And I am filled with charity, which is everlasting love; wherefore, all children are alike unto me; wherefore, I love little children with a perfect love; and they are all alike and partakers of salvation-- Mormon, Moroni 8:17

"Except to the eye of love, one Aberdeen terrier looks very much like another Aberdeen ...

As I was waking up this morning, I was thinking about what shape the next stanza in my series would take. It is to be about the Agony in the Garden, but beyond that I didn't have any very clear concept of it. (The basic framework and precise poetical form of the stanza series was given to me in a "download" during ...

At 2:28 this morning I received an email, addressed to a group of which I am part, which included this:

In the early 2000s I was very keen on Joseph Campbell, who occupied what was probably a similar cultural space [to Wayne Dyer]; and got most of his books. The basis was mixture of Jung and comparative mythology, ...

Last night I dreamt -- almost entirely in Chinese, which is unusual for me -- that I received a phone call from a roofing company informing me that they were suing my school. The grounds for the lawsuit were as follows.

My family had owned a cat that was extremely aggressive and used to scratch and bite people ...

For me, the significance of Good Friday is that this was when Jesus died; which he needed to do in order to fulfil, to complete, his core mission.

He did not need to die in the way he did, because any mode of death would suffice; and death was inevitable one way or another, sooner or later, for Jesus as for all ...

Last night, I watched Kill_mR_DJ's mashup of the Linkin Park songs "The Emptiness Machine" and "Guilty All the Same." Yes, watched, and not listened only. I don't usually watch music videos, but I watched this one.

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The video begins with the new, Emily Armstrong-fronted Linkin Park performing. ...

We are living through the end times when spirit is obscured by matter as a result of which even when the spiritual is acknowledged it is often perceived through the distorting lens of modernity.

One of the characteristics of the end times is that the whole era returns as part of a general summing up of the age, but ...

In "The pebble key" (March 26), I discuss how Joseph Smith's seer stones and specs were described both as white pebbles and as a "key." I connect this with Johnny English's comparing his "small key" to the "pebble" with which David brought down Goliath, and I also mention Joseph Smith's identification of "the white ...

When first on Heaven's bread they'd dined,They slept and woke again to findNew hunger. Day by day they fedAgain on manna, and are dead,For Moses never found a wayTo make the life he gave them stay. But Jesus' bread and Jesus' cup Will never fade into the past.

No, Jesus Christ will make his supper last.

The Book of Mormon uses the archaic plural brethren 499 times and the modern brothers 9 times.

Brothers always refers to biological siblings, both elder and younger. Laman and Lemuel are Nephi's "brothers," and he and Sam are their "brothers," too.

my elder brothers, who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam (1 Ne. 2:5)

I ...

Today I learned that Duke Ellington's piano teacher was called Marietta Clinkscales -- a clear instance of onomastic determinism. Just as Wordsworth had to become a poet, Bolt a sprinter, and Colón a colonizer, Miss Clinkscales obviously had no choice but to become a piano teacher.

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I was looking up the Duke ...

Amidst our civilization characterized by extremely weak motivation - probably the weakest in the history of the world - there are individuals who are strongly motivated.

But these commonly make the mistake of assuming that their own personal motivation is something that can be scaled-up: the mistake of assuming that ...

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If I look back on the technological breakthroughs of my life, and reflect on the genius required to make them; none are more impressive than the bottom buttonhole of shirts.

I mean, of course, the idea of rotating the bottom buttonhole by ninety-degrees compared with those above it - to make ...

Traherne saw men as Cherubim,Each boy and girl a living gem,For so they had appeared to himWhen infant-eyed he looked on them.And what in infancy he knew,He never to the end outgrew. Conflicting visions make their claims For each to pass his judgment on, And so it was with Peter, James, and John.

Easter seems to be a time when the confusion, incoherence, and errors of mainstream Christianity become most evident; as mainstream Christianity finds ever more way of being wrong, of misdirecting attention, and sowing confusion!

Perhaps one root of this is the un-Christ-like, fake-virtue of humility.

This leads ...

I am reading Daymon Smith's Words of Them Liberated concurrently with Hugh Nibley's Enoch the Prophet.

In the introduction to the first Words book, Daymon incorrectly states that Tolkien used the name Azoyan for Numenor, adding his own interpretation of that name ("i.e., Zion") in parentheses. Every single word and ...

