I am Maxine Culpa. Along with my late daughter Mia, I first became aquainted with Saint Sybian through our husband, Composer Felix Sebastian Culpa. He was born and raised in Calabria, Italia, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Sybaris, in the last century. When he was thirteen, Sybian began to appear to him, initiating him into her spiritual and sensual world. Felix, who was forced to disappear after unfortunate and definitely unsaintlike events , told us of Sybian's devotion to the pleasures of the father's creation: food, drink, the arts (particularly music and dance) all nature ---especially the body!! With the help of American Musicologist Patrick Lockwood, I have written these entries. Now, He also has been taken from us. Our new Scribe is Daniel Pierce, and our new Goddesss is Esperanza, whom Sybian herself has ordained. I hope that all who view this site will be encouraged to let their minds and senses wander to discover the voluptuous gifts the father freely gives us. Newcomers are urged to go to the earliest postings.

Friday, January 26, 2007

Teaching and Philosophy of St. Sybian


Sybian had little patience with theologies that sought to put a chasm between humanity and divinity. “All that separates the past from the present and the life –to-come, is a thin membrane, easily permeated. Earthly pleasures merely reflect heavenly delights.”
Asceticism and its infliction on others only drives a rift between the spiritual and the earthly. Voluptuaries are, in many ways, the opposite of masochists who believe that self-inflicted pain opens the gates to heaven, but the voluptuaries don’t have to work so hard at it. They welcome the many temptations that come their way.(The Latin root, Temptare, means to taste, to feel, or to test, as in testing the waters.) So life becomes a taste test of sorts-----not an affront to a ruler/judge, but an affirmation of a loving father. “One treats pleasures the way one would treat a gift from a valued friend, with respect and enthusiasm. To pass up that gift because of someone else’s judgment would be very rude, indeed.”
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