This is what I call true creativity. you can fix it and make a poem you can turn it into a song or you can leave it as a story...either way its all PERFECTLY WRITTEN!
Miss Alecia is the voice in the desert GOD? Telling you that true life is peace away from the nonsense. Is it a moment of clarity that makes you think what if i took a different direction with the fork in the road. I guess its always fitting to go right. Sometimes left is the unknown or just go straight. It sounds like AFRIKA is the greatest vision of life before all the noise, bells and whistle's. To the origin of what has become now. The building blocks of every society is from that place that is just amazing in the thought of itself.
IamMike7 ( always keep it 1 to 1)
Alicia Keys manages like NO ONE to give me BUTTERFLIES with her SONGS IN A MINOR about LIFE, TROUBLES, and most of all - about A WOMAN'S WORTH ... Oh BROTHA, when I feel like FALLING, she'll put me in such an EMPIRE STATE OF MIND .... and I can truly say I NEVER FELT THIS WAY BEFORE!! Then I can stop wondering WHY DO I FEEL SO SAD .... and being LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN ... So, even though we know LOVE IS BLIND, and sometimes you gotta TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART ... Remember to take me AS I AM ... Cuz I sure am UNBREAKABLE. That is my own ELEMENT OF FREEDOM.
I just want say, that you are my big inspiration. I am brazilian and I came here just because of you, and next march I will see your concert in DC. You are everything to me, I hope one day I`ll meet you. Love u!
I just want say, that you are my big inspiration. I am brazilian and I came here just because of you, and next march I will see your concert in DC. You are everything to me, I hope one day I`ll meet you. Love u!
Interesting post. One of the characteristics I most admire about Ms. Keys is her ability to handle pressure. What helps her - and other successful individuals like her - cope with the high expectations and potentially overwhelming responsibilities better than others?
It appears that running is an important outlet for Ms. Keys. Perhaps those of us feeling the various pressures in our lives should make sure to go out every once in a while and run the fear and anxiety out of our system...
That's brings up a question (for fellow AKFC members): what is the underlying source of pressure? From where does pressure stem?
As time passes by in the oh so quite desert,
Mother Nature's song can be heard.
Her gentle voice sings the song of ages.
The same song she sang before the birth of her human children,
The same song she sang with the birth of her human children.
This songs sings of joys and sorrows,
And of the past that has gone and future still to come.
As time passes by in the so quite desert,
Mother Nature's song can be heard.
Alicia, Buenos Dias,
Your words are soothing. I can picture the paradise you speak of. Sometimes the loudest noise is Silence and it is the best medicine. Sometimes the worst feeling is being alone. But then again its not so bad when our surroundings make us uncomfortable. We tend to ignore things that seem small to our lives. And don't appreciate the gift that has been given to us, LIFE. I think you have found the purpose of your life. Live it to your best. I hope one day we cross roads. I'm also a good listener if ever needed to chat my email is miguelr0man@yahoo.com
Tennessee Williams once wrote ...
"When so many are alone, as alone as they seem, would be very selfish ... being alone in solitude."
There is nothing worse than feeling alone when you are together, when you have things to tell and they ignore you, when you need affection and not there to give it to you when you need a helping hand, a word of support and you only receive monosyllables, but this is not your case, you have your music, you have your friends, you have your fans and admirers, and all those people who travel to go to a concert yours to lend you all their support ...
Sometimes I feel as if I had become accustomed to living in solitude, I feel that no one is so important to open me up and you begin to lose hope, but really out there will be one person that expects... only remains to live and wait, not being selfish, being alone but together. Life will reward you in ways unimaginable.
Alicia See ya, kisses from Cadiz at Carnival time ㋛ Alejandro
My english is not very good/complet, lo siento por eso
quiero dejar un comentario en mi lenguaje nativo, quiero expresar mi mas profundo sentido de admiracion hacia un ser que a traves de su forma de ser, actuar, sentir con su musica, su voz y la fuerza y el poder de hembra alfa que la caracteriza logra imponerse sobre las demas, consiguiendo despertar vidas eclipsadas inmersas en sus propios universos, comprometer pensamientos con la letra de sus canciones y permitir el deleite del paladar auditvio de muchos comensales que degustan de la excelente culinaria musical que ella prepara con mucho amor y dedicacion. Eres Alicia una mujer que logra una perfecta concordancia entre las actividades que realizas y el objeto que las incentiva, eres la hembra alfa con el poder de la fuerza de tu ser y la belleza que cautiva, eres un ser de luz que trasciende fronteras iluminando la oscuridad de muchos corazones aflijidos, eres y seguiras siendo sin pretender que seas lo que no quieres ser, asi seras y te amaremos por ser.
gracias por existir, eres esa hembra alfa que solo un macho alfa complementa.
por favor no cambies y no permitas que te hagan cambiar ni fisica y mucho menos espiritualmente.
2 And Enoch said, Concerning the children of righteousness, concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of righteousness and integrity.
3 Concerning these things will I speak, and these things will I explain to you, my children: I who am Enoch. In consequence of that which has been shown to me, from my heavenly vision and from the voice of the holy angels (129) have I acquired knowledge; and from the tablet of heaven have I acquired understanding.
(129) Holy angels. A Qumran text reads, "Watchers and Holy Ones," clearly denoting heavenly Watchers who did not fall along with the wicked ones (Milik, p. 264). See also Dan. 4:13, "a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven"; 4:17, "watchers, and holy ones."
4 Enoch then began to speak from a book, and said, I have been born the seventh in the first week, while judgment and righteousness wait with patience.
5 But after me, in the second week, great wickedness shall arise, and fraud shall spring forth.
6 In that week the end of the first shall take place, in which mankind shall be safe. (130)
(130) Mankind shall be safe. Or, "a man will be saved" (Knibb, p. 224).
7 But when the first is completed, iniquity shall grow up; and during the second week he shall execute the decree (131) upon sinners.
(131) The Deluge after the first (in the middle of the second) Millennium (2500 B.C.).
Key to Music
Recognitions of Clement Book IV Entire Book
Chapter XII.-Translation of Enoch.
"But that He might show that these things were done on account of the ungrateful, He translated to immortality a certain one of the first race of men,
because He saw that he was not unmindful of His grace, and because he hoped to call on the name of God;
while the rest, who were so ungrateful that they could not be amended and corrected even by labours and tribulations, were condemned to a terrible death.
Yet amongst them also He found a certain one, who was righteous with his house, whom He preserved, having enjoined him to build an ark, in which he and those who were commanded to go with him might escape, when all things should be destroyed by a deluge: in order that, the wicked being cut off by the overflow of waters, the world might receive a purification; and he who had been preserved for the continuance of the race, being purified by water, might anew repair the world.
Chapter XIII.-Origin of Idolatry.
"But when all these things were done, men turned again to impiety; and on this account a law was given by God to instruct them in the manner of living.
But in process of time, the worship of God and righteousness were corrupted by the unbelieving and the wicked, as we shall show more fully by and by.
Moreover, perverse and erratic religions were introduced, to which the greater part of men gave themselves up, by occasion of holidays and solemnities, instituting drinkings and banquets,
following pipes, and flutes, and harps, and diverse kinds of musical instruments, and indulging themselves in all kinds of drunkenness and luxury.
Hence every kind of error took rise; hence they invented groves and altars, fillets and victims, and after drunkenness they were agitated as if with mad emotions.
By this means power was given to the demons to enter into minds of this sort, so that they seemed to lead insane dances and to rave like Bacchanalians; hence were invented the gnashing of teeth, and bellowing from the depth of their bowels; hence a terrible countenance and a fierce aspect in men, so that he whom drunkenness had subverted and a demon had instigated,
was believed by the deceived and the erring to be filled with the Deity.
8 Afterwards, in the third week, during its completion, a man (132) of the plant of righteous judgment shall be selected; and after him the Plant (133) of righteousness shall come for ever.
(132) King David at the end of the third Millennium (1000 B.C.).
(133) The Messiah at the end of the fourth Millennium (4 B.C. to 30 A.D.).
9 Subsequently, in the fourth week, during its completion, the visions of the holy and the righteous shall be seen, the order of generation after generation shall take place,
and a habitation shall be made for them. Then in the fifth week, during its completion, the house of glory and of dominion (134) shall be erected for ever.
(134) The establishment (30 A.D.) and building of the Church through the fifth (and sixth) Millennium.
10 After that, in the sixth week, all those who are in it shall be darkened, the hearts of all of them shall be forgetful of wisdom, and in it shall a Man (135) arise and come forth.
(135) The Messiah at the end of the sixth Millennium.
11 And during its completion He shall burn the house of dominion with fire, and all the race of the elect root shall be dispersed. (136)
(136) The destruction of Jerusalem and the disbursement of those who dwell in that land at the end of the sixth (and the beginning of the seventh) Millennium.
12 Afterwards, in the seventh week, a perverse generation shall arise; abundant shall be its deeds, and all its deeds perverse. During its completion, the righteous shall be selected from the everlasting plant of righteousness;
and to them shall be given the sevenfold doctrine of his whole creation.
The "gospel" is the good news that Jesus saves. However, the way one lives in the world is baded on a sevenfold doctrine.
Perverse men have concocted a core gospel consisting of only seven facta about Jesus. It completely cuts off the doctrine or teachings of Messiah in person or through His spirit-guided apostles who wrote for our learning.
13 Afterwards there shall be another week, the eighth (137) of righteousness, to which shall be given a sword to execute judgment and justice upon all oppressors.
(137) The beginning of the eighth Millennium.
14 Sinners shall be delivered up into the hands of the righteous, who during its completion shall acquire habitations by their righteousness; and the house of the great King shall be established for celebrations for ever. After this, in the ninth week, shall the judgment of righteousness be revealed to the whole world.
15 Every work of the ungodly shall disappear from the whole earth; the world shall be marked for destruction; and all men shall be on the watch for the path of integrity.
16 And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there shall be an everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the Watchers;
and a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the midst of the angels.
17 The former heaven shall depart and pass away; a new heaven shall appear; and all the celestial powers shall shine with sevenfold splendour for ever. Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which shall externally exist in goodness and in righteousness.
AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Revelation 21:1
18 Neither shall sin be named there for ever and for ever.
19 Who is there of all the children of men, capable of hearing the voice of the Holy One without emotion?
20 Who is there capable of thinking his thoughts? Who capable of contemplating all the workmanship of heaven? Who of comprehending the deeds of heaven?
21 He may behold its animation, but not its spirit.
He may be capable of conversing respecting it, but not of ascending to it. He may see all the boundaries of these things, and meditate upon them;
but he can make nothing like them.
22 Who of all men is able to understand the breadth and length of the earth?
23 By whom have been seen the dimensions of all these things? Is it every man who is capable of comprehending the extent of heaven; what its elevation is, and by what it is supported?
24 How many are the numbers of the stars; and where all the luminaries remain at rest?
Chapter 93
1 And now let me exhort you, my children, to love righteousness, and to walk in it; for the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation; but the paths of iniquity shall suddenly fail, and be diminished.
2 To men of note in their generation the paths of oppression and death are revealed; but they keep far from them, and do not follow them.
3 Now, too, let me exhort you who are righteous, not to walk in the paths of evil and oppression, nor in the paths of death. Approach them not, that you may not perish; but covet,
4 And choose for yourselves righteousness, and a good life.
5 Walk in the paths of peace, that you may live, and be found worthy.
Retain my words in your inmost thoughts,
and obliterate them not from your hearts;
for I know that sinners counsel men to commit crime craftily. They are not found in every place, nor does every counsel possess a little of them.