Last night I discovered Blue Sun Ben, a 1984 children's book by Jean and Claudio Marzollo.

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In "The Son of Righteousness, and the Talking Quartz of Kirtland," I report a sync in which a vivid fantasy about the Blue Sun of the Homeric age coincided with seeing the phrase "Son of Righteousness" -- a ...

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Because "we" (the group with whom I identify) have, over many past generations, sunk so much effort, resources, sufferings into such-and-such aspects of the religion;

"Therefore" I/Now cannot possibly conclude that such activities and actions are here-and-now now useless, or harmful.

(Poor little me all ...

Joseph Smith reported that Moroni quoted to him a version of Malachi "with a little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles" (JS-H v. 36). Below are the King James Version and the version quoted by Moroni, with the differences italicized:

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the ...

Because being-a-Christian is essentially about resurrected eternal Heavenly life beyond mortal death; it may seem that - even if it were assumed to be a real and attainable possibility - this is not of any help in helping people deal with the sufferings of this mortal life.

And, after all, it is this-life and its ...

Anointed, I proclaim the yearOf favor, when the deaf shall hear When hearts shall mend, the blind shall see,And captive spirits shall go free,For such awaits us "in that day,"A certain seer was wont to say. I say the time to wait is past For all that holy prophet spake. This day, Isaiah's dawn at last shall ...

No, not today! I've all my lifeTo wonder-work, but now my wifeComes first. And what concern of mineIf these, omitting sprout and vineAnd vat, want drink who sowed no seed?True, Jesus -- yet behold the need! The secret is not often spoke, You'll hear it not in Sunday school: That always love partakes of broken ...

Elijah crossed this stream dry-shod,And where is now Elijah's God?He wades. He takes Elijah's hand,And both now bow to the commandOf One Elijah dimly sawAnd Joshua, beneath the Law. All dimly did they see that One, Those prophets over Jordan sent, Till Jesus Christ appeared and underwent.

His father's work? He timber takes,A thing that grew by laws its ownFrom seeds in First Creation sown,And something fit for purpose makes.And thus, in all he skills to build,The acorn's promise is fulfilled. The Son, for all his parents' fear, Has set himself his father's task, And so at learned feet must ...

William Wildblood is currently running a fascinating blog series based on a period in the early 1980s when he lived in India for several years, a period that included running a guesthouse in a "hill station".

This most recent post tackles the subject of the "Dark Gurus" who were a culturally prominent feature in the ...

In welcoming the Holy Child,Such is the hold of Moses' words,They take a pair of turtles mildAnd sacrifice the harmless birds.They keep the Law, they are devout,But Moses' time is running out. Now dawns the Age of Broken Heart. Oppression in his name shall cease. Let all the prophets now depart in peace

To those who say God cannot changeAnd make of him a lifeless fact,Isaiah says God's work is strange,And passing strange Jehovah's act.For what could the All-knowing know,Without the will to undergo? But having made himself a son, He by his own experience knows. The only God that lives is one that grows.

Previously in this series about my life in India during the 1980s I've written about Europeans we knew but not much about Indians except in passing. But, of course, we knew many and were friends with several. There was Krishnamurti the tailor who always wore a crisp white shirt and sharply pressed khaki trousers. ...

I've been thinking about the two-key sync theme. One repeated element of these syncs is that the keys are equated to crosses. I quote from my February 2024 post "What's the second key?":

On February 5, I was checking a few YouTube channels and found a video posted by the synchromystic channel LXXXVIII finis temporis ...

In the past - including in Western nations - there were religious wars, because religion was the primary motivator in many people's lives.

For example in the 16th and 17th century in the British Isles there were religious inter-national and civil wars between Christians. It is very evident that - whatever other ...

How is it each can recognize,These prophets as they meet midstream,What never has before his eyesAppeared, not even in a dream?If womb to womb, as face to face,Across the intervening space, They met on some prenatal day, Is that the key to how they knew? The key to every holy déjà vu?

Thou highly favored one, rejoice!Thou lady pure, thou virgin choice!The words are whispers, yet they makeThe earth beneath the maid to shakeAs round the angel, small and slight,The desert fills with ghostly light. The quakes subside, the earth is still, As Mary turns and can but stare, For hovering she finds ...