from The Coming of the Cosmic Christ

[cardiogeist]

"A LITANY OF DELIVERANCE"

From Patriarchy's dualism,

From Patriarchy's proneness to self-pity,

From Patriarchy's sentimentalism,

From Patriarchy's violence,

From Patriarchy's lack of imagination,

From Patriarchy's intellectual laziness,

From Patriarchy's lack of authentic curiosity,

From Patriarchy's separation of head from body,

From Patriarchy's separation of body from feelings,

From Patriarchy's preoccupation with sex,

From Patriarchy's fear of intimacy,

From Patriarchy's reptilian brain,

From Patriarchy's anthropocentrism,

From Patriarchy's cosmic loneliness,

From Patriarchy's crucifixion of Mother Earth,

From Patriarchy's envy and manipulation of children,

From Patriarchy's abuse of women,

From Patriarchy's homophobia,

From Patriarchy's righteousness,

From Patriarchy's idolatry of nationhood
and national security,

From Patriarchy's forgetfulness of beauty and art,

From Patriarchy's impotence to heal,

From Patriarchy's sado-masochism,

From Patriarchy's parental cannibalism
and devouring of its children,

From Patriarchy's lack of balance,

From Patriarchy's savaging of the earth,

From Patriarchy's quest for immortality,

From Patriarchy's ego,

From Patriarchy's waste of talent and resources,
human and earth,

From Patriarchy's human chauvinism,

From Patriarchy's compulsion to go into debt
to finance its bloated lifestyles,

From Patriarchy's matricide, spare us O Divine One.