CG Entry 3 The Queen of Vices
Listen, Every Man, as I call the whole of Heaven as a witness to what I am about to tell you. There is a disease that besets you for which there is no cure. Mighty beyond all cures she is queen to all Daemons. Her name is Lust and she is lethal. Her power over men and women is strongest because she brings forth from them the very fluids of life. The act of releasing these fluids is the apex of physical pleasure, so strong that even the strongest of the spiritual cannot hope to withstand her enchantments if standing too close to her. Do you see her? She is ardor in your body and she makes you burn. Her voice is sweetness in your ears and her smell is intoxication supreme. She is everything that excites you and she urges you to take her. Look away, Every Man! Those caught in her enthrallment are spellbound to her in a way that is too often beyond aid. There is a great price to pay for worshipping her. See, Every Man, how I put the mirror of morality before Lust and it will reveal to you her true visage.
Look upon the reflection in the mirror and see that her voluptuous body is in fact charred and smoldering for she is fire uncontrolled. She is covered in sores raw, reddened, oozing pus down to the very floor. The stench from her burnt flesh and ulcerated wounds attack her very own senses as she convulses involuntarily. She has lost her face so often from blazes uncontrolled that she no longer has a complete one, only pieces of flesh draped together over bone and tooth. She hacks and coughs repetitiously from all of the smoke she exhales to cover her intentions. Look now and see that these are the same maladies that are found on her disciples. Look to her
Worshipper’s souls and see how their very conscience rots from self abuse. It is conscience that no longer feels just as seared flesh no longer responds to touch. See how their minds are troubled by her constant call and acts that were once taboo for them become the next step in their evolution. Note the scarred emotions that beset them and how they are never sure of Love or of being loved, of Respect and being respected. Look upon those that persist beyond the dismissal of conscience and note the actual disease evident on their flesh as their bodies rebel against the abuse of the love act. Too many partners unknown and their bodies reflect the condition of their souls as they show signs of their infection. Remove yourself from her Every Man! Flee far beyond her call for once within her range you are losing this battle. Call upon the Heavenly hosts that will aid you in resisting her; Discretion, Temperance, Prudence, Abstinence, and Self Control. These are the heavenly hosts that proceed from Wisdom itself and these are they that can keep you from entering the range of her siren call. Of all the patrons of heaven none have been so relegated to inactivity as these for men and women have come to believe that one’s urges are a natural expression and should not be bridled. Let it burn they say for, “the heat of the moment is the stuff of life!”
No Man calls out in warning! Fire indeed brings the warmth of life but held too closely, it causes extreme pain; held even closer and it destroys completely. Who can erase the image in the mind infected, of the whore who is begging to be taken? How many families have been torn asunder because of the lust for sex with another partner? How many spouses have been destroyed because the other is infected and seeks the image that the victim spouse cannot measure up to?
Reason pleads with you to befriend the Virtues that would keep you from this danger. Temperance will show you how to keep your fires manageable. Prudence will guide you in deciding when the moment is right to start a flame. Discretion will help you keep others from burning themselves over you. Abstinence is that friend that will keep you company in those times when your attention should be on other things.
Self Control is the master teacher. Invite her to come to you and she will put your entire house in order.
Blessed are those that heed the warning and receive the advice of Wisdom and Reason. Make no mistake, Every Man, lust burns not only for you but she burns for your children also. Too many of your innocent meet her prematurely. Too many of your babes receive her poisonous touch and the cause of this tragedy too often leads directly to you! Hear me now, Every Man. THE CORRUPTION ALWAYS ORIGINATES FROM THE WINDOW TO THE WEST. Through this window come Lust and Violence and the enticements to vice that the imaginations in the west conjure up. The viper that enters your children’s eyes and ears as they sit gazing at the Window to the West travels down to their innocent hearts where it lays noxious eggs from which spring a brood far worse than previous generations have known. Can you not hear Temperance warning you as you walk in the dark? Discretion is calling to you from every mirror. Prudence beckons to you as you turn on the Western Window. If you yourself do not know Self Control, then how can you hope to keep Lust away from your children?
Lust! No Man calls you out. Whore! Deceiver! You entice Every Man with Beauty and Grace but these have never been yours. Blessed are the faithful who see through the veneer of beauty that you falsely represent. These are the committed husbands and wives that act against you by professing sacred vows of Love and Loyalty to no one but each other. These are they that battle against you; vows once so easily made from the depths of romance now, by sheer Good Will and Honor are kept. Five, ten years, twenty, twenty five years, until the day they die, they remain faithful to the one that they uttered the sacred words to:
To love and to cherish
For richer or poorer
In sickness and in health,
For better or worse
These vows uttered by mere humans, are sealed in Heaven and they carry a reward that only Heaven can bestow. Loyalty, Honor and Commitment, are yours oh faithful ones! Look to them in times of strain and ponder their meaning, and beauty. You will see how they will strengthen you in the face of the deceiver. Hear me all of you that too often fall victim to the enchantments of the whore. Learn from the faithfully married. Invite the heavenly citizens by Faith into your heart and your home and they will keep watch over you. See how your moral soul is strengthened by these sentinels that you so wisely let in. Grow through their company and you will see your loneliness dissipate. Let Heaven grant you the desires of your heart and generations after you will call you blessed.
