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♥ STRAWBERRY ● THE QUEENDOM OF PLOMARI Published by The Cogan Dynasty, the country and queendom of Plomari www.artsetfree.com Awakening in Plomari was first began written in late 2017. It began to reach the internet on December 15, 2017, in unfinished format, updated as time went along. Copyright © William Bokelund 2o17- Fit for publication on gold and highly potent paper, as blessed by Jungfru Cecilia Mari Cogan To contact the authors go to their website www.artsetfree.com, or should the website for any reason be down, search the web. Loveletters to the authors are received with everwhelming joy Written by Cecillia Cogan, Spiros Cogan and th Butterflies of Plomari Spelling mistakes included for the magical benifit of the Queendom of Plomari and all Life, as the athors do not see these as mistakes but see them as magical messages from The Seamstress Who said we're not supposed to get excessive? 2 Go to the authors website at ArtSetFree.com For more books in the series 3 AWAKENING IN PLOMARI _______ You are a god, not a human being Cecilia Cogan Spiros Cogan & the Butterflies 4 CONTENTS SEX HERSELF IN HIGH PERSON 5 6 ike Cecilia, I now shut myself off from the evil world, with which I no longer want to have anything to do. I shall vanish. I will tell you of my L whereabouts in a Book of Love ~ King Spiros Cogan of Plomari 7 Bliss is the end, my Love. Come on now, comb home your victory. The mechanical human mind will never be satisfied anyway, only with Divine Love filling your heart will you ever feel satisfied. ::king spiros cogan of plomari:: 8 The victory of our country and queendom of Plomari is eternal and has already been achieved, and it will be reiterated and re-emphasised in a huanting way, it will be made clear for all on planet Earth forever on. King Spiros of Plomari aka Daddy 9 When I experiment with the thought that I could have anything I want in the whole Universe, I find there is a lot of things I thought I wanted but that I actually don’t want, and I find that I already have a lot of the things I thought I didn’t have. This ended the game for me a lot, this made me find my happiness 10 When you have Love, you have everything. When you have Love you stop needing unneccessary things, you stop wanting distractions to fill you up, for you are already full. King Spiros 11 When you can be as happy for others good fortune as for your own, you will throw your head to the sky in laughter at how much there is to be happy about. Truly then you see the Universe as an infinity of joy, an eternal dance of Love 12 Their heads are sank, as they are trapped in their world of eternal grey. With empty eyes they walk around, looking for something they cannot see. All the meantime, I am sitting here naked in the Garden of Eden with my wife, drinking honey mushroom wine in calm bliss, the most exquisite ecstasy. They are so afraid of me, they don’t dare become a living breathing god like me. They don’t dare enter into the light, and with the little they see of me they call me a fool. They know nothing of the kind of God I am. And they are running out of time to wake up, while I take another sip of mushroom wine and go on to lick my wife’s pussy in eternal bliss. King Spiros 13 You know what this world needs more of? The world needs more of YOU, my dearest. Spiros 14 I couldn’t see a problem when a petite spaghetti meal was all Spiros could offer. Later I found out he is a King disguised as a poor man, and when he asked me to marry him I knew I am the luckiest woman in the world Queen Butterfly of Plomari 15 I can hear the heart of the Earth beat. Listen. Breathe. Must I always remind you of the nature of life? You're forever flowing, like a river swimming to sea, you see? Worrying is preposterous. Who do you think you are that you should worry? Stars are exploding as you read this. Listen, really listen to your surroundings. I need you to focus. You have a mind of greatness. My God, you're beautiful. But why do you reject yourself? Because of society? They know nothing, and deep down you know that, but you do not listen. Your real voice speaks there. You must hear it. I know you can. You have before. It's what sparked your spiritual journey in the first place. You once heard God play the piano and you sang to it gracefully... Ever since then, the ordinary life of working 9/5 and mundane activities has become such an unpleasant sound. You are endlessly endeavouring to hear that magical musical note again. Don't lose hope. You will hear it. Even in the darkest of times, the cosmic jukebox plays your song to the universe for all the galaxies to dance to. Listen. Unknown 16 He said to me: Don’t you feel alone living in your own little world? I said to him: Don’t you feel powerless always living in other people’s worlds? 17 Like falling asleep into a dream and the more I fall asleep the more I awaken. 18 I gotta do something with my Life, said King Spiros and rose naked from bed. No I don’t, he said soon and sat down. He considered for a moment building a glorious Palace, but then thought that the Universe already is the most glorious Palace and Temple of all, why would he need another one? All of a sudden, he felt completely satisfied with Life. He had everything he had ever dreamed of having. He poured himself a glass of mushroom wine and flew into the Heart of the Universe. He was Home at last. ~ King Spiros 19 For me it helps to think that on one level nothing actually exists. To say it poetically, you exist as a thought in the Heart and Mind of God, and nothing else is really real. Everything is as if essentially empty. Look at your Life, how it is flowing from one moment to another ceaselessly. What is really real in all this? This helps me be free. - Spiros Cogan 20 I have credentials, man, don't fuck with me. King Spiros 21 And as I sat there in the Heart of the Queendom of Plomari I heard the Queen say Please don't go, I want you to stay, Don't just walk past this inner core as if it means nothing, Become one with it instead, settle here, I have prepared this Home for us, a Home for our souls... And so I stayed with her, I stayed with the Queen in the Heart of Plomari... ~ King Spiros of Plomari 22 SEX HERSELF IN HIGH PERSON ou are a god, not a human being. Instant orgasm, then I swirled around and. I just woke up here. Here? Yes, the most marvelous experience of my Life so far. It is not a place really, it is more an experience. It is the experience of the new Eden, what we call Plomari. In my dreams I saw one of my wives, Queen Mari of Plomari, Ywalking naked in a beautiful Garden, with a snake round her neck. She sat down by a piano and played a little melody, then left through the greenery. She said nothing to me, but when I woke up I woke up with her in the Garden of Eden, or as we prefer to call it: Plomari. Now I'm sitting here naked, dumbstruck from what has just happened, but incredibly happy. In fact I don't think I have ever been this happy before. Maybe I have never even known what true happiness can be until now. Suddenly my Life makes sense, fully. Suddenly everything is clear. We were going to hold a wedding, me and my wives. We had planned it for many years. Being a royal family it was to be our Royal Wedding, the year would be 2018 and it would go on for at least months, together with honeymoon for as long as we wished and needed. But after this... Well me and my wives are already done with the wedding two days into it. We are married and happier than ever and can not wait to begin our new life together here in this Paradise! The day before I woke up I had written the following on the wedding invitation that we sent out to the people we wanted to invite: We have reached the end step in our Plomarian alchemical process, the last step. The last step is to make our Plomari Paradise into a living, breathing reality. We have outlined the structure of it, to say it simply Plomari is the name of our new Paradise. The structure is ready, now we 23 must blow life into our Paradise. So to say we must turn on the fountains of the Palace so the water flows - they mustn't stand unused - we must make the blood flow in our new reality. It is time to walk naked into our new updated Garden of Eden, Plomari. Yes? This? Here? The end? Yes, I'll take this one, please.
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