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Some Rainbow Coming from the Fair with a Vision of the World Before the Judgment-Seat of God

We are cast of Heaven and bound to Earth like it is an intense dream. Our goal is rediscover the love of Heaven so we can return. Humans, in respect to their bodies and their physiological functions, belong to the kingdom of God. One of the most common images in Western and Eastern religions alike is of God as a parent and of human beings as God’s children. The functioning of the human being is determined by instincts, by specific action patterns which are in turn determined by inherited neurological structures. Billions pray to God as their parent, invoke the brotherhood and sisterhood of all people to promote peace, and reach out to the weary and troubled out of deep conviction that each of God’s children has great worth. The higher the mental and spiritual level of the individual is in the scale of development, the more guidance they might accept from our Heavenly Father. In many people we even find considerable intelligence; that is, use of thought for the accomplishment of desired goals,thus enabling the being to go far beyond the instinctively prescribed action pattern. However, great as the development with the in Earthly kingdom, certain basic elements of existence remain the same. Latter-day saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense; they consider every person divine in origin, nature and potential. “And they were healed by the power of the lamb of God; and the Devil and unclean spirits were cast out,” reports 1 Nephi 11.31. #RandolphHarris 1 of 12

Self-awareness, reason and imagination disrupt the harmony which in nature because humans are an anomaly, when compared to other beings on the planet. They are part of nature, subject to her physical laws and unable to change them, yet humans transcend the rest of nature. They are set apart while being a part; humans are homeless yet chained to the home they share with all creatures.Cast into this World at an accidental place and time, humans are forced out of it, again accidentally. Being aware of oneself, people realize their powerlessness and the limitation of their existence. They visualize their own end: death. Never is the human being free from the dichotomy of their existence: one cannot rid oneself of one’s mind, even if one should want to; one cannot rid oneself of one’s body as long as one is alive—and one’s body makes the individual want to be alive. All people are thought to be progressing towards perfection and ideally want to realize their divine destiny. Just as a child can develop the attributes of his or her parents over times, the divine nature that human inherit can be developed to become like their Heavenly Father’s. God’s loving parentage and guidance can help each person willing, obedient child of God receive the Heavenly Father’s fulness and glory. This knowledge transforms the way we see our fellow human beings. We see them as being lovable and valuable.#RandolphHarris 2 of 12

However, nonbeing threatens human’s moral self-affirmation. Human beings, ontic (physical, real, or factual existence) as well as spiritual, is not only given to one but also demanded of all individuals. Humans are responsible for it; literally, one is required to answer, if one is asked, what one has made of oneself. One who asks an individual is that persons judge, namely the individual, who, at the same time, stand against the person. This situation produces the anxiety which, in relative terms, is the anxiety of guilt; in absolute terms, the anxiety of self-rejection or condemnation. Human beings are essentially finite freedom; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine oneself through decisions in the center of one’s being. Humans, as finite freedom, are free within the contingencies of one’s finitude. However, within these limits one is asked to makes of oneself what one is supposed to become, to fulfill one’s destiny. There are many roles one’s takes on as an inherited sense of this manifest destiny. Big Daddy or Big Momma is a person who displays all the parental virtues. They are hard to find fault with because they usually do it very well. #RandolphHarris 3 of 12

Big Daddy or Big Momma lavish great care and affection on others and find these people owing them great debts of gratitude. Often this is their ulterior motive. Some of these people are frustrated parents. They have never had children of their own and use other people to fill out their parenting needs. They usually do a lot of good, by the way, since so many of us seem to like or need a parenting person. However, they are partial actualizers because they are not giving affection and concern of their Being (B-love), but out of their Deficiency (D-love). Be warned that D-Lovers usually end up taking more than they ever give. They are users, exploiters, and, putting in harshly, they are like vampires, sucking the life and love out of other people. Some people play parental roles even thought they have had children, because they did not do a particularly good job raising their own. Their children went astray somehow. Usually it is because this type of parent does not really give love to his or her children. Or he or she is too possessive or too indulgent or too over solicitous. Either way, these parents are not respecters of their children as persons. So, when their own children move away, these Big Daddies and Big Mommas go out and find other people to love. #RandolphHarris 4 of 12

