The Church
An epistle to the body of Christ
Chapter 1
1. Every man begins at the centre of a bridge.
2. The bridge of birth and death; the bridge of love and fear.
3. I Kgoshi Tshwarelo Awesome Mogakane am standing on this bridge, writing a love letter to the beloved bride of Christ,
4. The Church, which has been redeemed from a corroded conscience and made to walk the isle of perfection, wherein none knows sin.
5. For the sting of death has been mocked and the Holy Spirit glorified; leading into all truth the soul that went the way of the prodigal son,
6. Even to the swaying back of our hearts to return to ourselves, remembering the Father, who has loved us before the earth, and has made us sons and heirs to his everlasting throne.
7. Wherefore, today, has his shining light been made visible in the inner man, restoring also the waning sight;
8. And giving us the ability to see.
9. As I write this reminder, I am glad to make known to you, that to my left, I see the bridge hanging suspended on a wing of fear, which leads to a state of mind only infested with the lethal arrows of guilt, regret and condemnation.
10. And to my right, I see the bridge hanging suspended on a wing of love, which leads to a life overflowing with righteousness, peace and joy.
11. I write this hoping you have heard of my retrenchment from the works of ignorance, wherein we all perished before we were raised together with him, and now through the promptings of revelation do find that the bridge is God himself,
12. To whom the Lord instructed us to make fervent prayer, calling unto him not to lead us into the valleys of temptation, but to deliver us from wrong-footing.
13. Therefore, let us now walk, knowing that each time we rise to the occasion and step into our desired future, we have progressed to the centre of yet another bridge, for the bridge is made up of many centres; too many to be counted, too many to be numbered and way too many to be ignored.
14. For each step is a step into a centre, wherein God puts before us life and death, the tree in the centre of Eden; to make the tree either good or bad; to bless or to curse; to sing praise or to belch dissatisfaction.
15. It is at the centre of the bridge where we seem to choose to either live or die; to remain condemned or justified; to become destroyed or saved; to suffer continually or celebrate life forevermore.
Chapter 2
1. With great love, I caution you brethren to watch your step.
2. For it is upon the invisible pillars of ignorance that the left wing rests; and also upon the resilient pillars of faith that the right wing finds firmness.
3. Beware, lest you imitate the agony of those who choose not to move their feet, but having shifted in their hearts further down the wing of fear, do stumble unaccountable to God, who is their mirror image,
4. The same who said, “Let us extend our consciousness and experience ourselves in dust.”
5. Doing so he did breathe the breath of life into that shape that was made from the lowest point of the earth and from the same removed one from its rib, and having made them twain did join them into one.
6. Hence today has the Lord brought together the Christ and the Church, Adam and Eve, Man and Woman, the Head and the Body,
7. Making us one with the Word that fashioned all things into origin, which was to enable us also to begin, even as we were begun and are part of that very beginning that began us.
8. For the same also began in our beginning.
9. Therefore brothers and sisters, I urge you to refresh your eyes and see the plain darkness that fills the cup of our day,
10. It is brimming with blood; humanity ever prone to commit murder, rape and grievous bodily harm.
11. All this but a finger pointing back to our ancestor Adam, who when he let himself down, lost his innocence along with ours, quickly rushing to the aid of leaves, which he did task to cover his shame.
12. Today walk we among ourselves naked, ashamed and ready to die.
13. Day to day we walk, not in love, but the fear of one another, each having cautioned himself to watch for the suffering that spring from our interaction on the left wing; and also for anguish, which when provoked is inevitable.
14. With all the pleas to the Father, I kneel down on this centre, calling forth your release from the pit that swallows society in its entirety,
15. Leaving many bruised, baffled and bereaved.
16. It is forgetfulness that perverts the image of God in man, like a river that knows not its origin – that it is itself a drop of an entire ocean.
17. Let us not forget our divinity, lest we perish in social anguish, our identities forged and twisted.
18. Let us return to oneness and know that when we hold the hand of our neighbour we hold the hand of God.
Chapter 2
1. As we walk further to the love side of the bridge, brothers and sisters,
2. It appears that many have been wondering why the world is seething with philandering and galleries of pornographic images that portray a wicked need for sexual gratification.
3. It has so far been revealed to me that our separation from origin and our willingness to remain uprooted from one another has created a vast intolerance that burns within.
4. I believe that humans hunger for sexual contact in order to connect; in order to restore Eve back to her Adam,
5. To make her his rib once more; to go back to an age where Adam had no one to blame, no one to sway him to taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
6. So desperate is our need to become one again that we have now become whoremongers and pimps in heat,
7. Craving for reconnection; pleading for oneness – wishing in the crevices of our hearts to be at peace and harmony with one another, even for a moment.
