Most people ask for happiness on condition. Only if you do not set conditions, happiness can be felt. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it. One of our innate characteristics, as terrestrial beings, appears to be a need to “understand” what goes on around us. Because of the way our minds are constructed, we cannot avoid seeking “causes” for the “effects” that we observe through our sensory mechanism. Since physiological limitations prevent our holding in mind and dealing simultaneously with more than a few related concepts, we continually strive to reduce to a minimum the number of fundamental causes or principles that we employ to explain what we observe. There is more than a little of the scientist built into the genetic specifications of each human individual. The fact that the universe in which we live is largely susceptible to understanding in terms of the kind of cause/effect principles that humans naturally search for no longer seems to be the mysterious coincidence that it once appeared. We not appreciate how the operation of evolution and natural selection must automatically, in time, bring to dominance animal species with behaviour and thought patters that adapt them to their environment. If the universe operates largely on the basis of cause/effect relationships, we would expect that the dominant species would owe its dominance largely to its evolutionarily developed ability to deal competently with cause/effect situations. A paradoxical consequence of man’s natural predilection for logical thought was his invention of the important concept of the supernatural. Humans had a compulsion to explain what they observed, but their ability to trace cause/effect relationships was limited to the simpler, more immediate phenomena of their environment. #RandolphHarris 1 of 17

 To provide an “explanation” for matters they despaired of understanding, humans invented the concept that these matters lay outside the domain of the natural cause/effect principles—that, in short, they were “supernatural.” This was appealing to the orderly human mind: it provided a neat means of differentiating between the aspects of life that ought to be dealt with rationally and those which should be just accepted but not analyzed. Humans have a World, namely, a structured whole of innumerable parts, a cosmos, as the Greeks called it, because of its structed character which makes it accessible to humans through acts of creative receiving and transforming. Having a World is more than having environment. Of course, humans like any other being, has environment; but in contrast to the higher terrestrial beings, for example, they are not bound to it. Humans beings can transcend it in any direction, in imagination, thought and action (exempli gratia, social utopias or ontological concepts or space exploration). Humans have “World” through every part of their environment. Their ways encounter with any of the objects surrounding them are always an encounter with the universe manifest in a particular object. Humans never encounter this tree, but also as a tree, one of many trees, as an example of the species tree (in itself a special manifestation of the universal power of being). Such an encounter presupposes freedom from the particular, and the ability to see the universal within the particular. The manifestation of this freedom is language. Language lives in universals. It is one and the same thing to have World, to transcend environment, and to speak in concepts and meaningful proposition. All this constitutes human’s essential freedom and is the presupposition of human’s experience of the moral imperative. #RandolphHarris 2 of 17

The moral imperative is the demand to become actually what one is essentially and therefore potentially. It is the power of human’s being, given to them by nature, which they shall actualize in time and space. Their true being shall become their actual being—this is the moral imperative. And since one’s true being is the being of a person in a community of persons, the moral imperative have this content: to become a person. Every moral act is an act in which an individual self establishes itself as a person. Therefore, a more act is not an act in obedience to an external law, human or divine. It is the inner law of our true being, of our essential or created nature, which demands that we actualize what follows from it. And an antimoral act is not the transgression of one or several precisely circumscribed commands, but an act that contradicts the self-realization of the person as a person and dries toward disintegration. It disrupts the centeredness of the person by giving predominance to partial trends, passions, desires, fears, and anxieties. The central control is weakened, often almost removed. And when this happens, another partial trends also aspire to predominance, the self is split, and the conflicting trends also aspire to predominance, the self is split, and the conflicting trends make it their battlefield. The “will,” in the sense of a self that acts from the centered totality of its being, is enslaved. Freedom is replaced by compulsion. Deliberation and decision, the hallmarks of freedom, become mere facades for overwhelming drives that predetermine the decision. The voice of human’s essential being is silenced, step by step; and their disintegrating self, their depersonalization, shows the nature of the antimoral act and, by contrast, the nature of the moral act. The moral acct as the self-actualization of the centered self or the constitution of the person as a person, has analogies in the realm of all living beings, including humans from the biological point of view. #RandolphHarris 3 of 17

