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 Thought to be derived from the Council of Mystics directly, the words taken
down by chosen representatives, the origins of the collected Book of Decree are documented only in verbal tradition,
passed down as legend from generation to generation. Unearthed as single documents, copied and copied again by
scholars and scribes and placed in houses of learning, it is unclear as to what extent the work is complete; as
to how much has been lost. I suspect that whole passages, even entire chapters may be irretrievably gone and as
such, I have designated my own numeric order in the manner of one to eight. Though should it ever emerge (indeed
if ever it existed as a whole) the original document, intact, may indicate that I have done an injustice with such
nominations. I have however, in mitigation, scrupulously sought to confirm the provenance of those included and
have only presented those which are irrefutably genuine.
In conjunction with colleagues I have also, perhaps arrogantly, proffered interpretations of selected passages.
Such commentaries do not present themselves for congratulation and therefore go unaccredited. Such is the importance
of this work that its message shall not be overshadowed by the titles of those who seek only to serve its purpose
by bringing the wisdom forth, that it may be had by all. Our attempts to understand the sometimes complex arguments
presented by the Decrees themselves, rather than seeking to explain the wisdom, pose relevant inquiry and offer
direction for that inquiry. In fact, to know the truth of this work is to recognize its instance in one's own life
- there can be no greater acknowledgement of its value than that brought about by one's actual realization of its
infinite wisdom. The Book of Decree is without doubt a timeless document and shall thus forever continue to be
of service in the hands of those who seek such service. It's proclamations are not new, yet still they endure.
Indeed it is my contention that the more this land changes, the more insistently the Decrees describe the lives
of its people, the more forcefully they announce the truth.
As a young man it was not my intention to allow what began as an intriguing challenge to become my life's work.
Nor did I expect the project to generate such confounding, yet intensely compelling, mystery that it would dominate
my waking hours and steal away the years of my youth. Yet that is what it has surely done.
Perhaps in my youthful exuberance, I failed to anticipate the enormity of the task - perhaps I simply failed to
appreciate the significance it would have for my own life and for the way that I had chosen to live it. Whatever
its incredible properties, nothing prepared me for the savage power of this remarkable document. As if its words
were the very stuff of truth itself, I could not escape the resounding persuasion of what I was to find. Its unerring
rightness swept through the waveless calm of my scholarly existence like a torrent, disturbing my perceptions,
challenging my understanding of the realities of my own life.
This collection of uncertain fragments had taken on a life of its own and as I brought the fragments together,
I witnessed the emergence of something truly profound. This was no ordinary work, not even a mildly great work.
The Book of Decree was a summary of man's ultimate journey to recognize the true nature of his own humanity. And
through this tremendous tempering process, to transcend that humanity - not to surpass it, but to live the human
existence in the manner of true greatness. To go beyond and to become; to become and to go beyond - a powerful,
magical, incredible union that holds within it the promise of life lived in the cradle of that which is both completely
spiritual and utterly human. A vision for life that few of us realize, yet all can aspire to. And in the course
of that aspiration, should we desire it, we shall uncover the unearthly origins of our souls and bring them to
bear on our very human existence. Mankind shall develop far beyond that which he has ever allowed himself to perceive
as, not only possible, but absolutely necessary for his survival and advancement, as we approach and to seek to
prosper in, uncertain times.
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 It has been decided according to the laws of the Great Land that the human individual shall
have choice. It has been decreed
that this choice shall govern the life of the individual in matters concerning birth, death and the life the individual
pursues in the period which separates these two events. It is acknowledged that in order for this choice to remain
constant within the life of an individual, it must reside in the conscious mind. Should the knowledge of choice
fade into the realms of the obscure, the individual shall endure much suffering. This also, in a manner, becomes
a product of choice.
For the individual to prosper and to rise above suffering, choice must become paramount and assume importance above
all else. Should this not occur, prospects within the life of the individual shall remain limited. The individual
who acknowledges his right to choose however, determines that his life assumes its rightful direction and allows
the greatest potential for growth. Growth must be defined as that which allows the individual increasing ability
to enhance, enjoy and direct his life in genuine manner.
It is necessary to instigate principles which allow processes of growth to maximize the opportunity for the exercise
of choice. Just as the exercise of the muscles and the use of the senses ensure the endurance of these talents,
so the power of conscious decision shall endure through the continued exercise of choice. In the event of the surrender
of conscious choice and sustained disuse of such powers, the individual shall surrender in part in the very least,
his quality of life and consign the events of his life to the whim of the universe.
