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I Acknowledge No Orthodoxy but the Truth
It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all; for a secret is often innocently babbled out by those who know but half of it. They learn their Art at the hazard of our lives, and make experiments by our deaths. God, since he is not a confounder of human sense and reason, would not choose to speak in riddles or mysteries. He chooses to speak in terms that are intelligible to us—terms that reveal rather than obscure and mystify. The glory of God and the stints in Heaven is represented by the brightness of the Sun and the glory of an Earthly kingdom, which are the greatest images we are able to frame of it. The word glory invokes a future happy state, the reward of a virtuous life. The word, despite its obscurity, is semantically promising—that is, it includes or evokes a kind of expectancy or hope, namely that it expects me in the Heavens, that I shall enjoy it, and be made partaker of it; and that it will render me happy beyond all imagination. Revelations must rely upon the evidence of faith. Mystery does not designate what cannot be known by humans but, rather, what is revealed on to the chosen few. #RandolphHarris 1 of 5
How is it possible to think, or make any intelligible statements, about a transcendent God or a supernatural World? How can ideas produced in the course of sensational encounters with the natural World at the same time serve to report a reality that is beyond the reach of sensation? If the supernatural World is beyond the reach of our natural experience, is it not also beyond the reach of ideas formed on the basis of that experience? Faith, the hallmark of Puritanism, is consequently of no avail without the confirmation of reason. Spiritual progress is based on acceptance as a matter of free will and choice and thus everyone experiences only the World of their own choosing. All is self-creating as the manifestation of the mind of God. Because the Universe is self-evolving and self-fulfilling, no intervention is necessary. All is in perfect balance and harmony. It is no longer a World with individuals who need saving, but an energy field to life and reinforce. God has sent out his Holy Spirit, whose sweet but powerful breathings are still moving up and down in the World, to quicken and revive the souls of humans, and awaken them unto the sense and feeling of those divine things for which they were made. #RandolphHarris 2 of 5
God is ready to assist such weak and languished creatures as we are, in our essays towards holiness and felicity: and when once it has taken hold of a soul, and kindled in it the smallest spark of divine love, it will be sure to preserve and cherish, and bring forth into a flame, which many waters shall not quench, neither shall the floods be able to drown. Whenever this day begins to dawn, and the day-star to arise in the heart, it will easily dispel the powers of darkness, and make ignorance and folly, and all the corrupt and selfish affections of humans, flee away as fast before it as the shades of night, when the Sun comes out of his chambers: For the path of the just is as the shining light, which shines more and more unto the perfect day. They shall go on from strength to strength, till every one of them appears before God. Choose to be easygoing, benign, forgiving, compassionate and unconditionally loving towards all life in its expressions without exception, including oneself. Focus on unselfish service and the giving of love, consideration, and respect to all creatures. #RandolphHarris 3 of 5
God knows what he is doing in your life. Avoid negativity and the desire for Worldliness and its greed for pleasure and possessions. Forego opinionating, the judgment of right versus wrong, the vanity of being right. Seek to understand rather than to condemn. Trust in the love, mercy, infinite wisdom and compassion of Divinity which sees through all human error, limitation, and frailty. Place faith and trust in the love of God. Like the Sun, the love of God shines equally on all. Why should we think it impossible, that true goodness and universal love should every come to sway and prevail in our souls? Is not this their primitive state and condition, their native and genuine constitution, as they came first from the hands of their Maker? Sin and corruption are but usurpers, and though they have long kept possession, yet from the beginning it was not so. That inordinate self-love, which one would think were rooted in our very being, and interwoven with the constitution of our nature, is nevertheless of a foreign extraction, and has no place at all in the state of integrity. #RandolphHarris 4 of 5
They know not what they do. The only sin is that lack of understanding. It is not very efficient or rewarding to battle sin and get into a struggle to use will power to overcome defects. The way out of conflict is not to try to eliminate the negative but instead choose to adopt the optimistic view. Our understandings are easily convinced, that we ought to be wholly devoted to God from whom we have our being, and to love God infinitely more than ourselves, who is infinitely better than we; and our wills will readily comply with this, if they were not disordered and put out of tune: and is not he who made our souls, able to rectify and mend then again? Shall we not be able, by God’s assistance, to vanquish and expel those violent intruders, and turn unto flight the armies of the aliens? No sooner shall we take up arms in this holy war, but we shall have all the saints on Earth, and all the angels in Heaven, engaged on our party. It is God’s wish to see the divine life thriving and prevailing in this World; and the will of God may be done by us on Earth, as it is done by themselves in Heaven. Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be against us. #RandolphHarris 5 of 5
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The Groves were God’s First Temples
In life, there is ever the intellectual and the emotional nature—the mind that reasons, and the mind that feels. Of one come the people of action—generals and statesmen; of the other, the poets and dreamers—artist all. Light is the plants’ only source of energy, so they are entirely dependent on light. The sea walnut uses some of its energy to generate its own light in the deep ocean. Cells convert energy from one form to another as they carry out the business of life. Plants, convert light energy into chemical energy—food for themselves and for the animals that eat them. Some organisms convert the chemical energy of food into light, as does this small deep-sea animal, called a sea walnut. Instead of using chemical energy from food only to grow or reproduce, the sea walnut illuminates its environment. Why does it spend energy in such an apparently frivolous way? In fact, nobody knows for sure—it has been suggested that the animal uses its light to frighten off potential predators, but not many biologist believe this. The function of light emission by sea walnuts remains a mystery. #RandolphHarris 1 of 11
We are creatures of the Sun. Its light is the source—direct or indirect—of the free energy that powers life on Earth. As biologist, we can say, “We are creatures of the chloroplasts.” This abundant organelle, which gives green plants their color, captures the Sun’s energy for us. Inside plants, within stacks of connected, inner membranes wrapped in two outer membranes, chemical reactions convert and store the energy that we draw. Plant growth depends on photosynthesis, and photosynthesis depends on efficient carbon dioxide fixation. The mechanism in turn depends on how much carbon dioxide in the air, it is not always abundantly available to the cells inside the leaves of land plants. Leaves have a waxy covering that retards moisture loss, and water escapes mainly through tiny passages (stomata) across the leaf’s surface. On hot, dry days the stomata are closed and plants conserve water. This means, however, that carbon dioxide cannot enter the lead. At the same time, oxygen builds up inside the leaf as a by-product of photosynthesis. #RandolphHarris 2 of 11
I saw a bright light. The stage is set for a wasteful process called photorespiration. In this process, oxygen instead of carbon dioxide becomes attached to the RuBP (ribulose bisphosphate, is a 5-carbon compound involved in the Calvin cycle, which is part of the light independent reactions of photosynthesis). Our own dependence on the Sun, although absolute, is indirect. Like the other animals, the fungi, many protists, and most monerans, we depend upon a ready supply of partially reduced, carbon-containing compounds as a food source. From such compounds we get all the free energy that keeps us alive and functioning. From them, too, we obtain the carbon atoms used in every organic molecule in our bodies. In a word, we are heterotrophs: We need to feed upon something else. In a World populated exclusively by heterotrophs, all life would grind to an end as the food gradually disappeared. Our World owes the continued existence of life to the presence of autotrophs—organisms that do not need previously formed organic substances from their environment. #RandolphHarris 3 of 11
A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appears and vanished on the path. For autotrophs, an energy source (such as light) and an inorganic carbon source (such as carbon dioxide gas) suffice as a diet. From these simple ingredients, autotrophs make the reduced carbon compounds from which their bodies are built and their food needs met. By feeding on autotrophs, the heterotrophs of the World meet their needs for energy and matter. The principal autotrophs are photosynthetic organisms that use visible light as their energy source. From light, carbon dioxide, and water, they begin the chemistry that sustain almost the entire biosphere. Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy to chemical energy by living things. Organisms that conduct photosynthesis—pants and photosynthetic protists and monerans—stand at the gateway to the living World, at the interface where inorganic becomes organic, where nonlife becomes life. The Worldwide extent of photosynthetic activity is stunning: Each year, tens of billions of tons of carbon atoms are taken from carbon dioxide and incorporated into molecules of sugars, amino acids, and other compounds. #RandolphHarris 4 of 11
Photosynthesis is known to use three principal ingredients—water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and light—and to produce not only food but also oxygen gas (O2). Scientists had learned that the water for photosynthesis comes primarily from the soil (for plants living on land) and mist travel from the roots to the leaves; that carbon dioxide is taken in from the atmosphere through tiny openings, called stomata (singular, stoma), in the leaves; and that light is absolutely necessary for the production of oxygen and food. The carbon dioxide uptake and oxygen release are closely related and both depend on light actions. CO2 + H2O + light energy –> sugar + O2, but many details in the process remain hidden. Oxygen released during photosynthesis comes from the carbon dioxide or from water. Trees combat climate change. Excess carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by many factors is a building up in our atmosphere and contributing to climate change. Trees absorb CO2, removing and storing the carbon while releasing the oxygen back into the air. In one year, an acre of mature trees absorbs the amount of CO2 produced when you drive 26,000 miles. #RandolphHarris 5 of 11
The morning woods are utterly new. Trees absorb orders and pollutant gases (nitrogen oxides, ammonia, sulfur dioxide and ozone) and filter particulates out of the air by trapping them on their leaves and bark. Trees provide oxygen—in one year, an acre of mature trees can provide enough oxygen for 18 people. Trees cool the streets and the city. Average temperature in Los Angeles, California USA have risen 6 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 50 years as tree coverage has declined and the number of heat-absorbing roads and buildings have increased. Trees cool the city by up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, by shading our houses and streets, and breaking up urban heat islands, and releasing water vapor into the air through their leaves. Urban heat islands can affect communities by increasing Summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness and mortality and water quality. On a hot, sunny Summer day, roof and pavement surface temperature can be 50-90 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than air, while shaded or moist surfaces–often in more rural surroundings—remain close to air temperatures. #RandolphHarris 6 of 11
Trees are the cradle of the race and dwelling place of the supreme God. Three trees places strategically around a single-family house can cut Summer air conditioning needs by up to 50 percent. By reducing energy demand for cooling our houses, we reduce carbon dioxide and other pollution emissions from power plants. Shade from trees slows water evaporation from thirsty lawns. Most newly planted trees need only fifteen gallons of water a week. As trees transpire, they increase atmospheric moisture. Trees reduce runoff by breaking rainfall this allowing the water to flow down the trunk and into the Earth below the tree. This prevents storm water from carrying pollutants to the ocean. When mulched, trees act like a sponge that filters this water naturally and uses it to recharge ground water supplies. On hillsides or stream slopes, trees slow runoff and hold soil in place, which prevent soil erosion. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancers in the United States of America, trees shield people from ultraviolet rays exposure by about 50 percent, thus providing protection to children on school campuses and playgrounds—where children spend hours outdoors. #RandolphHarris 7 of 11
