Those things which we fear we steer our course away from. Whether our fear is well-founded or imaginary we do our best to avoid them, and to persuade others of their unlawfulness. or we tirade against them, depending on our nature.
Often our Fear is based on nothing more than our own Shame. That which we are ashamed of in ourselves, or project on to others, we fear. We fear them because, in many cases, we know our Fear to be irrational, and so we feel Shame at such a feeling. Feeling Shame we naturally want to hide from it, which we may do through bluster or denial.
Bearing False Witness is one of the Mosaic laws, that is to say one of the most ancient of laws guiding human behaviour in the West. Usually this is taken to mean Perjury, Wilfully Telling an Untruth in court or while Under Oath. It is this habit of misrepresentation which caused the Native Americans to speak of the white man as having a forked tongue. He says one thing but means another, or has no intention of carrying out what he (or she) says. This is a deceit of the heart. Concealing what one truly feels through denial or misrepresentation of a situation.
It is frequently found among politicians whose sole aim is popularity. People often say that there is no harm in a little white lie. But in Truth there is no Small Misrepresentation of Reality. There are no Small White Lies. It is a sad condition that has today become known as certain knowledge being ‘above one’s paygrade’. My response to that phrase is simple. When one consults with God there is nothing which is above one’s pay grade since God knows all things by seeing through the veils of deceit to the reality which lies behind them.
For those who do not like the use of the term God, or feel compromised by it, I can only say you have my sympathy, it is not a term I like to use myself since it has been used to such ill purpose over the many centuries of corruption by those purporting to be ‘men and women of God’. It is also often used in opposition to the term ‘the Devil’, somehow making the Devil an equivalent figure controlling and conniving all Evil, where God is supposed to be Fair and Just and the Source of All Good.
However my meaning in the use of that term is the Source of All That Is, and for me that is quite clearly and definitively Consciousness. I prefer to use the term The One, that the ancient Greeks used. If therefore God is Consciousness and every aspect of Creation is itself a form of condensed Consciousness, it is evident that Consciousness per se will penetrate every aspect of itself, no matter how dense. In simple terms the world is transparent and those who unite their Consciousness with that elevated source will perceive beyond the blatant declarations to the hidden motives within the bald and bland statements. The universe and all within it becomes as transparent to them as it is to Consciousness itself.
For those habituated to the declarations of falsehood, falsehood itself will present itself as truth, and true. The universe will be perceived as a place of deception, of opinion and perspective. From such a perspective there is nothing which is of intrinsic worth or integrity and as such is capable only of being manipulated with the sole ends being personal gain. It may be a brazen path, a blaring fanfare of individual triumph, but, as brazen, it is also eminently corruptible and will rust before the winds of time and the breezes of inconsequentiality.
My advice is to walk humbly and quietly through the world. Trying with all one’s might to hold to the simple truths that present themselves to view with no attempt to make more of them than they are and least of all to make oneself the hero of some imaginary world one has created from desires.
