#10 The Second Greater Whole of Three

"WHO AM I?" I personally believe each and every human being who ever was born, is living now and is ever to be born until the unveiling of exile time will have, at one time or another, been defined by our insatiable thirst for an answer to this question.

I have put some thought into this question of our being and believe that the answer this question lies in the realization of the "We" in the I am That I am.

For our LORD said to our Patriarch Moses in Exodus 3: 14 that He is the "Eyheh asher ehyeh" or the "I am that I am" and I comprehend this to mean that God is the eternal realization of Himself in us not as we exist in time but as God sees (or have seen or is in the act of seeing) our
existence in His eternity. It implies that God is the very substance of this growing understanding in our hearts that is begun with the faith of our Father Abraham. It implies that if God's Name were to be comprehended by our humanity in It's entirety, we would have to be able to speak His one ineffable Name of Which length is from no beginning to no end.

Being mindful that God require nothing from man or angel there being no decrease in God whether we exist or not, the "I am that I am" or the YHWH or "Yahweh" is a Name that explicitly depicts and reveals God's eternal relationship with mankind.

Its tense is one that implies an eternal unity, as something infinite that no man or angel will ever be able to understand in time and in eternity but is nevertheless there and present for us in the Name.

It is in all that calls to my mind God's most profound immensity and at the same time, at once reveals to the heart, God's own Spirit of intimacy with each and every human being in the "I am that I am."

YHWH elicits in my own heart, deep feelings of divine companionship and at the same time It at once also emboldens the hope in my mind of the promise of companionship with the eternal God in the Beatific Vision.

Thus, gathering from what little I hope to have established from the one ineffable Name of God in it's first recorded sacred revelation entrusted to our holy Patriarch Moses, the existential question, "Who am I?", can not be answered without rephrasing the question itself into, "Who are we?"

For we ARE our shared humanity because our shared humanity really and truly reflects who we are with each other.

For we are each a finite reflection upon which is reflected an aspect of God's infinite truth and so by our being whole and by our whole being, we illuminate ourselves to answer the question of our existence, one with another: "Who are we?"

We are each other's own truth in the whole of our being human ever as an individual unity of both body and soul and ever equally also the truth as the one collective reality that presently defines for us the living shape of the whole of our mankind.
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Sequence #10 of the Pax Pilipinas Series

4. One Humanity

WE ARE TO EACH other a common peer in our common creation, each of us being a common creation of one common Creator.

We are each the living descendants of our first parents.

We are each created from the primordial clay of deep creation; of the waters of eternity mixed with the temporal soil of our inhabited earth.

Our own bodies were from the soil of the earth and knitted by the unseen Hand of God in the womb of our mothers; our own souls were called forth by the command of His will from the deep of the everliving waters of eternity to unite with our being and breathe us each into life with our body to complete our being human at the very moment of our conception so that from nothingness we have truly become alive in God.

Our whole lives is each a one whole existence that is willed by the Mind of our Creator in eternity. For it is from eternity that God has loved us all by our own proper names.

Our bodies are the instruments by which our invisible souls make it's presence felt in the visible everyday world.

Our invisible souls are the instruments by which our invisible God deigns to let the golden glory of His eternal truth shine forth into the visible universe.

For we are each the individual facet of the great collective jewel that is all of mankind, we are each in our becoming in time as a multitude of starlight reflections that collectively realize the infinitely shining Beauty of the Face of God in eternity.

For we are each supposed to be as the collective and glorious crowning of God in all of His visible creation, each of us being as the crowning of God's infinite genius of creative design and artistry in all of visible creation.

For our souls are made in the image and likeness of God. It can both receive love (or conduct divine virtue) as well as give love away (or transmit divine grace).

Our souls desire things that are for always because our God is for always. For our everlasting happiness is for always founded only in God Who is our eternal life.

Nothing in this world shall ever fulfill us for nothing in this world may truly ever complete us than what our souls deeply desire in, with, for and through God as our only Abundance being the one Source of all that is good.

From this truth is built the bedrock foundation of our common regard for universal human dignity and human dignity which is the one common medium of the basic human respect that both conducts as well as transmits those common values that we share and communicate with each other as one whole humanity as we presently exist in the present moment.

Those truly human values that make us humanly responsible to each other and therefore, a faithful keeper to each other's own humanity.