6 Woe to those who build iniquity and oppression,
and who lay the foundation of fraud; for suddenly shall they be subverted, and never obtain peace.
7 Woe to those who build up their houses with crime;
for from their very foundations shall their houses be demolished, and by the sword shall they themselves fall. Those, too, who acquire gold and silver, shall justly and suddenly perish.
Woe to you who are rich, for in your riches have you trusted; but from your riches you shall be removed; because you have not remembered the Most High in the days of your prosperity.
GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. James 5:1
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. James 5:2
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. James 5:3
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of mans sake. Luke 6:22
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Luke 6:23
But woe unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation. Luke 6:24
Woe unto you that are full for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Luke 6:25
8 You have committed blasphemy and iniquity; and are destined to the day of the effusion of blood, to the day of darkness, and to the day of the great judgment.
9 This I will declare and point out to you, that he who created you will destroy you.
10 When you fall, he will not show you mercy; but your Creator will rejoice in your destruction.
11 Let those, then, who shall be righteous among you in those days, detest sinners, and the ungodly.
Chapter 94
1O that my eyes were clouds of water, that I might weep over you, and pour forth my tears like rain, and rest from the sorrow of my heart!
2 Who has permitted you to hate and to transgress? Judgment shall overtake you, ye sinners.
3 The righteous shall not fear the wicked; because God will again bring them into your power, that you may avenge yourselves of them according to your pleasure.
4 Woe to you who shall be so bound by execrations, that you cannot be released from them; the remedy being far removed from you on account of your sins. Woe to you who recompense your neighbour with evil; for you shall be recompensed according to your works.
5 Woe to you, false witnesses, you who aggravate iniquity; for you shall suddenly perish.
6 Woe to you, sinners; for you reject the righteous; for you receive or reject at pleasure those who commit iniquity; and their yoke shall prevail over you.
Chapter 95
1 Wait in hope, you righteous; for suddenly shall sinners perish from before you, and you shall exercise dominion over them, according to your will.
2 In the day of the sufferings of sinners your offspring shall be elevated, and lifted up like eagles. Your nest shall be more exalted than that of the avest; you shall ascend, and enter into the cavities of the earth, and into the clefts of the rocks for ever, like conies, from the sight of the ungodly;
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Isaiah 2:19
3 Who shall groan over you, and weep like sirens.
4 You shall not fear those who trouble you;
for restoration shall be yours;
a splendid light shall shine around you,
and the voice of tranquility shall be heard from heaven.
Woe to you, sinners; for your wealth makes you resemble saints,
but your hearts reproach you, knowing that you are sinners.
This word shall testify against you, for the remembrance of crime.
5 Woe to you who feed upon the glory of the corn, and drink the strength of the deepest spring, and in the pride of your power tread down the humble.
6 Woe to you who drink water at pleasure; for suddenly shall you be recompensed, consumed, and withered, because you have forsaken the foundation of life.
7 Woe to you who act iniquitously, fraudulently, and blasphemously; there shall be a remembrance against you for evil.
8 Woe to you, powerful, who with power strike down righteousness;
for the day of your destruction shall come;
while at that very time many and good days shall be the portion of the righteous, even at the period of your judgment.
Chapter 96
1 The righteous are confident that sinners will be disgraced, and perish in the day of iniquity.
2 You shall yourselves be conscious of it; for the Most High will remember your destruction, and the angels shall rejoice over it. What will you do sinners? And where will you fly in the day of judgment, when you shall hear the words of the prayer of the righteous?
3 You are not like them who in this respect witness against you; you are associates of sinners.
4 In those days shall the prayers of the righteous come up before the Lord. When the day of your judgment shall arrive; and every circumstance of your iniquity be related before the great and the holy One;
5 Your faces shall be covered with shame; while every deed, strengthened by crime, shall be rejected.
6 Woe unto you, sinners, who in the midst of the sea, and on dry land, are those against whom an evil record exists.
Woe to you who squander silver and gold, not obtained in righteousness,
and say, We are rich, possess wealth, and have acquired everything which we can desire.
7 Now then will we do whatsoever we are disposed to do;
for we have amassed silver; our barns are full, and the husbandmen of our families are like overflowing water.
See Chapter 93 above also verse 25.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: Luke 12:16
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? Luke 12: 17
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. Luke 12: 18
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry Luke 12: 19
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? Luke 12: 20
This parable speaks to those who build huge institutions in violation of the direct command that the "rich" should go on to other "fields" rather than build bigger and bigger barns.
8 Like water shall your falsehood pass away; for your wealth will not be permanent, but shall suddenly ascend from you, because you have obtained it all iniquitously; to extreme malediction shall you be delivered up.
See The Watchers and Enoch Part One for more details
HEAR this word, ye kine (cows) of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. Am.4:1
The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. Amos 4:2
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord. Amos 4:3
"Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. Amos 4:4
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven (extortion), and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. Amos 4:5
God Removed The Water of the Word:
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Amos 4:6
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. Amos 4:7
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Amos 5:24
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Amos 5:25
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Amos 5:26
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts. Amos 5:27
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; Amos 6:5
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Amos 6:6
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. Amos 6:7
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. Amos 8:3
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. Amos 8:10
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: Amos 8:11
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. Amos 8:12
This story is repeated in Isaiah 5. Because of wine and music at their religious festivals, the people hungered and thirsted for the word but could not find it.
The story of Genun (Jubal) in the Book of Adam and Eve shows that when once incited or excited to come down and do music to hide the Word of God it is not possible to return into God's presence. (Not my words."
9 Human Efforts: And now I swear to you, crafty, as well as simple ones; that you, often contemplating the earth, you who are men, clothe yourselves more elegantly than married women, and both together more so than unmarried ones, (138) everywhere arraying yourselves in majesty, in magnificence, in authority, and in silver: but gold, purple, honour, and wealth, like water, flow away.
(138) Than married women unmarried ones. Or, "than a woman and more coloured (garments) than a girl" (Knibb, p. 230).
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. Re 18:14
And the voice of harpers (lyre-singers), and musicians (the muses and minstrels), and of pipers (Jesus threw them out), and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone (hardship or burden. "grinders" were usually concubines prostitutes) shall be heard no more at all in thee; Re 18:22
Technites (g5079) tekh-nee'-tace; from 5078; an artisan; fig. a founder (Creator): - builder, craftsman.
Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. Ac.19:38
10 Results: Erudition therefore and wisdom are not theirs. Thus shall they perish, together with their riches, with all their glory, and with their honours;
11 While with disgrace, with slaughter, and in extreme penury, shall their spirits be thrust into a furnace of fire.
12 I have sworn to you, sinners, that neither mountain nor hill has been or shall be subservient (139) to woman.
(139) Subservient. Literally, "a servant." Perhaps in furnishing them with treasures for ornaments (Laurence, p. 159).
13 Neither in this way has crime been sent down to us upon earth,
but men of their own heads have invented it; and greatly shall those who give it efficiency be execrated.
14 Barrenness shall not be previously inflicted on woman; but on account of the work of her hands shall she die childless.
15 I have sworn to you, sinners, by the holy and the Great One,
that all your evil deeds are disclosed in the heavens; and that none of your oppressive acts are concealed and secret.
16 Think not in your minds, neither say in your hearts, that every crime is not manifested and seen. In heaven it is daily written down before the Most High.
Henceforwards shall it be manifested; for every act of oppression which you commit shall be daily recorded, until the period of your condemnation.
17 Woe to you, simple ones, for you shall perish in your simplicity.
To the wise you will not listen, and that which is good you shall not obtain.
18 Now therefore know that you are destined to the day of destruction; nor hope that sinners shall live; but in process of time you shall die; for you are not marked for redemption;
19 But are destined to the day of the great judgment, to the day of distress, and the extreme ignominy of your souls.
20 Woe to you, obdurate in heart, who commit crime, and feed on blood. Whence is it that you feed on good things, drink, and are satiated? Is it not because our Lord, the Most High, has abundantly supplied every good thing upon earth? To you there shall not be peace.
21 Woe to you who love the deeds of iniquity. Why do you hope for that which is good? Know that you shall be given up into the hands of the righteous; who shall cut off your necks, slay you, and show you no compassion.
22 Woe to you who rejoice in the trouble of the righteous; for a grave shall not be dug for you.
23 Woe to you who frustrate the word of the righteous; for to you there shall be no hope of life.
24 Woe to you who write down the word of falsehood, and the word of the wicked; for their falsehood they record, that they may hear and not forget folly.
25 To them there shall be no peace; but they shall surely die suddenly.
Chapter 97
1 Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and honour the word of falsehood. You have been lost in perdition; and have never led a virtuous life.
2 Woe to you who change the words of integrity. They transgress against the everlasting decree; (140)
(140) They transgress the everlasting decree. Or, "they distort the eternal law" (Knibb, p. 232).
3 And cause the heads of those who are not sinners to be trodden down upon the earth.
4 In those days you, O righteous, shall have been deemed worthy of having your prayers rise up in remembrance; and shall have deposited them in testimony before the angels, that they might records the sins of the sinners in the presence of the Most High.
5 In those days the nations shall be overthrown; but the families of the nations shall rise again in the day of perdition.
6 In those days they who become pregnant shall go forth, carry off their children, and forsake them. Their offspring shall slip from them, and while suckling them shall they forsake them; they shall never return to them, and never instruct their beloved.
7 Again I swear to you, sinners, that crime has been prepared for the day of blood, which never ceases.
8 They shall worship stones, and engrave golden, silver, and wooden images.
They shall worship impure spirits, demons, and every idol, in temples; but no help shall be obtained for them.
Their hearts shall become impious through their folly,
and their eyes be blinded with mental superstition. (141) In their visionary dreams shall they be impious and superstitious,
lying in all their actions, and worshipping a stone. Altogether shall they perish.
(141) Mental superstition. Literally, "with the fear of their hearts" (Laurence, p. 162).
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Hab 2:18
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2: 19
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2: 20
9 But in those days blessed shall they be, to whom the word of wisdom is delivered; who point out and pursue the path of the Most High; who walk in the way of righteousness, and who act not impiously with the impious.
10 They shall be saved.
11 Woe to you who expand the crime of your neighbour; for in hell shall you be slain.
12 Woe to you who lay the foundation of sin and deceit, and who are bitter on earth; for on it shall you be consumed.
13 Woe to you who build your houses
by the labour of others, every part of which is constructed with brick, and with the stone of crime;
I tell you, that you shall not obtain peace.
14 Woe to you who despise the extent of the everlasting inheritance of your fathers,
while your souls follow after idols; for to you there shall be no tranquillity.
15 Woe to them who commit iniquity, and give aid to blasphemy, who slay their neighbour until the day of the great judgment; for your glory shall fall; malevolence shall He put into your hearts, and the spirit of his wrath shall stir you up, that every one of you may perish by the sword.
16 Then shall all the righteous and the holy remember your crimes.
Chapter 98
1 In those days shall fathers be struck down with their children in the presence of each other; and brethren with their brethren shall fall dead: until a river shall flow from their blood.
2 For a man shall not restrain his hand from his children, nor from his children,s children; his mercy will be to kill them.
3 Nor shall the sinner restrain his hand from his honoured brother. From the dawn of day to the setting sun shall the slaughter continue. The horse shall wade up to his breast, and the chariot shall sink to its axle, in the blood of sinners.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. Revelation 14:20
Chapter 99
1 In those days the angels shall descend into places of concealment,
and gather together in one spot all who have assisted in crime.
