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Face the Grave
Are you self-aware?
Then you have been born.
Have you discovered your place in life?
Then you are able to recognize the truth.
Are you pursuing your purpose?
Then you have accepted the truth.
Do you find peace in your purpose?
Then you are on the right path
Have you answered, “Yes,” to all of these questions, yet still fear death?
Then you are a liar.
Then you have been born.
Have you discovered your place in life?
Then you are able to recognize the truth.
Are you pursuing your purpose?
Then you have accepted the truth.
Do you find peace in your purpose?
Then you are on the right path
Have you answered, “Yes,” to all of these questions, yet still fear death?
Then you are a liar.
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The stones of the earth do not tremble; they are confident in their position--
So much so that empires have been built upon their steadfast foundations,
So much so that they still remain long after the greatest empires have been carried away on the wind.
The deepest boulders lie closer to the pits of death than any living person has ever descended, but even they do not tremble before its gates. If the rocks shake it is because the whole earth shakes, and they do so not out of fear, but out of reverence for the power that moves them. The stone that does not tremble in the presence of such power will be fractured into pieces and ground to dust.
Faith is more solid than the hardest stone, Truth more enduring than the oldest stratum, Peace more unyielding than a diamond. Before the gates of death, they do not tremble. Only the power that stirs all life can move them. The Source of All Life guides them along the spiraling paths of eternity from One to Infinity. To have Faith, to know Truth, and to find Peace is to be more confident and unshakable than the sturdiest rock; it is to not tremble before the gates of death.
Is this a convenient metaphor created by a man’s imagination, or life itself testifying to the essence of its nature?
So much so that empires have been built upon their steadfast foundations,
So much so that they still remain long after the greatest empires have been carried away on the wind.
The deepest boulders lie closer to the pits of death than any living person has ever descended, but even they do not tremble before its gates. If the rocks shake it is because the whole earth shakes, and they do so not out of fear, but out of reverence for the power that moves them. The stone that does not tremble in the presence of such power will be fractured into pieces and ground to dust.
Faith is more solid than the hardest stone, Truth more enduring than the oldest stratum, Peace more unyielding than a diamond. Before the gates of death, they do not tremble. Only the power that stirs all life can move them. The Source of All Life guides them along the spiraling paths of eternity from One to Infinity. To have Faith, to know Truth, and to find Peace is to be more confident and unshakable than the sturdiest rock; it is to not tremble before the gates of death.
Is this a convenient metaphor created by a man’s imagination, or life itself testifying to the essence of its nature?
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The body dies, but life goes on. Why do you find this so hard to believe?
Life came first and death was created by those that chose to separate themselves from life. To speak of death is to substantiate the insubstantial. To fear death is to fear a scavenger that cannot kill for itself but only consume the dead flesh it finds.
When death is cutoff from life then it will die too. When all who choose to reject life’s threefold harmony perish then there will be nothing left to fill the scavenger’s belly.
Even the tiniest light chases away the deepest darkness. So, how can death hope to sink its dark teeth into even the tiniest flame?
Is this a convenient metaphor created by a man’s imagination, or life itself testifying to the nature of its essence?
Life came first and death was created by those that chose to separate themselves from life. To speak of death is to substantiate the insubstantial. To fear death is to fear a scavenger that cannot kill for itself but only consume the dead flesh it finds.
When death is cutoff from life then it will die too. When all who choose to reject life’s threefold harmony perish then there will be nothing left to fill the scavenger’s belly.
Even the tiniest light chases away the deepest darkness. So, how can death hope to sink its dark teeth into even the tiniest flame?
Is this a convenient metaphor created by a man’s imagination, or life itself testifying to the nature of its essence?
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To hate emptiness is to hate death.
To hate true silence is to hate death.
To fear these things is to fear death.
To hate perfection is to hate life.
To hate peace is to hate life.
To have an awareness of all these things even before experiencing them is to be connected to the Source of All Life that knows all things and sustains all things and knows what lies beyond itself for contained within it is everything.
When the body dies the legacy of humankind reaches its end. Where each individual soul goes from there comes down to the path they’ve walked and the choice they’ve made before the end of their life’s allotment.
To continue on into the perfect threefold harmony of life separated from selfishness and death one must do so willingly.
For how can life’s joy be perfect and complete if souls are forcibly bound to it against their will?
To love selfishness, to love pride, to love being self-aware, self-absorbed and ignorant to one’s right place within the harmony of life—to live as if you are the One apart from every other one—is to reject the place prepared for you and to reject life as a whole—for One is Infinity and Infinity is One; one apart from Infinity is Zero, which is nothing.
To the one who rejects the pursuit of pure life in this lifetime, know with certainty that when your body dies you go to your final end for one’s place in perfect life must be willingly accepted, but death feasts indiscriminately on every soul that wanders its way.
To go to death is to go to nothing, to a place where nothing remains, and from which nothing can be recovered. All who enter death’s domain apart from life will not be able to be raised again because nothing will remain to be raised.
The opportunity to live again after death has died will remain only to the souls which cling to life after their body dies and until a new body is given to them. Even if they must wait ten-thousand years to receive their new body, their future is secure.
To hate true silence is to hate death.
To fear these things is to fear death.
To hate perfection is to hate life.
To hate peace is to hate life.
To have an awareness of all these things even before experiencing them is to be connected to the Source of All Life that knows all things and sustains all things and knows what lies beyond itself for contained within it is everything.
When the body dies the legacy of humankind reaches its end. Where each individual soul goes from there comes down to the path they’ve walked and the choice they’ve made before the end of their life’s allotment.
To continue on into the perfect threefold harmony of life separated from selfishness and death one must do so willingly.
For how can life’s joy be perfect and complete if souls are forcibly bound to it against their will?
To love selfishness, to love pride, to love being self-aware, self-absorbed and ignorant to one’s right place within the harmony of life—to live as if you are the One apart from every other one—is to reject the place prepared for you and to reject life as a whole—for One is Infinity and Infinity is One; one apart from Infinity is Zero, which is nothing.
To the one who rejects the pursuit of pure life in this lifetime, know with certainty that when your body dies you go to your final end for one’s place in perfect life must be willingly accepted, but death feasts indiscriminately on every soul that wanders its way.
To go to death is to go to nothing, to a place where nothing remains, and from which nothing can be recovered. All who enter death’s domain apart from life will not be able to be raised again because nothing will remain to be raised.
The opportunity to live again after death has died will remain only to the souls which cling to life after their body dies and until a new body is given to them. Even if they must wait ten-thousand years to receive their new body, their future is secure.
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“But someone will say, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?’ Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed—perhaps of wheat or something else. But God gives it a body just as he planned, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. All flesh is not the same: People have one flesh, animals have another, birds and fish another. And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. The glory of the heavenly body is one sort and the earthly another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory.
“It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living person’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.”
I Corinthians 15:35-49 (NET Bible®)
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The Voice of God
“It is the same with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So also it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living person’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.
The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven.”
I Corinthians 15:35-49 (NET Bible®)
Coming Next…
Reflections Along The Way, Vol. 3:
The Voice of God