Practice of Purity

You cannot touch eternity if you belong to this world.

While we are here, our whole purpose is manifesting eternity in how we pass through this brief time. It requires a sense of detachment, of being disentangled from even yourself. If you cannot bear in your consciousness a recognition that your true self is something other than your mere flesh and thoughts, then you cannot operate in God’s glory. While fully involved in human life here with a passion and ardor for what really matters, you hold an awareness on a higher level. You see clearly what matters here because your soul is not confined to this plane.

That sort of awareness has substantial consequences.

Instead of marching in antiwar demonstrations, you help refugees from war. That would include people trying to escape the control of the military-industrial complex. Not simply aiding the likes of “draft-dodgers” but any action that gives any person a chance to break their dependence on the system that keeps grinding down human life in destruction for the sake of profit. Yet, it’s not that we don’t use what the system provides, but that we use it’s own weapons against it. Don’t get so wrapped up in the symbolism that you forget what it symbolizes. The symbols of your priorities are not sacred; they only give a sense of the ineffable. Human orthodoxy of the mind cannot work the righteousness of God. The spiritual conflict is in the Spirit Realm; we are not fighting people and things that arise from human resources. Those are just tools of something far beyond human capabilities.

You cannot do it all. Your mission is the collection of things God has placed in your path. It requires the subtle operation of quantum moral reasoning to know what you embrace, ignore or oppose and when. The same earthly manifestation is both evil and righteous on different levels, and whether to work against it in the context requires a clear focus beyond this world of shadows, as well as the question of how to work against it. That’s because, in the next moment you will use that same thing. Do not become wrapped up in things on this level as inherently good or bad. Your hands and mind can only go just so far and your victories are not measured in earthly accomplishments. Let your hands do what comes within reach while keeping your soul’s eyes on a far higher concern.

When you understand that you can love someone and still destroy their human dreams, then you begin to understand holiness.

A major emphasis for me remains the Internet and how it changes human society. Do not make the mistake of thinking I love the Internet; my heart belongs elsewhere. The Internet is the major battlefield for my mission calling. It is good and bad and indifferent, all at once, but it remains a thing of this world that God has slated for utter destruction. In eternity, the Internet will be forgotten, but how I obeyed the Spirit in dealing with it will be written on my soul. For me to practice the purity of holiness means a great deal of technology and poking around the dark corners of the Net. It includes my interest in Debian Linux even while running MS Office on it under an emulator. I take advantage of how the Open Source orthodoxy produces a platform for effective service in the Kingdom of Heaven, even as I routinely violate that orthodoxy because such orthodoxy matters more in development than in actual use.

Yet it also drives me to push to the limits of my physical endurance in pursuit of physical fitness. In my human mind, I scarcely understand why it matters, what difference it makes. Sure, I can tell you why I like it, but in the same breath I would tell you it’s not the point. I don’t know what difference it makes in human terms, only that my soul is driven. Maybe I can answer that question some day, but not right now. It’s a part of that divine mystery where God only reveals enough to keep us faithful.

For those of you who read my blather for whatever reason, I intend to remain faithful in reporting what I can put into words. You’ll get some small amount of chatter about fitness but a much larger discussion of my work on behalf of the Network Civilization. I regard each of you as beloved parishioners, unless and until you distinguish yourself as a hindrance to my mission. Most of those who take exception to my mission or it’s expressions don’t agree because they don’t understand. They are not the problem, merely the tool of some bigger force of opposition to Heaven itself. That doesn’t make them evil; they may well be faithful in their own calling. The question is not what or who they are, but what role they play in my calling. Meanwhile, I know my mission and this blog is the primary reporting outlet for now.

Stick around; this might be fun.