March For Life

This past weekend across the United States, from Washington D.C. to San Francisco, people have gathered to march in support for the life and implicitly, against abortion. 

For years I have taken no position because I did not know what to think until I realized that life in the flesh is a gift of God and it is precious, and it is coveted by spirits hoping to experience incarnation [1], [2].  Applying a worldly concept of wishing to be like someone who is admired, the number of spirits desiring to be incarnated probably rose exponentially after the Son of God was Himself in the flesh.  After this realization, I am against abortion, although I continue to believe in the Free Will of those who choose to terminate their pregnancies.  They would ultimately have to face the consequences of their conduct. [3]

In favoring life and the celebration of life, I would like for those who are thinking of ending their pregnancies think about their own lives, despite the struggles, how they have, at times, enjoyed being alive, being able to feel, to laugh and to cry, to love and be loved, and then think of not ever having the opportunity to experience the breadth and the depth of living in the flesh with a soul, a gift from God, as a result of abortion.
 





[1] See a previous post on this topic at http://lemomentdepaix.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-meaning-of-life-part-1.html
[2] At some point I contemplated on the Free Will of a person not wanting to be born and that being born contradicted his will.  That was wrong because the concept of not wishing to be born does not exist since whoever is born had an intense desire to be incarnated when it was still a spirit.  A spirit that does not want to be incarnated is not obligated to be incarnated.  The number of spirits that cannot wait for the chance to be born is innumerable and the number of births in every century fall far short of that number.
[3] Chastity is a solution to unwanted pregnancy.

The Meaning Of Life - Part 3

The purpose of life is to give an opportunity for an incarnated spirit to grow in its human form before it takes flight.  When life has meaning, the spirit grows in fullness dimensionally and in brightness extra-dimensionally.  The more the being chooses God and goodness over Satan and sin, the more complete the spirit, the more likely the spirit will return to heaven from where it came and the more likely it will be united with God [1].

In human form, we are subject to Satan's temptations just as Jesus Christ was tempted by Satan.  Since Christ was sinless, He overcame them, but the flesh that God created in Adam and Eve and are part of ours is not sinless.  The forbidden apple is part of every person's DNA and the Devil had since showered us with more apples than we can bite into in our lifetimes.  All Satan wants us to do is to feed on his apples of temptation and the more a human feeds on them, the less dimensional and the darker the spirit becomes until it is a shade and when it becomes a shade, it cannot return to heaven but is destined to be part of Satan in Hell, "where sin lasts beyond the end of time" [2].

No one other than Satan is recommending a trip to Hell.  To avoid Hell, one must find meaning in life, meaning that is intangible and priceless and that can be had through all kinds of human interactions, whether insignificant or life-changing, momentary or lasting, but they all must spring from genuineness and simple humility and be abundant in love, the kind of love that is stable and steadfast, that energizes and overflows, a love that cannot be depleted and does not deprive.

In giving meaning to life, rounding out and brightening the spirit, one must first be content and not go through life as a victim and envious of others, as if the whole world owes him/her, for what has been given, flesh, is a gift that can lead the spirit back to heaven to be with God.  Given that to be true, no one on earth should complain about inequality in luck, opportunity, health, wealth, intellect, talent or anything else for that matter and those who remain ungrateful for God's gift of flesh and bitter because of innate inequality have already been mostly owned by Satan and could be destined for Hell.

In other words, even a short, sick and painful life is a gift from God and it can have meaning that will fill and give the incarnated spirit a trip back to heaven to be with God.  Conversely, a long and comfortable life replete with fortune, fame and power may not have any meaning at all if they have their origins in Satan's apples, but the best of life's luxuries do not necessarily have to come from Hell, for God can also lavish gifts on those with humility, love and faith in Him. [3]  So seeing people who are rich, attractive, intelligent, talented and so on is like seeing a little of what God is like and that is to be celebrated.  I truly wish I were surrounded by people like that, people whom God have chosen to pamper, not ingrates who hate God's gift of incarnation, ingrates that have turned into shades that can no longer emnate light but exist powerfully under Satan.




