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On the Attainment of the Divine Stigmata

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The Enigma of a Grace Which Means Martyrdom...If there's any grace
understood the least, it's the Divine Stigmata. Why would it be understood
so little? Perhaps because there are so few recipients, & most of them are
from the middle ages-In a word, I'll tell you what it is: Martyrdom. If you
can understand voluntary martyrdom, then you know what Divine Stigmata
means, stands for, & why IT IS GIVEN. A recent symbol of martyrdom has been
St Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered death in place of another. It does irk
me that "scholars" rivet on physical wounds, as if the qualities there hold
the answers. How can study of the wounds of Christ explain his
psychological, mental & emotional dimensions; the Love therein, the
willingness to DIE FOR LOVE. Therefore, the secret & the key to
understanding DIVINE STIGMATA is the WILLINGNESS TO SUFFER, TO GIVE UP ALL,
TO DIE FOR LOVE; FOR THE SAKE OF SAVING ANOTHER. If you can fathom this, you
have the answer.

EXCERPT

The Enigma of a Grace Which Means Martyrdom



If there is any grace understood by the least amount of people, I am sure it
is the Divine Stigmata.

Why would it be studied, and therefore understood, so little?

Possibly because there are so few recipients, and most of them seem to be
gathered in the middle ages, circa 1200's to 1500's.

Our present day, however, has had its share, including the renowned Saint
Padre Pio, Saint Theresa Neumann, and Saint Faustina (interior stigmata.)

Perhaps fate leaves it to me to explain? I can see the smiles on theologian's
faces.

In a word, I will tell you what it is: Martyrdom

If you can understand voluntary martyrdom, you can understand what Divine
Stigmata means, what it stands for, and why IT IS GIVEN.

A recent symbol of voluntary martyrdom has been Saint Maximilian Kolbe, who
stepped up for execution in order to save another, during World War II.

It does irk me that "scholars" study physical wounds, as if the
characteristics thereof, (of the physical stigmatists), would hold the
answers. Oh, these fools, how can study of the wounds of Jesus Christ
explain his psychological, mental and emotional settings; the Love therein,
the willingness to DIE FOR LOVE?

Therefore, the secret and the key to understanding DIVINE STIGMATA is the
WILLINGNESS TO DIE FOR LOVE, TO DIE FOR THE SAKE OF SAVING OTHERS. If you
can fathom this, then you get it.

Another question that comes to mind, is that if a person CONTINUES TO LIVE
IN THE PHYSICAL BODY THEN HOW ARE THEY DEAD?

To get the answer to that, study different degrees of death, or facets
thereof. What is death but a termination - a switch from one state to
another. Many have noted, that PHYSICAL DEATH CAN BE BETTER THAN LIVING IN
VARIOUS FORMS OF PAIN AND TORTURE

"Oh God, let me die and take me out of my misery!"

is a well-known cry.

Now I explain in this diary, how parts of me died, and these parts were the
very best of me, a termination of the most valuable, beautiful and
meaningful Powers within my being. These abilities LIFTED ME FROM THE FLESH
INTO ECSTASIES OF EMPYRIAN JOY AND MADE ME A RESIDENT OF PARADISE, GIVING ME
PERFECT DIGNITY AND SECURITY. The Gifts and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit,
or the Shakti Kundalini Powers, the Spiritual Energy Centers, for which I
had already suffered greatly to obtain, were deemed INOPERABLE (and
therefore, by definition, I had to enter into the famous "dark night of the
soul".)

And so, the price of the Interior Divine Stigmata, for me, was termination
of Heaven and therefore a plunge into Purgatory. I could not properly any
longer see, hear, taste or feel God, but yet I had to keep the commandments,
the rituals and prayers, and refrain from sin. I was now thrown upon pure
faith, with no consolation or sweetness that saints are given - it was like
leaving your family and finding not a friend. This went on for eighteen
years; this was martyrdom.

