Human constructs
- systems, institutions, corporations, etc. -
fielded across each their necessary applications
to bring form and order to the purposes
of all human endeavor
within the Nation,
where these fail against their own times -
is -
because these constructs inherit also
what weakness there is in Man.
But Nations are not human constructs.
And Russia is a Nation.
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The first act of Peace is always Good will.
All Nations destined by the LORD -
unto the gathering of the Times, in the here and Now of today - before this
planetary crossroad, are all the Nations of the Children of Mankind.
And all the Nations of the Children of Mankind, commissioned by God at the Autumnal Dusk of our faded Eden, stand together to strengthen and preserve the life and the labors of Man through his lineages in time across all our generations to the last of our generations.
For
we are upon this world to fulfill the First Command to build up the Earth (into the
Inhabited Earth - a world not only rich in temporal life and in the living but in light and limitless spiritual wealth).
All the Nations of the Children were equally commissioned by God - together - and are symbolized by the Angel that the LORD placed at the place of our beginnings - at the East Gate - where we together left for our long march into exile - which is also the direction of our common returning.
Thus, our sovereignty is part of the endowment granted each of us
by the God of all of us - and indeed, this sovereignty is realized - at all times and places -
in the people -
...the peoples of this world - whose lineages entire the LORD entrusts to each of us, their Nations, to safeguard and prosper - and ultimately to return back into Him - much enriched and in better forms of communion with each other - and through God's own mysterious actions in time - individually as well as collectively worthy of His Salvation, being upon this visible universe - a brilliance that to the LORD is -
"very good".
This, the LORD did in our living Assembly before His Throne in Eternity -
and is always true.
The common roots of our sovereignty arise from the order by which God has from all Ages intended for Man - for his own good's sake - to accomplish before Him, the command to build up the Earth -
for Man.
Thus, Nations are small or great - as Trees are trees in the Garden of our World - not for tending the Tree which is not our own - but for loving that which
God has intended us to love (Peace) and
in this love growing through Remembrance of our selves and in each other in the knowledge of the Truth of our selves and each other (Good will).
We have and we maintain borders not because of limits to human potentiality or because of a reality which is fragmented but because there must be order and purpose to the work.
To safeguard this order and purpose is the craft of all our Nations -
and this craft is Peace.
(In the Sun Tzu - this in not just the first consideration when we consider "Moral Law" - it is the
first and the
final consideration - and is more than just Moral Law - it is the ultimate form of the "Sovereign" and embodies
a living Spirit of present Remembrance.)
Hence, at the time we were together commissioned in Assembly before Godl, we also received as well from each other
a priori, a recognition of our sovereign selves -
and this is always true.
Because the first act of Peace is always Good will.
Therefore, sovereignty in all our Nations is always a reality in ourselves -
realized (in our citizenship) as well as
recognized (in the citizenship of other sovereign Nations) - our reflections in Heaven, as they should be in the truth - upon our Earth.
Truly, as Nations among each other, we have said our "Peace" unto each other - in Good will - before the LORD, our one Sovereign - long before our Time upon this world came to be -
a Time that was upon this time - inaugurated by the LORD through the Noahide Covenant.
And I would that we should deeply consider this as we
remember again today, our Peace with each other.
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We did not emerge in physical time together as we were commissioned. Israel was the first - the tip of the spear -
first among equals. How God fashioned the Nation Israel is how each of us are also fashioned - being a people first -
before and above everything else.
(So that each of our sovereignty is always a reality that emanates from the life of our people - and this life is a concentration - build upon human dignity and human promise - whose strength relies upon how well and how faithfully we each come to realize, recognize, sustain and develop our Peace).
And today,
we have all arrived - so that we must accept the
status quo of our world from 2009,
and work to change our hearts that we may see far into our Nation's hearts.
And let us again remind ourselves of the reality of our Nationhood and together understand that this is not a religious labor but
a very, very human one. And that a broken Spear - anywhere and in anytime - is useless against the charge of the Horse.
Indeed, the most prudent and visionary of our leaders - in our kings, queens, princes, presidents, ministers, and captains, have ever always understood for the sake of the many, that all National Remembrances are ultimately Human ones - and that
Peace is over War.
And in this
Age of Spirit and Thought - it is Now incumbent upon all of Mankind to realize what the best and greatest of us have been made to realize - that the enveloping global darkness that is the Siege of War may be broken and
a new door and a new path may be opened before our world -
as a planetary community entire.
We did not emerge in physical time together as we were commissioned. But where we do emerge - alone, the pattern of our commissioning always reflects the pattern of our emergence upon this world. So that in Peace and Good will - we always have stood by each other - and with each other before God - and from always to always - this shall be so -
forever.
We just have to remember.
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After the Cold War, the Peace was won. But the War that nearly annihilated all life in this world is not yet fully subdued. And so the Peace that was won is not yet completely ours.
Bewilderment and confusion always follow in the wake of major conflicts - this is most especially true in the case of a total, global War.
Even as our corporeal eyes hurt to emerge in the Day when the passing Night for us have become too deep and too uncertain a Darkness, there are times likewise when the sight of our hearts have largely forgotten or forsaken too much of what Peace
in us sustains and what Peace
for us in the LORD obtains - to become mostly blind to what is - for every Nation, an absolute - and therefore,
absolutely worth fighting for.
(As the generations living now in my own Country have never known internal peace and have never tasted its promise must remember the Darkness that we may move toward the Dawn of a new Light.)
(In the external sense, this is what is happening in South Sudan now. And we Nations who recognized that Nation emerging have an obligation to assist that Nation to secure herself from the Darkness.)
