Sunday, June 30, 2019

Celebrate

7.7.19
Michelle Kwan

Celebrate
Creation
庆祝创建 
Qìngzhù chuàngjiàn
創造を祝う
Sōzō o iwau
ps 66
celebramus creaturae

Celebrate creation with sound.
Let joy resound from the ground.

Sing for the glory of the light.
Dance for the mystery of the night.

When life give you ice
skate with joy for social delight.


The air adores the earth
for the mirth of her girth.

The planet gives birth to gravity
for fun in the sun, not depravity.

Sing praises for design.
Look to see that which is benign.
Have some wine! It's fine!

When Elisha saw Naaman with his leprosy
he invited him to bath in the Jordan as his therapy.


Leprosy was medically defined as a skin disorder.
The condition was condemned by the social order.

Skin disorders resulted from lack of hygiene.
Washing could cure an 'incurable' disease by reprieve.

Medical knowledge was not as well dispersed.
Media communication has helped reduce certain kinds of curse.

Cure the sick who have resigned to the 'design' of fate.
The benign design of function with form guides your mind to that which is great.

Work must be tested to show social worth.
Pride in good production is not a malicious birth.

The unseen wire is the inexplicable force. 
Card tricks are more numeric in the probability course.

Say, "You are awesome" to life.
Enemies become non-combatant with respect for rights.

Raise praise in different ways
for the rest of your days.
It will bring out the best in what you say.

Manifest destiny had its run.
Exclusion by destruction 
was what it had won.

Representation by inclusion
helps us to work as one.

The system of reward has to regulate
in relation to those who reformed from the degenerate state.


The rule of law by due process
helps us to do what needs to be done for progress.
Charges against a suspect need attention
in court with a jury that looks at the smoking gun
in the body of evidence to judge with doubt
to bring truth out.

Skepticism must have clout
to see truth. Justice will shout
for correction, not cruelty in punishment
for deception. Discrimination is self-diminishment.

Don't pout about the lout with no ground.
Bless this house with sound from all around.


Sound as Music

Let the sound be music as the profound ground
for happiness in what is best in what is allowed.

We have been tested, 
but not bested.

We have been tried, 
but not fried.
We will not be denied.

We had been pushed into a trap
with a burden on our backs.

Spinners made themselves look like winners.
Backers became whipcrackers
turned hackers,

but they will never win.
Spin is their sin.




We will enter our house with offerings of joy.
Everyone will accomplish more as we employ
our love together to deploy.

Draw near all you who are dear.
Don't fear. 

You will hear celebration 
for what has been done for our nation!



Celebrate civility with joy
to employ

love as an alloy.

Build a bastion of happiness

for your memory practice.

Raise praise in different ways
for the rest of your days.
It will bring out the best in your way.

Celebrate creation with sound.
Let joy resound from the ground.

Sing for the glory of the light.
Dance for the mystery of the night.

Yea Yah!
You fill me with awe!

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66 Jubilate Deo
Shout for God

1 Be joyful in God, all you lands;
sing the glory of his Name;
sing the glory of his praise.
2 Say to God, "How awesome are your deeds!
because of your great strength your enemies
cringe before you.
3 All the earth bows down before you,
sings to you, sings out your Name."
4 Come now and see the works of God,
how wonderful he is in his doing toward all people.
5 He turned the sea into dry land,
so that they went through the water on foot,
and there we rejoiced in him.
6 In his might he rules for ever;
his eyes keep watch over the nations;
let no rebel rise up against him.
7 Bless our God, you peoples;
make the voice of his praise to be heard;
8 Who holds our souls in life,
and will not allow our feet to slip.
9 For you, O God, have proved us;
you have tried us just as silver is tried.
10 You brought us into the snare;
you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.
11 You let enemies ride over our heads;
we went through fire and water;
but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.
12 I will enter your house with burnt-offerings
and will pay you my vows,
which I promised with my lips
and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.
13 I will offer you sacrifices of fat beasts
with the smoke of rams;
I will give you oxen and goats.
14 Come and listen, all you who fear God,
and I will tell you what he has done for me.
15 I called out to him with my mouth,
and his praise was on my tongue.
16 If I had found evil in my heart,
the Lord would not have heard me;
17 But in truth God has heard me;
he has attended to the voice of my prayer.
18 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer,
nor withheld his love from me.

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2 Kings 5:8

When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the king of Israel felt threatened by the letter from the king of Aram, he sent a message, 'Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel.'

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Leprosy was medically defined as a skin disorder.
The condition was condemned by the social order.

Skin disorders resulted from lack of hygiene.
Washing could cure an 'incurable' disease by reprieve.

Medical knowledge was not as well dispersed.
Media communication has helped reduce certain kinds of curse.

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Gal. 6:4

All must test their own work; then that work, rather than their neighbor's, will become a cause for pride.

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Work must be tested to show social worth.
Pride in good production is not a malicious birth.

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Luke 10:9-10

Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; cure the sick who are there and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you."

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Cure the sick who have resigned to the 'design' of fate.
The benign design of function with form guides mind to that which is great.

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Popular Culture
Lucy Hale

C.J. Ducasse
b.  7.7.1881, Angouleme, France
d.  9.3.1969, Providence, Rhode Island

Curt John Ducasse was a distinguished American philosopher who taught at the University of Washington and Brown University. He spent most of his professional career at the latter.

He is best known for his work in metaphysics and epistemology. His discussions about causality, the nature of mind and aesthetics are of particular interest. He greatly influenced the work of many mid- and late-twentieth-century analytic philosophers.

His magnum opus in parapsychology is his book, A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death (1961).

He was born in France in the latter part of the 19th century.

Angouleme

Angouleme is in the southwest of France.

The city is located on a plateau overlooking a meander of the Charente River. It has the nickname "balcony of the southwest."

Angoulême was a fortified town for a long time as the capital of Angoumois in the ancient regime. The term in French means "old regime" or "former regime".

It was used by revolutionary advocates for republican government to describe the monarchy as the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789. The hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the French Revolution.

The notion of "absolute monarchy"  was pejoratively typified by the king's right to issue lettres de cachet. These letters reportedly denied the right to appeal. They were used in the efforts by the kings to create a centralized state.

The Kingdom of France retained its irregularities despite the organization in centralization. Authority regularly overlapped and nobles struggled to retain autonomy.

The need for centralization in this period was directly linked to the question of royal finances and the ability to wage war. The internal conflicts and dynastic crises of the 16th and 17th centuries included the Huguenot Wars between Catholics and Protestants and the Habsburg's internal family conflict.

The territorial expansion of France on top of these conflicts in the 17th century demanded great sums which needed to be raised through taxes. The land tax (taille) and the tax on salt (gabelle) are examples. Contributions of men and service from the nobility were also solicited.

