Cultivate the Fruits of the Spirit!

(Dedicated to: The Apostless of Apostlesses)

I. LOVE

Love is seeking to reach a stage in our development where we cease from triggering others, whether formerly unconsciously or with deliberation aforethought, but instead use that time to invest in forming a bond with them. The practical applications are: (1) remedying our faults which tend to instinctively trigger others (which then often leads to them harboring Illwill towards us and wishing Misfortune for our futures, and maybe making efforts to carry out that end); and instead, (2) in our interactions, put into practice the exchange of learning others dreams, plans, struggles, victories and wisdom gained, while not judging them for their past foibles and follies after the lessons have been learned, and meanwhile and interspersed, sharing ours with them.

II. PEACE

Peace arrives in the Consciousness from a status of a Conscience fully rectified; and that is: (1) to seek after winning the forgiveness of all those we have ever wronged (even if it results in temporary embarrassment, or receiving a merciless or vicious response by a hardened grudge); and also, (2) to forgive and in it dissolve all resentment or grudges against others for their past or present wrongs against us, such that we wish no Illwill or Misfortune toward them at the very thought of their faces. Completing such work makes the Conscience a Perfect Guide and opens up the capacity for receiving Divine Guidance through Hunches, Signs or Revelations from the LORD, so that we may miraculously be led through the most impossible of obstacles, and take along others with us, to manifest True Happiness and Contentment in Life.

III. JOY

Joy is the unfolding experience of this pair: (1) being ever vigilant in examining our own motives, such that we may identify in us and weed out of us the sinful impulses that lead to transgressing others and instead encourage only the glorious ones in taking their place, thereby inhibiting the former and expressing the latter; and (2) discovering, honing and mastering our Gifts and Talents by converting them into the servants that Guide Humanity into greater degrees of Love, Prosperity and Freedom as a Society. It is the very Acts of taking these twin Journeys, and being at one Stature and then rising to ever and always higher Postures as we progress, bringing with it the understanding of the throes of the People, such that their problems may be remedied through our Personal Insights and Efforts, and also slowly sliding the balance of the scales out of Ignorance and Debt toward one of Enlightenment and Credit. It is this procedure which produces Happiness in those who apply it.

IV. LONGSUFFERING

Longsuffering is to patiently endure wrongs against us as they're happening, and maybe being repeatedly subjected to them, so that we are trained in learning to inhibit the Retaliative Instinct from being triggered and our Rationality thus overruled, which would then trigger back with our own offense the Instinctive Channel in the Instigator which tends to produce a Retaliation of their own back against us; for when this becomes so, instead of exhibiting compassion for and understanding of the offender's position and how their wrongs against us harm themselves to a greater degree than they do us, we seek to: (1) belittle our transgressor's intelligence, (2) attack their character, (3) wound their pride, (4) defile their Manhood or Womanhood, or (5) revile them; or in short, we attempt to make them feel as rotten as they first made us feel. But to retaliate and return evil for evil is to be just as guilty as the one doing of the Initial Wrong; therefore, seek to replace Illwill and Misfortune towards those who wrong you and desire for them Goodwill and the Blessings you do for yourself instead: Love and Prosperity, and the Freedom through which to equitably attain and maintain these Great Cravings.

V. KINDNESS

VII. GENTLENESS

 

VII. GOODNESS

 

VIII. FAITHFULNESS

Faithfulness, or Loyalty, is to honor our Vows to our Allies and never break our Promises or Commitments we’ve made to them, in all factions: Thought, Word or Deed; and those Allies are the LORD GOD and those who are contributing to bringing about the establishment of His Kingdom. 

 

IX. TEMPERANCE