Salutation #34

The Enemy of the Nations will establish a Desolation.

And he will call it "Peace".

(A Vision of the Desolation)

I saw in a dream

- a few days before the Easter Triduum of 2009 -

a prominent list of atrocities

listed according to their heinousness.

Their frequency was from the most heinous to the least inhuman act

with the most heinous one to be committed against the people twice a year.

There was a camp

much like Bergen-Belsen.

But it was not a dream about the Holocaust.

It was a dream about another Holocaust.

There were people (of every nation)

in the middle of the night,

civilians - men, women, children -

being thrown whole

(to be consumed body and soul)

by faceless men in uniform

into a smoking pit in the ground

and from out of this pit was thick smoke -

the smoke of poison gas.

There was no sound to the dream

only this terrible feeling of growing horror

at this appalling vision in greyscale

unfolding before the eye of my heart.

I felt powerless.

An increasing sense of panic overtook me,

wanting for the dream to end...

---<--@

(produced 20110710)

Peace is Present

These times when we do not know who or what is trying to prevent us from becoming, let them be - what is important is that we know where we are going, that we have a path and a vision:

So with all these things happening right now, let me get us back to the foundation of why peace is key -



Do you know why I am so concerned about the peace process? 

Firstly, because Peace happens in the Now: 

Peace is Present. You must always remember this -

It is never a thing that was nor can it be a thing that shall be - if not for today. 

We, as one nation, really have to get interested in it. We have to want it enough to seek it and we have 2000 years worth of information in our history with all nations to process this truth.

This is why, as individual citizens, we have to work hard to bring our remembrances forward into our hearts - here and now. 

We have to pray for it and work for it - in whatever way we can, large or small, known or unknown, utilizing the freedom of whatever gift or vocation we have received - in whatever state of life we have chosen before the LORD, our God. 

We have to want it enough to seek it.

For if peace is not in our minds here and now, we shall never obtain it from the God Who Is, the LORD, For He is God. That is my first point - complacency is deadly. 

Especially in this new age of spirit and thought.

Secondly, because in 20 or so years if we do not make ourselves better for our being united and focused as a nation, if we do not as one Republic obtain together the peace which is our shelter - there is a great probability that we shall never recover. The hardships and the darkness we see and know here and now will thus become permanent.

Let me not dictate it to you now: You only have to look at the world around us to validate this for yourself.

And if this happens, not only do we lose our potential as a nation, for which we are each accountable for - all our other kindred nations will also forever lose what good we Filipinos have to give to our world so much in need of it - and this place of earth will wane all the more darker for our not wanting the light.

And we will all answer to God at during Judgment Day for our lack of appreciation for the gift and the grace of nationhood. 

Our citizenship with each other might be something we undervalue in this materialistic times, undervalue so much that we may often times underestimate the truth of its excellence and worth.

It is a real treasure in these ever-changing times.

Did one think we were come to this life without rhyme nor reason? If so, perhaps one did also likewise think that the nations of our world exist only to thirst for their own destruction? 

No, you are not - and no, we are not - to everything there is a time and a season under heaven: For God is in heaven and the Throne of the LORD in Eternity - all will be well, all will be well.

So let us reflect and let us pray about our commitment to God and to each other that we may with much patience and hope succeed - against all adversity - in the common task before our hearts and our hands of building a better place in time for us and for our generations to the last of our generations - mabuhay!

"Public's participation is vital in the peace process as peace agreements are going to need the work of many people and not just the OPAPP alone." - Sec. Ging Deles
---<--@

Kanlungan

Nakalilito man
at madilim ang mundo,
mga kapatid ko sa Pangako,
huwag tayong mabahala
at huwag mawalan ng loob -
huwag matakot sa gabi!

Pananalig sa Diyos,
kapayapaan sa ating bansa;
kagandahang loob sa bawa't isa
bunga nang pagkakapatirang
namumuhay sa ating diwa,
at pagmamahal natin sa ating
nag-iisang sambayanang Pilipinas -
ito ang lagi nating maaasahan;
ang ating kanlungan sa gabi
at daan tungo sa umaga.