What happened at the end of those years? Strangely, God sent a yogi to Light
my way, Guru Baba Muktananda. I began a "sadhana" with him in the year 2000,
where he "downloaded" all his gifts to me during two and a half months, and
later, taught me something by giving me what is beyond Gifts, HIS VERY SELF.
(This transaction is called "mystical marriage" and I have enjoyed mystical
marriage with Baghwan Nityananda and our Our Lord Jesus Christ as well.)

The operation of the Gifts was returned to me not at once, but slowly, as I
believe a change that great would be traumatic- it took years to feel all
the Powers again. It is also important to reference here that GOD NEVER
REPENTS A GIFT and therefore, the Gifts were not taken away, but the USE or
FEELING of them was. (In other words, say, you have a spouse, and are
legally married, but your spouse has to leave you for say, eighteen years,
and you have little or no contact, and cannot enjoy the love and
companionship of the spouse...but the marriage has not been terminated.)

To endure such a termination of the Love of God is martyrdom.

Guru Rasa Von Werder, June, 2009



Part I
Chapter 1
Rasa on the Attainment of the Stigmata


I never thought that I would receive the Stigmata. When I first heard about
it, it was in relation to the greatest saints who ever lived. I thought of
it in awe - as something far away.

But then things came nearer in relation to God. I began to ascend the
mystical path of union with Him, and this brought about many graces, most of
which I also once thought of in awe and far away. For instance, the
betrothal to Christ in January, 1978 where I received three rings of Light
from Him.

After that, other phenomenal things happened. I was soon at a point where I
could believe that the most incredible things could happen even to me. The
Stigmata became less remote, but still a momentous goal. Perhaps it was
impossible.

The things that I read about the Stigmata discouraged the idea that anyone
should HOPE to attain it. The Priests and teachers with whom I spoke about
the Stigmata told me one should never wish for pain, and that the saints
never prayed for the Stigmata.

However, in my studies I found that saints did pray for the Stigmata, and
reparatory pain was one of the greatest graces one could have and therefore
should pray for. I began to suspect that those who cautioned me against it
spoke for themselves. It was they who were afraid of pain, they who feared
the Stigmata and therefore justified their own aversion toward attaining it.

I dug into the lives of the saints and found the two that I would most
follow in this regard: St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gertrude the Great. St.
Gertrude, in particular, fascinated me as I found in her the example of
exalted wisdom in the love of God. She was one I could follow anywhere, any
time. Whereas St. Francis was more difficult to follow because his life was
renouncement of all physical things, but St. Gertrude's example focused in
on PRAYER. Her style and example of prayer I could follow and did follow
vehemently.

Both St. Francis of Assisi and St. Gertrude the Great prayed for the
Stigmata. At the time I was ready, I opened their books to the appropriate
places, underlined them and left them open to be recited daily. I had made a
resolution that one way or another God would answer my prayer. Surely I
could lose nothing by praying.

It was two or three months after I started praying that it happened. Wonder
of wonders, I did not recognize the Stigmata until a month later! I am still
shocked that God heard me so quickly, but I have come to believe this, that
God is pleased when we are willing to accept sufferings for the sake of
love!

I began to recite first this prayer daily in honor of St. Gertrude, which is
recommended in her book:

"O most sweet Lord Jesus Christ, I praise, extol and bless Thee, in union
with that heavenly praise which the Divine Persons of the Most Holy Trinity
mutually render to each other, and which thence flows down upon Thy sacred
Humanity, upon the Blessed Virgin Mary and upon all the angels and saints.
And I give Thee thanks for all the graces thou didst lavish upon Thy beloved
spouse, St. Gertrude. I thank Thee especially for that ineffable love
wherewith Thou didst pre-elect her from all eternity, didst enrich her so
highly, didst draw her so sweetly to Thyself by the strongest bonds of love,
didst unite her so blissfully to Thyself, dwell with such delight in her
heart, and crown her life with so blessed an end. I recall to Thee now, O
most compassionate Jesus, the promise Thou didst make to Thy beloved spouse,
that Thou wouldst most assuredly grant the prayers of all who come to Thee
through her merits and intercession, in all matters concerning their
salvation. I beseech Thee, by Thy most tender love, grant me the grace OF
RECEIVING HER GRACES which I confidently expect. Amen."

