Dawning of Aquarian Age

The People apply their own judgement to create a sliding scale of importance; which is really neccessary if you're applying that judgement to tasks. Some jobs have dependencies and need to be completed before other jobs can be done. But its not so great if we apply the same judgement to persons, and decide that some one person is more or less important than another person. Clearly some people are more or less influential in our Global Community, which leads us to believe that power and authority can be focused on an individual. But the truth is we are equally powerful and equally important. Time is the commodity, we are alloted equal shares at the exact same rate, and it spends in the exact same way - although you may choose what to spend it on. 1 hour out of any human life is just as precious, irreguardless of the person's ability to perform some useful labor. The most fundamental activities of human life - such as breathing for example; are work and labor intensive - but nobody ever gets paid just for breathing. But most of us deserve some recognition just for surviving in this world, longevity is a fair measure of success. Many of us have had to endure some kind of hardship in life, it doesn't always seem fair, but there is no higher authority to gaurentee us comfort and security. We suffer the loss of our property or our companions as gracefully as we can; and there is no-one really to blame for these losses, thats just the nature of reality. While its true that we collectively create our own reality to a degree, the greater part of it is circumstantial and beyond our power to affect or control. But since we are each endowed by some power of will to influence our environment, we still get to make choices of consequence. We shouldn't have to depend so much on the choices that other people are making all the time, independence is freedom, but our interdependence is unavoidable. Most of the time our interdependence works out to be an advantage, but someone is always trying to take advantage of us. We don't always get a fair exchange of labor for labor, someone is always looking to profit. Who would choose to forego profits in favor of fairplay, and share the advantages life has given us? There are few things in life that we may easily afford to give away, and not be deprived of something valuable. We may spend an hour of our time only once.

We should exercise some care not to become too demanding of other people's time and attention; but not because we are unimportant, but because we are NOT more important and shouldn't want to promote the other guy's importance above our own.

When we can look at the 6.5 billion people without prejudice and see peers, companions, and enduring relationships we begin to achieve the true spiritual awakening.

The relationships between the people will endure; and you can't say, "But we've never had a conversation, there is no relationship!" In due course of time you may get the opportunity to have that conversation, we only need to be willing.

Majorities and Popular Support

Of course I do not have the means to subdue the American people on my own, but I never work alone. The number of companions I have available is simply unknown, I may easily have a majority opinion behind my great cause. But the truth is I only need to win one supporter, if that person has greater authority and strength than the American people can muster.

If I propose that the world needs to be forced into peace, then obviously such an idea will not make me popular. I could make more of an effort to gather support from the greater community of humanity, but popularity is not a requirement for the King to do his job. We don't vote for a King you see, the King votes for himself, the ultimate minority. The King defines his own career, he's self-employed always. And we should only hope that the person who wins authority over every nation of the world, is motivated by the noblest intentions. Ideas like, "the greater good" should prevail over personal gain.

But what does our world really deserve, and what are the people expecting? Are they expecting a Kind and Loving Father to rise up from their midsts and guide the world to prosperity? A good judge who will not punish the people. Most people seem to agree that there are some wicked men and women here on planet Earth who do deserve punishment. If there is no punishment they will be greatly dissappointed.

But many people who follow the New Testament Bible are expecting an Anti-Christ to rise to power over the world. A great villan and tyrant, but still a person of considerable authority. This person's authority does not come from God, or so it is believed; this is not a person of superior faith. It all seems to depend on the agency of some Higher-Powers which exist between God and Men. A pact with the Devil perhaps, or should we call him the Ancient Dragon? Clearly this person's time and authority on Planet Earth will be limited, if we follow the prophecy. If we look at this person as the Anti-Christ he is just doing a job, and a neccessary job by all indications. And for his part of the work there is a reward, the reward does not sound very appealing but someone has to claim it.
These are the conditions that will advance our great cause, the ultimate survival of our species depends on this. And the promise of our immortality and ressurection depends on this. Therefor we must consider the possiblity that our favorite enemy, the expected anti-christ, is motivated to make the personal sacrifice out of compassion.

Its long been a saying that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
And Hell is meant to be a place of everlasting suffering, nobody wants to end up there. Who can cope with that, and endure it? Only the Most-High-God can grant us the strength to endure everlasting torment. The person who finds himself there may long for an end to come, but the end will be far removed from his reach. Curiously this condition does represent a kind of immortality, and the life of that man must be preserved indefinately.

Of course our great tyrant does not go alone to the fire, he has a companion in the Ancient Dragon, and the Beast of the Earth. I've never talked about the nature of the Beast in my blog as yet. This is a creature of Humanity, it is made up of men and women. Possibly every man and woman should be considered as a part of it. In a sense it represents the modern age of humanity, and our civilization is characterized by it. No one has ever been able to tame the beast, it has a life of its own and pursues it's own interests. Those interests are characterized by 7 heads and 10 kings or horns. We could try to guess at the meaning of those 10 horns, and it would be fair to say that material wealth is one strong motivation among men. Political Authority is another strong motivation, in fact religious leaders depend on that kind of authority as much as leaders of nations do. But we don't really need to have it all well defined in order to understand what it is, in essence it is the system that governs our world today.

