THE DREAM MERCHANT...

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.” – Confucius

“Walking into the jungle, you still gotta dream boy…....just remember whose dream you dreamin' and what you dreamin' for”…perhaps I'll dream of becoming a rapper...ha ha ha... like so many kids do today.....most of em' just talkin' loud and sayin' nothing...an doin' nothin'....maybe me too....listen to my rap... - igman

"When I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen” Ben said to Willy; “when I walked out, I was 21 and I was rich!”....”Rich...that's what I will teach my boys" said Willy to himself....excerpt from Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

When I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen; when I staggered out, I was sixty, jobless, and had forgotten what the hell I went into the jungle for; I traced my steps back through the climbing of the corporate ladder, reviewing the remaining effects, including that of The Great Recession, upon my current life adventure....”Damn I mused; that trip kicked my  chocolate ass up and down," I laughed!  It really is a jungle out there; that’s what it is…..a jungle....now what, find a job; get real...well,  I thought. I'm still standing though money is extremely tight ....I've still got some skills though....so to prove it to myself, I went out and solvd a mechanical problem on my son's Taurus - I located and replaced a fuel filter...I hadn't done any work like that in 40+ years or so back in high school....you could say I decided to put my running shoes back on (Who Moved My.....)

"And at least I still have my share of the gravel mining business investment and the dreams within it......I sure am glad I didn't give it up for their bitching dream"....still, since this is a partnership, I have to deal with more screwiness within other people's dreams.....and they of mine... We must still dream for anything we desire to come into our life!  What dream may come to you?

….(more thoughts)……all at once I regained my balance of originally being a life-dreamer and a salesman; a creator of dreams and not merely a manager of someone else' dream....an entrepreneurial adventurer; a dream merchant.  I thought about my Willy Loman existence….my dreams….I began to become aware for the very first time of my birth year (1951) being twenty years after The Great Depression (1931). I realized that my mother's birth year was 1931, the same year of The Great Depression; and that my grandfather's birth year was 1908, 23 years before The Great Depression, 42 years beyond Reconstruction (1866-89); 45 years after The Emancipation Proclamation (1863) by Abraham Lincoln...just imagine the gravity of this event for a moment....my ancestors and their off-spring had to be "declared free beyond chattel" as a matter of law.....damn.... what other unjust effects of unjust law do we still face?....de facto injustice is a continuing life war that no law will eradicate in unjust, unenlightened men....47 years after the start of The Civil War (1861 to 1865); 46 years after the end of the war for heaven sake; and for what….to live a lawful “Jim Crow” life experience as a sure-death sentence?  It seems their life was doomed to proceed from tradegy to tragedy....from bootstraps and bullshit...from the pursuit of a continuously proverbial "leveling of the playing field" and beyond"...  Sir, would you like me to calibrate that leveler from a perspective of truth?  No thanks......more bullshit.bb.into more bullshit....just another bullshit dream more-like a real-life nightmare where you have to truly deal with the crap!  “Who ‘s writing this gosh-damned, hell-infested bullshit life-script that I am supposed to pass along to my children?"

I declare, if life has gotta be a  bullshit script, then it's gonna be my own bullshit and I'm gonna write it, said the angry chocolate man.......still, who would tell a man to stop dreaming?  A man's got nothing but a dream....even if it's bullshit....                

Good Gracious God... walking out of the jungle rich, I screamed??? 

”What the hell is life really all about?  Is it supposed to be about this mythical American dream of getting rich?  Is it about the chase?  What are we supposed to chase?  What was the chase indeed like to live the hell-enriched experience of my ancestors dammit?” What were they to chase?  Freedom?  How can a man give another man freedom?  Only God can give that and he already did it once.  So what was being returned to the ancestors, "the idea of being free?"  Something has been criminally taken without their authority?  And here it was being returned with a wink.....Certainly life couldn't be about getting rich, with the hand our ancestors were dealt…pick yourself up by the bootstraps?  What bootstraps? Be a dreamer?...What dream should broken-hearted dreamers dream with the trials they face from the hands they were dealt?  Do they dream or just scream silently into the nightmare?  That is the question…..Call me angry if you want....kinda, but not consumed with it....wouldn't you be angry?  Do not deceive yourselves, observing from priviledged perspective.  If you wouldn't be a bit angry too, then how about choosing to try on these shoes of mine and walk in them for awhile?  Walk of this leveled field..... come on now...experience the fullness of the walk of this American's Dream.....come on baby...you know the drill boy!

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The life-view contradiction of “Death of a Salesman” between Willy and Biff, and whether one should allow 'someone else dream' to become yours and whether you allow it to become the death of you, is really up to you.  Just don't stop dreaming....

…And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?

…I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and the time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and I thought, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be . . . when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am….a diamond is hard and rough to the touch…he’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine                                                                                            
 
……… a salesman has got to dream, boy…that's what I'm rappin about....are you feel'in my beat?

 Confucious said,  

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”  
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” 

I hope the tragically abstruse love message of this writing can somehow be an inspirational blessing of hope and the important knowledge of choosing “your own dream of joy“ and not necessarily material riches alone, as you face your trials of life. Dreams have purpose and shouldn’t be hollow.  After all….it is only a day dream and you can awaken inside the dream to change its effect; or you can wait and someday you will be awakened…and the dream will be over…choose.     

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

 Beloved....let us love one another in our dream....for if we do not have love of OneAnother, there is no dream...there is only the truth of the nightmare....oh yes, please forgive the colorful language....I'm not mad....my spirit is...           

– igman’031112

THE VIRTUAL UNREALITY OF LIFE - 911

Thinking too seriously can alter your life view;

if you choose to consciously create one. 

It can also assist you in understanding spiritual transformation, 

to see Possibility - that which clearly goes unseen in life.

- igman'09112011

(Commemorating the lives lost this day ten years ago, and the hope for those who remain....

What are we left to do with our lives and how are we to do it?)