Angouleme was highly coveted due to its position at the center of many roads important to communication throughout the history of France. It suffered from many sieges. The city inherited a large historical, religious and urban heritage from its tumultuous past perched on the rocky spur.  It attracts a lot of tourists.

Curt John Ducasse

Ducasse was born in Angoulême, France on July 7, 1881.

He obtained A.B. and A.M. degrees in philosophy from University of Washington. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1912.

He is most notable for his work in philosophy of mind and aesthetics. His influence can be seen in the work of Roderick Chisholm and Wilfrid Sellars.

Roderick Chisholm advocated for Libertarianism or Indeterminism. He has been called the philosopher's philosopher. His argument for free will was related to the argument of survival in the belief in immortality as presented by Ducasse.

Wilfred Sellars is known as an American philosopher who was prominent in the development of critical realism. Talk of reason, epistemic justification and intention is not the same as talk of cause and effect in the sense of physical science. Dialog for reason cannot necessarily be mapped onto the explication of experimental investigation.

Ducasse used critical realism to remove psychology as the basis to investigate the paranormal. The study of ESP (Extra-Sensory Perception) and PK (Psycho-Kinesis) was limited to that which could be measured with scientific devices and observation. The contrast with generally predictable events was assumed.

He served as the president of the Eastern division of the American Philosophical Association (1939-40) and president of the Philosophy of Science Association (1958-61).

He was influenced by William James and Josiah Royce. William James is known for his radical pragmatism. Josiah Royce is the father of American idealism.

Ducasse wrote on parapsychology. He joined the American Society for Psychical Research in 1951 and served a term as vice president beginning in 1966.

His book A Critical Examination of the Belief in a Life After Death is a philosophical attempt to examine the idea of immortality. He expressed his belief in survival in it. The book was praised by parapsychologists. Criticism came from philosopher Corliss Lamont who asserted that some of the content was wishful.

When he wrote his books Nature, Mind, and Death and A Philosophical Scrutiny of Religion, he contended that we have not only a right, but not an obligation, to believe in survival and reincarnation.

He was interested in parapsychology early in his career. His views on the strength of the evidence evolved over the years. He was consistently clear that, as far as the experimental research for ESP and PK was concerned, that evidence is ‘practically conclusive.’

Ducasse would come to distinguish paranormal investigation from pyschology. He is the reason that ghostbusters go into houses with scientific devices to measure for the claim of paranormal activity.

It was Ducasse who coined the term ‘paranormal’ to divest psychical research of its psychological association. He felt that this field of research concerned paranormal phenomena as a distinct domain not to be subsumed under a standard or widely-recognized set of psychological phenomena.

Suppose that some phenomenon P is causally explicable in terms of current scientific theory, but no one has discovered what that explanation is. The explanatory limitation here is ours with respect for current theories. This state of affairs would not justify our taking P to be paranormal.

If the thing can be explained in terms of cause and effect, it is not paranormal. It reduces to a consideration of thought in observation.

What was the 'magical' force that 'psychokinetically' moved an object with no apparent cause. Wire is used often enough in video productions because the wire doesn't usually show up on the video. Large wires can be attached onto a harness to make it look like someone can fly through space.

Ducasse's view is Platonic with respect for the immortality of the soul and re-incarnation. It attempts to explain the cyclical nature of progress from polytheism to monotheism in philosophy, but holds a position against majority view monotheism.

Science writer Martin Gardner observed that Ducasse was notable for "combining nonbelief in God with a belief in the preexistence and the afterlife of human souls."

Curt Ducasse
S. 柯特·杜卡斯
C. 柯特·杜卡斯

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斯  si      this                        斯  shi       this               su    す      ス         se     세   three         

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The unseen wire is the inexplicable force.
Card tricks are more numeric in the probability course.

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Bio
wiki JC Ducasse
Immortality with Reincarnation
Critical Examination of Life after Death
Problems of Interaction
IEP: Interaction in Dualism
Immortality as Survival
Reincarnation
Paranormal
Text on Immortality

The Foundation for Morals and Legislation

The statement that the greatest happiness for the greatest number has been criticized as hypocritical. When Bentham presented the argument slavery was legal. Revolution was being pushed as a norm.

The American and French revolutions had established independent republics. Constitutional law was the 'modern innovation.' Slavery had not been outlawed. Voting rights had not been extended to all citizens old enough to serve in the military.

It can be argued that people were persuaded that happiness for some doesn't justify the imposition of misery on others with enslavement. It was this principle that eventually outlawed slavery as a trade and an institution.

Was the thought that republic was for the majority and the majority was only for the happiness of the largest social group the only driving force in hypocrisy?

Socialism countered with the implication that labor was the largest representative body in any country. Their demands should be met for the happiness of the nation in the world. Their theory was that the happiness of the largest representative body was more important than the success of the wealthy.

The 'largest representative body' largely rejected the value of education as a means to attain success with joy without depriving upward mobility for others.

Rawls from Harvard used the 'veil of ignorance' to imply that the majority is the cause of oppression for the minority. This view was hypocritical of the view that the minority interest could be an even greater cause of social dissonance.

Republican government is such that the majority has to represent what is right in law. The minority has to agree with that which is right as well. Otherwise, minority groups views are collectively presented to make the majority view look like the cause of unhappiness for the country even when the collective view for liberal expenditure is worse.

The difficulty with the theory that the greatest number of people is always the determinant cause in making decisions is that government has to limit its own power in control with legislation.

Law is written to persuade people to act in a way that will not damage the property or health of others. Defense from damage is a significant qualifier.

Liberalism is the cause of liberal expenditure. Liberal expenditure reduces the economic support for rights for citizens.

Democrats have a liberal platform that seeks to increase expenditure by the broadening of appeal to diverse representation. It's a chaotic position.

Is the majority always wrong? Doesn't the statement that the 'majority is always wrong' beg the question as to what is wrong about the majority of minorities?

Public policy has to resolve itself to present the possibility that legal norms have to be guided by what is right with the moral position for law against doing damage. Defense from attack has to be against a clear and present danger.

There is a particular qualification with respect for defense against lethal and imminent deadly force. Deadly force can only be used against the physical threat of lethal attack.

Training has to have the intent to promote self-regulation with the use of military force in national alliance or international cooperation.

Search and Rescue operations condition participants to work together in adverse circumstances to rescue someone or a number of people who are in distress.

SAR is fundamentally beneficial to training that promotes teamwork for a benign benefit in well-regulated operations.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Shape

6.26.19
Victoria Justice

Shape
Yourself
塑造自己 
Sùzào zìjǐ
あなた自身を形作る
Anata jishin o katachidzukuru
ps 24
figura te

Why shape anything?
Isn't natural development amazing?

The world is created from the earth.
A person starts to live with birth.

The world is everything that is the case.
It is something that we make as a place.

What is that which always is and has no becoming?
Space is the place for the race of galactic running.

