The questions are brutal because the truth is kind of a surgery. The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces quite a remarkable change in humans, for it substitutes justice for instinct in one’s behaviour and gives one’s actions a moral quality they previously lacked. Only then, when the voice of duty replaces physical impulse and right replaces appetite, do humans, who had hitherto taken only oneself into account, find oneself forced to act upon other principles and to consult one’s reason before listening to one’s inclinations. Although in this state one deprives oneself of several of the advantages belonging to one in the state of nature, one regains such great ones. One’s faculties are exercised and developed, one’s ideas are broadened, one’s feelings are ennobled, one’s entire soul is elevated to such a height that, if the abuse of this new condition did not often lower one’s status to beneath the level one left, one ought constantly to bless the happy moment that pulled one away from it forever and which transformed one from a stupid, limited animal into an intelligent being and a human. What humans lose through social contract is their natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything that tempts one and that one can acquire. What one gains is civil liberty and the proprietary ownership of all one possesses. So as not to be in error in these compensations, it is necessary to draw a careful distinction between natural liberty (which is limited solely by the force of the individual involved) and civil liberty (which is limited by the general will), and between possession (which is merely the effect of the force or the right of the first occupant) and proprietary ownership (which is based solely on a positive title). #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

To the preceding acquisitions could be added the acquisition in the civil state of moral liberty, which alone makes humans truly the master of oneself. For to be driven by appetite alone is slavery, and obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is liberty. However, I have already said too much on this subject, and the philosophical meanings of the word liberty is not my subject here. Each member of the community gives oneself to it at the instant of its constitution, just as one actually is, oneself and all one’s forces, including all the goods in one’s possession. This is not to say that by this act possession changes its nature as it changes hands and becomes property in the hands of the sovereign. Rather, since the forces of the city are incomparably greater than those of a private individual, public possession is by that very fact stronger and more irrevocable, without being more legitimate, at least to strangers. For with regard to its members, the state is master of all their good virtue of the social contract, which serves in the state as the basis of all rights. However, with regard to other powers, the state is master only in virtue of the right of the first occupant, which is derives from private individuals. The right of first occupant, though more real than the right of the strongest, does not become a true right until after the establishment of the right property. Every human by nature has a right to everything one needs; however, the positive act whereby one becomes a proprietor of some goods excludes one from all the rest. Once one’s lot has been determined, one should limit oneself thereto, no longer having any right against the community. #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

This is the reason why the right of the first occupant, so weak in the state of nature, is able to command the respect of every human living in the civil state. In this right, one respects not so much what belongs to others as what does not belong to oneself. In general, the following rules must obtain in order to authorize the right of the first occupant on any land. First, this land may not already be occupied by anyone. Second, no one may occupy more than the amount needed to subsist. Third, one is to take possession of it not by an empty ceremony, but by working and cultivating it—the only sign of property that ought, in the absence of legal titles, to be respected by others. In fact, by according to need and work the right of the first occupant, is it not extended as far as it can go? Is it possible to avoid setting limits to this right? Will setting one’s foot on a piece of common land be sufficient to claim it at once as one’s own? Will having the force for a moment to drive off other humans or people seize a vast amount of territory and deprive the entire human race of it except by a punishable usurpation, since this seizure deprives all other humans of the shelter and sustenance that nature gives them in common? When Nunez Balboa stood on the shoreline and took possession of the South Sea and all of South America in the name of crown of Castille, was this enough to dispossess all the inhabitants and to exclude all the princes of the World? On that basis, those ceremonies would be multiplied quite in vain. All the Catholic King had to do was to take possession of the Universe all at once from one’s private room, excepting afterwards from one’s empire only what already belonged to other princes. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

One can imagine how the combined and contiguous lands of private individuals became public territory; and how the right of sovereignty, extending from subjects to the land they occupied, becomes at once real and personal. This places its owners in a greater dependence, turning their very own forces into guarantees of their loyalty. This advantage does not seem to have been fully appreciated by the ancient monarchs, who, calling themselves merely King of the Persians, the Scythians, and the Macedonians, appeared to regard themselves merely as the leaders of humans rather than the masters of the country. Today’s monarchs more shrewdly call themselves King of France, Spain, England, and so on. In holding the land thus, they are quite sure of holding the inhabitants. What is remarkable about this alienation is that, in accepting the goods of private individuals, the community is far from despoiling them; rather, in so doing, it merely assures them of legitimate possession, changing usurpation into a true right, and enjoyment into proprietary ownership. In that case, since owners are considered trustees of the public good, and since their rights are respected by all members of the state and maintained with all its force against foreigners, through an advantageous surrender to the public and still more so to themselves, they have, so to speak, acquired all they have given. This paradox is easily explained by the distinction between the rights of the sovereign and those of the proprietor to the same store, as will be seen later. It can also happen, as humans begin to unite before possessing anything and later appropriate a piece of land sufficient for everyone, that they enjoy it in common or divide it among themselves either in equal shares or according to proportions laid down by the sovereign. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