Do you know what it feels like on the other side of Love?   Truly no one knows except through imagination, because there is no possibility beyond Love.  We've got to learn to think anew about the definition we've given to Love that causes us to limit our understanding of it.  Love is 360 degrees of infinite possibility that has benefits that are more than we are enabled to think in its entirety.  Love is communication of all possibility of giving and receiving.  It is the eternal universal language that is understood all over the world by everything, annimate and inannimate within the world.  It is the Divine Law.

So what is meant for our experience we call living life, where there is so much suffering and so much pain?  Are we learning anything at all from the past where the suffering as well as the hope is passed forward?  Does the egg in the mouth of the mythical Sankofa bird [at the left] birth nothing relevant for our futures and the futures of our children?

Why is there so much concentration of hate for the hated and so little love for the many friends who may think different thoughts than do we?  Are we helping ourselves to hate our enemies rather than resolving our differences?  Isn't that what we do with our friends?  Recently I've heard the outrageous notion of word inventions such as "frenemy!"  I'm told it means to make your enemy think he's your friend temporarily.  Just how treacherously can we imagine in our inhumanity? 

Today, as I listen to the outward and uplifted voices of the surviving relatives of the victims of 911, hearing and feeling the pain of the names being read at the Memorial today, I compassionately hear also the cries and desperation of so many other sufferers all around the world.....in the Christian, Islamic, Judaic, Buddhist or whatever world people believe they live in, though there is but this world - OneWorld to live within - I suddenly begin feeling their pain and their suffering, just like that of our people and our nation.  I remember how we as Americans, upon a common attack, suddenly put aside our differences that earlier seemed so important.  No Republican or Democrat, no Black or White or Brown or Yellow; we came together to survive an attack upon a symbol that took its toll upon innocents.  And around the world, this pattern of attack upon innocents leaves them as victims also, of some other side of some other ideology.  But it doesn't end there; this negative pattern vibrates all over the world because we are living in a connected world.  It is quite disheartening.

Political ideology makes a poor headstone for the death of innocence; it is also a sad refrain for a death song of so many....and still the bell awaits its chance to toll for thee...

.....Enemies you say!  What of our enemies?  On May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden was killed.   When news came, at first I felt excitement and jubilation for the nation. Then suddenly I felt hollow and empty and void. I noticed I was not relieved from the misery of the memory of September 11, 2001.  Two thousand, nine hundred and seventy-six innocent people were still dead.  Nothing had changed. How could one death make up for so many innocents losing their lives?  His death was largely symbolic; symbols can never live up to Truth.  I spoke to others and several said they experienced the same sort of emptiness, not for him but for the absence of any true satisfaction in his death?  Our Scripture teaches us about the emptiness of vengence.

What was your individual experience in your confines of that moment?   We are still left with the quiet desperation of living life with the causes of the effects of this entire madness. "How do we relieve the causes of life's tragedies upon itself," I remember thinking?

Have you ever given any thought to the innocents on either ideologic side of this madness who may have subsequently died since this tragic day ten years ago?  Can you cross the imaginery lines of national soverignty to experience the innocent's pain and suffering?  Does it feel differently to them than it does to us?  Can you imagine how they too are thinking in their loss?  Have you given any thought to imagining behind the eyes of the innocent children and families who are left without, to sort through the mess of thIs madness? 

Do you think this is the way we are meant to live with OneAnother?  Did Christ not say ".... Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you?  Is this too much to ask of us, and more than we can bear to give Love at this point in life?   What did Christ truly mean saying this impossible directive for us in this life?  I'd like to understand.

I have chosen to call this life we live, The Virtual Unreality of Life.  It is the Imagined Thought World.  We believe it is reality but it is truly unreality.  It is the place of thought where we are to learn and give meaning to our individual lives by learning and giving the power and value of Love in thought and in action.  Love is a verb and not a noun.  It is always in action because it is its state of being.  This world is the collective consciousness we all experience, adding unto it both consciously and unconsciously, one individual at a time.  We can change our conscious thinking in this world, in order to transform the conscious world of our circumstances we live in, one individual at a time.

Love is the heavenly apportioned tool of transformation that will deliver us from the misery of living in this place of economic inequity in the division of wealth, of inadequate shelter, of disproportionate provision for hunger and thirst, of strife and war upon the people, until death performs its only translating spiritual mission.  Sadly death to some may seem merciful, even before its appointed time. 

But let us recognize that we are given this Divine Implement of Love that can be seen metaphorically as a tool.  Love is really the means meant to be used to assist in an effort, and not an instrument or doctrine to be admired and worshiped, as if an object in a museum or shrine.  Having compassion for OneAnother is the experience of seeing rightly in spirit what needs to be done through all of the misery, and using the tool of Love in action to do for OneAnother and transform the misery of the world into what we imagine heaven to be.  I believe this is our combined purpose for being born in this world.

I've long contemplated this troubling thoughtform over and over in my mind and within my heart.  I've tried to imagine how GodLove allows this awful misery of life to continue?  What possibility could make living this life a necessity if there is no escape from its misery?  How long must this go on?

Now do not think this as a message of hopelessness.  It is not.  It is the message of the same Gospel of Good News without metaphor.  It is given under the Guidance Of HolySpirit Which Guides All.  It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, It still IS.  So please pay attention to the message and not the messenger.  The messenger is simply The LightWorker, as are you should you accept to become so.  Please read on...

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by the rulers as useful.

- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD).

It is one thing to remember, another to know. 

To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. 

But to know is to make each thing one's own,

not depend on the text

and always to look back to the teacher. 

"Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." 

Let there be space between you and the book. 

-  Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD).                  

*You may note Seneca lived in Rome during the times Jesus lived around 4 BC to about 32 AD.

What Seneca is saying to us is that we must express what is in the book, outside the confines of the book in order to make an impression of its meaning toward each other.  It's ok to remember the teacher, but it is best to do what the teacher taught us to do.  The Teacher I am now speaking of is the Jesus Example, removing all the proselytizing religiousity from his demonstration.  The Teacher wants us to do what He taught us how to do - Love God and Love OneAnother.  Jesus reminded us about Love of God and Loving OneAnother, saying on these two Commandments hang everything that the prophets and The Law were speaking, and to what He is here to fulfill - to fulfill The Law and Promise and Provision of God's Love.  It is in that manner that we deliver honor unto The Teacher when we do that.

