|
Antinous
was purely and profoundly Homosexual, even if the concept of Homosexuality
in ancient Rome was quite different from our modern definition, Antinous
never-the-less was understood to be of essentially the same nature as
a modern homosexual. He was deified and worshiped as a god because he
had been the beautiful lover of Hadrian, Emperor of Rome. Many other attributes
of divinity were attributed to Antinous, but the foundation of his divine
nature was based on his homosexual beauty.
In his short life, Antinous
affected the course of human history in that he became the first historical
person to be declared a god because of his beauty and homosexuality, the
first and last for whom a Roman Religion was declared and implemented,
which lasted for several hundred years. The effect of his religion prompted
our Christian enemies to react against homosexuality in ways that continue
to affect us to this day.
The beauty of Antinous is
timeless. He is as perfect to our modern eyes as he was 1900 years ago.
He has captivated lovers of male. Antinous was the first and the longest
lasting Male supermodel.
There are very few gods in
history that have been worshiped as gods of homosexuality, the most important
being the beautiful boy Ganymede, whom Jupiter loved. But Ganymede was
never widely worshiped, no powers were attributed to him, he was identified
rather as the archetype of men who loved men. In Latin the Romans pronounced
his name Catamitus, and over time all effeminate men who engaged in the
receptive role of gay sex were called Catamites. Antinous was compared
to Ganymede because of his relationship with Hadrian and was later denounced
as a Catamite by later writers, and the Star of Antinous was located within
the Constellation of the Eagle, thereby demonstrating that the divinity
of Antinous was as though Ganymede had come into being in the form of
Antinous. The humanity of Antinous brought him closer to our human soul,
he was widely worshiped and understood to be the deified beautiful boy
of the Divine Emperor Hadrian. Antinous was endowed with sublime power
over homosexuals, He is neither myth nor legend?He is one of us, and he
was understood to be so in antiquity and was worshiped as essentially
the God of Homosexuals.
Antinous is a true god, immortal,
ineffable, mysterious and able to affect the lives of living beings. Antinous
is free to bless whom-so-ever He chooses, independent of the ethereal
beings. For this reason, and because He was born of a woman, lived, and
died in a time and in a place of historical reality, Antinous exceeds
many other gods who are revered as the benefactors of homosexuality, because
Antinous is neither a myth nor a fantasy, but a beautiful boy who really
lived and really brought about an era of peace and sacredness for homosexuals
throughout the Roman empire and by extension for all people...Antinous
was the Spirit of Peace for the whole world, which was Hadrian's dream,
a dream that was realized during the high point of the ancient cult of
Antinous.
Antinous is the essence of
Homosexuality. He is the spirit of those qualities that call our attention
to other males, Antinous is the intrinsic love for our own gender that
arises within our hearts of it's own accord. Even when we are children,
though we do not understand His language, we hear His voice calling, producing
a longing that we cannot resist without emotional pain, suffering and
socially inflicted self-loathing. The call of Antinous draws us to the
beauty of our own kind, our own sex, compelling us to break away from
the expectations of traditional society. In our adolescence, the desire
of Antinous may take on the aspect of a torment. We are forced to choose
between the courageous act of revealing our truth or of conforming to
the general order of society. Antinous is the force of Gay Love that demands
that we be truthful with ourselves and with all those around us. When
one who has felt the calling of the Gay God within his heart, ignores
and resists, the result can lead to a life of self-delusion and misery,
a sordid existence of self-deception and social dishonesty. But when one
answers the call of the Gay God, and rises to the truth within themselves
and is open and honest even in the face of rejection or disapproval, the
result is Freedom, and the joyous virtue of being self-honest and truthful
towards society...the result of embracing Antinous is coming to terms
with the emotion of love and desire, of finding love within one's self
and then expressing that love to the world around us.
All love to those who embrace
Antinous and seek after Him. All who search for Antinous in the beauty
of the world will find Him...within themselves. Antinous sets the hearts
of all who love Him free. To follow Antinous is to walk away from the
natural order of the world, to become a Sacred Homosexual, to possibly
resign from the perpetuation of the human species, which is threatened
by over-population, and to live instead for Love and Beauty, in a state
of freedom, pleasure, and bliss, and then share this joy of life with
the rest of the world.
By natural impulse we are
compelled to reject the mechanisms of natural reproduction, we are drawn
away from the opposite sex by a longing for our own kind and brought instead
to forms of love that do not procreate, that are no more than the joy
of the body, and of the heart. Antinous removes the weight of procreation,
setting us free to find the other joys of life, for the benefit of all.
Antinous, by sanctifying
mankind with the benediction of Homosexuality, leads us towards the love
of our own kind, same-love, which is an extension of the love of the self.
Antinous is the lover who dwells within, the purest beauty after whom
we spend our lives searching and longing. We find rays of His form shinning
through the visage of beautiful men and boys...But we will never find
the whole and complete Antinous. The lovely faces that grace the world
are for us parts and emanations of the one true Antinous who dwells within
our hearts. We find His components here and there, and gathering them
together, we are led on a journey of reverence and adoration. Antinous
is the Beloved, whose countenance is beautiful, and we through the valor
and love-joy of our homo-sacred being, are made one with Him. We are His
Lovers and He is our Lover, and it is through Antinous that we learn to
be Lovers, how to share the love that we hold in our heart with other
gay men...in a sacred manner.
Seek then after the one whose
voice awoke us from the dreams of childhood, and drew us to our gay brothers
in love and flaming desire. Open your heart for Antinous, whose beauty
cannot be covered, and joyfully suffer the scorn of a world which is blind
to the beauty of homo-sanctity. We are blessed, and sanctified through
Antinous, who was assumed into the Nile, who arose to the heroic sphere
and accomplished our deification. We are living in the most glorious age
of gay men, the turning point, and our enemies have chosen to hold onto
the past...the future is therefore ours for the taking...the dream of
Antinous is spread out before us.
Lift up your hearts to Homo
Deus Antinous, the gay god who is one with us, our same-god, who draws
us toward His ineffable and perfect beauty. Joyfully we find that we are
all one with Him, that no unnatural effort is needed to follow His will,
because at the very moment of our birth His gentle ways were inscribed
upon our pious hearts. We have only to embrace Him, we have only to break
away from fear and shame, and self-loathing, and live freely as the Companions
of Antinous, desirous of Him, as we find Him in the world and within our
selves.
Antinous is the Spirit of
Homosexuality...he is a person and a name that has been used to describe
a feeling that glows within us, a unifying force that we all share in
common. Homosexuality existed long before Antinous was born, but Antinous
is the only person who was ever consecrated as a god for being a gay man.
Antinous is the only person for whom temples and sacred statues were created
to receive the devotion of gay men. Antinous represents a time when being
gay was once considered a sacred thing, and now, as the world begins to
change...Antinous deserves to be recognized as a crucial element in our
ancient gay spirituality, because he represents so many beautiful, mysterious
forces within us. And by opening our heart to Antinous, we can begin to
unfold the beauty of gay spirituality within ourselves. |