The grove is the center of their religion and trees also provide food. An apple tree can yield up to 15-20 bushels of fruit per year and can be planted on tiny urban lots. And trees also provide birds and wildlife with food. Studied have also shown that patients with views of trees out their windows heal faster and with less complications. Furthermore, children with ADHD show fewer symptoms when they have access to nature. Exposure to trees and nature helps concentration by reducing mental fatigue. Moreover, neighborhoods and houses that are barren have shown to have a greater incidence of violence in and out of the home than their greener counterparts, so trees help to reduce violence and trees and other landscaping help to reduce levels of fear. Tree also mark the seasons and people enjoy the color changes or the beauty of strong evergreen trees. In addition, trees create economic opportunities. By harvesting fruit, community orchards can be sold, this providing income. Small business opportunities in green waste management and landscaping arise when cities value mulching and its water-saving qualities. #RandolphHarris 8 of 11
Humans come from the Earth. Whether as houses for children or creative and spiritual inspiration for adults, trees have provided the space for human retreat throughout the ages. Tree planting also provide an opportunity for community involvement and empowerment that improves the quality of our life in our neighborhoods. All cultures, ages, and genders have an important role to play at a tree planting or tree care event. Trees also are helpful landmarks and can give a neighborhood a new identity and encourage civic pride. Trees provide a canopy and habitat for wildlife, and they can mask concrete walls, parking lots, unsightly views and also add privacy. Another benefit is that tree muffle sound from nearby streets and freeways, and create an eye-soothing canopy of green. Trees also absorb dust and wind and reduce glare. During the cold winter month, tree provide wood for fuel and craft wood. The butterflies were vaulting and furling about. The beauty of a well-planted property and its surrounding street and neighborhood can raise property values by as much as 15 percent. Even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed. #RandolphHarris 9 of 11
Studies have shown that the more trees and landscaping a business district has, the more business will flow in. A tree-lined street will also slow traffic—enough to allow the driver to look at the store fronts instead of just speeding by. And finally, a healthy lawn increases soil stability through its deep and expansive root structure which reduces land degradation and erosion from wind and water. A healthy lawn has the same cooling effect as an 8.5-ton air conditioning compressor. Lawns also increase property values, reduce stress are a great place for recreation, they absorb noise, and save water. A soccer field can absorb 50,000 gallons of water before runoff occurs and stores it in the Earth. Grass also reduces carbon dioxide and traps an estimated 12 million tons of dust and dirt released annually into the atmosphere. Turfgrass areas measuring 2,500 square feet produce enough oxygen for a family of four to breathe. An average size healthy lawn can capture as much as 300 pounds of carbon per years and a golf course can capture 1,500 pounds per year. One soccer field can offset the carbon produces by a car driving 3,000 miles. #RandolphHarris 10 of 11
The environmental benefits of trees and grass and their impact on the greenhouse effect is the most sensible and economically feasible approach to countering the greenhouse effect in urban areas. On a hot summer day, a well-maintained lawn area will be at least 30 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than asphalt and 14 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than bare soil. Each generation takes the Earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forest and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. The forest are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortal time will be the flag of a united peaceful World. When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the beauty shade of the cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity? The groves were God’s first temples. #RandolphHarris 11 of 11
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Who can part, forever; only when we come so close that nothing separates us can we meet again, only when what binds us is not my need of you or your need of me nor any chance circumstance, but a deep ingrained likeness of nature that cannot pass away. The face is but a reflecting surface of the soul. Natural law is a rational participation in the eternal law of God and suggests that all people have a sufficient knowledge of what is morally right (the justum) to be able to regulate their own actions. You cannot expect the constituted authorities to inquire into the state of a person’s soul—or is it only one’s liver? The judgment of synderesis (an intellectual quality enabling any person to intuit the first principle of practical reasoning) is simply the proposition “Good should be done and sought after; evil is to be avoided.” Human’s substantial nature is toward the conversation of its own existence and physical well-being, that of human’s animal nature to seek such biological goods as the sexual reproduction and the care of offspring, and that of human’s reason whereby one tends toward universal goods, such as consideration of the interests of other persons and the avoidance of ignorance. #RandolphHarris 1 of 10
I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists. Every calamity severs a strong from the heart, until one scene of sorrow on the back of another matures us for eternity. Is there stagnation in your spiritual life? Get into God’s presence and find out the reason for it. You will possibly find it is because you have been interfering in the life of another—advising when you had not right to advise. When you do have to give advice to another person, God will advise through you with the direct understanding of His spirit. All inclinations are presented as natural and good, provided they are reasonably pursued. They form the bases from which one may conclude to a number of rules of natural moral law. Law in general is any ordinance of reason that is promulgated for the common good by one who has charge of a community. Reason is the key word in this definition. Right reason (recta ratio) is the justification of ethical judgment of thought. In the case of volitional activities, the proximate standard is human reason (regula proxima est ratio humana) but the supreme standard is the eternal law. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10
Therefore, whenever a human’s action proceeds to its end in accord with the order of reason and of eternal law, then the act is right; but when it is twisted away from this rightness, then it is called sin. It is a very great thing to obey, to live under a superior and not to be one’s own master, for it is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live-in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God. Go where you may, you will find no rest except in humble obedience to the rule of authority. Dreams of happiness expected from change and different places have deceived many. Everyone, it is true, wishes to do as one pleases and is attracted to those who agree with them. However, if God be among us, we must at times give up our opinions for the blessings of peace. Furthermore, who is so wise that one can have full knowledge of everything? We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10
God has made nothing in vain. God’s first creation was light. Ethics requires a person to govern one’s actions as reasonably as one can, keeping in mind the kind of agent that one is and the position that one occupies in the total scheme of reality. Human’s own good is achieved by the governance of one’s actions and feelings under rational reflection—and God does not require anything else. For we do not offend God, except by doing something contrary to our own good. It is a part of being reasonable to respect the good of others. The moral good, then, is not so much what people are obligated to do by an all-powerful legislator; rather, it is that which is in accord with the reasonable perfecting of human. In becoming a better agent within oneself, human is making oneself more fit for the ultimate happiness and for the vision of God. This kind of ethics resembles a self-perfectionist theory, without the idealist overtones. Because you honor God, He will do in a fraction of the time what should have taken you a lifetime to accomplish. You are about to see the favor of God profusely abound in your life. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10
Holy and delightsome is the Earth. God saw that everything he had made was very good. All things have specific natures which do not change: dogs are dogs, stones are stones. Certain functions are taken as natural and appropriate to given natures: eating is an act expected of a dog, but not of a stone. Human nature shares certain functions with the higher brutes but is distinguished by the performance of rational activities. Some of these typical functions are always the same in relation to human’s nature and ethical rules pertaining to these do not change. An example of such an immutable rule of justice is simply “Theft is unjust.” Other ethical judgments, however, are not essential to justice (for example, detailed ordinances which contain many variable factors); these secondary rules are by no means absolute and immutable. Examples would be rules concerned with taxation, buying and selling, and other such circumstantially variable regulations. Moral law is composed of both types of rules and is neither absolute nor immutable in all its requirements. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10
Shun the gossip of human as much as possible, for discussion of Worldly affairs, even though sincere, is a great distraction inasmuch as we are quickly ensnared and captivated by vanity. Many a time I wish that I had held my peace and had not associated with humans. Why, indeed, do we converse and gossip among ourselves when we so seldom part without a troubled conscience? This is not a Wendy interview, this is not The Wendy Show! We do so because we seek comfort from one another’s conversation and wish to ease the mind wearied by diverse thoughts. Hence, we talk and think quite fondly of things we like very much or of things we dislike intensely. However, sad to say, we often talk vainly and to no purpose; for this external pleasure effectively bards inward and divine consolation. Therefore, we must watch and pray lest time pass idly. Bad habits and indifference to spiritual progress do much to remove the guard from the tongue. From four till late, I was wringing my hands and crying. I believe to my soul that your daddy is Gulfport bound. From Memphis to Norfolk is a thirty-six-hour ride. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10
A man is like a prisoner and he is never satisfied. A woman is like a dresser, some man is always rambling through its drawers. It is because so many men wear an apron overhaul. From four until late, she get with a no-good bunch and clownin’. Now, she will not do anything, but tear a good man’s reputation down. When I leave this town, I am only going to bid you a fare, farewell. And when I return again, you will have a great long story to tell. Devout conversation on spiritual matters, on the contrary, is a great assistant to spiritual progress, especially when persons of the same mind and spirit associate together in God. Moral conscience is a concrete intellectual judgment whereby the individual agent decides for oneself that a given action or feeling is good or bad, right or wrong, to be done or not to be done. Conscience is not considered a special power or moral sense, nor is it viewed as the source of universal more convictions. It is simply human’s best practical judgment concerning a concrete moral problem. As such, moral conscience is a person’s internal guide to good action; one acts immorally in going against one’s conscience, for it is one’s best judgment on a matter. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10
If it is not one’s best judgment, then the person is clearly required to make a better effort to reach a conscientious decision. I am going to get up in the morning, I believe I will dust my broom. Girlfriend, the Black man you been lovin’, girlfriend, can get my room. I am going to write a letter, telephone every town I know. If I cannot find her in West Hollywood, she must be in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, I know. I do not want no woman who wants every downtown man she meets. She is a no good doney, they should not low her on the street. I believe, I believe I will go back home. You can mistreat me here, babe, but you cannot when I go home. I am going to call up Paris, she is my good girl over there. If I cannot find her on Philippine’s Island, she must be in Ethiopia somewhere. Reasonable consideration is a proposed action includes thinking of the kind of action that it is (the formal object), the purpose to which it is to be performed. These moral determinants are used to complete the theory of right reasoning. I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details. Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the less expensive wine after the guest have too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now. #RandolphHarris 8 of 10
