they hear 

I have never blasphemed the Holy Spirit

I tell you 

it was like the way it was in the colony

speaking only awesome gospels

I didn't understand then that 

the body of believers

were to love this life in secret 

my sister, this is the happiest moment of my life

I write to you from the kingless realm

when I tell you where it is—

you will watch your world now in blazes

Book of Love

dear friends and initiates 

I know you are scattered across the land 

many of you 

I can scarcely remember 

because of the distance 

from the time of my philippic

it has been nigh seven years since, I left this world 

remember 

it was in the time of Paul Thomas Anderson's 

The Master

in which I wondered, then

if impossible things were possible simply

because they said they were not 

I did not know then where the spirit would lead me

since that time

I have lived the life of a contemplative 

in places I barely recognize 

because of the division 

and the suffering that comes 

it is everywhere 

now look here 

I write of the Word that liberates all beings

but it is in me 

who will take it out 

they were mistaken 

as if one so called would practice remarkable works in front of groups

for their own sake 

they don't read this 

for free people, and those who desire freedom 

love that loves us

and those who have not yet acknowledged their desire 

I assure you: there is darkness within the darkness

from the center of eternity—

from whence it comes

take off your raiment 

that grace and peace be with you in abundance

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