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Eight pointed star-- the double cross
Thu Feb 5 16:48:23 2004
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The story of Cain.
And the reason we love our enemies.

From Genesis, chapter 4:

For killing his brother, Cain is cursed from the earth. When he tills the ground, God tells him, it will not yield to Cain any crop.

Cain is driven from the face of the earth and hidden from the face of God.

But to protect Cain, the Lord gives Cain a mark, that anyone attempting to slay Cain may receive retribution seven times over.
“Vengeance shall be taken on him [whoever tries to slay Cain] sevenfold.”
Exodus, 4:15
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This mark is two crosses overlaid, like the union of St. Andrew’s Scottish cross and St.George’s English cross which forms the emblem of the flag of Great Britian.

You will see this seal of authority, this double-cross, in the flag of Great Britain, in the piazza of St. Peter’s in Rome, at the entrance to Harvard Law School, on the US Supreme Court Building, on the facade of many Masonic Temples, depicted as the signature of Annu in Babylonian tablets, and on the nipple of the exposed breazst of Janet Jackson during the recent super bowl halftime mockery.
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Cain goes out from the presence of the Lord to dwell in the land of Nod.
Cain builds a city there he calls Enoch, named after his firstborn son.

How do you suppose Cain survives, and thrives, in the land of Nod, in the city of Enoch? He is cursed from the earth so the ground will yield him nothing. And he is hidden from the face of God so he can only know shame, contempt, humiliation, fear, unhappiness, dread, etc.

Cain does the only thing he can do: he uses his power of sevenfold vengeance, his power of retribution, to rule.

Since Cain can inflict seven times the punishment anyone can inflict on him, it is in Cain’s interest to provoke everyone into fighting him.

Cain has retributive power only. He has zero creative power. He can only survive on the energy of whomever he can provoke into attacking him.

When we live in the presence of God, unlike Cain, the earth will yield to us. And God’s power is available to us through our willingness to love.

When we are able to love, God is present at the heart of this world.

When we refuse to love, we are hidden from God and instead face Cain with his power of retribution, sevenfold.

It’s a simple equation: we reap what we sow.

The Sons of God create. The sons of Cain provoke reactions.

The Sons of God do not react according to the way they are treated. We act according to God’s Truth and God’s commandment: Love others as yourself.

Those who live outside the presence of God treat others the way they themselves are treated. They react. They do not, and can not, create.

Only the Sons of God are given creative power; they reference their lives, not to men and the world but to God and to heaven.

When we stop allowing Cain to provoke us, and thereby control us, we can reference our lives back to God and God’s creative energy, which is love.

So we love our enemies. Not because we fear our enemies (there is no fear in love) and not because we are timid, but because it is our work here on earth to bring the presence of God to the heart of this world.

This requires ultimate courage.
This requires ultimate faith.

There is no higher calling than this.

Peace.

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