Due to the consideration that such demands require the dedicated application of said skills, so it must be that
decisions are made from moment to moment - each moment joining with the last to create and imply direction. Decisions
or choices made in this manner will dictate to the mind, the body and to the spirit a preferred means of living
to which these faculties will respond accordingly. Provided the individual fosters value for the power of choice
and trains in the art of decision making, these faculties will continue under the jurisdiction of the conscious
individual. Failing this, the body, mind and spirit assume independent will and may not be relied upon to propel
the individual in the way of rightness.
So it shall be that the faculty to choose will be joined with the faculties of sense and feel to enable the individual
to determine what is right and to distinguish it from what is not. As the individual diminishes the ability to
sense and feel, so does he diminish his genuine abilities to freely decide. While it is acknowledged that feeling
may be attributed to an entirely physical experience, so too will feeling govern emotional experience. Diminish
the power of conscious sensation - diminish the strength of emotional sensation. These are subject to the fundamental
laws of the Absolute.
Those who inhabit the Great Land and involve themselves in its affairs will come to recognize the laws of Illusion.
That which is most simple comes to be troublesome - that which is troublesome comes to be easy. The individual
is destined to expose the riddle in order to advance. And so it will be, that all which is effortless will be shrouded
in disguise. To feel will become difficult, to avoid feeling will become preferred. Those who are most determined
to freely exercise choice will recognize such pretense and thus shall become freed from its bonds.
Those who love, but do not love, those who grieve, but do not grieve, prisoners all (devoid of chains), who walk
with leaden feet. And so it shall be, that the laws of Paradox shall prevail upon men and women. The pursuit shall
be the prize, the prize - the pursuit and the people shall be emancipated by the principle of Opposing Forces.
So shall it be.
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 That which is to be attained is to be desired and that which is desired, shall be attained. Such is the law and the law shall be served.
And so it is decreed that no man, woman or child shall be spared its influence nor shall they attain by other means.
Desire shall be the method by which all enters the life of the individual and the individual shall prosper or weaken
at the hand of desire. The individual who prospers shall decide thus and those who are weakened shall be weakened
by the same.
Desire shall apply to all matters unless subject to exception. Exceptions are stated as thus:
No desire may apply to that which is already attained. Attainment shall be subject to the perception of he who
attains and only he. Desire shall diminish at such moment of attainment.
No desire may apply to that which is not possible. Possibility shall be subject to the perception of he who deems
what is possible and what is not. Desire shall be given power only when perception is made in favor of what is
possible.
Desire shall carry with it magical properties of illusion. Triumph shall masquerade as disaster, learning shall
hide behind repetition, purpose shall be found in that which has no meaning. Desire shall go where there is none
and it shall work its miracles in the lives of the people and the people shall live and die by its presence. And
the powers of desire shall be recognized by those who choose to do so and those who do not choose to do so shall
become enslaved by that which sets them free.
Desire shall not flourish without nourishment from inspiration and inspiration shall be heralded by openness. Those
who do not seek the treasures of openness may not enter the sacred chamber of desire except by means of ignorance.
Such ignorance shall determine that desire may not be found by those who will not see it. And those who do not
perceive desire shall not know desire. Those who will not know desire shall become random players in a world without
meaning.
Inspiration shall not surrender its power to the specter of judgment but shall remain free to settle where it might
fall. And if inspiration shall so fall upon that which is determined by many to be without merit it shall regardless
continue to have motive power until such time as it has been achieved or indeed until such time as the realization
of the freedom to choose.
Desire will from the earliest moments seek expression and will abide in those inspirations of greatest value. Inspiration
will be sought and found in all things and value will determine the manifestation and course of the resultant desire.
Where value is absent, no desire shall exist. Where value abounds, desire and inspiration shall stridently exert
themselves. Where value is found in that which is questionable in merit, the laws shall not judge and they will
determine that the individual is free to find inspiration in all things.
Inspiration will be found in ugliness as in beauty, merit will be found in pain as it is in peace, stimulus will
be found in deprivation as in prosperity. And in the true spirit of freedom the individual shall retain his right
to determine the course of his own life and shall do so by the power of inspiration and the workings of desire.