A universal regard for human life which is the same regard bestowed upon all of sacred life as a whole; all of the animals and plants of our poor world, all of the angels and the saints of God's own eternity as well as for our God Himself Who is an everliving God of all that is living as well as all that is everliving in Him.

One universal regard that consider the all in All of life to be equally important and arranged by order of significance, with God Who is Life Itself at the summit of all that is life, with the unseen angels and the holy saints of God who act on our common behalf in the Name of God, with the common good of every human community above and distinct but never mutually separated from the individual good of each individual human being and all of these human and divine goods aligned so as to preserve and conserve with kindness, wisdom and moral integrity the animal and plant life entrusted to each and every one of us here upon our one planetary whole as they are presently manifest to us in exile time.

5. One Hope

THE STORY of every human life is a promise written in itself.

We do not need sacred revelation to know that our being human is our being incomplete and that our lives are meaningless unless we find our completion in our becoming complete.

Because none of us is ever complete without first understanding what our completeness is all about and we are never complete unless we have become complete which we never will because we all have to suffer through our death in the midst of our becoming complete.

This is an existential human conundrum: That we are incomplete and that it is through our human acceptance of our being incomplete that we each realize our completeness in the midst of our becoming complete.

This dilemma is the motive for our profoundly forbearant search for the divine Reality.

From this dilemma is born the most primordial and enduring of all human hopes, our common yearning in the promise of our humanity's completion in and by God, ever as God is made understood by God, through an unyielding faith in God's unyielding mystery.

Hope is the inclusive revelation that is produced not by our faith in God but by God's Love for us and we merit our hopes in the same degree that we embrace God's Love and endeavor through our faith in God, despite all of our human imperfections, to make God's divine Love perfectly our own, ever as a love longing for Itself.

Hope and it's very inclusivity is the underlying impetus behind every virtuous missionary work that has ever been done on behalf of the divine Truth. It is also the one thing that Cain did not have any recourse to when he allowed despair to completely occlude his vision thereby allowing the darkness of Satan to enter into his heart.

And if the times seem so dark, it is because we have allowed that same darkness that have entered into Cain to hold captive our hearts in that dark and dismal prison of despair and from the issues of our hearts, so it is the same with our times, dark and foreboding.

For just as we are intended by God to be each other's keeper, we are likewise intended by God to be the bearer as well as the receiver of each other's shared hopes in each other through Him.

For we live and breathe by the atmosphere of our human hopes. And there is but one quickening truth that can restore into life all our shared human hopes and that is the bright and shining reality of God's infinite ocean of mercy.

Hope is as faith, a trusting belief or an obedient conviction in the truth of things that are as yet unseen.

However, faith is not hope in that faith consists of a sincere release born of a sincere desire for a promised release but hope consists of a sincere embrace born of the promise of a faith that is sincere.

Faith is not hope in that faith consists of acts of releasing, acts of surrender of the human will to the necessary will of an unseen Truth that is defined by our need as a limitless promise of an abundant and eternal Good, the immovable divine Will of God.

As such faith is the exclusive act of the free will of the human person and as such, our experience of faith can never be within the same particular domain as any other person's experiential reality. For though we each experience the one sacred Reality, faith is a personal communion with the Divine will and as such, because of our free will, we will each find ourselves invariably in different stages of friendship with God where no one friendship is ever the same yet as with all true friendships imbued with the same substance, divine Love.

Faith and it's exclusivity is the motivation that draw the believer into a supernatural relationship of love characterized by divine intimacy and an ever growing sense of mutual concern for the good of all in God. The symbology of our own Christian faith is full of this intimate portraits that is proper to our particular Christian faith. To our Islamic brethren and sisters, the Quran grants the divine title "most compassionate and most merciful" to God and our Jewish brethren and sisters stress love of others as evidence of a divine and living faith in God for much the same reasons we Christians do, because our faith calls us to intimacy with the Intimate, to be alone with the Alone, to be at one at once in, with, through and for God.

Outside our Abrahamic traditions, there are those honorable religions as Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, etc. that also stress kindness and compassion to all living things as a reflection of the divine immanence in them ever as a manifest reflection of God's own truth as God allows Himself to be revealed in their souls.

