Some Pain is Good

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This is a collage of myself. I enjoy the way it conveys deep and moody moments. Without pain and struggle nothing much will be accomplished. If things are different than that, I don't know about it.

Property

There can be not true religion, no true church, no important spiritual practice, no nothing real going on without a foundation that constitutes reality.

What is reality. Does it have any thing to do with real estate. The words have the same root. It is in fact our relationship to the land that has everything to do with a foundation of reality.

Reality is the earth. Reality is the sense we have when living in harmony with the earth.

If we have disconnected from nature. If our existence has departed from constant and deep contact with earth, its elements, the forces of life uninterrupted by plastic and concrete, then we will know far too little of the world of spirit. Our worship and spiritual access cannot be real. Argue on in philosophical, doctrinal and intellectual positions. It will never find an answer clear enough. The influence of spirit that enlightens the soul is disturbed an so all conclusions.

Now, once departed from nature there is created a civil law that impairs our control and use of property. All the rules and practices are distorted from the completeness of any possible economic, political, social and yes, and very much, religious system. All is founded on distortion and never resolved.

The right and left argue endlessly their differences never realizing that in what is most important and real, they share the same foundation. Partiality and incompleteness leave a divided system locked in an spiritual conflict where the parties cannot assume responsibility for the solution. One day men will walk away from the technological wasteland they have created. Then, in the purity of wilderness will find a civil law that God will approve of. Then religion, and church, and spiritual practice, all will leave men to once again access the spirit of life. In that clarity nothing much is left to argue about.

Pluralism

The doctrine of pluralism constitutes the justification of the seemingly endless spiritual practices that inundate modern society. Nothing much of God will be realized while adhering to a very corrupted civil law. Non-resistance to a civil-religious system that entirely destroys liberty is the the tacit or intentional choice to not participate with deity. An entire society acquiesces to a governmental system that constitutes moral violation of any possible godly condition. Any religion, church, or spiritual practice that is not founded on a true and proper system of civil law that constitutes liberty, is not founded at all. The denial that the civil law is a constituent aspect of any religious society and the foundation of any church is the denial of God Himself. If men cannot accept the proposition that God gave man the civil law, they can at least accept the proposition that a system of civil law is the moral foundation of their existence. In a properly constituted system of law the possibility of resolution and manifestation of all truth is implicit. In a false system of law all truth is controverted and rendered impotent. The Cristian defined system of liberty in law is likely the only system of liberty that has or ever will exist. In the final analysis we have come to worship a false God, the civil law constituting the moral foundation upon which that god is accessed.

Evolution and Devolution

How is the advancement of a civilization measured? Has western culture advanced in the evolutionary sense?
Has Western society advanced in the production of architecture? Is there anything built that can compare to both the beauty and magnificence of ancient structures.
How about the arts? Can we create music as in the Classical era? Has anyone learned of the power of Greek theatre?
How about philosophy. Has anyone read Plato or Aristotle lately?
Now what about the ability of a culture to transmit stable cultural forms from one generation to the next?
Can we measure in terms of how man treats the earth and lives harmoniously with the forces of nature?
What does harmony, peace on earth, lack of warfare have to do with the question?
What about diversity of cultural forms?
How about a coherent religious system that remains consistent and coherent through the generations.
Does modern man live a more spiritually aware existence?
What is there besides material proliferation that modern society prevails in?
The truth is that we live in one of the most degenerate and spiritually unenlightened cultures that has ever existed in the history of mankind. There exists nothing in our culture but crude and cheap replications of what at some time in history existed essentially and substantially more refined and more calculated to resolve the true needs of mankind.
The US government and its respective society is one of the most short lived political system that has ever shown up. Presently All society is in a rapid state of disintegration. Like the Roman system, so the American has rewritten a contrived history of mankind. The aim is to exaggerate the glory of present society at the expense of truth and accurate interpretation of meaning. We no longer have hardly any idea of what has existed and its spiritual significance. Now if we can get off of our epoch ego trip, get real honest, maybe even humble, we might see what has been, what can be, and begin again advancement to a truly enlightened civilization!

