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I noticed an article on Youtube saying ‘Pope refuses Trump’s handshake’. Had to enquire further. A long report with several still photos but no live video. You can always tell more from live video showing people’s reaction, rather than staged shots with commentary. Was any of it true? I had no way of knowing.

The article unfolded with the intriguing statement – what happened next will etc. As reported Pope got up out of his chair, walked up to President, took him to a font and said ‘Let’s wash our hands together’.

This was reported as an act of humility and likened to Jesus washing the feet of his disciples. When Jesus met his disciples again, as an act of humility, he washed their feet, the article read. By washing their feet Jesus was able to establish the feet of the disciples on Holy ground, in the Heavens. What has this got to do with Humility?

Then, as I was showering today, the thought came to me. There is an instance of washing hands, in the story of Jesus. It is when Pontius Pilate washed his hands of the mock trial the Temple rigged against the man. Pilate absolved himself from any further involvement in the trial.

This was not an act of humility or contrition, but an absolution, dissociating the Pope from any further actions the President may undertake and giving him free rein to do as he chooses.

A similar event happened in the Middle Ages when the Pope gave absolution to the hired Knights from northern Europe in their Crusade against the Cathars. The promise was made, ‘if you take part in this Crusade against our Christian fellows, you will be absolved from any and all crimes past or future.’ They burned 5000 townspeople of Beziers in the Cathedral, with no question asked as to whether they were Catharist or Catholic. The reported comment was ‘God will know his own’.

I wonder what St Peter would say, most likely ‘you go your way and I’ll go mine’.

Peace of the Ethers Permeate my World

Peace of the Ethers Permeate the World

Peace of the Ethers Pervade the World

Peace of the Ethers Still the Turbulence 

Peace… Peace…. Peace….. 

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.

America’s President is getting more lost in his battles. He has announced a 125% tariff on goods from China. He clearly did not heed the warning I made yesterday in Trump’s Stumbling Sums.

He has announced a 90 day pause on the imposition of tariffs world wide, with the exception of China.

Meanwhile President Ji of China sits back quietly smiling, in that inscrutable manner of those who think before they act, recognising that to increase tariffs hurts the home market not the foreign one.

For those companies in the US who rely on Chinese components for their manufactures, such companies as Apple for instance, the obvious choice is to transfer their manufactory to China.

But President Trump is caught in a public personality battle in which he refuses to lose face in front of the Chinese. He didn’t seem to learn anything from his encounter with the Ukranian President when he embarrassed himself on the public stage by employing his naive Vice President in accusations of failing to say thank you. Like that is a matter of international import. It was, but not for the reasons the Americans thought.

I am saddened to see a potentially great nation brought to its knees through folly.

Once more we see the poor beset President has got his sums wrong.

He declared on Tuesday that already money was pouring into the States. He claimed there was already $2billion made since he introduced tariffs. But unsurprisingly I believe he is mistaken.

All the time the goods are in the warehouses no money has been made on them, has it? It is not until they get sold and the poor American man in the street and woman in the boutique pays the tariff that any money has been made.

Or am I mistaken? Surely the tariff goes on the end price – even if that is a middle man – not on the nation exporting the goods to be imported. I mean you don’t sell something to someone and then pay them to buy it, do you?

I watch a lot of tv with subtitles.

Some of it is deplorable. Much nonsensical. Some even laughable.

I was watching ‘Under Suspicion’ with Gene Hackman playing a pillar of society whose life is falling apart when he is falsely accused of raping and murdering two young girls. It is brilliantly written, as his life is stripped away from him and his marriage destroyed under interrogation, until he sees he has nothing left to live for and confesses to the crimes before the over-eager aggressive young detective.

The denouement is when Morgan Freeman, the investigating Captain, comes in and says  “It’s over. They caught the killer.”

Subtitles read “It’s over. They call it Tequila.”

What does this mean, if you are unable to hear?

This being is one of the worst examples. It is evident that voice recognition software is being used. But really, how long are we going to be fed cheap substitutes for quality work. Surely it is not beyond the resources to employ a proof-reader. Particularly with a film of the quality of ‘Under Suspicion’, possibly one of the best Gene Hackman movies, even though harrowing.  

Let’s be very clear about this move. By creating havoc in the world’s financial markets Trump has created optimum circumstances for those who are unaffected by the slump – by virtue of holding incredible wealth – to fight takeover wars, buying companies at their lowest prices against the day life returns to normal. The difference being that those who have already, will now have even more. Dressed up as building a strong American economy for the common workers it is actually a feeding frenzy for the very wealthiest in the world.

Even President Trump admitted it this morning saying ‘You will get rich, richer than ever before.’ Was he talking to the rednecks who attacked the government at the last failed attempt for Trump to take office? Certainly not! Was he talking to the wealthiest with which he surrounded himself in the lead up to the last election? Who else?

For the rest of the world, who live on scrimping and saving, the effects are yet to be seen.

In the rising insurrection liable to be seen in America shortly, leading up to the next election, the President has only to declare a state of crisis and martial law to maintain his stranglehold on power.

The best reaction the world can show is to ignore trading with America and get on with trading between themselves as friendly markets, not the hostile ones that the President is determined to foist on us all.

Will the common man in Amerca gain? It seems most unlikely to me.

Witkoff assures us Europe is paranoid that Russia will march all over Europe, which, he assures the faithful, Russia does not want to do at all. After all it would mean invading NATO countries, he says laughingly. Ignoring the fact that his boss has decided NATO is not a thing for America to invest in. The rest is posturing, Witkoff tells us, with everyone wanting to be Winston Churchill.

Meanwhile of course Mexico and Canada are apparently invading the US with all kinds of criminals and drug dealers.

However, since the 1980s the Russian mafia (aka KGB) has invaded the nations north of the Alps, if not the Balkan States as well, seeking to control the underworld of those nations.

So who is paranoid, Mr Witkoff? 

You just want to be on the side that’s winning.

Such an opinionated regime, still basking in the flurry of new power.