What now?

Now that the world did not end,
can we take better responsibility of it?

Can we take a planetary view of ourselves
and see our world as part of a grander design?

Can we become better citizens of each our own nations
and rediscover the order and purpose inherent to our world?

Can we brave the promised dawn that lies just ahead
and together prevail through the darkness of the last age
to become brighter advocates of peace and human community?

Can we become more compassionate stewards of our living earth?

Can we love God more as He must be loved in all creation?
---<--@

The darkest time in the night is not in the middle,
it is that part just before the breaking of the dawn.

Salutation #2

If you seek peace, seek peace absolutely.

(One Whole Sky)

Look at our time today
and the world we move in
- everything about it -
is born of the will of war.

There is much despair
there is much suffering
as all our kindred peoples
labor through oceans of tears
our common human hopes

- forsaken -
in the darkness of our time.

Let us then take ownership
- of the status quo -
and instead of feeding
into war's evil ambition
- the near limitless -
potential of our own souls,
let us apply ourselves,
under the eternal vigilance
of our one Almighty God,
to the labor of each our Country
by our absolute turning away
from the descendant gravity
of war's evil ambition
into the ascendant direction
of the one whole peace
and build upon our civilization
the sheltering wings of God's peace
to serve and defend
the life of our common humanity
wheeling as numberless as the stars
shining across the midnight emptiness
of this season of the sky
toward the twilight breaking
of the new millennial age
and a better, kinder, safer, brighter world
for all men, women and children
- of every nation -
of the one covenant family
of the nations of (the children of) Mankind.
---<--@

(produced 20080914)

Salutation #158

Citizenship is in the soul - 'tis a seeking in the self -
an integral part of the blossoming of every human life.
So you breath it in your spirit, and you live it in your life

- you seek it like the motion of a love learning to love -
you long for it in yourself - until you are full for the truth -
until your belonging is absolute and your joy is complete.



(The Simple Message of 2012)

Two futures,
one dark and one bright,
is presented before the nations
of the children of Mankind.

We accept one by forsaking the other.

- selah -

How do we understand this?

By completing our remembrances as nations.

Certainly,
the paradigm of the last great age of war
that have prevailed over and utterly eclipsed
the spirit of our nations must be overthrown
by our willing acceptance of the times.

What is a nation?

What for is nationhood?

Personal remembrances make us human.
But it is our national remembrances
that make us citizens.

All depends on the smallest of thoughts.
---<--@

Salutation #151

(Crossing Together as one Family)

LISTEN!

The burden of the times
is a burden of expectation.

If it were a burden of justice,
would any nation survive?

For all have sinned
the sin of War.

   Is there any nation in our world
   who is completely without guilt 
  of shedding the blood of another?
 
Therefore,
do we deserve
each other's forgiveness?

Yes.

Is there any other way
to progress into the new age?

- selah -

UNLESS
all our nations
become aware enough
to care enough
about the suffering
of our common humanity
during the last 2000 years
to desire it
for each our undertaking of Countries
to completely break away
from the poisonous reign of war,
we shall yet again
descend into
another age of conflict
more terrible than the last!

UNLESS
our peace is kin,
all ye nations of the children of Mankind,
we shall never become
family enough
to become possessed
with the strength of unity enough
to bridge and overcome the spiritual rifts
that threaten to devour
our peoples.

IF
we do not dispel
the spirit of War now,
- in and among ourselves -
we shall yet again
become subject
to its terrors.

NOT
because it is God's judgment for Man
but because it is Man's judgment
on himself.

- selah -

EACH
our undertaking of Country
stands to gain in age and maturity
in this present time.

NOW
do we deserve
the abundant prosperity
- spiritual as well as material -
that the peace of our planet may usher in
and freely offer to us?

Yes!

For
we have as nations
suffered long enough now
to know and to understand
the answer to our troubles...

We just needed to be asked...

