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Put right with God through Marco Polo sex instead of hard work -
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For the unbelieving husband is made acceptable to God by being united to his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband . . . How can you be sure, Christian husband, that you will not save your wife? [1 Corinthians 7:14, 16. in Good News Bible (TEV)]
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throughout:Who was Marco Polo?
In the 13th century Marco Polo travelled from Venice to China by the overland Silk Road. He stayed in China for 17 years, then departed from Quanzhou in Fujian Province and returned home via the maritime Silk Road. His travels, dictated to a writer, created a stir in Europe when they were published. and many people just did not believe him.
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Let us focus on Marco Polo for now. A growing attraction for Asian women was apparent. He described the North Persians as "a handsome race, especially the women, who, in my opinion, are the most beautiful in the world." In a region farther east, he said:
"The women are in truth, very handsome, very sensual."
Later in his book, he praised the virtues of Chinese women:
"They have much beauty, as has been remarked, and are brought up with delicate and languid habits."
He portrays the Chinese society in general as very advanced and sophisticated.
He reached further than any predecessors from the West, beyond Mongolia to China. He
became a confidant of Kublai Khan (1214-1294) who kept China under Mongol rule.
The Great Khan, Kublai, was hospitable. Marco mastered four languages, and became
a favourite with the khan; he was appointed to high posts in his administration. He served
at the court where he achieved, by report-stories, greater and greater respect in the eyes
of his master and so he became a kind of court writer. He was sent on special missions in
China, Korea, Burma, Tibet and India. He wrote that the Brahmins there were the most
honest tradesmen in the world, that they never lied and that they helped foreigners to
sell their goods without profit to themselves.
He travelled a great deal in China and also served as a governor in the province
of Manzi in southeast China. Manzi comprised the greater part of China.
Marco was amazed with China's enormous power, great wealth, and complex social
structure. His writings tell of someone who was thoroughly impressed with the nature of
Chinese civilization. As a matter of fact, many of the organized and efficient systems
that he saw working in China had yet to be developed in Europe. And many places which
Marco saw were not seen again by Europeans till the 1800s.
Marko liked to watch the skills of the Buddhist lamas, who mostly came from Tibet.
He says that they could stop storms, and one of them made a vessel containing wine fly
from the table into Kublai's hand and back to the table again, after the Khan had drunk
it.
Marco somewhere described what he thought was the most beautiful baths in the
world; some hot baths large enough for 100 persons to bathe in together. They were in
Kinsai [Kinsay, the modern Hangchow], a city with 3000 baths, and one of the greatest
centres of culture, education and art at the time. [More]
He also told about the monstrous birds which dropped elephants from a height and
devoured their broken carcasses. In the story of Sinbad the Sailor - from the 600s AD -
the Arabian Nights tell of the "roc" bird from Madagascar - so strong that it
could carry three elephants.
Marco Polo discovered the use of coal and eye glasses, of ice-cream, fireworks and
spaghetti, of jade, porcelain, silk, and ivory.
He noted regional histories, very impressive cities, architecture, languages and
governments, lifestyles, diets, styles of dress, marriage customs, rituals, religions,
trading practices, crafts, manufactured products, plants, animals, minerals, and
terrain.
And he came back to tell after Kublai Khan reluctantly had agreed to let his trusted
men, the Polos, return after seventeen years in his service . . . the best years of
Marco's life, filled with exciting happenings, merchant business, diplomatic missions, and
love affairs.
When Marco was forty-one years old, the Polos returned in rags to a Venice at war
with Genoa. No one believed Marco's stories of the vast riches and culture he had
witnessed in Asia. Much because his tales showed that China and other parts of Asia were
superior to and more advanced than Europe in many repects, the explorer was not hailed.
Instead, the phrase "It's a Marco Polo" came to denote an exaggerated tale. He was
considered the "man of a million lies".
But Marco knew what strings to pull: He organised a banquet. During it, to the
amazement of the incredulous Venetians, rubies, sapphires and emeralds started to fall
from their rags. Marco showed off! Kublai Khan had given him and his relatives ivory,
jade, jewels, porcelain, silk, and other treasures. That made Marco Polo famous.