The analogy to the diminution or loss of centeredness in human beings is the psychosomatic phenomenon of disease. In some diseases, some processes that are necessary elements in the whole of a life process take an independent course and endanger the functioning of the whole. The cancerous growth of parts of the body is the most illuminating analogy to what happens in the centered self when particular trends conquer the center and destroy the unity of balanced trends. The analogy between the antimoral act and bodily disease is in many (somehow in all) cases more than an analogy. Both are expressions of the universal ambiguity of life, according to the processes of self-integration are continuously combated by movements toward disintegration. For the ethical problem this means that the moral act is always a victory over disintegrating forces and that its aim is the actualization of humans as the centered and therefore free person. While celibacy was one tool for greater thing for the actualized Christian, in a society that demanded premarital virginity of its daughters, religion defined celibacy as a precondition for salvation, and many were famous for defending their chastity against a vicious and lascivious public. When people speak of the Law of Chastity, they often define it as remaining celibate until marriage. In actuality, it would be more properly defined as remaining abstinent until marriage. Today, the words abstinent and celibate are frequently used interchangeably, but in practice they are quite different. Abstinence, as practiced in the Church, is the abstaining from all pleasures of the flesh activity until marriage. Celibacy, however, is the lifetime sacrifice to voluntarily forgo all pleasures of the flesh activity and remain unmarried for the entirety of your life. Most people never make any particular distinction between abstinence and celibacy because there is no longer an expectation for them to commit to celibacy. #RandolphHarris 4 of 17

Elder Holland taught, “You serve yourself poorly when you identify yourself primarily by your sexual feelings. That isn’t your only characteristic, so don’t give it disproportionate attention. You are the first and foremost son (or daughter) of God, and He loves you.” With the stakes so infinitely high (entera marriage on one hand and suicide and depression on the other), let of not minimize the significant theological and emotional war in the heart of people who choose to define themselves by their sexuality. However, our beliefs regarding eternal marriage and families being sealed together throughout eternity is an integral, beautiful part of being saved. All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of Heavenly Parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternal identity and purpose. We have a divine nature and destiny, and gender is part of our spiritual identity. God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye may be able to bear it. For those who do choose celibacy, that is a very respectful way of life. You are living a law not asked of anyone else in the Church. You are living a commitment that is only paralleled by the Law of Consecration. It is beyond the laws of sacrifice, the gospel and marriage, you have laid your hops, dreams, and future and family on the alter and given it all to the Lord. Eroticism seems to be a far greater challenge than hunger, illness, social alienation, and loneliness. Surprisingly, sometimes older people fall victim to their erotic feelings even more than the young men they counseled. Since the sixteenth century, the metaphysical importance of celibacy has lost none of its force, however. The extent to eradicate lust actually underscores the centrality of celibacy. Some preserve in their ongoing struggle to stifle their sensuality, helped by watchful experienced colleagues. #RandolphHarris 5 of 17

Celibacy is emphasized as an instrument to achieve relinquishing Worldly pleasures and desires, including the desire for possessions and, through lust, for other people. Celibacy is central to nonviolence. Some religious people taught human organs are aswim with dangerous microbes, and so pleasures of the flesh becomes a murderous activity. I wonder if the reason boys and girls consider the other gender to have germs and be icky is because they are closer to the premortal life and were indoctrinated more recently. However, as they grow up and become more indoctrinated in human culture, and become adults, pleasures of the flesh, to them, seems safer than drinking tap water. Celibacy is linked to the vow to extinguish all sensual desire. For that reason, intercourse has to be avoided as a great evil. The object of religious life is the Kingdom of Heaven, which can only be achieved in slow stages. The precepts of nonviolence, nonpossiveness, and celibacy are so intertwined that each partially defines and explains the other. When celibates are tempted by unbidden lust, they remember that the organs of pleasures are hotbeds of microbic life that, in copulation, one would be responsible for pulverizing. In any case, from their perspective, celibates believe that the unchaste cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Celibacy is a form of mental discipline and an instrument of nonviolence, and an absolute prerequisite for achieving the Kingdom of Heaven by spiritual liberation. Given the paramountcy of celibacy in some religions, people in the New World might wonder how they expect to shore up their numbers, already relatively small. The internal logic of the religion answers this nicely. Their scriptures teach that membership will shrink until nearing the end of times. An apocalyptic inferno will consume the debased remnants of humanity, and the World as we know it will cease to exist. #RandolphHarris 6 of 17