SO NOW
the question is being presented to us
in each our hearts and across our nations -

Do we deserve
the abundant prosperity
- spiritual as well as material -
that the peace of our planet may usher in
and freely offer to us?

- selah -

THEREFORE,
at the coming of the new,
markedly by the end of this year 2012,
we must work to complete our remembrances -

This means to sift through
all the hurt and the pain of the past
and get the hopes of our nations aright.

   Why were our nations commissioned by God?
   Is it for the purpose of dominating and humiliating each other?
   We certainly can not totally erase this divine commission,
   we can only fight ourselves into exhaustion - again and again.

   Is not our common craft the craft of peace?
   Is not our common labor the building up the inhabited earth?
   Is not our common endowment naught but each other?
   Is not our common vision life and the abundance of living life?
   Is not our common mission the complete and utter transformation
   of the darkness of the unknown earth ever by the kindred light
   of each of our own particular(ly) human civilization?

This means to get rid of all historical baggage!

Yes, this means to forgive and to be forgiven -
people to people, and nation to nation.

UNTIL
our peace is truly kin
and we are a family once more.

AND
we must do this work of completion
- as human beings and citizens to each other -
that we may each MAKE the right choices
that each our nations will TAKE
- together this time -
into the right door that opens
into the right future.

THIS
is how we shall fulfill
the minimum of the times.

THIS
is how we shall together shine outward
as the numberless stars of our Father Abraham,
seeing far into forever.

THIS
is how we shall close
the iron gates of Country
against the darkness of the past.

THIS
is how we shall cross
into our futures together
as the one family of the nations
of the children of Mankind.

There is no other safer way across the river 
that marks the beginning of the new 
than together.
---<--@

Salutation #146

(Sundown)

I feel we have crossed a threshold -

There is a definite change in the way the world is;
it is as if a cloud has descended upon our future, my people,
a menace that is not our doing...

There is a time of darkness ahead of us -
a time of uncertainty not necessarily evil in itself.

It may only become evil if we forget.

Let us then
hold on to our dream of Country,
let us carry on - together this time -
in spite of the gathering darkness,
despite our present lack of strength,
strive everyday to awaken this dream
in each ourselves, with each other,
and with all our other kindred nations -
all for a better world - for all.

Are we not the children of the Morning?

Night will pass,
the morning will come,
and we shall still be here.

For
the Day belongs to us
and we belong to the Day -
so bless the LORD, our God,
forever and ever
- alleluia -
now we will prove it to be true.
---<--@

Salutation #141

There were two worlds

presented to me in a vision -

One was ordered, blessed, and free
- shining with a myriad living lights -
and the other was dark, empty, and forgotten;
indistinct from the void of all things that never were.

These worlds are not ruled by two gods
but presented to us by one God alone
as a choice to the human heart
and a path for our nations.

refer to Crystal Blue Sphere 
---<--@


(The Two Clocks)

The will of War
and the will of Peace
can be likened to two clocks.

Either one - and only one -
of these two clocks may exist
at the heart of a nation at any given time -
right at the very head waters.

Each clock dictates
the general inclination of the people
and works to synchronize the vital movements
of each our will of Country.

One clock inescapably leads
to a time of death and desolation
and the other to a time of life and abundance.

We move forward
only by the weight of the burdens
we must bear with each other as a nation
and this burden is the burden of Justice.

It is a burden that grows
- ever the heavier -
under the suffocating crush of War
and ever the lighter under
the sheltering wings of Peace.

When we follow
or are led to follow
the clock of War,
the clock of War moves forward
as the clock of Peace is stopped.

When we follow
or are led to follow
the clock of Peace,
the clock of Peace moves forward
as the clock of War is stopped.

When we allow
the will of War to steal away
the lives and the promise
of each our fellow Filipino compatriots,
the clock of War is hastened.

When we allow
the will of Peace to work to fulfill
the lives and the promise
of each our fellow Filipino compatriots,
the clock of Peace is hastened.