I said this prayer daily for one month before reciting the prayer for the
Stigmata, and it gave me courage to take the next step.

I also recited St. Francis's prayer at the time of seeking the Stigmata, as
follows:

"O Lord Jesus Christ, I entreat you to give me two graces before I die:
First, that in my lifetime I may feel in body and soul as far as possible
the pain you endured, dear Lord, in the hour of your most bitter suffering;
and second, that I may feel in my heart as far as possible that excess of
love by which you, o son of God, were inflamed to undertake so cruel a
suffering for us sinners."

St. Gertrude's prayer equivalent to that was:

"O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the living God, grant that I may aspire towards
Thee with my whole heart, with yearning desire and with thirsting soul,
seeking only Thy sweetness and Thy delights, so that my whole mind and all
that is within me may ardently sigh to Thee, who art our true Beatitude.

"O MOST MERCIFUL LORD, ENGRAVE THY WOUNDS UPON MY HEART WITH THY MOST
PRECIOUS BLOOD, THAT I MAY READ IN THEM BOTH THY GRIEF AND THY LOVE; AND
THAT THE MEMORY OF THY WOUNDS MAY EVER REMAIN IN MY INMOST HEART, TO EXCITE
MY COMPASSION FOR THY SUFFERINGS AND TO INCREASE IN ME THY LOVE. GRANT ALSO
THAT I MAY DESPISE ALL CREATURES, AND THAT MY HEART MAY DELIGHT IN THEE
ALONE. AMEN."

It continues in the booklet of St. Gertrude:

"This prayer," writes Gertrude, "pleased me very much. I memorized it and
recited it frequently. One afternoon, during the same winter..... I suddenly
became conscious that Our Lord had deigned to hear me. I felt, O my God, how
Thou didst imprint on my heart Thy adorable Wounds, even as they are on Thy
Sacred Body. Not withstanding my exceeding unworthiness, Thy infinite bounty
has even to this hour preserved therein the impression."

St. Gertrude's Stigmata was interior; the engraving of Christ's Wounds on
the heart, while St. Francis's manifested on the body. It seemed to me that
St. Gertrude's grace would be more practical for me, and that it would be
beneficial to have the interior grace with all its effects without having
the outside Wounds to cripple and incapacitate me.

I wouldn't mind having the outside Wounds, if it were God's will for me, but
I don't believe it was at this time.

There is a gap in literature on the subject of this grace. This is one of
the reasons I am so anxious to produce this book, to share with all my
encounter with the justice of God which inflicts these Wounds. Although I
call them Wounds, do not consider them, in my case, as something bleeding
and ripped inside. Understand "Wounds" as something metaphysical, but none
the less real. Remember that the greatest pain is not physical, but that
which is of the heart and soul. The memory of physical pain passes, but the
GROWTH which the Stigmata begets never passes, and within this growth there
is a capacity for love and pain as never before.

Since I am so hard pressed to explain the phenomenon of this grace, I will
have to draw upon another discipline - that of Yoga - to try and explain it.
Although it is not a part of Catholic Science, from time to time the
Catholic faith does draw into itself other sciences as they come along into
our understanding. For instance, technology is now used to explain a lot of
things that saints once theorized in religious terms, and even psychology,
which studies the mind and has nothing to do with theology is now
incorporated into our Catholicism. So I see nothing wrong in bringing into
the picture what Hindu Yogis call the Chakras.

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I Strip for God

By Kellie Everts

Introduction

Why "Stripping for God" Created Such a Fracas

There is an error common in our culture which says something like,

"If a woman is spiritual she is not attracted to sex, and if she is sexual,
she is most probably not spiritual, in fact, the opposite."