In whatever way this acquisition is accomplished, each private individual’s right to one’s very own store is always subordinate to the community’s right to all, without which there could be neither solidity in the social fabric nor real force in the exercise of sovereignty. Instead of destroying natural equality, the fundamental compact, on the contrary, substitutes a moral and legitimate equality to whatever physical inequality nature may have been able to impose upon humans, and, however, unequal in force or intelligence they may be, humans all becomes equal by convention and by right. We are only just beginning to feel the social consequences of this restructuring of time. For example, while increasing individualization of time patterns certainly makes work less onerous, it also can intensify loneliness and social isolation. If friends, lovers, and family all work at different hours, and new services are not laid in place to help them coordinate their person schedules, it becomes increasingly difficult for them to arrange face-to-face social contact. The old social centers—the neighbourhood pub, the church clambake, the school prom—are losing their traditional significance. In the place, new Third Wave institutions must be invented to facilitate social life. One can, for example, easily imagine a new computerized service—called it “Pres-Sched” or “Friend-Sched”—that not only reminds you of your own appointment but stores the schedules of various friends and family members so that each person in the social network can, by pushing a button, find out where and when one’s friends and acquaintances will be, and can make arrangements accordingly. However, far more significant social facilitators will be needed. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

The de-massification of time has other consequences, too. Thus we can already begin to see its effects in transportation. The Second Wave insistence on rigid, mass work schedules brought with it the characteristic rush-hour crush. The de-massification of time redistributes traffic flows in both space and time. In fact, one crude way to judge just how far the Third Wave have advanced in any community is to look at the traffic flows. If the peak hours are still heavily accented, and if all the traffic moves one way in the morning and reverses itself in the evening, Second Wave synchronization still prevails. If traffic flows all day long, as it does in an increasing number of cities, and moves in all directions, rather than merely back and forth, it is safe to assumes that Third Wave industries have taken root, that service workers far outnumber manufacturing workers, that flextime has begun to spread, that part-time and night work are prevalent, and that all-night services—superettes, banks, gas stations, and restaurants—will not be far behind. The shift toward more flexible and personalized schedules also reduces energy costs and pollution by leveling out peak loads. Electric utilities in a dozen states are not using “time-of-day” pricing for industrial and residential customers to discourage energy use during traditional peak hours, while Connecticut’s Department of Environmental Protection has urged companies to institute flextime as a means of complying with federal environmental requirements. These are among the most obvious implications of the time shift. As the process continues to unfold in the years and decades ahead, we will see far more powerful and as yet unimagined consequences. The new time patterns will affect our daily rhythms in the home. They will affect our art. They will affect our biology. For when we touch on time, we touch on all of human experience. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

Everyone feels down sometimes. However, some people have a more serious difficulty to deal with. Depression is a medical condition that affects millions of people of all ages and situations. Depressed persons experience as many problems in their parental role as they do in their spousal role. In numerous investigations, depression has been linked to disrupted and dysfunctional parenting behaviour. Depression interferes with parenting skills by corrupting the patients’ capacity to relate to their children. In general, the parenting behaviour of depressives is characterized by much the same negativity, hostility, complaining, and poor interpersonal problem solving that are associated with their other relationships. Apparently as a consequence of this disrupted parenting behaviour, the children of depressed parents are at a much higher risk for behavioural, cognitive, and emotional dysfunctions than are those of nondepressed parents. Among the problems experienced by children of depressed mothers is depression itself. Although the effects of maternal depressed have received much attention in the literature, evidence suggests that paternal depression also has ill effect on children. Children of depressed mothers typically exhibit a behaviour pattern indicative of rejection. During mother-child interaction, children of depressed mothers express negative affect, are generally tense and irritable, spend less time looking at their mothers, and appear less content than children who interact with their nondepressed mothers. It is apparent that many depressed people experienced difficulties in their families when they are growing up. People who are depressed typically describe their families of origin as rejecting, uncaring. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

