The Mighty Unconquerable: The Latest Speculations on Love

By Charles S. Whistler

The Mighty Unconquerable is about love.

First, it simply defines love. Then it says love is accessible even to those who seem lacking in love. Third, it suggests that love and sex are partners. Finally, it frees love from the custody of god, the church, conscience, morality, science, and technology. Love can be provocative. Shorn of curls and lipstick, love is muscle and bone. This is a gentle book.

Contrary to experience, we pretend we are basking in love, but were frustrated when we dont receive its expected rewards. We accept the platitudes but reject mindless loves modest ideals as impractical and dangerous. Love fills the news in a myriad of oblique forms; it is time for serious discussion.

This is not a how-to book. It is not an argument for atheism, science, god, judgment, or even intelligence. Love stands strong and independent. The Mighty Unconquerable advances the hearts opportunities for love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 28, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504955140

Charles S. Whistler

Charles Whistler moved to Florida as a young man and, on his way, discovered Zen, haiku poetry, and aphorisms. These were his beginning tools as an author. Writing seriously, humorously, exaltedly, and divisively about God gave him reason to leave a small trail, but growing confidence and dedication to his craft has allowed him to produce volumes of work. Reading and writing steadily, he has revised, been work shopped, and judged by qualified judges. Obviously commercial and scholastic successes are the true standard and the only guarantee of relevance and worth, but credentials and reputation, finally, are for readers only to define. His philosophy can be summed up as follows: Inspiration is a leaf Erratic in drift But like the arctic tern That flies from pole to pole Ever vigilant without rest Inspiration must be sustained By direction and dedication

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I LOVE IS LOVE

II STRIVING TO LOVE

III BLOSSOMING

IV ABOVE THE LAW

DEDICATION

IN GOOD HUMOR AND LOVE

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO

All cartoonists

All book reviewers

All mystery writers

To MFS

And again RPN

I

LOVE IS LOVE

We are born

Into a diffused realm of love

Which is throughout all the universe—

We are born

As the richest concentration of that love—

We are not born defiled

We are not born in sin

We are not born in loss or separation

From that source—

We are born as love

More powerful, more bright, more pure

Than the most awesome star in the firmament—

*

Love is a positive

Love never can be negative—

Love, whatever it is put through

Love, however it is abused

Love is a positive

Love never is a negative—

*

All contradiction is lost

In love

All confusion is lost

In love—

Love is the peace and clarity of life—

*

When we think love raises doubt and confusion

It is not love we are puzzled by—

Love only is the sure, solid, serene

Law of the universe—

We cleave to love—

Love is the power and support

Of the eternal—

*

BEYOND BELIEF

Love contains

No impurities—

No speck of sin

Stirs its surface—

No cloud of fear

Clots its sheen—

No drop of guilt

Tinctures its heart—

*

Love

All pure

Rises

From every source—

*

Love has no age

Love is nothing of vice—

Virtue fails without love—

Virtue is nourished

In the solid security

Of love—

*

ABUNDANT LOVE

We have love for all time—

We come to it

In our first draft of air—

We witness and experience it

In changing abundance all through life—

We come to the relief of love

Last in life—

How can we bemoan a dearth of love?

We are given the spark of love

To shelter and feed

Or to smother and starve—

But it cannot die—

We have love for all time—

Let us sustain it in secure niches

And crowd about it—

Let us carry it high

In torch-lit celebration—

Let us magnify it like the sun

Let us testify to the abundance of our love—

*

Our idea of sin

Is a needless barrier

To union with god—

We have never been apart from god—

We are forever of god

In love—

*

Love presents no inequality—

No runner over the lame

No man over woman

No king over commoner

No man over animal or plant

No god over man—

For all of history we have lived

On bended knee, in obsequiousness—

We knew no other way

We lived and were content

With master over the humble

With the rich over the poor—

We granted this to be an acceptable bargain

For our safety

Even when our danger

Most often came from the powerful

We sought relief from—

We made a noble philosophy of it—

We raised this inequality to high art

And cloying sentimentality—

As subservient we honored god

As protector, judge, provider, and arbitrary ruler—

We found reason to honor and fear

The strong in a long sliding scale of power—

Love is equality

Whatever the discrepancy

In power, endurance, mystery—

Our intelligence doesn’t make it so—

Our intelligence is so rudimentary

As to be laughable—

It is common sense

That reaches this conclusion—

Be it the creator and the ruler

Of the universe this is so—

*

Love gathers all in its bounds

The weak and the strong

The rich and poor

The proud and the humble—

It has one character

Which is all inclusive—

It gathers the weak

As a fragile egg inside wool batting—

The strong it grasps

In arms of bone and sinew—

Love glides, works, labors

Toward the healing, the wholeness

Of all of us—

Perhaps love is not all wise

In the error prone minds of man

But it is not for want of seeking

The light that love prevails—

And what is there to take its place?

Love is the surest, the most direct path

Between us and the eternal—

*

Love has only one goal—

It is all of good—

It can be only paradise directed—

*

Even as earnestly as we would sidestep it

It is impossible to mention love

Without bringing in god

As part of the discussion—

God and love

As being, condition, word

Are used interchangeably in this book—

Neither affects the integrity of the other—

*

God is love—

God cannot exceed himself

Or