Either clock leads - all the way -
to the higher purposes of God for all creation
unto the LORD's ultimate will of completion
for all things, seen and unseen.

But the choice is always ours
which one to follow.

For we can only follow one.

- selah -

One may only imagine what clock
our world has been taking its time* from
by the name we have learned to call it by -

"The Doomsday Clock"

(*time here determines direction in the national will -

in essence it is what rules over the heart of the people
being either an inclination or disinclination to the truth

and determines the disposition of the spirit of any nation)

---<--@

(original produced 20110517)

Salutation #122

Here we are, locked in a moment...

Here we are, searching for a way...
Here we are, seeking what questions to ask...

What shall we fill this moment with?

Where shall this moment take us?

All the while, 

history waits for an answer.

And history can not wait forever.

---<--@

(Scarborogh Shoal)

I want to tell you, China - again -
you are a valued nation
among the nations of this world.

In your completeness,
I see you not as a thing of War.

This is my hope for you - success!

For peace is what I desire for you.

And in those same terms,
may you be able to also respect mine.

For I too belong to a nation
- just the same as yours -
fully engaged in a work of completion
upon this same earth
as a particular undertaking of Country
unique to my people.

We are a particular responsibility
established in peace and human community
- human and imperfect -
yet free, and able, and willing to grow
by grace of God and our own determination
as a sovereign labor of living life
upon this world.

Sovereignty is what lays claim
to a national responsibility
that can (and must) be defined
but can never be shared.

To impugn on sovereignty
is to deny the right of any nation
to array itself across time
as a particular undertaking of Country.

We can not share sovereignty -
neither can you share yours.

But resources,
perhaps this,
we can.

But Scarborough Shoal 
is not just about resources.

- selah -

It is about the future shape of things.
And of this - we all have a stake.

For the future of our failing world
is a vision that we all must quest for
- and - if the history of the last 2000 years
have sufficiently taught
the memory of all our nations,
one that must be shared.

The destiny of this planet
is both a burden and an endowment
we must commonly bear
the labor and the responsibility for -
as nations dreaming together this time.

You seek to isolate us
from the judgment of our kindred nations
to expose us to thy military might
and speak to us in the terms of War
but this is not thy spirit
and this is not thy tongue.

We can not prosper unto an agreement
if we have already surrendered it
to the War that seeks to pit us
against each other as pawns.

For War is the bane of our existence!

Shall War distinguish between us
which of our people it shall devour?

Nay! 

War shall take us to a place
- even our angels dare not tread -
a lonely and desolate place.

Let us then affirm,
O my kindred Chinese nation -
Peace is the craft of our nations.

- selah -

I go back to the words
my own President spoke to you
about this vital area of sea - that -
more than it separates our nations
are waters that connect us
and connect us better - and more deeply -
than we at present
may claim to understand.

It is a sea of friendship (and harmony)!

(Its waters being purposed

as a medium of peace, goodwill, and justice

between our nations, 

between all the nations in our region, 

our continent, and our world.)

Let those words come back to us now
in this moment, in this space between our hopes,
and let the history of the present
be written in the spirit.
of our mutual determination
see to it that this work of division
does not overcome our common desire
for a better world - for our Asia -
and for all the nations of our Mankind.

- selah -

How do we settle this dispute?
---<--@


Madness

Salutation #100

SO WE CHOOSE PEACE TODAY

and let peace take us into itself tomorrow.

(The Beginnings of Peace)

We do not enter into a peace process

to convince ourselves of our common need of peace -

the fruits of War itself

should have made this need apparent

to our convictions beforehand.

Indeed,

the last 2000 years

is prelude to this one choice alone.

(This is why it is important that our national leadership -

especially those who are at the forefront of the peace process

are the persons most convinced of our need for Peace over War.)

Because

lasting peace does not begin

at the stroke of a pen.

Lasting peace

for our nation begins

when hearts become turned away from War.

- selah -

It is a mistake to think

- here in our native Philippines -

that the peace process is anything complex.

For if we prevail over one of its major areas of concern,

this makes it easier for us to prevail over the others.