In a study of psychiatric patients with depression, feelings of being rejected by parents were significant and linearly associated with symptoms of depression at the time of admission, discharge, and 3 months’ follow-up. Among some individuals with depression, reports of low parental care coupled with overprotection are common. Depression has been found to be 3.5 times more likely than matched control subjects to have at least one parent who exhibited low care coupled with high protection, or so called “affectionless control.” Tenants of attachment theory can be used to explain these findings; parents who are uncaring tend to create anxious attachment in the child. This predisposes the child to overdependency and insecurity, which culminates in depression when stressed. Are memories of dysfunctional parenting merely an artifact of being in a state of depression? Subjects with current depression and those with remitted depression recalled greater parental overprotectiveness than a group of nondepressed subjects. Documented evidence displays similarly consistent perceptions of parental rejection after symptoms of depression lifted.  On the other hand, memories of parental rejection in subjects with remitted depression can sometimes be similar to never-depressed controls. Only subjects with current depression in this other study recalled rejecting parental behaviours. A clever study of students with depression and their sibling suggest that perceptions of dysfunctional parenting are not a state-dependent phenomenon. In this investigation, students with depression and their nondepressed siblings reported significantly lower family cohesion, expressiveness, and higher conflict than nondepressed student-nondepressed sibling pairs. These collateral data provide compelling evidence of parenting practices that are awry in the family backgrounds of people with depression—a view corroborated by their nondepressed siblings. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

 In addition to the ill effects of maladaptive parenting, it is also evident that the experience of abuse as a child makes a persona likely to experience persistent depression as an adult. As in so many other psychological problems, accounts of physical and other types of abuse and neglect are relatively common in the childhood backgrounds of people with depression. Childhood maltreatment (id est, physical abuse, other forms of abuse, or neglect) increases the odds of having a depressive disorder by as much as 5 times. A recent survey of low-income women revealed a 46 percent rate of depression among those with a history of sexual abuse, compared to 17 percent among those without a history of abuse. In a clinical setting, about half of the children referred for behavioural problems following abuse (physical, sexual, or neglect) exhibited symptoms suggestive of major depression or dysthymia; this is approximately four times the incidence of depression of emotional abuse (exempla gratia, repeat name calling, overt rejection, family violence, abandonment of parental responsibilities to relatives outside the home) on depression were stronger than those for physical and sexual abuse. Considerable attention had been paid to examining the family environments in which children experience abuse. Families in which children are abused, or who permit abuse to occur to their children, often have problems above and beyond the abusive episodes. Could it be the troubled family environment rather than the actual abuse that explains the elevated risk for subsequent depression? Although these family environments surely contribute to depression in their offspring, abuse appears to predict this depression above and beyond the effects attributable to the general atmosphere in the family. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

Even after controlling for the quality of the parent-child relationship, as assessed from the child’s perspective sexual assault and parental violence were longitudinally predictive of depression in boys and girls following a period of 15 months. Similar effects have been found in a sample of low-income adult mothers, even after controlling for whether the women lived with her biological mothers through age 16, whether her mother was depressed, whether her mother died, history of foster care, availability of social support while growing up, and her history of receiving verbal abuse. Some interpersonal factors both within and beyond the family of origin may significantly mitigate the deleterious effects of abuse and neglect. On the downside, a child is at greatest risk for depression when experiencing sexual abuse in a family environment that is high in conflict and cohesiveness, and low in control. Those familiar with the family functioning literature will immediately recognize this as an extremely volatile and caustic combination of family characteristics, that is almost certain to yield distressed offspring. On a more positive note, the effect of childhood sexual abuse and later depression are substantially minimized when individuals manage to establish and maintain highly intimate relationships as adults. An intriguing implication of the investigation is that childhood sexual abuse may cause later depression because it sets people up for interpersonal difficulties that interfere with establishing intimacy with others. This is consistent with an attachment theory explanation of the childhood abuse-depression relationship. For those who manage to develop rewarding intimate relationships, despite a history of maltreatment, depression need not be an inevitable consequence of these aversive childhood experiences. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