Should the individual who is inspired to suffer do so by his own hand, he shall in so doing claim his own right
to implement such inspiration. Should the object of the desire become intolerable, only by the realization of truth
shall the individual command the power of choice and the strength to instigate change.
That which is to be desired shall set in motion a course of events that will determine and put forth what is to
be known as requirement. The individual who will not attend to the necessary demands of what is required shall
render his desire fruitless by manner of giving way to fantasy. It shall thus be understood that in the case of
that for which no founding inspiration exists and where requirement receives no investment, fantasy shall become
the impotent brother of desire and that which may otherwise grow will remain unseeded.
And where seeds are sown but are not nurtured, the powers of the universe shall decree that requirement shall apply
itself more vehemently and its persuasion shall become more insistent until its voice is heard and until such time
as its task is complete.
So shall it be.
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 Man is to be endowed with the knowledge of More.
This knowledge shall remain within the heart of the infant and shall be carried
there for the duration of its human life. It has been decided that more shall not define a judgment of amount but
without exception shall apply to that which is to be known as direction or way.
The properties of this intelligence shall determine in all cases the course of what is to be considered prosperity.
Should the individual decide, it shall govern and dictate the conscious acceleration of prosperity and the perception
of it. In the absence of conscious knowledge the individual shall not be spared its influence, but in all regions,
shall live by the natural urge to ‘make more of’.
More is to be sought in the matters of Being, Doing and Having and is to be expressed in all that touches the human
spirit. Mankind shall advance by its presence and so the individual shall advance. The individual shall advance
by its properties and so too mankind.
In the matter of being, more shall not determine the advancement of an idea of being, but a way of being. Such
is to be defined and recognized by the individual who is visited by love.
In the matter of doing, more shall not determine what is to be done, but how it is to be done. Such is to be understood
by the individual who does not seek to do for its own sake.
In the matter of having, more shall not determine what is to be had but the manner in which it is to be perceived.
Such is to be known by those who may have in the absence of having.
Concerning the affairs of the individual who chooses less, the dictates of more shall thus again apply. In the
pursuit of matters of less, in the ways of being, doing and having, the individual’s urge to make more of shall
determine the nature of less. Where so the judgment of amount is applied and less is the resultant perception,
the perception shall determine the reality and thus, less will become more so. In the absence of truth, all which
is considered to be in opposition to the laws of rightful advancement, when applied to matters of less, will continue
in the manner of more. Hatred shall become more hatred, restriction shall become more restriction, weakness shall
become more weakness.
The presence of truth however, shall advance the cause of more in the way of making more of less. So that more
shall arise from hatred to become love. More shall arise from restriction to become freedom. More shall arise from
weakness to become strength. And thus the presence of truth shall at all times, summon forth the power of choice
and implement the properties of more to positive effect.
The Laws of Becoming shall decree that more is not to be attained, for to attain more is to lose the attainment of
it. More will abide only in that state which is dynamic and without form. And so in all things, the pronouncement
of attainment may only reside in the realms of the untruth, for in the light of awakening the individual shall
know more by its dynamic presence and by its place in the heart.
So shall it be.
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The human physical body is to interact and harmonize with the phenomenon of emotion and
so emotion shall harmonize and interact with the human body. Emotion shall be both joined and separate from what
is to be called intellect and the workings of each shall depend upon the other.
Emotion shall depend for its existence on the mechanisms of the brain and upon the systems of the body but shall
not be solely attributed to either. Therefore, its nature is to be such that no sustained period of expression
of one specific emotion can be achieved in its purest form. Extended periods of what purports to be the same emotion
shall be judged to be the manifestation of false emotion and shall be entirely due to the interference of the processes
of thought. Emotion may seem to achieve prolonged expression, however such expressions may be mimicked by the creations
of the perceptive facility which is to be given the power to fashion illusion.
Separate incidents of emotional expression shall be divided by what is called peace, an almost undetectable natural
state of at rest as distinct from that of withdrawal. Undetectable in the fact that the mere examination of such
a state will induce an emotional response and therefore, render this state of at rest as fleeting. Alternate periods
of the experience of peace and emotion shall be threaded together without definable boundaries, thus ensuring and
preserving the transitory properties of human existence.
Emotion shall exist as a dynamic phenomenon without form or category and will at all times remain context sensitive.
