I place before you life and death; choose life.  You cannot choose death, because choice is an act of consciousness is life and life seeks living; you can only consciously choose to believe in a lie, in a fantasy of your mind that cannot be, because it is not, because all that is and ever was and ever will be, is, THE LIVING.  This is what a perverse thought is: to seek to life by manipulation of life, to view the life on your planet and in your bodies, and see the things that bring health to them, and more life to them, but to ignore their instruction, to dishonor their patterns,  and to try to substitute your own shortcut pattern, but this is a flawed pattern, a crooked path, because a shortcut is a path that is ill-conceived, and you will not find life at the end of it, because it is inherently flawed, coming from an illogical premise that you know more than that which brings life, something more complex than any of your own creations, which proves its illogic.

Science is the closest thing you have to true religion, to learning how your bodies, both celestial and terrestrial, function together and multiply into more and new life. Learn more about it, and respect the traditions of the scientific method, for it serves you well. But the knowledge you gain from it is only truly useful to your poets and philosophers and the artists whom you ignore, instead valuing how you can manipulate your knowledge to create monstrosities that do not degrade as life forms do, and even destroy life, and this is the sorcery of the Book of Revelations.  The spirit of manipulation is an evil spirit, which is not at all, but seems to be; this is true of all evil: it is not, but it seems to be.  If you build your world on things which seem to be, but are not, it will crumble, because it is built on a false foundation, and its logical end is the hole of the abyss itself, the bottomless pit which has no floor at all, but is a continual descent into outer darkness.

The poets and the philosophers and the artists observe the natural world, and the cosmos, and they find knowledge in them about that which you call the LAW OF GOD, for the WORD has been ESTABLISHED, and it IS what IS ESTABLISHED.  Watch the flowers grow, watch the ants gather, watch the birds fly.  Observe the patterns, and build your life on these patterns, because they are the living examples of that which has been manifest, which is what was established, which is the WORD, the unfolding of life that has many dimensions and is a wonderful, beautiful symphony beyond your imagination.

If you want to know a lot more about the laws of God, read a good book of fiction.  Or better yet, write one.  It won't be good unless it is rich and complex and textured, because these qualities are all components of what they model: LIFE.

Observe, WATCH, and pray: ask, and you will receive; hunger and thirst after the righteousness of God, which is the harmonious union of many into One, and you will be FILLED. The secrets are all written out there; they are not in a book, except that they have been written many times but you cannot understand them because you do not read the creation, which is the living, growing manifestation of the WORD.  For the creation tells of the creator, and the creator creates life, through the essence of life, which is the Spirit, because flesh and bone are dead and dry without the animating essence of The Mover, the wind you cannot see but hear.

Those who are threatened by science because you fear the ones who practice it do so to threaten the validity of the WORD do not understand that TRUTH cannot be hidden when it is sought earnestly, for those who worship IN the Spirit of Truth, receive the Spirit of Truth within them, and they will be taught by the Spirit of Truth, and they will be filled, and then they will multiply.

The WORD is established forever.  It will remain, though you may not, but you will, I trust, if you abide in THE LIVING.

To abide in the living, abide in truth; do not tell lies because to tell them is to speak evil, that is, to SPEAK OUT that which seems to be, but is not.  The end of such tales are: that which is not, but seems to be, which when it comes into contact with light is flung into outer darkness, because it is opposed to light, and it cannot help but be flung into outer darkness by its nature.

To abide in the living, abide in love; love one another, forbearing one another, that is, freely taking another's burdens as your own, not for recognition by your peers, but in honor of your creator, who then will delight in granting you a name that only you will know in this life, which is the highest honor of all.  You will become a beautiful part of the next story that is told by your children and your children's children, and the children of the stranger, who will discover with amazement a secret in the pattern that was your life, that they will build on.  The glory you will have will be the glory of your heavenly father.

To abide forever, abide in him who was, and is, and is to come, for he is eternal, and yet he is not a man, but a Spirit, though you have seen him as a man many times, and will again, until you will see him as he is, that is Spirit, but only when you are spirit, when you have joined the One who shares his throne with his father, and who will share his throne with you, because you are his body in this life, and you have allowed, as he allowed, and resisted not, but overcame by the blood of the meek Lamb, whose spirit you now have, and by the word of your testimony, which word is established by your CHOOSING LIFE.