[1] The only way a spirit can return to God, its Creator, and be forever a part God is through the human realm.  Therefore a spirit that had once existed in the flesh is different from a spirit that never experienced flesh.  Angels never had flesh and they can never become a part of God.  That is not to say that angels are necessarily subordinated to a fully dimensioned spirit, they just exist in a separate realm and equally content unless they join the fallen ones.

[2] Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. The Purgatorio, Notes, p. 497. Trans. John Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 2003.

[3] The pronoun used here is for convenience only.  I do not know God's gender of if God even has a gender at any moment in time.

The Meaning Of Life - Part 2

Like kids who cannot wait to go out and play, the spirits longing to be incarnated are equally if not more eager to leave their realm but as soon as they are assigned to a newborn, most do not like their respective assignment since most babies cry when they are born.

If these spirits are so eager to experience flesh, they ought to be grateful the moment they are filled with it and feel its magnificence.  They ought to be screaming and laughing and celebrating when they enter the world but cry they do and they keep crying and crying day after day, sometimes night after night.  Why are they so unhappy?  Did the spirits expect so much more while they were so desirous of flesh before they had it?  I supposed I cried too but I do not know why I cried but it would be logical to assume that I had realized that a life with flesh was so much more painful in reality than imagined and crying was a way to express regret and disappointment.

On the other hand, why could my spirit not accept the realities and be content since flesh was what my spirit wanted and flesh was what it was given?  This is where Satan comes in and acts out the drama called Temptation over and over with every soul.  These spirits, while I do not know their classification, are from heaven and when they inhabit flesh on earth, they are accessible to Satan and fair game.  Satan wants to win them over by tempting them again and again.  In this tug-of-war between an incarnated spirit and Satan is where a life gets its meaning.

The Meaning Of Life - Part 1

This is the ultimate topic and I do not presume I know what it is although I have a few preliminary thoughts.  To know life's meaning, one must start from the very beginning and the very beginning is God, notwithstanding a comic's illustration of God with the words: Let there be light ... and there was Darwin, and around Darwin were a number of creatures.  I remember the image from years and years ago but do not remember who illustrated it but my guess is Piraro Bizzaro.  I loved it and still think it is funny.

Forward to my imagination (or not), I somehow know that prior to birth I was a spirit among hordes of others wanting to be born to have have a chance at experiencing flesh.  How that seemingly grown spirit had transformed into an utterly undeveloped spirit at my birth I do not know, nor do I know how my pre-birth's spirit came into existence nor what these spirits were, if they were lowly angels or an undefined group of spiritual entities.  When I imagine (or recollect) the events (or facts) immediately my birth, I can say that I was in communication with the entity in charge of my and every other birth.  I remember the exchange but it is not relevant here -- all I will say is that the entity was extremely busy and did not have much time or patience for discussions with me.

What is relevant is the simultaneous union of a spirit and the product of human wills that allows an infant to be born for life cannot come into being without either [1].  It is then for this "new" spirit that inhabits the newly-made flesh to acquire meaning gradually as it matures.

[1]  This assertion is not a political or scientific one.  Suffice it to say that I do not believe in abortion because of the countless number of spirits hoping and waiting to experience flesh, not because a spirit can inhabit a fetus that is unable to exist outside of a mother's womb.  The strongest argument for abortion that I can think of is the fact that pro-life advocates presume that all fetuses want to be born when they have no right to make that decision for those who never wanted to be born, but that argument fails because the decision to be born was made by the spirit desiring flesh and there are a whole lot more spirits with this desire than the number of babies made.

The Purpose of Life

I suppose I have become audacious with age, picking a grand topic such as the purpose of life to write about when I used to draw complete blanks thinking about it in my late twenties.  If I had been asked yesterday what the purpose of life was, I probably would draw yet another blank.  For some reason I am compelled to write about it after looking into the mirror and seeing that my youth has waned and thinking that the inevitable progression of age and the deterioration of the flesh have begun.  Knowing that my physical cells are gradually dying their natural deaths, I have come to the awareness that my spiritual part of me is at its infancy and is beginning to grow just as I grew physically from boyhood to manhood.  With the revelation, I conclude that the purpose of (my) life is to give birth to a spiritual being and as it grows, the need for an earthly physical shell becomes less and less important.  When it takes flight is when (my) flesh dies.  Hopefully my spirit will be received by and be forever joined with the Holy Trinity.