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The afterlife. This "unimaginably heavenly" second heaven is the Enlightenment we experience passively when our bodies die. In that state, every last detail of our life is passively re-experienced at light speed in thousand-fold proportion to how morally good and bad it has been. (if hell is that proportion of the agony of actions for which we already feel remorse while alive, it will be hell indeed!)

Heaven in that afterlife sense is therefore twinned with a greater or lesser degree of hell (a duality portrayed in track 4). But souls who, through intense love, master this state of second heaven consciously while still alive in the body, experience only the heaven part (though they can see hell and those suffering it.) Crucially, this bliss is a state they actively control and direct in a timeless present, not merely receive passively (and temporarily) as their due for a past life.

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Through a thousand years I've loved Him more and more,
Now his fresh white rose is all I’m breathing for.

On a breathless trail, my nose for grossness lost,
On these blazing scents, I burn to reach His core.

Just to think of Him unlocks our love’s perfume,
Makes the pure light clear and tunes me to the score.

Now the ruined choir of faith, it springs to life.
"This is love!" he beams, "which nothing can ignore."

Ah! his Satellite re-navigates my car
Ah! my I-pod blows as main-lane engines roar.

All the power from His ring I hold in hand,
Through the fine torn veil my eyes are burned the more.

Novice, feed this pealing kiss, this heaven fire
And let Now's fine essence linger, ever more…

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from 6 Degrees Of Separation; 7 Degrees of Love (50th anniversary album), released January 31, 2019
The prefix is by the Sufi master poet Hafiz.
Gabriella Tal (pictured) lead vocal and acoustic guitar.
Gareth Calway, voice, backing vocals.
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The Baba Lovers England, UK

The Baba Lovers are an Atlantic-transcending duo: English poet Gareth Calway and American singer-songwriter Gabriella Tal. The Beloved is Avatar Meher Baba, whose favourite poet was Hafiz and whose favourite poetic form the ghazal (a Persian love lyric). We met in India at the Meher Pilgrim Centre in Ahmednagar in 1994 and wrote a couple of songs. We reconnected online in 2016 and wrote an album. ... more

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