Fear not for the Lord is with you. I have no social media or television. Thank you Eko for the email format. I left California 8 years ago for a tiny town in Idaho. You would never know there was chaos. I walk many mikes everyday. I look to the heavens and pray. God is all around.
It was fun to see this arrive in my email as am currently reading for the first time, Lewis's "space trilogy". I'm a couple chapters into That Hideous Strength.
I like this piece of yours (as I do most of your writing) except for the "wealth" subsection.
Accumulating wealth is accumulating capital, and that's what drives further improvements in production for the benefit of all the rest of us.
Yes, it's fine if a rich person spends money on philanthropy and "public works", but it's even better if they pour that wealth back into the economy in the form of capital investment. Building a library or a public park is fine. It benefits some. But putting capital to work in a successful business benefits many many more people.
The "Scrooge McDuck" image is a silly fiction. Almost nobody "hoards" wealth, and most productive people don't live in the kind of opulence that they could. First of all, that's not usually how productive people operate. And secondly, how many yachts can a guy water-ski behind anyway.
When we look at rich people and calculate their wealth, realize that the vast majority of their wealth is held in the form of stock in companies that they consider productive.
(Except for cronies of course, who got rich via government intervention in markets.)
I agree with you. Until we get this whole thing figured out and people wake up out of their slumber, the producers are the ones that are keeping everything together and funding those that have fallen to the sins of the world and suffer because of it. I speak from experience. Money is a tool that can be used to help others learn to escape the trap they have set for themselves and then thrive, so they can teach others to do the same.
“You can’t hoard past a certain point because the social architecture won’t hold it.”
I agree with others here, that entrepreneurial spirit is a good thing. And certainly the Carnegies and Rockefellers and … well, Bill and Melinda, too, put beaucoup money into charitable endeavors.
But … and it’s a YUGE but … they ALL become gods and try to micromanage everything and eliminate both nonproductive systems AND nonproductive people. Flushing toilets and running water and schools for free, oh, and a little euthanasia and abortion to keep the numbers manageable. And if you don’t like that, we have your free vaccine right here. 😉
In this hypothetical scenario, the entrepreneurial engine runs hot. The threshold is high. What changes is what status means past a certain point. It’s not a ceiling on ambition. It’s a different scoreboard.
The architecture won't hold it implies that the consciousness behind hoarding is fear.
Fear is the antithesis of love.
Love is the law. Jesus taught love.
I've been wanting to use this line for a while now: "It's consciousness, stupid!!"
(For those of us of a certain age, we may recall in the 1992, when I believe our world took a hard and fast nosedive into the "race to the bottom," from which, I believe the current administration is attempting to disentangle us.
WJC's campaign slogan "it's the economy, stupid" as he was selling us to globalists. Of course, hindsight is 20/20.
As my ex was fond of telling me in our divorce: "they don't put handles on money," as he was ripping me off.
What I've since learned that consciousness is basic to the cosmos. If we have a prosperity consciousness, we attract prosperity. If we have a poverty consciousness, we attract poverty. It is the law of life. Life is consciousness.
As said, those who are attempting to hoard the world's wealth, cannot keep it, by the laws of life.
Emmet Fox writes in "The 10 Commandments: The Master Key to Life": We cannot steal. History is full, unfortunately, of examples of where it was attempted and sometimes looked very successful for the time being, but the mills of God grind slowly, and the thing cannot work because it is a breach of the law.
We cannot keep anything for which we do not have the consciousness to correspond.
So let us build the consciousness of love that Jesus preached that we may claim our spiritual inheritance, knowing that the higher law will work it out as long as our mind is stayed on the omnipresence of God.
This is great. In this battle for our attention...it feels like it's a matter of retreating from news, politics, causes...things outside our sphere of influence...and concentrating on things that are real...people, animals, nature etc.. Giving them your kind attention. Taking everyone and everything on a case-by-case basis. I suppose love is just a matter of focusing on someone and their higher good. I'm rehashing your guidance. But it helps me to articulate. All the best.
Johnny Enlow wrote a booklet under 100 pages in 2020...The end of the world as we know it. It is an extremely hope filled narrative that goes against the status quo. It reminds me to stay grounded in "it's the beginning of everything to come." In 17 or 18 I clearly heard the Holy Spirit inside me say..."you are going to a new world and your whole family is going with you" The blueprint still exists. The door is still open. I love confirmations, eventually you will get anchored to where God is going and settle down in His peace that all is well.