 We must now look at another scripture, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil,” reports Ephesians 6.10-11. Notice did not say, “Be strong in your own might,” but “in the Lord.” It is His might. It is not something we have to work up to. We must simply be obedient and be clothed in His might. Put on the whole armor or, as the Greek says, the complete armor of God. If you saw it, would you know the armor of God? It is God’s clothes and He is clothed in righteousness. He gave you His clothes to wear. Our problem has been that when we get ready to pray, we take off our breastplate of righteousness and throw it in the corner, saying, “Lord, I am so unworthy. I am so no good.” I can just imagine how God feels about such statements. He probably says, “Can you believe what they are saying! I sent My Son. He suffered and died to make them righteous. I gave them My clothes to wear.” That must grieve the heart of God after all He has done to clothe us with righteousness. Be obedient and put on His armor. You need it. “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this World, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace: Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked,” reports Ephesians 6-12-16. Did you ever notice it says, “All the fiery darts of the wicked”? Someone may say, “Yes, but I just cannot do it.” I beg your pardon! The Word says you can. “Yes, but you see, I am so unworthy.” Now you have told off on yourself. You do not have on the whole armor of God. You left off the breastplate of righteousness. “Yes, but I do not feel righteous, so I must not be.” #RandolphHarris 7 of 17

You may not feel like getting dressed in the morning before you go to work, but believe me, it is the thing to do! God has told us to put on all of His clothes. If you do not feel righteous, it is because you do not have on your breastplate. The Church has been too sin conscious. We need to become righteous conscious. There is not a Christian that does not know about sin, but how many know that they are the righteousness of God? Renew your mind to the fact that you are the righteousness of God in Christ. When it becomes a revelation in your spirit, sin will cease to be a problem for you. It will be as Paul said, “Sin shall not have dominion over you.” It is not unusual for people, particularly teenagers, to try to commit suicide after observing or reading about someone else who has done so. Perhaps these people have been struggling with major problems and the other person’s suicide seems to reveal a possible solution; or they have been thinking about suicide and the other person’s suicide seems to give them permission of finally persuades them to act. Either way, one suicidal act apparently serves as a model for another. Suicides by celebrities, other highly publicized suicides, and suicides by co-workers or colleagues are particularly common triggers. Suicides by entertainers and political figures are regularly followed by unusual increases in the number of suicides across the nation. During the week after the alleged suicide of Marilyn Monroe in 1963, for example the national suicide rate rose 12 percent. Suicides with bizarre or unusual aspects often receive intense coverage by the news media. Such highly publicized accounts may lead to similar suicides. During the year after a widely publicized, politically motivated suicide by self-burning in England, for example, 82 other people set themselves on fire, with equally fatal results. Inquest reports revealed that most of the people had histories of emotional problems and that none of the suicides had the political motivation of the publicized suicide. The imitators seemed to be responding to their own problems in a manner triggered by the suicide they had observed or read about. #RandolphHarris 8 of 17

Even a media program that is clearly intended to educate and help viewers may have the paradoxical effect of spurring imitators. One study found a dramatic increase in the rate of suicide among West German teenagers after the airing of a television documentary showing the suicide of a teenager who jumped under a train. The number of railways suicides by male teenagers increased by 175 percent after the program was aired. Some clinicians argue that more responsible reporting could reduce this undesirable aftereffect of highly publicized suicides. A careful approach to reporting was seen in the media’s coverage of the suicide of Kurt Cobain. MTV’s repeated theme on the evening of the suicide was “Don’t do it!” In fact, thousands of young people called MTV and other radio and television stations in the hours after Cobain’s death, distraught, frightened, and in some cases suicidal. Some of the stations responded by posting the phone numbers of suicide prevention centers, presenting interviews with suicide experts, and offering counseling services and advice directly to callers. Perhaps because of such effort, the usual rate of suicide both in Seattle, Mr. Cobain’s hometown, and elsewhere held steady during the weeks that followed. “Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the World of God,” reports Ephesians 6.16-17. The Sword of the spirit. The spoken Word of God is the Sword of the Spirit. We call the Christian Bible our sword, but it is not really the sword. It may be the substance the sword is made of, but it is not the sword until it proceeds out of your mouth. There is no life in the Bible until it comes out of you mouth. You can lay the Bible on someone that is sick and it will not heal them. There is no power in the book, as far as we know. When you believe it and speak it, the power is released. You breathe life into it and the Spirit of God rises up in you when you dare to say, “Father, Your Word says that my need would be supplied according to Your riches in glory. I have given, and now it is given to me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. In the name of Jesus Christ, I receive it.” #RandolphHarris 9 of 17

