| IMAGINE a panoramic vision in your mind's
eye. Like a large blackboard laying not quite horizontally but on a slant.
At the top is the cross of Jesus. On the right of this vision (imagine seeing
it with your eyes now, so the right is relative to your eyes now) is strong
light and faint ladder-like steps. This is the Daughters of Mary Faith Path.
In the middle of the board are another ladder like steps. This is the Catholic
Theologians Faith Path. Faint barriers between the steps - you know by intuition
if you climbed onto a higher step, or descended onto a lower step. IMAGINE a man, small cartoon-like image but of ever such high quality, sitting on one of the upper steps and looking to his left (at the Daughters of Mary Faith Path). Now, in his thoughts Darth (the man) stands and imagines walking across to the Daughter's of Mary Faith Path. As he does, the vision alters into a splendid and serene vision. In the vision a woman in the uniform of a Missionaries of Charity tending to a field, she bending and checking the stalks. Darth (as a man) walks along a path and stops when he notices the woman. Catholic Faith Paths cause such settings that word flows are easy (like talking to someone in ordinary life except the flow contains a depth of mystery and a deep charm, its more a poetic like flow). Lisa-1: (turns when she sees a man on the path) Hello? What have you to do with me? Darth: Is it not written "when the Son of Man returns, will there be faith on Earth?" Lisa-1: (stands, walks to him, imagines herself pregnant, gives him a kiss) Don't say that. My faith gave birth..if I had no faith, we could not give birth to a child. Darth: No, my lovely one, you fell in love with me in the spirit, but no, you did not have that strong a faith. Your faith is golden in this path, and you are justified and sanctified by your deeds and the work you do, but no, you don't have that sort of faith. Yours is the faith of the spirit, not the flesh. Jesus had both, that is the whole point of Jesus. Lisa-1: (shrugs, walks away, Darth walks behind her) It is impossible for a woman in love to know or understand why she consents to a Faith Marriage. I had you, you had faith, therefore there was faith on Earth. Darth rushed a step, takes her elbow, causes her to stop and turn, and she comes close to him, gives him a kiss. Darth points to a man, an old man image with a cane, walking toward them on the path but as yet not aware of them. "What do we do with him?" "A Rabbi? From the Holy Ways?" Lisa-1 asks. "Aha. That is what I sense. Complication is, he is not supposed to walk on our path, we are supposed to walk on his path if we need to...that's how I understand this." Darth explained. "Let's walk toward him then and we will explain why we are at a loss what to do." Lisa-1 smiled and the two, she with her hand around her husband's upper arm, walk down the path toward the old man. The living Sun is brilliantly strong in this mental image. As they walk Darth is carefully and quietly telling his wife, "but let us do this with all respect...as it is written "do not uncover the nakedness of your father"...bear that foremost in mind...also bear in mind "salvation shall come from the Jews"...and bear in mind "when the Son of Man returns, only the Father will know"...that last part is a concern...if he, the Father in the spirit, is coming to us...I am not sure where this is leading to." Lisa-1 hides a smile as she glances at her husband, then pushes him into a bank on one side of this road (on the other side of this narrow path are field of poppies), presses into him, imagines brushing his hair with her hand, "you are so funny! You are afraid of simple human perceptions...sweetheart, you and your faith and your God have moved heaven and Earth in the spirit...this can not be hidden...if the Rabbi feels that you would make a suitable Son of Man..whom are we to argue?" "Just don't give him any ideas." Darth said as he held her close, "and the Son of Man refers not to any person..." Lisa-1 stopped him by giving him a kiss and then turned to the old man now close to them and now, for the first time, aware of the two. "So you are a Faith Marriage!" The old man exclaims as he sees them in an intimate situation (she pressed against Darth the man, Darth with his arm around her). "I had to know truth, just had to." "All right, let truth shine." Lisa-1 replied (she has a lovely sweet soft flow in the spirit) and sat down, made her husband sit down, and the old Rabbi sat down, and now the Rabbi using a Jewish technique was locking onto memories of "truth in the spirit" - memories of things Lisa-1 and Darth had done which together convey a consummation of a faith marriage. [note: in the spirit, that is how strong binds form between people, memories from one another are "reconciled" in a manner consistent with the purpose of the spirit.] "Wow!" The old man nodded, "now I know truth!" Suddenly Darth changes from a man image to Casper, a small white friendly ghost, and rushes to sit by his "dad's" side, flowing in a child-like flow, "but dad, we have a complication. Faith Marriages are a Sacrament. To a Holy Rabbi with faith so strong that you can bridge the chasm of infinite no hope and come onto this path, we delight in showing you truth, cause you are not a pig and will not trod on the beauty of what you have seen. But others? Not so sure how to do this." "I understand." The old man smiled and nodded. "Leave that to me." He said and turned, walking back along the path he came. |