Are We Essentially Divine?
The First Precept, "Remember your Divine essence", is the sine qua non of the other three. If the meaning and
purpose of our existence does not find its source and origin in that which IS Absolutely, we are of all men
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Unconditonal Means Unconditional!
Dedicating ourselves to the Divine source and ground of our existence and giving first
priority to the process of transcendental recollection, we sometimes expect certain material
benefits in return. Such expectations reflect an immature attempt to manipulate the
Divinity with a view to gaining some merely relative advantage in our material struggles.
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The Bridge to Our Highest Hopes
As strange as it may seem to those that are unfamiliar with him, the primary source of both the 2nd and the 3rd precepts,
at least in terms of their explicit wording, is that old 'immoralist' and 'antichrist', Friedrich Nietzsche.
In "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", he writes: "For that man be delivered from revenge, that is for
me the bridge to the highest hopes and a rainbow after long storms."
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Love and Do What You Will
Augustine wrote, My love is my weight. Whithersoever I am moved, I am moved there by love.
By thy gift, O Lord, we are set on fire, and are borne aloft: we burn, and we are on the
way. We climb the ascents that are in the heart.... With thy fire, with thy good fire, we
burn and go on, for we go up to the peace of Jerusalem
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