Actually, this is not a continuation of the previous Sermon, but is merely a reflection on PRINCIPLE......including that/those principles quoted in the previous Sermon. And when I say principle, I think most any Reader of these pages by now knows that I am talking about both scientific and Spiritual principle - in other words, God's LAW OF ONE!
Okay, what WERE the pertinent principles in my previous Sermon? Let's see......"Judge NOT, lest ye be Judged, but Judge ONLY for thyself ALONE!" Okay, a few others were, "Accept, and respect, EVERYONE and all!" You can yet decline to deal with, or to otherwise support, ANY individual, BUT you DO yet accept and respect that or any individual AS A HUMAN BEING, and as someone who MAY have something important to GIVE Unto Others and All......IF that individual IS "in touch WITH" one's humanity and they do KNOW Who and What they are, AS a human being! I may have implied a few more principles therein, but the abovenoted two shall suffice for the purposes of this next Sermon.
And, as I said, this shall merely be a reflection upon principles. Because, as someone might say, "Is there not an ambiguity, a contradiction, in that previous Sermon and the tale told therein of the Shiite family?"
Okay, YES, I will admit that there seems to be a conflict in Law therein, but let's see exactly what the "conflict" is and then perhaps we might be able to explain it and see the humanity - or, at least, the human "part" of God, that we are - at work beneath it all and the realities thereof.
Okay, as to the details, with regard to the 6 year old 'ecl'a child. Here, on one hand, we are saying, "Accept" and "Respect" all that IS......INCLUDING a certain loss of one's individual humanity, on the part of the child, in the subservient family role that he has taken on. (Actually, this happens to many of us, when we make the choice to "serve" another, in whatever way is required. But, one might also ask, "Did a 6 year-old child actually have a 'choice' in the matter?") BUT, on the other hand, EVEN THOUGH the child MAY be happy enough, IN his new "role", AND has "accepted" such (AND, as Western concerns may imply, the child is - Heaven forbid! - NOT being abused, hurt, or otherwise psychologically-maimed-for-life!), YET there IS the reality, that in accepting the "dictates" of Shiite law, and in such a sense, being "told what to do", that the child HAS, in effect, LOST himself and his humanity, IN what could be construed to be a "slave-labor" situation, which is certainly NOT independence,
freedom, and the following OF the PURPOSE OF one's birth, which comes from WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL (UNLESS that "purpose" WAS to become that which the child has become. But who is to know THAT but the child?)
Okay, more details of (cross-)examination. First, ARE we not, in "accepting" and "respecting" the child's "fate"......are we not condoning, rationalizing, and, in effect, giving "license unto", that which IS DEPLORABLE, DEGENERATE, and DISPICABLE, as to human relations - ESPECIALLY between a father and son (at least from a Western viewpoint)?" Okay, to answer one point at a time, "BUT, does NOT this very same "variance" (of moral laws), OF our basic human values, apply MANY OTHER times and ways, in human society and across human cultures, SUCH THAT the "necessities-of-life" DO MORE SO DICTATE that which we become......RATHER THAN we, ourselves, actually "listening-to" that voice from deep within - from our Soul - actually telling us Who and What we are, and what we shall become?" (Actually, such CANNOT happen UNLESS one's gene pool of the mature human Mind has been activated anyway!) MANY TIMES such is the case, with humanity, in this civilization and world!
And the point IS......in the context of today's society and civilization, that - YES! - many times, MANY TIMES, humanity has been obliged to "make the best of" the situation INTO WHICH it has gotten itself! And when I refer to the "situation" that humanity has gotten itself into, I refer TO the myriad foils, foibles, devices, mechanisms, culturalisms, customs, laws, programming, etc., etc., etc. - WHICH humanity has rendered upon itself, AS INSTIGATED and INFLUENCED BY Lucifer, and his Veil of Separation/Unknowing, which is at work, bringing ON the maya, delusions, illusions, corruptions and "pseudo-realities" - WHICH we ALL EXPERIENCE, day in and day out, and which we think are the NORMAL "REALITIES" of our everyday lives. (For more discussion on these various aspects of our everyday maya and delusions, see "An Evolutionary Maturity of the Human Mind".)
Anyway, in the case of our Shiite family, the wars, atrocities and the "laws" and customs resulting therefrom, ARE the extenuating circumstances which this family - this microcosmic slice of humanity - has "gotten itself into"......in this case, by merely BEING BORN into it! And thusly they think that such a "life" IS NORMAL - for them (like OURS is "normal" for us, RIGHT?) - AND ACTUALLY, IT IS......because, THAT is what "IS"! But, this is NOT to say that this IS NORMAL, as "normal" would normally be defined! That such is the way that both God and man would have it to BE??? NO! NO!!! BUT, it IS the way that it CURRENTLY IS - belabored as we all are, all of humanity, BY that Veil of MAYA, that Veil of Unknowing, (OF anything better!), OF that Luciferian Complex of negative spirituality!
