Month: July 2023

Defining God

“mathematically speaking, is why God is more like a line than a point.”

“Nicolaus proposed thinking of God in an image more than like the line which is by definition unbounded,
impossible to hem-in or to possess.

Instead of thinking of God in constrained images equivalent to mathematical symbols of the sphere or the triangle…”
he suggested viewing God as a line.

Constantine’s Sword page 349

“Theologians spoke of God as they understood God fully, and they sought to enforce a uniformity of thought that left no room for mystery, ambiguity or paradox. Nicolaus of Cusa saw, on the contrary, that God is God precisely in escaping and transcending total comprehension by human beings. Just as a line is defined by its movement in opposite directions at once, so God is the coincidence of opposites, the one in whom maximum and minimum fall together. In God, the coincidence occurs in such a way that the contraries maintain their differences, which, mathematically speaking, is why God is more like a line than a point.”

The Sword of Constantine page 350

Phases of Mitosis

What is mitosis?

“The great majority of the cell divisions that happen in your body involve mitosis. During development and growth, mitosis populates an organism’s body with cells, and throughout an organism’s life, it replaces old, worn-out cells with new ones. For single-celled eukaryotes like yeast, mitotic divisions are actually a form of reproduction, adding new individuals to the population.”

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Darwin Says

” all observation
must be for or against some view
if it is to be of any service.”

“There was much talk that geologists ought only observe
and not theorize;
and I will remember someone saying
that at this rate,
a man might as well go into a gravel-pit
and count the pebbles and
describe the colors.

How odd it is
that anyone should not see
that all observation
must be for or against some view
if it is to be of any service.”

Charles Darwin 1861

Defining God

“Woe to him who makes God to be unto like any mode or attribute…
Woe more if he make Him like unto sons of man,
whose elements are earthly, and so are consumed and perish!
There can be no conception attained of Him (God) except in so far as He manifests Himself when exercising dominion by and through some attribute.”

Arthur Edward Waite (pages 35-36)

4th Amendment

“The right of the people
to be secure
in their
persons,
houses,
papers,
and effects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated,

and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause,

supported by Oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons
or things
to be seized.”

U.S. Constitution

Missing Provision

in the constitution,

“If a majority are capable of preferring
their own private interest,
or of their families,
counties and party to that of a nation
collectively,
some provision must be made in the constitution,
in favor of justice,
to compel all to respect
the common right,
the public good,
the universal law
in preference to all private
and partial considerations.”

John Adams

How America Has Changed

“The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. “

“America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
She is a well-wisher of freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator of only her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice,
and the benign sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence; should would involve herself beyond the powers of extrication, in all wars of interest and intrigue, of envy and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.

The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. She might become a dictatress of the world. We would no longer be the ruler of her own spirit.”

John Quincy Adams, July, 1821

“Democracy in America”

“A majority taken collectively is not an individual whose opinions and frequently, whos interests are opposed to those of another individual who is styled a minority.
If it be admitted that a man possessing absolute power may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should not the majority he held liable to the same reproach?
Men do not change their characters by uniting with each other; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with their strength.
For my own part, I cannot believe it, the power to do everything which I should refuse to my equals, I will never grant to any number of them?

Alexis de Tocqueville, 1832

The Strife of the Smart Man

My Experience:

In a world where doing wrong is seen as being correct
and where being correct is treated as being revolutionary or argumentative,
those of us who have maintained our moral rectitude currently relate less and less to our fellow humans.
I have belabored, “The Dunning Kruger Affect,” to the extent of mocking my fellow man.

It confused and angered me. I did not know how to deal with people in my daily life in a cordial way anymore.
It felt like I was surrounded by idiots and that I was the only person who cared to make myself and the world around me better.

My good friend, Don Adams, explained it to me. Don said this to me:

“You are surrounded by grown men who have child’s minds.”

Don Adams

The Pareto Principle keeps bounding around inside my head. Realizing that there is no escaping this paradigm, this reality, I have sought coping mechanisms to attempt to maintain being courteous surrounded by a world of discourteous people. I have found no useful tools to dissuade my resentful knowing of these people.

The Now Civil War

“ It is useless to reason with those whose confidence is not shaken in the face of impossibilities, whose imagination can bridge all gulfs in evidence by fantastic suppositions.”

Arthur Edward Waite; Doctrine and Literature of the Kabala (page 116)

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Rifleman’s Creed

“We are the masters of our enemy.”

“This is my rifle.  
There are many like it,
but this one is mine.  
It is my life.  
I must master it as I must master my life.  
Without me my rifle is useless.  
Without my rifle, I am useless.        
I must fire my rifle true.  
I must shoot straighter than the enemy
who is trying to kill me.  
I must shoot him before he shoots me.  

I will.  

My rifle and I know that what counts in war
is not the rounds we fire,
the noise of our burst,
or the smoke we make.  
We know that it is the hits that count.  

We will hit.

      My rifle is human,
even as I am human,
because it is my life.  
Thus, I will learn it as a brother. 
 I will learn its weaknesses,
its strengths,
its parts,
its accessories,
its sights and its barrel.  
I will keep my rifle clean and ready,
even as I am clean and ready.  
We will become part of each other.
      Before God I swear this creed.  
My rifle and I are the defenders of my country.  

We are the masters of our enemy.  

We are the saviors of my life.

      So be it,

until victory is America’s
and there is no enemy.“

SOURCE
Warrior Culture of the U.S. Marines

THE WEB OF LIFE

“From her web, Grandmother Spider observed the first thoughts as the Universal Mind awakened from the dream. “

When the Universe was still so dark that not even shadows could be seen in the night, Grandmother Spider sat in her web in the Sky World, waiting and watching. No one knows how old Grandmother Spider is, or how long she sat waiting for the Universal Mind to awaken. But, every Creature Being who has ever lived knows her song and dance as the weaver of the Web of Life.

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The Archer’s Bow

“Because of the Lord’s anger she will not be inhabited
    but will be completely desolate.
All who pass Babylon will be appalled;
    they will scoff because of all her wounds.
 ‘Take up your positions around Babylon,
    all you who draw the bow.
Shoot at her! Spare no arrows,
    for she has sinned against the Lord.
Shout against her on every side!
    She surrenders, her towers fall,
    her walls are torn down.
Since this is the vengeance of the Lord,
    take vengeance on her;
    do to her as she has done to others.
 Cut off from Babylon the sower,
    and the reaper with his sickle at harvest.
Because of the sword of the oppressor
    let everyone return to their own people,
    let everyone flee to their own land.'”

JERIMIAH 50:13-16

Entered Brethren Ordainment Sermon

“What has been will be again.

            There is nothing new under the sun.

            It was all here already, long ago.”

Third Sermon

“Donning the Master’s Sword”

The hands of your fellow brethren have laid the foundation of this temple; and the hands of your fellow brethren are now beginning to complete its stronghold. Through your studies and actions, we, under this delicate ceiling, are Awake, as if from humanity’s deep sleep. (Zechariah 4:1)

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