Instead of a lifestyle of lust, find eternal Love. When one tries to fulfill their every carnal desire, breaking the rules can cause one to lose it all. Tell me what you feel. In what dark, damaged place does it infect you? What? What is it? What am I smelling in this place? There is some foulness here. The smell of mendacity and evil. What is that stench? What is this reek? Is it the smell of torture? It is the smell of your heartless work and bone-dry theories, like last week’s vomit. And the heart has vamoosed from this culture long ago. Let the savages be civilized, but civilize them with benefit, and not with evils; and let heathenism be destroyed, but not by destroying the heathen. It is the existence of taboos which enables us to possess any sacredness of personality at all. It is taboos that preserve our more refined sensibilities from the people who wipe their mouth with the table cloth and blow their noses with the serviette, and it is taboos that preserve us from being murdered outright. If we were objects of complete indifference to our fellow, or of no more concern that stones, we should soon be driven up to or over the verge of suicide. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos. We know that they will allow us the same or nearly the same degree of freedom and privilege that they claim for themselves. Knowledge is a biological response to the World. Be simple and guileless, and you will be innocent and know not the wickedness that ruins the life of humanity. First, then, speak evil of no one, nor listen with pleasure to anyone who speaks evil of another. However, if you listen, you will partake of the sin of one who speaks evil, if you believe the slander which you hear; for believing it, you will also have something to say against your people. Thus, then, will be guilty of the sin of the one issuing the slander. For slander is evil and an unsteady demon. It never abides in peace, but always in discord. I recently has started watching talk shows and too much news and I did not feel good about it and had spent more time watching the TV than with my religious studies. After a while it did not feel good to me, and I decided to watch the TV less and spend more time reading the Bible and other religious text. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9
I know that God is real and I am very concerned with the salvation of my soul, and just because other people enjoy the forms on entertainment that are on the TV, it does not mean that they are food for the soul, and I want to go to Heaven and lead a proper life. Keep yourself from slander, and you will be at peace with all. Since I have taken an interest in the news, I have seen some unsavory people come into my life and I do not want anything to do with them, and since I grew up going to church, I recalled that it is good to return to religious study and to fill my soul with the words of God and that evil people would flee from me. Put on a holiness in which there is no wicked cause of offense, but all deeds that are equable and joyful. Practice goodness; and from the rewards of your labours, which God gives you, give to all the needy in simplicity, not hesitating as to whom you are to give or not to give. Give to all, for God wishes His gifts to be shared amongst all. They who receive, will render an account to God why and for what they have received. For the afflicted who receive will not be condemned, but they who receive on false pretenses will suffer punishment. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9
One, then, who gives is guiltless. For as one received from the Lord, so has one accomplished one’s service in simplicity, not hesitating as to whom one should gibe and to whom one should not give. This service, then, if accomplished in simplicity, is glorious with God. One, therefore, who thus ministers in simplicity, will live to God. Keep therefore these commandments, as that your repentance and the repentance of your house may be found in simplicity, and your heart may be pure and stainless. An analysis of the foundations of science, and in particular of the axioms of geometry will reveal that these axioms are forms of experience in the life of any particular individual. Thus, since the biological adaptation of the race has crystallized three-dimensional Euclidean space, this spatial framework has become the one in which individuals see spatially locatable objects, such as like minds and kindred souls. In this direction, such a construction is ultimately a growth of experience which has been transformed into neural capacities. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9
Thus, it can be conceived that content distinction of knowledge is as one relative to the biological development of race. What is at one time the content of experience is later, through a biological process, transformed into a form of experience. Things have their own psychology. The tiresome foray of psychology into the realm of individual human affairs has sidetracked us from giving attention to the work of the soul in the World, trapping it for several centuries in the science, computing, and engineering of the core of our being, where the behavior of the stimulus and responses will be accounted for. And the compelling task before us is to find the true nature of our souls by seeing through opinions, reactions, and judgments, through what we fear, desire, and wish and hope for in order to speak for ourselves. Many people have submitted to a wicked force in the World, and these hands-on experts are not able to perceive the soul because they have come under its possession, and drunk with enthusiasm they are driven by it as if by a god or a daemonic force. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9
