Category Archives: The Tree

The Mind of Men

When a man or men choose the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil rather than The Tree of Life, IE chooses the mind of men rather than the mind of God, The Father of Jesus Christ, Secularism, Paganism and all the other isms, bad things happen. This is in your personal life or collectively on a large scale as a nation. This is what the beginning of the bible is trying to explain. It’s an ancient pattern, an ancient story of reality. It is just this way.

Darwinism is just one of the many ideas that unfolded in the 17th, 18th and 19th Century and that kind of view directly affected the destruction unleashed in the Big War. Below is the best description I have read of the result. It mirrors the destruction of mankind mentioned in Genesis. Epstein and all of the powerful people surrounding him are a different kind of the same example on the extreme end of things, but its the same pattern.

Scaling this down into my own life again I see the same pattern in my personal history in things I do, have done and things done to me.

I believe our culture is very much along the way of some sort of big collapse, there are just too many categories of the wrong set of choices. A ‘New Age’ is and has been trying to grow up, it won’t be good.

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The Great War (WWI) wiped out 7000 men per day for 220 weeks. When the ashes and artillery barrels cooled, the world had irreversibly changed.

The six century-old Turkic-Islamic Ottoman Empire collapsed, and a reconfigured Middle East emerged under French and British control. Hope for a Jewish homeland gained steam. The mighty Habsburg Dynasty with its centuries of influence over central Europe was swept away. The Russian Empire, eviscerated before the War, buckled as Lenin animated Karl Marx’s theories of scientific materialism and the “dictatorship of the proletariat.” Inside Germany a red revolution erupted and the monarchy abdicated.

Historical dominoes fell, and collective political movements rose in response. Benito Mussolini introduced Fascism to Italy: “Outside of our principles there is no salvation for individuals and far less for nations.” Soviet Russia promised a better world through revolution: “Without revolutionary measures there can be no salvation.” The National Socialist German Worker’s Party, commonly referred to as the Nazis, soon emerged with their radical worldview: “May Reason be our leader, Will our might.”

Teichrib, Carl. Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment . Whitemud House Publishing. Kindle Edition.

No Pagan

I have known more than my share of grief and pain. I have experienced the kind of grief and pain that comes as no cause of your own and I have known the other kind, mountains of self-imposed grief and pain.  Depressive pain that last years. I have shared more than my allotment of anger but one thing I also know is I have experienced large doses of peace.  I have experienced large doses of self-imposed peace as in the kind of peace that comes over you after you just took in a nice big fatty.  Standing on a tee box looking out over a well-manicured golf course on a soft late spring day where the air is still cool and the sun feels good on your face.  Sliding down a perfectly groomed run, early on a winters morning with mountain peaks jumping skyward all around you, the sun coming up, blue bird skies ahead, you were first chair, no other tracks before you.  All seems to be well within you soul….

And… as well, a kind of peace I believe only the Spirit can give as a gift.   A kind of peace that comes even in the worst of circumstances, that doesn’t require circumstance to be in your favor to know it.   So I think, for myself I can know the difference and I believe strongly there is.

God said: You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

In my opinion two religions or world views were established in that moment.  One world view was tied to the tree of Life…  All others were tied to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil… Pagan.  Now I am not using Pagan in the strictest sense of the word and some people will want to call me out on that, I know because some have.  My hindsight or my experience, to me, tells me that for myself, when I choose the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, at some point I have to manufacture my peace and I have found ways to do that as I described above, but when I choose the Tree of Life as my source then I receive a different kind of peace that comes from somewhere else in side of me that is not of me.   This song, No Pagan tries to describe what that second kind of peace feels like… It surely is a peace that passes all understanding, its one of the most desirable things I have found in this world and it comes as a result choosing the Tree of Life… Jesus.

So that is one layer.  Another layer is a recent song a thing I went through.  After decades of wanting to move to Colorado, after a near year of discussion I decided not to and that story is covered in another song and another blog post…  A few weeks after that step began a peace fell over me and thus this song.