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Text Box: Since financing of government rewards for practicing spiritual depravation, was received from those who practiced material industriousness and therefore often also practiced spiritual industriousness, from the producers in society, the producers in society experienced a lowering of their material rewards for being industrious. As their expectations for receipt of material reward for being productive fell, so too did their expectations for receipt of spiritual rewards for being spiritually industrious. Large segments of America now perceive sin as being rewarded - all-be-it materially - and virtue as being punished - again, all-be-it materially. And this perception is accurate. Unfortunately, this reality has dulled the perception of and realization that there will be loss of spiritual reward by being sinful, and that there will be receipt of spiritual reward only by being virtuous. In truth, the inherent vitality which arises from spiritual morality has been sapped. It is not just America which suffers from this spiritual malady, but much if not most of the world whether civilized, industrialized, or otherwise. and it is not just the governments which have induced this spiritual and material malady. It also is those religious leaders who have taught that everyone goes to heaven. Everyone does not go to heaven! Ref: Heb 9:11-15, John 8:46-59 +

Text Box: not really be able to recall or experience that passion, and it may have been something which an adult would find inconsequential, such as the love for a pet or a favorite stuffed animal toy. But we all have given that passionate love to someone or something which we perceived as having human-like qualities. God’s love for us is the perfect, total, all encompassing, all consuming, Love. It is perfect Love for each individual. The soul that responds to that Love, accepts it, and wishes to give love to God in that soul’s fullest ability: that soul focuses only on God. Though it knows of itself and knows of others, and in a sense is aware of itself and of others, that Loving focus on God is so all consuming that the soul really is not aware of itself because its Loving focus on God is so strong and complete that it allows nothing else to be experienced by that soul. Its awareness of itself and of other creatures is more a knowledge of their existence than it is an awareness of their existence. Your recognition of yourself and of others and other things is similar to your having knowledge of the existence of the leader of your country in the far recesses of the back of your mind, but you really are not aware of him - he is not in your mind or in your active perception. This Love that God has for us is the strongest Love possible for it comes from God and is therefore perfect. Those who accept that Love immerse themselves in it, and that Divine Love burns away anything which interferes with the soul receiving and immersing itself in that love. It burns away anything which prevents or hinders the soul being thoroughly saturated with that Love. It burns away the stains left by sin. And the soul wants those things to be taken away so it can fully immerse itself in that Divine Love. It wants anything which interferes with experiencing that Divine love, to be removed, so that those other things are in the far recesses of the back of your mind, so that you are not aware them - so that they are not in your active

Text Box: perception. When we receive absolution our sins are forgiven. When our sins are forgiven the eternal punishment which the sins earned is also forgiven. But the sins leave something on or in the soul. It is as if sin is a sticky tar substance which attaches to a brilliantly white cloth. Absolution removes the sticky tar substance, and Holy Communion takes the stain out of the cloth. But something is needed to return the cloth to its brilliant white original state. It is dingy without that “something”. For those who do not go to Hell, but whose souls are dingy from the effects of sin, God’s Love for that person is the bleach which burns away any tar which remains on the cloth of the soul, and which enters in between the fibers of the soul so that it cleanses the hidden stains which make the soul dingy white instead of brilliant white. Truly, the comparison with gold or silver being refined in the furnace, are real comparisons. It is not like iron which has rusted, or brass which has tarnished, for the rust or tarnish are actual chemical changes in the iron or brass. The metals have oxidized - have experienced a “slow” burn - though the ancients did not know this was what was happening, and therefor they used the concepts of rust and tarnish. But the thoughts and concepts are the same, for fire burns out the rust leaving pure iron; it cleans off the tarnish. More accurately, it refines the impurities from the gold and the silver, leaving only the pure metal. And it removes the impurities from our souls leaving only the pure heavenly substance originally created by God, removing all of the impurities we have added. This is a painful process, for God’s Love must enter into the soul and remove the imperfections. It is like a physician surgeon cutting open a person’s body and repairing the damaged interior. The procedure is painful, but well worth the pain for it removes an even greater pain - the loss of God.

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