A few of this type actually dislike other people, and they play parental figures as a cover-up. “If I smother you with parental love and concern, you will never find out how much I really detest you.” “I resent your independence because I have none of my own, so I will destroy yours by putting you into a dependent relationship with me.” Thus, we find the parent type crippling other people with love. Of course there are millions of honestly loving and caring people who are often sought out as substitute parents. They are actualizing people who have more than enough caring to go around and are able to share it. Usually they do not play a parent, no matter how much the other person demands it of them. Self-actualizers are respecters of all selfhoods and do not wish to delimit other people. Then, too, helplessness or awkwardness often bring out the parent in many of us. Telling the difference between honestly loving people and those who play the parent games with others sometimes takes a great deal of experience. In ever act of moral-self affirmation humans contributes to the fulfillment of one’s destiny, to the actualization of what one potentially is. It is the task of ethics to describe the nature of this fulfillment, in philosophical or theological terms. However the norm is formulated humans have the power of acting against it, of contradicting one’s essential being, of losing one’s destiny. #RandolphHarris 5 of 12

Reason, human’s blessing, is also one’s curse; it forces an individual to cope everlastingly with the task of solving an insoluble dichotomy. Human existence is different in this respect from that of all other organisms; it is a state of constant and unavoidable disequilibrium. Human’s life cannot be lived by repeating the pattern of his or her species; one must live. Humans are the only beings that can be bored, that can feel evicted from paradise. Humans are the only beings who find their own existence a problem which one has to solve and form which one cannot escape. And under the conditions of human’s estrangement from oneself this is an actuality. One cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature; one must proceed to develop one’s reason until one becomes the master of nature, and of oneself. Even in what a person considers his or her best deed nonbeing is present and prevents it from being perfect. A profound ambiguity between good and evil permeates everything a person does, because it permeates one’s personal being as such. Nonbeing is mixed with being in a person’s moral self-affirmation as it is in his or her spiritual and ontic self-affirmation. #RandolphHarris 6 of 12

The awareness of this ambiguity is the feeling of guilt. The judge who is oneself and who stand stands against oneself, one who know with (conscience) everything we do and are gives a negative judgment, experienced by us as guilt. The anxiety of guilt shows the same complex characteristics as the anxiety about ontic and spiritual nonbeing. It is present in every moment of moral self-awareness and can drive us toward complete self-rejection, to the feeling of being condemned—not to an external punishment but to the despair of having lost our dignity. To avoid this extreme situation humans try to transform the anxiety of guilt into moral action regardless of its imperfection and ambiguity. Courageously one takes nonbeing into one’s moral self-affirmation. can happen in two ways, according to the duality of the tragic and the personal in human’s situation, the first based on the contingencies of fate,the second on the responsibility of freedom. The first way can lead to a defiance of negative judgments and the moral demand of which they are based; the second way can lead to moral rigor and the self-satisfaction derived from it. In both of them—usually called anomism and legalism—the anxiety of guilt lies in the background and breaks again and again into the open, producing the extreme situation of moral despair. #RandolphHarris 7 of 12

Nonbeing in a moral respect must be distinguished but cannot be separated from ontic and spiritual nonbeing. The anxiety of the one type is immanent in the anxieties of the other types. Sin as a sting of death points to the immanence of the anxiety of guilt within the fear of death. And the threat of fate and death has always awakened and increased the consciousness of guilt. The threat of moral nonbeing was experienced in and through the threat of ontic nonbeing. The contingencies of fate received moral interpretation: fate excuses the negative moral judgment by attacking and perhaps destroying the ontic foundation of the morally rejected personality. The two forms of anxiety provoke and augment each other. In the same way spiritual and moral nonbeing are interdependent. Obedience to the moral norm, i.e. to one’s own essential being, excludes emptiness and meaninglessness in their radical forms. If the spiritual contents have lost their power the self-affirmation of the moral personality is a way in which meaning can be rediscovered. The simple call to duty can save from emptiness, while the disintegration of the moral consciousness is an almost irresistible basis for the attack of spiritual nonbeing. #RandolphHarris 8 of 12