2 In that day shall the Most High rise up to execute the great judgment upon all sinners, and to commit the guardianship of all the righteous and holy to the holy angels,
that they may protect them as the apple of an eye, until every evil and every crime be annihilated.
3 Whether or not the righteous sleep securely, wise men shall then truly perceive.
4 And the sons of the earth shall understand every word of that book, knowing that their riches cannot save them in the ruin of their crimes.
5 Woe to you, sinners, when you shall be afflicted on account of the righteous in the day of the great trouble; shall be burnt in the fire; and be recompensed according to your deeds.
6 Woe to you, perverted in heart, who are watchful to obtain an accurate knowledge of evil, and to discover terrors. No one shall assist you.
7 Woe to you, sinners; for with the words of your mouths, and with the work of your hands, have you acted impiously; in the flame of a blazing fire shall you be burnt.
8 And now know, that the angels shall inquire into your conduct in heaven; of the sun, the moon, and the stars, shall they inquire respecting your sins; for upon earth you exercise jurisdiction over the righteous.
9 Every cloud shall bear witness against you, the snow, the dew, and the rain: for all of them shall be withholden from you, that they may not descend upon you, nor become subservient to your crimes.
10 Now then bring gifts of salutation to the rain; that, not being withholden, it may descend upon you; and to the dew, if it has received from you gold and silver. But when the frost, snow, cold, every snowy wind, and every suffering belonging to them, fall upon you, in those days you will be utterly incapable of standing before them.
Chapter 100
1 Attentively consider heaven, all you progeny of heaven, and all the works of the Most High; fear him, nor conduct yourselves criminally before him.
2 If He shut up the windows of heaven, restraining the rain and dew, that it may not descend upon the earth on your account, what will you do?
3 And if He send his wrath upon you, and upon all your deeds, you are not they who can supplicate him; you who utter against his righteousness, language proud and powerful. To you there shall be no peace.
4 Do you not see the commanders of ships, how their vessels are tossed about by the waves, torn to pieces by the winds, and exposed to the greatest peril?
5 That they therefore fear, because their whole property is embarked with them on the ocean; and that they forbode evil in their hearts, because it may swallow them up, and they may perish in it?
6 Is not the whole sea, all its waters, and all its commotion, the work of him, the Most High; of him who has sealed up all its exertions, and girded it on every side with sand?
7 Is it not at his rebuke dried up, and alarmed; while all its fish with everything contained in it die? And will not you, sinners, who are on earth, fear him? Is not He the maker of heaven and earth, and of all things which are in them?
8 And who has given erudition and wisdom to all that move progressive upon the earth, and over the sea?
9 Are not the commanders of ships terrified at the ocean? And shall not sinners be terrified at the Most High?
(No Chapter 101)
Chapter 102
1 In those days, when He shall cast the calamity of fire upon you, whither will you fly, and where will you be safe?
2 And when He sends forth his word against you, are you not spared, and terrified?
3 All the luminaries are agitated with great fear; and all the earth is spared, while it trembles, and suffers anxiety.
4 All the angels fulfill the commands received by them, and are desirous of being concealed from the presence of the great Glory; while the children of the earth are alarmed and troubled.
5 But you, sinners, are for ever accursed; to you there shall be no peace.
6 Fear not, souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your bodies have not received a recompense in proportion to your goodness, but in the period of your existence have sinners existed; in the period of execration and of punishment.
7 And when you die, sinners say concerning you, As we die, the righteous die. What profit have they in their works? Behold, like us, they expire in sorrow and in darkness. What advantage have they over us? Henceforward are we equal. What will be within their grasp, and what before their eyes for ever? For behold they are dead; and never will they again perceive the light. I say unto you, sinners, You have been satisfied with meat and drink, with human plunder and rapine, with sin, with the acquisition of wealth and with the sight of good days. Have you not marked the righteous, how their end is in peace? For no oppression is found in them even to the day of their death. They perish, and are as if they were not, while their souls descend in trouble to the receptacle of the dead.
Chapter 103
1 But now I swear to you, righteous, by the greatness of his splendour and his glory; by his illustrious kingdom and by his majesty, to you I swear, that I comprehend this mystery; that I have read the tablet of heaven, have seen the writing of the holy ones, and have discovered what is written and impressed on it concerning you.
2I have seen that all goodness, joy, and glory has been prepared for you, and been written down for the spirits of them who die eminently righteous and good. To you it shall be given in return for your troubles; and your portion of happiness shall far exceed the portion of the living.
3 The spirits of you who die in righteousness shall exist and rejoice. Their spirits shall exult; and their remembrance shall be before the face of the Mighty One from generation to generation. Nor shall they now fear disgrace.
4 Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your sins; and they, who are like you, say respecting you, Blessed are these sinners. They have lived out their whole period; and now they die in happiness and in wealth. Distress and slaughter they knew not while alive; in honour they die; nor ever in their lifetime did judgment overtake them.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21:11
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Job 21: 12
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21: 13
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Job 21: 14
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job 21: 15
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Job 21: 16
5 But has it not been shown to them, that, when to the receptacle of the dead their souls shall be made to descend, their evil deeds shall become their greatest torment? Into darkness, into the snare, and into the flame, which shall burn to the great judgment, shall their spirits enter; and the great judgment shall take effect for ever and for ever.
6 Woe to you; for to you there shall be no peace. Neither can you say to the righteous, and to the good who are alive, In the days of our trouble have we been afflicted; every manner of trouble have we seen, and many evil things have suffered.
7 Our spirits have been consumed, lessened, and diminished.
8 We have perished; nor has there been a possibility of help for us in word or in deed: we have found none, but have been tormented and destroyed.
9 We have not expected to live day after day.
10 We hoped indeed to have been the head;
11 But we have become the tail. We have been afflicted, when we have exerted ourselves; but we have been devoured by sinners and the ungodly; their yoke has been heavy upon us.
12 Those have exercised dominion over us who detest and who goad us; and to those who hate us have we humbled our neck; but they have shown no compassion towards us.
13 We have been desirous of escaping from them, that we might fly away and be at rest; but we have found no place to which we could fly, and be secure from them. We have sought an asylum with princes in our distress, and have cried out to those who were devouring us; but our cry has not been regarded, nor have they been disposed to hear our voice;
14 But rather to assist those who plunder and devour us; those who diminish us, and hide their oppression; who remove not their yoke from us, but devour, enervate, and slay us; who conceal our slaughter, nor remember that they have lifted up their hands against us.
Chapter 104
1 I swear to you, righteous, that in heaven the angels record your goodness before the glory of the Mighty One.
2 Wait with patient hope; for formerly you have been disgraced with evil and with affliction; but now shall you shine like the luminaries of heaven. You shall be seen, and the gates of heaven shall be opened to you. Your cries have cried for judgment; and it has appeared to you; for an account of all your sufferings shall be required from the princes, and from every one who has assisted your plunderers.
3 Wait with patient hope; nor relinquish your confidence; for great joy shall be yours, like that of the angels in heaven. Conduct yourselves as you may, still you shall not be concealed in the day of the great judgment. You shall not be found like sinners; and eternal condemnation shall be far from you, so long as the world exists.
4 And now fear not, righteous, when you see sinners flourishing and prosperous in their ways.
5 Be not associates with them; but keep yourselves at a distance from their oppression; be you associated with the host of heaven. You, sinners, say, All our transgressions shall not be taken account of, and be recorded. But all your transgressions shall be recorded daily.
6 And be assured by me, that light and darkness, day and night, behold all your transgressions. Be not impious in your thoughts; lie not; surrender not the word of uprightness; lie not against the word of the holy and the mighty One; glorify not your idols; for all your lying and all your impiety is not for righteousness, but for great crime.
7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and transgress against the word of uprightness.
NOW the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 1Ti.4:1
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1 Tim 4:2
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1Ti.6:10
8 They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood; execute great undertakings; (142) and
compose books in their own words.
But when they shall write all my words correctly in their own languages,
(142) Execute great undertakings. Literally, "create a great creation" (Laurence, p. 173).
9 They shall neither change or diminish them; but shall write them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning them. (143)
(143) Despite Enoch's mandate, his book was most certainly "changed" and "diminished" by later editors, though these fragments of it have survived.
10 Another mystery also I point out. To the righteous and the wise shall be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great wisdom.
To them shall books be given, in which they shall believe;
11 And in which they shall rejoice. And all the righteous shall be rewarded, who from these shall acquire the knowledge of every upright path.
Chapter 105
1 In those days, saith the Lord, they shall call to the children of the earth, and make them listen to their wisdom. Show them that you are their leaders;
2 And that remuneration shall take place over the whole earth; for I and my Son will for ever hold communion with them in the paths of uprightness, while they are still alive. Peace shall be yours. Rejoice, children of integrity, in the truth.
Fragment of the Book of Noah
Chapter 106
1 After a time, my son Mathusala took a wife for his son Lamech.
2 She became pregnant by him, and brought forth a child, the flesh of which was as white as snow, and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white like wool, and long; and whose eyes were beautiful. When he opened them, he illuminated all the house, like the sun; the whole house abounded with light.
3 And when he was taken from the hand of the midwife, Lamech his father became afraid of him; and flying away came to his own father Mathusala, and said, I have begotten a son, unlike to other children.
He is not human; but, resembling the offspring of the angels of heaven, is of a different nature from ours, being altogether unlike to us.
4 His eyes are bright as the rays of the sun; his countenance glorious, and he looks not as if he belonged to me, but to the angels.
5 I am afraid, lest something miraculous should take place on earth in his days.
6 And now, my father, let me entreat and request you to go to our progenitor Enoch, and learn from him the truth; for his residence is with the angels.
7 When Mathusala heard the words of his son, he came to me at the extremities of the earth; for he had been informed that I was there: and he cried out.
8 I heard his voice, and went to him saying, Behold, I am here, my son; since you have come to me.
9 He answered and said, On account of a great event have I come to you; and on account of a sight difficult to be comprehended have I approached you.
10 And now, my father, hear me; for to my son Lamech a child has been born, who resembles not him; and whose nature is not like the nature of man. His colour is whiter than snow; he is redder than the rose; the hair of his head is whiter than white wool; his eyes are like the rays of the sun; and when he opened them he illuminated the whole house.
11 When also he was taken from the hand of the midwife,
12 His father Lamech feared, and fled to me, believing not that the child belonged to him, but that he resembled the angels of heaven. And behold I am come to you, that you might point out to me the truth.
Key to Music
13 Then I, Enoch, answered and said, The Lord will effect a new thing upon the earth. This have I explained, and seen in a vision.
I have shown you that in the generations of Jared my father,
those who were from heaven disregarded the word of the Lord. Behold they committed crimes; laid aside their class, and intermingled with women. With them also they transgressed; married with them, and begot children. (144)
(144) After this verse, one Greek papyrus adds, "who are not like spiritual beings, but creatures of flesh" (Milik, p. 210).
See Adam and Eve Two
Key to Music
14 A great destruction therefore shall come upon all the earth; a deluge, a great destruction, shall take place in one year.
15 This child which is born to your son shall survive on the earth,
and his three sons shall be saved with him. When all mankind who are on the earth shall die, he shall be safe.
16 And his posterity shall beget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal.
Upon the earth shall a great punishment be inflicted, and it shall be washed from all corruption. Now therefore inform your son Lamech, that he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name Noah, for he shall be to you a survivor. He and his children shall be saved from the corruption which shall take place in the world; from all the sin and from all the iniquity which shall be consummated on earth in his days.
Afterwards shall greater impiety take place than that which had been before consummated on the earth;
for I am acquainted with holy mysteries, which the Lord himself has discovered and explained to me; and which I have read in the tablets of heaven.
