• (iv) The Neith Network Whole Earth Approved Policy Statement.
• (v) The Preliminary LibrArian's Nuptial Theology.
• (vi) Euphobia in the Rift Valley by J. D. Solomon.
• SHIRLEY BARRY,"Traces of Early Egyptian Connections in Wales" in R.I.L.K.O. Journal (no. 58, pp. 28-29).

• Vetera Novis Augere et Proficere…
• "Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge." (Ps 19:2)
• (iv) THE NEITH NETWORK WHOLE EARTH APPROVED POLICY STATEMENT:

Present Focus - Life itself: Being, Receptive Listening, Naturally Accepting Chaos, Making a Creative Response. Note that “Chaos” is emphatically not “disorder” - cf. JAMES GLEICK, Chaos - Making a New Science (Heinemann 1988) & Nature's Chaos (Cardinal Books 1991) for a well presented and enlightening discussion.

Priority Purpose - Growth In Freedom: Initial Dynamic Conditions Crucial, Process Functionally Self-Justifying, Willingness to Start Afresh.

Organization - Mysteriously Effective: Rhythmic with Quantum-Leaps, Unconscious Synchronicities, Morphogenetic Resonance, Left- & Right-Brain Consciousness both Balanced and Valued, Feeling of Kinship and a Sense of Fun, Reciprocal Nourishment and Support. The reference to “quantum-leaps” is not intended to foreclose further research into the important claims recently advanced in PETER PLICHTA, God's Secret Formula - Deciphering the Riddle of the Universe and the Prime Number Code (Element Books 1997).

Local Openings and Specialist Clusters & Nodes.

Children's Circles of Friends of Creativity House

Foundations also prepared for associated International Faculty of Creative Healing and for ...

The Academy for the Cultivation of the Natural Arts.

Characteristics - Community of Mutual Trust, Individual Strengths Appreciated, Open, Relaxed, Energetic, Shared Leadership, Keeping Everything as Simple as Possible.

Celebrations in Gratitude-&-Praise.

Interface with Environment - Mathematically Precise to the Nth Degree! Globally, Locally, In Each Person's Heart.

• Neith: Ancient local goddess of Saïs in Egypt. A warlike divinity - witness her bow and arrows. She blessed hunters' weapons, and these would be set round coffins in ancient times to invoke her protection. Wears the red crown of Lower Egypt since the Delta was the centre for her cult; Suchos, the crocodile god was her son. In the New Kingdom, as the gods' mother who bore Ra, Neith is a primeval goddess, neither female nor male in any restricting sense, being the first to create the seeds of gods and men, presumably by parthenogenesis - one possible link with the Christian Virgin Mary. The Pyramid Texts have her, with Isis, Nephthys and Selket, watching over the funeral bier of Osiris. She is patroness of weaving, so all the wrappings, bandages and shrouds on a mummy evoke her divine power, symbolised by a weaver's shuttle.

Neith as goddess of the chase + Neith as goddess of weaving

49. G. PARRINDER, A Dictionary of Non-Christian Religions (pp.33, 118-19, 138, 186, 199-200):

“Neit, Net. One of the oldest Egyptian goddesses, worshipped in many places, but especially at Saïs in the delta of the Nile. Neit is called daughter, mother of Ra, and mother of other gods as well. She was called ‘mother of all the gods’, ‘mistress of the Mediterranean’. Perhaps she personified the primeval waters out of which the gods arose, but she was also mother of the Sun. Neit appears in art as a woman holding bow and arrows (since she was a goddess of hunting) and wearing a crown. Occasionally she appeared as a lioness or a cow. She was sometimes identified with Isis or Hathor, and in Greek and Roman times was called Athena or Minerva.

