The Devil and his angels
hid from the LORD
for the same reason
our First Parents
hid from God.
For it had never occurred
to either Lucifer or his corrupt angels
before the onset in their awareness of evil
that the mortal dread that must arise in terror of God
was to be born of the coming swift realization
- of the real consequence of their own treason -
that they, by so choosing to freely cast themselves
- as realities distinct and apart - from the one Sovereignty
of their one Creator, did come to fully recognize
to their everlasting shame - that their own impotence
was - and shall forever be for them - the very real cost -
of their futile act of betrayal against the Omnipotence
of the one, true, and always-victorious LORD, our God.
The most apparently visible cause
of the nakedness in Man and in his Enemy
(being the Devil and his fallen angels - who are all likewise
the Enemy of God, all the Holy Angels, and all of Mankind)
seem but one and the same - a betrayal of a most Sacred Trust.
But the conditions that have arisen from this sin
as they have been decreed by God to prevail in Justice
forever - in the beings of the Devil and his fallen angels
and for a time - in the beings born of the lineages of Man
that Divine Providence have reserved to long in sorrow endure
and eventually - through the shedding away of our many tears,
prevail from the fallen state of our Exile - upon an Unknown Earth -
far across the generations of the Nations of the Children of all Mankind
are wrought not in similar forms, nor are they one act of Judgment.
For the roots of this sin of betrayal were born
from very different motives - and the grounds upon which
these seeds of treason were sown - are of two very distinct natures -
which neither Man nor the Devil can adequately comprehend
in the attempt to fully understand or relate with the other.
For in not understanding the other,
one is lead - unto an understanding - in the self.
So that each act of Divine Judgment
are wrought for either Man or Devil alone
and have nothing to do with the other.
For the Pride that leads to Perdition
and for the Humility that worketh
unto Repentance and Salvation.
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Nakedness is another condition of our Exile.
It is expressive of Man's fear of his human vulnerability
essentially expressed as a deep and profound fear
of all things life-giving and salvific (in God and in Goodness)
but seamlessly proceeds to rise into the surface
of our everyday human understanding as bodily fear
of the many evils that abound on the unfamiliar
and hostile ground of an Unknown Earth.
And proceeds
as a realization in the human awareness - that -
as Man alone, each of us are weak and vulnerable of being.
The symptoms of these are fear (and daring), despair (and hope),
and our very human need to seek the safety of living shelters
of God - in our family, in friends, and in human community.
For we are naked
and we know that we are naked -
and in need of clothing - for our nakedness -
clothing fit to preserve our inherent
dignity and promise.
And so God gave us
the initial clothing to wear...
and so we are, and so we must.
The fruit of this Vision
in the reality of the Nation is
Access to Universal Human Healthcare
and Public Hygiene Services.
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Taxes we bear with money;
Remembrance, with memory;
Poverty, with wealth and posterity;
Death, with the life of our humanity.
The Nine Common Human Needs
hid from the LORD
for the same reason
our First Parents
hid from God.
For it had never occurred
to either Lucifer or his corrupt angels
before the onset in their awareness of evil
that the mortal dread that must arise in terror of God
was to be born of the coming swift realization
- of the real consequence of their own treason -
that they, by so choosing to freely cast themselves
- as realities distinct and apart - from the one Sovereignty
of their one Creator, did come to fully recognize
to their everlasting shame - that their own impotence
was - and shall forever be for them - the very real cost -
of their futile act of betrayal against the Omnipotence
of the one, true, and always-victorious LORD, our God.
of the nakedness in Man and in his Enemy
(being the Devil and his fallen angels - who are all likewise
the Enemy of God, all the Holy Angels, and all of Mankind)
seem but one and the same - a betrayal of a most Sacred Trust.
But the conditions that have arisen from this sin
as they have been decreed by God to prevail in Justice
forever - in the beings of the Devil and his fallen angels
and for a time - in the beings born of the lineages of Man
that Divine Providence have reserved to long in sorrow endure
and eventually - through the shedding away of our many tears,
prevail from the fallen state of our Exile - upon an Unknown Earth -
far across the generations of the Nations of the Children of all Mankind
are wrought not in similar forms, nor are they one act of Judgment.
For the roots of this sin of betrayal were born
from very different motives - and the grounds upon which
these seeds of treason were sown - are of two very distinct natures -
which neither Man nor the Devil can adequately comprehend
in the attempt to fully understand or relate with the other.
For in not understanding the other,
one is lead - unto an understanding - in the self.
So that each act of Divine Judgment
are wrought for either Man or Devil alone
and have nothing to do with the other.
For the Pride that leads to Perdition
and for the Humility that worketh
unto Repentance and Salvation.
---<--@
Nakedness is another condition of our Exile.
It is expressive of Man's fear of his human vulnerability
essentially expressed as a deep and profound fear
of all things life-giving and salvific (in God and in Goodness)
but seamlessly proceeds to rise into the surface
of our everyday human understanding as bodily fear
of the many evils that abound on the unfamiliar
and hostile ground of an Unknown Earth.
And proceeds
as a realization in the human awareness - that -
as Man alone, each of us are weak and vulnerable of being.
The symptoms of these are fear (and daring), despair (and hope),
and our very human need to seek the safety of living shelters
of God - in our family, in friends, and in human community.
For we are naked
and we know that we are naked -
and in need of clothing - for our nakedness -
clothing fit to preserve our inherent
dignity and promise.
And so God gave us
the initial clothing to wear...
and so we are, and so we must.
The fruit of this Vision
in the reality of the Nation is
Access to Universal Human Healthcare
and Public Hygiene Services.
---<--@
Taxes we bear with money;
Remembrance, with memory;
Poverty, with wealth and posterity;
Death, with the life of our humanity.
The Nine Common Human Needs