What is that which is always becoming and never is? 
Lightning is the track for a crack through the subatomic. 
The ground for it is chronically chthonic.

That which is apprehended is in the same state.
Apprehension exists, but it evaluates. 

It does not generate or abate
reality as the state for the slate.

That which is conceived by opinion without reason 
is always in disagreement with the season.

It is becoming or perishing and never has agreement
with that which really exists in material completion. 

Everything that becomes or is created 
must be caused by something that can be dated. 

Nothing material can be created without a cause.
The immaterial is that which gives us pause. 

The immaterial cause that came before creation
is a wonder that contributes to our fascination.

The work of the creator who creates something to last
shapes form as an unchangeable pattern to cast.

Was the world always in existence and without a start?
It was created as tangible; as sensible as your heart.

All sensible things are apprehended by sense 
to inform opinion as the seat for judgment.

Sensibility is created by sense with the meaning lent.
Facts are not to be by ambition bent.

The Maker of the universe is beyond determination as a fact.
Belief in said existence is an opinion which finds substance in act.

How someone acts has an impact on tact
in the relational track.

The angels burned with reverence and awe
as they celebrated the majesty of Yah.

As the Son is in the Father and the Father in the Son,
we are called to exist as united in being as though we were one.

We are not the same in particular though we are common in nature.
Individuation requires perspective on perception for judgment regarding behavior.

Love built a house and added a garden
Fortune made the home in the frame that had been started.

Adversity tried to sweep the home away.
The family had to overcome the melee
to defend their say.

Leaves from the tree of immortality
provided shade from heat as a probability.

The roof was held by walls of wood and stone
but time worked to wear the house as home.

Heat and pressure worked steadily and more
to fell the walls. Winter and summer cleft and tore
at the doors and everything else above the floor.

Grace shored the structure to cut adversity as it grew
until decay combined with the force of death in a firm bond renewed
to raze the building to the floor's mildew. 

Love and grace took glory by the hand
and built a braver palace than the one that did not stand. 

The builder had to look at what did and didn't work
in order to build a stronger place above the earth.

The sculptor learned to look into the future with his craft.
He worked with bronze to shape birds and bats.

The flight of his imagination based on the past
shaped the prediction for the event as it had been cast.

When pain had asked what brought this plan,
the decision to act in anger against the device of man
kept the moths from death in the flame that spans
the length of time in the view that scans
the pattern in the alluvial fan.

The strength to work beyond what was learned from pain
prayed for judgment from the experience of agriculture with the angular vein
to right the wrong from righting wrong for dwelling long in too much or little gain.

The battle between the fort and the phalanx forge was on.
Siege machines would reach beyond the wall as the protective phenomenon.

The world is the totality of facts.
Apprehension includes the interpretation of acts.

Many years were tossed by storms
in the journey from the fortification of forms
to the state of law with procedural norms.

Time, toil and length of labor
were required to construct forts to savor.

Such length of labor for so vast a frame
earned leadership and labor a place in lasting fame. 

Ships from the fallen fort were now a scarce affair.
Lack in foreign language made finding direction rare.

They rarely landed in a place where
they had been before for trade that was fair.

The praiseworthy had to show his care
by learning to navigate by the stars way up there.

Her youth moved angrily in the night
when she appeared between war and leadership's might.

She was a product of destruction in her own right.
She labored with endless discontent as her targeted plight.

This heart of hearth and heaven was hell bent in sight
to let her fury vent for blight. 

Worthiness moved past the anger
to live in the peace of an objective manner.

Spring stopped at the start of summer.
The beauty of the season still lives in wonder
like the joy of the newcomer.

The world is determined by the facts
and all the acts for different tracks.

The totality determines that which is and is not the case
for the face of the human race.

The world that in my thinking lies
is the home for truth in paradise.

My life’s fair visions are unfurled
within the shell in which I rest or labor still.

You can drive my car on the road
that holds the fold in the leveled low
to the sand on the beach you know.

Mindful of the outer skies
this darkness of the mind
finds sunrise with its spokes of light to shine.

The 'rude' pattern of the quiet mind
gave restraint a luxuriant black shine to find. 

The glittering arrows shine dispersed
nature's aspect and the design that works.

Nothing from nothing has not been born,
yet this appearance has been worn and torn. 

When once we know from nothing still 
we will divine design with human will.

Those elements from which things are created
increase the bonds to that which had been stated
as weighted. 

The increase will conserve its kind
in the law that conserves and binds
until from it release unwinds. 

All begotten things abide in change
in the changeless stuff that defines our range
in the begotten name.

There are more abounding crops indeed
to provide food as the substance that we need. 


The earth bears the primordial germ of things
which the ploughshare turns in fruitful rings
as clods make room that seeds may sing.

She kneads the mold
that quickens life's hold. 

Since all must have their seeds wherefrom to grow
to reach the gentle fields of air to sow more to know
it also comes that nature dissolves the sown
into primal bodies again unknown. 

The facts in logical space are the world.
Creation was formed above the shiny sphere of the pearl.

A thing is called finite after its kind
when it finds a place in your mind.

A body is not limited by thought,
not the thought by  the body wrought.

That which is in itself is a substance.
A change in electric current is inductance.

An attribute constitutes the essence of substance.
The ratio of the current to resistance is conductance.

That which exists in something other than itself is a mode.
The essence of existence is an absolutely infinite node.

The world divides into facts
with the mental force of an axe.

Desire does not always attain the perception for which it strives.
It gets what it can and reaches for different drives.

The cause of perception is the external body
that presses the organ to each sense as haji.

That which touch, smell, taste, sight or hearing has discerned
is a pressure for the mediation of nerve.

The impulse that is sent meets reception in the head.
The brain and heart read the signals that the senses sent to be read.

The eye sees light or color.
The ear hears sound bounce from another.

The nostrils smell the unseen odor.
The tongue tastes flavor to savor. 
The body feels the sense that substance tailors.

All the qualities known as sensible
come from objects as detectable.

The object sensed is one thing.
The impression left brings an experiential ring.

Sense is subject to the fancy
of the vigilante chimpanzee.

Aristotle taught that the cause of vision
is sent from the object as a signaled provision.

Light does bounce from thing to sight, 
but the thought that the thing sent a signal is not right.

A sound is sent by waves from a source.
A smell is an admission of emission that floats through air of course.

Sense is essential to safety.
Awareness smells the flower and dodges the crazy.

Experience plays a part in what an individual thinks to say.
The fancy chimpanzee has a role to play.

Education lends perspective to perception.
Learning from others can avoid deception.

The cognition of culture is a corporate experience.
This is something an individual should take as serious.

The natural and moral have an empirical course.
The laws of nature concern the experience of force.

Redemption is a course of will that overcomes remorse.
The rule of law is in accord with what ought to occur.

When what ought to happen does not, it is a metaphysical spur
to which the thought of justice must refer.