This Madonna/Whore split has been purposely imposed on women by a male-based
society which disempowers them.

When I was interviewed by the press they sometimes asked, how could I do a
thing which was the opposite of common logic? A dichotomy does not make
sense.

Specifically, one reporter said,

"How can you save men while making them lust?"

(The word lust was repeated again and again, lust being a "sin" and so here
I am, making men sin, and then, supposedly "saving their souls" by preaching
to them.)

To be honest, I had not hewn out a philosophy of what I did, why I did it.
It was from the gut by which I worked, an interior me which moved to a
different drum-mer that was native to me but seemed alien to others - they
certainly did not act upon such ideas if they had them.

What was I doing? It seemed appropriate to me. I was a spiritual woman who
happened to have a gorgeous body, who wanted to do spiritual work in the
proc-ess of getting paid for her looks - simple as that. What was so
sensational was that no woman had ever done such a thing before, because it
was too hard, and so, it was an anomaly.

Certainly, there had been strippers who were "spiritual", and spiritual
women with beautiful bodies, - would not logic bear this out? St. Bernadette
Soubirous was beautiful (still is as an incorruptible body!).

Then there's "the tart with the heart of gold" as if adult workers have evil
hearts and having a good one is a fluke, and so, the prostitute, the
stripper, the nude model, - we're all hoodwinkers, charlatans, our hands in
the pockets of innocent men, ready to take their gold and give nothing in
return.

Imagine someone asking your profession, and the queried one says,

"I work the streets, doing sex with men...it pays the bills."

Horrible thoughts come to mind, including those of immorality. Without
knowing one iota about the person, she's signed, sealed and delivered up to
judgment.

Whereas, the respectable woman answers,

"I am married, have raised five kids, four grand kids, have been with the
same husband thirty years."

Now favor lies with the married woman - the thoughts are all good.

Of course, it could be to the contrary. The street walker was abused by her
Dad, then her granddad, ran away from home, fell on hard times of course and
walks the streets. She's never done anything immoral but is branded
"sinner."

The married woman had not a faithful day in her life, cheated on hubby every
chance she could, was unfair to her kids and grandkids, and never thought
about God. She's a dead soul who will appear in Hell as soon as she leaves
the body.

But no one sees inside, it's all judged from without.

The point is, it all rests on the fulcrum of SEX. The one perceived as
sexual is immoral, the one seen as non-sexual Mother, Grandma, is moral. IS
SEX, THEREFORE, THEN EVIL?

Aha - but here comes the double standard!

"What's good for the gander is not good for the goose!"

The same law, the same standard for woman does not apply to male. When
sexual he is called,

"virile, manly, hot blooded,"

but female, given like behavior is,

"slut, whore, nymphomaniac."

(See Dr. Dale Spender of Australia on her famous studies of words
identifying male and female and also use of words, conversation, between
same.)

We have the second instance here of judgment/disempowerment of females,
perpetrated by the male society.

There's a reason for their madness: disempowerment, make the women weak. How
are they made weak?

When I became the Stripper for God I made women strong, because I dispelled
the notion of the Madonna/Whore complex. Here I am, in your face, an adult
trade worker, but preaching "the Word of God" to save souls, and so I am the
Madonna and Whore IN ONE BODY - which males have stated is an
impossibil-ity.

For the last couple years I've been saying to my confreres, that when we
dispel the Madonna/Whore myth, and restore the Image of Womanhood where she
is both spiritual and sexual we will have broken Patriarchy - as its power
lies, more than anything, in splitting the woman into two parts, one part
against the other - women at war against themselves - and then, when she is
put back together, she has awesome power where men must bend the knee - they
cannot resist the au-thority of the female that is both sexual and
spiritual! YOU HAVE DE FACTO, THE RETURN OF MOTHER GOD, AND EVERY WOMAN HER
SYMBOL!

Yes, it's all in the image. People are empowered or disempowered in how they
are portrayed, assassination of character or built up as hero. (Such has
been done by propaganda, in war, to the enemy, portraying them as worthy of
atrocities and murder - part of the mind control of soldiers.)