(The spirit of War is cunning but it is still one spirit alone.)

This is why

our main focus must always be - in Mindanao -

because, my brother and sisters of the Promise,

- if we are able to bridge -

the deepest and most enduring of our divisions as a people,

then the peace for our Philippines

is sure to be certain.

We prevail over War together

- my one nation Philippines -

or War shall have us all!

Therefore,

we do not enter into

our own particular peace process

to pursue a path of defeat for anyone -

(for Peace is Peace and War is War)

we enter into our peace process

to find a way of victory for all Filipinos.

(Many other things require our energies...)

O when shall we sing
our victory songs, my people?

When shall we see
peace reign across our land,
making our hearts whole,
and our spirits glad?

Now is the favorable time...

This War among Filipinos must be brought to a swift end!

---<--@

Salutation #82

2012 is going to be a very difficult road.

Our only safety is our unity.

Remember,

a nation is meant not only to overcome these trials

but to prevail against the unknown earth

- and - as one family,

transform it into a world

so full of living lights.

(2012)

A short word on 2012 -

First of all,

do not be overly anxious.

Do not trade reason for superstition.

Neither allow your faith be undone with fear.

We all know there is much to be concerned about this year of years.

So let me assure you - here and now -

even at the headwaters,

that despite all of these fears,

2012 shall be what we make of it.

For we are a nation, my people - we belong.

No nation upon this earth is ruled by random chance.

Neither is our Eternal belongings - one to another -

established by our God and true Sovereign

for purposes that are manifestly evil;

that lead to our ultimate undoing.

For all things come together for the good

for all who love and fear the LORD!

And we are a nation, my people - we belong.

So welcome 2012 -

bring on your troubles and your trials,

let in all your overcast days, your doom and gloom,

let loose your tempest and your buffeting fury

and let this temper us in our nationhood.

Let your uncertainly make us certain.

Because the journey toward all our tomorrows

must now begin today.

---<--@

Ngayon

Salutation #80

I saw a vision of two worlds -
two paths leading away from each other...
two choices - with nothing - in between;
one is a freedom that leads to a future bright,
the other a return to the darkness of the night -
a choice begun in every human heart
a choice to return us again from the start.

(Crystal Blue Sphere)

I SAW IN A VISION,

a crystal blue sphere,

shining with a multitude of living lights.

The vision came to me quite abruptly

while I was awake in the day,

riding a jeep home from work.

The vision stayed for a time before me as I wondered.

I wondered at how wondrous and beautiful beyond imagination it was

that I thought I was seeing through the eyes of angels.

Then a darkness came over the vision

and it seemed to me for an instant that it was no longer there.

- selah -

But it was, O my nation,

before me was a world so overrun by sin and war

that it was no longer distinct from the nothingness of the void -

an unknown earth bereft of light,

forsook by heaven,

and forgot by God.

---<--@

My New Year 2012 hope -

I pray for more leaders who are accountable to God first that the LORD may craft them into proper instruments of a government wholly dedicated and responsible to the people they serve.

Leaders who at every level of government embody the definition of a popular mandate being interested in neither fame nor notoriety but in establishing in our nation through their persons the divine authority that makes us all equal before the LORD both in dignity and in promise.

Loyal leadership like these may only arise from a nation faithful to its own truth, arrayed in time as an undertaking of Country at one with its own mission and at peace with its own vision.

Therefore, I pray - first and foremost - for our nation: May we now become what we've always dreamed of becoming... mabuhay!

This is my new year hope. God bless the Philippines!

---<--@

20110624

"THERE IS A WAY to effect change but never must it go against the will that establish for all Mankind the shape of present things, all that is present to our humanity must be all that is accepted, first and foremost, and without condition -

this is the first requirement of faith in Divine Providence."

Salutation #23

(The 2009 Minimum of the Times)

Peace, I salute you.

Accept the status quo from 2009 - surrender to it -

embracing all its opportunities, problems, as well as its advantages.

And work to improve it from within.