Family-of-origin experience often portend the psychological distress experienced by people with depression. Parental rejection, overprotectiveness, and emotional unavailability while growing up significantly increase the likelihood of subsequent depression. More caustic behaviours such as physical and sexual abuse, along with neglect, also predispose children to develop depressive disorders that persist into adulthood. Even when such episodes of abuse do not occur in the actual context of the family of origin, there is often something suspect about the qualities of those families whose children incur repeated abuse. In all of the above instances, aversive interpersonal experiences in and around the family of origin appear to set the stage for psychological distress that is often evident many years into the child’s future. Therefore, set your mind on the right course. Do not ever start your day in neutral. Do not wait to see what kind of day it is going to be before you decide whether you are going to be happy. DO not wait till you read the newspaper or check the weather forecast. Do not wait till you determine what sort of mood your boss is in. No, right at the beginning of your day, set your mind in a direction of success. Agree with the psalmist, “This is the day the Lord has made and I am going to be happy. I am going to enjoy this day. I am going to go out and be productive. I am going to be a blessing to someone, and this is going to be a great day in my life. My every breath is for You, my Loyal Lord and Friend. Hence, make my exile happier by lessening my pain. After all, the World is not slow to come; it wants to lighten the load, but succeeds only in making it heavier. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

I desire to enjoy Your friendship. I stretch out my hand, but it cannot reach Your grasp. I do opt to stay on the celestial path, but Earthly affairs often command my attention. And my passions, which I thought were long ago dead—they cling to me for dear life. Mentally, I want to be on top of everything; however, my flesh is so unwilling, I am really at the bottom of the well. Unhappy creature that I am, I fight with myself, and, as Job put it so well about himself (7.20), I have made my self into a fool, an idiot; that is to say, my spirit soars, but my flesh takes a nosedive. Whenever I try to delve into celestial consideration, I drain my brain. Whenever I try to pray, the Carnals gather round me and fill me with pretty pictures! My God, do not distance Yourself from me! That was always the Psalmist’s fear (71.12). Do not make me say what You forced the Psalmist to say (26.9): “Do not be angry with me and turn Your face in the other direction.” Waggle You lightning bolts, my Bravo if Bravado Friend, and send these distractions packing. Release Your Celestial Arrows, and all the Enemy’s phantasms will quickly fade. Plaints from the Psalmist (144.6). Gather my far-flung sense back to Yourself, my Friend. Make me forget all these Worldly things, and condemn all those ghastly if ghostly manifestations of Vices. Succor me, Eternal Truth, that Vanity may never be my motivation. Approach, Celestial Suavity, and spritz the schmutz from the face of my soul. Be merciful to me, my Merciful Friend, whenever I have a distraction in prayer. It seems I just cannot help it. So many times, whether I stand or sit, I am just not there. Where am I? I am with my thoughts, and they have sailed away. Where to? Is it so surprising that my thoughts are where my loves are, where I find some natural delight and pleasure? #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Whence you, my Verity, have only said as, Matthew has said before you (6.21): “Herz und Geld, Heart and Gold—fraternal twins! Trashy treasures both!” Loving Heaven as I do, I frequently ponder Heavenly things. Loving the World as I have done, I rejoice at its felicities and mourn for tis adversities. Loving the Flesh more than I should, I cannot prevent my imagination from parading naughty images past my eyes. Loving the Spirit as I have been slow to learn, I like to think of spiritual things and bandy them about in spiritual conversations. All these pictures are, for better or worse, part of my permanent collection. One who is blessed who has taken Your hint and given all creatures permission to retire; that is to say, to bow themselves backward out of the room. Happy also is one who holds the whip hand over one’s nature and in a spiritual fury nails one’s fleshly concupiscences to the cross. Harsh sentiments from Paul to the Galatians (5.24). That is the sort of person who can pray without distraction and with a clear conscience. One has suspended all animation from within and without. And, though never entirely conscious of this, one is thought worthy to mingle with the Angelic Choirs. I want to align my thoughts with Your Word, Father. Please help me to reject any though that would lead me away from the truth, and all that You have for me. Today, I will let my mind dwell on the good things of God. When something proceeds from a principle of the same nature, then both the one proceeding and the source of procession, agree in the same order; and then they have real relations to each other. Therefore as the divine processions are in the identity of the same nature, these relations, according to the divine procession, are necessarily real relations. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