Father in Heaven, this word is for me today. I am raising my expectations. I am building my faith, courage, love, happiness, goals, and dreams. I thank you, God, that You want to do something new and extraordinary in my life. You are God who has blessed me with this beautiful life, amazing family, and great friends. I believe that you are about to flood my life with Your blessings, as you open the windows of Heaven and pour our tsunamis of increased joy, healing, mercy, and blessings that cannot be stopped. Your many blessings and infinite liberality will exceed all my wishes and thoughts. This echo is in my spirit and colonizing my cellular structure, experience and memory, biosocial connection, and body integrity. The goodness of God is denaturing the identity in my body’s reproduction to a genetic code that biotechnical engineers cannot control or manipulate. The bodies deepest structures are possessed and rearranged to overcome me as I heed the echo of the voice of the Lord my God. The body ceases to be a stable spatial map of normalized functions and instead emerges as a highly mobile field of strategic differences known as the divine art of a miracle feeding new events into that pattern. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10
We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. The World is comprised of systems with interactive technology and biological components, allowing flows of information and energy. Thermodynamic, evolutionary processes in systems are sometimes accelerated by catastrophe. A large-scale process and new replicative chains—catastrophes caused by outside factors probably increase complexity more rapidly—but unpredictably. Accelerated growth alters the normative process of human reproduction and social organization. We are talking of fusion; of chemical change; the structural reinvention of cells, of matter and energy in a new relationship. It is not represented as a weakness or defect, but a doorway to other modes of being. The traditional domestic order based on serialization and inheritance, replacing this structure with a field of riddles, secrets, misnaming, and hybrid discourses. Infinite extensions in infinite process. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10
The Key of the Greater Work
You understood my soul, I thought, and now others are coming only to sack my heart of all its riches. Mystical experiences are a nourishment to the soul in supporting the individual in a life of active love and there are behavioral criteria for estimating their worth. Each individual experiences oneself from within as a conscious being. Consciousness is thus directly identifiable as spiritual energy. In this active life, we may possess God through a fusion of the divine and human wills. The love of God and the love of human beings go together and the former finds its consummation in the inner union of the soul with the Creator. In principle, all humans should be capable of this return of the soul to its Source. Two qualifications, however, must be made. First, the way of return involves great heroism and endurance. The creaturely side of a human must be purified. Every virtue may be learned and practiced at home; and it is only because we do not choose to have either virtue or religion among us, that so many adventurers are yearly sent out to smuggle foreign graces. Virtue is a sign of burning love of God, and eventually the friend of God may acquire a real desire for, rather than the aversion to, virtue. #RandolphHarris 1 of 12
Moral experience does deserve to be taken seriously, for facts and values are given together and never occur in separation in our concrete experience of the World. If you have been struggling to deal with a particularly frustrating situation for a long time, do not stop praying about it. Remember that there is nothing that God cannot do. Trust that God will answer you when the time is right. Understand that a delay in hearing from God simply means that His perfect time has not come yet and there is a good reason why. Be patient and trust that God is at work being the scenes. The fall of man has tainted the human being that the divine light, which illuminates the contemplative and brings about the return to God, is something that humans cannot achieve on their own. It is a gift of divine grace. Thus, the culmination of the mystic’s quest is not a personal achievement of the mystic, but an enjoyment granted from beyond. #RandolphHarris 2 of 12
The operation of divine grace requires a right attitude on the part of humans. God is like a fisherman who lets down a baited hook into the ocean. Those fish who are not disposed toward the bait will not be hooked. “The kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was let down into the ocean and caught all kinds of fish. When it was full, the fisherman pulled it up on the shore. Then he sat down and collected the good in baskets, but threw the bad away” (Matthew 13.47-48). Seed sown in faith day by day is the nightly harvest of the soul, and with the soul we work. With the soul we see. Three aspects of the soul can be distinguished. At the deepest level is the Ground of the soul—otherwise referred to as the Spark, the Apex, and God in the soul and is not an intrinsic, natural property of the individual. At another level, the soul possesses intellect, sense faculties, and will. Third, there is the heart. The attitude of the individual toward the divine Being is determined by weather the heart is turned toward the Ground or away from it. If the former, God will descend, draw the spirit up Himself, and unite it with Him. #RandolphHarris 3 of 12
Human choice is there for essentially a choice of disposition. Once this choice has been made, God through His grace will conform the human will to His own. Thus, the end of the contemplative life is a state in which the mystic is, so to speak, taken over by God, so that all one’s actions express God’s purpose rather than one’s own. So, we are given free will and the choice to unite with God or not. If the values of moral life were divorced from the facts of the World, then no argument from moral experience to the nature of reality could succeed. The nature of the good is at which the moral life aims. Is it a temporal good or is it an eternal good? Even to be able to ask this question and to be aware of the temporal dimension of our existence is to have begun to transcend the form of temporality. Furthermore, reflection shows that no merely temporal goods can satisfy the demands of human nature. Such goods are defective in various ways; for instance, they can be attained only successively and cannot be enjoyed simultaneously. #RandolphHarris 4 of 12
One might answer, of course, that this merely shows that human aspirations are doomed to frustration, but that claim is not true. We can enjoy temporal human joys, but the fact of moral striving is to reach the eternal good. The second consideration concerns the question how such an eternal good is to be attained. Can human beings attain to an eternal good? Sin and guilt are conditions that inhibit the moral life and prevent people from reaching their goal. However, again, do not accept this frustration as final. With artifacts, unlike natural examples of design, we have some insight into what is responsible for the adjustment of means to end. We can understand it because we can see how this adjustment springs from the creative activity of the maker, guided by his deliberate intention to make the object capable of performing this function. Hence, in natural cases of adaption where the source of adaptation where the source of the adaptiveness is not obvious, we have no recourse but to employ the only way we know of rendering such phenomena intelligible—supposing them to stem from conscious planning. Since we do not observe any planner at work, we must postulate an invisible planner behind the scenes. #RandolphHarris 5 of 12
The evolution advocated is all embracing and characterizes much more than living things. Long before living things appeared on the Earth, the basic stuff of the cosmos was undergoing irreversible changes in the greater complexity of organization. Hence, nonliving nature is profoundly historical. It is not only a system of stable elements in a closed equilibrium. On the contrary, it conforms at all stages to a law of complexification, comparable in importance to the law of gravity and illustrated by the vast array of organic forms which have appeared in evolutionary history. The more recent of these forms is the human being. The absence of the soul is far more terrible in a living person than in a dead one. Human beings have a conscious inner face that everywhere duplicated the material external material face. Since this is so, the physical evolution of the cosmic stuff will at the same time be an evolution of consciousness. The more highly integrated a material system, the more developed its physical interior will be. Thus, in the human brain an intense concentration, or involution of cells has led to the emergence of self-conscious thought, the most advanced stage reached by evolution thus far. #RandolphHarris 6 of 12
However, greater developments are in store from evolutionary convergence of disparate cultures and forms of consciousness. Humans are now a single, interbreeding species expanding on the finite, spherical surface of the planet and still showing signs of biological immaturity. Furthermore, the human capacity for self-conscious thought and the production of cultures has added a new layer to the Earth’s surface, the noosphere, distinct from, yet superimposed on, the biosphere. The noosphere literally means the mind-sphere or Earth’s mental sheathe. It is a critical premise arising from the inevitable next stage of terrestrial evolution, which will subsume and transform the biosphere. The emergence of the noosphere at a peak mystical moment referred to as the Omega Point. This moment will be the result of the interaction of increasing activity of the human networks creating a highly charged thinking layer above and discontinuous with the biosphere. Thus, a network of links more and more literally present, in the immensity of their organism, as the image of a nervous system. #RandolphHarris 7 of 12
This geotechnology will extend a closely interdependent network of its enterprises over the whole Earth. The evolutionary convergence which it makes possible will be manifested externally in the unification of all human cultures into a single World culture. Paralleling this, a movement toward psychical concentration will occur, so that the noosphere will become involuted in a Hyperpersonal Consciousness at a point which we might call Omega. Here evolution will reach the terminal phase of convergent integration. Omega is obscure, right now, because aspects of this evolutionism is essentially the expression of a mystical vision, combined with technology. God did promises to end all suffering and death on Earth and even promised to raise the dead so that they could live again and experience eternal life, and perhaps technology is a way to do this. Many people fear the future because they believe Earth will get increasingly bad. Much of this evil is thought to be a product of greed and a lack of resources. However, it is also predicted that money will lose its value and become worthless. #RandolphHarris 8 of 12
Nonetheless, with technology like Omega, it is possible to provide for everyone on the planet and make conditions in the noosphere optimal for the growth of food and production of other resources. And it is possible, if death can be cured, so can all other illnesses. Additionally, humans may go on to colonize other planets in our solar system with geotechnology, as they would be able to control the climate and make it possible for human life to thrive. So, if all our needs are met, then war and conflict should no longer be an issue. Omega is not identical with God, but rather, is God insofar as he determines the direction and goal of cosmic history. Hence, the evolutionary process is orthogenetic, although neither vitalistic nor wholly devoid of chance events. The integration of all personal consciousnesses at Omega will be achieved through love, which forms le Milieu divin, the spirit of Christ at work in nature. #RandolphHarris 9 of 12
Even if we admit the World exhibits design, why are we not as justified in supposing the World was generated from the sexual union of two parent Worlds as in supposing that it was created by a mind in accordance with a plan? Because creation generation gives a more satisfactory answer at the particular level of evolution. The mind of the designer also requires explanation. However, the mind of the designer is so well fitted for the architecture of the human soul, body, mind, and the World and Universe and it had to be explained in a way that made sense. So, with the growth of technology, the process of evolution will change. People are essentially good and we want to stop crime on Earth and make life peaceful. If God, or the Omega is able to have a mystic union with technology, the concepts in the Bible are possible. The World is a unified system of adaptions. We can give an intelligible explanation of this fact only by supposing the World was created by an intelligent being according to some plane. Therefore, it is reasonable to consider the World was created by an intelligent being. #RandolphHarris 10 of 12
The World is like a machine. Machines are made by human beings, in accordance with plans. Like effects have like causes. Therefore, the World probably owes its existence to something like a human being, who operates in accordance with a plan. If one is to think of the whole Universe as a system of connected adaptions, one will consider kinds of adaptions other than that exemplified by the fitness of organisms to the conditions of life. The World and the human mind are so related that we can learn more and more without limit. The adaption of living organisms to their environments is part of evolution. The World is conducive to the emergence and maintenance of life only because temperatures do not exceed certain limits, certain kinds of chemical processes go on. Nature is not only suited to penetration by the intellect; it is also constituted so as to awaken valuable aesthetic responses in humans. The ways in which the World ministers to the moral life of humans forces us to learn something about the uniformities in natural operations, develop our intelligence, as a prerequisite to moral development. #RandolphHarris 11 of 12
