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February 13,1981-The Maroon Tiger-Page 7
The Relevance of Christ’s Teachings
By O’Nell D. Swanson D
History is the long and
sometime tragic story erf the fact
that as time goes on a society, and
even an entire civilization’ may
lose its most important values.
The Art of The Soul
By Gregg Brown
We were born into an
environmental culture that
serves to deprive us of out
“natural creativity.” Our minds
are conditioned to accept
methodical systems, classical
ceremonials and stereotypic
values that rob us of our very
essence. The objective is to
inwardly rebel and return to the
primal state of imperturability
where one’s true moral and
emotional nature is embodied
inside of human beings. This is
where the invigorating soul
weaves its creativity through the
fabrics of life and time. Natural
creativity is the art of the soul and
the artists becomes his own
masterpiece. This art cannot be
taught although it can be
enlightened in another by a
communication of feeling. The
soul emmits love vibrations sc
intense that they can be felt by
every living organism in its
proximity.
Once you have mastered the
art of the soul-creativity an aura
will encircle you. It is the
radiation of your soul made
apparent and its intensity is
charged by the inner vibratory
feeling tones erf love.
Within, reverberates the
soul; the intangible force of
creativity and vitalizing energies
that illuminates its feeling tones
through expressions into reality.
Do not struggle but flow with it
because the rhythm of your
soul is in perfect harmony with
the cosmic tunes of the universe.
A New Wave Explosion
The main values of our society do
not agree with Christ’s teachings.
Man has lost touch with
God, and ultimately he has lost
touch with himself. In our
The thirst of the soul can
never be quenched even after it
has tasted the sweet nectar of
love everlasting. Its love
encompasses all, and its
yearnings are insatiable and
inconceivable as we know of.
Therefore we could never become
sensitive enough to the extent
that all is an aesthetic creation.
Life is a process of
purification; cleansing the soul erf
false indoctrinations and ideals
set forth upon it by the mind.
Emancipate the mind of
restrictive negative thought
processes and enrich into its
consciousness the ever prevading
potentialities of the soul.
The soul knows what is
through feeling and
understanding, whereas the mind
may still have doubts in reasoning
and relationalizing its intellectual
viewpoints. And not like the ego
which separates itself from outer
perception. The ego must die in
order that the soul may live and
the mind must become revelated
into inexhaustible capacity of
knowledge that the soul is
endowed. The soul is the pristine
whole of our existence and it
creates everything. Repose in its
emptiness to fulfill yourself with
truth. So that truth can manifest
freedom and love in your life with
its eternal oneness.
Act from the core of your
being and you will be a creative
center in yourself exemplifying
divine activity. In doing so, you
will have also mastered the art of
the soul-creativity.
By Russell Woolf oik
Once again there’s a new Fad
coming to be. But is this a new
Fad or is it one that’s being
played up again? What we
listeners sometimes fail to realize
is that record companies, or
manufacturers can sell any
product they wish to sell. The
reason for this is because most or
all large industries have
monopolized the products which
they sell. Being that the market is
monopolized the companies push
one product, giving the consmer
less choices, meaning either
enjoy the product ex' don’t buy
any at all. This is not true for all
products or manufacturers, just
those on very large scales.
Keeping that information in
mind I’d like to bring this to it’s
proper perspective. For example
we will use the ever popular
DISCO. Let’s imagine you were
an artist popular for your creative
music (JAZZ). Record companies
were only pushing DISCO music,
you have two choices. Play your
ever popular creative music and
have a very small amount of
publicity, qr do more commercial
music and have worldly
recognition (MONEY). Most or all
could probably choose to have
world recognition. This is only an
example but bear in mind this is
really going on, which is why
many erf your favorite artist have
sold out or just aren’t doing
anything.
New Wave got it’s official
kick off in the European
Countries. The New Wave
concept is to allow you to be as
weird as you like. The more we
move into the future the further
out we tend to sail.
The New Wave music itself
is actually an updated rock and
roll, without the acid. They have
eliminated the screaming guitar,
the drug addict drummer, the
over-powered amps, and have
added the weirdo costumes and
most of all blacks don’t play rock
and roll. There you have it all
blacks don't play rock and roll.
There you have it New Wave
music. Maybe even the beatles
might get back together for a
couple million. Better yet the
theme song from the television
series THE MUNSTERS might
even be number one.
overcrowded society each
individual’s values constitute the
values of the entire society. Thus,
man is left alone to decide cm the
values which will govern his life.
“And when he sent the
multitudes away, he went upon
into a mountain apart toprav: and
when the evening was come, he
was there alone.’ (Matthew
14:23) “He was there, alone:”
man is alone because he is man!
In some way every creature is
alone. In majestic isolation every
star travels through the darkness
of endless space. Each tree
grows according to its own law,
fulfilling its unique possibilities.
Animals live, fight and die for
themselves alone, confined to the
limitations of their bodies.
Certainly, they also appear as
male and female, in families and
in flocks. Some of them are
gregarious. But all of them are
alone! Being alive means being in
a body-a body separated from all
other bodies. And being
separated means being alone.
Our desire to protect our isolation
is expressed in the feeling erf
shame. We feel ashamed when
our intimate self, mental or
bodily, is opened. We try to cover
our nakedness, as did Adam and
Eve when they became conscious
erf themselves. Thus, man and
woman remain alone even in the
most intimate union. They cannot
penetrate each other’s innermost
center.
