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Kama's CreedLove is a religion, a faith, a cult, and its votaries or practitioners are a breed apart, with their own secret rites and rituals, beliefs and dogmas. The temple of love has its own priests and laity, adepts and novitiates, its own ceremonies of innocence, its own flags, banners. Love is a city, a state, a country, with its own government, administration, its own laws, its own constitution, its own President or Head of State. The Republic of Love is democratic, for love abhors coercion; hearts freely given and taken are its mode of exchange. The currency of love is innocence; it is never devalued or upgraded. The fluctuations of the international economy do not affect its fortunes. Speculators and other such hustlers don't always fare well here because no matter how many hits they score, they still cannot enter into Love's hall of fame. That's because there's an unwritten but well-known code of conduct which determines the course of love on earth: never betray anyone in love, never make false promises, never break even a single heart, never destroy hope, in short, never intentionally betray or hurt. Fidelity, not to a person, but to Love is the first and last principle. Those who cannot follow this simple rule are unfit for Love’s magic demesne. Those who love will not be judged by the standards of this world; even if they fail in earthly terms, they will be saved and forgiven for satisfying heaven’s more stringent standards: they will be judged according to laws divine for ultimately, the true Beloved is none other than God. |
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