A Short History of the World

In the beginning, a loving Father, walked and talked to the children he created. He is our God.
Eventually they chose a way of life that made it rather unlikely that His kind and benevolent presence could be with them. They became quite uncomfortable living with someone who's way of life was too different than their own. Though He loved them dearly He withdrew. Their were a few that yet sought His kind and loving presence. He would send some of those few in his service from time to time to the others who had turned from Him. The Father wished they would return to His presence so that the longing He had for them would be satisfied. At first they treated the servants with respect since they remembered how kind and loving their absent parent was. Eventually they became weary of hearing the servants and treated them with disdain. There were many attempts of the servants to teach the other children how not to harm each other and live so the Father could return. Soon they would not hear the servants at all. The children decided to choose one amongst them to listen to and required that leader to talk to the sent servants. The leader was not as kind as the servants and did not always return the message of the servants. Still they preferred the leader so they would not be so obliged to hear and respond to the servant. As time proceeded they realized they could not always trust the leader to respect the words of the servants. In fact the leaders said and did things that had not benefit for the children. They chose many leaders and tried to find schemes where the leaders would watch and control each other. All of this was very complicated and never seemed to work well. Instead of realizing the true situation and listen to the servants, they attempted ever more complex schemes of leadership. Eventually they became so involved in their schemes they forgot about the servants. They forgot about the kind Father that loved them and craved their return. The Father once sent His very best Servant who happened to be His Eldest Son. They actually killed Him. Eventually they chose worse and worse leaders as they lost the ability to recognize any thing to do much with the ways of their Father.
The most amazing thing about all of this is that the Father loves His children so much that He has promised that He would be with them at any time if they really wanted Him. By not harming each other is the simple and clear way that we serve notice to our Father we would like to return to Him.

A Real Spiritual Condition

True Spirit

What really is spirituality? There exists a simple and clear answer that will resolve the question though it seems to be the greatest of all mysteries. It appears that the understanding of this obvious matter lies hidden beneath layers of endless conjecture somehow created in mans folly and fallacious intent to avoid an existence of true and full spirituality.

What is this truth and how did it come to be so hidden?

It can be stated simply yet to understand it may require much effort. I suppose the real effort will be to let go of false and incomplete perceptions.

How difficult it is to accept an idea whose implications run contrary to what consensual society now accepts as an self evident? How long will this simple idea remain hidden? Until men are ready to truly emerge to a condition of enlightenment and find themselves fully and deeply resolved.

Here then is this truth. Spirituality hinges upon the civil law. Whatever civil law men subject themselves to, or do not subject themselves to, will constitute the most real and primary factor that determines their access to the world of spirit.

To quote the immortal words of Patrick Henry, “Is life to dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? …give me liberty or give me death!”. Then having so quoted let me ask this first, Can men find a condition of true spirituality without also attaining civil liberty? I say no!

Who is in Charge

There is no real issue of separation of Church and State. It is phony. It is contrived. It does not exist in reality. It is diversion tactics from any real issue.

Of course a private organization ought only regulate the private members of that organization. Of course a private organization ought not control public affairs. Any modern sectarian church is a private organization. If organized by state charter it is a private organization and simultaneously an instrument of the state or regulated by the state. The state may regulate the private organization in conjunction with the members according to the proviso of the charter. Of course such an organization ought not regulate the affairs of any other private organization and certainly not public affairs.

The US government and State governments long ago became private organizations. More accurately they stopped doing business via their public and constitutional capacity, controlled and regulated by the sovereign people. They put that aside and began to act in a private capacity according to special law codes. We have volunteered to act under them in a private capacity.

The issue of separation of church and state has only come up in the last one or two hundred years simply because the idea of what a church is changed, suffered a radical departure from what was previously understood.

The only real question is can God literally govern people. The bible says so.

If God has, can, and does literally govern people, there can only be one true church, His Church. Their can only be one government, His government. If God Did literally rule over men, why does He not now? If he did then, how was His government constituted. If He did then, why would men want any other to government now.

If God governs men why would their be any question of separation of church and state. Their is none. What logical sense would it make that God would have one government called a church and simultaneously a potentially antagonistic government of the state? There is only the question, "can God literally govern men and if so how shall we find ourselves governed by Him again".

Today we are governed by private organizations through and through. Where did they get their authority? Not by the voice of the people (unless through deception and fraud), and certainly not from God. Will we be ruled by men or by God is the only real question worth consideration as pertains to the question of separation of church and state.

Religion

What is religion. Is it a set of philosophical beliefs such as Hindi, Christian, Muslim, etc.? Is it a personal set of concepts, perhaps even convictions. This seems to be what religion has come to mean today. This is in fact a modern rendering of thought and meaning that evades the reality of what religion actually is. Historically no such superficial definition was possible.

What effects us emotionally? What events do we participate in? How do we spend our time? Who do we associate with? What choices do we make that affect our life? All of this is what creates the spiritual condition we live in. This is religion.

