a lived in mind

noia. foundations of a lived in mind.

I choose to engage in the pursuit of the experiences of God all the days of my life. Time spent in His mind is time of deep transformation. Knowledge of all is knowledge of One. All of human sciences attempt to simplify and subdue phenomena. The advanced fields aim to know the unseen governing mechanics, the invisible movers, the universal substrate. To me, I know I’ve experienced that unity and bounding force. There is One that connects and adheres. His name is love and kingdom is peace. He does not come to colonize, but to renew - to reveal what has been hidden within. The great face of love. Creation itself is buried in our chests. It can only be extricated by a masterful surgeon - and it is easily reburied. His decisiveness parts inseparable lands, humanity from the animal nature. All who steward such a will will be held to account and will know hellfire in the land of the living. To birth His will in your own body requires death and scorched earth, rags and rejection. Woe to you who have found comfort, who have adjusted to the treacherous and fraudulent loves of the appetites. The self must be rejected and fully absorbed by love to see beyond and within. You are wheat or chaff, goat or sheep, devil or divinity. Are you muffled by familiar words? Has your conscience produced new wine? Has your soul rejected itself, knowing - knowing beyond knowledge - that really, you are in all, the divine experience itself, God’s experience of being God accessing decaying flesh? Have you known such a spirit and touched such paradox? Or have you hardened yourself? Have you made skepticism, tradition, or easy, shared beliefs your anchor?

Strengthen your body, that you may stretch past it. Master your appetites, that you may not be blown by the wind. Give away all that you have. It will double and return to guard your soul. The way everlasting will only be revealed in personal ways. You must occupy your own heart and mind, not taking too authoritatively the teaching of any man. Learn the Spirit’s whisper and bind it to your heart always. It will be enlarged and you will know the beauties of eternity. All in all. Ends in beginnings.

The days are evil,

Joseph