11 March #MAGAanalysis
Genesis 1: 27 & 28 For The Local Patriot
27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1: 27 & 28 For The Local Patriot
27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
2)
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
3) Are these the very words of God Almighty, inspired, revealed, transmitted, and translated down the eons to us? If you're a true believer, they most likely are. I know a lot of true believers, many of whom do not have the literal faith in these words that I was taught as a boy.
4) For me today, it makes no difference at all. If there is a literal deity behind these exact words, or if it is the divine spark of inspiration in more than just a writer's soul, in the very community through time it took for these words to be here. I love these words utterly.
5) A mythical reading is, for me, equal regardless of the belief system that underlays it. And this is the most powerful, beautiful myth I've ever encountered. To be sure, I want you to read this anyway your faith inspires and informs. What follows is my reading.
6) Be the reader male or female, you are created in God's image. The word "man" is the old form, inclusive of both men and woman, and shown to be so in the verse itself. This is no statement of patriarchy. It is a statement of the divinity within each human being.
7) As I look out upon my local community, something I've only participated in once, and never as a voter, the question of my own inner divinity rises instantly. Does the divine will inside my soul demand I join my community on its political journey?
8) For me, to ask the question at all is its own answer. I must become a local man. I have already started. I have a friend at our county's sheriff's office and he and I have started our conversation about constitutionalism. We didn't use that word, but that is our topic.
9) Before moving onto verse 28, it just struck me I need verse 2, also...
2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
10) I take this to mean that God did not move precipitously. He noted the condition of the earth, felt is formless void and entered into the darkness itself. He moved upon the face of the waters. What a phrase. The light was just about to come, not present at this point.
11) I live in what may be called a dark county. When I got started volunteering in 2016, I attempted to make contact with the local Republican Party and failed. They never answered the phone or returned a message. Republicans win no elections here, at all.
12) Let's read verse 28 again:
28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
13) We obviously have many fishy people here. But what about the fowl of the air? From vultures to eagles, from woodpeckers to doves, hawks and finches, we have all those types of people too, to be sure. And God charges me with their...dominion?
14) In America, we have no kings but one, the law. The law is king is one of our greatest principles. Only the law holds dominion over us, no man, no men or party, no magistrate or lord. Only the law. And it is that law itself, our Constitution, that holds dominion over me.
15) There is but one law in America. We are, I remember, a nation of law, not of persons. No person being above the law, we are all, every one of us, beneath it; it over us. God's mission for me to replenish the earth having dominion over it, requires a Roman virtue: Imperium.
16) Most simply this means the power to represent a legal mandate. In America, our principle of posse comitatus means that any citizen may be deputized by a sheriff to enforce the law. We are all deputies in waiting. For me, imperium goes deeper still.
17) My county has placed itself above the law of the land. This is no mere statement of political affiliation. My state - our Commonwealth of Virginia - has done so also. I can't say we're quite lawless, but I can say we're not submissive to the Constitution. We break it.
18) My imperium is to come to know our county's story. How did we become an un- if not an anti-Constitutional county? When? By what exact means? I must move my spirit upon the face of these dark waters.
19) As I reach forward to subdue our county in a return to Constitutional health and wellbeing, beneath the law, I must find those pivot points whereby we turned. I must find the path to a return to those pivots and a repentance and restitution over them.
20) My imperium today will be to simply move forward on this path of study and learning, research and self-introduction. I will not forget to study. And where study calls for action, I will take that action without procrastination. I know what to do this day.
Thread ends at #20.
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