Look no more into the troubles of past things for answers.

Neither be inspired by the evil of things past.

Let them all fade away into the night falling away behind us.

Rebuild thy nations

who are citizens of each its undertaking of Country

and work to restore good will one with another

dreaming as nations together this time -

human nations, O human Man!

Restore the fostering strength of thy national communities.

Repel the darkness of War and deny War an entrance into this world

by rebuilding the one Peace from within

- from wholes to wholes -

from each thy selves, shining out,

even as the numberless stars in the night sky

become in thy selves all those living lights, shining out,

into thy families, thy tribes, thy communities, and thy nations;

into thy regions, and into to thy continental wholes

and when the wholes are in their order,

arrayed according to their councils,

the problems of this, our present world,

which have heretofore

remained out of thy reach

- being global in their nature and scope -

shall come into each thy own purview

and - if God is merciful to us,

no longer shall these evils confound.

Remember always from Whose Light you were all recast,

especially all of you numberless stars of our Father Abraham

- children of the Promise made by God of old -

drawn from the emptiness of the void

into the substance of thy remembrances this time -

the LORD, thy one, true and living God!

Remember also thy togetherness,

O ye nations of the children of Mankind,

and make a burden of thy history no more.

Cross the threshold into this new age

by entering into the right door

which shall not only open for you

the dawn of the promise of this new age

but shall also secure for each of thee

a blessing for thy generations

- the generations of life, they shall be called -

closing itself shut against

the lingering hold of the last great age of War.

You must do so before the close of 2012.

For if these shadows seem long and dreary,

lingering there - in front of thy sorrowful heart

turn away from the Night, Beloved of God,

and face thee again the gathering Day!

And if in the LORD, thy God,

thou has found once again Thy sheltering Light

never look back, o ye nations,

to let these shadows of times past

fade away behind us

forever.

(Refer to Daniel 12)

---<--@

Our Future

The future is golden, it is the color of a smile.

You may measure it by the brightness of thy hopes.

The future is blue, built upon the strength of friendships.

You may in thy belongings succeed under the sheltering skies of its Peace.

The future is green, it is verdant with patient life.

You may stand firm upon the solidity of its commitment to Sacred Life.

The future is white, resplendent with truth and virtue.

You may seek all human happiness unhindered in the freedoms you will gain by its merits.

Let this be our future.

---<--@

Arise, America

There are these many stars in the skies above my soul -

I draw from the inspiration of General George Washington, impervious to the corrupting influence of power, steadfast in adversity, gracious in victory - avarice and elitism (wrought by selfish factionalism) were no match for his discipline.

His soul lived for his Country and his heart for his of family to whom he showed an ordered love that lived in the context of his patriotism especially for his wife, Martha.

It was the obsolete practice of blood-letting that weakened George Washington and eventually took his life on his sick bed in Mount Vernon - something that I perceive is happening all over again to his beloved American Republic.

- selah -

America, you must dream again with us in this new age of Peace.

Arise, America! Complete your remembrances - our one family of nations have a constant need of your principles, ideals and strength of innovation.

---<--@

Mabuhay po tayong lahat nang mga bansa! Long may our remembrance serve us. May God bless all the nations of our one family of the nations of Mankind.

An Act of Unity

Come See

Salutation #15

The roots of War is ancient.

Therefore,

War was never a choice that can be made freely

by any nation as itself.

The real choice all our nations must always make

- in every generation, and in every present time -

is peace.

So let this be our choice -

let our freedom be always guided by it.

(An exhortation to Israel and Palestine for peace)

Peace, I salute you.

Will it matter to us anymore, O Israel and Palestine,

whatever permits the Dragon entrance into our midst?

When the threshold is crossed

and War has again entered into our world

I say to you now,

War will not distinguish

between our nations what it wills to consume.

For War is a devourer of peoples.

Something terrible approaches our nations...

What matters to us today

is the strength of our collective desire for peace

and peace properly understood -

Peace as a paradigm over War.