In 1296 he was taken prisoner by the Genoese, long-time rivals of Venetians. While
in jail, aided by his notes, he dictated to a fellow prisoner what he had seen and heard
on his travels. The other was a popular writer, Rustichello of Pisa. He translated the
tales into Old French, the literary language of Italy at the time. The book was completed
in 1298 and is one of the most famous travel book in history, if not the most famous one.
It has captured readers through the centuries.
After Genoa and Venice made peace in 1299, Marco was freed and returned to trading
in Venice. When he was near death, a priest came in his room to ask him if he'd like to
admit that his stories were false. Instead, Marco said as his last words,
"I did not tell half of what I saw because no one would have believed me."
It's terrible not to be believed when you have something important
to tell.
The saving grace of sex
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| In the Old Testament, big ones had their harems - Abraham, Jacob, David, not only Solomon. |
"How many did Marco Polo sex-save in the Mogul Empire?" is what you may want to get an estimate of next.
SOMEONE: "You may not need to believe to get saved. There are many Bible verses in
that direction. We look into one of the most singular parts here.
Shapely woman buttocks or outer wrappings are of various shapes and colours, but
the core they stand out around somehow and in more that one way, looks like the blessed
experience - which is not adorned with any thought or philosophy.
The theories and philosophies of all the sects are but the clothing covering such a
core. Also, to sit down and like it - Zen sitting - is the core of all Buddhist sects;
there are very many of them, and their heart-core is the experience called wonderful rest
on top of some effort to get steady and so on. Some get glad from above (a satori
experience is like that). Some call it masterful giant realization. It depends. €
GREAT and deep union by coitus and other nice means can take place when certain conditions are present to the consciousness of a human being. Part of the reaction can be called the deepest Zen experience. One should bring gladness-bringing contemplative sitting into it if the body and outer conditions are good for it. One of the results can then be what is called sex that saves (some) on top of St. Paul's instructions in 1 Corintians 7;13-14. That is not too bad, is it? It behoves a man to preserve great teachings. €
"AS A MATTER of fact, this is quite a tenet. It hardly conforms to much and wide-spread
mental conditioning in some waters on the exclusiveness of faith as a saving agent.
Mind-battering through tenets and dogma can condition some, and the root of that may be
plain scaring - all of which is a shame. It can breed deep neuroses, not only nervousness
in common adaptations. Bad teachings often transgress against healthy deep-going (probing)
mind in its natural states and affairs. (7)"
Utter nonsense or the wisdom of God?
"The unbelieving wife is made acceptable to God by being united to her Christian husband. [From 1 Corinthians 7:14]TO SOME, this could very well be the single most important passage of the whole Bible. It suggests that the really lucky guys around don't have to ask and wail to get helped and saved. They can have sex in the right way and do better. Is it that easy? We should look carefully into that, and the process involves reading more that one single Bible verse.
Today's English Version (TEV) of the Bible, which is also called Good News Bible, is both an accurate and a much esteemed translation. In another famed version, NIV, the passage is rendered thus: "The unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband." [1 Corinthians 7:14]
The terms "sanctified " and "made acceptable to God" are synonymous in our context.
We can likewise think about the marriage rites and custums of Hebrews to get to the meaning. The crux of the traditional marriage night is the sexual union, at least in some cases. Without ever having had real sex the marriage was hardly ever functional in the most basic sense - the one Onan refused from when the wife of his dead brother claimed him to have sex with her. Many old instructions rely on traditonal Hebrew customs, indirectly or more explicitly.
The outstanding verse talks of how sex can save. It's the precious method in the right hands and loins. But to use that saving point more or less properly, one should not interpret the verses out of context. As the apostle Paul is into, who knows the limits of the saving (sex) graces?
The outcome of sexual union can be that the woman or man is put right with God. Let us call it a "wonderful Marco Polo effect", at least for now. If one of the parties is a really saved soul in the way the New Testament talks about, his deeds in bed or otherwise may mean more than words. That's the point of it. "Put right with God" equals "saved" in the Biblical sense. Here is a very small sample to highlight it: Romans 1:17, 2:13, 3:24 5:9 9:30. Titus 3:7, James 2:24.
Jesus came to put God's people right with God. That was his task and mission. And God's people may also put mates right with God, writes the apostle!