Experience is the ground for the empirical.
Faith is the substance for the miracle.

If you won't see beyond the past
expectation remains downcast.

Logic must reason to shape the frame for mind.
Nature and morality have a metaphysic drawn from design.

Physics has a rational part.
Morality has a sensible ground in the heart.

Translation is friendly to conservative reform.
Comparison to a foreign culture considers significant norms.

Who can ascend the height of the hill?
Who can stand in the essence of our existential thrill?
Who is there who has the will?

Whosoever has clean hands and an honest mind,
they may ascend to the height of the climb.

They will receive the blessing of leadership.
They may join the consecration of fellowship.

They carried the ark of the covenant with a new heart.
They came to the house of will on the hill for their start.

Such is the generation of those who seek love,
of those who seek peace from the eternal dove.

Narva Gate, St. Petersburg, Russia

Lift your eyes to the arch of the gate.
Open the doors of perception to investigate.

Let the ring of glory into your story.
What is this ring of glory?

The essence of our existence
overcomes all resistance
to subsistence.

This is the ring of glory.
Our existence is our story.


You are the one for me.
Your love helps me to see
how to be.
You are my moral philosophy.

You received spiritual blessing from this heavenly place.
You have drawn love from the empirical base.

This unique blessing shows special favor.
Restraint became the savior to savor flavor.

Shape yourself as a duty.
It's your part in nature's beauty.

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24 Domini est terra
Dominated is earth

1 The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it,
the world and all who dwell therein.
2 For it is he who founded it upon the seas
and made it firm upon the rivers of the deep.
3 "Who can ascend the hill of the Lord?
and who can stand in his holy place?"
4 "Those who have clean hands and a pure heart,
who have not pledged themselves to falsehood,
nor sworn by what is a fraud.
5 They shall receive a blessing from the Lord *
and a just reward from the God of their salvation."
6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, *
of those who seek your face, O God of Jacob.
7 Lift up your heads, O gates;
lift them high, O everlasting doors; *
and the King of glory shall come in.
8 "Who is this King of glory?" *
"The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle."
9 Lift up your heads, O gates;
lift them high, O everlasting doors; *
and the King of glory shall come in.
10 "Who is he, this King of glory?" *
"The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory."

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Isa. 6:1-2

I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty, in the year that King Uzziah died. The hem of his robe filled the temple. Seraphim were in attendance above him. Each had six wings. With two they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet and with two they flew.

Uzziah- Power of Yah
Isaiah- Salvation is in Yah
seraphim- Burners

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The angels burned with reverence and awe
as they celebrated the majesty of Yah.

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John 17:20-21

'I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word that they may all be one. As you are in me, Father, and I am in you, may they also be in us, so the world may believe that you have sent me.'

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As the Son is in the Father and the Father in the Son,
we are called to exist as united in being as though we were one.

We are not the same in particular though we are common in nature.
Individuation requires perspective on perception for judgment regarding behavior.

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Thomas Sowell
Socialism

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Ps. 24:1

The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it,
the world and all who dwell therein.

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The rise of communism in Russia had an association with Marxist socialism and the Boleshevik revolution. Socialism was critical of capitalism, but the predicition of the violent overthrow of government gave it a hostile intent toward executive authority and the middle class.

Russian culture had started with polytheistic roots, but had moved through the Byzantine and Latin influences in a way that essentially preserved serfdom based on the Egyptian model. There was a strong support for executive authority in this kind of society.

Cruelty in punishment was a characteristic of any legal code prior to Constitutionally legislative reform. Profit from war was as well, but the Russians were dedicated to independence and autonomy. They didn't have slavery.

This served as the basis for alliance with British royalty. The Russians used western standards to develop, but economic growth was slower. The Marxist political leadership used this slowness as the justification for violent revolution.

Socialism was Calvinism without religion. This made the democracy a form of dictatorship that was more obsessed with the achievement of goals with violent aggression. There was the pretense of objective scientific analysis in economics, but the incentive for development that characterizes effective executive leadership was removed.

Cultural development was inhibited when that was removed from leadership. Education, art and cultural development were suppressed for the proletariat. The only development that was achieved was contrived by the competition with capitalist enterprise. Labor had less motivation to construct or produce anything that wasn't dictated by socialist convention.

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Isa. 6:2

Seraphs were in attendance above the Lord. Each had six wings: with two they covered their faces; with two they covered their feet and with two they flew.

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Isabel Florence Hapgood was a writer who translated Russian texts into English. Her work established a basis for understanding Russian culture.

She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889. She met with the celebrated author, Leo Tolstoy.

Isabel Florence Hapgood
b. 11.21.1851, Boston, Massachusetts
d. 6.26.1928, New York, New York

Hapgood was born in Boston on November 21, 1851.

Boston

Boston had the status of a town until it was chartered as a city in 1822. The second mayor was Josiah Quincy III. He undertook infrastructure improvements in roads and sewers. He organized the city's dock area around the newly erected Faneuil Hall Marketplace, popularly known as Quincy Market.

Boston was one of the largest manufacturing centers in the nation by the mid-19th century. The city was noted for its garment production, leather goods and machinery industries. Manufacturing overtook international trade to dominate the local economy.

A network of small rivers bordering the city and connecting it to the surrounding region made for easy shipment of goods and allowed for a proliferation of mills and factories. The building of the Middlesex Canal extended this small river network to the larger Merrimack River and its mills. These included the Lowell mills along with those on the Nashua River in New Hampshire.

An even denser network of railroads facilitated the region's industry and commerce by the 1850's. Eben Jordan and Benjamin L. Marsh opened the Jordan Marsh Department store in downtown Boston in 1851. William Filene opened his own department store across the street 30 years later. The store was called Filene's.

Brahmin Elite

The term "Brahmin elite" was coined in 1861 by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Boston's Brahmin developed a particular semi-aristocratic value system by the 1840's. They were cultivated, urbane and dignified. The ideal elitist was the very essence of enlightened aristocracy.

He was not only wealthy, but displayed suitable personal virtues and character traits.  The Brahmin had high expectations to meet. He was to cultivate the arts. Charities such as hospitals and colleges were to be supported. The role of community leader was to be assumed.

The ideal called on him to transcend commonplace business values. Many found the thrill of economic success quite attractive in practice. The Brahmins warned each other against "avarice" and insisted upon "personal responsibility." Scandal and divorce were unacceptable.

The total system was buttressed by the strong extended family ties present in Boston society. Young men attended the same prep schools and colleges. They had their own way of talking.

Heirs married heiresses. Family not only served as an economic asset, but also as a means of moral restraint.

Most belonged to the Unitarian or Episcopal churches. Some were Congregationalists or Methodists. They were successively Federalists, Whigs and Republicans in political association.

Boston was also composed of Irish immigrants. Many of these were Catholic. They had to hide their religious affiliation because it was banned when the city was part of the Bay Colony.