Relationship is not predicated of God according to its proper and formal meaning, that is to say, in so far as its proper meaning denotes comparison to that in which relation is inherent, but only as denoting regard to another. Nevertheless Boethius did not wish to exclude relation in God; but he wished to show that it was not to be predicated of Him as regards the mode of inherence in Himself in the strict meaning of relation; but rather by way of relation to another. The relation signified by the term “the same” is a logical relation only, if in regard to absolutely the same thing; because such a relation can exist only in a certain order observed by reason as regards the order of anything to itself, according to some two aspects thereof. The case is otherwise, however, when things are called the same, not numerically, but generically or specifically. Thus Boethius likens the divine relations to a relation of identity, not in every respect, but only as regards the fact that the substance is not diversified by these relations, as neither is it by relation of identity. As the creature proceeds from God in diversity of nature, God is outside the order of the whole creation, nor does any relation to the creature arise from His nature; for He does not produce the creature by necessity of His nature, but by His intellect and will. Therefore there is no real relation in God to the creature; whereas in creatures there is a real relation to God; because creatures are contained under the divine order, and their very nature entails dependence on God. On the other hand, the divine processions are in one and the same nature. Hence no parallel exits. Relations which result from the mental operation alone in the objects understood are logical relations, inasmuch as reason observes them as existing between two objects perceived by the mind. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

Those relations, however, which follow the operation of the intellect, and which exist between the word intellectually proceeding and the source whence it proceeds, are not logical relations only, but are real relations; inasmuch as the intellect and the reason are real things, and are really related to that which proceeds from them intelligibly; as a corporal thing is related to that which proceeds from it corporeally. Thus paternity and filiation are real relations in God. As the conference held in Fayette, New York, January 2, 1831, God directed his people to move to Ohio because their enemies were plotting to destroy the church. This revelation contained the following instructions: “Thus saith the Lord you God, even Jesus Christ, I am in your midst and ye can not see me, but the day soon cometh that ye shall see me and know that I am. I hold forth and deign to give unto you greater riches, even a land of promise. A land flowing with milk and honey, upon which there shall be no curse when the Lord cometh; and I will give it unto your for the land of your inheritance, if you seek it with all your hearts. However, verily I say unto you, that, in time, ye shall have no king nor ruler, for I will be your kind and watch over you. Wherefore, hear my voice and follow me, and you shall be a free people. Teach one another according to the office wherewith I have appointed you, and let every human esteem one’s sibling as one self, and practice virtue and holiness before me. And that ye might escape the power of the enemy, and be gathered unto me a righteous people, without spot and blameless: wherefore, for this cause I gave unto you the commandment, that you should to the Ohio; and there I will give unto you my law. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

“And there you shall be endowed with power from on high, and from thence, whosoever I will, shall go forth among all nations, and it shall be told them what they shall do; for I have a great work laid up in store. And now I give unto the church in these parts, a commandment, that certain humans among them shall be appointed, and they shall be appointed by the voice of the church. And they shall look to the poor and the needy, and administer to their relief, that they shall not suffer. And if ye seek the riches which it is the will of the Father to give unto you, ye shall be the richest of all people; for ye shall have the riches of eternity. And it must needs be that the riches of the Earth are mine to give: but beware of pride. Go ye out from among the wicked. Save yourselves. Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. Even so. Amen.” The Lord made these wonderful promises of the kingdom to his people, if they would be faithful and keep his commandments. However, not all who received God’s words were willing to obey. James Covill, a Baptist preacher, asked Joseph to pray so he might know God’s will concerning him.  Joseph did so, and the Lord, Jesus Christ, said to James Covill: “Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on my name, and thou shalt receive my Spirit, and a blessing so great as thou hast ever known. And if thou does this, I have prepare thee for a greater work. Thou shalt preach the fullness of my gospel which I have sent forth in these last days.” However, James Covill was not baptized and Joseph wondered why. By revelation the Lord made it known to him why this minister had not been obedient and why, therefore, God’s promises were not for him. The reason was: “He received the word with gladness, but straightway Satan tempted him; and the fear of persecution, and the cares of the World, caused him to reject the word; wherefore he broke my covenant.” #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

Joseph, Emma, Sidney Rigdon, and Edward Partridge left New York for Kirtland, arriving there February 1. Three days after their arrival Joseph received a revelation commanding that the elders of the church meet together to agree upon God’s word, and to pray in faith that they would know how to govern the church. The Lord say: “He that receiveth my law and doeth it, the same is my disciple; and he that said he received it and doeth it not, the same is not y disciple, and shall be cast out from among you. I have called my servant Edward Partridge, and give a commandment, that he should be appointed by the voice of the church, and ordained a bishop unto the church, and spend all his time in the labours of the church.” In this revelation the Lord promised that at a later date his laws would be given by which His people were to be governed. Few persons have either the capacity or the wish to stand back sufficiently far from themselves to see what it is they are really doing and where it is they are really going. We play different roles in the cosmic drama at different levels, and this is true of all humans. We all have to rise from the lower levels to the highest levels of human self-actualization, from the human to the divine. The ego is there, but consciousness can either use it as free being or get stuck in it and be used by it. When consciousness is free that means it is free of all the negatives too and especially free of all those identification with undesirable conditions of the ego and unworthy manifestations of it. Wide travels among all kinds have shown me more and more than the endless wars and strifes between races, nations, classes, tribes, and individual persons must be met on two levels if they are to be brought to any end. #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