Separated from his world,
man is thus able tole»kat it. Only
because he can look at it. Only
because he can look at it can he
know and love and transform it.
In the Sermon on the Mount,
however Christ shows his
followers that they must first,
transform themselves, and in this
particular instance Christ sets
forth a universal diagnosis for all
mankind. Man has lost respect for
his brother, thus he has lost
respect for God: “For if ye love
them which love you, what
reward have ye? do not even the
publicans the same?” (Matthew
5:46) Christ submits that we
should love and respect all men,
even our enemies. In essence
Christ submits a perfect love for
an imperfect man. How
wonderful the world would be if
this perfect love existed. If men
learned how to make peace
instead of war man would never
long for perfection again.
The absolute gap between
finite man and infinite God makes
any rational bridge-building
between the two on man’s part
futil. God may reach down to
man, (though how he could
manage that was beyond our
■ comprehens ion.) But man can no
more reason his way into the
presence of God than a
mathematician, by doggedly
adding unit to unit, could
calculate his way to infinity.
Salvation is a matter of the fate of
one's soul. Jesus is the bridge
between finije man and infinite
God. In the Sermon on the Mount
he offers man an alternative route
to destruction.
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Morning Blues
ask. My bathrobe I didn’t even
By Chuck Miller attempt to find. I opened the
top dresser drawer I realized I
The day began just like any
other Monday morning. I woke
up, bleery eyed and dead looking
from another week-end spent
trying to make the perfect mix of
study and party. My roommate
amazingly was already gone, he’s
usually the one who lays in bed
trying to get those last few
seconds of beautiful sleep.
Reluctantly but almost
automatically my foot peaked out
from underneath it’s protective
blanket fortress seemingly on
some sort erf mission for the rest
of my body to see if it was safe to
venture out into the freezing air
away from my nice warm bed.
When my foot found the floor
which was cold as...well it was
very cold it immediately sent
shock waves up my spine to my
brain it was all to apparent that
indeed it was morning and I did
have to get up so I could go to my
9:00 class, oh the things we
Morehouse men have to indure.
Somehow a miracle happened in
room 308 DuBois and I found
myself in a standing positiin,
well, actually it was a half stand -
half slouch but I was close.
I found my house-shoes, one
was back against the wall and the
other was under my pillow, don’t
hadn’t even turned off my alarm
and it was still buzzing like it was
crazy I was faced with a tough
decision, should I grab my tooth
paste or shut off my now over
heating alarm clock. I made a
decision, do it all in one fell
swoop, I ended up slamming my
finger in the top drawer dropping
my tooth paste and knocking the
clock radio clear across the room.
To hell with it!!
My reflection in the mirror
was not enhanced by the water
splash that had dried on the
mirror from past water-fights
held in the bathroom. Wait a
minute, I knew I brought my wash
cloth and soap along with the
tooth paste oh god....I dropped
them on the filthy bathroom
floor!! and where is my tooth
brush? It’s in the roan!!!Why
Me!!!! Hold On! Wait Just one
cotton Picking Second!! Last
night I was at Cisco’s, never on a
Sunday night...it can’t be true,
please wake me up from this
nightmare!! I’m dreaming,
Today’s Sunday !11 I was back in
bed in three seconds and hadn’t
even lost my warm spot on my
beautiful, glorious, delicious
sagging, lumpy mattress. Have a
nice day.
The Eby John Lennon Died
By Lam or Alford
Tonight a part of my past was
killed,a part of life that somehow
shaped what me and my peers
became.They came with their
mop hair cuts. I was a freshman
at Morehouse when he came into
my life in ’63; I am at Morehouse
when he left in violence in ’80,
Once at ’Casteys’ a fancy
watering hole in the Apple, I was
a Broadway performer having a
late night dinner sitting near
Niome Simms, Tennessee
Williams was at the bar with an
acta that I knew, in a caner was
Ringo Star, Yoko, an unknown
woman and John. In London
Vincent Spenetti who did Yellow
Submarine came to see me in “A
Rat’s Mass”, my finest moment
on Stage and invited me to lunch.
I had a Matinee’ and it was late.
As my car arrived, John was
leaving. The author of the play I ]
was doing was Adrienne Kennedy
who adapted the book by John
“In My Own Write” into a play
commissioned by the 01 Vic. Her
son sat in a booth with John to see
“Lad George Knew My Father”
Adam is now 20.John is now
dead.
God Bless J ohn and thank You for
his creation.
Dr. King
Martin Luther King
Jr. was a man of grace who
attempted to unite the human
race. Justice and equality were
the reasons that he stood to join
all mentogether in Universal
brotherhood. Dr. King was a man
of peace who solemnly believed
that violence must cease. Fa
although we are men of many
creeds and colas, God created us
all to live as brothers. Noviolence
was his strategic plan to bring
peace across this land. A 20th
century prophet was he with a
dream that one day we’d all be
free. Wise like a serpent and soft
as a dove, he was endowed with
the power of unselfish love.
Fighting for freedom with all erf
his might, he gave his life fa the
human plight. His birthday as a
national holiday should be set
apart to celebrate his dream that
lives in all of our hearts. He was a
man who cried out for freedom to
ring. So let us pay tribute to
MARTIN LUTHER KING. Gregg
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