In this mysterious life, we are already provided the perfect and mysterious departure from this life that we can not escape.  Death is the single point where all life becomes truly equal, regardless of birthright.  Death is the equality in this life process, regardless of birthright.  Even Jesus departed this life, giving testament to his mission when he exclaimed - TETELESTAI.  These are the last words Jesus is said to have proclaimed as He died.  He spoke them in the Aramaic language.  It Is Finished.  He fulfilled His Mission.

Life is the inevitable entryway and death is the inevitable exitway; this process is DivinelyOrdered.  Everyone who has come here must pass this way to escape its misery.  The experiences we have here are left up to each one of us.   Whatever takes place here must be some type of virtual unreality of what life is to be like if left up to our unenlightened humanity as we live it out.  It is not real and doesn't last.  You could almost think of it as experiencing what George was enabled to see in the classic hit movie, 'It's a Wonderful Life."  He learned to appreciate what is real.  But unlike the movie, we will come into Reality but it will not be in this world.  This world is The Virtual Unreality of Life.

Throughtout our lives we are enlightened by glimpses of hope for tomorrow with everlasting promises.   Yet we are still here.  We know we are to be delivered from this underworld of misery through our death, but until then we each have something to do...a mission purpose to fulfill that no one else can deliver into the world.  What we are left to do here then, is to give meaning to our lives through our experiences, regardless to our circumstances of nationality, geographic location, economic ability or inability, or our individual birthright to a given family.  We are to Give Love from where we are in our circumstances.  This is how we will make a difference in this world.

We live with the fact that we each must die, but we seem to believe that it is not really connected with our life, as if life and death are separate experiences.  We somehow put death away from our consciousness without ever contemplating it and coming to terms with it.  "We die as we live by moment.  Each moment lived is a moment dying."  Learning how to die allows us the true freedom to learn how to live life abundantly by the moment.  What I am meaning here is learning how to experience life consciously and compassionately.    Imagine yourself demonstrating to another person that you feel their pain and suffering enough to care.  Imagine yourself feeling good because you are giving Love to others.  And imagine yourself receiving Love from others.

What does it feel like to live Life as you just imagined it?  Does it feel good and Righteous and in Right Relationship?  Does it feel like Love and Truth and Harmony and Inviting, free from religious proselytizing pointing to differences?  Have we become so simpleminded as not to recognize that God made us to look different, placed us in different surroundings, allowed us to intuit differently, allowed us different languages to communicate differently, and even allowed us the freedom to perceive of God differently.  Difference is the dynamic that allows us to see the transforming benefits of Love.

So who's right about living life?  Probably all of us to a certain degree; and none of us to another degree; and aggregately we are still woefully inadequate to contemplate Godliness, no matter the faith. The creation can never exceed the Creator because The Creator is always Giving.  This is why we must continually practice The Habit Of Giving Love; this is what we are to learn to value while we are still here in this underworld.  It can only be learned in Truth by expressing Love in Giving it. 

I believe for a Heaven to be The Presence of Perfection And Wholeness Through The Continuous Giving Of Love.  It is reached as a heartmindset first.  I also believe this is what is meant for us to do as we transform this underworld with our lives as we give each other Love right here on earth, "...so let it be done on earth as it is in heaven."

Prayer:
Today, I'm asking each of us around the world, regardless to faith division or religion, to close our individual eyes, still our individual lips, open our individual heart, free our individual mind of images, release any individual division or hatred, and to Hear The Unified Sound of Silent Knowledge, Feel The Powerful Magnificence of The Unified Vibration of Love, Be Comforted By The Unified Correcting Voice Of God, and Give Thanks For The Presence Of God As Our Unified Creator and Continuous Provider of all that is good in us. 
Let us know also that we will each be delievered from this Virtual Unreality, as have so many of our loved ones and friends before us; and yes, even as have our enemies who've gone before.  Our prayer of gratitude is to help deliver Your Will that we as human becoming, learn to live In peace and love to fulfill our mission for this world.  TETELESTAI.

In this humbled state of our Now Awareness, we each are prepared for our eternal heavenly life.  We are now also prepared for our death; and yet still are we empowered to live the remainder of our lives expressing OneAccordOfLove.  This is what is meant when it is said, "Learning how to die is learning how to live.  As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

This is our 411 Message of The Emergency Broadcasting Network For All 911 Calls!  It is humbly Given through our trust and Unified Collective Attempt Of A Glimpse Of GodVision for our lives through prayer.

 -igman'09112011

I SEE YOU! BUT WHO CAN SEE GOD IN YOU?

- igman, mysteriousvibe@yahoo.com

(mite, a small coin minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103 - 76 B.C.)

Something is troubling me about today's times; perhaps it also troubles you.

Yesterday, during the heated day, as I left the grocery store with a very few items, an old lady and a young boy in a tattered car stopped me to ask for some monetary help because they were hungry. Immediately compassion came upon me. I’m sure you’ve felt that way also. I seemed to have noticed all-at-once the old lady, the sad face of the boy, the car, the trash in the car, her eyes, the tracheotomy hole in her neck, and a heaviness of their condition. These people were members of the predominant racial group in American society, but they were also poor.  Poverty knows no bounds.

I was also aware of my own diminished and limited funds, having only one $20 bill tucked away in my wallet to get me through for awhile. I told her I would go back into the store to get some change. As I loaded the items in the trunk of my car, I thought about the widow’s mite who gave all she had into the temple treasury. I thought also of my own financial troubles. The lady and the boy’s troubles were far worse than mine. I reached into my wallet and gave her my last $20. Her eyes were a blessing to my Awakened soul. As I drove away, my emotion overcame me and I wept and prayed for the poor, the down-trodden, and the hungry at the same time. I also prayed for me. So many people are hurting and hungry today, all over the world.

