Category: Spiritual

We leave this world, every one of us, just as we entered it, with nothing material. As my old mum used to say – “No pockets in a shroud“. However, we do seem to arrive with some intangible equipment, which, last Saturday, I heard defined as ‘Natural Law’. Unless we are damaged beyond repair in transit, each of us has a built-in knowledge of what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’, although, as the first term has, in today’s political climate been hijacked to cover anything or anyone who dares to draw a straight line, I prefer the term ‘correct’.

The term ‘Fascism’, with its origins in Italy in the 1922-1943, originally pigeon-holed anyone holding ‘extreme nationalist authoritarian’ views. The word itself is derived from the Latin – fascis –  meaning ‘bundle’, which went to the Italian language as ‘fascio’ – political group. The more cynical of us may feel that this is not so far removed from the polite medical term for excrement.

The most succinct interpretation is, for me ‘control without authority‘, and it flies in the face of the Natural Law, since we do inherit odd features, such as ‘innocence’ and ‘trust’ with our mother’s milk.

At the time of writing, and as a loyal English patriot, I find myself having been ‘bundled’, along with millions of my persuasion, into a federation of European countries which has, for the past seventy years, been insidiously  smearing my country, with a ‘political’ Novochok, from which, I am assured, there is no escape, and for which no-one with a grasp of modern-day economics would apparently ever wish to be clean. We are classed as delusional, myopic, ‘cloth cap and ferret’ sheeple, should we dare to hanker after any of the ‘old’ values, such as sovereignty, dignity, independence, democracy, oh, and Faith.

This last week, however, another rock landed in the already troubled Brussels cauldron. Hungary’s leader, Victor Orban, expressed his country’s populist view that – “If somebody takes masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East (and don’t forget Africa, Mr Orban) into their country (not, note a ‘state’) this also means they are importing terrorism, criminalism, anti-Semitism and homophobia.” Oh dear, not what the Fascist Few in Brussels needed to hear, as the former DDR maxim used to run – ‘Weh dem, der aus der Reihe tanzt’. That’s what you get when you take control without authority – Fascism.

So, what about the other bit, Faith? Hackles may be rising already, but this term is difficult only for those who either don’t have any, don’t know for sure what it might cost them to have some, or who were irreparably damaged in infancy. Faith is as old as the Natural Law, it also came with mother’s milk, and, if you were extremely fortunate in this crazy permissive society, you still have a clear memory of  your father.

If Fascism is control without authority, Faith is best defined as ‘Reason, at rest, under the control of the Author’, knowing who your natural parents are is ideal, knowing who your spiritual parents are is essential. We will consider more of that in another episode of Faith v Fascism.; meanwhile, when you have a minute, get yourself a copy of ‘The Rainbow or the Thunder‘ and see what it cost my school pal Sandra to practise her faith.

 

 

I make no apology for, now and again, quoting from our own spiritual rule book: after all, on just about every corner, on every social media page, we are being inundated with the ‘wisdom of the prophet’ and told how wonderful all his life and writings were.

So, let’s try this for size : Ephesians 6:10-20. Have a read and blog me back when you can spot what is missing from the soldier’s kit.

Cast your mind back a couple of years, Alexander Blackman – ring any bells? – was put to the sword in a British court for killing an enemy soldier during an action in Afghanistan. Remind me, whose idea was it, to equip our front-line men and women with headcams??

It is clear that our government is a puppet show, and the strings are being pulled by overseas forces, who somehow, seem to ‘have the drop’ on any UK politicians, of whatever colour. There is a publication which I recommend to you – ‘Secret Affairs – Britain’s collusion with radical Islam’ – by Mark Curtis, and available, like everytjhing else, on Amazon.. It’s pretty heavy going, but all the detailed facts are there.

Today, on social media, we are informed that, having risked life and limb for the defence? of what? – our land from invasion, our fading memory of Commonwealth glory,? our retired military men and women are not being given the respect and support which they are due – post service days. Just this past week (12th – 18th August 2018) we hear that six more British ‘veterans’ have ended their own lives; 18 have died by their own hand since April, and 42 in all so far this year.

Meanwhile, the same government, which cannot be concerned for those ‘lucky’ enough to survive, are desperate to get the remainder of our sadly denuded military force into the EU – PESCO. I leave you to guess why TM is in such a hurry to get that organized…

This is the same party which, in the years from 2011 to 2016 has given away, in so-called ‘foreign aid’, an AVERAGE of £1.9billion every MONTH to a total of 146 overseas countries, without any real idea as to who ACTUALLY benefits from our charity. That money came from your and my taxes. To speak specifically about the Afghanistan donation, that has been £6.7bn – plus our brave soldiers’ lives and limbs.

