Essays to the Contrary

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  • The Light of Genesis, by Dr. Omar

    SEPTEMBER 2018 ABSTRACT: The author looks at the original work metaphorically, equating light with governance, waters with human beings, darkness with evil, and the deep with re- vealed wisdom and knowledge, etc. He relates the whole to Old Testament Cove- nants and contemporary events in terms of New Testament and Islamic scriptures. KEY WORDS: agape,…

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  • The Putin Deception

    Editor’s Note:  I always respected Putin, admired him even, but never trusted him. I discussed this with former colleagues, almost all of whom appeared deaf.   – oz By Tim Fitzpatrick: July 2, 2018 Putin inaugurated by Archbishop Kirill   “At present, Russia appears to be feigning a return to conservatism and Orthodoxy as part…

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  • THE PROVENANCE OF MISRULE by Dr. Omar

    So the un-wanting soul sees what is hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. ~ Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching) Licit heterosexual intercourse activates beneficial energy potentials when sexual need and desire—neither of which we had a hand in crafting and both of which we are inexplicably subject to—meet in submission to…

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  • ESOTERIC ASPECTS OF CONSUMMATION by Dr. Omar

    I cannot exist without you,” he wrote . “I could be martyr’d for my Religion —Love is my religion — I could die for that —I could die for you.  ~ Keats The crude understanding of sexuality as an urge that is resolved and fulfilled in consummative intercourse holds no sway in esoteric concerns… Eroticism…

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