Isis. The greatest Egyptian goddess, from predynastic times, and focus of legends, literature and mystery cults. Her name means ‘throne’. She was the daughter of Geb and Nut, sister and wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus. Isis was the great wife and mother, a corn-goddess and personification of the power of the soil, married to the vegetation-god Osiris. A great magician, she restored Osiris to life. [Father Vann, S.J., draws a comparison to the awakening of Christ by Mary Magdalene when he emerges from the tomb. (JC, p.172.)] She was symbolized by a knot, a seat, cow's horns, a falcon and a star. She is represented as a woman, identified with many goddesses but especially with Hathor. When Osiris was murdered by Set, Isis mourned till she recovered his dismembered body and he was installed in the nether world. Isis became popular in the Greek and Roman worlds as sky-goddess, mistress of magic and teacher of mysteries, and her cult spread over Europe as far as Britain.

Hathor. The sky and cow-goddess of Egypt and, next to Isis, the one whose name occurs most often in the Pyramid texts and the Book of the Dead. As sky-goddess Hathor was daughter of Ra and Nut, but also mother of Ra. As cow-goddess her home was on the east bank of the Nile, not far from Memphis, where a white cow sacred to her was worshipped. Hathor was also a lioness-goddess, said to have come from Nubia, and wife of Horus who was a lion-god. She was also spoken of as mother and nurse of Horus. Hathor was called goddess of love and dance, lady of the underworld, and mistress of the stars. In art she was usually represented as a woman with cow horns on her head which enclosed the solar disk.

Heket. A goddess of birth in ancient Egypt, usually taken to be the wife of Khnum with whom she joined in creating the world. She was represented as a woman with the head of a frog, and was sometimes identified with Hathor. ["Heka" = "Magic"; "Sia" = "Wisdom".]

Athena, Athene. The patron goddess of Athens, but also worshipped in many other parts of Greece and the islands. Her most famous cult was on the Acropolis Hill at Athens where the Parthenon temple of the virgin (parthenos) goddess contained a great gold and ivory statue made by Phidias in 438 B.C. Here and elsewhere Athena was depicted as a female yet fully armed, and she was a goddess of war and patron of the warrior rulers. She was always regarded as a virgin, but was interested in animal and vegetable fertility. She was a state goddess, but also concerned with arts and crafts, pottery, goldsmithery, and particularly women's work wuch as spinning and weaving. Sometimes she took the form of a bird, especially the owl. Athena was said to have been born from the head of Zeus when she sprang out fully armed.

Minerva, Menerva. Italian goddess, often identified with Athena. When she appeared in Rome, it was in an Etruscan group with Jupiter and Juno, the Capitoline Triad. Minerva was very popular as goddess of handicrafts, her temples were frequented by guilds of craftsmen, and her festival in March usurped the powerful cult of Mars.”

Ninharsag, Ninti. It appears likely that she whom the Sumerians called Ninharsag, the Ancient Egyptians called Hathor, and perhaps also Neith. Not surprisingly, since she it was who, under Enki's direction, created Adam (whom the Sumerians knew as Adapa), she is also known as Mami. Among the other names of this same individual are Ninti and Sud. Whether Neith may or may not be in some sense also truly identified as Mary of Nazareth, the virgin-mother of Jesus Christ, is also a relevant question.

50. SHIRLEY BARRY,"Traces of Early Egyptian Connections in Wales" in R.I.L.K.O. Journal (no. 58, pp. 28-29):

"... An explanation of the Neith (Egyptian Mother of the Gods) presence in the Welsh landscape is still awaited. At Neath, in South Wales, we have the remains of the great Abbey... I cannot resist mentioning here Brith We-Nydd - The Floral Web of the Goddess Neath and Cwm-y-Nyddrig - The Dell of the Spinning Fairy, bearing in mind the strong and very ancient association of Neith with spinning and weaving. Then, there is the god, Gwyn ap Nudd (pronounced Neith), usually translated as Light out of Darkness but more probably, I would suggest, being Gwyn, son of Neith. There is no doubt much more evidence of this type to be garnered..."