Yet the rich are getting richer, as indicated by the wealth gap, and the poor are getting more poor. The middle class seem aligned with the rich, though they are falling into the underclass at alarming rates. The political state is divided between the haves, the want to have but sinking, and the poor. Who is to care for the poor? What has become of our compassion, especially as Christians? I am unctioned to write the following as the outpouring of my eternal soul.

So What Would Jesus Say (WWJS) and What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) today in if He were walking the streets of America? I recall a scripture in John 21:1- where one of the manifestations of The Risen Christ said to Simon Peter three times “Feed my sheep.”

They (Christ and disciples) had sat down to dine and afterward Jesus asked him if he loved him; Peter said, he did; then Christ said “Feed my Sheep.” He went on to call special attention of making His point with Simon Peter, causing him to be irritated with a painful sorrow about Jesus stressing the point after he had answered affirmatively. Christ went on to instruct how Peter should glorify God until his death and then said “Follow me.” Why was Jesus so adamant with this line of questioning and subsequent associative conversation?

Edgar Guest sagely wrote, “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day.” What sermons are we demonstrating from the teaching of our faith today? Faith alone is not enough. Are we following the Hupogrammos (copy; example set before one) of Christ as Christians today? What sermon are others seeing in our example?

There are many who would discuss to no end that Christ was speaking about feeding God’s Word to His followers in the aforementioned scripture reference. Yet He had no sooner fed them with food than He began to discuss loving Him, feeding His sheep, and glorifying God. The Risen Christ we know and love is constantly speaking about “the plight of the poor” and always showed His concern to physically feeding the masses as he preached and taught. Wasn’t He feeding them with The Word as He fed them with loaves of bread and a few fishes back then? Why didn’t He leave well-enough alone, since He had already spiritually fed them? Because He knew it wasn’t enough if their bellies were empty and they hungered.

I suggest He knew of the difficulty of concentrating on spiritual matter and doing or practicing The Word of God when their minds are focused on their hunger. I tell you today, in America and around the world, people are hungry; even starving; yet are we as concerned about them as Christ is about them? Are we giving them words alone and not feeding them? Are we sounding our voices, lifting them up to God without corresponding actions of faith made visible? This is how faith works through us.

Did you see the blockbuster movie Avatar? In it the phrase "I see you" was said by the character Neytiri to Jake. And have you heard Indie Arie sing the song "I See God In You?" They each allude to “seeing love” visibly as an insight of true knowledge awareness; "seeing truth reality" beyond the artificial outward appearance and into the inward awareness of what is beyond form and pure of any appearance of personage between them; "God in you and God in me greet each other." The perception of our Godly character demonstration is seen by what the perceiver sees us actively doing or actively reflecting.

It is a reference to and a term of endearment of The Divine Reflection Of God that we call The Light Of God in us. This is the very same Light that Lighted Christ. I've learned to refer to it as ChristVision: "Seeing as Empowered through The Light of Love; Enlightenment." 

Are we not to be The Divine Reflection Of God through Christ Jesus, reflected through us? If so, then what are we reflecting today as we face difficult economic times and great despair across the land? What is the body of Christ, the ecumenical Christian body which is called The Christian Church doing today for the plight of the increasing poor among us? Of course, many are doing what Christ directed us to do, not only through our churches but through our daily activity.

What has happen to our Christian faith beyond our churches? How silent has its’ activity become amongst the people? Are the sheep being fed only in the pews of the massive temples of today, leaving it there and not set free amongst the people to bear fruit to feed the belly as well as the spirit? What kind of faith is that which does not bear the fruit of faith as well as the fruit of the horn of plenty?

Certainly not the fruit of faith of Christ that lives in our heartmind and the heartmind of many, many others throughout the land. Has it (our faith) been hijacked through some narrowly defined context that extracts our heart, leaving only our head to manifest Christ in us?  What is our mission as Christians today? What have we become in this land of plenty? Oh what a hollow faith this is becoming as we are misled away from our mission to be concerned with the plight of the increasing poor?

Our politics in America today wreaks of ineffective governing bodies that narrowly define and confine our elected representatives to pledges made for some ideological cause, rendering the politician a hostage of that pledge and to constituents who'd rather see our government fail, than exercise democratic principles to compromise for the common good.  It was just a short time ago that these voters called themselves patriots and adopted the "Tea Party" metaphor to represent them.  But they are no patriots and I don't know if they truly understand our Constitution.  Pledge?  I know but one pledge for an American - The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, of The United States of America.  Now who truly expresses the actions of Benedict Arnold?  I believe history called him a traitor.

And what do we make of calling ourselves “the Christian Fiscal Conservative Right or the Christian Social Conservative Right?” Would Jesus be called “conservative anything” as He demonstrated The Gospel of The Good News? Jesus preached and taught a profoundly social gospel that had not been taught prior to his ministry; it was for the benefit of the poor amongst us. This was His yoke. He demonstrated many examples of how the rich could also follow Him; by sharing and caring for the poor.

Are we seeing the lack of works of the faith today that James spoke of as he clearly instructed, saying faith alone is not enough, and that we should visibly see our faith through our works. That is how God is seen in us; not welled up inside us; not en masse but in action beyond words.

What are we to make of Christians who gather with politicians today, calling themselves and others to prayer and worshiping in stadiums, drawing attention to themselves? Does God have need to see them en masse, or does God hear better when we are gathered in public assembly and amplify our prayer, or does God see and hear evenly beyond the shout of the stadium and into squalor of the darkest room? I suggest these people who do this, separating themselves beyond faith to faith, are misled by conspicuous tongues and the wiles of perverse thought, causing them to truly become the “Christian Conservative gone WRONG.”

“Feed My Sheep” said The Master.” He was also The Master Rhetorician. I believe He meant literally as well as figuratively about feeding His Sheep. And He also had something to say in Matthew 6: 5-6 about worshipers who demonstrate their faith for the public to see:

When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Who are these people who call themselves Christian? And who is teaching them this profane doctrine of the fringe? Jesus warned us of them and about the future in Matthew 7:15 saying,

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Buddhists acknowledge one another today as they say, Namaste' - God in me greets God in you. Does that not reflect a beautiful thought expression between people? Would that not then reflect heaven on earth if we were to see ourselves like that and to live like that? Is this perspective limited to Buddhists or Christians alone? I think not.