Order derives from authority. When authority is lost, we are free, everything is permitted, nothing is worthwhile, and we live in chaos. When the police disappear, looting sweeps through the streets. We can stand evil and cruelty; what we cannot stand is a lack of order. If the reigning scheme of things is intact, that is, believed in, and thereby endowed with authority, then we can tolerate murder and mayhem to uphold it. However, if the scheme of things falls, leaving us in unlimited freedom, we churn about in chaos until rescued by some other creed that claims our allegiance, takes our freedom and restores order. Evil springs up here, there, everywhere, all the time, flows, equally, from the breaking of rules and from the too careful observance of old rules in a changed society. The evil wrought by those who intended evil is negligible. The greater evil is wrought by those who intend good, and are convinced they know how to bring it about; and the greater their power to bring it about, the greater the evil they achieve while trying to do it. Not content modestly to oppose evil, they in their arrogance undertake to eliminate it completely, there by creating greater evil. The war to end all wars prepares the way for bigger wars, for destructions more vast. AN animal lives its life according to its nature and its circumstances, and therefore is never in the position of having to conclude that it has wasted its life. However, a human being, out of fear of breaking the rules, may waste one’s life, may observe oneself being afraid to live it. We live within limits. We know that life must be lived, and experience must be confined, within these limits. Fear God is the command sounding throughout the Old Testament. Fear God and respect God and bow down before God—these injunctions mean: Keep away from those boundaries. Murder is the privilege of God, not of humans. The burning cities, the turning of a woman into a pillar of salt, the destruction of the World by flood—all this is at the discretion, or the whim, of God, but not of humans. #RandolphHarris 10 of 17

We should note, however, that it is only human beings as individuals who are required to observe these limits. Human collectives have always ignored them. Heinous crimes and the burning of cities, proclaimed as activities reserved to God, are routinely undertaken by sovereign human collectives. Fear, as well as morality, opposes the individual will to power, and often it is unclear whether it is morality setting the limit, or fear masquerading as morality. Because we are afraid, we live in groups. Alone one is weak; in the crowd one will become strong. If the crowd grows rapidly and achieves great density, a moment of discharge will arrive, leveling hierarchies of power, making all equal; there will be no one above giving orders, making us feel weak and afraid, because everything above will be destroyed; we will surge through the streets, smashing windows and doors, overturning police cars, burning palaces. This was all predicted in 2006, and you see it had some to fruition by 2020. Let us sum up again. The majority of young people are faced with the following alternative: Either society is a benevolently frivolous racket in which they will manage to boondoggle, through the less profitably than the more privileged; or society is serious (and they hope still benevolent enough to support them), but they are useless and hopelessly out. Such thoughts do not encourage productive life. Naturally young people are more sanguine and look for man’s work, but few will find it. Some settle for a “good job” most settle for a lousy job; a few, but an increasing number, do not settle. I often ask, “If you have the chance, what do you want to work at? When you get out of school, college, the service, et cetera.” Some answer right off and tell their definite plans and projects, highly approved by Papa. I am pleased for them, but it is a bit boring, because they are such squares. Quite a few will, prompting, come out with astounding stereotyped, conceited fantasies, such as becoming a movie actors when they are “discovered”—“like Will Smith, but in my own way.” #RandolphHarris 11 of 17

