Unseen Causes

All understanding begins in faith, which is the tool provided us to pierce the divide between what can be physically perceived and that which cannot. Were it not for this gracious gift, the first infantile steps on the path to enlightenment would be impossible ones, let alone the prospect of setting broad afoot the road to immortality. The unseen rules over the seen in subtle ways unimaginable within this microscopic reality we call physical life. Man of all creatures is born most ill-equipped for the immediate rigors of life, but mentally blank to absorb knowledge and wisdom from parents, free to be molded by environmental forces and to draw spirit from the aether. If logic and common sense were proof, this in itself would evidence a divine plan, as the Creator is all about us, from what lies at hand to what lies beyond even the furthest reaches of our vision. Alas, nothing of this can be proven scientifically and is therefore easily dismissed, since attestation and verification on purely physical grounds without faith purposely forms no part of any plan of redemption and salvation. Evil is not the product of an imperfect creation, but rather evidence of the extreme latitude blank slates grant to grow or decline in spirit even should the result be every form of unthinkably cruelty and iniquitous behavior. Evil or goodness dies not with the individual, but is carried aloft to incorporate discarnate kingdoms, whereby through the agency of feedback, control and influence the actions and motivations of all flesh upon the planet. The dark times of today are signs that this influence has degenerated into perverted and vicious descending spirals, and are certainly not fulfilling intended roles as the golden rungs we clutch to lift us from embryonic matter. That we were always the masters of our own destinies we did not grasp, failing when we cast the lonely, the uneducated, the ignorant, the criminal, the bigot, the fanatic, the hateful, the angry, the cheat, the power hungry, the flatterer, the selfish, and the addict unprepared into the next life, only to return spited and unseen as vicarious parasites to feast upon and corrupt the faithless and weak in spirit. Our discussions should address this new reality, and focus on understanding the hidden forces at work, both positive and negative. If we appreciate the power of the positive, we can learn how to don the armor of God, and how to repair the chinks. If we see through lies of the negative, we will know from where the next arrow comes and the strength of their spears. Digressing endlessly on the machinations of a doomed political system plays into the hands of the Empire, and muffles the urgings of the Kingdom of the Almighty.