So what do we do when we seek to gain Divine Reflective Knowledge? I'd like to postulate placing our mind on Godliness and the Compassion of Christ Jesus, without thought of form or specific discipline. It sort of allows us to seek a void mind, free of personal and impersonal influence. Though this is at first very difficult to achieve, primarily because we are imbued with so many influential imaginative images, it is well worth the effort to be free in thought and open Revelation. We then allow the freedom of the contemplative state of mind for whatever we desire of Our Heavenly Father. I call this prayer; don’t you?

In faith, the state of contemplative awareness is the human attempt to understand God and the sacred knowledge [through sudden insight of Knowingness]; then later to humanly attempt to explain the interpretations of visions of God's activities as God would have us do. It could be called a theurgy; a tapping of the divine power that enables us to briefly ascend to GodAwareness or GodPresence. God works through God’s People. We are to become the workers of God’s Activity in the earth. Isn’t that what Christ Jesus was saying to us as His Followers? “Come, Follow me.”

Theurgy means divine intervention into human affairs. It is a method to stop us from thinking; to leave behind us all of our conceptions of the divine in order to experience the Divine. God has showed The Divine Example through many manifestations of Truth from faith to faith in how we should express love to God and to OneAnother, by seeking God and doing as God’s Example did. Christ is The Example for those of us who are called by the name of Christian.

Following Christ can lead to "the Awakening of the Eternal Soul in each of us." We are awakened for the purpose of “doing as the Rabbi was doing as he called us to,” Feed My Sheep."  Christians?  You will know them by their Love.

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"I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day."

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;

I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

The eye is a better pupil, more willing than the ear;

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear,

And the best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds,

For to see a good put in action is what everybody needs.

I can soon learn how to do it if you will let me see it done;
I can watch your hand in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true,
But I'd rather get my lesson by observing what you do.
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give,
But there is no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.

When I see a deed of kindness, I am eager to be kind.
When a weaker brother stumbles, and a strong man stands behind
Just to see if he can help him, then the wish grows strong in me
To become as big and thoughtful as I know that friend to be.
And all travelers can witness that the best of guides today
Is not the one who tells them, but the one who shows the way.

One good man teaches many; men believe what they behold;

One deed of kindness noted is worth forty that are told.

Who stands with men of honor learns to hold his honor dear,

For right living speaks a language which to everyone is clear.

Though an able speaker charms me with his eloquence, I say,

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day.

poetry of Edgar A. Guest

THIS PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

THE MYSTERIOUS DUTY OF SILENCE

Silence speaks its sad duty to the lonely;
Its’ soft voice heard hauntingly loud.
Often does it whisper to the leper,
Whose worth is deemed as merely the untouchable.
Slowly, sadly, mystically, cogently,
It speaks also to the poet and the philosopher -
Mostly the stained scarlet lettered ones -
Each themselves now made curious listeners
Of silence' torture upon their soul.
It speaks to them of hurt -
Healing’ attempt to heal itself.
It speaks to them of dreams’ loss and pain,
As tho’ nothing but temporal wisps of smokes’ past.
It speaks to them of indescribable beauty,
As tho’ once known seems now gone;
Yet can never be left.
It speaks to them in dialog,
Having found its’ origin in what seemed monologue -
Awaiting their response -
It speaks to them of receiving the knowledge of giving
Which is Love’s only state,
Rather than the prevailing giving of knowledge without receiving;
For can a man masterfully use that which he does not rightfully contain.
Yea Love received is the first Gift of Love Life.
It speaks to them of the experience of loving,
Which inherently and inseparately also requisites receiving,
Which is love’s only fate.
It speaks to them of Truth’ Presence
Bearing Witness of Itself.
It speaks to them of Creation out of nothing – creatio ex nihilo.
And the poet and the philosopher and the leper knows;
Out of nothing emerges Everything as One.
Beyond the touch is Everything Eternal;
Resolutely, the voice of silence calls;
Gently is its manner - Caelvm non animvn
For those who attempt to cross its changing sea
Change is only the awareness of the sky reflecting;
Not reference to their unchangeable Spirit force;
It can not change.
Mvtant qvi trans mare cvrrvnt ignoti nvlla cvpido.
No desire can exist for a thing unknown,
What is it that I desire to know?
Is desire increased through knowledge gained?
Does knowledge emerge from the depths of sorrow and despair?
Ecce homo ipso facto – Behold the man by the fact itself.
Noli me tangere – Touch me not
For left atwixt this bewitching stone of silence,
Does this fettered pen again bemoan the fate of the lonely –
Again new vision summons me -
The poet, the philosopher, and the leper.
- igman’042510

THE VISION OF THE MYSTIC' STARE

In the shadow world of yesterday's tomorrow, I glare into the nowhere of timeless infinity of a moment's notice, taken in a glance upon the passing composition of future's feature of me; constructed today.

Today is the only possibility to contrast and construct the future idea expression of me and give meaning to the expression.  But what is this shadow that comes with me?  I didn't express it.  Can you see the purpose or worth of the shadow and its' odd behavior which doesn't obey me; though it does appear, it doesn't exist?

No shadow can be real and what is not real cannot be true. Here is the observation of this untrue distorted reflection of the bodily expression of the idea of me, which passes along in time of its own volition; much like the shadow.  Why then am I given another opportunity for yet another attempt in this perpetuity of sorrow's madness, to peek, poke, yack, and thwack about upon the expression of the idea of me? 

What's that you say of me?  Why spend your time regarding the expression of me instead of the expression of you?  Does your dissatisfaction with you give cause to seek some effect upon me?  You're keeping it real and getting me told; what does that mean?  Is there a worth to that for you?  Does it help you feel better about yourself......that seems so odd, doesn't it? Oh whatever......let me get back to the shadow world.......if this is real, I need to get unreal.......bummer....