"Receive ye the Holy Spirit."

Treat everyone with justice!  For, "until heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law until all be fulfilled."   What is justice? It is our being bound to the love of love: First, loving the law of God, that is the principle of respect for all life equally and impartially in honor of the living I AM, and the law of love one to another, that is doing unto others as you would have them do unto you; which is really a corollary of the first law.

Justice is: what is earned is rewarded, but what is rewarded is not "just" a reward, but a bountiful reward (manifold) -- for, "you have been faithful in little, therefore you will be given rule over many, or you will be given much as your reward."  The greater glory is to the ONE who multiplies, the ONE who gives grace, for the seed is free, the holy Spirit is given as a gift, and this is the BIRTH FROM ABOVE, or the REBIRTH.  Nevertheless, we must strive for the prize, we must fight, not each other, but for each other, taking each wrong against us as Christ took all of our wrongs against him, and in doing so, fulfill the will of the Father, whose will it is that ALL would come to him.

So until heaven and earth pass, the LAW is fulfilled IN us and through us, when we abide in the LIFE giver, when we live IN THE LIGHT, when we love in the light, confessing openly our wrongs to each other -- "I'm sorry I said that about you; it wasn't right, and I was just focusing on my own needs to feel better about myself, and you have a right to know that I said it so that you can decide how to view me now, because that is what I truly did.  I ask for your forgiveness, but I know it is not mine to demand, and you may determine that I am better off learning a harder lesson; I am at your mercy."

If we treat each other like that truly, then we truly make ourselves servants to Christ, because those in the Body are a part of his Body and so what we do to those in the Body we do in honor or dishonor to the head, Christ, and those that are not yet in the Body might be brought into the Body through our rightful subjection to their mercies for the wrongs we have committed against them.

And when someone confesses to us the wrong they have done to us, and for which we have suffered unjustly, we should rejoice that they have sought to bring LIGHT to their lawlessness, to have it exposed and to ask for our mercy; and then we should rejoice that we can forgive them for it, as we have been forgiven for our wrongs, and in doing so, we will continue to spread love as people open up their lives to light, trusting in the Father that they will receive forgiveness from the ones in the Body of the Son.  The world will be healed through our love, as we have been healed through his love.

Forgiveness is the evidence of love, for love "does not take into account a wrong suffered, [but it] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things," and this is the fruit of the Spirit freely given.

We are not greater than our Master, and if our Master suffered unjustly, we must first suffer justly for our wrongs, and then unjustly for their wrongs committed against us, and in doing so extend the grace given us to them.

Do not resist evil that comes from without, because, "fear not the one who destroys the body, but fear rather the one who has the power to destroy both body and soul".  

How do we "fear" that one? By respecting the value of the GRACE that is living breath.  You are each and every breath is the physical manifestation of being alive, and this is an act of grace, and this is given to us so that we bear fruit, because we are all given a space of time, a portion of space-time. 

The destruction of evil will not be imposed through our actions against  those who break our boundaries (trespass against us) and steal our property and lives, but rather through our inaction against  them and by the grace we extend toward them, that was given to us: life.   We extend their lives, and grant them more grace, more time to return to the God of the Living, to the Universe that Bears Fruit and produces further generations of life, when we forgive them for their trespasses against us.  

This happens WITHOUT FAIL: when we forgive, we channel the holy Spirit of the LIVING I AM, for he sends his rain upon the just and the unjust, and he ordained only ONE judge, and by forgiving, we are admitting our lack of credentials to be that  judge, except within the living body, starting with our own selves, for, "examine yourselves, and see whether you BE in the faith," and, "judgement begins in the house of God,", and "do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you?"

It happens without fail, because the will of the Father creator is fulfilled in every possible, conceivable scenario, every possibility that is possible given the mass of free-will choices we make; and it happens in this manner, that the one to whom we give grace is saved for another day by the grace we extend (or rather, channel, since we would be incapable of extending this grace apart from the Living Source), and the will of the Father is glorified in this, because then again it can be said, glory be to the one who is merciful, and the mercies of God are everlasting to everlasting.   And, if the one who wrongs you has any desire and hunger for truth even amidst his broken way, he will be spoken to by the spirit of Love in you, and you will plant a seed of life in him.