It is a mind battle to come out of programming from religion and trust that you are capable of hearing and what you feel is right. EKO you are fulfilling your role to help remove the blinders through your stories. Such a sense of adventure to be captured and followed into the new world just up ahead! Thank you...keep writing!
“The Anti-Federalists saw it coming before the ink dried. Men like Brutus warned that the Constitution contained the seeds of its own corruption.
They were mocked as paranoid. But they were right about everything.”
“states’ rights” and other anti-federalist allusions (e.g., confederation, confederate, confederacy) are used as labels for “racists”. not at all coincidence that the first revolution’s governing document and the second revolution’s secession used similar terms.
According to Amazon, That Hideous Strength, also known as The Tortured Planet, is part 4 of the space trilogy. Am I looking at the correct series? I haven't read any of them, but have them in my cart to order, and I want to get as complete a version as possible.
So true. My mother - rest her soul - would say, we all feel this little desire inside to go home. A feeling that we came from somewhere else and are separated from it. I know at times I sense a desire to “go home”, even though I am comfortably in my house. It’s even a small sense of loneliness, even though I am surrounded by loved ones.
Yes a move from the material world to the inner spiritual world is happening you can feel it and see it. Once we move to the spiritual we lose all of our fears and they lose all of their controls over us.
We finally discover our true unlimited potentials.
The following quote is taken from the final 2 paragraphs in the chapter entitled CONCLUSION of George Santayana’s "The Idea Of Christ In The Gospels Or God In Man." The whole work of this small volume is a marvelously disinterested review of how God made a man of Himself and walked and talked and worked as man among men.
"Harmony involves sacrifice, and vital passions will not endure it. If they did, their objects would be transformed. They would become themes for the spirit, moving in the magnetic field of the truth where all things are eternally pictured. That is the realm that spirit looks out upon from the beginning. For spirit is addressed to qualitative being, such as pure attention would discover in every image of sense, in every feeling, in every event: the eternal essence of that image, of that feeling, of that event. This is what poetry, painting and history arrest and preserve. But attention is seldom or never pure; it is distracted by the irrelevant abundance of blind excitements and the feebleness of its own light. The automatism of life in most men thirsts for irrelevant excitements, not feeling much joy in anything definite and true to itself.
"The idea of Christ crucified has had many worshippers, and has inspired many saints. But it has not converted the world or saved it. The world does not wish to be saved. If we say that the world thereby wills its own damnation, we are merely venting our private displeasure, without frightening the world. The flux of existence cannot be stopped by reflection, save as it has partially stopped already to make out that reflection. To stop may well seem to it a worse damnation than never to be able to stop. But in fact, life is not condemned to either fate, because materially it always passes on, but in spirit it sometimes transcends into realisation of the eternal. There is aesthetic delight in this, as well as moral peace and intellectual clearness; but those who miss these things do not regret missing them. It would not be in the spirit of Christ to blame them for that privation: verily they have their reward. Yet that reward, from the spiritual point of view, is itself their punishment, for it keeps them from understanding the power of their own minds or judging anything otherwise than by accidental passion."
The full title of the book is THE IDEA OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS OR GOD IN MAN, A CRITICAL ESSAY BY GEORGE SANTAYANA. 253 pages. It was first published by Charles Scribner & Sons in 1946. For those interested, find a copy while you can before the evil ones collect them for burning.
"A Fourth Turning lends people of all ages what is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to heal (or destroy) the very heart of the republic." Strauss & Howe, "The Fourth Turning."
A new epoch is upon our threshold. Which way will we turn?
Fear not for the Lord is with you. I have no social media or television. Thank you Eko for the email format. I left California 8 years ago for a tiny town in Idaho. You would never know there was chaos. I walk many mikes everyday. I look to the heavens and pray. God is all around.
Bless you EKO.
It was fun to see this arrive in my email as am currently reading for the first time, Lewis's "space trilogy". I'm a couple chapters into That Hideous Strength.
I like this piece of yours (as I do most of your writing) except for the "wealth" subsection.