So, YES, on the one hand, we are saying that - for the best, and the good, of all concerned - we NEED TO "accept", and "respect", THAT WHICH IS! BUT, on the other hand, as the researcher Hadley Cantril once noted (see my Lecture on KNOWING), "Man can CHANGE that which 'is'!" And HOW does man "CHANGE" - THAT which "is"?
HOW does man "turn his/her Life around" - and serve GOD, and the God-goodness within him/herself - RATHER THAN the DOG, or Luciferian-badness within him/herself? HOW does one "change" one's LIFE, and eliminate that Luciferian negativity, leaving oneSelf WHOLE and complete, IN the POSITIVITY OF one's Mind AND of Infinite Consciousness (God)?
Well, I am reminded of a book which my first wife brought to my attention years back - Eric Berne's "Games People Play" (and rather than telling the whole story again - I've already done so in an earlier Work on this Website - I'll just let you CLICK HERE, to read the tale. Be sure to Click your BACK button to return here!)
Anyway, the point IS - "awareness" - as Dr. Berne called it, or KNOWING, as I call it! KNOWING - of oneSELF- of Who and What one IS, and has been born to BE! KNOWING - of one's SOUL, and of one's upper Mind, AND the "breaching" OF that Veil of NEGATIVITY - that Veil of Separation/Unknowing, between our upper and lower Minds, which nominally leaves us bereft of the Soul, and thinking that the (s)elf, the "me", the lower Mind - IS ALL THERE IS - because we do NOT KNOW our SELVES!
So, to get back to our Shiite family - YES, there IS a contradiction......and the contradiction is between what IS, and what COULD BE - IF humanity were to "get its act together!" (OR, as some folks would say, "Get your S--T together!") Our Shiite family is living under the "pseudo-realities" OF what currently IS - whereas, to most any "knowledgeable" Soul, KNOWING "what IS" means TAKING 100% RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHANGING IT! Exercising mankind's INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE responsibility - FOR CHANGING WHAT "IS", from what it "is" NOW, to that which IS BETTER!
In other words, ELIMINATING THE DUALITY - the dualities - the negatives-versus-positives, of our Lives! Eliminating that Veil of MAYA, that Veil of Unknowing - such that we DO KNOW OURSELVES, we DO KNOW Who and What we are, have been, and will be!
Actually, speaking of "have-beens", it has always been said that HISTORY is a great teacher! IF humanity would BUT LEARN the lessons of History, and BE AWARE OF what has "gone before", mankind would surely act differently, and TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for him/herself! In this respect, KNOWING oneSelf - activating one's MATURITY OF MIND (turning on those human maturity genes!) - such that one CAN "get in touch WITH" one's Soul, one's upper Mind, AND all of the resources of the universe which that Soul/upper Mind can "access" - INCLUDING the HISTORIES OF MANKIND, in the Collective Consciousness of Humanity (see my many discussions elsewhere on this website about the Collective, the Akashic Records, the Hall of Records, and so forth!) WHEN one can "access" those histories of humanity - and see, and KNOW, what has gone before......WHEN mankind shall have learned "the lessons of history" - THEN, that Veil of Unknowing SHALL HAVE BEEN "breached", and mankind's MIND, and SOUL, shall be WHOLE and COMPLETE!
SO, what does this have to do with our Shiite 6 year old 'ecl'a boy? WELL, IF it WERE "another time, another place" - in other words, a peaceful world, OF humanity's OWN MAKING - well, then that young Soul WOULD truly BE that which he was born to "be"! BUT, as Hillary has said, "It takes an entire community to raise a child!", which means, in a broader worldly sense, that it takes - or WILL TAKE - ALL OF US - ALL of humanity......to CHANGE that which (now) "is"!
THAT is our challenge! THAT is our DESTINY! As GOD has so given unto humanity to DO - to CHANGE, and make better, THAT WHICH IS - INCLUDING GOD Him/HerSelf! (For further discussion on this, see QUFD.)
HEY! CAN WE DO IT? CAN mankind FIND its "collective" WILL - to DO THAT which needs to be done, to make the human MIND, the human Self, the human Soul - WHOLE and COMPLETE again? (NOT a "Cooper-pairing", of the positive-negative-positive quantum axion particles of Spirit and Consciousness, which currently comprise the ground-state configuration of the human Mind!) CAN mankind BRING UNITY to the Cosmos, and even unto GOD Him/HerSelf? CAN mankind "reconcile" Heaven and Hell, Infinite Consciousness and Lucifer, positivity and negativity, and "Bring IT Together", IN ALL of the quantum realms, of micro and macro REALITY, of both corporeality AND INCORPOREALITY?
BRING US TOGETHER! (See the tale of Richard Nixon.) THAT is mankind's challenge and DESTINY! THEN that young Shiite boy SHALL BE the whole and complete, AND MATURE human being, whom he was born to BE! As the Beatles did once sing, "Let it be, Let it be, Let it BE, Speaking words of Wisdom, Let it BE!" (For further "inspiration", check out my Sermon, "Getting Back in Control of One's Life!")
Aum, Peace, Amen!
Jerome
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