"Hello", I say once again, to the brief delight of meeting the gladness of strangers at the bar; they themselves exploring the intellective mentation of their own shadows...... hmmm.....very interesting thoughtform.....

igman


Lost Beyond The Shadow

I stare,
Yeah.
From the window of despair
A distortion of the true
Trapped
Alone.
No course to bear –
Just there
What image is this I see?
A man – longing free
Bound and bothered
To carry me
To places I can never know
Nowhere to go –
So
On I show
Wandering ..
Wondering…
Wishing to shout
No!
Not this way!
If I could only say –
Today.
But now…
My time again has come
To fear the setting sun
Unable to run…
Again.
Lost beyond the shadow.
 

A WALK IN QUEST FOR TRUTH TO APPLY ITS KNOWLEDGE

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Brother, Can't You Hear Me?

A WALK IN TRUTH – Brother Walk With Me

The Light of Spiritual Truth expresses itself in many forms
but emerges only from ONESOURCE.
-igman

- But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18

                                                 
The leaf is an evidenced fact symbol of growth probability having taken place.


Awaking Sunday morning, I proceeded to keep a commitment I’d made to a friend who is also a relative, to read the Epistle of Jude as a follow up to an extended conversation regarding truth. Having done so I contemplated its content and attempted to reason the purpose of the elected calling to read it. Reminding myself of proper contextualization back to our previous conversations and its multitude of topics, I especially recalled my comments regarding interpretation of Scripture and the resulting context upon its many writings about sin, which I have come to regard as error. I remember the contentiousness of the points of view between our two perspectives and our subsequent perceptions.

We are all babes in God’s Word. Interpretations can lead both to better understanding just as well as they can lead to inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and sometimes illogical and baneful
imprisonments of the mind and heart. By examining the Scriptures of the Bible and the events of record and how it was written and compiled, it is possible to come up with a method of interpretation that is sensible and understandable. I truly believe there are a plethora of unlimited understandings of Jesus as The Living Word and The Scriptures and the Knowledge within them.  There is also knowledge beyond them.

I see these as manifestations of different forms but of One Truth to which they speak. I also trust there are other resources of Knowledge that are not codified in the Bible. In stating this, I am only saying that the legislative cleric bodies of learned men who gathered together for this great cause, certainly performed admirably, but not perfectly. Agreement is not perfection. We can easily recognize and attest to their accomplishment resulting in the Bible and its longevity amongst us. I would not and am not attempting to bring any dishonor to the Bible, as if it were possible I could do so. A man can bring dishonor to himself. The Bible is the cornerstone of my foundation providing ongoing revelation of truth in my experience. What else can we attest to honestly if not by our experience upon the subject matter?

I have found the lack of a sincere conversation about ones own personal experiences of "walking in the faith" to be problematic. I hear more religious dogma, seemingly without giving personal examination upon the thought of what is being prescribed. It sounds proselytized, ritualistic, and void of one's own personal journey toward the presence of truth.

Is it not the Knowledge of God and His Purposed Will for us to love one another, which we each seek to find and implement in life? Is this not The Walk of The Way and Its Lighted Path for us, and that same Light be in us and we in It? Is this not what Christ Called us to do as we allow our Light to shine?

This brief treatise is an opportunity for an examination; an opportunity for simple discourse with the purpose of illumination and enlightenment for unity and harmony; not one meant to indoctrinate, inculcate, imbue, or separate us into confusion and away from our common love which is our common cause.

Each of us have drawn non-common conclusions, though in the final analysis, I don’t believe they cause separation from our common call to Love The Lord Thy God; to Love His Son; and to Love one another.  We are all attempting to better understand GodCommunication to each of us.  We are born alone and we will die alone.  Each of our life experiences are different.  Who among us can deny what your experiences are?  I believe we interpret GodCommunication as we experience our individual lives.

As a dependent child, my Christian religious experiences were taught to me, and very little dealt with my life-circumstances as an African American living a vicarious life dominated by a hegemonic society and its use of information, symbols, and rituals upon me.  I knew little about my own humanity or the humanity of those who looked like me.  Through some form of unconscious focus that I cannot truly explain even today, I began to experience a physical discomfort between what I was taught and the contradiction of what I was experiencing in personhood.  As for questions – they were given little regard.  Reverence reigned over reason and understanding, even though the very scriptures stated the people of the Bible were destroyed fo r a lack of knowledge, and without vision the people perished, and for all you gain, gain understanding. 

My mother had always touted education as a means to lift her children from our current condition to a better future, but the doctrine of my religious upbringing seemed to guide me and guard me to doubt what I would become exposed to in “the world.”  As my education proceeded, I could not forever ignore this obvious contradiction for discourse.

As an independent adult, I had the obligation to my belief of faith, to attempt to live it out in order to discover its relative truth. To live it out, I had to attempt to use my belief as faith.  And in order to live it out, I could not simply ignore my experience filter, which is the lens through which I glimpse and engage life. I decided that I could not and would not ignore the inhumanity of the exploitation of Africans and the prodigious practice of slavery of my ancestors, who were subsequently called African American people.  How could I call this right or righteousness?  What type of insanity must I assume in order to accept this crime against humanity?  Was I angry?  Sure I was.  But anger is not enlightenment.  Knowledge is the key to the relief from ignorance that held me bound. Something was wrong and I had to explore evidence in order to become a free-thinking member of humanity.  Perhaps you too, whether African American or otherwise, have this internal conflict that must become manifest and dealt with in your life.

As a mature adult, I've found revelation through knowledge, which either affirmed the ethos of some of the teachings, as well as revelations that conflicted or even confirmed the error or deception of some of the teachings. A great deal of the teachings were found to be the perpetuation of ignorance due to the lack of research and scholarship. Discovering what I truly believed became as important to me as living my life. In this sense, I gradually discovered the "authentic me."
The intentional purpose of this assertive work is specifically to call attention to the importance of recognizing our own limited perspectives upon a subject and its trailing limited perceptions which become our own perceptions as we accept them. They are introduced and fortified in us through our focus upon them.

