{"id":172,"date":"1985-09-26T01:42:01","date_gmt":"1985-09-26T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:11:40","slug":"glory-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/26\/glory-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In facetious admiration<br \/>\nFor your god of salvation,<br \/>\nYou glorify his name on high.<br \/>\nYet neglected and rejected<br \/>\nIs the self your god protected &#8211;<br \/>\nThe self you&#8217;ve come to know as &#8220;I&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Your belittling reward<br \/>\nFor glorifying your Lord<br \/>\nIs a pittance in a place called heaven.<br \/>\nBut your Spirit&#8217;s advancement<br \/>\nHas taken subordinate placement,<br \/>\nFor you, and your religious brethren.<\/p>\n<p>It would seem that your religion<br \/>\nServes to hide all Truth&#8217;s constituents<br \/>\nDeep within confounded images of yore;<br \/>\nIn paradoxical parables,<br \/>\nWhere not many a man is able<br \/>\nTo see the Truth as written by your Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Should not religion serve<br \/>\nTo free one from this Earth,<br \/>\nAnd to one&#8217;s spiritual awakening show the Way?<br \/>\nThough it may have done this once,<br \/>\nYour religion no longer does:<br \/>\nTime and men have decayed it&#8217;s Truth away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In facetious admiration<br \/> For your god of salvation,<br \/> You glorify his name on high.<br \/> Yet neglected and rejected<br \/> Is the self your god protected &#8211;<br \/> The self you&#8217;ve come to know as &#8220;I&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Your belittling reward<br \/> For glorifying your Lord<br \/> Is a pittance in a place called heaven.<br \/> But your Spirit&#8217;s advancement<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}