And moral virtues are acquired in the course of having to cope with the hardships of one’s natural environment. The over-all progressiveness of the evolutionary process, therefore, could be possibly expanded by technology. Now, at long last, the process of cultural evolution has generated another envelope, superimposed on the biosphere, a sheet of humanized and social matter. A planetary sense organ opening it to galactic consciousness. The idea is that I can leave my body for short periods, and during those periods I can search for you. The soul has two parts. One part, the higher soul and it can leave the body. And the primitive or residual soul stays in the body, but is incomplete without a higher soul. God did promise to give new opportunities and new relationships and new perspectives. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who are pure of heart and mind, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city” (Revelation 22.13-14). We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things. And greater works then these God will do. #RandolphHarris 12 of 12
The Winchester Mystery House
As the darkness converged, Mrs. Winchester often found herself caught in a struggle among demons while desperately fighting to stay alive, not knowing from night to night if she would survive in the World’s most haunted mansion. https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
#ASOT811 The Authority of Truth and Instructions for Reasonable Life
My love was founded on a rock and it endures. You cannot look away. The mesmerized look in your eyes reveals that watching and listening seems to put you in a trance, and you emerge feeling better. We know from our own experience that the love we have deeply longed for has always been right here. Peace does not depend on the World looking peaceful, and everything we wanted to be rid of is an expression of the wholeness we are, and that transformation can happen when our minds stop trying to control everything and allow things, moments, people, and feeling to be felt is deeply loving. These aspects of our lives are logically connected with the ideas of human freedom, moral vision, moral criticism, ideas of inventiveness, originality, and the life of the imagination. You are in a trance when you experience past life recall. The recall comes from your unconscious mind, which creates the images that come back up to the surface of your conscious mind. Any times you remember an image you go into a trance, and every time you go into a trance, you are experiencing a form of self-hypnosis. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9
The intellectual life is a social venture. The easier the subject accepts the suggestions from the DJ or music, the more likely he or she is to enter a deeper hypnotic state. This is a term known as fantasy prone personality that describes someone who easily enters a deep trance. The more someone is open to the imaginations, the greater the potential that person have for experiencing a hypnotic trance. Philosophical judgments are ways in which experience progresses toward its goal of intelligibility, and the task of such judgments is to disclose the implications of dynamic coordinates of experience: mind, nature, and other selves. Reality cannot be identified with mind, will, or personality but must be comprehended as a system in which each entity plays a part as an individual and as a significant function of the purposeful whole. Who can part, forever; only when we come so close that nothing separates us can we meet again, only when what binds us is not my need of you or your need of me nor any chance circumstance, but a deep ingrained likeness of nature that cannot pass away. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9
Sentiment is a disgrace instead of an ornament, unless it leads us to good actions. Creation of the World was freely willed by God, as in no way necessitated, as his nature is love. There is no lack or insufficiency in God that needs the creating of the World to remedy it. Love demands society and community, but the divine society of the Trinity is itself thought of as supplying this scope of love, from eternity. It is possible, therefore, to see the creation of the World as a wholly gratuitous exercise of love. The mysteries of religion can sometimes be beyond human reason, but also contradict it. Something may be unthinkable for human reason that is not so for God in itself. Faith always works in a personal way, because the purpose of God is to see that perfect faith is made real in His Children. Faith is a tremendously active principle that always puts Jesus Christ first. Our faith is limitless. Faith is the entire person in the right relationship with God through the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trail of faith is not that we find it difficult to test God, but that God’s character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9
If shame was not audacious, one would never attempt to do as they do. However, let us still resist shame; for notwithstanding all shame’s bravadoes, one promteth the fool and none else. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation. Never confuse the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life, because a great deal of what we call the trail of faith is the inevitable result of being alive. The most general principle of human knowledge is neither principle of identity nor the principle of contradiction, but a principle concerning what we can and cannot think: What cannot be thought at all is false, and what cannot be thought of as false is true. Our notions of identity and contradiction are based on this principle, which is called the principle of cogitabailitas. It is an inner criterion, depending on the nature of the human understanding. Human reason cannot reach ultimate truth. Knowledge begins with experience, both inner and outer, and in many cases is stopped in its analysis of an order of facts by certain notions that, although they are not simple in themselves, cannot be further analyzed by humans. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9
Beauty is an angel that no one ever caught; truth is a deception that changes to falsehood while you finger it. We are shadows among shadows. Even if an analysis is completed and humans do reach some simple basic notion, this notion cannot be demonstrated or deduced from a unique source. Each notion must be intuited singly by connecting it with concrete examples. We are called into intimacy with the gospel, and things happen that appear to have nothing to do with us. However, God is getting us into fellowship with Himself. Let God have His way. If you refuse, you will be of no value to God in His redemptive work in the World, but will be a hindrance and a stumbling block. The Lord does not give me rules, but He makes His standard very clear. If my relationship to God is that of love, I will do what He says without hesitation. If I hesitate, it is because I love someone I have placed in competition with Him, namely, myself. Jesus Christ will not force me to obey Him, but I must. If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9
By an appeal to reality (by their concrete representations)—notions such as existence, space, time, and force; or, in psychology, the particular powers of the soul, some mental faculties, and pleasure and pain, the circular process of being attempts to modify experiences to keep the desired image and avoid the threatening ones, and continually reinforces the beliefs and assumptions in the position apart from being. The desire to anchor one’s being in a self is not attacked, but is invited into a process of respectful inquiry and loving challenge. We learn to relinquish attachment and illusion. It is growth through letting go rather than an accumulation of new ideas, new conditions, and new assumptions that must be continued. A sense of what constitutes emotional pain may be associated with experiences of rejection, abandonment, rage, neglect, or abuse. The psychological split is healed when pain is neither retained nor defended against psychologically. Pleasure is neither sought nor rejected. One may move in the direction of health by integrating experiences that have been avoided, but is fully healthy when rejection and acceptance are not options. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9
God’s existence can be proved, but his attributes cannot, properly speaking, be understand completely by humans—among other things, positive infinity is beyond human’s reason. The human notion of God is partially relative and partially negative; nevertheless, it is certain. God is different from created beings both in degree and in essence. Among the attributes of God is free will, which is limited by principle of contradiction and by his goodness. In God and God alone, intellect and will are a single power. Space and time are intimately connected with existence; they are conditions of things insofar as such things exist. There is no real space or time without substance to fill it; outside the real World there is only possible (not sensible) space or time, which is infinite and filled by God. There are empty spaces in the World (otherwise movement would be impossible), but they are only physically—and not metaphysically—empty, because they are filled with God’s presence. Mathematical space and time are distinct from physical space and time, and are abstracted from the relations of things. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9
Spiritual materialism has finite spirits that are simple unextended substances, and they will enter a space and share with material substances the power of motion. Thus, a real interaction between spiritual and material substances is possible, and the doctrines of pre-established harmony and occasionalism are unnecessary. The human soul is an independent substance with two fundamental powers, thinking and willing, both of which are a complex of several independent lesser powers. Immortality of the soul can be proved only if God’s existence is presupposed—that is, by an appeal to moral certitude. Natural duties have been imposed on human beings through God’s free choice. The empirical psychology into free will has a cognitive power that becomes logic. And there is also an aspect of free will that is also placed in ethics. Moral goodness consists in the conformity of the human will with God’s will. The human will is a power to act on the understanding, on the body, and on the will itself, but its connection with the understanding is not altogether clear. We are immediately conscious of freedom, which is the main property of the human will. The will is moved by sufficient reason, which does not necessitate, and therefore the will is free. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9
It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual—you cannot act for him or her. It must be one’s own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead on to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where one was previously. However, once one acts, one is never the same. An action is moral if it is done out of obligation only, and not in quest of happiness. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will. The practice of coming back to the safe place can enhance mindfulness and encourage reorientation to reality, instead of the subjective, personal story about the individual’s suffering. Forgiveness spontaneously arises, as do spiritual understanding. Virtue is formally conditioned by a coincidence of human will and divine law, and is materially conditioned by love for God. Divine law is known through conscience, which is an immediate power of moral judgment founded on a sort of common sense called moral taste. Evil originates in a wrong use of free will, which, when it submits to unreasonable impulses, corrupts human understanding and the true representation. I wish you health, wealth, and longevity and your family health, happiness, every success and satisfaction. Happy Birthday (422). #RandolphHarris 9 of 9
The Witches Act of 1603—Sell Your Soul to Supernatural 1,000,000 View = Reality
You complain of a great many defects [in yourself] and that complaint is the highest recommendation I could desire to make me love and esteem you and desire your friendship. And if I were now setting out in the World, I should think it my great happiness to have such a companion as you, who had a true relish of truth…and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody. The right and the necessity to inquire freely and fearlessly into all subjects, especially religion, is important to human testimony. The superstitions of peoples throughout the World and also the infinite numbers of pretenders to the divine revelation of freedom, with tongue in cheek created some thoughts. In the sixteenth century, a new Christian theory developed based on Christian theology, canon law, and philosophical ideas. This theory was that a witch had made a deliberate pact with the Devil—almost a form of a personal arrangement—but that witch did not act alone. The Christian witch theory demanded that more of these witches be found, and arrested and that black witchcraft be effectively ended. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9