8. For it is during the knit sexual act that we touch, we love, we hate – so closely, so plainly and so jointly.
9. It is in the nudity of our copulation that the harmfulness of our separateness is made clear; that none of us really wants to be disjointed;
10. That none of us really wants to gossip another or steal from another or maim another.
11. I see from this bridge that it is in perversion that our deep-seated needs rise to the forefront, pleading for recognition and acknowledgement.
12. Therefore, acknowledge your passions so that you find it not labour to understand your need for oneness with your neighbour, whom you hate in the flesh.
13. It is in fornication and adultery that our yearning for restoration is exposed.
14. It is the illegal marriages that bind us in our discord which call for God to be found to be speaking against our ways.
15. From here I perceive that even Canaan did run out of its milk and honey, showing that the Promised Land was not one to be seen with the naked eye, but to be experienced through the enlightenment of a heart in the beauty of consciousness.
16. For he knows that where unconditional love is involved there is connection beyond sexual intercourse and the members of the body are closely knitted.
17. Even Solomon made mention of two being better than one.
Chapter 4
1. Today the Holy Spirit is hovering upon the face of our deepest darkness, offering a rope to the drowning soul, seeking to make possible a connection without dissension or judgement.
2. No wonder the pits of sin reveal such loud a cry for our divine reunion, both with God and ourselves.
3. As I seal this wisdom in your thoughts, I make allegiance with the truth: that our sexual proclivities do sound the alarm to our willingness to love and be loved, even for a moment’s pleasure; to be naked without being ashamed.
4. To be free; to walk the Garden of Eden without fear; not again needing to hide behind the leaves of disconnection.
5. Brothers and sisters, our lust and thirst for sexual ecstasy are a revelation to uninhibited agreement that we lack among ourselves,
6. Such that wherever two or more age gathered under the authority of Christ there he is at the very centre of their lives.
7. And in accordance to promise, anything they bind in oneness of heart shall be bound; and anything they loose shall be loosed.
8. For we have this gospel to report, that if we love one another God dwells in us and we in him.
9. Therefore, let us come together as brothers and sisters in the love of God – as the darling bride of his Christ.
10. For the man shall leave his father’s house and cleave unto his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
11. Let us now leave our old ways and be one with, and in, Christ,
12. So that the church with the issue of blood may receive his virtue and be made whole. Amen.
An epistle to the body of Christ
Chapter 1
1. Every man begins at the centre of a bridge.
2. The bridge of birth and death; the bridge of love and fear.
3. I Kgoshi Tshwarelo Awesome Mogakane am standing on this bridge, writing a love letter to the beloved bride of Christ,
4. The Church, which has been redeemed from a corroded conscience and made to walk the isle of perfection, wherein none knows sin.
5. For the sting of death has been mocked and the Holy Spirit glorified; leading into all truth the soul that went the way of the prodigal son,
6. Even to the swaying back of our hearts to return to ourselves, remembering the Father, who has loved us before the earth, and has made us sons and heirs to his everlasting throne.
7. Wherefore, today, has his shining light been made visible in the inner man, restoring also the waning sight;
8. And giving us the ability to see.
9. As I write this reminder, I am glad to make known to you, that to my left, I see the bridge hanging suspended on a wing of fear, which leads to a state of mind only infested with the lethal arrows of guilt, regret and condemnation.
10. And to my right, I see the bridge hanging suspended on a wing of love, which leads to a life overflowing with righteousness, peace and joy.
11. I write this hoping you have heard of my retrenchment from the works of ignorance, wherein we all perished before we were raised together with him, and now through the promptings of revelation do find that the bridge is God himself,
12. To whom the Lord instructed us to make fervent prayer, calling unto him not to lead us into the valleys of temptation, but to deliver us from wrong-footing.
13. Therefore, let us now walk, knowing that each time we rise to the occasion and step into our desired future, we have progressed to the centre of yet another bridge, for the bridge is made up of many centres; too many to be counted, too many to be numbered and way too many to be ignored.
14. For each step is a step into a centre, wherein God puts before us life and death, the tree in the centre of Eden; to make the tree either good or bad; to bless or to curse; to sing praise or to belch dissatisfaction.
15. It is at the centre of the bridge where we seem to choose to either live or die; to remain condemned or justified; to become destroyed or saved; to suffer continually or celebrate life forevermore.
Chapter 2
1. With great love, I caution you brethren to watch your step.
2. For it is upon the invisible pillars of ignorance that the left wing rests; and also upon the resilient pillars of faith that the right wing finds firmness.
