What is the beginning? Where is that end? Who seeks a question? How tell an answer. When middle is, “middle,” “now, middle,” is middle, now!
You would think that to love the Lord, God, our creator, would be inherent,… a, “given,” … just an understood fact of life! Who wouldn’t love the one who created everything? That’s easy! … Right? Ahh,…but many do not believe they were created. They do not believe that there is a being to express gratitude towards! They do not believe in God. They believe that randomness and luck are the primordial conditions which have initially catalyzed life!
If randomness and luck were the beginning, (the only, two ingredients which formed the zygote of all of which has ever been,) how is it not random and lucky that there is a God, who, himself, was created by that randomness and luck, thereafter, such God created order and predictability, … the world?
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. … Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
How do we re-learn those things which our grandparents had never been taught?
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“…there are fewer and fewer students of the game anymore.
Journeyman’s Journal
October 21, 2025
…And the People Went Insane!
The difference between the world today and the world we grow up in is not definable. We cannot put our finger on what is different or why; but we all know that collective consciousness has changed.
It is not a shift!
Do not call it a, “shift,” because the road and also the vehicle are all different animals, today, altogether!
“The ruthless will vanish,
the mockers will disappear,
And all who have an eye for evil will be cut down…”
-ISAIAH 29:20
“As when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens fading and thirsty still. So will it be with the hoarders of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.”
“…By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, …”
Chapter 3
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
“…Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, …”
Paul tells us:
“Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
The world has rejected you. That is not your fault!
Why Not Just Pray Directly To God?
One reason we pray in Jesus Christ’s name is because Jesus was human. We are human. If we remove being human from our prayers, we pray to God using Godliness, not humanity. Are we gods or are we humans? Can we think the thoughts of God, or can we only think the thoughts of man?
Why Pray In Jesus’s Name?
When we pray in Jesus’s name, we pray to God for humanity, not for Godliness. Why is this important? Because we could NEVER know the thoughts of God- we can only know the thoughts of men. To attempt to communicate with God (using) the same language with which God communicates with the universe would be to set us on the same level as God! If people contend that they, (or their minds,) are equal to God’s, they lack humility. That would be like saying, “Words which proceed from my lips can create life!” (as in GENESIS 1:3 and in JOHN 1:1)
How Could People Who Are So Right Be So Wrong?
God’s word is the law as man’s thoughts are policy. The fallacy is that the policy which the secular, (and, “spiritual,”) world applies to prayer is NOT God’s law! Policy is NOT law. Law trumps policy!
God’s law is far from man’s thoughts. Man’s thoughts are but policies: (and, considering the content of most men’s thoughts, we may appropriately call man’s thoughts, “butt policies!”).
In applying Jesus to prayer, we are human beings- praying to God, asking God. In removing Jesus’s name from prayer, we assume to be gods- praying to God, using God’s language!
Therefore, evoking Jesus Christ in prayer, we Humbly reach-out to the universe, asking God what to do. When we omit Jesus Christ from prayer, we assume to be supernatural beings- arrogantly meditating on the universe, telling God what to do!
So, What’s the Secret?
Praying with Jesus Christ, we ask to know the secrets of the universe, therefore, receive them.
I proclaim that Jesus Loves you! That is no secret. God made you; that is no mistake. The world has rejected you. That is not your fault! You seek guidance and love; that is your strength!
“Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
JOHN 17:3
Dakkuan’s Notes:
Stillness
Ninja Scroll
Securing stillness of the in-breath builds strength. Securing humble restraint of the out-breath builds character. Not knowing allows purity.
Chip Van Hassel
Stretching is very, very important, because, not only does it help to prevent you from injury, but it also conditions and readys the muscles for exertion, growth and physical trauma. Stretching After strenuous activity not only strengthens and conditions the muscles further, but stretching lessens your body’s recovery time. … One of the Key proponents to getting and staying fit is understanding and utilizing your body’s recovery time (mental recovery time is something to explore when more advanced methods and exercises are introduced). After all, recovery time is what we Live for… (explanation- we don’t workout just for the act of working out. We do it so we feel good for the duration of the time when we are not working out.) In other words: any time you are not working out is “recovery time”. The amount of recovery time you take always determines your body’s needs in conjunction with your physical self expectations. Wake it, Breath it, Eat it, Sleep it, Live it; Be It!
“…my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God. I will also ignore your children.”
HOSEA 4:6
“You are permitted to understand the secretes of the Kingdom of God.”
LUKE 8:10
“But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.”
1 CORINTHIANS 2:10
“This message was kept secret for centuries and generations past, but now it has been revealed to God’s people. For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.”
COLOSSIANS 1:26-27
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10
“In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have bought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”
EXODUS 16:1-2
“So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get tied up again in slavery to the law.”
GALATIANS 5:1
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.”
EPHESIANS 2:6
“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.”
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.”
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
“… After all, it takes the Strength, Wisdom and Beauty of a Free Man to offer charity to a brother in need,..”
The hand of charity is not short, but the arm which reserves it genuflects to the miser. …
After all, it takes the Strength, Wisdom and Beauty of a Free Man to offer charity to a brother in need,.. but only if that charity does not weaken such Free Man or his home.
Chip Van Hassel
Where is there a Lodge Of Master Markers, Who’s moon-body has surfed Beyond this already-traversed marble?
Is it from the east? Is it to the West? Could it be farther South, Or even closer north?
Could the albatross Have already flown across, Leaving the mariner’s quiver inclined by the motion of chilled skin?
This building, A tabernacle to those who seek, Is both verb and noun, Word and sound.
‘Tis a corner-cutters’ dream, That tent, That rejected stone! I may not mark it alone!
No longer a symbol, Lost carving, or word, The Master’s capstone Has corners which point directions.
Where hath the path been beaten to; and who’s feet have tamped-down that earth?
No master carves his own name; No flint strikes against steel. No building Raises its own gables.
If the search Is to build here and now, than the ashes of the earth are the edge of this town.
“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
In consequence of the services to the Christians performed by the Poor Fellow-Soldiers, Baldwin II, King of Jerusalem, gave them for a habitation, for hitherto they seem to have had no fixed place of abode,
“the place or royal house to the South of the Temple of the Lord, vulgarly called the Temple of Solomon,”
This place or royal house was
“within the sacred inclosure of the Temple on Mount Moriah.”
The large Court between the Temple of Solomon was also conceded to them. They were, henceforth, termed, “The Knighthood of the Temple of Solomon,” and sometimes, as in the Rule of St. Bernard, “The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Jesus Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.”
“Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
“1By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; 20 by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, …”
Chapter 3
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, 2 for they will prolong your life many years and bring you peace and prosperity.
3 Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4 Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.