The authorities of the time believed that even healing had to be a result of a pact with the Devil, so white witches were also persecuted. The arrest of one witch almost certainly led to more arrests, as torture was allowed to be used on suspects to find out the names of other witches. Freedom had exorcised the witches that so plagued James I and Charles I: Witchcraft was a criminal offence in Scotland prior to 1590 and great numbers of witches had almost annually executed in England, from the remotest antiquity to the late Revolution; when the liberty given, and take to thin freely, the Devil’s power visibly declined, and England as well as the United Provinces ceased to be any part of his Christian territories. All enemies of freethinking were branded crack-brained and enthusiastical, malicious, ambitious, inhumane, ignorant, or brutal—or courters of priests, women, and the mob. Three hundred witches had allegedly gathered to plot the murder of James. It is known that James had a morbid fear of violent death. Therefore, these trials were of especial interest to him, and he suddenly developed a very keen interest in demonology and witch craft. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9
Evidence for these crimes seemed outlandish. Witches were accused of attempting to drown James by calling up a storm while he was at sea with his new wife. Other charges included trying to kill James by melting a wax effigy of him. They were also accused of performing perverted rituals in a church in Berwick—though it is not clear that this had to do specifically with trying to kill the king. However, when James became king is 1603, he claimed that he never had been responsible for hunting and killing the witches. Yet, evidence suggests differently. In 1591, King James showed a particular interest in the trial of Mary Napier—she was arrested for consulting a witch and linked to treasonable activity. Mary Napier claimed to be pregnant at the time of her arrest. James wrote a court order to find out if Mary was pregnant and if she was not she was to be burned. Mary Napier was also a friend of Earl Bothwell’s and legend has it that James was willing to use witchcraft for political ends. Nonetheless, the court acquitted Mary Napier—much to the anger of James. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9
While the witches were accused of classic witchcraft, the main issues as far as James was concerned was the plan to murder him—treason. The trials also had a major political aspect as there was an attempt to incriminate Earl Bothwell in the proceedings. One theory put forward is that the whole story was a plot made up by those nobles in Scotland who wanted to devalue the standing of Earl Bothwell within Scotland—and expand theirs. In 1597, James felt sufficiently knowledgeable about witchcraft that he wrote “Daemonologie.” The book dealt with intellectual topics such as magic, sorcery, witchcraft, spirits, and ghost. There were 25 witchcraft trials a year from 1603 to 1625, nearly 450 total. Half of the witches accused were found guilty and executed. As society became more civilized and ancient texts were examined scholarly and in a critical manner, the discourse concluded with a refutation of the standard objections to freethinking. Atheism is not, after all, the worst of all evils; enthusiasm and superstition hold that title. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9
The connection between morality and theoretical science, namely, that theoretical science reflects moral practice. King James was really quick to distance himself as an expert of witches, ghost, and demons because England was viewed as more civilized of a society, where intellectual discussed issues of a philosophical nature—but that did not included witchcraft. For James, any association with the topic was seen as potential embarrassment. The classical conception of politics is to bring humans out a state of nature into a state of civil society. Essentially, political life is a process in which nonsocial community (i.e., the state of nature) is transformed into a social one. This cannot happen unless the rulers understand that social life is a life in which people freely engage in joint enterprises. Civilization is a process whereby a community undergoes a change from a condition of relative barbarity to one of civility. Barbarism is hostility to civilization; but although barbarous communities always strive to destroy civilized ones, in the long run the defeat of barbarism is certain. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9
The Bible, consequently, is not to be taken seriously when it portrays God in human terms; certain parts of the Bible are to be accepted, while others are to be rejected. When the Bible is thought to suggest that it is acceptable to murder or harm or to shun people who are good from society, this must be viewed as fraudulently when contrary to reason. The appeal to mystery and to things above reason simply will not do. The error detected was that what King James and others were doing was for speculative reasons, with no proof firmly established in reality, and it was alien to the mind of philosophers. Given any piece of evidence, more than one reconstruction can be made of the action of which it is a relic. However, each reconstruction, take together with other knowledge, will entail consequences different from those of its fellows. A given reconstruction is established if no consequence that can be drawn from it conflicts with the evidence and if every other reconstruction has some consequence that does conflict with it. If a historian cannot show that one reconstruction, and only one, can be reconciled with the evidence, one must suspend judgment. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9
To discover that an act took place includes discovering the thought expressed in the act; and discovering that thought explains the act. Why is one view of nature replaced by another? Natural science must come first in order that philosophy may have something to reflect on. Art is something preconceived. Works of art may be, and commonly are, also works of craft. However, what makes something a work of art and determines whether it is a good or bad one is not what makes it a work of craft. A work of art is an imaginative creation; the function of imagination is to raise what is preconscious (for instance, mere feeling) to consciousness by giving it definite form. Imagination and expression are identical. All expressions, in any medium, is linguistic; for any form by which the preconscious is raised to consciousness is linguistic. Language thus begins in the cradle. Children speak before they learn their mother tongues. The primitive language of the cradle has not yet officially been decoded, but we can get a sense of what infants and babies are singing and talking about; it must be enriched by intellectualizing it so that it can express thoughts as well as feelings. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9
An intellectualized language is one containing conceptual terms, and conceptual thinking is abstract. An intellectualized language does not cease to be expressive; rather its range of expressiveness is increased. Art is, therefore, not an activity cut off from, say, science. Every fresh linguistic utterance is imaginative and can be considered a work of art. There is poetry without prose, but no prose without poetry. And since it is the nature of art to be expressive, good art is successful expression. Bad art is the malperformance of the act of bringing preconscious thoughts and feelings to consciousness, a malperformance that misrepresents what is thought and felt. It can arise only in a corrupt consciousness. Critics can detect bad art, works of corrupt consciousness, by comparing them with successful works. Consciousness if a feeling and it belongs to a higher order. There is primitive consciousness, appetite, desire, free choice, and reason. One can become conscious of an act of consciousness by introspection or inner sense. All acts of consciousness are linguistic; mind is the child of language. #RandolphHarris 8 of 9
We are not here to work for God because we have chosen to do so, but because God has laid hold of us. Keep your soul steadfastly related to God, and remember that you are called not simply to conveys your testimony but also to preach the gospel. Every Christian must testify to the truth of God; there must be the loving grip of God’s hand on you. The fearful abounding at this time in this country, of these detestable slaves of the Devil, is weakening humanity and making them unfit, and making it abound in others, more than the ordinary course of nature would permit. And such like in all other particular sicknesses. However, I will pray thee to observe in all these places, where I reason upon the Devil’s power, which is the different ends and scopes, that God is the first cause, and the Devil as his instrument and second cause shoot at in all these actions of the Devil, (as Gods hang-man). For where the Devil’s intention in them is ever to perish, either the soul or the body, or both of the, that he is permitted to deal with: God by the contraries, draws every out the evil glory to himself, either by the wreck of the wicked in their injustice, or by the trial of the patient and amendment of the faithful, being waked up with that rod of correction. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9
The Winchester Mystery House
Entombed within these walls are stories of the dead and the strange. Many have experienced for themselves the hauntingly beautiful Winchester Mystery House. https://winchestermysteryhouse.com/
Die objektive Diagnose der Homosexualitat
There is nothing more likely to succeed with an audience than a good history of witchcraft, or somethings so marvelous, as to do violence to common sense, before we give it our faith. A high degree of refinement does not seem to subdue our wicked propensities so much after all; and were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the World to remain unchanged. Scientific laws are always practically inexact. By this notion, it is wished that we point out that a scientific law is never exactly confirmed by the evidence for it but rather is confirmed within the limits of experimental error. A law is accepted on the basis of experimental evidence even if that experimental evidence does not exactly coincide with what, on the basis of deductions from the law, one might expect to be confirming evidence. This is so simply because all measurement of evidence in modern scientific practice involves taking into account errors of measurement, and such errors of measurement must be factored out before a definite conclusion is reach as to the relevance of the evidence.
It is a long known anatomical fact that there is an original predisposition to bisexuality, that in the course of development this changes to monosexuality, leaving only slight remnants of the stunted sex. A spokesman for the masculine inverts stated the bisexual theory in its crudest form in the following words: “It is a female brain in a male body.” However, we do not know the characteristics of a female brain. The substitution of the anatomical for the psychological is as frivolous as it is unjustified. It is more likely that the bisexual predisposition supplies the individual with male and female brain centers just as somatic sexual organs. These centers develop first towards puberty mostly under the influence of the independent sex glands. We can, however, say that same over, we do not even know whether we can assume for the sexual function separate brain locations (centers) in the same way as for the speech function. Bisexual predisposition may also be presumed for the inversion, though we do not know what it consists beyond the anatomical formations; and, secondly, that we are dealing with disturbances which are experienced by the sexual instinct during its development.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, when a man will but give it fair play, and discover it when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistake. In every man there exist male and female elements. In the determination of sex, as far as heterosexual persons are concerned, some are disproportionately more strongly developed than others. There is a firm belief that in every woman there are male, and in every man, there are female germs and qualities. In Mandarin Chinese, the term “women” means “we” because men are from the womb of a lady. However, the first man, Adam, was created by God. Then God duplicated Adam, and removed his penis (rib) and that cause the lady to become more softer and develop characteristics that are feminine such as breast, hips and things because she was softer than a man. Uninformed individuals, who are not willing to accept their sexuality succumbs to the charms of the emanating from the manly qualities of body and mind; he feels himself like a woman and seeks a man.
Good heads and good heart generally go together, but they are not inseparable companions. Among the Greeks, where the most virile men were found, it is quite obvious that it was not the masculine character of the boy, which kindled the love of man, but it was his physical resemblance to woman as well as his feminine psychic qualities, such as shyness, demureness and the need of instruction and help. As soon as the boy himself becomes a man, he ceases to be a sexual object for men and in turn becomes a lover of boys. The sexual object in this case as in many others is therefore not of the same sex, but a union of both sex characteristics, a compromise between the impulses striving for the man and for the woman, but firmly conditioned by the masculinity of body (the genitals). Although psychoanalysis has not yet given us a full explanation for the origin of the inversion, it has revealed the psychic mechanism of its genesis and has essentially enriched the problems in question.