No emotion may be created at will; no likeness masquerading as authentic shall be given genuine credence; no facsimile
shall bear the hallmarks of emotion in its rightful form of expression.
The sole purpose of emotion shall be to introduce meaning to the experience of human living and to provide a vehicle
for the forward movement of the individual. The ebb and flow of emotion shall ensure the optimum opportunity for
experience and for growth and will provide the distinction between human life and all else. As such, no emotion
may be constant nor should this be desirable. For it is to the nature of experience that variety brings the greatest
rewards.
Such will be the properties of emotion that its genuine qualities shall be easily confused with those of its false
counterparts. Grief shall be confused with self-pity. Anger shall be confused with resentment and blame. Happiness
shall be confused with comfort. These counterparts will result from the irresponsible use of the intellect and
shall be the exclusive creations of thought. The presence of honesty will expose fraudulent emotion and will ensure
the responsible expression and productive use of genuine emotion. Emotion shall lend impetus to the aspirations
of the individual and challenge to the individual's capacity for the expression of positive decision. By way of
contrast it shall encourage appreciation and engender change.
The free exercise of genuine emotion and a willing embrace of its highs and lows will lend enhancement to the intelligence
of the individual and shall lend value to the decisions of that individual. A failure to freely exercise and express
emotion shall render the individual less capable of natural intelligence and force the individual to rely upon
the decisions of intellect alone. Such decisions shall be deemed by their own illustration to be less desirable
and less balanced and shall ultimately lead to the reduced ability to acquire fulfillment.
The natural ability to experience and express emotion may be effectively destroyed through the forceful avoidance
of said experience and the individual who chooses this path shall deny himself, by way of this withdrawal, the
fullness of experience and the richness of satisfaction that the embrace of emotion allows.
So shall it be.
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Man is to be granted access to the unknowable.
That which cannot be known shall be implied and represented by what is to be
called intuition. Intuition shall exist as the birthright of every individual and shall be given expression by
all who avail themselves of its powers. Intuition shall be described as that which makes known the unknowable and
that which allows the unknowable to enter the conscious mind of the individual. The voice of intuition shall remain
active within the life of the individual at all times and shall remain with the individual throughout the course
of his physical life.
The individual shall bring volume to the utterings of intuition by way of the degree of his openness. The individual
who is open to the warnings and advice of intuition and who is willing to heed such instruction shall hear its
decree loudly and without reserve and shall recognize its urgency. The individual who will not hear the gentle
urgings of the intuitive voice shall restrict its value and its accuracy and shall go unaided by its presence.
The intuitive voice shall be supported and emphasized by the expression of openness and by the natural incidence
of emotion. Intuition shall be heeded by the workings of the perceptive functions of the body and the mind and
through the interaction of the senses and the emotions. The voice of intuition shall be silenced by the forceful
interference of the intellect and through the active processes of thinking. Such impositions on the natural suggestion
of the intuitive facility shall introduce doubt and shall cast suspicion on the information presented by it and
shall, by degree, render it unreliable.
Intuition shall refer to that which is strongly suggested but that which may not be proved or given certain credence
by way of logic or explanation. The implicit warnings of the voice of intuition shall acquire credence by the proven
purposeful implementation of such implied knowledge to positive effect.
The human individual shall harbor the capability for the recognition and heed of intuitive urging and shall by
the use of trust, further its incidence and the strength of its urging. The individual who will not trust to the
powers of intuition shall diminish the efficient functioning of such facility and shall as a general rule, become
divorced from its influence to sufficient degree to render its presence of questionable value.
Intuition shall not be the exclusive domain of a specific individual or organized body, but shall remain at the
hand of the individual who seeks to allow the processes of intuition a positive place within the structure of his
physical life and shall at all times, be evidenced by its timely enhancements in all areas.
So shall it be.
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Man shall be nourished and delighted by the processes and manifestations of magic. Magic
shall be defined as that which defies what is known, that which enchants and inspires, that which will not be explained
by traditional or physical means. Magic is to be the domain of the individual and the individual alone. No organization,
body of men, philosophy or superstitious institution shall hold exclusive privilege or ownership of the workings
or manifestations of such magic. Such possessive tendencies shall attack magic at the level of its very essence
and shall render it to be a poor substitute for the genuine inspirational qualities of its true counterpart. Magic
of the kind owned and administered by the institution shall be magic in name only.
