True Community- 7th May 2023

Monkeys love to imitate, yet they also love to intimidate. In consideration of will and its power to be definite, to say 'no', and to go one's own way, the monkey has a remarkable strength within his nature to do just this.

You will not see, for example, a group of monkeys dancing in unison with the same hand and foot actions, in rhythm with each other. They would never choose to do such a thing. You would not see a monkey on the factory floor repeating mundane tasks - although there was a time when 'scientists' tried to train them thusly, even with lobotomies the species resisted such trained repetitive employment.

Some were successfully recruited with rewards, however when the rewards were no longer, the behaviour did not conform. The monkeys had a sense of their own self before others. They birthed and fed each other, and enjoyed a great community, but did not act in unison when told what to do.

It takes a particular kind of intelligence to be able to comply with, or attune to, synchronised group or community activities. Some might imagine that mindlessness creates conformity, whereas the opposite is moreover apt: it is from a particular talent and sensitivity that individuals develop which enables them to be able to work alongside each other amicably, reasonably, predictably.

And so what happens when you forcibly strip the will from a person in such extreme circumstances that require compliance? This might occur economically, or through imprisonment, or via a psychological demise. The answer is that the person who suffers compelling pressure will for a time, lose their sensitivity and ability to work communally in a co-ordinated fashion.

Therefore, tyranny never really wins overall compliance for very long. If, in futuristic terms, the powers that want to control mankind schemed to rule simply over robotic-type communities, contained and controlled into submission, eventually the opposite would most surely arise out from this condition, that with primal instincts the patterns of conformity would break, resulting in abject chaos.

Yet this contrary swerve of character serves the people well. Throughout time and beyond there have always been opportunistic beings who would sequester the life before them and try to take it for their own. Ultimately we need the ability to be able to decide who and whose influence we work with, travel with, and bed with; and over time the soul does learn these negotiations and strengths and discernments.

Our spiritual birthright is that we are sovereign over our very selves. We enjoy the co-operative relationships of community and the benefits thereby, and learn to give wholeheartedly to projects that enrich ourselves and the life around us.

We also have the spiritual right to draw those lines which separate ourselves from the mites of disease, or the demons whose plans overstep their worth.

The freedom of Man is not only the most glorious principle, but also when practiced within a truly co-operative community, it is celebrated within Heaven herself!

Good Company- 23rd April, 2023

Truth is neither a panacea or salve, it is life itself: material, physical, electrical, spiritual life, which permeates, invigorates, correlates, imbibes, motivates and manifests yet more remarkable life.

And at the very centre of all life is Christ.
If a soul rejects Christ they reject life.
This is why the variety of death cults appear as they do, and do as they do.

The two allegiances are distinct and whilst it is very true that the human being changes moment to moment, and is never far from either grace or falling; and that we needs must affirm anew every day our intentions and our inner pledge ... it is also most true to say that adults (not children) tip one way or the other.

Ultimately the path of death incurs its own consequences - literally living and dying by the swords of its own making.

Death has not the duty to sustain itself. It plays no part in beauty or creativity, and it simply seeks to unmake that which is coherent and maintaining life. And this unmaking has a place within the natural order when it is time for the unmaking to make way for new life, or the changing circumstances of life.

The powerful forces of cessation, dissemination, and withdrawal are essentially a blessing - sleep, for example, is one of these gifts where life is relaxed and re-ordered.

However there is life within and without the Christ. Salt, yes into the membrane, but Christ into the heart.

The ‘fallen’ ones suffer a conjunctivitis of the heart and in the very worst of cases the soul evacuates, the angel keeps their distance, and the entity within is either the base consciousness of the animal body or a visiting lodger.

We can most certainly pray for the ones who are but empty shells. Such judgement is not criticism, it is discernment. If a person is actively, wilfully, attempting to cause a demise in your own life you can invite them to pray with you before the further conversation together - or quietly commit a prayer in the room in their presence.

The saying of Grace before eating holds many good purposes and the pertinent one here was that it was a call to peace with those who you break bread with. When eating in the company of others you are particularly sensitive and open to their influence.

If a person aggrieves you it is preferable not to eat food with them or if one must, then to say Grace openly and loudly beforehand.

Charitable concern is natural because the pitiable conditions of unrest, madness, anger etc. are most obviously saddening, however these are not to be indulged in or have us captivated thereby.

We try hard within our own consciousness to stay the course and exercise our confidence in goodness - we try to make effort and mostly we enjoy the benefaction that follows ... however there are those miserable individuals who would interrupt these strengths within your being and disturb your own sense of peace within. If this occurs you can be momentarily in peril. ‘A little poison may be a cure, yet a lot of poison may provoke a death.’

Choose the time you have where possible away from these individuals who would destroy you.

It was not just one man who crucified our Christ - it was many. And many more today would gleefully do the same.