Be single-hearted therefore,

in this quest for a durable, meaningful, sustainable peace,

O Israel and Palestine,

and cast away thy lingering and sorrowful past.

Recall to yourselves today

the hopes of thy generations, past, present and future

and establish thy feet upon the truth of thy belonging together as nations -

I exhort you to work to complete your remembrances.

Do the past justice

and relinquish from your midst

the darkness that keeps its hold on thy futures together.

O Israel,

you may seek to build for yourself today

an impregnable fortress of isolation

but it shall still be a prison for you -

do not make this a permanent reality.

O Palestine,

you may seek to strike out

with a sword meant for thy defense

but for so long as this sword of nationhood

seeks to harm other nations,

it shall always seek to strike out at you.

But both of you, O Israel and Palestine,

if you build on the right remembrances

have a great potential to prosper together

in the embrace of thy sheltering wings.

I exhort you both therefore,

to work to complete your remembrances!

Do the undying hopes of past generations justice

- and labor now -

to relinquish from your midst

the darkness that keeps its hold on thy futures together.

- selah -

O Israel and Palestine -

thou brothers, make peace!

Is thy long-suffering impotent?

Let it bear fruit therefore,

and let the nations follow thee

into brotherhood, into peace.

You are loved - both of you.

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Do not look for answers beyond 2009. For it was in 2009 that this choice for peace was begun. Prior to 2009, there was no choice. After 2012, it will be no more.

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Mabuhay po kayong dalawa kapatid na Israel and kapatid na Palestine! Long may our remembrance serve us. God bless us all.

War in the Heart

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Remembrance as Virtue

Remember Now,

my brothers and sisters of the Promise -

Our remembrance is a virtue.

It is born from the cardinal virtue of Justice.

One who is guided by remembrance

can not be by evil inspired.

For no virtue may be used for evil purposes.

Remembrance does not serve

to throw the present into the confusion of the past.

It serves to add to the momentum of the present

the present hopes of every generation past.

If the present seem dim, O my nation,

it is because the future seem distant.

And the future seem distant

because the glories of the past is somewhere forgot.

Remember the good things and build upon it.

Remember the evil things

and let this lead you to a remembrance of the good things.

Never build upon evil inspiration.

It is not remembrance to hold on to a hatred of past misdeeds

and remain in thrall of the gravity of War.

For what redeems is virtue sufficient for every generation.

By virtue the long night is overcome.

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Salutation #12

War is a form of national insanity. It seems right only in its own context and in its own time. But for all nations without exception it is an historic fact that it is always painful to have to eventually wake up to its aftermath. And ultimately, all nations that must succeed must wake up.

War serves no nation...

(Time, Times, and Half-a-Time - Refer to Daniel 12)

PEACE, I salute you.

Winter is coming, O ye nations.

Time is the first 1000 years!

Times is the second 1000 years!

From the year 0 to the year 2000,

all the nations of our Mankind

have beheld the face of the Dragon (of War, or the Beast of War).

(Notwithstanding that, if remembrance serves us well,

it goes further than that - to the time of Abel.)

Within the last 2000 years every nation upon this earth

have been sorely afflicted - within as well as without -

without exception

by the devouring spirit of War

and we have all paid for it

with the lives and promises of our citizens;

our original lines of rulers decimated.

All our nations have become common witnesses

to the ravages of conflicts wrought by War in the heart;

conflicts that have evolved into wars

capable of engulfing the whole of our world,

conflicts that have produced unspeakable abominations,

conflicts that have spawned offspring after offspring,

and genocide after genocide.

Indeed, War lusts after all our nations equally

and respects no distinctions, weak or strong, least to greatest,

rich or poor, of whatever time, creed, or nation -

everything is devoured by the gravity of its relentless ambition

to bring complete and utter annihilation

to the sheltering peace of our brotherhood

and lay to waste all the generations of the children of Mankind.

Half-a-time is a choice - it is a quickening in the soul!

It is a call to respond to the gathering sense of the new age of peace.

And this choice is an individual thing to make.