My friends and I are so angry about the Westmonster corruption that we are doing something about it – http://www.democracy17-4.org – we will approach the next General Election with an INDEPENDENT candidate standing for every one of the 650 places available on those privileged green benches. Please do consider either standing as an INDEPENDENT, or recommending someone who can. My own email connection can also be used – ‘info@livingstones.uk’ – for further details as to how this will work. Here are the disgusting figures for those six years, and it still goes on.

Click to access 14-08-18-foreign-aid-figures.pdf

At the moment, I can’t find it, but somewhere, I have a dreadful photograph, taken in what used to be the fine land of Syria. It shows a small girl, perhaps 5 or 6 years old, dressed in a pretty blue dress, white socks and shoes, lying on the ground – her head severed from her body. This clearly happened because her parents had dared to hold a different opinion about ‘faith’ and ‘family values’. I suggest that, had that occurred here in the UK, there would have been many extra copies of newspapers sold, hand-wringing at every ‘official’ level, accompanied with repeated assurances that steps would be taken to ensure such a thing NEVER happened again.

Now, let’s just check here – if we dust off our family bible,and turn to Matthew 18:1-6, we have a section on what our Prophet thinks about anyone who interferes with young children (male or female). He recommends that we tie a millstone around the offender’s neck and take them for a dip in the local lake, which goes in stark contrast to that which is approved by the father of the Islamic nation. His followers insist that it is acceptable for men to take a six-year old female as a ‘wife’ – mind you, they seem to be able to wait until the child is nine before ‘consummating’ the relationship.

Across the globe, we can see countries infested with this evil ideology, and bent on eradicating every other type of social function which differs from that laid down by their man (the only ‘prophet’ who, actually, never seems to have ‘prophesied’ much at all). If you get and study the book – ‘Mohammed and the Unbelievers’, published by the Center for the Study of Political Islam [CSPI], and available via Amazon, you will soon learn what Mohammed had in mind for everyone who dares to disagree with his ideas.

Wherever it has appeared, this form of Islam (= submit or else) has always caused disruption. It is doing so here in the (dis)United Kingdom today: our mission is the same today as that of our monarchy one thousand years ago – to confront, control and be rid of it.

However, it is obvious that here, ‘there is something rotten in the state of Britain’, when, over the decades since the end of World War II, we have invited and/or allowed citizens of other (mostly former Commonwealth) countries to settle in our sceptered isle, irrespective of spiritual condition or political persuasion, knowing that they bring with them their hideous culture.

Some of these souls have arrived in a state of extreme distress and obvious penury, fleeing for their lives from some hideous, self-appointed tyrannical ‘leader’.

These have gambled that the nation which has a worldwide reputation for ‘christian’ charity could be relied upon to provide succour and sanctuary to such.

Others of that persuasion, however, have seen our international status as a prize to be coveted, our financial institutions as a benefit to be exploited, and have created a lucrative business out of assisting fit, young, bearded, mobile-phone-carrying male (mostly) ‘children’ to reach this European Elysium  of ‘milk and honey’ uninvited, and often at extreme risk to their lives [Home Office Ref: 1178819 M is a case in point] with the clear intent of sponging on our generosity and at the same time, working to subvert our democratic status, thus to replace it with a monstrous, inhumane form of social manipulation. It is a testament to our asinine national governments (all shades), that, far from maintaining control of orderly immigration, we have actually ‘opened the city gates and let down the drawbridge’..

It is noticeable that the few of us who actually dare to point out the inherent risks to our ‘western’ society of allowing such mass migration, are met with a deafening silence (as my old mum used to say, with a ‘bag of IGNORE).

We are already losing count of the number of unprovoked attacks, carried out on UK streets, by servants of ‘Allah the Great’, all designed to cause public mayhem, instil terror and force our tolerant, democratic attitude into servile compliance with their version of law. Little wonder, then, that there are some elements of our indigenous ‘white’ population, who are angered to the point of active retaliation.

How pathetically sad to see that our ‘appeasing’ government, police service, judiciary (supported by an imbalance in media reporting) seem bent on emphasizing the atrocity, whenever the miscreant is identified as an evilly-motivated ‘white racist’ person, on whom the most severe sanctions must be imposed, whilst, in those multiple cases where the culprit is reluctantly acknowledged to be of the Muslim ideology, the courts inevitably take note of the most ludicrous ‘social’ reasons why this particular soul was uncharacteristically ‘disturbed’ enough to make mincemeat of some totally random victim – and hand down an inappropriately lenient sentence.