If we accept information as knowledge without scrutiny, we close ourselves to first impressions possibly becoming lasting impressions, which are very difficult to alter. Rather than relying upon prevailing perceptions, which don’t always stand in The Light of Truth, we can continue in our study to understand for today how we can better live now in this world for the same cause as the early brethren to Jesus’ Teachings of yesterday. We don’t have to attempt to make today the yesterday of two-thousand years ago, as if nothing has come into The Light. Yesterday, men were seeking truth and today men are seeking truth. The truth we seek is inside us and not outside of us. It is what we are made of and our Essence. It is not truth alone that we seek, but Revelation of Truth, which is Its Treasure. In truth, we are Empowered. In truth we are delivered beyond the evolution of our myth to the Revelation of Truth, where we learn to live in harmony with God and each other.  Regardless to our lack of knowledge of It (truth), nothing can separate us from the Love of God.

The Bible is an historical book of personages in history. If we are concerned with truth of interpretation, we must understand its historical background and context. Words are vessels or containers of meaning. The words over time have gained somewhat of a life of their own as they have been conveyed. As they are translated into different languages from their original Ancient Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic expression, context changes through interpretation are happenstance upon the customs and traditions of the languages. It is a necessary rigor that they are translated as closely to their original intention, in order to understand to what they allude.

Sometimes errors were inadvertent; other times not so.

I mention the following for clarity sake and am by no means justified by research and scholarship. But reason must be grounded in some rigorous work and not narrowly defined but broadly researched and contemplated. Faith alone is not enough. Study alone is not enough. And interpretation alone and out of context is not enough.

Having personally studied many historical texts and books written by well scrutinized authors, works, such as The History of God – The 4000 Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam written by Karen Armstrong; The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What’s So Good About The Good News by Peter Gomes; The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer; The Lost Language of God by Greg Braden; Ask and it is Given by Abraham, Ester and Jerry Hicks; The Secret by Rhonda Byrne; and studied The Buddha’s Teachings; and several others too numerous to mention. 

Along with and these, and certainly not least of these is the Bible and its narratives and histories, as well as having experienced several non-credit online course studies of seminary topics, I feel confident stating that religion in general and Christianity in particular, is rife with numerous interpretations about who God is, how to approach God, and “right-thinking and right-practice” of the faith, that in truth, continually change with the social needs of the people over time, whether they be Jew, Christian, or Muslim. Our purpose is to serve God’s Will and His Will for us is to Love and serve His People.

I would truly like to discuss without zeal and passionate, emotion-laced rhetoric, the diversity of thought pre-dating Greek Hellenism and Roman paganism as the foundation of Judaism evolved and a branch morphed into a religion called Christianity. The Christian faith we know today evolved through a host of assaults upon it by the aforementioned empires, as well as others like the Islamists, the Ottomans; and even schism assaults from within itself (The Western Church versus Greek Orthodox Church; The Catholic Church versus The Protestant Reformation (Martin Luther/John Calvin), The Christian (Colored) Methodist Episcopal (CME) and the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) and so on.

Clearly, there were vastly different conversations about how to best “know God and approach God with each calling itself Christian.” There is no wonder Christians are confused and even somewhat lost; confused by men and their own conundrums (confusion and difficult) that cause conniption (fits of anger) and intolerance and lack of open understanding and failure to act as Christ truly taught. We are our brother’s keeper as our brother is our keeper and that is the truth we know.

Thank God for God’s Spiritual Reality; It is All There Is; Standing Still as One Truth awaiting us to Its Revelation. Thank God for Jesus, The Christ and His Ministry and Teachings. Thank God for His Holy Spirit Whom Is His Voice to us that we may Know Truth and be made free from this confusion. Words can be altered but Spiritual Reality is All There Is. The physical etching of a word attempting to convey knowledge, cannot change the Spiritual Reality of Truth Of God’s Word Which Is Knowledge.

But I digress - Jude primarily warns about false teachers and false teachings. Specifically, its content is calling into question Gnostic teachings of Early Christianity which favorably regarded freedom and liberty as paramount. I have no intention of addressing Gnosticism and its teachings. Nor is it my intention to proselytize anything but that which is unctioned me of the Holy Spirit. In Jude, I am unctioned of apologetics, commonly known as defending the faith.

Jude continually exhorts the brethren to earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints; and to remind the ungodly and the contestants of truth of their impending judgment. He is speaking toward lasciviousness and warning about denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. He speaks about hard speech of the ungodly and the swelling words of men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. (Jude 1)

This truly causes confusion in me. Lasciviousness means lustful and has a somewhat sexual connotation. It intimates actions and thoughts without restraint; I suppose also in speech. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s quotation comes to mind: "....The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands during times of conflict and controversy."  Of course this is a bit of overstatement about the contentiousness of either of our points of view, but it truly came to my mind and I don’t believe it can be stated too often, so permit me this transgression.

I speak honestly about my conviction as I serve Christ. That is all. If I do so with reference to historical knowledge, it is through a desire to increase awareness in the search for knowledge of truth and not self-serving beyond that.

I have grown spiritually, learning to seek better understanding without judgment, rather than to accept emotional rancor of unbridled passion and intuitions that the mind can manifest and therein possibly incarcerate us. I will trust in Divine Revelation and Illumination and continue this journey of truth’s intent – for truth has purpose for us and I trust in its cause and effect.

Many times, our preconceptions or preconceived notions do not allow us to adequately examine the foundational aspects and perspectives that causes the perception’s content, and therein its default thought action. We sometimes begin to defend long-held thoughts which become beliefs of acceptance in practice of habit called axiomatic actions, independent of truth and necessary scrutiny of examination.  Our obligation to our beliefs is to discover its truths or untruths.

Now if we abandon the search of truth, seeking support of our stalwart position upon truth, have we not then already “established our truth” and are looking for support of our position that agrees with our interpretation? I don’t know if this is correct or not, but I trust in the opportunity that we each must examine ourselves and our understandings in The Light of the Holy Spirit and It will bring us into understanding, acknowledgement, and/or Correction.

