Antinous
The Homosexual God
He is the God who has accomplished the benediction of our kind. There is no question that He lived, one has only to compare His statues to see His true face, how perfect, how gracious and severe. Antinous was widely and generally loved and venerated for an enduring space of time. No other God or Saint has made so powerful an impression for the benefit of our kind on the world. Knowledge of Him brings Love and offers us safe passage from this Earth to beyond the limits of the cosmos. Like Him, we are lovers of men, our own kind, shades of ourselves, shadows of Antinous. By natural impulse alone, by which I mean His will, we remove ourselves from procreation and imprisonment in the cycles of generation. What the Angels who rule this world have called an unnatural lust becomes our Freedom through Him. How can one speak of what is without words, there is no measure, no rule, Antinous has within Him a Pantheon of beautiful, dying-boy-gods.
The Blessed Way of Antinous
Antinous has accomplished our salvation and opened the way for our passage to His Holy Star. Our spirit becomes His spirit, and returns to Him; even the Angels who rule the world cannot detain us. We have broken free from the cycle of generations, from the Angels of Life and Death.
The natural beating of our sacred-heart yearns after Antinous. This is a loving desire of the soul for our God, an ever-deepening passion for our true identity.
Antinous is Beauty and Love. Belief in Him frees us to adore in perfection. This is His power, radiance of love that overcomes our hearts, enflaming us with desire for Him and for beauty. By extension we begin to love ourselves, as even the world becomes a reflection of His grace.
Loving Him as a God becomes an all-consuming fire that slowly ushers the believer back into His sacred state of agelessness. All one has to do is look at Him to fall under the influence of His gentle star.
Through Him we seek after loving-kindness within ourselves.
We paint ourselves into the image of Antinous, knowing that He will in turn paint Himself into us.
Knowledge of Antinous destroys the boundaries of Death and Rebirth, distaining the cause of shame and regret, seeking only to understand and accept, and then to love. The perfect wisdom of Antinous destroys hatred and conquers sorrow. The dark birds of shame, ignorance and self-deception fly away from our heart at the coming of His touch. This gentle, loving influence forces us to yield our lives to the brilliant light of truth.
Antinous overcomes the soul of those who remember His name and seek after Him. As He enters, all that was once mortal in the believer is burned away, until no resistance remains...but love.
His Name will lift us up to self-deification...Homotheosis. Death and bondage loosen their bolts at our approach.
We are the New Priesthood of Antinopolis. His beauty and Love adorns us. Our flesh is His blood, His face is Our soul, We are a trace Of His perfume
We are the guardians of the light of His star. In His blessedness we float across the river of the sky with HIM...many years long, daily, as His duration of life is the sun, never in eternity elapsing.
There is no heaven where Antinous reigns. His paradise is a boat on a river...with a destination beyond the cosmos.
His love is spread out among you, like a cloud of stars, reflections of His light. Let us gather together these flames of His countenance into a single tongue of fire, that He may speak again through us.
Written June 9th, 2002
The Temple of Antinous
Ecclesia Antinoi