Magic shall hold significance for every human individual and shall be accessed by those with a desire for such.
No other condition but desire shall govern or determine its presence or activity in the life of the individual.
Openness and thus desire shall be the door by which the individual may enter its mystical realms. Magic shall be
deemed to be genuine according to its effect on the individual’s life and may at any time become subjected to various
abuses, most commonly the denial and rejection of its power to inspire. Thus magic shall remain a transient and
elusive animal depending for its existence on the open mind and the willing heart of the individual. Magic may
be drawn upon for such inspiration at any time but attempts to cling to its effects or to forcefully direct its
course will destroy its inherent qualities.
By its very nature magic is to be unexpected. It shall challenge the limits of man’s knowledge of all that is true
and his understanding of the physical world. Magic shall by its own decree and in its own manner defy the physical
laws of science without reserve. Magic shall make the impossible possible. Magic shall make the incredible credible.
Magic shall go where there is no hope and restore it.
Magic shall reside only in the environs of the present moment, for it cannot be planned for, nor can it be prolonged,
nor may it do its work if deprived of free hand. Forceful interference shall retard the efforts of magic and destroy
its potential for inspiration.
Magic shall be endowed with the power to instigate disruption, inspire change and to suggest meaning in the life
of the individual. Magic shall at all times announce the influence of More. The absence and rejection of magic
shall propel the individual toward a life of less. The presence of magic and its power to inspire shall set the
individual on a quest for meaning. Magic shall imply questioning, questioning shall provide requirement for such
a quest and the quest itself will provide requirement for magic and its questions. Such questions shall both ignite
the search for purpose and fulfill such purpose. Magic will be vanquished by the presence of answers and its power
weakened.
Faith and belief shall masquerade as magic and shall go in the name of magic and make slaves of the people. Belief
shall prize the power from the people and take from them their own command of the magic and place it in the hands
of others. Magic and the power to behold magic shall be lost by those who take refuge in belief and in faith and
it shall be lost by those whose knowing prevents them from seeing. Those who trust without belief, those who do
not make knowing the quest, those who are unafraid of not knowing, magic shall enter their hearts and it shall
serve them well.
Man’s existence is to be dependent for its enriched survival on the not known. Man shall not live wholeheartedly
in the knowing of his world but shall find truth in not knowing. Not knowing shall lie at the root of all that
man is to value most. Truth shall not be found in words, nor in writing, truth may not be found in the minds of
man. Truth shall be experienced exclusively in the heart and shall manifest as an experience or realization. Thus
magic shall derive its expression from the experience of magic itself and shall not be defined in words or in writing
or indeed be defined by the intellect. Magic therefore expressing itself as the experience of an event is linked
completely with the individual, no two individuals experiencing an event in the same manner.
Magic shall be the messenger of all that links men and women together, it shall do the work of that which provides
the foundations for human living in every sense and in every context and it shall impose itself on the individual
who is open to its cause. Those who share this cause, this direction, shall share also the capacity for the sharing
of magic. In this way, in response to a common direction, magic may touch more than one individual at one time
in response to a common event. Those who do not share the cause may remain untouched by such an event and the magic
of the event despite their exposure to it.
Magic shall join with the workings of love and love in its purest form shall invite the manifestation of magic
at every opportunity. Love shall be vulnerable to the expression of magic and shall at all times welcome the unexpected
and the spontaneous with open arms and magic shall be embraced by those who openly love. Those who will not love
and those who deny and reject the existence of magic will be compelled to prove its absence and by doing so remove
all potential for it in their own lives. Those who make it their business to dispute magic make a tragic sacrifice,
the consequences of which cannot be told. Those who make it their business to embrace magic provide natural requirement
for its manifestation and in doing so, encourage its continual presence in their own lives.
Magic shall be responsible for the great mysteries of science, the unanswerable in nature, the imponderable in
the human body. And so it is that in order for magic to retain its relevance and its inspiration man must not solve
the unsolvable, man must not answer that which is not to be answered, man must not know the unknowable, yet without
the quest for such answers magic has no validity, no place, no meaning. For indeed without the question, the absence
of the answer holds no awe. The unknown may only exist if the question of knowing is posed. Without such questions
the knowledge of the unknowable shall not be possible. Without the unknowable, magic shall be devoid of life -
and life indeed, shall be devoid of magic.
