<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Five ballades with a prologue</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after W.E.G. Louw) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prologue: The child of God</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the creation, <br>long before the time of Plato and Aristotle<br>the word of God was the child’s criterion<br>while he ruled over everything.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When darkness rose right across the earth<br>others came in rebellion<br>wanted to show the God of creation<br>that they do not regard Him <br>and did not want to believe him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that destruction will follow upon their deeds, <br>that rain will fall in a terrible flood<br>that flooding will come as a result<br>from the hand of the God of the universe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The child constructed a ship<br>went into its shelter with his wife, <br>children and animals<br>believing that the hand of the Almighty God <br>was sheltering<br>while the others in destruction <br>begged and cried for mercy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The child walked through the palace of Pharaoh <br>could not convert his mother Hatshepsut <br>to the Almighty God, <br>saw whips lashing on the backs of his brothers<br>wanted to stop the lashing <br>on of one of them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Right through the sea the child led his people<br>with crushing water closing on Pharaoh’s army, <br>right through the desert<br>his eyes were set on the Promised Land <br>while he trusted God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When God Himself came to this earth, <br>taught people about love, <br>the child followed Him, <br>he baptised people and converted them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">until on a Friday <br>on which the curtain ripped right through, <br>with God innocently hanging on a cross<br>while evil people mocked, cursed <br>and scolded Him in arbitrariness<br>when He was paying for the destiny of man, <br>was triumphant against the snake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Peter, Paul, Thomas, John and other apostles<br>witnessed about Jesus, <br>went to the Jews and the wide world, <br>talking with crowds of strange people <br>about the life of Jesus, <br>standing before kings and princes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and some of them were persecuted, <br>tortured and mocked<br>and other children of God <br>were thrown to lions in arenas, <br>for some death was their destiny<br>and the soldiers of Rome <br>was deployed against them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still the child of God spread <br>the testimony of Jesus<br>to bring others to salvation, <br>to reconcile them with God<br>just where he could, he canvassed people<br>going through the world <br>as the champion of God<br> <br>until the dark time of the Middle Ages came, <br>with the church and state being one<br>and it was persecuting him<br>and still the light of God was in him<br>while soldiers of Papal Rome was pursuing him</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the child did escape to the new world, <br>flowered there<br>settling in America <br>and on the Southern tip of Africa<br>and he lived as if in the hand of God<br>with the blessing coming from Him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I. Another gospel: Communism</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deceitful, cruel and focused on himself<br>man doomed millions to their death, <br>believing that the perfect man<br>in due time would by evolution<br>come into existence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the end justified the means, <br>nobody was safe against its onslaught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The false doctrine<br>wanted to strip those that have, <br>of their possessions<br>with the goal of giving everything to everybody, <br>but some got everything and others nothing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the end justified the means, <br>nobody was safe against its onslaught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Armed forces, revolution and terrorism<br>spread almost right across the world, <br>nuclear weapons were set against each other<br>to try and bind man at all costs to the state.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the end justified the means, <br>nobody was safe against its onslaught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Hungary people wanted to be free<br>and died for freedom, <br>until the Berlin wall fell<br>and things started to change in the USSR.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the end justified the means, <br>nobody was safe against its onslaught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in China, Cuba and on other places<br>the fortress still stands strong<br>where the state controls everything<br>even what you believe, how you live your life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the end justified the means<br>nobody is safe against its onslaught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. Quick treachery</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the dark there were being tinkered<br>while lies were being told to the whole wide world<br>while in Washington, Peking, Moscow, <br>London and even Tel Aviv <br>deliberations were done secretly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is earning dollars, <br>while bombs are falling like rain, <br>with guns that are shooting almost endlessly? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the dark plans were being hatched<br>and in Afghanistan and Iraq allegedly<br>soldiers were looking for weapons of mass destruction<br>while seizing oil reserves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is earning dollars, <br>while bombs are falling like rain, <br>with guns that are shooting almost endlessly? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Innocent men, women and children were killed<br>and foreign soldiers invaded their country<br>to allegedly bring peace<br>and treasures were seized.