See Adam and Eve Two
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17 In them I saw it written, that the generation after generation shall transgress, until a righteous race shall arise; until transgression and crime perish from off the earth; until all goodness come upon it.
18 And now, my son, go tell your son Lamech,
19 That the child which is born is his child in truth; and that there is no deception.
20 When Mathusala heard the word of his father Enoch, who had shown him every secret thing, he returned with understanding, and called the name of that child Noah; because he was to console the earth on account of all its destruction.
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21 Another book, which Enoch wrote for his son Mathusala, and for those who should come after him, and preserve their purity of conduct in the latter days. You, who have laboured, shall wait in those days, until the evil doers be consumed, and the power of the guilty be annihilated. Wait, until sin pass away; for their names shall be blotted out of the holy books; their seed shall be destroyed, and their spirits slain.
They shall cry out and lament in the invisible waste, and in the bottomless fire shall they burn. (145) There I perceived, as it were, a cloud which could not be seen through; for from the depth of it I was unable to look upwards. I beheld also a flame of fire blazing brightly, and, as it were, glittering mountains whirled around, and agitated from side to side.
(145) In the bottomless fire shall they burn. Literally, "in the fire shall they burn, where there is no earth" (Laurence, p. 178).
22 Then I inquired of one of the holy angels who was with me, and said, What is this splendid object? For it is not heaven, but a flame of fire alone which blazes; and in it there is the clamour of exclamation, of woe, and of great suffering.
23 He said, There, into that place which you behold, shall be thrust the spirits of sinners and blasphemers; of those who shall do evil,
and who shall pervert all which God has spoken by the mouth of the prophets; all which they ought to do.
See Recognitions of Clement above to see that music was the problem after the flood.
The Spirit of Christ was the Spirit of the Prophets 1 Pe 1:11
For respecting these things there shall be writings and impressions above in heaven, that the angels may read them and know what shall happen both to sinners and to the spirits of the humble; to those who have suffered in their bodies, but have been rewarded by God; who have been injuriously treated by wicked men; who have loved God; who have been attached neither to gold nor silver, nor to any good thing in the world, but have given their bodies to torment;
24 To those who from the period of their birth have not been covetous of earthly riches; but have regarded themselves as a breath passing away.
25 Such has been their conduct; and much has the Lord tried them; and their spirits have been found pure, that they might bless his name. All their blessings have I related in a book; and He has rewarded them; for they have been found to love heaven with an everlasting aspiration. God has said, While they have been trodden down by wicked men, they have heard from them revilings and blasphemies; and have been ignominiously treated, while they were blessing me. And now will I call the spirits of the good from the generation of light, and will change those who have been born in darkness; who have not in their bodies been recompensed with glory, as their faith may have merited.
26 I will bring them into the splendid light of those who love my holy name: and I will place each of them on a throne of glory, of glory peculiarly his own, and they shall be at rest during unnumbered periods. Righteous is the judgment of God;
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28
27 For to the faithful shall he give faith in the habitations of uprightness. They shall see those, who have been born in darkness unto darkness shall be cast; while the righteous shall be at rest. Sinners shall cry out, beholding them, while they exist in splendour and proceed forwards to the days and periods prescribed to them.
http://thisisblaze.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-gift-soul-in-need-of-acceptan... Forgive me if im outta line ' i seen your concept of Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart & i fell in love, idk if you know about astrology and all that and greek mythology but i would be URANUS and you would be GAIA ? CRAZY I KNOW.
i think you and your music is absolutley fantastic, i am such a huge fan of yours, and i admire you so much. Your version of Empire State, i love it, its so good!
Wish i had the chance to meet you! x
Aloneness sometimez may seem to be the answere. Compared to the unsettling soul searching for true friendship, time alone reflecting upon the natural earth could be the only peace... Even then the earth is dark. I give up, please let the sun shine rayz of warmth upon my skin like a cat lying in tha sunshine. Inner peace.
Hi Alicia,
Writing our thoughts liberates us from anxiety.
We all go through phases where we need to find solace.
You can express you thoughts here too - www.oneword.com
Everyday a word is posted and you're given only 60 seconds to write.
Maybe you can check it out
Here's my entry today for the word 'options':
a, b or c.
thoughts escape me.
i don't know what to choose and where to go.
sometimes my mind gets confused, fearful of the great unkown.
there are roads without warning signs
and i tread alone.
That is so true in everyone busy lifestyle.
we have to do daily routines and also enjoy what life have to offer in our time on this earth with family and friends.
thanks Alicia
simmone joyette January 20, 2010
Suggestion for songs, ALicia, you are the only artist who is able to do this...
Hi, I am from Madrid, I dont know if you,Alicia, will ever read this...But I attended your concert in El Teatro Real de Madrid and it left me with no words to describe it...it was memorable...and your concert made me think...the way you changed the part "New York" with "Madrid"...and a good idea came to my mind:
I have seen pictures you have uploaded from places you have been, just like Japan....well I thought, since you have been in sooo many places, so many different cities, each one with their own charming characteristics...it would be great if you could make an album with songs talking about each city you have been to, so that the name of each song in the album could be the name of the city or country..because I know and I bet you make beautiful poems and then turn them into songs...itd be amazing if you could describe each city you have been to in songs...so people that arent able to travel can get to know those cities through your eyes...through your music....I hope you get to read this some time... I dont know...maybe call this album "We are citizens of the world" or something like that...because we all really are...we are all connected somehow....
Love your music...and your personality, at least what I have seen and read about you.
Best of luck in yoru career, because I bet you are only in the beggining...and I hope you like this suggestion if you ever read it.
Okey I dpn´t know where do I have to write this but I don´t care.
Alicia I falling in love with you, I had seen your video "looking for paradise" and I have to say that you are precios I love your smile and I hope that you read this.
My name it´s Ezequiel Spiazzi and I from Rosario , Argentina .
I hope that you can read this and answer me , if you do that I will feel like in heaven JAJA
i fell asleep and woke up to another life.as my eyes opened,i began to see a blurry figure.when my vision cleared,i saw a gorgeous woman setting near me.her eyes were on me and my feelings were overwhelmed.i,actually,knew this woman from tv and stereo but the feelings i felt had been intimate.i could only live in the moment,not knowing the who's,what's,where's,when's,and why's.i felt her looking into my soul and i knew it.i could see that she knew me and to know me is to be very close to me.she looked like she had been worrying and seemed consumed with heavy concerns.she was beautiful and she looked into me easily.a moment is a moment that can be just a moment and this moment was unlike any other time of my life.i liked the silence that we shared bcuz it was euphoric.she smiled a perfect smile and her hands became warmer on my hand.i think she had been waiting for me to wake up.the room around us was brilliant and welcoming to my spirit.i didn't look away from her for too long.without words,she stood up with my hand in hers.she gave me a tug that gave me the incentive to sit up and get out of bed.that linen was pulled to the side of me and i got up to walk with her.her first words began a conversation that i followed easily.it was like if we were continueing a conversation from a earlier moment in time.i hadn't thought too much into this interaction,though it was unfamiliar.i accepted all that had been going on.i did realize a few things and one was that i walked again...being careful not to drag my new ability,skills,and mood into a world of questions.with every step i took,she watched over me.she showed so much love for me and a lot of confidence in me.i just knew that she and i were connected ,we were familiar in more ways than one.it only took that one insatiable penetration to pearce the depths of my soul.she didn't have to reassure me or gain my trust bcus i felt so much elation coming from her.i liked how the scenery was clean,and the serenity grew from within us.i woke up to a sunshiny day,i woke up to alicia keys's and many moods of happiness.i didn't look down towrds the ground,in a fearful way,each step i took added a extra beat to my heart.my comfort was astonishing as i walked with her into the hall way.she held my hand as we adventured through this gorgeous but humble home.we talked about my recovery as though my memory of an accident and rehabilitation was gone,as a matter of a fact,those memories were gone.i remember nothing from my past or of myself that i should've grown to know.with that in mind,i began to think of so many thoughts about our home and relationship.by this time walking and other abilities were becoming second nature.she and i kissed one loving kiss that was followed by one kiss for old times sake.i thought about her,our attraction,and the feelings that i knew all too well.i still had not questioned the events that were taking place.the blessings that accour everyday keeps my faith strong.why ask why when i was at peace within my mind,body,and soul?so yes,i accepted alot in thirty five minutes.i finally noticed how my voice was different and it didn't send me any red flags since i didn't remember it too well.she and i took the oppurtunity to hold on to the time we had.she wanted to hold on to me as though i had been away from her for awhile.i felt every thing i had been thinking emotions could be between kindred souls.she smelled so devine and she felt so soft and i tryed to shelter her with my arms wrapped around her.i waited all my years to have that someone to hold me equally elated.she kept looking up to me and she entangled me with each glare.her finger tips rested upon my face and back.intimacy sprinkled us with a infinite amount of sensual tingles.i felt goose bumps on her arms and her hair was raised the whole time we held each other.i felt like there was no one in the world but us.i felt her heart pound as my hand lay against her shoulder bone.we didn't share any tears but or souls danced and we giggled with relief.we detached and walked into another part of our home and that's when i passed by a mirror.my face wasn't mine though,this one thing i knew for sure.i had extremely long hair,it looked as though it grew while i was sleep.my hair was long and groomed very well and by the looks of it all,i was blessed.i payed no mind,it was just something else that i noticed.alicia gave me more of herself to notice as she looked into my eyes.i saw love,stress,and flashbacks with her every blink.she still held my hand prepaired for my new body to weaken.she continued to pierce my soul everytime we had eye contact.i felt stronger as time passed slowly.alicia comforted me with every touch of her physical being.alicia's embrace was worth any and all of my confusion.what kind of life were we heading to bcuz we must've gone through a lot of good and bad times together.she already told me my accident raced through her with each beat of her heart.the waiting by my bedside,oh my,i had to strengthen myself up with each breath.so yes,i accepted her loving nature,this new body,and different life that i was learning all over again.i didn't know if i suffered from amnesia,so i didn't want to mess up the flow of things.although,i still favored the notion that i was a quadriplegic when i fell asleep.i stand in the place that alicia and i held each other and place my palms upon my temples.in this life i woke up to,i realize,it is to wonderful to be true.this is a figment of my imagination.i hold my fists upon my temples and now i'm getting sleepy again.
over the years,when i lay silent tryin to sleep,i have bad dreams.i've found alternate ways of getting good natural sleep,through all this time.this week,i put on alicia keys and i slept well.i have a feeling i had a dream that was fused with the message of her music.i hope i was able to write vividly enough for you to see into my dream.
You write so beautifully, as if the words seeped from your truthful soul, without a doubt a gift only God could have granted for you to share with the world. Thank you, for ever your faithful fan
Comments for this Alicia's Blog
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
I don't think I have words for this one. Amazingly written Alicia.
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This is my concrete jungle
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This is what I call true creativity. you can fix it and make a poem you can turn it into a song or you can leave it as a story...either way its all PERFECTLY WRITTEN!
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That was so beautiful! Love you Ms. Alicia!
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wow thats an amazing story!
Ms Pacman Games
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Miss Alecia is the voice in the desert GOD? Telling you that true life is peace away from the nonsense. Is it a moment of clarity that makes you think what if i took a different direction with the fork in the road. I guess its always fitting to go right. Sometimes left is the unknown or just go straight. It sounds like AFRIKA is the greatest vision of life before all the noise, bells and whistle's. To the origin of what has become now. The building blocks of every society is from that place that is just amazing in the thought of itself.