In al the cases examined we have ascertained that the later inverts go through in their childhood a phase of very intense but shortlived fixation on the woman (usually on the mother) and after overcoming it, they identify themselves with the woman and take themselves as the sexual object; that is, proceeding on a narcissistic basis, they look for young men resembling themselves in persons who they wish to love as their mother has loved them. We have, moreover, frequently found that alleged inverts are by no means indifferent to the charms of women, but the excitation evoked by the women is always transferred to a male object. They this repeat through life the mechanism which gave origin to their inversion. Their obsessive striving for the man proves to be determined by their restless flight from the woman. Psychoanalytic research very strongly opposes the attempt to separate homosexuals from other person as a group of special nature. By also studying sexual excitations different than those manifestly overt, it discovers that all men are capable of homosexual object selection and actually accomplish this in the unconscious.
The bisexual men are attracted to women because of a chemical attraction, but they like other men, usually boys because they are innocent and need guidance, and it is considered a problem. The determination as to the definite sexual behavior does not occur until after puberty (13-25 years old) and is the result of a series of as yet not observable factors, some of which are constitutional, while some are of an accidental nature. The behavior is altogether controlled by an archaic constitution and by primitive psychic mechanisms. The importance of the narcissistic object selection and the clinging to their erotic significance of the anal zone seem to be their most essential characteristics. We found the sexual rejection or the early sexual intimidation and the existence of both parents plays an important role in the child’s life. The disappearance of a strong father in childhood not infrequently favors inversion. However, there is also a certain degree of independence is unmistakable also in this relation.
The term Homosexuality should be replaced by better one which is Homoerotic because it is a number of different condition that are grouped together and have quite variable significance both from organic as well as psychical point of view because the one symptom of inversion is present. There are but four very marked differences at least between two types of subject-homoerotics, who feel and act like women, and the object-homoerotic who is masculine throughout and only has (mistakenly) exchanged a female object against one of the same sex. We have obtained an insight which can become of greater significance to us than the solution of the above problem. Our attention is called to the fact that we have assumed a too closer connection between the sexual instinct and the sexual object. The sexual instinct is probably entirely independent of its object and is not originated by the stimuli proceeding from the object. And some people are attracted to youth who are not legal because they an impulsive urge (uncontrollable at the time) and are using them as a substitute because they cannot secure the proper object.
Still, it throws some light on the nature of the sexual instinct, that should permit such great variations and depreciations of its object, something which hunger, adhering more energetically to its object, would allow only in the most extreme cases. The same may be said of sexual relations with animals—a thing not all rare among unindustrial civilizations—where the sexual attraction goes beyond the limits of the species. For esthetic reasons one would gladly attribute this and other excessive aberrations of the sexual instinct to the insane, but this would not accord with the facts. Experience teaches that among the later no disturbances of the sexual instinct can be found other than those observed among the sane, or among whole races and classes. Thus, we find with gruesome frequency sexual abuse of children by community leaders, trusted people in the community, teachers, and servants merely because they have the best opportunity for it. The insane present the aforesaid aberration only in a somewhat intensified form; or what is of special significance is the fact that the aberration becomes exclusive and takes the pace of the normal sexual gratification.
This is very remarkable relation of sexual variations ranging from the normal to the insane gives material for reflection. It seems to me that the fact to be explained would show that the impulses of the sexual life belong to those which even normally are most poorly controlled by the higher psychic activities. One who is in any way psychically abnormal, bet in in social or ethical conditions, it, according to experience, regularly so in one’s sexual life. However, many are abnormal in their sexual life who in every other respect correspond to the average; they have kept abreast of the human cultural development, but their sexuality remained as their weak point. As the general result of these discussion we come to see that, under numerous conditions and in a surprising number of individuals, the nature and value of the sexual object steps into the background. There is something else in the sexual instinct which is the essential and constant element. The most pronounced difference between the love life of antiquity and our lies in the fact that the ancients placed the emphasis on the instinct itself, while we put it on its object.
The ancients extolled the instinct and were ready to ennoble through it even an inferior object, while we disparage the activity of the instinct as such and only countenance it on account of the merits of the object. The union of the genitals in the characteristic act of copulation is taken as the normal sexual aim. It serves to diminish the sexual tension and to quench temporarily the sexual hot sheets motel desire (gratification analogous to satisfaction of hunger). Yet, even the most normal sexual act, certain addenda are distinguishable, the development of which may lead to aberrations described as perversions. Thus, certain intermediary relations to the sexual object connected with copulation, such as touching and looking, are recognized as preliminaries to the sexual aim. These activities are on the one hand pleasurable as such, and on the other hand, they enhance the excitement which persists until the definite sexual aim is attained.
One special form of contact, which consists of mutual approximation of mucous membranes of the lips in the kiss, has received a sexual value among the civilized nations, though the parts of the body do not belong to the sexual apparatus and merely form the entrance to the digestive tract. These addenda, therefore, supply the factors which allow us to bring the perversions into relation to the normal sexual life, and are available also for classification. The perversions represent either an anatomical transgressions of the bodily regions destined for sexual union, or a lingering at the intermediary relations to the sexual object which should normally be rapidly passed, on the way to the definite sexual aim. The fascination with breast, and large breast in particular, for all kinds of reasons, goes back to infancy, a charge of excitation that we eventually eroticize because they provide so much pleasure and nourishment to babies, or reminds them of the warm heartbeat the felt when their mother held them close to her chest. The increased pull towards breasts starts usually in the teen years. Homosexual men also like big breast because they remind them of a booty.
Overestimation of the sexual object is the psychic estimation in which the sexual object shares as a goal of the sexual instinct is only in the rarest cases limited to the genitals; generally it embraces the whole body and tends to include all sensation emanating from the sexual object. The same overestimation extends to the psychic sphere and manifests itself as a logical blinding (diminished judgment) concerning the psychic attainments and perfections of the sexual object, and in a credulous yielding to the judgments emanating from the latter. The absolute faith inspired by love thus becomes an important, if not the primordial source of authority. The nature of hypnosis is to be found in the unconscious fixation of the libido on the person of the hypnotizer (by means of the masochistic component of the sexual instinct. This character is connected to the parent complex. It this sexual overvaluation, which is so incompatible with the restriction of the sexual aim to the union of the genitals only, and which raises other parts of the body to sexual aims.
At the same time it is to be observed that sexual overestimation is not developed by all of the mechanisms of object choice, and that we will later learn of another and more direct explanation of the sex role of other bodily parts. The factor of excitement hunger explains the spreading of the sexual interests to other parts of the body than the genitals does not seem to me to deserve this significance. The different paths along which the libido moves, behave one to another from the beginning like communicating pipes, and one must therefore take into account the phenomenon of collateral streaming. The significance of the factor of sexual overestimation can be best studied in the male, in whom alone the sexual life is accessible to investigation, whereas in the women it is veiled in impenetrable darkness, partly on account of the conventional reticence and insincerity of women. In typical cases, the wife permits this sexual-overvaluation of the male to pass by but almost always makes up for it in the child born to her.
Humans are driven by the laws of nature, which make them believe automatically in the possibility of experience. Knowledge of nature, to many, requires tearing down the insurmountable barrier fixed between a priori (being without examination or analysis) and empirical knowledge by means of one’s distinction between sensibility as receptivity and understanding spontaneity. It is also not unusual to support the working person’s longing for a decent living account to the law of humanity. We have been given directions to attend to faith, and fear, and self-restraint. There are two angels with an individual—one of righteousness and the other of iniquity. The angel of righteousness is gentle and modest, meek and peaceful. When, therefore, he ascends into your heart, forthwith he talks to you of righteousness, purity, chastity, contentment, and of every righteous deed and glorious virtue. When all of these ascend into your heart, know that the angel of righteousness is with you. These are deeds of the angel of righteousness. Trust him, then, and his works.
Look now at the works of the angel of iniquity. First, he is wrathful, and bitter, and foolish, and his works are evil, and ruin the servants of God. When, then, he ascends into your heart, now him by his works. When anger comes upon you, or harshness, know that he is in you; and you will know this to be the case also, when you are attacked by a longing after many transactions, and the richest delicacies, and drunken revels, and divers luxuries, and things improper, and by hankering after women, and by overreaching, and pride, and blustering, and by whatever is like to these. When these ascend into your heart, know that the angel of iniquity is in you. Now that you know his works, depart from him, and in no respect trust him, because his deeds are evil, and unprofitable to the servants of God. And once you fall victim to the ancient illusion, it will be hard to escape his deadly embrace, and you will flee into the arms of danger, dropping conditions essential to salvation.
These, then, are the actions of both angels. Understand then, and trust the angel of righteousness; but depart from the angel of iniquity, because his instruction is very bad in every deed. If the angel of inequity is in your heart, you will think you must sin. On the other hand, be a man or woman ever so bad, yet, if the works of the angel of righteousness—sensibility and intelligibility—are in his or her heart, he or she must do something good. You see, therefore, that it is good to follow the angel of righteousness, but bid farewell to the angel of iniquity. This commandment exhibits the deeds of faith, that you must trust the works of the angel of righteousness, and doing them you may live to God. However, believe the works of the angel of iniquity are hard. If you refuse to do them, you will live to God. Morals have a basic science, jurisprudence, because the idea of justice is the constitutional law of this science. If there were no a priori law of justice, the sort of systematic knowledge of the law that the Romans assigned to iurisprudentia would not be possible.
