Salutation #02

TO ALL MY FRIENDS,

Peace!

Look at our time today
and the world we move in
everything about it
is born of the will of war.

There is much despair
there is much suffering
as all our kindred peoples
labor through oceans of tears
our common hopes forsaken
in the darkness of our time.

Let us then take ownership
of the status quo
and instead of feeding
into war's evil ambition
the near limitless
potential of our own souls
let us apply ourselves
under the eternal vigilance
of our one Almighty God
to the labor of each our Country
by our absolute turning away
from the descendant gravity
of war's evil ambition
into the ascendant direction
of the one whole peace
and build upon our civilization
the sheltering wings of God's peace
to serve and defend
the life of our humanity
wheeling as numberless as the stars
shining across the midnight emptiness
of the season of the sky
toward the twilight breaking
of the new millennial age
and a better, kinder, safer world
for all men, women and children
of every nation
of the one covenant family
of the nations of mankind.
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When we observe the Sabbath, in the day of our public worship, let our hearts be constantly mindful:

Life belongs to God, time belongs to man. Life is sacred. Time serves life.
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When our nations are afflicted by wars' evil ambition, let our hearts be constantly mindful:

Peace is the common struggle of all the generations of life. War is but a complete surrender to death. Like the Daystar sun that rises to outlast the midnight darkness of this longest night, our peace is ascendant over war's descendant gravity.
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When our souls mourn, with tears that keep us salty, for those who were abruptly taken away from our midst by acts of blind hatred and mindless violence, let our hearts be constantly mindful:

Life can not be inimical to life. Life is life and life begets life and because life itself is one whole indivisible truth, death become for us another encounter with Life itself.

Let us never be divided by wars' evil ambition nor be diluted with hatred's grand delusion and believe absolutely with one heart in the absoluteness of life, for death is death and death begets death because death itself is an everlasting regret that we have failed to honor the one everliving God of all everliving life and serve the sacred life of His glorious creation.
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When we shall rally to the great cause of our hope, when we shall answer the righteous call to our nation's defense, when we shall march to serve each other with our lives' width and breadth on behalf of civil peace and common humanity, for the sake of laws that make men just and good will democracy that make men free, let our hearts be constantly mindful:

To place our trust, above all else, in the beneficent Providence of God Almighty and to rest in each other's sufficiency. Thus do we ensure that we shall forever march with our LORD's all-victorious Eternal Army.

Let us each understand that war can not be opposed, it is a path that can only be forsaken. One can strenuously resist all that is war and still move in the way of war, trudging with heavy steps downward into the same complete annihilation which is wars' end. There is no such thing as anti-war for all that war touches, it divides and all that it divides death conquers. And despair follows suit, a darkness that eclipses all hope.

One can not long oppose war without sin. For opposition itself is the fundamental spirit of conflict. Violence feeds upon violence, hatred welcomes more hatred and these cycles of endless battle like an overwhelming crescendo continue by increasing degrees until all our humanity is overcome, our nations defeated, our lives spent and our times over run by war's evil ambition.

Therefore, let us turn away from war and build upon the peace of Country, lets us be keepers, one to another and ascend with our hopes together and like human sails, advance the cause of civil peace and common humanity as the one covenant family of the nations of mankind unto the new dawn of the new millennial age.

Should war oppose any of us, let us defend this peace together, never again to lose sight of what we love and fall short of why we fight nor become blinded by the rage of the evil that we hate and exceed the sight that causes us to see that we ourselves have completely become the enemy we claim to fight.
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Sancta Sanctis!

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