So shall it be.
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Man's spiritual purpose is to be served by the properties of Rightness and the laws of Absolute
Truth. Man, by the force of his own agreement, shall live and die by the terms of rightness and so shall his life
represent the expression of what is right according also, to such agreement.
The voice of rightness shall not be bound by or dictated to by what is considered to be good, nor shall the voice
of what is not right be expressed by that which is considered to be evil. Such voice shall only and always be represented
by that which is beyond man's opinion.
Rightness shall pertain to all that is within man's experience and that all that is beyond his experience. Only
by way of the investment of the heart may the individual come to know and understand rightness. The cause of rightness
in the life of the individual shall in all cases be advanced by truth, but not all that is right shall depend at
all times on what is true. Nor shall truth at all times be served by that which is true.
Truth shall not exist absolutely but shall be recognized absolutely and shall thus, from moment to moment, be transformed
by he who recognizes it. Such recognition will be represented by the realization and experience of truth rather
than through the processes of the perceptive faculties and as such, shall remain unharmed by falsehood. In this
manner, truth shall not be owned nor shall it be deemed to be the child of the individual. Man will seek to harness
truth as his own and shall give false credence to its ownership. He shall create false truths and he shall call
them 'mine' and 'yours' and in so doing, he shall lose sight of truth and he shall only know the creations of his
own mind. And in the name of truth, man will be given to deceive himself.
In the manner of the spoken word and in the manner of man's deeds, what is true shall hold the potential to oppose
rightness and shall become a weapon of those who have cause to require such weapons. Such opposition shall itself
be born of what is right and shall, through the force of its opposition, provide impetus to the cause of that which
it opposes. Untruth will provide motive for the emergence of truth. That which is not right will give rise to that
which is. Rightness shall be the mother of what is not right, truth shall give birth to untruth. By way of that
which opposes itself, man will aspire to greatness and only by way of such paradox will man acquire the means to
do so.
So shall it be
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Man shall be deprived of the conscious knowledge of his spiritual origins for the purposes
of the development and progression of the soul during the term of his physical lifetime. Such knowledge shall be
denied and withheld through the required processes of the human perceptive faculty.
The founding spiritual component of human existence shall in all cases continue to influence the life of the individual
and may be glimpsed by way of the embrace of the principles of oneness. Oneness shall be implied by that which
unites man with the forces of his origins in moments of fleeting clarity through the recognition of absolute truth.
The realization of truth and the experience of oneness shall provide the conduit by which man may visit and retrieve
treasures from his spiritual home for the purposes of the implementation of such knowledge toward the aims of enhancement.
Spirituality shall pertain to all that aligns man with the purposes of human existence and shall be expressed and
recognized in all things. Man shall seek to separate and honor the spiritual above the physical and practical pursuits
of his physical life and shall attempt to bring superior status to that which is considered to be spiritual. These
attempts shall only render the spiritual further from the individual's grasp and shall defeat the sacred nature
of all that is truly spiritual.
The expression of spirituality shall always and only exist within all facets of human living and shall not be restricted
to the houses of institution or dogma, nor shall it come to man by way of his withdrawal from human society or
from the company of his fellows.
Spirituality shall denote the interaction between that which is of the world of man's origins and that which is
derived from the world of his habitation and the harmonious integration of the two.
The notion of that which is spiritual shall not exist to degrade that which is of the physical world but shall
serve to bring meaning to it. Thus the uniqueness of the experience of human living shall be paid due respect through
the appropriate indulgence and appreciation of that which characterizes a physical life.
The free exercise of emotion shall determine the course of spiritual progress. The restriction and denial of emotion
shall frustrate the cause of the spirit and shall inhibit the individuals' access to growth and development.
The spiritual progress of an individual shall continue with or without the conscious knowledge of the individual
and his ability to exercise and to recognize the uses of emotion shall directly enhance his experience of physical
living.
Spirituality shall therefore be expressed through attention to the workings of enhancement and desire and to the
principles of more. Consequently, spirituality may not be come by through deprivation or sacrifice but shall be
served by the rightful laws of abundance.
Spirituality shall not be attained, it shall be visited. Only by the useful implementation of knowledge shall the
individual know the spiritual. Such knowledge shall not exist, nor may it be harvested, for the auspices of the
spiritual may only be borrowed.
So shall it be.
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