Kingdom of Blood

In the Mexican jungle, you will find a truly impressive empire. with the remains of its temples and structures truly impressive.  It was a culture that arose there; it wasn’t transplanted from somewhere else. What happened to them?  They weren’t defeated in battle.  They didn’t fall prey to disease.  It seems like they just walked away from these amazing structures, nevermore to return.

To understand how this could happen, you have to understand the Mayan Culture.  It was a culture invested in Blood.  Blood was life giving.  It brought in the crops.  It gave prosperity.  It was the source of forgiveness.  You couldn’t be forgiven unless you offered blood.  Kings would bleed to bless the people.  They would make oral and genital incisions in order to have blood to sacrifice to the Gods.  Of course many others bled too.  Ritual sacrifices were well known.

What happens when things go bad?  Existence tells us that they eventually will.  Wars got lost; crops failed.  They Mayans walked away from their ritualistic way of life.  They no longer had need of their big impressive buildings that no longer had any significance.

As we go through economic collapse in our day and age, we have walked away from many of the structures that had held us up—real estate and the stock market suddenly had far less value. How much blood and tears have we put into things that had an inflated value?  In terms of our own leaders, today we have what we would call a crisis of confidence.  The truth is, we no longer sense they are relevant to what we need is society.  We have leaders, but they don’t mean anything to us.

Who are our Kings today?  Mayans took readily to Christianity because when they heard of a God that sacrificed for them, they got it.  They understood.

Can we love someone into prosperity?  In the material sense, the answer is no.  Life is hard.  Love can teach us what to value.  What we do for others, even our adversaries is the thing that keeps us together and keeps us from killing each other both literally and figuratively.  Before we have nothing left but abandoned buildings, maybe we should reexamine who our kings are and why we are following them.  Instead of ritualistically bleeding to get our own results, its time to realize that it has already been done.

We just need to accept it and live like our King does, full of love, forgiveness and wisdom.  We don’t need to bleed our ritualistic way of life.  We need to move on with love, service, and above all forgiveness