Congregations of Presbyterians from Ulster in the north of Ireland had immigrated near the start of the 18th century. They were called Ulster Irish but later were referred to as Scots-Irish because many of them had roots in Scotland.

Isabel Hapgood

Isabel Hapgood was the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages with a special interest in Orthodox liturgical texts.

She wrote for the New York Evening Post and the Nation as a journalist, foreign correspondent and editorial writer for 22 years.

The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. It was the successor to William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator. The periodical is devoted to politics and culture. It was founded on July 6, 1865.

New York Evening Post

The New York Post is the fourth-largest newspaper in the United States. It is a leading digital media publisher. It reached more than 57 million unique visitors in the U.S. in January 2017.

The New York Post also operates the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, the entertainment site Decider.com and co-produces the television show Page Six TV. This show garnered the highest ratings of a nationally syndicated entertainment news magazine in a decade when it debuted in 2017.

The Post was established by federalist and founding father Alexander Hamilton in 1801. It became a broadsheet in the 19th century as the New York Evening Post. The modern version of the paper is published in tabloid format. Rupert Murdoch bought the Post for US $30.5 million in 1976.

Russian Empire 1881+

The Russia to which Hapgood traveled was different than the socialist government that had been there from the start of the revolution that she witnessed until the fall of the Soviet Republic. It was also different from the current Federal Republic.

Alexander III was a Slavophile. He believed that Russia could be saved from turmoil by shutting itself off from subversive influences from Western Europe.

Russia declared alliance with republican France to contain the growing power of Germany during his reign.  The empire completed the conquest of Central Asia. It demanded important territorial and commercial concessions from China.

Alexander III was succeeded by his son, Nicholas II, in 1894. He was committed to retaining the autocracy that his father had left him. The Industrial Revolution began to show significant influence in Russia.

There were industrial capitalists and nobility who claimed to believe in peaceful social reform and a constitutional monarchy. They formed the Constitutional Democrats, or Kadets.

The Socialist-Revolutionaries (SRs) incorporated the Narodnik tradition. They advocated for the distribution of land among the peasants. This was a radical egalitarian reform.

The Social Democrats were another radical group. They were exponents of Marxism in Russia. The Social Democrats differed from the SRs in that they believed a revolution must rely on urban workers, not the peasantry.

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John 17:17

Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.

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Hapgood was a major translator of French and Russian literature. She was an ecumenist who served as a key figure in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy.

Many of the writers Hapgood translated were people of strong religious convictions. She was a lifelong and devout Episcopalian.

She helped Harvard professor Francis James Child with his Book of Ballads. These were English and Scottish folk ballads that were published in 1882. Hapgood published her own Epic Songs of Russia in 1885. Child supplied a preface. The publication received several good reviews.

The next year Hapgood published translations of Leo Tolstoy’s "Childhood," "Boyhood" and "Youth." Nikolay Gogol’s "Taras Bulba" and "Dead Souls" were also published. Her translations of the major works of Victor Hugo began publication in 1887. The American public found that Hugo was brutally honest about the French Republic.

Hapgood was particularly impressed by the Russian Orthodox liturgy and choral singing. She wanted to translate them for the American audience.

Tikhon was the Archbishop of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands at the time. He supported her efforts and became her friend. She helped organized the choir for his consecration of St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York City in 1903.

Tikhon's successor after his promotion and return to Russia was Archbishop Nicholas. He gave Hapgood a complete set of Church Slavonic texts. The first edition of her translation appeared in 1906.

Hapgood visited Tikhon in 1916-17. He had been consecrated as the Patriarch of Moscow. She was editing a second edition of the work during her trip to Moscow when the Russian Revolution broke out. She became one of the first to report on the execution of the Romanov family.

Hapgood escaped with the assistance of the American Consul and returned to the United States. The second edition was not published until 1922 by the Young Men's Christian Association. Patriarch Tikhon was under house arrest. The publication contained Tikhon's endorsement dated November 3, 1921.

Hapgood accepted a $500 honorarium for those eleven years of work. The book received favorable reviews by Orthodox and Anglican reviewers. Several editions were also published by other Orthodox denominations, including the Syrian Orthodox, after her death.

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Rev. 5:11

Then I looked. I heard the voices of many angels surrounding the throne, the living creatures and the elders. They numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands. They sang with full voice.

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Hapgood continued to admire Orthodox church music. She helped orthodox choirs in the United States. Their work included performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and before President Woodrow Wilson at the White House. She also compiled a history of Russian Church music, but the manuscript was never published. It has been lost.

Hapgood never married despite Count Tolstoy's admonition that she should. She had no children. She died in New York.

Isabel Hapgood
S. 伊莎贝尔哈普古德
T. 伊莎貝爾哈普古德

伊  Yi      she                         伊  i         that one             Iza   いざ   イザ                               
莎  sha   insect                      莎 sa       sedge                  be    べ       ベ         I      이   this     
贝  bei   shellfish                  貝 bai      shellfish              ru     る       ル        sa    사   four
尔  er      you                        爾  ji          you                   Ha    は      ハ         bel   벨   bell           
哈  Ha     yawn                     哈  go     school of fish       pu   ぷ       プ         Hib  힙   heap       
普  pu     everywhere            普  fu        universal           gu   ぐっ    グッ     gus   굿  good           
古  gu     classic                    古  ko        old                    do   ど         ド               
德  de     morality                 德  toku   ethics                         

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Translation is friendly to conservative reform.
Comparison to a foreign culture considers significant norms.

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http://satucket.com/lectionary/isabel_florence_hapgood.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Florence_Hapgood#Career
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire…

Monday, June 24, 2019

Enjoy

6.27.19
Ava and Reese 

Enjoy
Freedom
享受自由 
Xiǎngshòu zìyóu
自由を享受する
Jiyū o kyōju suru
ps90
frui libertate

The afternoon breeze
blew through the trees
dispersing storm tossed leaves.

The place away from danger is a refuge.
Refugees flee to find safety for their use.

Like wolves we chose to move even in the night
to escape certain death as our plight.

This has been true from one generation to another.
War has been against your fellow man as brother.

It has driven non-combatants to a place that is other
than the one in which we had taken succor.

Spoils and taxes have driven war against some flutter
of threat created by news of some slaughtering snuffer.

War has to be limited to defense to be just.
The limitation will guide those who govern for us.

A thousand years in divine sight
are like one watch within the night.

We had been swept away like a dream.
Like the grass in the morning, we were green
then, we lost the moisture to feed our need.
We withered brown by the evening due to heat.

We consumed too much in displeasure.
We took beyond the seasoned measure.

We lost our faith for fear of wrath.
We lost our health upon this path.

We didn't change to meet the challenge.
Iniquity prevented the savagery to manage.

Guilt from secret sins held movement in check.
Power as a motive had become a train wreck.