IamMike7 ( always keep it 1 to 1)
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Alicia Keys manages like NO ONE to give me BUTTERFLIES with her SONGS IN A MINOR about LIFE, TROUBLES, and most of all - about A WOMAN'S WORTH ... Oh BROTHA, when I feel like FALLING, she'll put me in such an EMPIRE STATE OF MIND .... and I can truly say I NEVER FELT THIS WAY BEFORE!! Then I can stop wondering WHY DO I FEEL SO SAD .... and being LIKE YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN ... So, even though we know LOVE IS BLIND, and sometimes you gotta TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART ... Remember to take me AS I AM ... Cuz I sure am UNBREAKABLE. That is my own ELEMENT OF FREEDOM.
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I just want say, that you are my big inspiration. I am brazilian and I came here just because of you, and next march I will see your concert in DC. You are everything to me, I hope one day I`ll meet you. Love u!
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I just want say, that you are my big inspiration. I am brazilian and I came here just because of you, and next march I will see your concert in DC. You are everything to me, I hope one day I`ll meet you. Love u!
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
Interesting post. One of the characteristics I most admire about Ms. Keys is her ability to handle pressure. What helps her - and other successful individuals like her - cope with the high expectations and potentially overwhelming responsibilities better than others?
It appears that running is an important outlet for Ms. Keys. Perhaps those of us feeling the various pressures in our lives should make sure to go out every once in a while and run the fear and anxiety out of our system...
That's brings up a question (for fellow AKFC members): what is the underlying source of pressure? From where does pressure stem?
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
As time passes by in the oh so quite desert,
Mother Nature's song can be heard.
Her gentle voice sings the song of ages.
The same song she sang before the birth of her human children,
The same song she sang with the birth of her human children.
This songs sings of joys and sorrows,
And of the past that has gone and future still to come.
As time passes by in the so quite desert,
Mother Nature's song can be heard.
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
Alicia, Buenos Dias,
Your words are soothing. I can picture the paradise you speak of. Sometimes the loudest noise is Silence and it is the best medicine. Sometimes the worst feeling is being alone. But then again its not so bad when our surroundings make us uncomfortable. We tend to ignore things that seem small to our lives. And don't appreciate the gift that has been given to us, LIFE. I think you have found the purpose of your life. Live it to your best. I hope one day we cross roads. I'm also a good listener if ever needed to chat my email is miguelr0man@yahoo.com
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
Inspirations arise from the awesome words of a beautiful intelligent woman...
La soledad es egoista
Tennessee Williams once wrote ...
"When so many are alone, as alone as they seem, would be very selfish ... being alone in solitude."
There is nothing worse than feeling alone when you are together, when you have things to tell and they ignore you, when you need affection and not there to give it to you when you need a helping hand, a word of support and you only receive monosyllables, but this is not your case, you have your music, you have your friends, you have your fans and admirers, and all those people who travel to go to a concert yours to lend you all their support ...
Sometimes I feel as if I had become accustomed to living in solitude, I feel that no one is so important to open me up and you begin to lose hope, but really out there will be one person that expects... only remains to live and wait, not being selfish, being alone but together. Life will reward you in ways unimaginable.
Alicia See ya, kisses from Cadiz at Carnival time ㋛ Alejandro
My english is not very good/complet, lo siento por eso
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
What's the day today??? Huummm... 01/25/10... This is... I don't really know... oh... HAPPY BIRTHDAY A. KEYSSSS!!!!
Re: …a voice in the Desert..
quiero dejar un comentario en mi lenguaje nativo, quiero expresar mi mas profundo sentido de admiracion hacia un ser que a traves de su forma de ser, actuar, sentir con su musica, su voz y la fuerza y el poder de hembra alfa que la caracteriza logra imponerse sobre las demas, consiguiendo despertar vidas eclipsadas inmersas en sus propios universos, comprometer pensamientos con la letra de sus canciones y permitir el deleite del paladar auditvio de muchos comensales que degustan de la excelente culinaria musical que ella prepara con mucho amor y dedicacion. Eres Alicia una mujer que logra una perfecta concordancia entre las actividades que realizas y el objeto que las incentiva, eres la hembra alfa con el poder de la fuerza de tu ser y la belleza que cautiva, eres un ser de luz que trasciende fronteras iluminando la oscuridad de muchos corazones aflijidos, eres y seguiras siendo sin pretender que seas lo que no quieres ser, asi seras y te amaremos por ser.
gracias por existir, eres esa hembra alfa que solo un macho alfa complementa.
por favor no cambies y no permitas que te hagan cambiar ni fisica y mucho menos espiritualmente.
Tu fiel admirador.
Amilkar
From Colombia South America
Apocalypse of Enoch
Chapter 92
1 After this, Enoch began to speak from a book.
2 And Enoch said, Concerning the children of righteousness, concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of righteousness and integrity.
3 Concerning these things will I speak, and these things will I explain to you, my children: I who am Enoch. In consequence of that which has been shown to me, from my heavenly vision and from the voice of the holy angels (129) have I acquired knowledge; and from the tablet of heaven have I acquired understanding.
(129) Holy angels. A Qumran text reads, "Watchers and Holy Ones," clearly denoting heavenly Watchers who did not fall along with the wicked ones (Milik, p. 264). See also Dan. 4:13, "a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven"; 4:17, "watchers, and holy ones."
4 Enoch then began to speak from a book, and said, I have been born the seventh in the first week, while judgment and righteousness wait with patience.
5 But after me, in the second week, great wickedness shall arise, and fraud shall spring forth.
6 In that week the end of the first shall take place, in which mankind shall be safe. (130)
(130) Mankind shall be safe. Or, "a man will be saved" (Knibb, p. 224).
7 But when the first is completed, iniquity shall grow up; and during the second week he shall execute the decree (131) upon sinners.
(131) The Deluge after the first (in the middle of the second) Millennium (2500 B.C.).
Key to Music
Recognitions of Clement Book IV Entire Book
Chapter XII.-Translation of Enoch.
"But that He might show that these things were done on account of the ungrateful, He translated to immortality a certain one of the first race of men,
because He saw that he was not unmindful of His grace, and because he hoped to call on the name of God;
while the rest, who were so ungrateful that they could not be amended and corrected even by labours and tribulations, were condemned to a terrible death.
Yet amongst them also He found a certain one, who was righteous with his house, whom He preserved, having enjoined him to build an ark, in which he and those who were commanded to go with him might escape, when all things should be destroyed by a deluge: in order that, the wicked being cut off by the overflow of waters, the world might receive a purification; and he who had been preserved for the continuance of the race, being purified by water, might anew repair the world.
Chapter XIII.-Origin of Idolatry.
"But when all these things were done, men turned again to impiety; and on this account a law was given by God to instruct them in the manner of living.
But in process of time, the worship of God and righteousness were corrupted by the unbelieving and the wicked, as we shall show more fully by and by.
Moreover, perverse and erratic religions were introduced, to which the greater part of men gave themselves up, by occasion of holidays and solemnities, instituting drinkings and banquets,
following pipes, and flutes, and harps, and diverse kinds of musical instruments, and indulging themselves in all kinds of drunkenness and luxury.
Hence every kind of error took rise; hence they invented groves and altars, fillets and victims, and after drunkenness they were agitated as if with mad emotions.
By this means power was given to the demons to enter into minds of this sort, so that they seemed to lead insane dances and to rave like Bacchanalians; hence were invented the gnashing of teeth, and bellowing from the depth of their bowels; hence a terrible countenance and a fierce aspect in men, so that he whom drunkenness had subverted and a demon had instigated,
was believed by the deceived and the erring to be filled with the Deity.
8 Afterwards, in the third week, during its completion, a man (132) of the plant of righteous judgment shall be selected; and after him the Plant (133) of righteousness shall come for ever.
(132) King David at the end of the third Millennium (1000 B.C.).
(133) The Messiah at the end of the fourth Millennium (4 B.C. to 30 A.D.).
9 Subsequently, in the fourth week, during its completion, the visions of the holy and the righteous shall be seen, the order of generation after generation shall take place,
and a habitation shall be made for them. Then in the fifth week, during its completion, the house of glory and of dominion (134) shall be erected for ever.
(134) The establishment (30 A.D.) and building of the Church through the fifth (and sixth) Millennium.
10 After that, in the sixth week, all those who are in it shall be darkened, the hearts of all of them shall be forgetful of wisdom, and in it shall a Man (135) arise and come forth.
(135) The Messiah at the end of the sixth Millennium.
11 And during its completion He shall burn the house of dominion with fire, and all the race of the elect root shall be dispersed. (136)
(136) The destruction of Jerusalem and the disbursement of those who dwell in that land at the end of the sixth (and the beginning of the seventh) Millennium.
12 Afterwards, in the seventh week, a perverse generation shall arise; abundant shall be its deeds, and all its deeds perverse. During its completion, the righteous shall be selected from the everlasting plant of righteousness;
and to them shall be given the sevenfold doctrine of his whole creation.
The "gospel" is the good news that Jesus saves. However, the way one lives in the world is baded on a sevenfold doctrine.
Perverse men have concocted a core gospel consisting of only seven facta about Jesus. It completely cuts off the doctrine or teachings of Messiah in person or through His spirit-guided apostles who wrote for our learning.
13 Afterwards there shall be another week, the eighth (137) of righteousness, to which shall be given a sword to execute judgment and justice upon all oppressors.
(137) The beginning of the eighth Millennium.
14 Sinners shall be delivered up into the hands of the righteous, who during its completion shall acquire habitations by their righteousness; and the house of the great King shall be established for celebrations for ever. After this, in the ninth week, shall the judgment of righteousness be revealed to the whole world.
15 Every work of the ungodly shall disappear from the whole earth; the world shall be marked for destruction; and all men shall be on the watch for the path of integrity.
16 And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there shall be an everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the Watchers;
and a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the midst of the angels.
17 The former heaven shall depart and pass away; a new heaven shall appear; and all the celestial powers shall shine with sevenfold splendour for ever. Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which shall externally exist in goodness and in righteousness.
AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Revelation 21:1
18 Neither shall sin be named there for ever and for ever.
19 Who is there of all the children of men, capable of hearing the voice of the Holy One without emotion?
20 Who is there capable of thinking his thoughts? Who capable of contemplating all the workmanship of heaven? Who of comprehending the deeds of heaven?
21 He may behold its animation, but not its spirit.
He may be capable of conversing respecting it, but not of ascending to it. He may see all the boundaries of these things, and meditate upon them;
but he can make nothing like them.
22 Who of all men is able to understand the breadth and length of the earth?
23 By whom have been seen the dimensions of all these things? Is it every man who is capable of comprehending the extent of heaven; what its elevation is, and by what it is supported?
24 How many are the numbers of the stars; and where all the luminaries remain at rest?
Chapter 93
1 And now let me exhort you, my children, to love righteousness, and to walk in it; for the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation; but the paths of iniquity shall suddenly fail, and be diminished.
2 To men of note in their generation the paths of oppression and death are revealed; but they keep far from them, and do not follow them.
3 Now, too, let me exhort you who are righteous, not to walk in the paths of evil and oppression, nor in the paths of death. Approach them not, that you may not perish; but covet,
4 And choose for yourselves righteousness, and a good life.
5 Walk in the paths of peace, that you may live, and be found worthy.
Retain my words in your inmost thoughts,
and obliterate them not from your hearts;
for I know that sinners counsel men to commit crime craftily. They are not found in every place, nor does every counsel possess a little of them.
6 Woe to those who build iniquity and oppression,
and who lay the foundation of fraud; for suddenly shall they be subverted, and never obtain peace.