It is a choice to exorcise the past

and become reconciled to the peace of the present times.

And though, it is not an easy thing to make

it is a necessary stand to take - to complete our remembrances.

For the consequences of not making this choice is insufferable

and we will not survive the onset of this last wintering

if we do not stand together

dreaming as nations this time.

You must therefore consider the whole of the last great age of War

as one entire argument - a time, times and half-a-time quickening.

And look no more for answers wrought in the mold of past things.

The difference between 1335 days and 1290 days is 45 -

2045 being the maximum limit of the labor of the times.

It commissions in particular, these two generations, X and Y,

to lay for the generations of life the foundations of a better age.

The sum of 4 and 5 together makes 9 -

2009 being the minimum limit of the labor of the times.

Because this choice, my beloved,

was a work of thy heart begun by the LORD in 2009.

Now, the world forgot the lesson of 2000

that the LORD, thy God, O beloved of my heart,

delivers from evil.

It shall not forget the lesson of 2012

for the LORD, thy God, O beloved of my heart,

delivers from evil.

2009 to 2012 then is a work of thy heart -

a time set aside for you to respond to the calling of the times

and make the choice to complete your remembrances

beginning from at a time, times and half-a-time

and from star to star, one whole sky.

2012 to 2045 is a work of thy hands -

for the work of thy heart must precede the work of thy nations.

This is our time to build a better world built on saner foundations.

This is our season to prepare each our shelters of Country

for the final winter to visit this earth.

Be thankful and respond to the calling in thy heart therefore,

incline thyself to the labor commanded by the LORD of this present time

and make the awakening choice at a time, times and half-a-time -

be present for the peace of this new age.

Exorcise thee in thyself the persistent shadows of past things

and stand thee together to create a new history in the here and now

for you must never again look past 2009 for answers to present troubles,

answers you must now as nations dreaming together

possess in the here and now of this present age of peace.

The spirit of War is ancient

but the spirit of Peace is equally ancient

and possessed of a promised victory

you yourself is capable of validating in your heart of hearts.

Let this peace therefore

rule each of thee in thy heart, O ye nations,

and enter thee, a brotherhood,

into the promise of this new age.

Winter is coming.

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My honorable compatriots, it all might seem so simplistic, I have thought.

But so too are the words, "stop fighting for the sake of fighting alone" or "stop dying for the wrong causes and start living for the right ones", simplistic as well.

Truth is, the message is simple - our world is at a crossroads in time the truth is evident: Our entire planetary community is threatened by the spirit of War.

Here now is a choice for Peace.

Let us choose it today while it is still today.

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Tungkol sa Spratly

Mga mahal kong kapwa Pilipino, huwag po tayong magpapadala sa labis na takot. Tunay ngang maraming nangyayari sa ating mundo sa mga araw na ito. Pero wala ni kahit isa sa mga ito ang pinapayagang mangyari ng Diyos ng walang pahintulot.

Siya po ay ang PANGINOON, ang Diyos nating lahat.

Lahat po ng bagay sa ating mundo na binibigyang pahintulot ng Diyos ay ayon lagi sa kagustuhan Niyang tuparin ng lubos ang Kanyang mga pangakong binitiwan Niya para sa lahat ng ating mga henerasyon patungo sa ikabubuti ng ating pagkatao at ikagagaling ng ating sangkatauhan.

Huwag po nating pangunahan ang Diyos ng labis at nakabubulag na takot sa mga kalamidad, mga giyera o mga pangangmabang dulot ng mga sabi-sabi tungkol sa mga pangyayaring hindi kanais nais sa paligid natin at sa paligid ng bansa nating Pilipinas.

Katulad na nga po nitong isyu ngayon sa Spratly.

Kapayapaan lang po at kahinahunan ng ating mga loob at kapayapaan na rin po ng ating bansang Pilipinas at ng ating mga bansang kabalikat ang nais Niyang subukan at patatagin dito.

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Mabuhay po tayong lahat! May God bless and prosper all our nations.

The Peace of the Times