The Evangelical Universalist Forum

Satan Has Been Cast Out

Satan has been cast out of me. Years ago I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. Through a long process of ups and downs I have finally been healed. It was the poetry that healed me. I can finally move on with my life. The healing is in the atonement. In faith union with Christ we are baptized into his death and risen to new life. Our sins are cleansed. God smiles and His glory shines. He becomes your loving Father and you become His child. When you are in faith union with Christ God’s arrow pierces the heart and the water and blood flow cleansing your sins. It is a mystical union with Christ. You become His bride. It’s a holy union. Satan has been cast out of the garden of Eden.

The Grail

They are like shy, young school kids - time and space
before the woman and the man who are intimate with God
The realized soul can play the way a child can a ball
A chalice - the Grail - my body became, for it held the Christ
and He drank from me
Sanctified are our limbs, for every heart has touched God,
though most with closed eyes.
A holy relic is each creature, and beauty may worry
about it’s comeliness waning
We fear dying till we know the truth of ourselves
The seams on my body are torn
I have stepped from the region of me that did not love all the time
There is a divine world of light with many suns in the sky
I slept with my Lord one night
now all that is luminous I know we conceived

St. Teresa of Avilla

Union

In union with You upon the cross
As love’s arrow pierces my heart
I die to myself and suffer loss
Then given a new life and start

Buried to my old self I then rise
Vision is now clear as I can see
New self reflects in Your eyes
The person I am and want to be

Looking deeper into Your face
Beauty becomes brighter inside
With no more wrath only grace
In union with You I now confide

Cole