And that is why status, wealth, money, awards, and material things do not matter much because in seeking great status and wealth, many people have given their souls over to Satan, and no matter how much money you have nor what your status is, you cannot buy an innocent soul. However, it is possible to obscure the soul completely. Love the truth. They, therefore, who lie, deny the Lord, and rob Him, not giving back to God the deposit which they have received have joined an evil conscience. Put away from you all wicked desire, and clothe yourself with good and chaste desire; for clothes with this desire you will hate wicked desire, and will rein yourself in even as you wish. For wicked desire is wild, and is with difficulty tamed. For it is terrible, and consumes people exceedingly by its wildness. Evil desires slay the servants of God. You must refrain from evil desires because many people are mastered by them, and do not resist them, will perish at last, for these desires are fatal. Put you on, then, the desire of righteousness; and arming yourself with the fear of the Lord, resist them. When these evil desires see you armed with the fear of God, and resisting it, it will flee far from you, and it will no longer appear to you, for it fears your armor. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9
Go, then, garlanded with the crown which you have gained for victory over it, to the desire of righteousness, and, delivering up to it the prize which you have received, serve it even as it wishes. If you serve good desire, and be subject to it, you will gain mastery over evil desire, and make it subject to you even as you wish. You will find favour among those who are to repent, and they will give heed to your words; for God will be with you. These commandments are great, and good, and glorious, and fitted to gladden the heart of the individual who can perform them. Learning how to breathe calmly and remaining in a state of relative physical relaxation, even while accessing painful and horrifying memories, is an essential tool for recovery. Sometimes we people do us wrong, the people we love, we worry about the spiritual and legal consequences they may face, but do not let it sadden your soul. They made their choices and decisions and all you can do is pray for them and yourself and hope that God saves them. Your relationships with these people who betrayed you may never go back the way they were. However, we have a host of inbuilt skills to keep us on an even keel. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9
Our neurological structure evolves over a period of time, so that what is necessary at one time is not necessary at another. Personal entities are feelings. They are constituents of everything since the fact that there is a continuity of forms in nature gives assurance that, at least to some degree, any entity in nature possess the same qualities that all others have. Since feelings are elements of consciousness, all entities therefore have this aspect of consciousness to a certain extent, although it is only to more complex entities that we ascribe consciousness. The elementary entities that we call “feelings” are considered to be absolutely existents and therefore things-in-themselves. These elementary entities are named mind-stuff, since they participate somehow in the character of the mental. Their necessarily incomplete representation in the mind of humans is what is known as the material World. There exists a complex mirroring relation—indeed, the image of two reflecting mirrors—between the external World and its representation in knowledge. In this intimacy, we find ourselves undivided. When we experience the being our wholeness, we are not afraid to experience the truth of the moment, regardless of how things look to the judging mind. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9
Thus, there is a World in which the mental and physical are really two different ways of looking at the same World. All existence is ultimately infused with a psychic aspect, that is, that panpsychism is the most correct view of reality. When we do not separate ourselves from the mystery of our own essential awake being, or separate ourselves from experiencing the truth of the moment as it is—the felt sense of the body being—we do not suffer. Physical bodies may experience pain; thinking minds may be confused; emotions may present themselves as intensely optimistic or pessimistic; but we are not suffering. We are living from the truth of our wholeness, being who and what we truly are, and this is never divided, never in conflict, even when conflict is being played out. As we bring every part of our natural bodily life into harmony with the new life God has placed within us, He will exhibit in us the virtues that are characteristics of the Lord Jesus Christ. I cannot be near you and not stare into your eyes, when you look at me, I can feel you in my heart and soul. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9
