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Asha Carissima
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Asha (aka Asher Quinn Asha Elijah) sings ‘Carissima’ from his album “Thunderheart.” Download CD available here ~ http://ashaquinn.com/thunderheart.htm • 'Carissima' was the term of endearment St. Francis of Assisi had for Jacoba of Settesoli, a devoted follower of his way of Christ. He good-humouredly named her ‘Brother Jacoba’ because friendship with a female devotee was rare. Legend has it that on his death bed he asked if Jacoba could be told (it was by that time 27 years since they had last met), and if she could bring his favourite almond pastries that she made so well! Clairvoyantly, she had already prepared the pastries, and was hastening to his side when she received the message. • For me it is also a term of endearment for the spiritual beings that I particularly connect with; Christ, Mary, Mary Magdalen, Therese of Lisieux, St. Francis, St. John; St Margaret and the Archangel Michael... and for the city of Budapest, my spiritual home. • We filmed for this principally on the Buda side of the Danube, on Good Friday, wandering intuitively across the Chain Bridge (A Széchenyi Lánchid… my favourite bridge in Budapest), down towards the sweetly contained Corvin tér, where you can find the impressive Capuchin Templom, the Buda Vigadó cultural centre (where we happened upon an amazing Hungarian folk dancing class with kids as young as 3, and elders over 80) and the statue of the Wanderer and his dog. From there we climbed up to the Castle District (Várkerület), through steep, cobbled streets. • On the Chain Bridge, Gloria, my then filming colleague, saw what looked like a dead bee (it was late March; early for a bee). Now Gloria is a kind of patron saint of bees. If she finds one crawling on the street, she’ll pick it up and her warm hands will give it a new burst of life. Or if it has died, she’ll give it a decent burial! This one seemed dead, and so she put it in her pocket until we could reach some earth and vegetation for a burial. In the Capuchin Templom, Gloria had the impulse to lay the bee at the feet of the Christ; as if that impulse had come from the bee itself. But an elderly brother was sweeping the floor, so she simply held the bee in her hand until he was finished. As she then went to lay the dead bee at the feet of the Christ, it came to life! Bee resurrection! The bee is one of the symbols for both the Christ (where it is called the Higher Aetherius), and for the Virgin Goddess. The bee came alive to such an extent that it came with us outside to film by the blossom, and eventually flew away. • In January I had experienced a kind of vision about Budapest; a heightened notion, perhaps, that the Buda hills were the breasts of Mary, that the Danube was the birth canal, and that the city of Pest was the Christ child; and that a corridor of spiritual energy poured forth from the Pilis mountains 20kms to the north, down through the villages of Solymár and Hidegkút, across the Chain Bridge, down Andrássy út and up to Hero’s Square, (Hõsök tere) where the city is guarded by the seven Magyar chieftans and the Archangel Gabriel. So up in the castle district when we were filming for this, I surprised myself by actually coming across the two hills in my ‘vision' (the 'breasts of Mary')… and I’m filmed in front of them at 3.23 in this video. • The other place we filmed was at a friend’s house (Joly Viktor), in Nagykovácsi, just outside Budapest, which had a piano. I scripted the footages, and Maggie up in Scotland edited the film.
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