For these reasons, I move that those fortunate enough to be elected to the green benches, following the impending demise of this present ineffective set of incumbents, should make it a solid point on their manifesto to re-instate capital punishment, the more particularly in cases which involve the sexual violation of minors (male or female) where the victim is then murdered, once carnal lust has been satisfied.

I also move that, in cases of deliberate random killing of defenceless victims – and I am thinking of indiscriminate ‘bombings’ at public events, on public transport, etc. – those responsible should also pay with their lives.

To those who will now commence to howl about ‘human’ rights and ‘inhumane’ treatment, I will say, there will shortly be another publication to show why capital punishment is better understood in some 56 countries across the globe than we can bring ourselves to understand it here.

When we look back over the past seven decades, we see a clear pattern has emerged; there has been enormous influence exerted upon British government of all shades to ‘compromise’ for the sake of apparently improved relationships with overseas regimes, ostensibly for commercial benefits, perhaps founded upon a desire to see ‘Great’ Britain cling on to its fading pink map of hegemony. This has happened at the cost of our national integrity, and usually because the love of money has also been a significant motivator.

(‘Secret Affairs’ by Mark Curtis – subtitle ‘Britain’s collusion with radical  Islam analyses the history of this sorry situation)

Of equal significance is the emergence, since 1952, of an insidious plan to convert the whole of Europe into a godless federation. Just seven years after the end of World War II hostilities, plans were already in hand to achieve by economic means what the Austrian painter/decorator had failed to achieve in six years of military aggression.

 “Europe’s nations should be guided towards the super-state without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an ‘economic’ purpose but which will eventually and irreversible lead to federation.” Jean Monnet ( a Founding Father of the EU), written in a letter to a friend 30^th April 1952

Ask yourself, is this where you really want to be, a vassal state, eternally bound to and funding an un-elected oligarchy, whose legislature countenances and endorses the eradication of some 1,000 years of British history, culture and constitution.

If you want to inspect a possible positive alternative, please email us on ‘info@livingstones.uk’ – there remains a way ‘forward’..

If you have persisted to the end of this publication, thank you for your attention.

In his book, ‘Mere Christianity’, Clive Staples Lewis examined his life in relation to the claims which might be laid on him, if he were to admit, with an adult mind, the possibility of a ‘resurrected’ spiritual leader.

He starts off with the basic observation that ‘Everyone has heard people arguing’ – they might be saying things like, “Come on, give us a piece of that orange, I gave you a bit of mine!”, and he goes on to say that very often, the person accused of unfair behaviour will attempt to show that, on that previous occasion, there were special circumstances to justify the action taken.

Lewis finally got to the point in life where he knew that ‘Christians are wrong, but all the rest are bores’. There were, as he described elsewhere, times in his life when he felt exhilaration which he could not account for – a ‘joie de vivre’, which he likened to ‘Seconds of gold dust, scattered in months of dross’.

I wonder what Lewis would have made of the social disfunction in our land today? We are hooked on material possessions to the point where many of us see little value in bothering about issues like ‘Faith’, ‘Respect’ or consideration for the other person. It is refreshing, though, when, like a second of gold, we do witness unselfishness in action..

I want to talk to you here about the ultimate in unselfish action.

To do this properly, we must go back to the beginning, because if we are going to build something of lasting value, it is essential to have a solid foundation.

In the same way that you might hear someone arguing for a piece of their schoolmate’s orange (nowadays probably ‘chocolate’), we have inside all of us a basic sense of what is right or ‘wrong’ behaviour. I make no apology here for referring back to the starting point of our national ‘faith’; there are accounts of similar arguments going back to the beginning of time.

The earliest writings on the subject tell us (anecdotally?) how two brothers became separated by jealousy, one killing the other, because he felt he had lost ‘respect’. Over subsequent generations came the understanding that, if you do me a wrong, then I am entitled to take redress.

When such social practices became widespread, these points were summarised, and were written down as ‘rules of conduct’.

In November 1992, on a voluntary working project in Israel, I was posted to a Neurology Ward in the Tel  Hashomer hospital, near Tel Aviv. Taking a patient down to the x-ray department, the lady told me that she was being met there by her son, to see a specialist.

Her son turned out to be a ‘hassidic’ student, who, learning that I was ‘goya’ (non-Jewish) informed me that, whereas he kept every day 623 points of law – to keep himself ‘perfect’ before his g-ds, for me, it is easier – there are just seven such points. He later brought me a copy of the points which had been held sacrosanct for Ham and Japheth, in the same way that his 623 points had become Shem’s burden.  This was the foundation of the ‘Old’ Covenant – which contains what we today probably know as the ‘Ten Commandments’. Contained in these commandments, as in the earlier versions, is the sentiment that, if you spill my blood, expect your own to be spilled too.