What we might believe. What we participate in as regards some organized religion. All of this is a side show.

Television, music, literature, and other forms of media affect and form our consciousness largely. This is the creative matter of what religion really is.

Our relationship with nature, our relationship with other people, how these proceed are the foundation of spiritual awareness and are the real basis of religion.

The civil law that we are subject to affects all of this far more than a church we attend or a religious society we participate in. Sectarian churches are either legally and formalistic instruments of the state, or are just the same informally, not legally Incorporated. Even if not formally incorporated they still constitute an instrument of the state through contract and association. Our relationship to the land and to each other are controlled and contrived through the civil law. This is religion.

The power of the state to determine these things are in fact the power of religion.

Since the days of Abraham Lincoln the state has increasingly become the supreme power in determining matters or religion. It is the Supreme Court, not sectarian religions that define the substantive basis of religion. The executive and legislative bodies likewise manage the civil law and civil concerns of our lives. They together constitute the supreme power over our lives and affect more directly all matters of religion in our lives.

Self Government and civil liberty are the only conditions men will ever live in where freedom of conscience and self determination in religious matters will exist.

In the mean time we are granted by government many choices of so called religious belief and worship. Unfortunately none of these choices are the choice of a true religion with a true relationship with a true God. The State itself is the summation of the choices of religion we have made and that is truly our unreal and present religion.

Is God Real

Now to get down to the heart and soul of the matter the following questions need to be answered correctly. Some real honesty is needed here!

1. Does God have a body, parts, and passion?

2. Did God personally speak to men in times past?

3. Are the records in the bible and other places just made up in mens imagination or did those things really happen?

4. Did god give the civil law to society through Moses?

5. Is Jesus Christ the literal Son of God? Is He the mediator of the Covenants that God made at various times in the history of man with men?

6. Have other men also been the mediator of a Covenant that God made with men?

If these things are true, we all are in deep shit!
Because if they are true then so are the following:

1. There can only be one true church and God is in charge of it.

2. It would be ridiculous for God to call some of his laws civil and then divide others into some religious category. No such line has ever existed or can.

3. To recognize God's church as the only true church would be the same as having a national church. To divide it from government would be insane.

4. Men do not have God in their affairs only because that is what they have chosen.

5. Any thing that men create in the place of God, and attempt to do the job that God is willing to do, is false and presumptuous.

6. Anything that God offers would not be by force but by choice. If we do not have the government of God we have for some reason not chosen for it.

7. God can obviously govern us better than we have managed to do for ourselves.

8. If not now, when?

Separation of church and state is the choice to not have God personally in our affairs. Separation of church and state is the choice to have a false and phony government in the place of God.
If God talks to men and provides them with law and government then separation of church and state is precisely separation from God.

And that is what we have come to.

True Spirituality

The real basis of spirituality is nature itself. Man does not change the laws of nature but participates in nature according to his inherent and contrived limitations.

Most of society has created a life removed from the flow of nature. The endless spiritual practices that men contrive will be relatively superficial and quite incomplete. Man will never resolve himself within the plasticized and siliconized society he has created.

The moment of true spirituality is the moment of real connection with nature. Higher spirituality is access and participation in a Higher State of Nature. Nature is the portal, nature is the container, and nature is an integral part of the process.

If man found himself truly in harmony with nature, agnosticism would be impossible. Crime would easily be resolved in the loss of purpose to create harm. Life would naturally restore to balance.

Somehow we have come to measure progress in terms of superficial material production rather than spiritual evolving. The departure from nature is the departure from God. Advanced civilizations of the past built society far more in harmony with nature. The need for crime was less. The access to the world of spirit and God was greater. The devolvement of Western Society has resulted in the loss of refinement, cultural diversity, and peaceful coexistence.

The second factor of spirituality is the nature and manner of associations that the people make one towards another according to their life in nature. The departure from nature has resulted in superficial and too often perverse relationships. This is just as well the departure from God and true spirituality. Our relationships with each other are precisely the manifestation of our relationship to God. Nature is the uncontrived and pure manifestation of Deity. Contrivance will either result in the departure and destruction of the natural world or man will within nature access and ever deepening harmony with nature and then, with creative intelligence, intervene to the improvement of nature. The potential to elevate nature now lies dormant within modern man.


The civil law is the fundamental instrument of measurement and decision as regards our relationship to each other and to the earth. Only if the civil law is true and just will true spirituality exist. If the manner of establishment, administration, or adjudication of civil law is in any manner altered from its innate harmony with nature, and the God of nature, so will his relationship with God and nature be altered.