Accumulating wealth is accumulating capital, and that's what drives further improvements in production for the benefit of all the rest of us.
Yes, it's fine if a rich person spends money on philanthropy and "public works", but it's even better if they pour that wealth back into the economy in the form of capital investment. Building a library or a public park is fine. It benefits some. But putting capital to work in a successful business benefits many many more people.
The "Scrooge McDuck" image is a silly fiction. Almost nobody "hoards" wealth, and most productive people don't live in the kind of opulence that they could. First of all, that's not usually how productive people operate. And secondly, how many yachts can a guy water-ski behind anyway.
When we look at rich people and calculate their wealth, realize that the vast majority of their wealth is held in the form of stock in companies that they consider productive.
(Except for cronies of course, who got rich via government intervention in markets.)
What would Jesus do?
Lol. Heck if I know. Hard to picture the Son of God as an entrepreneur.
It does bring to mind the parable of the talents, though.
I agree with you. Until we get this whole thing figured out and people wake up out of their slumber, the producers are the ones that are keeping everything together and funding those that have fallen to the sins of the world and suffer because of it. I speak from experience. Money is a tool that can be used to help others learn to escape the trap they have set for themselves and then thrive, so they can teach others to do the same.
Adam, and if that stock is in the weapons industries we have perpetual war.
Yup. Cronyism is a big big problem. Monopoly government screws up everything it touches. Incentives are horribly misaligned.
“You can’t hoard past a certain point because the social architecture won’t hold it.”
I agree with others here, that entrepreneurial spirit is a good thing. And certainly the Carnegies and Rockefellers and … well, Bill and Melinda, too, put beaucoup money into charitable endeavors.
But … and it’s a YUGE but … they ALL become gods and try to micromanage everything and eliminate both nonproductive systems AND nonproductive people. Flushing toilets and running water and schools for free, oh, and a little euthanasia and abortion to keep the numbers manageable. And if you don’t like that, we have your free vaccine right here. 😉
In this hypothetical scenario, the entrepreneurial engine runs hot. The threshold is high. What changes is what status means past a certain point. It’s not a ceiling on ambition. It’s a different scoreboard.
And the richer they get, almost no matter who “they” is, the more they seem to want to changes the rules of the game.
Makes you think “the only way to win is to not play.” I heard that somewhere. 🤔
Their charitable endeavors almost always benefit them...
The architecture won't hold it implies that the consciousness behind hoarding is fear.
Fear is the antithesis of love.
Love is the law. Jesus taught love.
I've been wanting to use this line for a while now: "It's consciousness, stupid!!"
(For those of us of a certain age, we may recall in the 1992, when I believe our world took a hard and fast nosedive into the "race to the bottom," from which, I believe the current administration is attempting to disentangle us.
WJC's campaign slogan "it's the economy, stupid" as he was selling us to globalists. Of course, hindsight is 20/20.
As my ex was fond of telling me in our divorce: "they don't put handles on money," as he was ripping me off.
What I've since learned that consciousness is basic to the cosmos. If we have a prosperity consciousness, we attract prosperity. If we have a poverty consciousness, we attract poverty. It is the law of life. Life is consciousness.
As said, those who are attempting to hoard the world's wealth, cannot keep it, by the laws of life.
Emmet Fox writes in "The 10 Commandments: The Master Key to Life": We cannot steal. History is full, unfortunately, of examples of where it was attempted and sometimes looked very successful for the time being, but the mills of God grind slowly, and the thing cannot work because it is a breach of the law.
We cannot keep anything for which we do not have the consciousness to correspond.
So let us build the consciousness of love that Jesus preached that we may claim our spiritual inheritance, knowing that the higher law will work it out as long as our mind is stayed on the omnipresence of God.
This is great. In this battle for our attention...it feels like it's a matter of retreating from news, politics, causes...things outside our sphere of influence...and concentrating on things that are real...people, animals, nature etc.. Giving them your kind attention. Taking everyone and everything on a case-by-case basis. I suppose love is just a matter of focusing on someone and their higher good. I'm rehashing your guidance. But it helps me to articulate. All the best.
EKO, you are an optimist with a realist streak ... or maybe a realist with an optimist streak.