And this is true for all honorable religion but this is untrue for those religions that are dishonorable and therefore, fake and without faith in God being without mutual trust and concern in the life of all things that are living in our one and everliving God of all.

There is but one God yet many valid expressions of the one, same faith in the one, same God.

There is but one God yet many valid expressions of the one, same hope in the one, same God.

The only difference is that faith is a thing shared with God alone and hope is a thing shared by all of those whose faith is a thing shared with God alone.

For as our individual faith makes our living more and more divine, our shared hope makes our loving more and more human.

And as God makes us more and more responsible for our common humanity, we become more and more the faithful keepers of one another in God in the way that God intended us to be, to be who we are, to be complete in the midst of our becoming in God.

We are in each our living as bright moments of eternity interspersed upon the darkness of our life's becoming ever like the twinkling of numberless stars wheeling away the seasons of the night unto that one final daybreak twilight and the dawning of the new morning from on high.

Those numberless stars taken together form one great Abrahamic nation and that one capital promise of God's peace to bless and sanctify the common endeavor of every particular Country where there is found but one shared human hope which is the hope of all sacred life; life that is abundantly lived and happiness abundantly shared with all who desire for our nations of the one family of the nations of mankind a true and lasting liberation away from this world of endless battle and probational suffering.

6. One Nation

A NATION is a collective self-awareness continually shaped by the unique and common experience of a particular human community that make them particularly cognizant of their own distinct place from among all the other human communities of the inhabited earth.

Therefore, a nation is not primarily defined by the demographic or the physical, quantitative composition of it's people but by the primacy and the potency of it's inherent qualitative unity as it is really present from among each and every one of it's constituent individuals that as a whole (citizenry) freely manifests it's own unique and self-cognizant sphere of community (national) awareness.

A nation that is purely defined by a certain demographic remains united because of it's native isolation. However, a nation that is defined above all by what unity is publicly vouchsafed into it's sacred trust remains united because of it's intrinsic integration.

In the void at the threshold of third Christian millennium, our nation has to adapt to the latter form and shed away it's former self for we may no longer remain blissfully isolated and ignorant of the wholes upon greater wholes that make up the structure of the governance of Divine Providence of which we are but a minuscule component but nevertheless, still an integral part of God's infinitely beneficent and unfathomable will as a whole for the one whole of His creation, seen and unseen.

The Legislative Trust

THE SECOND THREE wholes of truth is entrusted to the legislative offices of state from the one greatest to the one nearest to our people; from the offices of our senators that comprise the upper house to the offices of our congressional district representatives of the lower house.

For it is in the nature of jurisprudence to give due honor the intrinsic balance that preserve the equal order of reason founded on the eternal law of God as it is written in the hearts of our common humanity so that any where that this balance is found lacking, it may through the inherent restorative nature of the legislative will be re-established as statutes that safeguard authentic human freedoms that recognize, appreciate and universally uphold human dignity and it's common hope as a common good vested in our nation and as public duty enshrined in the state as the one sacred Republic trust that binds together this citizen-state.

The synergy of the second three wholes of truth is a hymn of universality and this hymn is the significant application of the second greater whole of three.

This universality is the measure of the legislative trust, a public trust that is vouchsafed to the legislative branch to make binding the laws of heaven upon earth.

Because the balance of efficiency that is entrusted by the nation to the legislative will is always found in terms of the near completeness of it's body of law; a completeness that is built upon the equal ordering of law and reason not only as aid to it's promulgation but also as an instrument of peculiar adaptation to the due processes that give rise in time to the defining societal shape inherent in every legal innovation, it's present juridical evolution in time as well as it's particular
subset application all being a derivative form that is forever indicative of the actions of eternal law and it's universal motion.

This balance of the legislative will is checked in a general capacity by the common principles and policies plainly stated in the constitution of the state and in a particular, official capacity by the judiciary branch of the Republic who represents for the nation the actual and meritorious interpretation of the common law of the people.

---<--@ For all our truly honest public servants, past and present and future, may yours be the riches of life that await you as an everlasting crown and may you reign alongside the everlasting waters that it may forever quench your meritorious sense of justice...

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Sancta Sanctis!

Aloysius Schwartz, Servant of God, pray for us.

Glory to God in the highest
Adoration to Jesus Christ
Peace to men of good will.

Next: Sequence #11: The Peace of Ramadan