7 Woe to those who build up their houses with crime;
for from their very foundations shall their houses be demolished, and by the sword shall they themselves fall. Those, too, who acquire gold and silver, shall justly and suddenly perish.
Woe to you who are rich, for in your riches have you trusted; but from your riches you shall be removed; because you have not remembered the Most High in the days of your prosperity.
GO to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. James 5:1
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. James 5:2
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. James 5:3
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of mans sake. Luke 6:22
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. Luke 6:23
But woe unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation. Luke 6:24
Woe unto you that are full for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Luke 6:25
8 You have committed blasphemy and iniquity; and are destined to the day of the effusion of blood, to the day of darkness, and to the day of the great judgment.
9 This I will declare and point out to you, that he who created you will destroy you.
10 When you fall, he will not show you mercy; but your Creator will rejoice in your destruction.
11 Let those, then, who shall be righteous among you in those days, detest sinners, and the ungodly.
Chapter 94
1O that my eyes were clouds of water, that I might weep over you, and pour forth my tears like rain, and rest from the sorrow of my heart!
2 Who has permitted you to hate and to transgress? Judgment shall overtake you, ye sinners.
3 The righteous shall not fear the wicked; because God will again bring them into your power, that you may avenge yourselves of them according to your pleasure.
4 Woe to you who shall be so bound by execrations, that you cannot be released from them; the remedy being far removed from you on account of your sins. Woe to you who recompense your neighbour with evil; for you shall be recompensed according to your works.
5 Woe to you, false witnesses, you who aggravate iniquity; for you shall suddenly perish.
6 Woe to you, sinners; for you reject the righteous; for you receive or reject at pleasure those who commit iniquity; and their yoke shall prevail over you.
Chapter 95
1 Wait in hope, you righteous; for suddenly shall sinners perish from before you, and you shall exercise dominion over them, according to your will.
2 In the day of the sufferings of sinners your offspring shall be elevated, and lifted up like eagles. Your nest shall be more exalted than that of the avest; you shall ascend, and enter into the cavities of the earth, and into the clefts of the rocks for ever, like conies, from the sight of the ungodly;
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. Isaiah 2:19
3 Who shall groan over you, and weep like sirens.
4 You shall not fear those who trouble you;
for restoration shall be yours;
a splendid light shall shine around you,
and the voice of tranquility shall be heard from heaven.
Woe to you, sinners; for your wealth makes you resemble saints,
but your hearts reproach you, knowing that you are sinners.
This word shall testify against you, for the remembrance of crime.
5 Woe to you who feed upon the glory of the corn, and drink the strength of the deepest spring, and in the pride of your power tread down the humble.
6 Woe to you who drink water at pleasure; for suddenly shall you be recompensed, consumed, and withered, because you have forsaken the foundation of life.
7 Woe to you who act iniquitously, fraudulently, and blasphemously; there shall be a remembrance against you for evil.
8 Woe to you, powerful, who with power strike down righteousness;
for the day of your destruction shall come;
while at that very time many and good days shall be the portion of the righteous, even at the period of your judgment.
Chapter 96
1 The righteous are confident that sinners will be disgraced, and perish in the day of iniquity.
2 You shall yourselves be conscious of it; for the Most High will remember your destruction, and the angels shall rejoice over it. What will you do sinners? And where will you fly in the day of judgment, when you shall hear the words of the prayer of the righteous?
3 You are not like them who in this respect witness against you; you are associates of sinners.
4 In those days shall the prayers of the righteous come up before the Lord. When the day of your judgment shall arrive; and every circumstance of your iniquity be related before the great and the holy One;
5 Your faces shall be covered with shame; while every deed, strengthened by crime, shall be rejected.
6 Woe unto you, sinners, who in the midst of the sea, and on dry land, are those against whom an evil record exists.
Woe to you who squander silver and gold, not obtained in righteousness,
and say, We are rich, possess wealth, and have acquired everything which we can desire.
7 Now then will we do whatsoever we are disposed to do;
for we have amassed silver; our barns are full, and the husbandmen of our families are like overflowing water.
See Chapter 93 above also verse 25.
And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: Luke 12:16
And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? Luke 12: 17
And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. Luke 12: 18
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry Luke 12: 19
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? Luke 12: 20
This parable speaks to those who build huge institutions in violation of the direct command that the "rich" should go on to other "fields" rather than build bigger and bigger barns.
8 Like water shall your falsehood pass away; for your wealth will not be permanent, but shall suddenly ascend from you, because you have obtained it all iniquitously; to extreme malediction shall you be delivered up.
See The Watchers and Enoch Part One for more details
HEAR this word, ye kine (cows) of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. Am.4:1
The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. Amos 4:2
And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord. Amos 4:3
"Come to Bethel and transgress, At Gilgal multiply transgression; Bring your sacrifices every morning, Your tithes every three days. Amos 4:4
And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven (extortion), and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God. Amos 4:5
God Removed The Water of the Word:
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Amos 4:6
And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. Amos 4:7
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. Amos 5:23
But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. Amos 5:24
Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel? Amos 5:25
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves. Amos 5:26
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts. Amos 5:27
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; Amos 6:5
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Amos 6:6
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed. Amos 6:7
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. Amos 8:3
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. Amos 8:10
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: Amos 8:11
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. Amos 8:12
This story is repeated in Isaiah 5. Because of wine and music at their religious festivals, the people hungered and thirsted for the word but could not find it.
The story of Genun (Jubal) in the Book of Adam and Eve shows that when once incited or excited to come down and do music to hide the Word of God it is not possible to return into God's presence. (Not my words."
9 Human Efforts: And now I swear to you, crafty, as well as simple ones; that you, often contemplating the earth, you who are men, clothe yourselves more elegantly than married women, and both together more so than unmarried ones, (138) everywhere arraying yourselves in majesty, in magnificence, in authority, and in silver: but gold, purple, honour, and wealth, like water, flow away.
(138) Than married women unmarried ones. Or, "than a woman and more coloured (garments) than a girl" (Knibb, p. 230).
And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all. Re 18:14
And the voice of harpers (lyre-singers), and musicians (the muses and minstrels), and of pipers (Jesus threw them out), and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone (hardship or burden. "grinders" were usually concubines prostitutes) shall be heard no more at all in thee; Re 18:22
Technites (g5079) tekh-nee'-tace; from 5078; an artisan; fig. a founder (Creator): - builder, craftsman.
Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another. Ac.19:38
10 Results: Erudition therefore and wisdom are not theirs. Thus shall they perish, together with their riches, with all their glory, and with their honours;
11 While with disgrace, with slaughter, and in extreme penury, shall their spirits be thrust into a furnace of fire.
12 I have sworn to you, sinners, that neither mountain nor hill has been or shall be subservient (139) to woman.
(139) Subservient. Literally, "a servant." Perhaps in furnishing them with treasures for ornaments (Laurence, p. 159).
13 Neither in this way has crime been sent down to us upon earth,
but men of their own heads have invented it; and greatly shall those who give it efficiency be execrated.
14 Barrenness shall not be previously inflicted on woman; but on account of the work of her hands shall she die childless.
15 I have sworn to you, sinners, by the holy and the Great One,
that all your evil deeds are disclosed in the heavens; and that none of your oppressive acts are concealed and secret.
16 Think not in your minds, neither say in your hearts, that every crime is not manifested and seen. In heaven it is daily written down before the Most High.
Henceforwards shall it be manifested; for every act of oppression which you commit shall be daily recorded, until the period of your condemnation.
17 Woe to you, simple ones, for you shall perish in your simplicity.
To the wise you will not listen, and that which is good you shall not obtain.
18 Now therefore know that you are destined to the day of destruction; nor hope that sinners shall live; but in process of time you shall die; for you are not marked for redemption;
19 But are destined to the day of the great judgment, to the day of distress, and the extreme ignominy of your souls.
20 Woe to you, obdurate in heart, who commit crime, and feed on blood. Whence is it that you feed on good things, drink, and are satiated? Is it not because our Lord, the Most High, has abundantly supplied every good thing upon earth? To you there shall not be peace.
21 Woe to you who love the deeds of iniquity. Why do you hope for that which is good? Know that you shall be given up into the hands of the righteous; who shall cut off your necks, slay you, and show you no compassion.
22 Woe to you who rejoice in the trouble of the righteous; for a grave shall not be dug for you.
23 Woe to you who frustrate the word of the righteous; for to you there shall be no hope of life.
24 Woe to you who write down the word of falsehood, and the word of the wicked; for their falsehood they record, that they may hear and not forget folly.
25 To them there shall be no peace; but they shall surely die suddenly.
Chapter 97
1 Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and honour the word of falsehood. You have been lost in perdition; and have never led a virtuous life.
2 Woe to you who change the words of integrity. They transgress against the everlasting decree; (140)
(140) They transgress the everlasting decree. Or, "they distort the eternal law" (Knibb, p. 232).
3 And cause the heads of those who are not sinners to be trodden down upon the earth.
4 In those days you, O righteous, shall have been deemed worthy of having your prayers rise up in remembrance; and shall have deposited them in testimony before the angels, that they might records the sins of the sinners in the presence of the Most High.
5 In those days the nations shall be overthrown; but the families of the nations shall rise again in the day of perdition.
6 In those days they who become pregnant shall go forth, carry off their children, and forsake them. Their offspring shall slip from them, and while suckling them shall they forsake them; they shall never return to them, and never instruct their beloved.
7 Again I swear to you, sinners, that crime has been prepared for the day of blood, which never ceases.
8 They shall worship stones, and engrave golden, silver, and wooden images.
They shall worship impure spirits, demons, and every idol, in temples; but no help shall be obtained for them.
Their hearts shall become impious through their folly,
and their eyes be blinded with mental superstition. (141) In their visionary dreams shall they be impious and superstitious,
lying in all their actions, and worshipping a stone. Altogether shall they perish.
(141) Mental superstition. Literally, "with the fear of their hearts" (Laurence, p. 162).
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? Hab 2:18
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. Hab 2: 19
But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. Hab 2: 20
9 But in those days blessed shall they be, to whom the word of wisdom is delivered; who point out and pursue the path of the Most High; who walk in the way of righteousness, and who act not impiously with the impious.
10 They shall be saved.
11 Woe to you who expand the crime of your neighbour; for in hell shall you be slain.
12 Woe to you who lay the foundation of sin and deceit, and who are bitter on earth; for on it shall you be consumed.
13 Woe to you who build your houses
by the labour of others, every part of which is constructed with brick, and with the stone of crime;
I tell you, that you shall not obtain peace.
14 Woe to you who despise the extent of the everlasting inheritance of your fathers,
while your souls follow after idols; for to you there shall be no tranquillity.
15 Woe to them who commit iniquity, and give aid to blasphemy, who slay their neighbour until the day of the great judgment; for your glory shall fall; malevolence shall He put into your hearts, and the spirit of his wrath shall stir you up, that every one of you may perish by the sword.
16 Then shall all the righteous and the holy remember your crimes.
Chapter 98
1 In those days shall fathers be struck down with their children in the presence of each other; and brethren with their brethren shall fall dead: until a river shall flow from their blood.
2 For a man shall not restrain his hand from his children, nor from his children,s children; his mercy will be to kill them.
3 Nor shall the sinner restrain his hand from his honoured brother. From the dawn of day to the setting sun shall the slaughter continue. The horse shall wade up to his breast, and the chariot shall sink to its axle, in the blood of sinners.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. Revelation 14:20
Chapter 99
1 In those days the angels shall descend into places of concealment,
and gather together in one spot all who have assisted in crime.