Very rarely somebody will, maybe defiantly and defensively, maybe diffidently but proudly, make you know that one knows very well what one is going t do; it is something great; and one is indeed already doing it, which is the real test. The unusual answer, perhaps the normal answer, is “I do not know,” meaning, “I am looking; I have not found the right thing; it is discouraging but not hopeless.” However, the terrible answers is, “Nothing.” The young man does not want to do anything. –I remember talking to half a dozen young fellows at Van Wagner’s Beach outside of Hamilton, Ontario; and all of them had this one thing to say: “Nothing.” They did not believe that what to work at was the kind of thing one wanted. They rather expected that two or three of them would work for the electric company in town, but they could not care less. I turned away from the conversation abruptly because of the uncontrollable burning tears in my eyes and constriction in my chest. Not feeling sorry for them, but tears of frank dismay for the waste of our humanity (they were nice kids). At the level of longer-term social policy, we should also move rapidly toward “telecommunity.” Those who wish community restored should concentrate attention on the socially fragmenting impact of commuting and high mobility. Building a sense of community in the Fourth Wave is the selective substitution of communication for transportation. Imagine how popular a train would be if in ran alongside the freeways in major cities. Not only would it significantly reduce traffic, but it would save lives, reduce pollution, decrease accidents, improve workers moods, and lessen the strain on the plant and animal life. The popular fear that computers and telecommunications will deprive us of face-to-face contact and make human relations more vicarious is naïve and simplistic. In fact, the revere might very well be the case. Most people complain about being upset at work by someone they do not like, wish they could decrease contact with people in their office and on the street. They do not want to be bothered by people they do not like or do not know. #RandolphHarris 12 of 17

While some office or factory relationships might be attenuated, bonds in the home and the community could well be strengthened by these new technologies. Computers and communications can help us create community. If nothing else, they can free large numbers of us to give up comminuting—the centrifugal force that disperses us in the morning, throws us into superficial work relationships, while weakening our more important social ties in the home and community. By making it possible for large numbers of people to work at home (or in close-by neighborhood work centers), the new technologies could make for warmer, more bonded families and a closer, more finely grained community life. The electronic cottage may turn out to be the characteristic mom-and-pop business of the future. And it could lead, as we have seen, to a new work-together family unit involving children (and sometimes even expanded to take in outsiders as well). It is not unlikely that couples who spend a lot of time working together in the home during the day will want to go out in the evening. (Today the more typical pattern is for the commuter to collapse on retuning hoe and refuse to set foot outside.) As communications begin to replace commuting, we can expect to see a lively proliferation of the neighborhood restaurant, theaters, pubs, and clubs, a revitalization of church and voluntary group activity—all or mostly on a face-to-face basis. Nor, for that matter, are all vicarious relationship to be despised. The issue is not simply vicarious, but passivity and powerlessness. For a shy person or an invalid, unable to leave home, or fearful about meeting people face to face, the emerging info-sphere will make possible interactive electronic contact with others who share similar interest—chess players, stamp collectors, poetry lovers, or sports fans—dialed up instantly from anywhere in the country. Vicarious though they may be, such relationships can provide a far better antidote to loneliness than television as we know it today, in which the messages all flow one way and the passive receiver is powerless to interact with the flickering image on the screen. #RandolphHarris 13 of 17

Communications, selectively applied, can serve the goal of telecommunity. In short, as we build a Forth Wave civilization there are many things we can do to sustain and enrich, rather than destroy, community. If anything is to be done to save the World, it must be done through those in power—the masses of humans will be more likely to follow where they go–the few statesmen, rulers, or politicians by whose decisions history itself is now being made, who control tremendous power, are the ones who need guidance and wisdom, prophetic warning and personal awakening. If you say that the problem is too big for anyone to solve, you imply that nothing ought to be done to help these leaders find right direction. If you say, with Aldous Huxley’s Grey Eminence, that “mystics who interfere in politics only make matters worse,” I reply that unpractical visionaries, unbalanced fanatics, narrow sectarians, and inexperienced meddler certainly do so, but practical, balanced, and mature mystics do not. History proves this point. Philosophy rejects both objections. Even where there is only a small hope of avoiding the tragic outcome of present conditions, it must take the chance offered. When monsters devoid of human pity, inspired by terrifying hate, become leaders of a people, and are followed by them, the presence of the dark opposing principle in nature becomes very evident. The fact is that the situation has arisen for which the military leaders are totally unprepared, one which was never foreseen in all their courses in strategy and tactics, and before which the political leaders also are bewildered. In former times, compromise was a prudent and practical proposition. However, in our time it will not succeed. The leaders of humanity must either adjust themselves to truth or find themselves, and their nations, smitten with disaster or catastrophe. #RandolphHarris 14 of 17