What about Jews and Jesus? Many flocked around him, but in the end those in power would have nothing to do with him, the leaders angrily had him put to death. He was rejected. His own "sheep" knew his voice and followed him, he insisted, so the Jew's that killed him, were not his own after all. Interestingly to some, they were not God's people after the time of Hosea and Amos if all prophet words are true, really true (Cf. Hosea 13:9,11; Amos 5:2 etc.) [Check]
After Pentecost, some of the formerly "fraidy ones" got the Holy Spirit inside themselves and became "contagious" carriers - as St. Paul hints at.
But no one has to feel happy about sex that saves, it is the work of salvation that matters. Lots of feelings may come later.
The lessons about sex that saves and what you possibly could do about it - it is in the New Testament. Yet learn to think twice before you marry, and be on the safe side. At least old people "feel free" to disregard much bible evidence (above and elsewhere) for that purpose.
And if conditions are suitable or very decent, you might sit down with one fit marriage partner, make love and get glad. The most blessed sex experience is not that far from tantra, or the Zen experience, but the latter can transcend the former, some say, and I am one of them.
HERE the stout Christian can preserve his belief in Paul's promise, that even the
unbelieving guy can be put right with God himself - yes, sir - if just one of his six
wives is saved and he has sex with all of them. And how many of his other wives he saves
throughout the next few hours and days is not for anyone else to guess up in general (the
Marco Polo uncertainty).
Further adjust to this: Through Jesus we are councelled to take just one wife as
the best thing to do. But also note who were behind another relevant thing in this
context:
The Holy Spirit and we have agreed not to put any other burden on you besides these necessary rules: eat no food that has been offered to idols; eat no blood; eat no animal that has been strangled; and keep yourselves from sexual immorality. You will do well if you take care not to do these things. With our best wishes." (TEV)Interestingly, far and wide you may find that eating blood food (black pudding, Brat, Wurst (and what about hamburgers with added blood proteims?) is not thought to be as bad as adultery today, but let us not miss the target - You may be curious to know what sort of wedding is sufficient - is that it?It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell. (NIV) [Acts 15:28-29]
Interestingly, having as many wives as Jacob (Israel), is not really forbidden by Jesus, but swearing against your father is. And not having blood food (Brat, Wurst and so on) is really required, even though disregarded far and wide.
What is wrong sex and what is OK today? Very many big guys of the Bible had harems and slave-women too, like Abraham and Solomon. They were not the only ones that Jesus talked highly of. But he also advocated just one wife (at the time).
IF MANY persons together - a congregation, for example - will not adjust to gladdening
Bible's teachings when confronted with them, they are surely astray. Maybe because they
like to - or like to flatter themselves. Both things can happen.
The outstanding bridegroom experience
The conditions that bring our consciousness to the remarkable bridegroom experience Jesus talks aboutTHE SEX-MONGER, tersely: "Hm, to be well raped by a sectarian or even Buddhist can be felt as extremely cruel, but what if he had raped a Christian sister beforehand, and unwittingly was put right with God by the act? In that case the rape could bring salvation, and the sound Christian is told not to rely on feelings, as a matter of fact.
It's a very interesting fact, when we want to attain satori, we have to be absorbed inwardly. It's called satori, or self-realisation. This may be the work of Catholics and this happens, often accompanied by a great peace in our hearts, just as right after a full-fledged coitus. You don't have to be interested, then, for it - neither for getting raped into salvation, or made happy for a while for some reason or other.
JESUS often likened a special gladness - the joy of God-contact - with a wedding. And
coitus is the sum and substance of Jewish weddings - most others too, in fact. There's
much mystical imagery to substantiate it, believe as you can. €
It's fit to concentrate and reach so-called one-pointedness of deep mind, and the
one-pointedness is achieved sometimes in breath-counting, sometimes in what we call
"watching the breath without much interest, " sometimes just sitting, and sometimes
working on nothing interesting.
THE SEX experience (read Zen experience if you like) is the realisation of something in
our self-nature. And there are no philosophies or theologies attached to the "thing" in
itself. The joy and happiness can seem beyond all words for many other reasons too
...
The right way to the experience points inwardly, just as the vagina. €
A deep-sex hungry guy and Zen student should learn to be essentially one with the
phenomenal world in Zen. What we are accustomed to, can bring our ruin in the end. It's
most often that way, and that's why most people hardly see it deeply and poignantly
enough. That's my say."
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