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I reread the series of "Emmanuel's Books"... And as I was rereading "Emmanuel's Book II - The Choice for Love," I read the quotes "Fear speaks to you in logic and reason" and "Fear is wearing love's clothing again" on pages 3 and 7, which inspired me to write the poem below:
Emmanuel: "Fear speaks
to you in logic and reason"
(Or, "Emmanuel: 'Fear is wearing
love's clothing again...'")
Fear is the wolf who
convinces you he's a sheep
by wearing sheep's clothing.
And fear is the wolf who
"assumes the language of love
itself" while acting like a sheep.
Thus, fear is the wolf who
growls, "Choosing love for fear is
a baaaad idea!"
However, love is the sheep who
shows you that he's a sheep by
wearing his own clothing.
And love is the sheep who
"assumes the language of love
itself" while being an actual sheep.
Thus, love is the sheep who
bleats, "Choosing fear for love is
a baaaad idea!"
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
My Writing About Two Quotes From 'Emmanuel's Book II - The Choice for Love,' Which State, 'Fear Speaks To You In Logic And Reason' And 'Fear Is Wearing Love's Clothing Again': Fear is the wolf who convinces you he's a sheep by wearing sheep's clothing. And fear is the wolf who "assumes the language of love itself" while acting as a sheep. Thus, fear is the wolf who growls, "Choosing love for fear is a baaaad idea!" However, love is the sheep who shows you that he's a sheep by wearing his own clothing. And love is the sheep who "assumes the language of love itself" while being an actual sheep. Thus, love is the sheep who bleats, "Choosing fear for love is a baaaad idea!" –Paul Whiting (written September 23rd, 2016, revised September 24th, 2016 and revised October 19th, 2022)
"Emmanuel with Pat Rodegast" from emmanuelandfriends.org:
Pat Rodegast:
"Pat's journey as the channel for the spirit Emmanuel began in 1969. While working as a secretary for a publishing company and raising three teenagers, Pat began practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM). Her intent was to quiet her mind. Her experience was unique from the start as she began to see inner visions. Over the period of time, those visions evolved into clear guidance in the form of images from an ever-present light; a light who eventually introduced himself as her spirit guide named Emmanuel.
In her experience, the more she offered up her willingness to receive guidance, the more came. The visions expanded to include telepathic auditory guidance. In a short matter of time Pat was able to "put her ego aside" as she described the experience, and surrender into a full trance state; channeling Emmanuel. The results of her channeling have produced three books compiled by Pat and Judith Stanton aptly entitled 'Emmanuel's Book', 'Emmanuel's Book II', and 'Emmanuel's Book III' published by Bantam in eleven languages.
In her early days as a channel, Pat gave readings on an individual basis. These readings were so catalytic toward the self-transformation her listeners were seeking, that her popularity grew rapidly and led to what would become her life’s calling: to give readings, lectures and workshops all around the globe."
Emmanuel:
"I am perfect Love, and I am you. You have all been taught that you are born, that you live a certain length of time, and you die. No one is ever lost, physical bodies come and go, but the consciousness that created them is still the same. It is only that one of you now ceases to wear the costume of limitation.
I no longer wear this costume and offer you a faithful mirror in which you can see the truth of who you are. Which is far more than your intellects can possibly stretch to imagine. You are here on a journey of transformation to bring yourselves back into Oneness even as you remain in human form. You have spent your lives seeking to find what you have never lost, which is the essence of your being, the nobility of your purpose, the perfection of who you are.
You all hold within you the answers to every question, every confusion, without exception, but you have been taught to bury that awareness. There is nothing you do not know. You hold divine remembering, the eternal spark of perfect Love.
So look within yourself for a moment of silence…take a breath…quiet your mind and open your soul…and with your remembering, you will find your way back to the truth of who you are, and your divine presence will be your gift to the planet.
It is time to begin to stretch yourselves beyond the wildest considerations of who you are and what is possible to do. You come with infinite capacity to create the entire wondrous panorama of the lives you are living."
https://www.emmanuelandfriends.org/about.php
[By the way, the website quoted above no longer exists, but if you do an online search for "Emmanuel's Books by Pat Rodegast," you can find a lot of information about the series of three books and where to buy them...]
My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I reread the series of "Emmanuel's Books"... And as I was rereading "Emmanuel's Book II - The Choice for Love," I read the quotes below on pages 3 and 7, respectively, which inspired me to write the poem above:
Page 3: "What does the voice of fear whisper to you?
Fear speaks to you in logic and reason. It assumes the language of love itself.
Fear tells you, 'I want to make you safe.' Love says, 'You are safe.'"
Page 7: "How do I learn to love myself?
"By doing it. Not by thinking about it. The moment you think about it, you go back into duality, into fear. There you have the whole package neatly wrapped once more in the paper of good intent and tied with a ribbon of the illusion of love. Fear is wearing love's clothing again."
In addition to the quotes above, I wanted to mention that I do not agree with everything that Emmanuel says, which includes the quotes below on page 95 having to do with "the connection of peace to justice":
Page 95: "Please say something about the connection of peace to justice. For example, housing, food, human rights, self-determination, racial and sexual equality, etc.
"Peace and justice is these issues are the same thing. Then what does one do in a world that is determined to see things in polarization? Have you any idea how much struggle and effort is given century after century to balancing seeming opposites?
"Those who are seeking Oneness will walk the path of justice. Do what you can to serve equality, but never for one moment believe in inequality. Within the illusion, do you know how unjust justice is? Inequity lives in history. You do not."
And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "Emmanuel's Books-Inspired Poetry" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.
Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 144 was edited on September 19th, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