2 In that day shall the Most High rise up to execute the great judgment upon all sinners, and to commit the guardianship of all the righteous and holy to the holy angels,
that they may protect them as the apple of an eye, until every evil and every crime be annihilated.
3 Whether or not the righteous sleep securely, wise men shall then truly perceive.
4 And the sons of the earth shall understand every word of that book, knowing that their riches cannot save them in the ruin of their crimes.
5 Woe to you, sinners, when you shall be afflicted on account of the righteous in the day of the great trouble; shall be burnt in the fire; and be recompensed according to your deeds.
6 Woe to you, perverted in heart, who are watchful to obtain an accurate knowledge of evil, and to discover terrors. No one shall assist you.
7 Woe to you, sinners; for with the words of your mouths, and with the work of your hands, have you acted impiously; in the flame of a blazing fire shall you be burnt.
8 And now know, that the angels shall inquire into your conduct in heaven; of the sun, the moon, and the stars, shall they inquire respecting your sins; for upon earth you exercise jurisdiction over the righteous.
9 Every cloud shall bear witness against you, the snow, the dew, and the rain: for all of them shall be withholden from you, that they may not descend upon you, nor become subservient to your crimes.
10 Now then bring gifts of salutation to the rain; that, not being withholden, it may descend upon you; and to the dew, if it has received from you gold and silver. But when the frost, snow, cold, every snowy wind, and every suffering belonging to them, fall upon you, in those days you will be utterly incapable of standing before them.
Chapter 100
1 Attentively consider heaven, all you progeny of heaven, and all the works of the Most High; fear him, nor conduct yourselves criminally before him.
2 If He shut up the windows of heaven, restraining the rain and dew, that it may not descend upon the earth on your account, what will you do?
3 And if He send his wrath upon you, and upon all your deeds, you are not they who can supplicate him; you who utter against his righteousness, language proud and powerful. To you there shall be no peace.
4 Do you not see the commanders of ships, how their vessels are tossed about by the waves, torn to pieces by the winds, and exposed to the greatest peril?
5 That they therefore fear, because their whole property is embarked with them on the ocean; and that they forbode evil in their hearts, because it may swallow them up, and they may perish in it?
6 Is not the whole sea, all its waters, and all its commotion, the work of him, the Most High; of him who has sealed up all its exertions, and girded it on every side with sand?
7 Is it not at his rebuke dried up, and alarmed; while all its fish with everything contained in it die? And will not you, sinners, who are on earth, fear him? Is not He the maker of heaven and earth, and of all things which are in them?
8 And who has given erudition and wisdom to all that move progressive upon the earth, and over the sea?
9 Are not the commanders of ships terrified at the ocean? And shall not sinners be terrified at the Most High?
(No Chapter 101)
Chapter 102
1 In those days, when He shall cast the calamity of fire upon you, whither will you fly, and where will you be safe?
2 And when He sends forth his word against you, are you not spared, and terrified?
3 All the luminaries are agitated with great fear; and all the earth is spared, while it trembles, and suffers anxiety.
4 All the angels fulfill the commands received by them, and are desirous of being concealed from the presence of the great Glory; while the children of the earth are alarmed and troubled.
5 But you, sinners, are for ever accursed; to you there shall be no peace.
6 Fear not, souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your bodies have not received a recompense in proportion to your goodness, but in the period of your existence have sinners existed; in the period of execration and of punishment.
7 And when you die, sinners say concerning you, As we die, the righteous die. What profit have they in their works? Behold, like us, they expire in sorrow and in darkness. What advantage have they over us? Henceforward are we equal. What will be within their grasp, and what before their eyes for ever? For behold they are dead; and never will they again perceive the light. I say unto you, sinners, You have been satisfied with meat and drink, with human plunder and rapine, with sin, with the acquisition of wealth and with the sight of good days. Have you not marked the righteous, how their end is in peace? For no oppression is found in them even to the day of their death. They perish, and are as if they were not, while their souls descend in trouble to the receptacle of the dead.
Chapter 103
1 But now I swear to you, righteous, by the greatness of his splendour and his glory; by his illustrious kingdom and by his majesty, to you I swear, that I comprehend this mystery; that I have read the tablet of heaven, have seen the writing of the holy ones, and have discovered what is written and impressed on it concerning you.
2I have seen that all goodness, joy, and glory has been prepared for you, and been written down for the spirits of them who die eminently righteous and good. To you it shall be given in return for your troubles; and your portion of happiness shall far exceed the portion of the living.
3 The spirits of you who die in righteousness shall exist and rejoice. Their spirits shall exult; and their remembrance shall be before the face of the Mighty One from generation to generation. Nor shall they now fear disgrace.
4 Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your sins; and they, who are like you, say respecting you, Blessed are these sinners. They have lived out their whole period; and now they die in happiness and in wealth. Distress and slaughter they knew not while alive; in honour they die; nor ever in their lifetime did judgment overtake them.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. Job 21:11
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. Job 21: 12
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Job 21: 13
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Job 21: 14
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? Job 21: 15
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. Job 21: 16
5 But has it not been shown to them, that, when to the receptacle of the dead their souls shall be made to descend, their evil deeds shall become their greatest torment? Into darkness, into the snare, and into the flame, which shall burn to the great judgment, shall their spirits enter; and the great judgment shall take effect for ever and for ever.
6 Woe to you; for to you there shall be no peace. Neither can you say to the righteous, and to the good who are alive, In the days of our trouble have we been afflicted; every manner of trouble have we seen, and many evil things have suffered.
7 Our spirits have been consumed, lessened, and diminished.
8 We have perished; nor has there been a possibility of help for us in word or in deed: we have found none, but have been tormented and destroyed.
9 We have not expected to live day after day.
10 We hoped indeed to have been the head;
11 But we have become the tail. We have been afflicted, when we have exerted ourselves; but we have been devoured by sinners and the ungodly; their yoke has been heavy upon us.
12 Those have exercised dominion over us who detest and who goad us; and to those who hate us have we humbled our neck; but they have shown no compassion towards us.
13 We have been desirous of escaping from them, that we might fly away and be at rest; but we have found no place to which we could fly, and be secure from them. We have sought an asylum with princes in our distress, and have cried out to those who were devouring us; but our cry has not been regarded, nor have they been disposed to hear our voice;
14 But rather to assist those who plunder and devour us; those who diminish us, and hide their oppression; who remove not their yoke from us, but devour, enervate, and slay us; who conceal our slaughter, nor remember that they have lifted up their hands against us.
Chapter 104
1 I swear to you, righteous, that in heaven the angels record your goodness before the glory of the Mighty One.
2 Wait with patient hope; for formerly you have been disgraced with evil and with affliction; but now shall you shine like the luminaries of heaven. You shall be seen, and the gates of heaven shall be opened to you. Your cries have cried for judgment; and it has appeared to you; for an account of all your sufferings shall be required from the princes, and from every one who has assisted your plunderers.
3 Wait with patient hope; nor relinquish your confidence; for great joy shall be yours, like that of the angels in heaven. Conduct yourselves as you may, still you shall not be concealed in the day of the great judgment. You shall not be found like sinners; and eternal condemnation shall be far from you, so long as the world exists.
4 And now fear not, righteous, when you see sinners flourishing and prosperous in their ways.
5 Be not associates with them; but keep yourselves at a distance from their oppression; be you associated with the host of heaven. You, sinners, say, All our transgressions shall not be taken account of, and be recorded. But all your transgressions shall be recorded daily.
6 And be assured by me, that light and darkness, day and night, behold all your transgressions. Be not impious in your thoughts; lie not; surrender not the word of uprightness; lie not against the word of the holy and the mighty One; glorify not your idols; for all your lying and all your impiety is not for righteousness, but for great crime.
7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and transgress against the word of uprightness.
NOW the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 1Ti.4:1
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 1 Tim 4:2
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1Ti.6:10
8 They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood; execute great undertakings; (142) and
compose books in their own words.
But when they shall write all my words correctly in their own languages,
(142) Execute great undertakings. Literally, "create a great creation" (Laurence, p. 173).
9 They shall neither change or diminish them; but shall write them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning them. (143)
(143) Despite Enoch's mandate, his book was most certainly "changed" and "diminished" by later editors, though these fragments of it have survived.
10 Another mystery also I point out. To the righteous and the wise shall be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great wisdom.
To them shall books be given, in which they shall believe;
11 And in which they shall rejoice. And all the righteous shall be rewarded, who from these shall acquire the knowledge of every upright path.
Chapter 105
1 In those days, saith the Lord, they shall call to the children of the earth, and make them listen to their wisdom. Show them that you are their leaders;
2 And that remuneration shall take place over the whole earth; for I and my Son will for ever hold communion with them in the paths of uprightness, while they are still alive. Peace shall be yours. Rejoice, children of integrity, in the truth.
Fragment of the Book of Noah
Chapter 106
1 After a time, my son Mathusala took a wife for his son Lamech.
2 She became pregnant by him, and brought forth a child, the flesh of which was as white as snow, and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white like wool, and long; and whose eyes were beautiful. When he opened them, he illuminated all the house, like the sun; the whole house abounded with light.
3 And when he was taken from the hand of the midwife, Lamech his father became afraid of him; and flying away came to his own father Mathusala, and said, I have begotten a son, unlike to other children.
He is not human; but, resembling the offspring of the angels of heaven, is of a different nature from ours, being altogether unlike to us.
4 His eyes are bright as the rays of the sun; his countenance glorious, and he looks not as if he belonged to me, but to the angels.
5 I am afraid, lest something miraculous should take place on earth in his days.
6 And now, my father, let me entreat and request you to go to our progenitor Enoch, and learn from him the truth; for his residence is with the angels.
7 When Mathusala heard the words of his son, he came to me at the extremities of the earth; for he had been informed that I was there: and he cried out.
8 I heard his voice, and went to him saying, Behold, I am here, my son; since you have come to me.
9 He answered and said, On account of a great event have I come to you; and on account of a sight difficult to be comprehended have I approached you.
10 And now, my father, hear me; for to my son Lamech a child has been born, who resembles not him; and whose nature is not like the nature of man. His colour is whiter than snow; he is redder than the rose; the hair of his head is whiter than white wool; his eyes are like the rays of the sun; and when he opened them he illuminated the whole house.
11 When also he was taken from the hand of the midwife,
12 His father Lamech feared, and fled to me, believing not that the child belonged to him, but that he resembled the angels of heaven. And behold I am come to you, that you might point out to me the truth.
Key to Music
13 Then I, Enoch, answered and said, The Lord will effect a new thing upon the earth. This have I explained, and seen in a vision.
I have shown you that in the generations of Jared my father,
those who were from heaven disregarded the word of the Lord. Behold they committed crimes; laid aside their class, and intermingled with women. With them also they transgressed; married with them, and begot children. (144)
(144) After this verse, one Greek papyrus adds, "who are not like spiritual beings, but creatures of flesh" (Milik, p. 210).
See Adam and Eve Two
Key to Music
14 A great destruction therefore shall come upon all the earth; a deluge, a great destruction, shall take place in one year.
15 This child which is born to your son shall survive on the earth,
and his three sons shall be saved with him. When all mankind who are on the earth shall die, he shall be safe.
16 And his posterity shall beget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal.
Upon the earth shall a great punishment be inflicted, and it shall be washed from all corruption. Now therefore inform your son Lamech, that he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name Noah, for he shall be to you a survivor. He and his children shall be saved from the corruption which shall take place in the world; from all the sin and from all the iniquity which shall be consummated on earth in his days.
Afterwards shall greater impiety take place than that which had been before consummated on the earth;
for I am acquainted with holy mysteries, which the Lord himself has discovered and explained to me; and which I have read in the tablets of heaven.