Women in the adult trade are open season to every hunter anywhere who wants
to shoot them down! The worst insult to a woman is whore!

THE END OF PATRIARCHY

In view of this, the sexual behavior of females is monitored, evidence that
she is "no good" if sexually active, the less sex she has, the better she
is, the more sex she has, the more of a slut. Where is the freedom? It's all
MIND CONTROL OF THE ENEMY THAT IS WOMAN, THE GENDER WAR WHERE MALES
TEM-PORARILY WON AND ENSLAVED WOMEN WITH PROPAGANDA OF THEIR DEADLY
RELIGIONS.

Fortunately, now, for all of us, the Patriarchy is breaking down. Everywhere
around us, it is crumbling along with the Y chromosome. There is evidence of
Female Power Ascending with male power descending (educational statistics
most telling, great majority in colleges are females, females will outstrip
male earning capacity, females now getting more doctor degrees than males)
and yet, for the time being, males are still in the majority positions of
power (Fortune 500 companies, government positions, positions of economic
and governmental power) but statistics reveal men falling behind, women
moving ahead in all areas, economic as well as leadership, there is a fast
and steady movement this way, the cork called woman is bopping up due to the
end of some of the institutionalized discrimination.

THE BEST KEPT SECRET AGAINST MEN

Now to top this all off, the best kept secret (you won't see it on Fox or
CNN)is that males are going extinct. No one is talking but about but me it
seems.

In spite of the fact that Dr. Bryan Sykes book, "Adam's Curse - A World
Without Men" was on the New York Times best seller list and referenced on
international TV, the word is mum on male extinction.

Bryan Sykes predicts there will be no males within 100,000 years, give or
take 25,000, because the Y chromosome is crumbling, and cannot repair
itself. His view is that males are

"a genetic modification experiment that did not work and is now ending."

Women will reproduce without men (easily he says), the progeny all female,
the future is women.

And so, of course, with the end of males, ends male religion, its fallacies
and ferocities, male rulership of the world, male standards of right and
wrong built for their convenience, definitions of females, males, and their
behavior, including sexual; all ideas, concepts, taboos, as espoused by
males, and enforced by their rules, regulations and law, and last but not
least, the end of their genocides and atrocities against nature, humans and
animals.

RETURN OF MATRIARCHY

Had there ever been a Matriarchy, and what had it been like? If female power
emerges, are they simply going to be the mirror of men, oppressing all whom
they rule?

My favorite writer on Matriarchy today is beloved William Bond. William
brings out the difference between men and women, being the female is made to
nurture children and others - whereas male, without this ability, when in
charge, becomes a cruel tyrant. Males are easier to mind control than are
women, they tend to want to obey, he says, not being comfortable with
equality - and other males get them to do atrocities. Women cannot be
coerced this way. They are naturally sensitive and compassionate, looking
for ways to heal rather than harm.

Sexuality in Matriarchy

A salient point to "Stripping for God" is sexuality and its morals. What was
this like in Matriarchy? Evidence of Goddess religion, sculpture, myths,
indicates that sex was sacred; it was fertility, it was life. (This would be
the opposite of the Culture of Death, Patriarchy, which revolves around a
Military/Industrial com-plex that says, 'Make War, not Love.) Certainly
women had freedom to make their choice of men, they were not forced to be
"faithful" and monogamous. And so, sexual morality was completely different
in Matriarchy, and will be so again as it returns (there is certainly
evidence of this now in the loosening of sexual "morals"!).

We might add here that our closest cousins, the Bonobo apes, are
Matriarchal. All conflicts are resolved by nurturing, affection and
sexuality - they stop fights, the women protect each other, the children,
and their men. With Bonobos, the males escalate violence same as humans, but
females prevent them by banding together! (Note that 98% of human violence
is perpetrated by males.)