3. Beware, lest you imitate the agony of those who choose not to move their feet, but having shifted in their hearts further down the wing of fear, do stumble unaccountable to God, who is their mirror image,
4. The same who said, “Let us extend our consciousness and experience ourselves in dust.”
5. Doing so he did breathe the breath of life into that shape that was made from the lowest point of the earth and from the same removed one from its rib, and having made them twain did join them into one.
6. Hence today has the Lord brought together the Christ and the Church, Adam and Eve, Man and Woman, the Head and the Body,
7. Making us one with the Word that fashioned all things into origin, which was to enable us also to begin, even as we were begun and are part of that very beginning that began us.
8. For the same also began in our beginning.
9. Therefore brothers and sisters, I urge you to refresh your eyes and see the plain darkness that fills the cup of our day,
10. It is brimming with blood; humanity ever prone to commit murder, rape and grievous bodily harm.
11. All this but a finger pointing back to our ancestor Adam, who when he let himself down, lost his innocence along with ours, quickly rushing to the aid of leaves, which he did task to cover his shame.
12. Today walk we among ourselves naked, ashamed and ready to die.
13. Day to day we walk, not in love, but the fear of one another, each having cautioned himself to watch for the suffering that spring from our interaction on the left wing; and also for anguish, which when provoked is inevitable.
14. With all the pleas to the Father, I kneel down on this centre, calling forth your release from the pit that swallows society in its entirety,
15. Leaving many bruised, baffled and bereaved.
16. It is forgetfulness that perverts the image of God in man, like a river that knows not its origin – that it is itself a drop of an entire ocean.
17. Let us not forget our divinity, lest we perish in social anguish, our identities forged and twisted.
18. Let us return to oneness and know that when we hold the hand of our neighbour we hold the hand of God.
Chapter 2
1. As we walk further to the love side of the bridge, brothers and sisters,
2. It appears that many have been wondering why the world is seething with philandering and galleries of pornographic images that portray a wicked need for sexual gratification.
3. It has so far been revealed to me that our separation from origin and our willingness to remain uprooted from one another has created a vast intolerance that burns within.
4. I believe that humans hunger for sexual contact in order to connect; in order to restore Eve back to her Adam,
5. To make her his rib once more; to go back to an age where Adam had no one to blame, no one to sway him to taste of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
6. So desperate is our need to become one again that we have now become whoremongers and pimps in heat,
7. Craving for reconnection; pleading for oneness – wishing in the crevices of our hearts to be at peace and harmony with one another, even for a moment.
8. For it is during the knit sexual act that we touch, we love, we hate – so closely, so plainly and so jointly.
9. It is in the nudity of our copulation that the harmfulness of our separateness is made clear; that none of us really wants to be disjointed;
10. That none of us really wants to gossip another or steal from another or maim another.
11. I see from this bridge that it is in perversion that our deep-seated needs rise to the forefront, pleading for recognition and acknowledgement.
12. Therefore, acknowledge your passions so that you find it not labour to understand your need for oneness with your neighbour, whom you hate in the flesh.
13. It is in fornication and adultery that our yearning for restoration is exposed.
14. It is the illegal marriages that bind us in our discord which call for God to be found to be speaking against our ways.
15. From here I perceive that even Canaan did run out of its milk and honey, showing that the Promised Land was not one to be seen with the naked eye, but to be experienced through the enlightenment of a heart in the beauty of consciousness.
16. For he knows that where unconditional love is involved there is connection beyond sexual intercourse and the members of the body are closely knitted.
17. Even Solomon made mention of two being better than one.
Chapter 4
1. Today the Holy Spirit is hovering upon the face of our deepest darkness, offering a rope to the drowning soul, seeking to make possible a connection without dissension or judgement.
2. No wonder the pits of sin reveal such loud a cry for our divine reunion, both with God and ourselves.
3. As I seal this wisdom in your thoughts, I make allegiance with the truth: that our sexual proclivities do sound the alarm to our willingness to love and be loved, even for a moment’s pleasure; to be naked without being ashamed.
4. To be free; to walk the Garden of Eden without fear; not again needing to hide behind the leaves of disconnection.
5. Brothers and sisters, our lust and thirst for sexual ecstasy are a revelation to uninhibited agreement that we lack among ourselves,
6. Such that wherever two or more age gathered under the authority of Christ there he is at the very centre of their lives.
7. And in accordance to promise, anything they bind in oneness of heart shall be bound; and anything they loose shall be loosed.
8. For we have this gospel to report, that if we love one another God dwells in us and we in him.
9. Therefore, let us come together as brothers and sisters in the love of God – as the darling bride of his Christ.
10. For the man shall leave his father’s house and cleave unto his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.
11. Let us now leave our old ways and be one with, and in, Christ,
12. So that the church with the issue of blood may receive his virtue and be made whole. Amen.