Men have departed from nature, from the God of nature, and from the civil law that was once immaculately established amongst them. Until they return to this they are eternally consigned to the superficial spiritual practices that will continue to produce the unhappiness and mediocrity that men pathetically find themselves lost in.

To divide God from nature, to divide men from nature, is to create division within ourselves. This leads to, certainly has ultimately led to, the division that exists now among all men largely.

Loss of Language and Meaning

Most of the philosophy of the day is insipid and mediocre. It is shallow and unable to resolve conflict compared to the systems of thought that existed anciently. Past paradigms cannot be understood directly except one learns something of the language and context of their creation. Any serious attempt to study the ancient and classical languages of the past will result in an expansion of consciousness beyond the usual educated experience of the day.

Modern society has generated massive amount of information. It has failed utterly to resolve information into any meaningful system of understanding or practical application. It has little ability to do so. Why is that so? The present use of language has degenerated to the point that no amount of information will overcome loss of coherent and intrinsic consistency and ability for our language to convey and share the real meaning of things.

The influence of scientific speculation upon philosophical interpretation, unwed to metaphysical understanding, has resulted in extreme philosophical debasement. The upside is that the study of quantum physics and sub particles leave men no choice now but to acknowledge an empirical world of metaphysics. A more direct access to the metaphysical world was back then, as it is now, the basis of an enlightened and expanded philosophy.

The endless arguments will continue endlessly unresolved. People no longer communicate clearly their meaning but in an ever more limited manner amongst smaller and smaller circles. The ideological communities are drifting further apart. Specialized languages are being created to convey very limited meaning understood by fewer and fewer. The fractured structure of shared thought continues to crumble.

The historically recent outbreak of technology has deluded society into as state self absorption that allows the entirely fallacious belief that our society has somehow evolved to a higher state of civilization. Science, which can only measure reality superficially, is then interpreted through the modern system of meaning and interpretation which in itself has become relatively superficial. Logic and concepts are limited by the symbols and language upon which it proceeds. In other words, advancement has mistakenly come to be measured in terms of materialistic proliferation rather than spiritual attainment.

It is presumed that former cultures were insufficiently advanced to achieve what modern industrialization and technology has accomplished. This is ass backwards. Ancient cultures were in harmony with the forces of nature and spirit. They were stable and consistent sufficiently that men would not easily transcend the boundaries that kept them from the perversion that modern society has created. It was after generations of corruption of thought and meaning that the mind of society could bring itself to the mindless decisions that have resulted in the profound loss of cultural refinement and violation of the harmonious power of "heaven and earth". True culture and civilization can only be measured in terms of the potential of the language and cultural forms that bring spiritual awakening and expansion of consciousness.

What has modern society accomplished?

• Scientific method measures reality relatively superficially

• The arts are a very limited and superficial portal to the world of abstraction compared to ancient arts and disciplines

• Industrialization has resulted in the largest theft scheme ever concocted in the history of the world.

• Technology has produced tools of destruction, a form of media that dulls the senses, and a materialistic preoccupation that has produced mediocrity unrivaled in any former society.

• Education fills the mind by rote with information, no real understanding or superior thought capability. Higher learning consists of specialized and privatized thought that allows ignorance to hide behind sophistication.

• Architecture that accommodates the sensual needs of the body but leaves the soul to wander restlessly the haunts of prison-like infrastructures.

• A government that dictates morality, which presumes itself to be God, while projecting its ultimate presumption on the less totalitarian abuses of past societies.

• A society of hypnotized economic slaves who have through emasculation lost the ability for true self government, individually and communally.

• The beat goes on

As modern society continues to collapse, and that it will, the rebuilding of society will consist in a return to the ancient meanings that modern society has largely lost its awareness of. There is nothing new under the sun and that which is ancient is also far less perishable.

The First Amendment

The idea of a church has been in a gradual process of evolution for centuries. When we read the word church in documents of the past, we will ascribe meaning different than intended at the time it was written. The idea of church, as with many other words and ideas, have change very much over the years. Since the change is relatively gradual, it is not usually noticed. As pertains to political government, law and various social forms, the changes are big. In fact, many of the ideas that were held in the past very much have fallen into obscurity.The idea of a church certainly is different today than in the past.