All of the above being said, the bottom line to "Stripping for God" is that
is has been a strike of womanhood against male oppression, where the female
said,

"I am a woman who is of God, a woman who is in the adult trade because she
has to be, but this woman is not a slut or whore, she is both sexual and
spiritual at the same time."

And so, this statement is what it was all about, that's why it created a
sensation, it broke a major stereotype, and therefore, freed up women.

Kellie Everts, aka Rasa Von Werder

May, 2009

The Origin & Decline of Female Body Building

By Kellie Everts

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What happened to female bodybuilding? It looked once that it would surpass
men's, now males are getting $100,000., a Hummer & Rolex watch, while
fe-males get $8,000. period, & women's bodybuilding has all but vanished
from the newsstands. It went from the heights of $50,000. winner to peanuts,
it's all over but the 'shmoes' -diehard fans, & champions are posing sans
duds for Bill Dob-bins (for free), doing webcam work, 'muscle worship' &
'wrestling' with horny fans. Who destroyed female bodybuilding & how? Answer
questions about the origin of female bodybuilding, sexism then and now; how
it went downhill. Letters & discussion will be considered for Kellie's new
book - she is known today as Rasa Von Werder...It isn't that we object to
what goes in art or ADULT TRADE, it is that women are not having a CHOICE, I
mean what champ would do birthday suit poses if she's getting $100,000. &
more? What's been taken away is the DIGNITY & CHOICE for women, once again,
as always, relegated to 'you bimbo, hoe, available for me, hero' & they want
it that way. Here are the facts: They never wanted it, played along for the
bucks. In time, their macho nature pushed women lower & lower, & the gals
just didn't fight back, nor are they doing so today for fear of losing their
status to compete. In other words, they are given rags instead of medals,
falling lower & lower into economic slavery, & like good slaves, they are
performing & keeping their mouths shut...If any of those I contact later on
bitches about what I said, blame yourself, because here I am giving you the
right to dissent --but when the book comes out you say I misrepresented the
sport, it was you who did not speak up when you could - so speak now or
forever hold your peace.



WHAT HAPPENED TO FEMALE BODY BUILDING?

What happened to female body building? From its earliest inception to the
mid seventies, it was a male-only world, changed by a woman getting the idea
into the MAINSTREAM MEDIA. The concept of women lifting weights took them
from passive male object to woman in charge. This enhanced image lit up all
arenas from business to sports to entertainment; women were soon different.
The bodybuilding world with contests and magazines played up the thought
some years (starting 1979) but this trailed off, by the mid nineties the
magazines were portraying them once more as smooth, shapely beauties (bikini
contests again the style, just as they were prior to 1979) - the objects of
men. The professional class of female body builders were pushed into the
margins as sort of "not so relevant freak show" as they had appeared long
before in circuses and carnivals, - they are there, but not as featured
players. What happened?

Kellie Everts, the officially recognized "Progenitor" of competitive
female body building, explains. Yes, female body building has slid off due
to decisions made by men. But the image of female has changed forever,
embedded into our culture,- and even if there never was another female body
building contest this can never be erased.



Worship of Beautiful Women Is Hunger for Mother God

by Rasa Von Werder

Guru Rasa Von Werder has once more outdone herself by explaining a spiritual
side of males - a tendency to worship females, whom they recognize innately,
unconsciously, instinctively, to be the embodiment of Mother God, Power,
Au-thority, and True Love. She explains in detail how she came to this
conclusion, & her insight is seconded by Matriarchal confrere, William
Bond - who explains that males are not comfortable with equality; they need
to recognize authority and fall into place when it is given. (Rasa & Mr.
Bond believe that females are natu-rally dominant and are coerced into
submission by a Patriarchal society.) In another landmark article, Rasa
gives "The Future of Male-Female Relationships," bearing in mind that we are
moving toward Matriarchy - Patriarchy is phasing out - & so, what is the
world changing into? People have noticed that gender roles are changing so
fast, so drastically, what to do with each other can be chaotic.