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who is earning dollars, <br>while bombs are falling like rain, <br>with guns that are shooting almost endlessly? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III. Focus on the common man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is said that every game <br>have got two sides<br>and so the bones of fortune <br>or the dice is thrown<br>where one wins and the other looses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this way people live while they deceive each other, <br>have relationships with each other’s wives <br>and tell lies and more lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Envious they look at each other’s property, <br>are competing for a job, to make a living<br>while people tread on one another<br>walking into the gambling house, the whorehouse.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this way people live while they deceive each other, <br>have relationships with each other’s wives <br>and tell lies and more lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fellow man that you have got to help, <br>is starving on the street, is despised<br>while he looses his wife, his children, his car and job<br>and everyone is only focusing on the self.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this way people live while they deceive each other, <br>have relationships with each other’s wives <br>and tell lies and more lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV. Another new gospel: Theosophy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That occultism is the new in thing, <br>slowly but surely <br>is usurping Christianity as part of it, <br>anyone will hardly believe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That man is a god, part of God and again reincarnates, <br>is becoming slowly but surely a new confession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jesus Christ is expelled as creator, <br>sacrifice of atonement, God<br>and saviour and another God <br>is written into His name, <br>the creator is doomed as Satan <br>and the snake is exalted <br>as the eternal light bearer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That man is a god, part of God and again reincarnates, <br>is becoming slowly but surely a new confession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Call it new age teachings, Gnosticism, Cabalism<br>the teachings of Alice A. Bailey (channeling Djwal Khul) , <br>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Annie Besant <br>with human rights as a basis, <br>is supplanting the commandments of God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That man is a god, part of God and again reincarnates, <br>is becoming slowly but surely a new confession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even in some protestant churches<br>séances are being held<br>and spiritualism is sneaking in slowly but surely<br>where man is looking for signs and wonders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That man is a god, part of God and again reincarnates, <br>is becoming slowly but surely a new confession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">People are seen as complex, with a lower and higher nature<br>where the mind, spirit and soul is polluted by the body, <br>is cleansed when it returns to the divine<br>and purification takes place by reincarnation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That man is a god, part of God and again reincarnates, <br>is becoming slowly but surely a new confession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V. Focus on Southern Africa</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We think that the murders on farmers, <br>the hijackings, robberies and rape<br>is the consequence of lawlessness<br>but what if it becomes legal by legislation? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the natural law as set out by Thomas Aquinas<br>in his Summa Theologiae that affirms Fascism, <br>or is it only ethnic hatred that is coming to the fore? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">This says that possessions like farms, <br>houses, cars and even tools<br>are seen as only in title the owners property<br>but that the community have the right to the use of it <br>above the owner and may take it by force.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the natural law as set out by Thomas Aquinas<br>in his Summa Theologiae is affirmed in Fascism, <br>or is it only ethnic hatred that is coming to the fore? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[References: Sewe Ballades met ‘n Proloog (Seven ballades with a prologue) by W.E.G. Louw. “Goods of some are due to others by the natural law. There is no sin if the poor take the goods of their neighbours. In cases of need, all things are common property, for the need has made it common. Not only is such taking of another’s property not a sin, it is not even crime. It is lawful for a man to succour his own need by means of another’s property by taking either openly or secretly, nor is this properly speaking, theft or robbery. It is not theft, properly speaking to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need, because that which he takes for the support of his own life becomes his own property by reason of that need. In a case of a like need a man may also take secretly another’s property to succour his neighbour’s need.” Summa Theologiae ii-ii 7th Article by Thomas Aquinas. “There is one type of fear more devastating in its impact than any other: the systematic fear that arises when a state begins to collapse. Ethnic hatred is the result of the terror that arises when legitimate authority disintegrates.” Michael Ignatieff: Blood and Belonging – Croatia and Serbia.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397990" data-title="Five ballades with a prologue de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after W.E.G. Louw) Prologue: The child of God From the creation, long before the time of Plato and Aristotle the word of God was the child’s criterion while he ruled over everything. When darkness rose right across the earth others came in..."></div> </div> </div>

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