The Lord Christ said,
"The poor you will always have with you..." (Matthew 26: 11)
Starshine, there will always be a minority.
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(The 4th Cause: The Cause of Minorities - Benignity)
What the majority does in behalf of the minority
"The poor you will always have with you..." (Matthew 26: 11)
Starshine, there will always be a minority.
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(The 4th Cause: The Cause of Minorities - Benignity)
BENIGNITY is the practice of goodness.
Now,
goodness
in the company
of the great, the strong,
and the powerful,
is not an extraordinary virtue.
Therefore,
this Cause must concern itself
with (1) the preferential treatment and care
of minorities (i.e. the weak and the vulnerable)
and (2) the just distribution
of the material goods of this world.
In the person of the stranger,
the orphan, the widow, the unborn,
the disabled, the elderly, and the poor
whether transient, semi-permanent, or permanent,
there shall always exist within our midst,
a minority.
Indeed,
at one time or another
in the lifespan of individual human beings
as well as in the lifespan of individual human nations,
we all become part of this minority.
Let us always bear this in mind and heart...
- selah - listen, think.
Have we forgotten our own roots,
O numberless stars of our Father Abraham,
O ye children of the Peace, of the Light,
promised by the God of old
promised by the God of old
to bless the national communities
of our needful Mankind?
Were we not all
drawn up by the LORD
from the poverty of the minority?
Were we not all
uplifted from our lowliness
by the mercy and beneficence of God
to people the nations of the earth?
Let us always bear this
- in mind and heart -
especially in these present times.
For this is how
we shall fill the earth
with living lights.
- selah -
We are by our poverty indistinguishable!
How we shall each
- distinguish ourselves -
in the midst of the darkness
is through virtue and the continual refinement
of each our inherent human nobility.
This is important to remember,
my brothers and sisters of the Promise,
because the victimization (by the strong)
of the marginalized (or the weak)
will ultimately result in the implosion
of our national communities
and in the Last Day,
it shall also bring about
its final and irreversible destruction.
The marginalization
- in any society -
of any of one of its parts
is always the effect of divisions
(overt as well as covert)
in the one heart of the people.
A social order built on disagreements
(abiding in prejudices, misconceptions, fear and ignorance)
is ever like a tyranny without a tyrant -
a culture of national self-destruction!
In this hostile atmosphere,
the spirit of the nation itself
feels ever trodden underfoot
until the burden of Justice
becomes unbearable.
Indeed,
the will or the spirit of War
always takes the easiest entrance
into the midst of the people...
And this it always does
by subverting the 4th Cause.
- selah -
The one sin
a nation can not abide by
is the presence of War in the heart.
Indeed,
we all shall stand before God
to account for our gifts of nationhood!
So let us not forget
to ask ourselves before God in prayer - each day -
to ask ourselves before God in prayer - each day -
what we have done or chosen not to do
to improve the life of our communities
and prosper the native peace
of each our undertakings of Country.
Because Peace is our only path -
it is the only choice we can really make
both as human beings and as human nations.
- selah -
The 4th Cause explicitly espouses
the first principle - that -
the strong exists in defense of the weak.
The entire hierarchy of the Angelic realms
is ordered by God around this first principle.
And since our nations (as they are)
are a natural extension of the unseen realms,
we too are expected by the Providence of God
to faithfully imitate the heavenly order
by formally uniting ourselves as a people
to the will and the governance of the LORD,
our God - the one Sovereign of all nations.
What the majority does in behalf of the minority
dictates a nation's fidelity to the 4th Cause!
Wealth generation and long-term national prosperity
is entirely dependent on the 4th Cause!
It is from the 4th Cause that we enter
into an understanding of the higher Causes!
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The Circular Relationship of the Four Causes