God is the Sun and the World is Eternal
How often is the term “savages” incorrectly applied! None really deserving of it were ever yet discovered by voyagers or by travelers. They have discovered heathens and barbarians, whom horrible cruelties they have exasperated into savages. I might be mistaken thinking that I am sitting in front of a blazing fire, but I could not be mistaken about it seeming true to me. I cannot be mistaken about the idea itself. Usually with pains, sensations, images, and other so-called objects of inner sense being included, it would be absurd to say, “I believe I am in pain, but perhaps I am not,” just as it usually is absurd to say, “I said it seemed so-and-so to me, but I was not sure whether it really did”—absurd, that is, unless the experience itself is indeterminate or borderline. Accordingly, sense statements (presumed to be sincere) are sometimes said to be incorrigible on the ground that one who makes such a statement cannot possibly be mistaken about his or her experience even though one may deceive others. My mother always taught me that it is ridiculous to constantly acknowledge the physical pain that you are feeling and that it could make it worse because one focuses on it more and that we should focus on things that generate happiness. #RandolphHarris 1 of 9
Focusing on physical pain is a lot like focusing on a relationship that has ended, you will feel the pain more because you are thinking about it. However, you notice when a relationship ends, and even when you are experiencing extreme emotional pain, when your friends come around smiling and happy and playing music you like and wanting to take you out to have fun that it distracts you from your pain and you feel better about yourself. Just because you are distracted and enjoying life does not mean that the break up did not happen and that you are not hurting emotionally, it just means you are trying to heal and move beyond the pain. Actualization requires principle and material force. The idea seems to be that self-nourishment is the characteristic sign which we identify the presence of life, and that soul explains the presence of those features. The soul is substance in the sense of form or essence of a living thing. So, the soul is the actuality of a natural body that is potentially alive and we must also feel our soul with things that make us feel good and it will keep the body and emotions strong and alive. #RandolphHarris 2 of 9
A living thing’s soul is its capacity to engage in activities that are characteristic of living things of its natural kind and conducive to their well-being and survival. Anything the nourishes itself experiences growth, movement and rest, perception, and intellect and the soul is what is causally responsible for the animate behavior (the life activities) of a living thing. The Great Ultimate involves both principle and material force. Principle is necessary to explain the reality and universality of things. It is incorporeal, one, eternal, and unchanging, uniform, constituting the essence of things; it is always for, and it is the reason for creation. Material force is necessary to explain physical form, individuality, and the transformation of thins. It is physical, many, transitory and changeable, unequally present in things; it constitutes their physical substance and involves both good and evil. It is the agent of creation. These are nested in the sense that anything that has a higher degree of soul also has all of the lower degrees. #RandolphHarris 3 of 9
The principle of duality is not accepted by everyone. Physicalist do not thing that mental states are brain states—or heart states—or bodily processes at all. Natural objects are given a form regardless of our perception. Reality that is of images, produced by us and dependent on our will, fantasy, and creative processes are impressionism. People use their knowledge about the World and depict reality as it is conceived at a given time. There is no one system of mathematics, but there are many mutually exclusive systems. Various geometries coincide. With accepted proofs not always establishing all the given causes or factors including bias being considered. When we build analysis based on logic, we can accept, reject, or accept the negations of some extralogical existence axioms of infinity, and the assumption of the existence of transfinite cardinal numbers. Logic itself should not decide any existence problem. Conflicting views are presented in long speeches, with few interruptions. Sometimes the clash of opinions leads to insult and denunciations when personal abuse is involved when views are examined on fear of death, on pain, on distress of mind, and on other matters. Nonetheless, dreams and goals and visions ensure preservation; they portray the virtuous soul enjoying a more perfect existence on Earth and in Heaven in the region above the moon. #RandolphHarris 4 of 9
Happiness is to be found in living according to nature, which is revealed to us through experience; there is no absolute good or evil, as we may deduce from the multiplicity of customs and laws. Knowledge is acquired through our sense and has only relative validity. Only the truths of mathematics and reason are universal. Religious beliefs, however, do not spring from reason; it is reason also reason that should guide an individual in regulating their lives, establishing society and laws, and achieving happiness. Toleration and love of others is important, we were all saved by God’s love. Therefore, one who is both body and soul, is free and immortal, and one’s behavior should be governed by reason and by conscience. People should worship God and abide by the golden rule to treat others with the same courtesy and respect that you would like to be shown. Truth has to be found in the individual soul. It is absolutely and undeniably certain that something has existed from all eternity. There is something now, and since something cannot come from nothing, there must always have been something. There has existed from eternity someone, unchangeable and independent being. #RandolphHarris 5 of 9
That unchangeable and independent being, which has existed from eternity without any external cause of its existence, must be self-existent, that is necessarily existent. The only true idea of a self-existent being is the idea of being of a being whose non-existent being is an express contradiction. The self-existent being is infinite, omnipresent, intelligent, free, omnipotent, wise, good, and just. The fitness of certain kinds of behavior between persons is as manifest, as that the properties which flow from the essences of different mathematical figures have different congruities or incongruities between them. These fitting relations between person are the eternal law of righteousness. With respect to our fellow creatures this law is: so deal with every person as in like circumstances we could reasonably expect one should deal with us, and that in general we endeavor, by an universal benevolence to promote the welfare and happiness of all humans. The eternal law of righteousness is also spoken of as the Law of Nature and the right reason of things. The right reason to account for someone’s obligation to follow the law of righteousness. #RandolphHarris 6 of 9
Right reason distinguishes humans from beast and enables us to see that there is a natural and necessary difference between right and wrong and between just and unjust. It follows that a vicious person is someone whose reason has been either clouded by education or bad habits or overborne by selfish desires. Reason is the faculty that discerns the fitness of actions and impels our obligation. However, at the same time the role of reason in speculative matters and the role of reason in morality are not wholly similar. In mathematics, for example, as soon as one understands the terms and conditions of their compatibility, one immediately assents to those propositions in which the terms are properly combined. However, morality is a matter of both reason and will, and despite a person’s knowledge of the right reason of things one might nonetheless withhold one’s will from conforming to it. In founding morality on the fitness and unfitness in the relation of thins, God must discover the fitness and conform his will to it just as any other moral agent must. #RandolphHarris 7 of 9
Whenever our right becomes the guiding factor of our lives, it dulls our spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but good choices which are not quite good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best. God answers prayers in the best way—not just sometimes but every time. God has chosen to order things as they are because this order makes for the best of all possible Worlds. Gravity is an act of will on the part of God, an instance of pre-established harmony. God is the primary cause of motion, and the quantity of motion in the Universe is constant. The planets are moved by vortices in the ethereal substance. Once our Lord was glorified in His ascension, the Holy Spirit came into the World, and He has been here ever since. We have to receive the revealed truth that God is here. The attitude of receiving and welcoming the Holy Spirit into our lives is to be the continual attitude of believers. When we receive the Holy Spirit, we receive reviving life from our ascended Lord. If truth and justice, and the better principles of our nature, cannot exist unless enforced by the statute-book, how are we to account for the social condition of the Typees? #RandolphHarris 8 of 9
The good law will come with a better civilization; but before society can be civilized it has to be de-barbarized. If anything is a mystery to you and is coming between you and God, never look for the explanation in your mind, but look for it in your spirit, your true inner nature—that is where the problem is. Once your inner spiritual nature is willing to submit to the life of Jesus, your understanding will be perfectly clear, and you will come to the place where there is no distance between the Father and you, His child, because the Lord has made you one. After passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. What is the sign of a friend? Is it that one tells you one’s secret sorrows? No, it is that one tells you one’s secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we continually telling God our secrets, leaving him no time to talk to us? The total being of our life inside and out is to be absolutely obsessed by the presence of God. God’s will alone is sufficient reason to account for things being where they are. #RandolphHarris 9 of 9
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Are you Ignoring your Most Important Relationship?