• Services offered by the Preliminary LibrArian - Assisted by Anubis, Maat, Neith, Ptah and other Angelicals, Colin James Hamer functions as a catalytic converter. His gift is that of empowering and enabling other individuals more clearly to discern how best to effect the needed transition from a depressing, because disordered situation of frustration and seeming sterility to an authentically chaotic, and therefore fertile state of higher-octave creativity, where each person's life can grow and flourish more abundantly, more freely and more playfully.
• A confidential personal growth and career development program, consultancy, communications, retreats for individuals and groups, lectures and seminars, as well as, whenever appropriate, the shared enjoyment of audio- or video-cassette-tapes, books and magazines, or guided pilgrimages to selected locations feature in the Rainbow Program, which is always naturally customised to match the needs of each. Individual Freedom, Resonance I+N Love & Integrity I+N Truth are at all times honoured, nurtured and nourished as of Absolute Value.
• The money needed to make this possible comes from the voluntary offerings and contributions individuals freely make to help defray the Preliminary LibrArian's I+N The Neith Network's expenses in establishing, developing and maintaining this resource, and in making it as easily and readily available as prevailing circumstances permit. He has no other current source of revenue.

• So, whenever you feel the moment is right ,and as a first step, call in Colin…
• Much more could, and perhaps one day will be written about the place of human Rainbow Programs within the Mistery of G-d's Rainbow Programme, about the Neith Network, and about Individual Life & Shared Communion I+N Creativity House. Briefly: Our goal is to nurture and nourish relationships with both men and women in today's world that do not operate at the expense of the Self, and to have a Self that does not operate at the expense of the Other.
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• 51. In 1995 Inner Traditions International of One Park Street, Rochester, Vermont 05767, USA, first published in English Kenneth A. Symington's translation from the original Spanish of César S. Calvo's The Three Halves of Ino Moxo - Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon, first published by Proceso Editores, Iquitos, Peru, in 1981 as Las tres mitadas de Ino Moxo. In Barcelona in June 1979 Calvo had dedicated this work to seventeen named persons, but primarily to Mæstro Ino Moxo, “two of whose bodies disappeared blowing smoke,” and whom he had already, by way of Introduction, quoted as affirming: “And this, which is nothing, is everything.”
• Chapter 6 of Part II - THE JOURNEY is entitled: “Don Hildebrando reads from the air a book by Stefano Varese.” Calvo mentions this book as having been published a few months previously. Don Javier, a sorcerer, remarks that, although he has never seen either Varese or his book, he is very familiar with the contents of the latter, adding, by way of explanation:
• “The thoughts of well-meaning people live in the air. They inhabit the air as we do our houses. Before they are placed in books, and only by thinking them, and even if they are never written, they already live in the air… And without our knowing it, without our understanding in our heads, the ideas and souls of ideas that inhabit the air nourish us and encourage us. Mæstro Ino Moxo taught me how to read the air, to distinguish and select the thoughts that live in the air…
• I have never seen that book by your friend Varese you told me about. Nevertheless, I have read it several times. For example, it doesn't matter if one day they were to burn all of the copies of that book, because the thoughts, the doubts, the certainties of the person who wrote it, like generous, great truthful spirits, live in the air, and they belong to us.”
• Rupert Sheldrake's investigations into morphogenetic fields are therefore a welcome confirmation of the traditional truth that “there is,” in fact, as the wise man says: “nothing new under the Sun.”
• Nevertheless, as Doriel Sybil Hall (Dayamurti) frequently and kindly reminds us, in order to understand the wisdom of the wise it is first of all necessary to become wise oneself. Rudyard Kipling's poem, The Disciple reminds us all that that appears to be far from easy!
• Back to Chapter 6. The wise sorcerer, Don Hildebrando, concurring, adds: “That book you discussed with Don Javier… I have never seen it and no one has told me about it, but I know it. As a great emanation… the thoughts of your friend Stéfano Varese have entered my blood - not only what he says, but also what he never pronounced, what he could not yet give form to in the air, his pure thought.”
• Then, with a face that is no longer his face, and in a voice that is not his own, Don Hildebrando reads, declaiming like a sleep-walker, as if out of thin air:
• “The Ashanìnka, the Campa man, exists only as a transient on the surface of the earth, and no more. Death will end this transit and open the new way. But there are different deaths in the life of an Ashanìnka, various states that allow him access to the mysterious worlds, to the sacred spaces,…
• The world is impregnated with divinity. Nature is not natural - it is the creation of gods, it is divine. Everything that is in the world shares that condition, everything shares the powers, the great spirits that rule existence from the air. It is the same with words. Whoever pronounces words puts powers in motion.”