(And in the CAR, an absolutely dishonorable religious division is again taking hold against our Peace. This is also why it is difficult for one to take sides in Syria - for ultimately, there is no side there but -
our side - the human one vs. the one who would make us all inhuman.)
(Indeed, we shall all account for these losses.)
Battles may always appear won in the first four spheres of Military involvement.
But War itself and as itself can only be withstood in the fifth.
That the Cold War was not brought to conclusion - and thermonuclear annihilation at the global scale of all things a hundred times over - is
already a gain of Peace.
Who yielded and who did not shall be the gain of our Remembrances together - for "that war" was
the War among all past wars,
the one to be withstood.
The past is bitter drink indeed where and when it holds the present hostage and the future to ransom.
But Nations
never drink from the cup of the past - our cup is always held out for the water of present things - here,
in the Now.
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We are today
not as we begun. For Nations (in each their
being) are also their particular motions (in each their
becoming) in time, a labor of Country -
a Tree among many Trees.
(If one were to be presented with an image of the Garden of many Trees, at the center shall always be what particular Nation the LORD has from all time intended to be, for each of us, our own Nation - and - the one Tree of the Desolation War, the Dominion of the Devil whose Sword is the Despoliation of all Sacred Life.)
For we are a growing and reaching out - a journeying, if you will, in and across time.
And sometimes, we pick up some travelers along the way. As the parable of the Good Samaritan, when applied to the community of Nations, will invoke in our hearts - We are to welcome the Stranger that the Stranger to us be Strangers no more.
For this is what the LORD requires - that all Men and Women be equal citizens before God and all Nations before the LORD stand shoulder to shoulder equally -
...the grieving widow to comfort,
prisoners to safeguard and to lovingly correct,
orphans to kindly and freely embrace -
and to multiply these persons
upon our human world
no more.
So Peace be upon you, Russia, do not be bitter. Hold no one and nothing in contempt. For thy life and thy future is yours -
all the rest we shall together learn and remember together.
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I remember Beslan, a terrible thing among many terrible things that this little world of ours should not have to endure. But we all do -
for Beslan is everywhere. Volgograd is too.
For hatred was in the 9 o'clock blue of New York, shattering that morning September sky - it was in Bali, Mumbai, Madrid, London, Amman, and in all Continents present save for perhaps, Antarctica (who if we do not turn course, may also fall), as the sin of the Devil's pride persists.
It is also here in my own Philippines, something I am working and praying hard - with all my brothers and sisters of the Promise - to battle and overcome -
together this time.
Because it is our most fundamental of responsibilities as a Nation commissioned by the LORD to serve and preserve both human dignity and human promise of the Children of Mankind upon this fallen world - that to the extent we are faithful to our commissioning, we together preclude evils of a social nature from setting its foot upon the soil of our Earth.
But where we are in the soul of our citizenship together weak of compassion and sympathy for the human condition, War gains a foothold upon our human world in order to make it inhuman against our will.
The Savior of all Mankind came to deliver this world from its sin - the sin of separation - which is the original and fatal wounding all Men suffer - and to allow the human lineages return (according to our repentance from personal and moral sin) to an Eden rebuilt -
even while Man is still upon this world and gain for ourselves together an everlasting place in a Kingdom that neither in splendor fades nor in glory ends - at the consummation of time
as we know time to be...
...so that Now, with every present time, we must as individual citizens and individual Nations together work to deflect and remove this alien and inhospitable Darkness (of sin and War) from our own human world, to the extent God allows, our humanity permits, and the times require -
particularly
in this Age above all ages past.
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Self-immolation is an act of protest - sacrificial to the most -
and bound not by ordinary human freedom. In all of these cases, where there is an abiding, legitimate and human cause -
the object of Justice is for Justice to be done unto Justice herself. These are therefore, purely the domain of Law and legal redress. To redress it, Law must come to understand it -
from the source.
Suicide bombing is a species of self-immolation, louder in expression, and profoundly more deeper in voice - and in all cases, extreme in the eyes of all living souls. Invariably, for its indiscriminate violence against the life of our innocents - it is
always an act of terrorism and in so being, demands our urgent attention.
Terrorism is always a political act. And so it gains from any political uncertainty on our end.
There must exist a cycle of pain and loss here that works to progressively destroy the normal course and outcome of authentic human freedoms that until this cycle effectively is broken by Law and its protections - will ultimately exact a terrible toll against our Nations - a price measured by the sum of human lives lost -
for in all acts of terror we lose them all - save for the bomb and the conditions that allow the political will of terrorists to be married up to the means of terror.
Where to draw the line of the defense is the question. Remove and redress the prevailing conditions and the will and the means shall divorce themselves permanently.
This is a law-enforcement led process. Prevention here is
in the Law. Justice here is a reaction. Military means may in many cases only exacerbate the matter and may only be employed in the tactical,
where all proactive means have already failed.
And as War, there is no better deterrence to terrorism than to prevent it from breaking through into our world.
Meet the ever so wearisome politics of division with the better politics of human unity and
know at the heart where to draw the line where the defense may be well fought - not in support of War but for the sake of the Peace.
Even the same Peace, we shall this winter in Sochi celebrate together.
I pray and I hope for a safe, secure, and memorably meaningful Sochi winter games - for all our Nations! The time is not yet late. May all Nations come together under the warmth of the Olympic flame in Peace and in Good will with each other and in friendships compete in the sport and in the spirit of these modern games - to know and to honor what is best in each ourselves across all our Nations.
Remember, when War draws near - it seeks from our Nations a confrontation.
Do not confront the Dragon where it approaches,
defend.
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Didn't know we're celebrating June 12 together this year, cool.
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Spot the diff? This is the Flag of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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