See Adam and Eve Two
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17 In them I saw it written, that the generation after generation shall transgress, until a righteous race shall arise; until transgression and crime perish from off the earth; until all goodness come upon it.
18 And now, my son, go tell your son Lamech,
19 That the child which is born is his child in truth; and that there is no deception.
20 When Mathusala heard the word of his father Enoch, who had shown him every secret thing, he returned with understanding, and called the name of that child Noah; because he was to console the earth on account of all its destruction.
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21 Another book, which Enoch wrote for his son Mathusala, and for those who should come after him, and preserve their purity of conduct in the latter days. You, who have laboured, shall wait in those days, until the evil doers be consumed, and the power of the guilty be annihilated. Wait, until sin pass away; for their names shall be blotted out of the holy books; their seed shall be destroyed, and their spirits slain.
They shall cry out and lament in the invisible waste, and in the bottomless fire shall they burn. (145) There I perceived, as it were, a cloud which could not be seen through; for from the depth of it I was unable to look upwards. I beheld also a flame of fire blazing brightly, and, as it were, glittering mountains whirled around, and agitated from side to side.
(145) In the bottomless fire shall they burn. Literally, "in the fire shall they burn, where there is no earth" (Laurence, p. 178).
22 Then I inquired of one of the holy angels who was with me, and said, What is this splendid object? For it is not heaven, but a flame of fire alone which blazes; and in it there is the clamour of exclamation, of woe, and of great suffering.
23 He said, There, into that place which you behold, shall be thrust the spirits of sinners and blasphemers; of those who shall do evil,
and who shall pervert all which God has spoken by the mouth of the prophets; all which they ought to do.
See Recognitions of Clement above to see that music was the problem after the flood.
The Spirit of Christ was the Spirit of the Prophets 1 Pe 1:11
For respecting these things there shall be writings and impressions above in heaven, that the angels may read them and know what shall happen both to sinners and to the spirits of the humble; to those who have suffered in their bodies, but have been rewarded by God; who have been injuriously treated by wicked men; who have loved God; who have been attached neither to gold nor silver, nor to any good thing in the world, but have given their bodies to torment;
24 To those who from the period of their birth have not been covetous of earthly riches; but have regarded themselves as a breath passing away.
25 Such has been their conduct; and much has the Lord tried them; and their spirits have been found pure, that they might bless his name. All their blessings have I related in a book; and He has rewarded them; for they have been found to love heaven with an everlasting aspiration. God has said, While they have been trodden down by wicked men, they have heard from them revilings and blasphemies; and have been ignominiously treated, while they were blessing me. And now will I call the spirits of the good from the generation of light, and will change those who have been born in darkness; who have not in their bodies been recompensed with glory, as their faith may have merited.
26 I will bring them into the splendid light of those who love my holy name: and I will place each of them on a throne of glory, of glory peculiarly his own, and they shall be at rest during unnumbered periods. Righteous is the judgment of God;
And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28
27 For to the faithful shall he give faith in the habitations of uprightness. They shall see those, who have been born in darkness unto darkness shall be cast; while the righteous shall be at rest. Sinners shall cry out, beholding them, while they exist in splendour and proceed forwards to the days and periods prescribed to them.
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Absolutely love you Alicia K. I'm still waiting for the Lena Horne Movie. What's the latest on that? Is it still a go?
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Basically what im saying is im the phoenix ' check my picture and look in the shadow. Im sure you can put 2 and 2 together and decide WHO I REALLY AM.
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http://thisisblaze.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-gift-soul-in-need-of-acceptan... Forgive me if im outta line ' i seen your concept of Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart & i fell in love, idk if you know about astrology and all that and greek mythology but i would be URANUS and you would be GAIA ? CRAZY I KNOW.
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That was beautiful ' i think your my soul mate ! do you know anything about the phoenix rising?
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i think you and your music is absolutley fantastic, i am such a huge fan of yours, and i admire you so much. Your version of Empire State, i love it, its so good!
Wish i had the chance to meet you! x
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Aloneness sometimez may seem to be the answere. Compared to the unsettling soul searching for true friendship, time alone reflecting upon the natural earth could be the only peace... Even then the earth is dark. I give up, please let the sun shine rayz of warmth upon my skin like a cat lying in tha sunshine. Inner peace.
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Hi Alicia,
Writing our thoughts liberates us from anxiety.
We all go through phases where we need to find solace.
You can express you thoughts here too - www.oneword.com
Everyday a word is posted and you're given only 60 seconds to write.
Maybe you can check it out
Here's my entry today for the word 'options':
a, b or c.
thoughts escape me.
i don't know what to choose and where to go.
sometimes my mind gets confused, fearful of the great unkown.
there are roads without warning signs
and i tread alone.
God bless
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very intresting alicia very deep and awesome!
checkout this website www.amazingfacts.com
also www.itiswritten.com peace&&luv:-)
JESUS LOVES YOU:-)
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That is so true in everyone busy lifestyle.
we have to do daily routines and also enjoy what life have to offer in our time on this earth with family and friends.
thanks Alicia
simmone joyette January 20, 2010
Re: …a voice in the Desert.. nice blog, I hope u have 2 mins to read mine..thanks Alicia
Suggestion for songs, ALicia, you are the only artist who is able to do this...
Hi, I am from Madrid, I dont know if you,Alicia, will ever read this...But I attended your concert in El Teatro Real de Madrid and it left me with no words to describe it...it was memorable...and your concert made me think...the way you changed the part "New York" with "Madrid"...and a good idea came to my mind:
I have seen pictures you have uploaded from places you have been, just like Japan....well I thought, since you have been in sooo many places, so many different cities, each one with their own charming characteristics...it would be great if you could make an album with songs talking about each city you have been to, so that the name of each song in the album could be the name of the city or country..because I know and I bet you make beautiful poems and then turn them into songs...itd be amazing if you could describe each city you have been to in songs...so people that arent able to travel can get to know those cities through your eyes...through your music....I hope you get to read this some time... I dont know...maybe call this album "We are citizens of the world" or something like that...because we all really are...we are all connected somehow....
Love your music...and your personality, at least what I have seen and read about you.
Best of luck in yoru career, because I bet you are only in the beggining...and I hope you like this suggestion if you ever read it.
Love and Peace
MMC
Alicia Please Read This
Okey I dpn´t know where do I have to write this but I don´t care.
Alicia I falling in love with you, I had seen your video "looking for paradise" and I have to say that you are precios I love your smile and I hope that you read this.
My name it´s Ezequiel Spiazzi and I from Rosario , Argentina .
I hope that you can read this and answer me , if you do that I will feel like in heaven JAJA
Bye
My Email is: eze_spiazzi_16@hotmail.es
Please somebody answer me something
mind ova matter
i fell asleep and woke up to another life.as my eyes opened,i began to see a blurry figure.when my vision cleared,i saw a gorgeous woman setting near me.her eyes were on me and my feelings were overwhelmed.i,actually,knew this woman from tv and stereo but the feelings i felt had been intimate.i could only live in the moment,not knowing the who's,what's,where's,when's,and why's.i felt her looking into my soul and i knew it.i could see that she knew me and to know me is to be very close to me.she looked like she had been worrying and seemed consumed with heavy concerns.she was beautiful and she looked into me easily.a moment is a moment that can be just a moment and this moment was unlike any other time of my life.i liked the silence that we shared bcuz it was euphoric.she smiled a perfect smile and her hands became warmer on my hand.i think she had been waiting for me to wake up.the room around us was brilliant and welcoming to my spirit.i didn't look away from her for too long.without words,she stood up with my hand in hers.she gave me a tug that gave me the incentive to sit up and get out of bed.that linen was pulled to the side of me and i got up to walk with her.her first words began a conversation that i followed easily.it was like if we were continueing a conversation from a earlier moment in time.i hadn't thought too much into this interaction,though it was unfamiliar.i accepted all that had been going on.i did realize a few things and one was that i walked again...being careful not to drag my new ability,skills,and mood into a world of questions.with every step i took,she watched over me.she showed so much love for me and a lot of confidence in me.i just knew that she and i were connected ,we were familiar in more ways than one.it only took that one insatiable penetration to pearce the depths of my soul.she didn't have to reassure me or gain my trust bcus i felt so much elation coming from her.i liked how the scenery was clean,and the serenity grew from within us.i woke up to a sunshiny day,i woke up to alicia keys's and many moods of happiness.i didn't look down towrds the ground,in a fearful way,each step i took added a extra beat to my heart.my comfort was astonishing as i walked with her into the hall way.she held my hand as we adventured through this gorgeous but humble home.we talked about my recovery as though my memory of an accident and rehabilitation was gone,as a matter of a fact,those memories were gone.i remember nothing from my past or of myself that i should've grown to know.with that in mind,i began to think of so many thoughts about our home and relationship.by this time walking and other abilities were becoming second nature.she and i kissed one loving kiss that was followed by one kiss for old times sake.i thought about her,our attraction,and the feelings that i knew all too well.i still had not questioned the events that were taking place.the blessings that accour everyday keeps my faith strong.why ask why when i was at peace within my mind,body,and soul?so yes,i accepted alot in thirty five minutes.i finally noticed how my voice was different and it didn't send me any red flags since i didn't remember it too well.she and i took the oppurtunity to hold on to the time we had.she wanted to hold on to me as though i had been away from her for awhile.i felt every thing i had been thinking emotions could be between kindred souls.she smelled so devine and she felt so soft and i tryed to shelter her with my arms wrapped around her.i waited all my years to have that someone to hold me equally elated.she kept looking up to me and she entangled me with each glare.her finger tips rested upon my face and back.intimacy sprinkled us with a infinite amount of sensual tingles.i felt goose bumps on her arms and her hair was raised the whole time we held each other.i felt like there was no one in the world but us.i felt her heart pound as my hand lay against her shoulder bone.we didn't share any tears but or souls danced and we giggled with relief.we detached and walked into another part of our home and that's when i passed by a mirror.my face wasn't mine though,this one thing i knew for sure.i had extremely long hair,it looked as though it grew while i was sleep.my hair was long and groomed very well and by the looks of it all,i was blessed.i payed no mind,it was just something else that i noticed.alicia gave me more of herself to notice as she looked into my eyes.i saw love,stress,and flashbacks with her every blink.she still held my hand prepaired for my new body to weaken.she continued to pierce my soul everytime we had eye contact.i felt stronger as time passed slowly.alicia comforted me with every touch of her physical being.alicia's embrace was worth any and all of my confusion.what kind of life were we heading to bcuz we must've gone through a lot of good and bad times together.she already told me my accident raced through her with each beat of her heart.the waiting by my bedside,oh my,i had to strengthen myself up with each breath.so yes,i accepted her loving nature,this new body,and different life that i was learning all over again.i didn't know if i suffered from amnesia,so i didn't want to mess up the flow of things.although,i still favored the notion that i was a quadriplegic when i fell asleep.i stand in the place that alicia and i held each other and place my palms upon my temples.in this life i woke up to,i realize,it is to wonderful to be true.this is a figment of my imagination.i hold my fists upon my temples and now i'm getting sleepy again.
over the years,when i lay silent tryin to sleep,i have bad dreams.i've found alternate ways of getting good natural sleep,through all this time.this week,i put on alicia keys and i slept well.i have a feeling i had a dream that was fused with the message of her music.i hope i was able to write vividly enough for you to see into my dream.
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You write so beautifully, as if the words seeped from your truthful soul, without a doubt a gift only God could have granted for you to share with the world. Thank you, for ever your faithful fan