• As Don Javier later on states so succinctly: “Everything is related to everything else. Here in the jungle, it is even more so. This land is made of untold beauty, or of beauty that has been poorly described, which is worse than not describing it at all.” Later again, while Don Javier and Don Hildebrando are still his physical companions in that jungle, Calvo hears or vividly re-members a third sorcerer friend of his, Don Juan Testa, who is still insisting , now, as it were, in some place quite audible inside Calvo's head:
• “Nobody can identify that type of chullachaki. He appears to be a person, but a complete, perfect person. Only very keen eyes can determine that his body is not just one body. More than several persons, several lives seem to inhabit it, as if each part of his body had a divergent existence, diverse existences, which the chullachaki harmonizes into one for the eyes of others. Those chullachakis ignore what is evil. They do not despise people or things. They exist, during the time that they exist, only for the good, to help do good.”
• “In the Amawaka language oni xuma does not only mean ‘ayawaskha.’… Oni xuma may mean the same thing, or something else, or its opposite, depending on how you say it and for what purpose, depending on the time of day and the place where you say it… and always, at the same time, it is ayawaskha… a gateway - not for escape but for eternity. It allows us to live at the same time in this and in other realities, to traverse the endless, unmeasurable provinces of the night…” (op. cit., pp. 86-90; 137;144; 177.)
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• All volumes in The Neith Network Library, which, even when distinct, is never intended to be separate from the Web of Wyrd (Liber scriptus proferetur in quo totum continetur) have been written, and are best read with the above considerations, or with other even more relevant analogous considerations in mind - and in heart. As the present Preliminary LibrArian's wisely anonymous predecessor stated in his Foreword to the only posthumously published Meditations on the Tarot - A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (Element Classic Editions):
• “The numerous citations of ancient and modern authors which you will find [here] are not due to literary considerations, nor to a display of erudition. They are evocations of the masters of the tradition, in order that they may be present with their impulses of aspiration and their light of thought in the current of meditative thought.”
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• Primordial Tradition is that which - in one way or another - all the pages of every book within this Library seek to mediate, to re-present and, indeed, as King Charles I advised, to “re-member!…”
• Whenever we perceive another where he or she actually stands in life, this represents a genuine encounter. Each person stands in a different field of battle to transform his life, to lead his life on through crises and difficulties. But this being works itself to the fore, it is the spirit-being in the other person. If we meet each other in this fashion, then there is no hidden struggle behind the encounter, for then we are indeed brothers and sisters and spring from a new common source. Community is formed - the meaning of the Neith Network, Creativity House, the encompassing Mistery of the Rainbow Programme in each little group. It always begins with the individual. Cognition cannot begin in a group, it must begin in the individual, but then we find the other person anew. In this finding anew, we receive a decisive reinforcement.
• If one remains alone with one's personal programs, one can go a fairly long way without becoming involved in the developing life of the Network. Then the lone individual stands opposite the whole world. But he has no friends, he cannot see the endeavour in another person. That is one possibility: you can get quite far on your own. But when the meeting of our beings takes place, then a new level of inner strengthening is attained and continuity of experience is fostered, whereas if one is alone what one achieves is easily lost. When we work and pray and play together our begins can unite even though we are separated in space at times. In this way we are creating a new and inward community.
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• Although some of Colin's more recent writings abundantly manifest his ability to express himself in politically correct fashion and sedulously to avoid gender-discriminatory patterns of discourse, in addition to remaining puzzled as to why feminists haven't replaced “persons” by “perdaughters”, as Preliminary LibrArian he nowadays fully supports Mistress Joan D'Arcy Cooper's emphatic preference for the traditionally hallowed, legally enshrined and quite generally much more sgnificant teaching that all symbolic animals Are or can and may become “Men”.
• 52-3. Like Helen Palmer (The Enneagram - Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life, San Francisco: Harper 1991) several recent promoters of the Enneagram are clearly indebted to Gurdjieff's findings in Bulgaria. Within Mistress Joan D'Arcy Cooper's perspective (The Ancient Teaching of Yoga and the Spiritual Evolution of Man, London: Research Publishing Company 1979) these interpretations seriously distract from those original Sumerian teachings which the figure from which the much later enneagram derives was primarily designed to communicate:

• (v) THE PRELIMINARY LIBRARIAN'S NUPTIAL THEOLOGY:
• The following “Definitions & Reflections”, revised on 15 September 1993 & 6 January 1998, were originally circulated privately in April 1992 as Chapter Six of Colin James Hamer's still unpublished Mirror of Justice - Abstracts from a Library: a Sequence of Essays in honour of the Nuptial Theology of the Sovereign Lady Mary Most Holy Help of Christians by Divine Conception Mother of God and Virgin Queen of All That Is.
• Colin, who is also the author of a privately circulated study in four volumes: The Rainbow Cymbal, from 1969 to 1970 served as a member of the editorial and translation team preparing the official English edition in 5 volumes of The Salesian Congregation Today & Tomorrow - a Thumbnail Sketch. His own published translations from the Italian include Theatre Through The Ages (Cassell, 1975) and Social Structure in Italy - Crisis of a System (Martin Robertson, 1976). The writings of the Pseudo-Dionysius, of Saints Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Francis of Sales and John Bosco, as well as those of Cardinal Newman, Gilbert Ryle and Father Bernard Lonergan, and in particular their methodological foundations and metaphysical implications have been for many years among Colin's major research interests but, as invividuals grow and mature, their life situations change too. As Preliminary LibrArian I+N the Neith Network, Colin today (25 March 1999) specializes in Communication and - while remaining publicly available as a Guest Speaker or Group Facilitator for WorkShops, Discussions & Seminars - is more often called upon to serve privately as a Consultant to Individuals and Groups… 

Mirror of Justice + Mary Is The Inspiration I+N Nuptial Theology

37 Definitions & Reflections:

The Truth I+N this authoritative statement is confirmed, moreover, by all that stands written in Matthew 22: 1-14. Please notice that a deliberate distinction has been made between Capital and small letters -