It is not sufficient to meet them on the level of their outward visible causes; that one has to be done, of course, but it is even more important to get out of the seethting cauldron of hates and wraths, resentments and egostims and greeds, for here are the unseen causes of the visible ones. This calls for a leap: the recognition that one’s real enemy is not so much the person outside as the person inside oneself. The inner life is the root of the outer one. What is created there, is eventually expressed here. Out of the immense and varied past, in previous births humans have transmitted to one and accumulated in one the tendencies which today obscure one’s inner light and drive one toward evil acts. Post-war clash, hatred, greed, and tension are rife, between nations or between different groups in a single nation. At the bottom of it all lies a selfishness which always places its own gain above justice or above mercy and sometimes even seeks that gain at the unwarrantable expense of others. The ego-worship which fills many tyrants is their “I” is only a monstrously swollen form of the same idolatry as it existed in other people all over the World. Instead of trying to curtail their inflated ego, deluded groups and leaders yield to it and enlarge it still more. The meaning of spirituality has ceased to register with million of such people. Where the ego rules in the business World, it is trying to get more than it gives. This is an offense against the law of justice, an attempt to get what is not its fair due. The dark karma of such an attempt may be seen in the strife and conflict and clash of interests and lack of peaceful harmony which sounds as discords in politico-economy relationships today. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

The ego hates another and sorrows over its troubles: these are negative feelings. Despite all the talk about love and charity, service and selflessness, it still remains that most people serve other only because consciously or unconsciously they are serving their own interests. The problems raised in connection with the metaphysical and psychic aspects of crime, we would find ourselves in a deep abyss. For instance there is there is the Catholic Christian doctrine that sin is the consequence of yielding to the inner promptings of Satan. My own view is that, speaking generally and with due allowance for special cases, the practical responsibility for a person’s crime must lie within oneself—even though one be a spiritualist medium who has been led step by step to perform crimes from which one would have shrunk at the beginning of one’s downward path. There are some who are so insane as to proclaim evil to be their food and Satan to be their worshipped God. However, most humans have to justify evil by disguising it as good. They do so either consciously or unconsciously, either to others or to themselves, or to both. They never hear the voice of conscious, never feel any sense of what is right or wrong. The only moral code which exists for them is that of success or failure. Anything that assists them to get what they want is ethically good; anything that hinder them from doing so is ethically evil! How can humans be saved who are not aware that they need salvation, not awake to their predicament, not able to come away from the distraction of personal affairs or the stuperfaction of sensual pleasure? Those who are enemies to their own real good and so to their own selves, will necessarily be enemies to one another. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

Humans upheld by the divine, depending on one’s own human efforts, must fail. If a human could keep oneself out of one’s thinking and feeling, one would more easily arrive at truth. If one could believe one’s personal views to be nothing, but truth everything, one would sooner receive its grace. More things are wrought by prayer than this World dreams of. Every prayer carries a quality of engagement within it. It is a means of acting upon ourselves; of brining ourselves into alignment with the rest of creation. Prayers of invocation and blessing seem particularly suited to this purpose. They directly express our intention and are uttered in order that some effect may be achieved. Our ability to offer an invocation or a blessing is equated with inner wisdom and power, for through their words and in their resonance, we become mindful co-creators in this unfolding Universe. This is what I want to happen: that our Earth mother may be clothed in ground corn four times over. In order that the country may be this way I have made my prayer stick into something alive. May it be Thy will, O Lord our God and God of our fathers, who choosest good prophets and their god teachings, to receive in mercy and favour our prayer and our processions. Remember unto us the merit of Thy sincere servants and remove the iniquities which separate us from Thee. Give ear to our cry and do well with us to the end of our days for the sake of Thy covenant which Thou didst make with our ancestors. Do Thou seal us in the book of happy life. We beseech Thee, supreme King of kings, great, mighty and revered God, that it be in Thy grace to comfort us and to purify us of all our transgressions and sins. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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