If we look at our world today and see evil intentions at play, we might conclude that some of the people are evil. We may believe in a Satanic Higher Power, whispering inspiration into the ears of men. A force that opposes life and peace, engenders hatred and not love. But I have never believed in our purity, as manifest beings we depend on immpurity. And I will never be convinced that a spirit of pure evil exists to oppose the Most-High-God. I will never be convinced that a personality may be seperated from God's presence and continue to exist. Therefor I will never agree on seperate realms of existence, where a God is present in one exaulted realm and absent from another realm. The One-True-And-Most-High-God has no enemies in my humble opinion. The Most-High-God is indifferent about life, it is not particularly Pro-Life, it's neither a champion or opponent of Life. But it is a champion of Persons, and Pro-Choice.

I am still unconvinced that a personality may exist and exercise any will or agency within the Universe unless it is also manifest in some way. Therfor I don't agree with a view of Heaven that has it populated by disembodied unmanifest spirits. I'm willing to consider the posibility that our little Universe has more than 3 physical dimensions, perhaps as many as 10. Clearly there is something to this manifestation that we have been unable to observe. I think that the Universe is a wonderful thing and should be preserved and not destroyed. Personally I can't think of a better way to enjoy the experience of Life, than what we've been given. The Earth is still a beautiful world, it shouldn't be a place of suffering.
I'm perfectly content to live here forever in this Universe just the way that it is, without modification, and with good companions.

If the Ancient Dragon will be a good and faithful companion to me I'm willing to meet this person. I'm willing to meet every person as a peer, and to extend the hand of friendship. To walk and talk together, conversation is the best past-time. Even a good argument can be enjoyable if we can manage our own temper. The best way to enjoy life is to treat the other guy as an equal, and to be treated as an equal, even if we are not equals.

The Fundamental Authority

There is something very fundamental about individual human authority which is exactly the same for all men. Despite all appearances, no one human being can be more or less powerful than another. While its true that some people are more or less influential with the rest of the population; its untrue that their individual interests are more or less important than anyone else's interests. And the interests of a group of people can not be superior to the interests of an individual. So long as these imbalances exist, we may not enjoy equal rights.

I can not appeal to a higher authority than myself among men. To be certain there may be men who are more knowlegeable and better educated and better informed than myself. Simply being very knowledgeable about a particular topic represents a certain kind of authority. But this is not the authority to make demands upon the time and attention of others. The almighty dollar does represent the authority to make demands upon the time and attention of others. But even if you have the dollars, the other party must be agreeable to the terms of payment. Often the person or agency that provides goods or services has all the authority required to define it's own terms and conditions. So that our consumers must agree to those terms at the risk of being refused services, even if they have the means to pay a fair price. For some of life's neccessities we often need to win favor and be considered creditworthy, because we do not have the means to pay. But we might have the means to pay over a length of time; depending on our ability to earn a wage.

How do we evaluate the human potential for earning a wage? We look at a person's qualifications, commonly represented by a diploma or piece of paper that claims we know something. If we know what kinds of jobs a person can do, we can evaluate their earning potential. And the value of any given job depends to a large degree upon the demand for that type of labor, and the availability of qualified laborers. But as individuals we can create our own careers in life, we can choose to work for ourselves and define our own jobs. So long as we can find people willing to compensate us for our time, we may enjoy some financial success.

Now with the authority of all men being equal; we can speculate on a person of higher authority. We can speculate on a person of greater means with less limitations; A non-human entity. Consider for example the authority to grant a plot of land, or a deed to any other material resource. We must first find out if someone owns the land already before we can make use of it. And if a group of people craves a land that is already occupied, they must often fight for it. Possession is nine-tenths of the law concerning property rights. And if we can muster the force to deprive someone else of their property or destroy it, thats the other tenth of the law.

The force required to deprive someone of life may be rendered trivial; and we should consider the physical body to be a personal property. Therefor whenever a person is killed in our world, they are also deprived of personal property here. A house takes some time and effort to build, and minimal effort to destroy, therefor it is easy to deprive someone of their house if not their life. And whenever we are powerless to defend our property rights, we must surrender them. And all other human rights depend upon property rights.

Now if there is a Creator Persona who was instrumental in the formation of our solar system and planet, then naturally that person would enjoy prior-claim to the property. And if it by making some choice made life a possibility here on planet Earth; or anywhere else for that matter, then we are completely and utterly dependent on that decision being made. If it was in fact a decision at all, there must be a greater authority to make that decision. An authority which preceeds the creation of life itself, and is therefor greater in scope than the authority that we as individual people enjoy. But I'm talking about a unique individual with very definate beginings. It would enjoy some degree of influence over the whole process of creation just by its position, and guiding creation may be considered as this person's job or career. If we may be gaurenteed any property rights, that gaurentee must come from it, we can not gaurentee those rights to one-another. But our friend the Creator has never saved one of us from our own mortality to best of my personal knowledge; and thereby gaurenteed us a place in creation. If we are given the right to personal property at all within this realm of manifestation, it appears that grant will always be of limited duration.