Certainly I am not the author of truth and make no claim to it. I do however know of The Spirit of Truth of Whom I speak; and I do know I am not special to gain The Knowledge. Holy Spirit speaks to us In Truth as The Voice For God; I trust The Understanding, The Correction, and The Unifying Counsel. The Voice For God will not say one thing to me and another thing to you that is meant for our private interpretation.

So how do we then acquire these prevailing preconceptions, misconceptions, and conniptions; why are we so strongly succumbed to defend them without examination and Guidance from the Holy Spirit?

Are we not each seekers of truth and therein Illumination of Its Light? Are we not each Called to our brother’s aid, into Illumination of God’s Light and away and out from the shadow of darkness? Does not the loving Psalm speak to walking through death’s shadow without fearing evil because of Whom we walk with?

When God’s Light has Illuminated our lives through His Truth, who in his right mind would prefer the shadow of darkness, remaining the same? Can we not best serve our brother in The Light of Truth? Can we not walk toward the darkness and it must flee when we are so Lighted? Can this little light of mine shine? I say to you that you we have no little light at all; we walk in The Light and The Light Must Shine, even as It Shines In us.

Can we of good faith, not work in good faith of one accord, though we work in different manifestations of the faith, without zealotry toward one another? Is not His Word His Truth; and is not His Word in Christ; and is not His Word in you and me? Can we not allow each other’s manifestation to be Truth Standing, as we each learn to walk in The Spirit and Freedom Of His Light and His Word and Its Knowledge, avoiding the shadow world of darkness and its attack from its illusions of perversion?

Yes, Truth defends itself and stands firm against any attack. It never attacks because there is no need and nowhere else to go except to Its Light. It is Reality. Truth stands awaiting you and me to Its Reality. It is manifestation of God’s Love. Even a lie is dependent upon truth. It needs truth in order to pervert it; without truth a lie is nothing at all. Can you then see if a lie is so dependent, how much more so are we who seek truth dependent on its revelation?

Now I can’t prove this to you or any other, since truth was not “proven” to me. I do accept and rest assured the condition for truth as I walk in the awareness of its Presence and Illumination of life experience. Anything other than truth is a perversion of truth and perverted truth is a lie.  Again I say, I am not the author of truth for clarity sake.

The perversion of truth is the only presence a lie can have and no perversion of truth can become Reality of Truth. This is God’s Law. A perversion of truth is an illusion of thought manifestation.  This is what I have learned over time, having Correction, both as an ignorant and unwitting liar, as well as a witting liar when I have chosen to pervert truth as false defense for some offense.

Today, I thank God for His Divine Presence of the Holy Spirit Within me and Within you, Who Calls our attention to truth through Gentle Correction of our errors. The desire for us is to bring us into remembrance of God and Godliness, which is Righteousness and Right Relationship, wherein is The Good News of our Salvation made Manifest.  In our Christian tradition, Christ Jesus is our Messiah as The Son of God.  His teachings tell us we are all sons and daughters of God and are so obligated to Love God and Love OneAnother. 
 
Having expressed my thoughts upon Jude, I explored the Epistles of 1 John 1, 2, and 3. Here is what I’d like to express regarding truth and the subject of sin or error: For what cause do we speak so contumely of condemnation’s cause and of sin’s indictment, each of them rooted in fear; rather than speak to the freedom of salvation, rooted in God’s Unending and Uninterruptible Love? Is not salvation that which is able to keep us from falling? Is not He who brings The Good News of Salvation to us, not Jesus, The Christ, The Living Word, The Anointed One of whom was prophesied by the prophets of old in The Holy Scriptures?

Is not then salvation meaning Right and Righteous Holy Relationship With God The Father, God The Son, God The Holy Spirit, for Which The Purpose of Salvation – you and I and all our brothers – to Redeem God’s Sons to this Holy Relationship of Love and Joyousness?

Who then would knowingly argue against this Call? What do I say as an accepted helper that does not provide help to my brothersamongst us to The Call Home of Right Relationship? What do I say that does other than point to our thinking as cause for erroneous thought action and subsequent effects of that thought which must take place? What do I say that does not direct my brother to the Holy Spirit for Correction?

As I continuously learn and state by the perspective gained through much study as well as the teachings of “A Course in Miracles” to which I myself am a miracle of ChristVision and transformation; I am only a simple frame who does not attempt to frame himself in glory, but rather to frame He Who Is Worthy, the Holy Spirit as the content of my frame and I know Him not except through visible Christ who walked the earth. And Who Is He That does not attempt to bring Glory to Himself but is The Frame of Christ - The Holy Spirit? And Who Is Christ That does not seek to Glorify Himself, but is The Glorious Frame for God, Who Is The One Content of All Our Frames? In Holy Reunion and Reconciled with THE FATHER, We Are One. The purpose of the frame is to focus on its Content.

Is not then salvation is come to us as we Rightly-See Truth in Christ to Love God and God to Love us? Is this not The Good News of Salvation? Can you now see through Heaven’s Eyes how beautiful this Holy Righteous Reunion is to The Father? Is it not desirous to you also?

Scripture states that The Son of God was manifested to destroy the works of the devil…..What then are these works of the devil if they be not in the incarcerated mind and the lies, perversions, illusions and confusions toward truth that keep it bound from freedom and Love? Are they themselves not the shadow scaffolds of unrighteousness that uphold illusion and non-reality? Has not death been shown to be ultimate illusion which has no power over us as Christ has revealed in His Resurrection? God demands no sacrifice, as He tells us in Micah 6:1 - 7 which you can read for yourselves. He goes on to say, He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin: for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin; because he is born of God. (1John 3:1-3)

As we are enabled to See and Walk In Light of This Truth through ChristVision, and In Light of the Holy Spirit’s Correction, we are then Empowered to help our brothers find the Way Home, unshackled from the heavy burden of sin upon his mind and his consequence.

Hear The Master's voice as he calls, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. – Matthew 11:2

The Master calls our souls home to Godliness, which Is Truth and Love.  I have learned that these formative foundations are not things or places; you cannot touch them, however they can and must touch you if you are to be reconciled to them.  They are OneSame and inseparable and inorder; they are our birthright, our condition, and our Eternal Destiny.

ONELOVE.
igman’071110