Or the one who has broken your boundaries who does not reconcile himself to you in this life, before he draws his last breath, will be bound in the prison of his own error, and it will come down upon his head, and he will not be able to leave prison until he has paid every last cent of the debt he incurred on his soul, for, "Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent."  What is the glory for God in this? It is two-fold: yet again it can be said, glory be to the one who is merciful, and the mercies of God are everlasting to everlasting, for the mercy in you toward another could only come from the spirit of God that used your vessel, and this through the consented subjugation of your right to demand justice, in order that the will of God be fulfilled: that all of humanity would come to him and join in the dance of the fire of life, and secondly, that his will has been fulfilled in you his vessel, and it has been manifest in his vessel, by this act of forgiveness, because only God can forgive sin, so a sin against you that has been forgiven "by" you is not properly so done "by" you so much as through you.  But you that have forgiven have learned the secret of life, the fruit of life: life expands, it grows, as a vine grows, and you have shown that you are in the Vine, for mercy is the nature of the Father and his Branch, and the Branch's branches, to each generation.

You will not overcome the evil in the world by fighting it with swords of metal, with bullets, with nuclear weapons, or drone planes with missiles; it can only be overcome through the LIFE principle, and not the DEATH principle, and the life principle is the rule of non-resistance by the members of the body, knowing that the ONE ABOVE, who sustains life itself, will purge the diseases from the body, not out of hate for the diseased elements, but out of love for the Body.  You cannot fight a cause against you and be a follower of the Christ, because the disciple is not greater than his master, and his master the Christ is the lowly Meek in Chief in the Army of God, who through his lowliness in human form is the King of the World Above, the ruler (measure and master) of the "kingdom of heaven."

The Meek are the true Army of God!

Jonathan, I treat you worse than probably anyone else in my life, consistently, and I am sorry for it.  It hurts me when I know I have hurt you, either through my words or my careless behavior.  I owe much of the means to my material existence to you, because you are a force amplifier.  Without you, I would not have graduated as well, or landed the job that I have.  I have learned a lot from you, Dr. Boarman, and yes, that is who you are.  I respect and admire you, and that is probably why I feel most vulnerable intellectually when I am with you, and sometimes why I am unable to quit being a dork and just admit it that your input was brilliant, and that it didn't make my idea terrible just because your idea was wonderful.  You have grounded me often when I have been apt to fly away, and that has saved me before.

Matthew, you have no idea how much you mean to me, and it's probably because I find all the reasons in the small things you do for me, and I don't always tell you.  I have many good memories, and I am blessed.  We have grown together so much, and you affect my other relationships for the better because you gave me, and still give me, what I lack: accountability.  It is not an accident we are together in this time at this place.  I love you, and I see YOU, and you make me smile.

We are all creators, each of us, but the quest for personal fame has detracted us from creating.

A system that can get us there would be a world in which no one takes credit for his work.  Instead, we can all contribute anonymously, and in secret, and take joy when our works are good enough to be recognized, and take joy for the grace of the giver of gifts when we read, and listen, and see, the works of his creation.  All inspiration comes from the giver of gifts, and it is more glorious, much more rewarding, to work in secret, good and glorious works.

There's a story we each are making with our lives, and if you can imagine a kinder world, a world with less suffering, a world with more love, than begin the work in yourself by creating.  Don't keep it inside.  If you bury your gifts and do not release their works without concern for who will benefit materially, release them to benefit yourself financially, because if it's a good work, it could still inspire someone else.

This is my theory, but it isn't mine, really:

Meditate on these two, every morning, and then watch every day, and if you are the type that needs reminding often, write down your observations on paper, though the place it will stay written effectively, is only on your heart:

(1) Love what is above you, and beyond you, and what is above every other person and every other system you can possibly imagine.  It goes up a LONG, LONG way.

(2) Love each other equally, your self and others, equally.

Do it in that order, and you will find that the rest of the words that were spoken by the Jesus, will make more and more sense to you.  There is life beyond death only for the ones who watch and pray, and when you understand what those words really mean, you will not need a building to go to do it, or a liturgy book to know how to do it, or a teacher to tell you how to do it, except the one who lives within you when you truly seek truth.

This is a lesson staring at me in the face.

May I keep it in front of my eyelids daily!  Then in a more humbled position, I can submit to a greater One, who sees way higher than me, and wills that everyone are brought into the same One, and I can be a tiny body, a microscopically small but not insignificant cell, that joins with others and channels righteous behavior.