The makers of war cannot alter themselves suddenly into the makers of peace. It is useless to look to politics for the cessation of strife when it is itself based on strife. It is wiser and more logical to look to those who have found their own inner peace. The need of a twenty-first century leader to guide the people of the present and future is plain. For people are seeking truth and yearn for happiness where is have never been and never can be found—that is, in materialistic thinking and selfish living. The extent to which any single human is able to force World events today is small. Unseen forces of universal law are, on the contrary, using gifted individuals to control, influence, and fulfill the destiny of humankind. No leader will appear to set the whole World in order for no human has any other answer that will be more effective than the Golden Rule, which humankind has known since before Jesus’ days but failed to apply. If such a human is to be more successful one will have to demonstrate more spiritual Power. The people who compose a community and the leaders whom they follow make its character as good or as bad as they themselves are. Only wild fanatics can expect to build a perfect society out of imperfect materials. When the name of democracy is used as a shield to destroy democracy—while claiming its freedom—it is ridiculous to play the simpleton and ignore the reality of what is actually happening. By using the wrong methods, or even by using right methods at the improper time, the leaders of a nation attain the very opposite of what they strive for. It is for this reason that today the search after peace is bringing them farther from it. A very old Far Eastern text, the Book of Changes, declares, “If the military defense of a state is carried to such extreme that it provokes wars which annihilate the state, there is failure.” If the rulers do not respond to this last chance which has been offered them, they will not be given another. For there is a limit to the length of Universal Law which keeps the nations in an uneasy peace. #RandolphHarris 15 of 17

However, if they do respond to the warning uttered and accepted the counsel offered, help will come—miraculous and abundant help. For if there is no tragedy graver than the tragedy of such rejected Grace, there is equally no blessing happier than the blessing of accepted Grace. Too many of history’s great leaders were at the same time humankind’s great misleaders. For they took too many people down the easy but evil path of violence, which revealed destruction and dealt out death at its end. Humanity does not want to live in darkness and madness; it cannot go on like that. The dictator, the politician, and the journalist must take part of the responsibility for leading the masses to this lugubrious situation. It would be a mistake to believe that salvation in any crisis depends on a quantitative element. Humanity could be helped by only a handful of humans who found and lived in the higher consciousness, provided it were willing to follow the guidance and respect the enlightenment of these humans. If it were not for the presence of a few human lights in our World, and for their mostly silent but sometimes open activity, that World would have deteriorated spiritually, morally, to an extent far below what it has done. Humankind has entered a new cycle, one wherein each human must learn something of the truth for oneself. In former cycles they did not need to bear this responsibility. In the present one, one must accept it. A time like the present should not be used as an excuse to escape into the past but as an inspiration to bring in the future. The economic and political reconstruction of the World is a vitally important task, but its ethical reconstruction is immeasurably more important. The former touches the surface of life only, the latter touches its very core. While our mental attitude remains what it is, no solution is possible. We meet hatred with hatred, suspicion with suspicion, fear with fear. Even nuclear disbarment would only ease the World’s crisis and not end it, would put off the urgency and acuteness and still leave the problem of enmity where it is. #RandolphHarris 16 of 17

Hatred ceases not by hatred but by love. And the New World has heard often enough (but does not practise) what Jesus taught on this matter. The word “nature” was first used to signify the generation of living things, which is called nativity. And because this kind of generation comes form an intrinsic principle, this term is extended to signify the intrinsic principle is either formal or material, both matter and form are commonly called nature. And as the essence of anything is completed by the form; so the essence of anything, signified by the definition, is commonly called nature. And here nature is taken in that sense. Nature is the specific difference giving its form to each thing, for the specific difference completes the definition, and is derived from the special for of a thing. So in the definition of “person,” which means the singular in a determined “genus,” it is more correct to use the term “nature” than “essence,” because the latter is taken from being, which is most common. The soul is a part of the human species; and so, although it may exist in a separate state, yet since it ever retains its nature of unibility, it cannot be called an individual substace, which is the hypostasis or first substance, as neither can the hand nor any other part of human; thus neither the definition nor the name of person belongs to it. Life in itself can make one strong because it is so noble, so full of pleasures and so powerful. Let those who bring about wonderful things in their big, dark books take an animal to help them. The life within the animal will give them strength in turn. For equality gives strength, in all things and at all times. Mayest thou be blessed by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of Heaven above, blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath and blessings of fecundity. The blessings of thy father are mighty beyond the blessings of my forefathers unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; such blessings shall be on the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren. “Thus you will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous, and [your generosity as it is] administered by us will bring forth thanksgiving to God,” II Corinthians 9.11. #RandolphHarris 17 of 17

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