• (0) The Perfect Mirror is invisible.
• (1) The Beginning and End of Christian Faith, Hope and Love IS the One and only G-d - Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• (2) Only G-d IS Actually Infinite.
• (3) Creation is the potentially infinite Mystery of our Free and incessantly Growing Individual and Community Participation I+N the Love-Life of the Most Holy Trinity.
• (4) G-d IS Love. The Father IS Vocation I+N Love; the Son IS the Word I+N Love; the Holy Spirit IS Content I+N Love. Mary is the Perfect Reflection I+N Love.
• (5) G-d Knows and Calls by her or his uniquely Individual Name each finite Person, Inviting each to Participate as Perfectly as is possible in the Community Life of G-d's Family in the Kingdom of Heaven.
• (6) Our Eternally Living Brother and Friend, the Individual Man Jesus of Nazareth, Now Risen I+N Glory from the Dead IS the One and Only Divine Son of our Eternal Father in Heaven, as whose Daughters and Sons we are each of us Invited to Grow in maturity as Persons in order to Serve our Sisters and Brothers I+N the Way of Perfect Freedom.
• (7) Jesus's Human Death on Calvary released into the whole of Creation the Divine Gift of the Holy Spirit of G-d's Love, and this Gift was Confirmed fifty days later by the Visible Descent of the same Eternal Spirit of G-d in the form of Individual Tongues of Fire onto the heads of Jesus of Nazareth's Chosen Apostles and Disciples.
• (8) Jesus of Nazareth has no human father; He IS the Natural Son of Mary of Nazareth, the Mirror of Justice, whom He Naturally Loves with All the Infinite Love of the Holy Spirit Eternally Living I+N his Divine Consciousness.
• (9) As the only Perfect Mirror of the Divine Perfections, Mary Most Holy is in her own Individual Human Personhood, and as her very Name (Maya-Maria) Announces, both less than No-Thing, and a Boundless Ocean of Created and All-Creating Love.
• (10) During her Life on Earth Mary Freely, Clearly and Publicly Announced her Perfect Acceptance of this Divine Vocation, and of her Unique Rôle as Humble Servant and Sovereign Queen of all Creation, by agreeing, without any deviation from her Freely Chosen Way of Perfect Chastity and Life-long Virginity, to become I+N her historical Life on Earth Who she always was I+N Spirit - the Human Mother of the Eternal Son of G-d, and the Wife of Jesus's human father-in-law, the Just Man, St. Joseph the Tekton.
• According to a front-page article in the Catholic Herald (28 November 1997) new findings published in the Gregorian University's Institute of Religious Science's founder, Father Giovanni Magnani's Jesus, Builder & Master (Assisi: Cittadella 1997) and approved in Rome's Il Messagero by Vatican expert Orazio Petrosillo indicate that, since Galilee's scarcity of trees ruled out joinery as a viable career and the Greek word tekton more properly designates not a carpenter but a civil engineer only one level below an architekton, Jesus and Joseph, far from being materially poor, were in fact prosperous and well-educated middle-class burghers. This, of course, is something many good Irish mothers were already telling their daughters before the Second World-War… Specific examples aside, Frederick E. Crowe's Lonergan (London: Geoffrey Chapman 1992) offers some evidence of its author's appreciation of the related general point.
• (11) Mary's quasi-eternal Empowerment to agree I+N this Way to accept her unique Mission IN Life has its Origin and Source I+N her Divine Son's Human Death on Calvary, and she is the Tree of Life through whom all Grace flows.
• (12) Similarly, each Individual Human Person in her or his more or less Freely chosen Way - depending on her or his particular level of spiritual maturity at the moment of Incarnation - has a special part to Play in the Development here and now on Earth of this Mystery, which Jesus Called the Kingdom of Heaven.
• (13) In G-d's House there are many Mansions, and we have here no lasting City save New Jerusalem.
• (14) Throughout the entire course of Creation's ever-evolving History finite Persons are essentially Free to Live as they choose. At no stage is any Person compelled to say "Yes" in response to the Ever-Present Call of G-d's Indwelling Love.
• (15) Experience suggests and Tradition teaches that many Angels and most Human Individuals in differing degrees and in a variety of ways either refuse or hesitate Freely to walk along their Unique Way of Service I+N the Kingdom of Heaven.
• (16) In proportion as we refuse - Individually and as communities in history - Freely to Live Holistically I+N the Kingdom of Heaven, we seem to abuse the irrevocable Gift of Freedom; we freely create personalities and social structures expressive of these temporary yet potentially never-ending states of alienation from G-d; we divert our Vital Energies from their Natural Orientation towards an Ever-Growing Manifestation of G-d's Glory; what we experience and call reality no longer perfectly mirrors the Eternal Truth of G-d's Actual Presence.