Destruction makes sure the days are gone.
Years are shortened before they grow long.

The span of life is eighty years.
It's more like ninety when we shed fears with tears.

The sum of life is labor and sorrow
when we don't build law with love for tomorrow.

The power of production replaces wrath with math.
This is the power that civilization has.

Seek good, not evil, that you may live
as a model for living as one who gives.

Hate evil and love good for justice in the gate
to manage resources with patience in how to participate.

Who can be saved when judgment condemns the person?
Immortal strength selects statements that strengthen benign purpose.

Knowledge is like standing on a chair to get closer to the moon.
A step back for perspective will produce a fall with a consequential tune.

Different frames for perception produce a race
for perspective on how to rule out what is not the case.

The insect that lighted on the girl on a horse
was brushed away as the ordinary course
without remorse.

The pear blossom blooms in the early Spring.
The tree is seen as a beautiful thing.

Terrific thunder from the elder brother
produced good fortune unique to each other.

We have a high priest who has passed through the heavens.
Salvation from the Son of God lets us hold fast to our confession.

The one who serves Christ is acceptable for approval.
Slavery as protected by law has met with removal.

The Son has the power to take up life again.
The Spirit resurrects for the imminent presence to attend.

Variance in production with instruction from time
makes the value of our products seem sublime.

Learn from experience to teach yourself measure.
It is the gold which life does so highly treasure.

Replace the daze of affliction in adversity
with the ways of satisfaction in maturity.

Time turns mind back to the dust to say,
"Go back to earth like a child at play."

Who feels the power of your presence?
You are in the wonder of the divine essence.

Who loves the real feeling of true power?
You are growing in strength by the hour.

Teach us to value time for our hearts in wisdom.
We will learn to see mission with our vision.

How long will you wait?
Get this goal straight.

Be gracious with your love.
It is the message that came from above with the dove.

Satisfy us with your kindness in the morning,
so we may weather storms as life's adorning.

Make us glad by the measure of the days
in which we were afflicted in ways
that the endurance of adversity will be raised
as the emblem of virtue to be praised.

Show your work to your loved ones.
Your splendor will shine like the sun.

Productive action makes the power to alleviate distress.
The rule for production blends thought into action to eliminate mess.

May your grace be with us.
The fruit of labor will be discussed.

We see that we saw the soul as one
in the products of our love.

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Psalm 90
Domine, refugium
Dominated, our refuge

1 Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to another.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
or the land and the earth were born,
from age to age you are God.
3 You turn us back to the dust and say,
"Go back, O child of earth."
4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past
and like a watch in the night.
5 You sweep us away like a dream;
we fade away suddenly like the grass.
6 In the morning it is green and flourishes;
in the evening it is dried up and withered.
7 For we consume away in your displeasure;
we are afraid because of your wrathful indignation.
8 Our iniquities you have set before you,
and our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
9 When you are angry, all our days are gone;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
10 The span of our life is seventy years,
perhaps in strength even eighty;
yet the sum of them is but labor and sorrow,
for they pass away quickly and we are gone.
11 Who regards the power of your wrath?
who rightly fears your indignation?
12 So teach us to number our days
that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord; how long will you tarry?
be gracious to your servants.
14 Satisfy us by your loving-kindness in the morning;
so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
15 Make us glad by the measure of the days that you afflicted us
and the years in which we suffered adversity.
16 Show your servants your works
and your splendor to their children.
17 May the graciousness of the Lord our God be upon us;
prosper the work of our hands;
prosper our handiwork.

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Romans 14:18

The one who serves Christ is acceptable to God for human approval.

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The one who serves Christ is acceptable for approval.
Slavery as protected by law has met with removal.

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John 10:18

'The Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. I laid it down of my own accord. I have the power to lay it down. I have the power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.'

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The Son has the power to take up life again.
The Spirit resurrects for the imminent to attend.

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Reservations
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Ps.90:1

Lord, you have been our refuge
from one generation to another.

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Cornelius Hill
b. November 13, 1834, tribal land in Wisconsin
d. January 26, 1907, Oneida, Wisconsin

He was ordained to the diaconate on June 27, 1895.

The native name for Cornelius Hill  was Onan-gwat-go (“Big Medicine”). He was the last hereditary chief of the Oneida Nation. He also served as a priest for the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in his last years.

Cornelius was born on tribal lands in Wisconsin in 1834. His parents belonged to the Oneida tribe. The Oneida were with the Iroquois confederacy in New York state. They were known for their longhouses and communal lifestyle.

They were not opposed to settlement or agriculture. The period of time into which he was born was characterized by significant change in the relations between Native and European Americans.

About 80,000 members of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole Nations lived on land that many Americans felt could be more profitably farmed and settled by non-Indians by the early 1830’s.

All five nations had signed treaties with the US government guaranteeing the right to live in their ancestral lands and maintain their sovereign systems of tribal government.  These nations were unwilling to negotiate new treaties with the federal government that would give away any of their territory.

President Andrew Jackson decided that a new federal policy would be necessary in order to remove the natives from their lands.  He supported the Removal Act of 1830. This gave the President the right to make land "exchanges" by forcibly removing the five tribes from their ancestral lands against their will.

The men who created the reservation system believed that if natives could be confined to one particular geographical place reserved for them they could become 'civilized" and assimilated into American life.

They could be encouraged to stop being nomadic and to become settled like white men. The reservations were to make sure the remaining tribes were converted to Christianity, taught English, sewing and small-scale farming. The goal was to make them Americanized in the European American way.

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Amos 5:15

Hate evil and love good.
Establish justice in the gate.
It may be that the LORD, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph

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An Episcopal missionary by the name of Rev. James Lloyd Breck escorted the ten year old Cornelius and two other boys to Nashotah House to learn English in 1843. The boys were to be educated by Episcopal bishop Jackson Kemper and other missionaries for five years.

Hill became a chief for the Bear clan as a teenager at a council of Oneida from New York, Canada and Wisconsin. He was given the responsibility for distributing the annuity money from previous treaties among his people at age 18.

He was later given responsibility for taking the census of tribal members. The number of members doubled in Wisconsin in the course of his office. Hill went to Albany, New York and Washington, D.C. to advocate for his people several times.

Federal Law

The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790 had placed nearly all interaction between Indians and non-Indians under federal control. A judge from a state could not arbitrate  disputes.

The jurisdiction for the US government included the buying and selling of Indian land. It also established new boundaries for Indian Country, protected Indian lands against non-Indian aggression, subjected trade with Indians to federal regulation, and stipulated that injuries against Indians by non-Indians was a federal crime.

The conduct of Indians among themselves while in their country was left to the tribal leadership.  Indian people saw their lands greatly diminished between 1763 and 1889 despite the initial attempt to respect their lands and rights.