This grim state of affairs continued over generations, until new revelation began to dawn, through the prophets, that there could be a change of events, when the g-ds would appear and show the nation a better way to carry on.

The arrival of a different class of prophet, who went about doing positive things, like making lameness and blindness go away, soon clashed with the ‘negative’ attitude of the religious leaders of the day. Over the course of three years, this ‘uneducated’ Galilean carpenter attracted a very strong following because of his constant ‘fault-finding’ with those who thought they had the people tied down. Things got so bad, that, an extraordinary general meeting had to be called, where it was decided that this troublemaker should be made to disappear.

Over a particular public holiday, the Temple version of the ‘Waffen-SS’ had him lifted, dragged before a kangaroo court, and summarily sent for execution, conveniently taking advantage of the legislation of the ‘uninvited’ bullies from Rome. (Ringing any bells yet?)

That hapless soul was executed, and his body placed in a secure place, before the supporting peasantry knew what was happening. However, this is where the ‘covenant’ change occurred, because, three days after disposing of the evidence, a nasty rumour began to circulate that the troublemaker was, in fact, alive and well. Oh, weih! The responsible players in the execution were suitably bribed and told to not say much.

Oddly, this account of the miraculous brought with it a concept that his ideas, his teachings, were so fundamentally different, so brilliant, that they ought to be followed by adherents worldwide.

Thus began the ‘New Covenant’, and the remarkable thing is, that, his teachings, being based on Love conquering Hate, have now been taken up and marketed worldwide from the very city out of which had come those who had been complicit in his murder –

Now, when there is a 10-tonne Truth to be conveyed, it is essential to build a 20-tonne bridge to carry it. A new movement (Covenant) burns like a forest fire, consuming all before it, but, all too often the man with the message is lost, all too soon we are left with a monument. The Truth becomes a habit, the lead characters get into the dressing-up habit, the Truth gets diluted, and, before you know where you are, the buildings are empty, and uninvited adversaries, in Trojan-horse fashion, are buying up the buildings, filling them with their version of a foreign and very unsavoury ideology, a twisted concept of how society is meant to be run, and, suddenly, the common man/woman realises that they have been eating the forbidden fruit.

Where once we had kings and knights, ready to die for the Truth, we now are left with dullards, in fancy dress, claiming to care, but with their consciences seared until they are either without feeling for their fellowman/woman, or worse…

It has been said before, that this is a ‘christian’ country, and there is prevalent today a mistaken belief that, to be a follower, one has to ‘keep turning the other cheek’. This is a nonsense.

I want to take you back to the troublesome carpenter, sitting on a sunlit hillside above the Lake Teveriya [Galilee], trying to convey his 10-tonne Truth to the simple peasantry.

The subject of self-aggrandisement came up among his nearest followers, and to their burning question of “who is the best?”, the carpenter took a little child from the crowd, put him in the circle and said, emphasizing the virtue of humility – “If you want to be great, first be humble”. So important is this principle that the carpenter went on to recommend that anyone who violated a child was fit for a ‘granite necklace’ and a dip in the nearby lake. Nothing there about turning the other cheek, then?

Many years later, one of the carpenter’s main men reminded us that, whilst we are to be subject to the elected government, we are not to presume that the ‘old’ covenant rules have been mislaid.

A free translation of this letter to ‘Rome’ (again), runs like this “ If, having been afforded every possible advantage and benefit which the state can offer, you or I then decide to ignore the ‘New Covenant’ rule, and insist on destroying the hand which has so freely fed us, then we may expect to be punished under the ‘Old Covenant’ rule.

When I was a lad, the ‘church’ where my parents attended was given a new ‘pastor’. This man was one of the fittest, strongest specimens of manhood that it has ever been my privilege to meet.

A man who had served in the Royal Marines, had swum across Morecambe Bay fully clothed, had been brought up in Perry Barr, Birmingham, where Saturday evening entertainment for the local youth was throwing potatoes at the opposition – with razor blades affixed, FJ was not a man to be messed with.

At a young people’s group one evening, the subject of ‘self-defence’ came up for discussion. Someone mentioned this notion of turning the other cheek. FJ’s response was. “I always say to that type of character, sure, hit me, I’ll give you two free shots and then I’ll take you to pieces!”

I shall leave it to the imagination of the reader as to where and when this punishment could possibly become appropriate. ‘By their fruits you shall know them.’