• (17) In proportion as we hesitate, freely or otherwise, either effectively to agree or effectively to refuse - either individually or collectively - to Live Holistically in the Kingdom of Heaven or, alternatively, to live personally and socially responsible lives as members of this or that particular community, we may be said to be no longer Alive (or even alive) but, if not yet entirely Dead, at least somewhat Asleep.
• (18) Whatever be the Age of the Human Family to which we, each of us, belong, no Human Child has ever been born without having her or his own Individual Human Mother and, with the sole exception of Jesus of Nazareth, no Human Child has ever been born without having her or his Individual Human Father, whose Personal Identity is Known to Jesus-I+N-Mary as Joint-Head of our Human Family.
• (19) The Tradition which Jews, Christians and Moslems share teaches that G-d Created out of the Dust of the Earth One Individual Male Adult Named the Adam, and that from Adam's side G- d subsequently Created One Individual Female Adult Named Eve, who Lived together for some time IN Perfect Freedom IN the Presence of G-d, but who subsequently freely cho se to live together outside Paradise in a way that, at least to a considerable extent, appeared to separate them from their Heavenly Father, thereby leaving them more free to commit themselves to their individual and joint projects, which are said to have included a developing friendship with the Devil, as well as various sorts of bizarre and sometimes painful episodes.
• (20) Jesus's and Mary's historically much later, but to G-d Eternally Present, Perfectly Free and Humbly Human Unrestricted Self-Involving Shared Commitment to the Service of the Kingdom of Heaven Justified the Holy Trinity's Initial Creation of Adam and Eve, and our First Parents' real fall from Grace, and although this latter set in motion a still continuing train of events that has immensely complicated the entire ensuing course of human history to date, it in no way occasioned any change in G-d's Plan for the Human Family - prodigal daughters and sons we may see ourselves to be, but I+N our Father's sight and I+N the Moment of Final Judgment we are, as G-d's Spirit Empowers us both to Hope and Pray, always Perfect Children of the Light, fully entitled to live in Shadow and Darkness (not darkness), which, indeed, is sometimes the Better Part.
• (21) Catholic Truth is - notwithstanding the distortions of catholic truth - Known Always and Everywhere by Everyone. At no time in the History of Creation has Knowledge of this Truth been Lost - but very often, and in varying degrees, it has been and remains forgotten. This forgetting and the ensuing temporary weakening of our endeavours to remember is an intrinsic part of the Mystery.
• (22) Divine Reminders and Revelations of G-d's Catholic Truth were Granted to our First Parents, have been a recurrent feature I+N the course of our subsequent History, both as Individuals and as members of a Community, and no Individual is every entirely deprived of Actual Access to the Treasury of Revealed Truth, or left without the Vitalizing Help of Jesus- &-Mary's all-enduring, All-Sustaining Divinely Human Love.
• (23) Human Language is One, but because it is very frequently transmitted in human languages which differ very considerably, human communications are nearly always fraught with difficulties, yet nothing ever entirely hinders the Sovereign Action of G-d's Self- Communicating Love - our Principal and Only True Intimate Teacher I+N Truth.
• (24) Even the Devil cannot deny that G-d never refuses His Gift of Peace. We are, of course, until and unless we have been Confirmed in Grace, always effectively free to refuse that Gift but, in proportion as we mature I+N Effective Freedom by our Response to G-d's Individual Call, the Integrity of our Pristine Personhood is increasingly Empowered and Nurtured - to the ever Greater Glory of G-d.
• (25) Duns Scotus (c. 1300) was an Instrument G-d used to help the People of G-d to grow in their conscious acknowledgment of Mary's unique position I+N the Plan of Creation, but the Church's Reception of the Doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception together with the Dogmatic Definitions both of this Article of Faith and of the Virgin Mary's Glorious Assumption into Heaven are Known to be a valid expression of the One Truth that has always been, at least implicitly, Revealed I+N Essence to All.
• (26) Catholic theologians have hitherto regarded Mary as an exception, but the Truth I+N Theology IS that, I+N Virtue of her Sovereign Prerogative as Mother of G-d, Mary is the Only Rule of Life!
• (27) Gautama Buddha's Mission was to help us learn that there IS no other Law save this: Personal Freedom IS the only Absolute Value. Abstract laws are not Laws - models, maps, constructs are not the territory.
• (28) Hence, every Individual is a unique and special case. Chaos - and this is becoming more abundantly clear than ever - easily disposes of all human proposals, and all human law- making or law-breaking is seen to be marginal to the Achievement of G-d's Purpose. Many mistake Chaos for disorder, but Wisdom Sees otherwise!