Pragmatic optimist
Johnny Enlow wrote a booklet under 100 pages in 2020...The end of the world as we know it. It is an extremely hope filled narrative that goes against the status quo. It reminds me to stay grounded in "it's the beginning of everything to come." In 17 or 18 I clearly heard the Holy Spirit inside me say..."you are going to a new world and your whole family is going with you" The blueprint still exists. The door is still open. I love confirmations, eventually you will get anchored to where God is going and settle down in His peace that all is well.
It is a mind battle to come out of programming from religion and trust that you are capable of hearing and what you feel is right. EKO you are fulfilling your role to help remove the blinders through your stories. Such a sense of adventure to be captured and followed into the new world just up ahead! Thank you...keep writing!
“The Anti-Federalists saw it coming before the ink dried. Men like Brutus warned that the Constitution contained the seeds of its own corruption.
They were mocked as paranoid. But they were right about everything.”
“states’ rights” and other anti-federalist allusions (e.g., confederation, confederate, confederacy) are used as labels for “racists”. not at all coincidence that the first revolution’s governing document and the second revolution’s secession used similar terms.
According to Amazon, That Hideous Strength, also known as The Tortured Planet, is part 4 of the space trilogy. Am I looking at the correct series? I haven't read any of them, but have them in my cart to order, and I want to get as complete a version as possible.
Thank you so much for your work and your works!!
Love your books n msg's ❤️ Thanks for your insights‼️🤗
“You look at the stars and feel homesick.”
So true. My mother - rest her soul - would say, we all feel this little desire inside to go home. A feeling that we came from somewhere else and are separated from it. I know at times I sense a desire to “go home”, even though I am comfortably in my house. It’s even a small sense of loneliness, even though I am surrounded by loved ones.
Yes a move from the material world to the inner spiritual world is happening you can feel it and see it. Once we move to the spiritual we lose all of our fears and they lose all of their controls over us.
We finally discover our true unlimited potentials.
The following quote is taken from the final 2 paragraphs in the chapter entitled CONCLUSION of George Santayana’s "The Idea Of Christ In The Gospels Or God In Man." The whole work of this small volume is a marvelously disinterested review of how God made a man of Himself and walked and talked and worked as man among men.
"Harmony involves sacrifice, and vital passions will not endure it. If they did, their objects would be transformed. They would become themes for the spirit, moving in the magnetic field of the truth where all things are eternally pictured. That is the realm that spirit looks out upon from the beginning. For spirit is addressed to qualitative being, such as pure attention would discover in every image of sense, in every feeling, in every event: the eternal essence of that image, of that feeling, of that event. This is what poetry, painting and history arrest and preserve. But attention is seldom or never pure; it is distracted by the irrelevant abundance of blind excitements and the feebleness of its own light. The automatism of life in most men thirsts for irrelevant excitements, not feeling much joy in anything definite and true to itself.
"The idea of Christ crucified has had many worshippers, and has inspired many saints. But it has not converted the world or saved it. The world does not wish to be saved. If we say that the world thereby wills its own damnation, we are merely venting our private displeasure, without frightening the world. The flux of existence cannot be stopped by reflection, save as it has partially stopped already to make out that reflection. To stop may well seem to it a worse damnation than never to be able to stop. But in fact, life is not condemned to either fate, because materially it always passes on, but in spirit it sometimes transcends into realisation of the eternal. There is aesthetic delight in this, as well as moral peace and intellectual clearness; but those who miss these things do not regret missing them. It would not be in the spirit of Christ to blame them for that privation: verily they have their reward. Yet that reward, from the spiritual point of view, is itself their punishment, for it keeps them from understanding the power of their own minds or judging anything otherwise than by accidental passion."
The full title of the book is THE IDEA OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS OR GOD IN MAN, A CRITICAL ESSAY BY GEORGE SANTAYANA. 253 pages. It was first published by Charles Scribner & Sons in 1946. For those interested, find a copy while you can before the evil ones collect them for burning.
"A Fourth Turning lends people of all ages what is literally a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to heal (or destroy) the very heart of the republic." Strauss & Howe, "The Fourth Turning."
A new epoch is upon our threshold. Which way will we turn?
Thank you, EKO! Beautiful!! I love your analogies and they're spot on! I'm hopeful for the future... And God is good.. All the time ❤️🙏🏼✝️
Thank you.