I am grateful for my wife.
She is my balance and my drive.
Our eternal perspective, centered on Christ, has strengthened us continually.
A sound mind requires polarity for divine amplification - Marriage, rightly ordered, is one of God's great instruments of that law.
The giveaway on Instagram is over, but I’m going to giveaway a bottle here on X to someone who likes and retweets this! (But you have to be located in the US to win)
“Kamehameha” is inspired by the warrior King Kamehameha I who united the Hawaiian islands
So I will never say again in my life "I like deep doctrine" - instead I will say, I love the Temple.
If you're not pointing me to the modern Restored Temple then we are not in harmony on what is "deep" or true.
The Temple is an eternal education.
The Temple is heart deep.
In earlier decades of my life, if I wanted to talk "deep doctrine" with other Saints > 8/10 times that phrase - to my abject disappointment - evoked immediate ideas of "Book of Mormon Geography" topics from members.
Now I don't ever say "deep doctrine", I ask Temple questions.
Deep has to do with the heart, transformation through Christ, our resurrection in heaven and eternal realms.
Deep doctrine should transform and enhance first principles.
Deep doctrine cannot be separated from the Temple.
Deep is beyong death.
Magical word
Like, abra cadabra
Light-side brother
From the Emerald Tablets
Fanfare down
From the pipes and the tabrets
Ephraim calling
All the others of the Fam, like
Come to the Temple Academy
Come and learn Temple anatomy
Eternal flame of the alchemy
Get out of Babylon
Out of depravity!
Magical word
Like, abra cadabra
Light-side brother
From the Emerald Tablets
Fanfare down
From the pipes and the tabrets
Ephraim calling
All the others of the Fam, like
Come to the Temple Academy
Come and learn Temple anatomy
Eternal flame of the alchemy
Get out of Babylon
Out of depravity!
Topics and trends
Enemies and friends
What is the substance
Of hearts that pretend?
Optics, a lens
Reality bends
Aberrant discord
Only God can amend
Voices contend
And the story depends
On who holds the mirror
On who makes the blend
Kingdoms arise
With rumors and lies
We barter for shadows
And call them the prize
The heavens extend
From beginning to end
Yet all things return
To the One who Ascends
Repent
All heathen worship is fractured/perverted/imitation true Priesthood > some shrines of Moloch included a furnace that when fired would cause the idol itself to glow incandescent and full of light.
If divine law underlies creation, then patterns of ordered transformation should recur across both spiritual and material systems.
I have found that they do.
The Restored Gospel is the plumbline through which the hidden alignment beneath creation becomes visible.
@ajcAbroad Post manifesto essays
A lot of positive transformations in our family this last year causing a need to divert more focused energy on higher priorities.
My writings are backseat at the moment but undoubtedly will benefit greatly from prolonged reflection and repeat editing
The more I learn about new fields - science, manufacturing, physics, history - the more I encounter the same recurring patterns I had already come to recognize through my Eternal Perspective framework.
Alignment.
Transformation.
Opposition.
Purification.
Ordered unity.
Different domains, but the same underlying architecture.