 On the other hand, existential doubt can undermine moral self-affirmation by throwing into the abyss of skepticism not only every moral principle but the meaning of moral self-affirmation as such. In this case the doubt is felt as guilt, while at the same time guilt is undermined by doubt. Member of one group of masked players profess expertise in any number of different areas, all for the purpose of drawing attention away from their faults, limitations, and points of vulnerability. The Collector is one expert who gets our interest by showing us his or her Art, Book, Coin, Gun, Car, House, or Trophy collection. This individual wants only this part of oneself to be known. One can unreel one’s facts and tales for hours, and before you have a chance to inquire about anything in one’s personal life, the evening’s over and the host is seeing you to the door. The Collector may derive genuine satisfaction out of the things he or she collect, but one’s ulterior motivation is to provide an illusion behind which the Real Person can effectively hide. “You are a light of the World. A city on a hill cannot be hidden,” reports Mathew 5.13. #RandolphHarris 9 of 12

The Historian of The Political Strategist is able to tell you all about the mistake of Caesar of General Robert E. Lee made in battle, or how to run the country more effectively, but he or she is unable to tell you anything about his or her own self. These types of people are usually well-read, intelligent people, but like The Intellectual, they hide their feelings and inn self being this respectable or awesome façade. The Museum Guide shows you around his or her home babbling about all the exciting things that were done in securing or decorating or remodeling the place. The house is a showpiece—of those sterile places one does not like to visit because it is not really a home. Look, but do not touch anything. Sit down gently on the French Proventil sofa, walk delicately down the hallways, and whatever you do, do not disturb the garden. These people wear their homes as badges of distinction. They cannot experience the house as a dwelling, as a place where friends can come, relax, and enjoy the fellowship of the Real Person who resides (we cannot say lives) within its four walls. These people are unable or unwilling to experience or exhibit any more of themselves than the surface mask or uniform of good taste. #RandolphHarris 10 of 12

God has organized the World out of preexisting material (which he also created and reformed), emphasizing the goodness of God in shaping such a life of sustaining order. The Fix-it Man has this same passion, as he is one who can take apart and repair anything that is made. He is handy with tools, but terribly unhandy with people. Although one will display an immense knowledge of technical and mechanical matters, he is still ills at ease when dealing with human and interpersonal concerns. Indeed, some men amass their knowledge by escaping into technical hobbies to avoid interaction with other people. Human’s birth ontogenetically as well as phylogenetically is essentially a negative even. Humans lack the instinctive adaptation to nature, they lack physical strength, humans are also helpless at birth, and need protection much longer a period of time than any other being on this planet. While humans have lost the unity with nature, they have not been given the means to lead a new existence outside of nature. The reason is most rudimentary, humans have no knowledge of nature’s processes, nor tools to replace the lost instincts; they live divided into small grounds, with no knowledge of oneself or of others; indeed, the biblical Paradise legend expresses the situation with perfect clarity. #RandolphHarris 11 of 12

Humans, who live in the Garden of Eden, in complete harmony with nature but without awareness of oneself, begins one’s history by the first act of freedom, disobedience to a command. Concomitantly, one becomes aware of oneself, of one separateness, of one’s helplessness; man and woman are expelled from Paradise, and two Angels with fiery swords prevent their return. Human’s evolution is based on the fact that they have lost their original home, nature—and that one can never return to it, can never become a being at home with nature again. There is only one way one can take: to emerge fully from one’s natural home, to find a new home—one which one creates, by making the World a human one and by becoming truly human oneself. When humans are born, the human race as well as the individual, one is thrown out of a situation which was definite, as definite as the instincts, into a situation which is indefinite, uncertain and open. There is certainly only about the past, and the future as far as it is death—which is actually return to the past, the inorganic state of matter. God found himself in the midst of these beings and saw proper to institute laws where by the rest could have privilege to advance like and himself and be exalted with him, and we must not let anyone murder our souls.  #RandolphHarris 12 of 12

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