Eastern and Plains Indian nations lost the range of their ancestral homeland. Nations on the West Coast also suffered great losses.  Oregon tribes lost the majority of their territory beginning in 1841, continuing in 1864 and ending in 1880.

California native tribes suffered a similar fate beginning with the 1848 discovery of gold. The loss of land continued with the 1850’s negotiations of eighteen treaties in northern California that were never ratified by the U.S. government. The rapid loss of land decreased as the 19th century came to a close.

The Dawes Act of 1887 divided tribal allocations into individual properties. It was a way of reducing the land protected by treaties. It was also part of the movement to assimilate native Americans in European American traditions.

The major distinction between the two cultures was that of settled versus nomadic lifestyles. The reservations and the individual land allocations were a way to insist on the right to private property.
European American Culture

Tribal land was broken up and given to individuals.  These plots could not be sold for 25 years, but reservation land left over after the distribution of allotments could be sold to outsiders. The US government sold the "excess" land to whites to help expose Indians to the civilizing effects of mainstream American society after the allotment process was completed.

[Citizens or not, the Apostles insisted on abstinence from meat sacrificed to idols. It was a more contentious issue than it may have seemed. The author of the letter to the Romans was moving Christendom away from the apostolic injunction against said sacrifice.]

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Romans 14:17

The kingdom of God is not food and drink. It is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

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Cornelius used his knowledge of tribal history from New York and his communication skills to defend native allocations.

Rev. Edward A. Goodnough worked among the Oneidas as a missionary and teacher from 1853 to 1890. Hill had served with him as an organist and interpreter for Episcopal services. He thought ordination would bring additional authority among whites to help him become a bridge between the cultures.

Hill and Goodnough's successor, Rev. Solomon S. Burleson, was also a lawyer and doctor. He had negotiated with the federal government to secure a hospital for the reservation in 1893. The Sisters of the Holy Nativity for nuns were designated to work in the hospital and educate tribal members.

Agriculture

Hill also helped tribal members learn new farming techniques and secure machinery. Women made baskets and beadwork for sale. They learned to make lace to support themselves in the modernized world after 1900.

Tribal members had volunteered at a limestone quarry one day a week since 1870. They laid the cornerstone for a new gothic stone chapel in order to dress stone for a new church building in 1887.

They named the building the Church of the Holy Apostles.

Church of the Holy Apostles
Oneida, Wisconsin

The Church of the Holy Apostles in NY was the oldest Indian mission of the Episcopal Church. The name traces its roots to the earliest Anglican missionaries from the Church of England and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.  The mission was established in the area that would later become central New York around Oneida Lake.

Bishop John Henry Hobart of New York licensed Mr. Eleazer Williams as Lay Reader, Catechist and Schoolmaster to the Oneida about 1815 at the earnest request of the Oneida chiefs.

Williams would become the first Episcopal missionary in Wisconsin. He played a major role in the removal of the Oneida from New York to Wisconsin.

The Oneida Indians settled and built a log church building in 1825 in the vicinity of Duck Creek after removing from New York in the 1820’s. Duck Creek was about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Green Bay.

Williams also translated parts of the Prayer Book and certain hymns into the Mohawk tongue.
He wrote a letter to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, the missionary arm of the Episcopal Church, on December 2, 1822.  He requested the establishment of a mission.

The Rev. Norman Nash was appointed as an official missionary on May 22, 1823 for the area around Green Bay. He did not arrive until 1825. Williams had been ordained Deacon in 1824 and undoubtedly held services at Oneida among the Indians.

A larger wood frame "Gothic" church building was built by the Oneidas after out-growing the log church.  The laying of the cornerstone on August 7, 1838 was by Bishop Jackson Kemper, the first Missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church. It was his first official act in the territory.

The third and present stone church building was built with the support of the Rev. E. A. Goodnough.  The building plan was prepared by the Rev. Charles Babcock, who was also an architect, as a gift to the mission.

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John 10:7

Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.’

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Bishop Charles C. Grafton ordained Hill a deacon on June 27, 1895. Hill was ordained as a priest in 1903. He was the first of his people to serve in the office. He repeated his vows in his native language.

Hill died on January 26, 1907. He was buried on the reservation in the Church of the Holy Apostles graveyard.

Fire from a lightning strike on July 17, 1920 destroyed the gothic stone church. It was rebuilt in a similar design.

The Oneida continued to revere Hill's wisdom and sanctity. They related tales about him to Works Progress Administration historians during the Great Depression.

Cornelius Hill
科尼利厄斯和力
科尼利厄斯和力

科 Ke       rules                        科  ka          course           Ko   こ-  コ-           Go  고  the         
尼  ni       nun                        尼   ni            nun                ne     ね    ネ          nel  넬  Nell                   
利  li         to benefit              利   ri            profit              ri      り    リ          lyo  료  ryo         
厄  e         distressed              厄   yaku      bad luck          a      あ    ア          Hil   힐  hill                   
斯  si         this                       斯   shi          this                 su    す    ス                             
和  He       to blend                和  wa           harmony        Hi     ひ     ヒ             
力   li         power                  力   ryoku      power            ru     る     ル                               

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Productive action makes the power to alleviate distress.
The rule for production blends thought into action to eliminate mess.                                                   

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wiki Cornelius Hill
wiki Church of the Holy Apostles, Oneida, Wisconsin
Turning Points in Wisconsin History: Settlement
Turning Pts: Indians in the 20th c.
HistoryToday: Native Americans and the Federal Gvt.
http://americanindiantah.com/…/nar_19thcenturyrelations.html


Sunday, June 23, 2019

Stand

6.24.19
Jordan River

Stand
for
Faith
坚持信念 
Jiānchí xìnniàn
信仰を表す 
Shinkō o arawasu
ps82
Sta in fide

God stood in the council of the empyrean
to give judgment among the gods of the egalitarian region.

"How long will you judge unjustly
and show favor to the deceptive so bluntly?"

The remembrance of dedication to faith with worship in the temple
was the motivation to give thanks for grace as a benign example.

Let the messenger prepare the way before me. 
You are the temple of the covenant for the world to see.

The gracious baptist saw his service as a gift
that purified perception for perspective with thrift.

The soldiers demanded, 'What are we to do?'
John said, 'Be content with the wages given to you.

'Don't accuse any falsely for fun.
Do violence wrongly to no one.'  

The terms for engagement exist between combatants.
Defense from attack doesn't need a patent.

Instruct the misfit in the way of defense.
The humble remember the jumble in common sense.

Expect gratitude for charity to the poor.
Don't forget you can show the disrespectful to the door.

Discontent is used to promote rebellion.
The rebel is all too often an ungrateful hellion.

Watch for those who create facts.
They promote darkness of mind as an act.

The foundations of the earth could be shaken
and they will assure you that it was a fault of your making.

Now I say to you, 'You are gods
as children of the Most High, the Maker of odds.