Relationships seem nearly impossible these days, I am not into relationships, I like being single and do not even want to be intimate with anyone. Nonetheless, most people I have met are already in relationships, have ulterior motives, too busy, or are just not my type. Not only that, but our society is so visual and everyone is publicizing themselves so they can be selected to market a product or they are a model with 100,000 followers on their Instagram social media profile and showing off their fabulous bodies. With such a high number of interactions on social media, these people with these fantastic bodies, great faces, nice hair, sexy lips, and dreamy eyes probably have others throwing themselves at them daily, and if they are not already in a relationship, that is not a problem because there are hundreds of people who would love to date these internet icons. Conversely, if I was dating an internet icon, it would make me so uncomfortable because the person I am in a relationship with would be considered highly desirable and having people contact them daily, for various reason, and this would likely compromise our relationship. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8
Personally, I would like to date a nerd because they are not going to be stumbling around drunk and babbling during the day. They do not have much of a social life and usually are very smart, someone I could have a conversation with about anything or get to know their hobbies, what kind of music and movies they like, what is their favorite car, favorite color, what cuisine they love, can they cook, where do they seem themselves in five years, and what is their favorite style of architecture. However, nowadays, many people think they know others because of social media and have preconceived notions of who an individual is because they basically cyberstalk people they like, meaning they monitor your social media accounts, find out who you know, interview those people, then hangout at places they know where you are going and they even track your cell phones to find out where you are and people get hurt that way. However, that is not the only problem. With social media, you never know who is actually behind the screen of the computer and it may not be the person you think it is. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8
Nature is not only spontaneity, but also a constant flux, for all thing are in a state of perpetual self-transformation, each according to its own nature and in its own way. I recently met someone on social media, and we connected in person. I could not figure out what was going on with him because he has a verified account, but in person he seemed so different than he did on the computer. Turns out, it was two different guys. One was the internet icon who was hired to model for pictures and manage the social media account and the other was the actual person who was being represented, but he rarely uses social media and their personalities are vastly different. So, even if you met a person and get to know them, their social media account may not actually represent them. You never know who is managing it or what it is actually being used for. Then some people are nothing like their social media accounts, even if they are the ones using them. If there is an agent directing this process, there is no evidence of it. Things seem to develop from simple to higher life and finally to the individual, and social media can be completing a cycle of transformation. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8
Some people use social media as an outlet or just to send out random things that are on their mind because they have no one to talk to, or they are responding to critics, but when you meet them in person they are totally different that you would probably expect them to be. In this unceasing transfiguration, things appear and disappear. In such a Universe time cannot be recalled and things move like a galloping horse. The person and their social media profile seem to be different, there are some large differences, some small, some beautiful and some ugly, but people consider them one. Reality and unreality, right and wrong, life and death, beauty and ugliness, and all conceivable opposites are reduced to an underlying unity. This is possible because all distinctions and oppositions are merely relative, because they are the result of a subjective point of view, because they mutually cause each other, and because opposites are resolved by assumptions. Because that is your picture and name, I assume this is you using this account, and even if it is, maybe the things you are saying is about a television show, talk show, or lyrics to a song. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8
Nonetheless, the things we share on social media are somewhat relevant, even if they do not depict us in reality. You are letting this person represent you for a reason, you shared information about this television show because it resonated with you on some level, these song lyrics interest you for a reason. By the doctrine of mutual causation a thing necessarily produces its opposite, “this” implies “that,” life is a transition, construction requires destruction, and so forth. So, maybe the social media account represents all the things you know you are not allowed to do or say, with a little insight into who you are. By opposite, both being extremes, need to be synthesized. Some people reject all distinctions and seek no self, fame, or success. People may be seeking great knowledge, which is all-embracing and extensive, and discards all small knowledge, which is partial and discriminative. Some people share essays and things of depth on social media, but that is overlooked. Social media is an outlet for so many different causes. Some internet icons, especially Japan, get paid thousands and hundreds of thousands a month to advertise products, and that is their only job. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8
I like to fast in my mind, and sit down, and forget everything—especially the so-called humanity and righteousness of hypocritical society; and travel in the realm of infinity. In this way cultivating profound virtue, achieving great concord with spiritual peace and emancipation. The internet can be mystical and the fatalistic elements are obvious, but it allows us to roam beyond the mundane World and become teachers or kings. To be in accord, we must nourish our own nature and follow its own destiny. The eagle should rise to the clouds, and the dove should hop from treetop to treetop. If a person were to shorten the crane’s neck because it is long or to lengthen the duck’s leg because it is short, that would be interfering with Nature. Spiritual freedom and peace can be achieved only through knowing one’s own nature and capacity and being able to adapt oneself to the Universal process of transformation. The ultimate goal is oneness with God and for one’s individuality to be clearly recognized. Individual differences are not to be taken as basis for discrimination, but neither are they to be denied or ignored. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8
This respect for individual nature and destiny will eventually lead to the emphasis of love, peace, and harmony. We should not be superior servants to controversy and judgment nor hypercritical of others. Like the general run of deists, there is reason sufficient to guide people to God’s favor and happiness of another World; some might be suspicious of mystery and of miracles and critical of some passages in the Scriptures, but it is better than talking about a parking lot fight or a home invasion. I find negative information to be so draining and it makes people sad, it is not something I want to focus on. Revelation in the Bible is considered by some not as divine, but as the work of honest people who gave fair and faithful account of matters of fact; I believe in the dignity of human nature and free will. We should all take a careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of the freedom of will, which is supposed to be essential to moral agency, virtue and vice, reward and punishment, praise and blame. Do not take the pressure of your provision upon yourself. It is not only wrong to worry; it is unbelief. #RandolphHarris 7 of 8
Because of the things that have happened in my life building faith in God has been a really tumultuous process and has taken daily practice. I have learned the celebrities and reporters and money and status are not what make one a great person. What makes one great is when they operate with love for humanity and nature and animals. And when we worry, it means we do not believe that God can look after the practical details of our lives, and it is never anything but those details that worry us. The only cure for unbelief is obedience to the Spirit of God. The delight of despair comes when I delight in knowing that there is something in me which must fall prostrate before God when He reveals Himself to me, and also in knowing that I am ever to be raised up, it must be by the hands of God. God can do nothing for me until I recognize the limits of what humanly possible, allowing Him to do the impossible. It is God who fills plain days with happiness and it is God who cares much about everybody. My love for God is beyond words and He deserves every beautiful thing. The only relationship that matters is not with a celebrity, an internet icon, or a reporter, but with God! #RandolphHarris 8 of 8
I Will Choose (or Decide to Buy) a 2025 BMW Tomorrow
Our manners and customs go for more in life than our qualities. Choices may or may not involve mental acts and fundamentally are overt actions for which certain sorts of explanations in terms of purposes can be given. Choices, unlike beliefs, are neither true nor false. We rate choices by calling them good or bad, wise or foolish, and correct or incorrect when “correct” and “incorrect” mean that a choice is suitable or unsuitable for the attainment of some end, but we never rate choices by calling them true or false. Human beings can be sinful and some men and women are persistently self-centered and their highest moral achievements can be quickly corrupted by selfishness. Yet, although we thus fail, exhibiting a chronic moral weakness and poverty, our failure is not inevitable; we are ourselves, at least some part responsible for it. The fall of man is a myth that man was originally created perfect but fell by his own fault into our present state, in which he was divided both in himself and from his fellows and God. God’s free forgiveness, offered by Christ, all humans are released from guilt of their moral failure (justification) and are drawn into a real of grace in which they are gradually re-created in character (sanctification). #RandolphHarris 1 of 7
The past is such a curious creature, to look in its face, a transport may reward us, or a disgrace. Now I gaze at your eyes and you are so quiet that there is only hope for the future. I complain you do not cherish our connection while you claim I am too sentimental. Times goes by slowly, but your eyes are in my heart forever: they are as pure as crystal, as light as the moon, as deep as abyss and as white as the snow. My beloved, let us bury the sweet whisper of the past years in our deep hearts and turn them into beautiful memory. No matter how far away I am from you and how many years before we meet again, I am always missing and blessing you in my heart. Heaven is eternal, spontaneous, nameless, and indescribable, at once the beginning of all things and the way in which they pursue their course. It is nonbeing, not in the sense of nothingness, but in the sense of not being any particular thing. It is absolute and mystical. When it is possessed by an individual thing, it becomes the thing’s character or virtue. Because of one’s innate ability to do good, one necessarily extends the innate knowledge into action. Knowledge and action are really identical; one is the beginning and the other completion. #RandolphHarris 2 of 7
A named etched in a plaque may not pass into posterity, nor may the one carved in a slate in eternity, but the name of our God impressed in the recesses of our hearts will stay there forever. It is you who open the window of my thoughts. It is you who melt the frost in the bottom of my heart. This poem of love, passion, and imagination is as deep as the blue sky. Can these bright stars be your eyes? Your eyes are stars to me, in the vast ocean of life, navigating me to the dawn. The most beautiful face in the World is yours, the warmest chest in the World belongs to you, the strongest arms in the World are your, the purest heart is the World you possess. The ideal life of the individual, the ideal order of society, and the ideal type of government are all based on Heaven and guided by it. As the way of life Heaven denotes simplicity, spontaneity, tranquility, gentleness, and most important of all, nonaction, or, rather, letting Nature take its own course. We will find spiritual freedom and peace, a place will we show love to all. Universal love benefits Heaven, spiritual beings, and all living beings. #RandolphHarris 3 of 7
And on Earth one should show special affection to one’s own parents. Otherwise there would be no difference between other people’s parents and one’s own, family relationships would collapse. The only way one can get to know the truth of God is to stop trying to find out and by being born again. If one obeys God in the first thing He shows you, the He instantly opens up the next truth to you. God will never real more truth about Himself to you until you have obeyed what you already know. Our Lord took on Himself the sin of the World though identification with us, not through sympathy for us. God deliberately took on and endurance the cumulative sin of the human race. Jesus Christ reconciled the human race, putting it back to where God designed it to be. And now anyone can experience that reconciliation, being brought into oneness with God. The will of Heaven is that human beings should practice humanity and righteousness, be economical, and practice universal love, and it is our duty to obey the will of Heaven. #RandolphHarris 4 of 7
Erroneous thoughts and erroneous attachments are similar to clouds hiding the Sun. When they are removed the original nature will be revealed and great wisdom obtained. The way to discover the original nature is calmness and wisdom. Calmness does not means not being carried away by thought in the process of daily life and being free from characters while in the midst of contemplation and experiencing life. When the mind is unperturbed by selfishness or deliberate effort and is left to take its own course, it will reveal its pure nature, and enlightenment will come suddenly. This World is good, focus on the original goodness of nature that takes place in the midst of daily affairs, and keep your mind focused on self-realization. The nature and destiny of human beings and things will be correct in their differentiated state if they all follow the same universal principle. As new things appear, new principles are realized and in the production and reproduction in the Universe the process of daily renewal never ceases. When principle is endowed in humans it becomes their nature. Human’s nature is originally good because we were created by a benevolent and loving God who is the source of all goodness. #RandolphHarris 5 of 7
Evil arises when feelings are aroused and we deviate from the laws of God. However, through moral cultivation selfish desires can be eliminated and the principle of Nature realized. Our Lord’s temptations and ours are in different realms until we are born again and become His brothers. The temptations of Jesus Christ are not those of us mere human, but the temptations of God as Man. Through regeneration, the Son of God is formed in us, and in our physical life He has the same setting the He had on Earth. Only the Spirit of God can detect temptation of the Devil. Many of us turn back from going on with Jesus Christ from the very moment we have an experience of what He can do. Watch when God changes your circumstances to see whether you are going on with Jesus Christ or siding the negative forces, the flesh, and the Devil. The mind is originally good and endowed with the innate knowledge of the good and the innate ability to do good. The mind fills the whole Universe. A simple, easy, and direct method of recovering one’s originally good nature consists in having a firm purpose, stabling the nobler parts of one’s nature. #RandolphHarris 6 of 7
The daily renewal and incessant change is a reality of endless transformation of closing and opening, which constitutes a process of unceasing production and reproduction. Every day we have a chance to be better people and make healthy changes in our lives, which will result in many beneficial manifestations that are in various aspects of the mine, will, and consciousness. Christ suffered in his own person the punishment that was justly due to humankind. However, God’s forgiveness does not need to be purchased by Christ’s death, but this brings home to the human heart both human’s need for divine forgiveness and the reality of that forgiveness. God has acted toward humans in three distinguishable ways—in creation and providence, in redemption, and inner guidance and sanctification. People are freely accepted by God’s gracious love, which one only has to receive in faith. Individuals have only to accept the fact that although unacceptable even to oneself, one is accepted by God. What separates the enlightened person from the ignorant? Is civilization a thing distinct, or it is an advanced stage of barbarism? #RandolphHarris 7 of 7
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