This is not a designated daily entry day, but I don’t know how else to begin;-)! Yesterday’s coffee went fine and on the way back I stopped by at ShelfLifeBooks where I spotted two books. One ‘The Hermetica’ by Freke and Gandy - of the ‘Jesus Mysteries - and the other was King’s ‘Medicine River’, both of which were too hard to resist.
I had just decided not to buy any more books and here I went, braking my own commandment, but like I have written else where recently the human has its being in Existence Divine.
This in turn makes us subject to our good intentions and our missteps both, illustrating that God and the Devil are present in all that exists. We as humans learn from our own experience how and when to tell the difference between them and then responsibly act on that newly acquired knowledge (ethics possibly?).The last few sentences really should be relegated to today’s ’Writings’, but I’ll leave it as is. Juliet called our meeting off for yesterday on account of some appointments she had to meet. In the aft I read some more in Huntington’s book and then got ready to make supper.
This was followed by short hour of studying Maya Creation and Cosmography and the completion of yesterday’s writing on Huntington and Hebdo. It took an other half hour after the evening news to post yesterday’s daily entry.
William the Silent: 'You don’t need hope in order to begin, nor have success in order to continue'.
I also received emails from Jack who responded to my notes on ‘Existence Divine’ of Tuesday and one personal mail from Jeltsje. She responded to mailed - last fall - view of my visit to Holland last summer and of course also referred to the Charlie Hebdo assassinations of last week. She asks after the purpose of all this violence we are witnessing around the world.
My initial reaction to that question is that we are doing pretty good, considering we live in fairly tight quarters with seven (7) billion people on this planet. It can be better, but it could certainly be worse and against that we need to guard ourselves.
This can be done by being prudent, tolerant and by defining our boundaries so as to respect each other’s identities and values. This is a slow process, difficult and painful, but its alternative is worse!
What comes to mind here is the motto of ‘William the Silent’, founding Father of the Dutch Republic back in around 1550 AD. His saying is as follows: “You don’t need hope in order to begin, nor have success in order to continue.” A saying, tough but true and worthy of keeping in mind when progress is difficult to discern.
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