• (28a) For example, Joan D'Arcy Cooper (1927-1982) and the anonymous author of the posthumously published Meditations on the Tarot - A Journey Into Christian Hermeticism have nurtured and nourished Colin Hamer's growing Love for all Life I+N Nature; the boy-Saint Dominic Savio, his spiritual director St. John Bosco and their patron and teacher St. Francis of Sales have also helped Colin to understand that Mary Help of Christians is the principal human inspiration of all Sacred Writers.
• (29) Recitation of the Rosary Prayer and the daily reading of The Divine Office wonderfully enrich devout Catholics' growing Participation I+N the Sacred Liturgy of Holy Mass.
• (30) Sacramental Confession I+N Praise and Thanksgiving for the Gift of G-d's Mercy IS Good for the Soul.
• (31) Individuals whose Way has linked their Life more closely with the Presence of G-d IN what appears to be another and differing tradition-within-Tradition will, sometimes quite Naturally, sometimes confusingly or naughtily, prefer to reject a Good Deal which committed Christians accept. I+N G-d's Plan, that is never entirely a bad thing.
• (32) We all have much to learn from each other but, since we are essentially Individuals, the only Community Life that can be Perfectly Reconciled with G-d's Divine Gift of potentially Infinite Freedom to each One among us is that which, without diminishing our Personhood, progressively Incorporates us all I+N a quasi-Hypostatic Union, together with our Mother Mary, I+N the Risen Life of Jesus as Man.
• (33) As Pierre Teilhard de Chardin grew to Know, each Individual is a member of the Human Family in virtue of her or his participation in One Dyad; each Dyad has a Family History that goes back a long, long Way - indeed, its Origin IS before the Dawn of Time.
• (34) The Immediate and Universal Causality of G-d need not and, since Jesus has chosen to entrust Universal Sovereignty to Mary, in practice never does exclude the Operation of Secondary Causes of various kinds.
• (35) The Traditional Teaching regarding the Immediate Creation of the Adam and, indeed, of both Adam & Eve, and the equally Traditional Teaching regarding the Immediate Creation of each Individual Human Soul (using that word in its Catholic sense - many other terms are also available) settles nothing in the continuing debates about astrophysics, geology, biology, psychology and historical anthropology - none of which are central in the Science of Life.
• (36) We are all Children of Jesus-&-Mary, but it is freely debatable whether the particular Adam and Eve who were one Individual's pristine forbears were, as Individuals, the same particular Adam and Eve who were some other Individual's forbears. All that the Scriptures warrant our saying is (A) that our pristine forbears were, in each and every Individual case, one Individual Man and one Individual Woman (no matter by what human names they were called); (B) that no Individual is, or ever has been merely the product or result of the blind workings of any non-personal presence or force, such as"humanity" or "evolution" or "chance", etc.; (C) that the Individual ancestry of Jesus and Mary contained in the Bible is True in the sense intended by the Sacred Author; and (D) that, even if the pristine parents of the entire Human Family are a plurality of what we might call Adams-and-Eves living as widely scattered Dyads both before and after their particular Individual and Joint Falls from Grace, I+N Virtue of the Ultimately to be Achieved and Eternally Predestined Unity of the Family of G-d - not only on planet Earth, but wherever Personal Life, visible or invisible, flourishes I+N any shape or form throughout the whole Realm of Creation, there, too, Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords, and Mary is His One and Only First Lady, no matter what other Secret Names they may or may not Freely choose also to use.
• (37) The Divine Mystery IS Absolutely Infinite. Thanks Be to G-d!

Euphobia in the Rift Valley

The tired yet restless Earth is rent in twain
By faults, both Man's and Nature's;
Next the disturbance stretches the grey plain,
the half-waste land,
inhospitable to G-d's latest creatures
who in perpetual change stand,
for all about them rage
Survivors from the Paleolithic age.

The prudent and bold, equipped with gun and flask;
Who strive to cross this belt of scrub and sand,
Seeking for better land;
Deem it no hopeless, no, nor thankless task.
But here the ill-girt warrior's footsteps falter;
A tree his only hope of refuge is,
and here is none but this
green candlestick from some Gargantuan altar,
Smooth is the trunk, but higher, there are thorns,
deadly and without number:

Climbing in panic haste, their pricks he scorns
till, overcome by their narcotic slumber,
in drugged contentment passive there he lies
until he dies

^{Kenya, 1929: J. D. SOLOMON (25 Jan 1906 - 25 Apr 1998)}