An establishment of religion, as intended by the first amendment, has nothing to do with what the supreme court and a host of other misinformed power hungry idiots have implied. When the American Constitution was written, the term could not be precisely defined because of the absence of conventional consensus on the point. There certainly existed though a basic coalescence of thought on the matter. An establishment of religion was something that neither the state nor federal government was to control. This is the key to the whole matter. There was something the federal government could not control and obviously that was an unacceptable proposition for the power hungry gluts. Their answer was slick and simple. Change a few legal definitions ( Webster will eventually catch up!) and bingo, they now control the whole show.

Instead of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", it is now the US government controlling, largely through the Supreme Court, all religious society whether state chartered or not. Is this illegal? Not necassarily. Is this constitutional? It has nothing to do with the original constitution! The whole problem is; There does not exist in America today a true establishment of religion to speak of. (There are a few folks waking up and attempting to operate within a true establishment of religion.)

So what really is an establishment of religion? It is an integral and indivisible aspect of the self governing community. Now does anyone, anymore realize that such a thing once existed? The original constitution was created and established so that these truly free communities could retain their civil liberty. Does anyone, anymore realize that this is the only proposition of true liberty that ever has and ever will exist? These establishments of religion were not state chartered religious societies as we have today. They were mutually exclusive, self governing societies that had the absolute and inalienable right to decide for themselves what part church and religion would play in the government of their society. The federal and state government had absolutely no business to interfere with the question. By simply referring to an establishment of religion as one of their state chartered organization rather than the real McCoy has created this entirely superficial question of separation of Church and State. Of course the state can separate itself as far as it choose from the entities it creates. The real and true establishment of religion was not created by the state. It was in fact those establishments of religion that created the state. Now that state, the present government of the United States of America, has become a monster that has turned on its creators. The federal government has in fact no moral right to dictate any civil law whatsoever to any free man or woman. But they have and do because we have implicitly and explicitly granted to them that right.

A true church has nothing to do with the present state chartered religious societies masquerading as something to do with real Christianity or whatever tag you place on it. A true church was not the business ever of the original federal government. There already existed a most perfect separation of church and state, that was the whole point of the constitution. They created a government that would leave them the hell alone so they could worship God according to the dictates of their conscience. They then would dictate through due process of law what limited role the state and national governments would play in protecting them in that right. It is none of the business of the government to tell anyone whatsoever what and how they shall worship in their own society. It is not the business of state or federal government whatsoever to determine any civil law whatsoever. Their business is what was granted in the original Constitution period. They have not destroyed the original constitution, they cannot. They have by passed it and operate within privatized law and according to some church and religion.

The federal government is now the church itself, it has usurped that power. The Christians and non Christian can argue forever what their slave masters will allow and it will never have any thing to do with true religion, true liberty, a true church and certainly nothing to do with what was intended as an establishment of religion.

In the mean time the heart of the question is not Christianity though admittedly America certainly was created as a Christian Nation. The question is can people govern themselves and will they?

Civil Religion

Saturday, January 06, 2007

What is there about your life or mine that can be compartmentalized and then considered as independent, not related to any or all other aspects of life?
What effects the social, economic, and political aspects of life more than the civil law we are subject to?
What individual or collective form of worship is not affected and interrelated to all other aspects of life?
What religion or religious society is not limited and largely defined by the civil law that it is built upon?
The civil law is religion itself. It always has been and always will.
The decisions we make individually first, and then extended through agreement and contract to others, constitutes the substantive reality of our lives. This is the inclusive condition that creates any possible spiritual reality.
The present civil law is the slavish condition of others making religious decisions for us. We have lost control over the most vital process of our lives as regards liberty and dignity.
The conservative right, more succinctly the Christian conservative right attempts to divorce its profession and practice from the reality of the civil law. It cannot reconcile its creeds and suppositions to the real fact of what creates its substantial practice.
The right does attempt to address the relationship individuals ought to maintain to the civil law. It then proceeds to advocate a belief system that is entirely non sustainable within that legal system. It incorporates to gain legal identity. It then supposes it is some other creature than a creature of the state.
The liberal left attempts to define itself not a church or religion. In its disregard for the sanctity of historical forms, it tenders itself impotent in the face of any possible return to divine interposition or access to any effective structural cohesiveness. It is as philosophically, doctrinally and morally intent as the right but somehow claims to be exclusive of legalistic religious statutes that are inconsistently applied to the right. The left is in fact as much a church or religion as anything else.
The secularization of the civil law is the fundamental deception of society.
That which is enforceable by the power of the sword, which can deprive a man of live liberty and property through legal adjudication, constitutes the true spiritual power over the individual and the collective. It is only when men return to self government, which is the power of the community to entirely constitute all civil process, will any real church, religion, or spiritual power prevail in society.