As difficult as it is to picture, in many respects it comes down to just this.

And to qualify: it is not to expect that Christ needs be named by the individual or that he wears the title ‘Christian’, but rather that Christ’s Love lives within them, that they accept His Grace and Presence and Peace into their hearts, their choosing, their discerning and deciding, their knowing, their providing, incarnating goodness into the spheres of today to build up the worlds of tomorrow with the living majesty of heavenly proportions.

Let no man or woman take your happiness or your soul - or for that matter, quality of mindfulness also. To this we have by Christ and the divine intervention the ability to say ‘no’ sternly, firmly, protectively, resolutely and most definitely ‘No’ to any or to all who would assault us.

Splintered Cross- Good Friday, 2023

A splinter from the corrupted wood of the Cross fell to the ground separating itself from the beam. And the miracle was that from this splinter there came a tree ... just a little tree, but a tree nonetheless - that for many years yielded a great healing to any pilgrim that came upon it.

Corduroy clouds emboldened a darkening sky and the forces were tensed: so opposed to one another, so polarised and conflicted, neither good nor evil could move forward, or backwards; but instead pressed face to face in a silent torsion of almighty will.

Make no mistake, the wayward evil was of no small measure. It had ridden the world shadowing the souls of nearly all but the children and the enlightened few.

The why’s and what-fors are crucial to understand in relation to these current times also. For this period began what was yet to be finished, and is ongoing - minds are still to be enlivened and souls freed from the selfishness that is the sloth of the soul.

As if in competition with one another, the hierarchies of demons and nefarious gods (who were not of Angelic resonance) were so persuaded by Christ’s presence they took on some of His countenance immediately.

Just prior to Golgotha Christ was barely sensed or recognised to the unenlightened forces above and beneath the earth. He simply was not seen. It was only when after passing through the portals to Hell and returning, that He was known in such a way they could not unsee or fail to recognise Him - whilst conversely, those of the faith lost their earthly sight ... of knowing Him by this standard, yet their inner visions developed deeply, with constant commune.

If an individual is given to demonic sway he experiences a great anguish when brought before Christ - Christ in name, Christ through action, Christ in the heart of another. Christ in the goodness or in the likeness, in the virtue of an infant, the merriment of a child, of a kindness from neighbour to neighbour, of a charity transporting the grace. Christ in the love of within a union, and that of family, and Christ in the righteous in righteous enterprise. Wherever there is Christ follows a certain pain to those who are still walking the paths of death.

Through Christ’s passing on the cross and resurrection they are now awake to Him being present in this World.

But that they can see Him and perceive Him is a slow burn and a gracious gift which carries the kernel of their salvation: a salvation that will one day soothe the cunning and pour light into their abject beings.

For this Light is our living connection to God, and goes to all - yet thinly for those who would bring harm to this World, and it is truly their only hope if they are to keep their places in eternity.

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On Hallowed Ground: The Soul, Creativity & Mundanity- 2nd April 2023

The soul is simple in what it wants, needs and desires - it is placid and generally confident most naturally. The soul knows the mysteries of life in their concentrated form - compacted into feelings rather than measurements, impressions rather than increments, the overall, rather than their detail, happy with the wonder of the profound, rather than the particular.

And this of course comes directly from the attenuating hierarchies, and the most subtle, yet strongest conduit of all - the funiculus umbilicalis to God.

And with all of this there is no disharmony or distress, no illness or grievance. The being is content. This is what peace feels like: to rest in the mind of the soul.

Creativity is reckless, for its nature wants license to depart the usual cogs and wheels of structure and to surprise oneself or others with the unexpected. Not all creativity is beautiful or productive, yet nor is it necessarily destructive. It can be either the artist or the undoer ... and is self evident, self-revealing, almost from the outset.

Children are naturally creative - they strive to explore, usually to de-construct much of what is around them.

As adults it is a dangerous impulse for an inartistic person to become overly creative. Creativity requires a strong measure of virtue - or, at the very least, an instinct as to what true virtue is. Without the sense of virtue the actions and behaviours become reckless.

Creativity of itself can be a stimulant.

When a man or woman applies themselves with repetitive work, it requires a measure of will to do so; and this effort and application literally can save the mind from the madness of creativity.

And yet, conversely, to work and give no time to creativity in life can lower the liveliness of the consciousness into stupefaction.

And so, the most perfect balance of all is to give oneself to both effort and imagination every day in equal endeavours.

Lastly, prayer wonderfully requires this mix. Praying entails the effort of concerted thought being coupled with that of our reaching beyond ourselves. The focus and application requires intention, concentration, perseverance, and generally selflessness; tempering the very freedom that the holy hopes provoke the imagination to realise. And with this combination of effort and insight, we are fundamentally restored for a time - being protected from the wild winds of our own creativity and the binding routines compelling us within and without - whilst returning us back through to the inner door into the mind of our soul.