'The power of deceit will end like that in mortal plans
when the hour of conceit falls to normal scans.'  

Arise God to rule the earth. 
Let your light show the measure of wonder in worth.

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82 Deus stetit
God stood

1 God takes his stand in the council of heaven;
he gives judgment in the midst of the gods:
2 "How long will you judge unjustly,
and show favor to the wicked?
3 Save the weak and the orphan;
defend the humble and needy;
4 Rescue the weak and the poor;
deliver them from the power of the wicked.
5 They do not know, neither do they understand;
they go about in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
6 Now I say to you, 'You are gods,
and all of you children of the Most High;
7 Nevertheless, you shall die like mortals,
and fall like any prince.'"
8 Arise, O God, and rule the earth,
for you shall take all nations for your own.

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Malachi 3:1

I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me. The Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight is coming, says the LORD of hosts.

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Let the messenger prepare the way before me.
You are the temple of the covenant for the world to see.

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John 3:25-28

A discussion of purification arose between John's disciples and a Jew. They came to John and said to him, 'Rabbi, the one who was with you across the Jordan to whom you testified is baptizing here. All are going to him.' John answered, 'No one can receive anything except what has been given from heaven. You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him."

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The gracious baptist saw his service as a gift
that purified perception for perspective with thrift.

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Luke 1:57-63

The time came for Elizabeth to give birth. She bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her and they rejoiced with her.

They came to circumcise the child on the eighth day. They were going to name him Zechariah after his father. His mother said, 'No. He is to be called John.' They said to her, 'None of your relatives has this name.' They began to motion to the father to find out what name he wanted to give him. He asked for a writing tablet and wrote, 'His name is John.' All of them were amazed.

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The remembrance of dedication to faith with worship in the temple
was the motivation to give thanks for grace as a benign example.

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Luke 3:14

The soldiers demanded of John, saying 'What shall we do?' He said to them, 'Do violence to no man. Don't accuse any falsely. Be content with your wages.'

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The soldiers demanded, 'What are we to do?'
John said, 'Be content with the wages given to you.

'Don't accuse any falsely for fun.
Do violence to no one.'

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Prayer


Nativity of John the Baptist

The Nativity of John the Baptist is a Christian feast day that celebrates the birth of the prophet who would foretell the coming of the Messiah in the person of Jesus. John would baptize Jesus later.

The biblical account for the birth of John comes from the Gospel of Luke. Zechariah and Elizabeth were to become the parents. Zechariah was a priest. Elizabeth had been barren. They were both beyond the age for bearing a child.

Zechariah was chosen by lot to offer incense at Golden Altar in the Holy Place during his rotation to serve at the temple in Jerusalem. The Archangel Gabriel appeared to him and announced that he and his wife would give birth to a child. They should name him John though the name was not familiar in their families. The child would grow to go before the Lord like "Elijah."

Zechariah was rendered speechless until the time of John's birth because he did not believe Gabriel's message.  His relatives wanted to name the child after his father at that time. Elizabeth said that he was to be named John. When the relatives appealed to Zechariah, he wrote 'His name is John.'  He recovered his ability to speak at this point. (Luke 1:5–25; 1:57–66)

When the angel Gabriel appeared to the Virgin Mary to inform her that she would conceive of the Holy Ghost at the Annunciation, he also informed her that her cousin, Elizabeth, was already 6 months pregnant.  (Luke 1:36)  Luke's Gospel recounts that the baby "leapt" in Elizabeth's womb at the greeting of Mary (Luke 1:44)

The Nativity of John the Baptist is celebrated on June 24. This is 3 months after the celebration of the Annunciation (March 25). Elizabeth had been in her 6th month of pregnancy. The nativity of John comes 6 months before the Christmas celebration for the birth of Jesus.

The liturgy has proximity to the summer solstice for the solar cycle (June 21). The Baptist is the Forerunner to the Christ. The fact of the feast falling around the time of the solstice is considered by many to be significant insofar as it recalls the Forerunner's statement for Jesus, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 3:30).

The Nativity of John is one of the oldest festivals of the Christian Church. It was listed by the Council of Agde in 506 as one of that region's principal festivals. It was held as a day of rest. Three masses were celebrated like Christmas. One came at the vigil. One was at dawn. The third came at mid-day.

The Nativity is not a widespread public holiday except in Quebec and Puerto Rico. It is a high ranking liturgical feast for the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran Churches. It has been celebrated since 1970 as a Solemnity in the Roman rite. It takes precedence over a Sunday on which it happens to fall.

The Baptist is usually called the Forerunner in the Eastern Orthodox Church and other Eastern Christian Churches. The  title indicates that the purpose of his ministry was to prepare the way for the coming of Jesus Christ.

The nativity is also celebrated on June 24 in the Byzantine rite. It is a major feast day celebrated with an All-Night Vigil. It has an Afterfeast of one day. The feast always falls during the Apostles' Fast.
"Saint John's fires" are lighted on mountains and hilltops on the eve of his feast all over Europe.  Saint John's Day is considered in ancient folklore one of the great "charmed" festivals of the year as the first day of summer.

Hidden treasures are said to lie open in lonely places, waiting for the lucky finder. Divining rods should be cut on this day. Herbs are given unusual powers of healing, which they retain if they are plucked during the night of the feast.

They call these herbs Johanneskraut (St. John's herbs) in Germany. People bring them to church for a special blessing.  It is an ancient superstition that on Saint John's Day witches and demons are allowed to roam the earth in Scandinavia and in the Slavic countries. Children go around and demand 'treats', straw figures are thrown in a fire and much noise is made to drive the demons away as at Halloween.

Luke said that John grew "in the wilderness until the day of his showing to Israel." The people of the Qumran settlement, which produced the Dead Sea Scrolls, sometime used the term "living in the wilderness" to refer to residing in their community at Qumran near the Dead Sea. It has been suggested that John spent some of his early years being educated at Qumran.

John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher in the time of Pontius Pilate (26-36) according to the Jewish historian Josephus.  He called the people to repentance and to a renewal of their covenant relation with God. He was imprisoned and eventually put to death by Herod Antipas. Antipas was the son of Herod the Great, the king when Jesus was born.

John was executed for denouncing Herod's marriage to Herodias, the wife of his still-living brother Philip. Herod had divorced his first wife in order to marry Herodias. His first wife was the daughter of King Aretas of Damascus. Aretas started a war with Antipas. Josephus said that this was regarded by devout Jews as a punishment for Herod's murder of the prophet John.

John was ascetic. His birth 6 months before that of Jesus represents the decrease in the light of day. His asceticism was directed by prayer and the study of scripture to inform his moral instruction to people while he offered baptism as a gift for purification in rebirth.

He was a preacher. His use of scripture in accord with the tradition of the prophetic community made him a prophet. He was the prophet that foretold the coming of Christ as Jesus.

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