Now our good friend, the Universal Overseer, would naturally be interested in Human affairs. And it may be within the realm of possiblities that one of us could win favor from it, to be considered creditworthy. As individuals we have the power to accomplish some work in creation, we are each creators in our own right. If our individual efforts may be of any value to meet the desires of a Universal Overseer, we may find ourselves with a worthy career. And of course the rewards in terms of material wealth may be virtually limitless. But the very best reward we could possibly win is virtually unlimited time, the right to exist and continue to exist. And if we have any ability or capacity to provide services of value, a victory over mortality would allow us to continuosly provide those services. Part of being creditworthy is the ability to make a lasting commitment, but only the creator can guarentee that our existence here is uninteruptable.

Jesus told us the parable of the buried treasure, and he said that the Kingdom of Heaven is very much like this story. The treasure was hidden away in some field, and this field has a landlord who employs people to work in his field. And a man so employed discovers the treasure, but he doesn't run to inform the landlord. Instead he covers up the treasure and hurrys off the earn the means to purchase the land, so that he can claim the treasure himself. The field is the Earth itself, and the buried treasure is the sum total of human experience. Its easy to deduce that nothing in the world is more valuable than personal experience, and the quality and abundance therof. We are blessed when we enjoy long lives because we also enjoy a greater share of personal experience. But where does a man go to earn a wage which represents the means to purchase this field? And who is the current landlord that we must find agreeable to the means we have available? Can a man purchase the world by taking a portion therof and by shaping it and crafting it produce durable goods? How could a well crafted portion of the Earth serve as the means to purchase the whole Earth? There must be something of intrinsic value that does not depend upon manifestation at all or the ability to produce durable goods. And it must be something of value to our prior-employer and current landlord.

Therfor i make my appeal to a higher authority and a Higher-Power; to get something that would be of value to our friend the Creator I'm willing to work. I wanted to earn the wages, to purchase the field, to claim the treasure. What is this mysterious wage if not money? We should call it faith, we all start out life with one talent worth of faith, the proverbial mustard seed. But a seed has the power to draw upon the enviornment and grow, eventually it may become more than a seed. As the seed becomes the good tree, the tree becomes the producer of more seed. That is the fruit of a well developed healthy faith. And so from one good tree a forest may be produced. I am the guardian of this tree and it shelters me from the storms, I defend it from harm because it has a life unto itself. I see the tree and it is good to me, so I have hope for the forest. Am I the tree, or is it just an idea about the nature of reality? Is the flesh of this tree built up from facts and hard knowledge or merely beliefs, perhaps a little of both come together in some kind of alchemy. I don't really know how the seed becomes the tree, I just know it takes time to grow, and perhaps a little nurturing.

If you've read much of my little blog you should be able to tell that my self-love and self-interest is very strong. I believe in myself, I believe that I have something to offer. I believe that I have the power to make a decision, a decision that no-one else will be able to make. And a decision that may be of consequence to you, not because I am popular or influential within the community. But because I have a plan, and the ability to communicate that plan in great detail. I've lived long enough to become very well established as a personality within the great Kingdom of Heaven. I've made my mark upon the fabric of reality, a mark that can not be unmade or erased. That I have been here as one human being among many will pass the test of time, that fact will endure even if this body does not. And I have long known something that most people are never made aware of, there is a God or Creator paying attention to me. Therfor I know that higher-powers are very well informed of every plan that I've made. I just need approval, and something that is not entirely subjective. But I have received some validation that should be considered objective and factual. And if it was only one person who believed in me, that would have been Eve, and whenever two agree on something that is all it really takes to make something objective.

I don't know why the world should be saved, I don't know if the people really deserve peace on Earth or any other blessings of prosperity. As a responsible and mature member of the species, I don't need to decide why. I don't even need to decide who is deserving, as far as picking and chooseing between individuals I can't do it. Evidently some people will have to make sacrifices in order for Peace to be established here, in fact every person may be asked to make some kind of sacrifice. The children of humanity may have to endure a little more hardship but not out of unkindness. Clearly it seems unfair that one of us should be elevated above everyone else, and the playing field leveled. Its hard to justify a King's authority, its just irrational that one man's opinion should take precedence over popular opinion. One must be willing to deliver the species into the Dragon's jaws; because if the beast can not be tamed it serves the greater good that it should be destroyed. Unfortunately the threat of destruction is the only argument which carries much weight with the people.

The fine art of leadership is to limit our options; and to describe what those options will be, then to let the people choose. So there are two paths of advance for the human species. One path leads to Peace and the practice of non-violence, a Peace that will last a Millenium at least. And that path leads on to the promise of a ressurection whether or not thats what you want. The other path leads to genocide in the belief that 'might makes right,' and our story will end. You can forget about any kind of life within this Heaven and take your chances on the Eternal Kingdom. I think that most people would be willing to sacrifice just about anything to be on the path to survival. As soon as they realize they're caught in the trap, they'll start trying to escape. A day of judgement without the threat of punishment, since a swift death can not be viewed as punishment.
We all succeed or fail together as a species, the long struggle for survival is meaningful or rendered futile in an instant.