Ten

[H2O Man]

30. "If six turned out

to be nine, I don't mind." -- Jimi Hendrix

The other day, on Face Book, a friend had posted a link to an article about an ancient philosopher. A lady, who I don't know, responded, "This sounds so much like Christianity." And here I was thinking it sounded just like the Original Instructions!

There was an actual time in human development when all the Tribes of Humanity had a version delivered to them. Not from a Santa God or Stained Glass Jesus, but by human beings, connected to the whole of the Creation. In Genesis, it is referred to as mankind speaking one language, although this is not a literal reference. It merely means that people put Good first. So depending upon the environment, one group might view "God" in one way, and in another environment, another way. But so long as they put Good first, they inhabited common ground.

You note one of the most important truths about the 10 Commandments (re: Original Instructions) : each has a literal meaning -- don't lie, steal, kill, etc -- yet each has layers of higher meaning. "Don't steal" also means, for example, do not attribute power to one's self, that one does not have. In a group sense, we see humans doing this today. A prime example, by no coincidence, has to do with the living environment ....and people thinking they control nature, rather than recognizing that we are part of nature. The fall from grace, right there.

That inability to recognize that all organic life on Earth -- of which mankind is surely included -- exists for the purpose of the earth. So those like Cheney et al, who illustrate the desire to exploit earth, are guilty of crimes against nature, and spiritual theft.