Comment by Keith Saylor on 5th mo. 1, 2017 at 10:30am

Take up habitation in the life itself in itself and I am discovering to you a new life filling your conscious and conscience in all things and circumstances in this world. Take up your measure of me in you and live in it without reference or regard for the words and letters of men and women about me. In me Is a coming out of dependency on the outward prescriptions and ideas ... living in immanent Presence is freedom from the outward constructs that overshadow who I am. It is in knowing and living the measure of me within you that you come into victory over that which destroys the body and soul.

Comment by Howard Brod on 5th mo. 1, 2017 at 10:17pm

Keith, what a beautiful invitation from the Presence itself . . .

So freeing

So fulfilling and encompassing of our very being

So Light-consuming

So truly REAL in the Presence

Comment by Howard Brod on 5th mo. 2, 2017 at 7:42pm

I have parsed out (below) Keith's words (above) so that I may more deeply contemplate the essence of the message he received and partakes of, himself.  For me, this message he offers is the essence of liberal Quaker spirituality as it was first experienced at the very beginning of the Quaker movement before organization and hierarchy and institutionalism took hold.  And it is the essence of where liberal Quakerism has been moving in this 21st century where egalitarian spirituality that is open to the inshining Light is being experienced by a number of liberal Quaker meetings (such the meeting I participate in) - meetings where outward prescriptions, traditions, holy books, and notions are not treated as worthy of worshipful reverence.

And I offer Keith's message, in a prose format below:

An Invitation from the ‘Light of the World’

(as provided by Keith Saylor)

 

Take up habitation in the life itself in itself

and I am discovering to you a new life,

filling your conscious and conscience in all things and circumstances in this world.

 

Take up your measure of me in you

and live in it without reference or regard for the words and letters of men and women about me.

 

In me is a coming out of dependency on the outward prescriptions and ideas.

Living in immanent Presence is freedom from the outward constructs that overshadow who I am.

 

It is in knowing and living the measure of me . . .

within you

that you come into victory over that which destroys the body and soul.

Comment by James C Schultz on 5th mo. 3, 2017 at 9:07am

Thanks Howard.  I was too tired to give it the attention it deserved.  Sometimes it's like reading a legal decision.  It's important to know what it says but it requires complete attention and sometimes in my old age that's hard to do.

Thanks you Keith.  I'm not criticizing you but would appreciate it if the Spirit would remember us old folks when it speaks to you.

Comment by Kirby Urner on 5th mo. 7, 2017 at 8:20pm

Likewise corporeal humans are not the meme viruses they carry (many of which are beneficial, lets presume).  Going after corporeal humans thinking memes live inside physical beings is far less effective than going after the memes, if we think those memes need countering.  That's why I think "psychological warfare" to the exclusion of "physiological warfare" (i.e. killing / murdering) is what the Lamb's War is all about.  And the main subject to practice on is oneself, what some mean (not all) by Jihad.

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