In the beginning there was certainly chaos. Somehow love and order was supposed to have mercifully intervened and separated the light from the darkness. For most of man's recorded history there has been a persistent struggle between what man has come to define as the forces of good and evil. It is almost inevitable that some form of conflict or destruction needs to precede any actual prospect for redemption, and the ultimate hope for mankind is that the mystically or mythologically conceived Phoenix will somehow triumphantly rise from the ashes of this evitable destruction. One of the books that had been initially planned to eventually follow this present endeavor was going to be appropriately entitled: Phoenix Rising from the Ashes of God. The image that may first come to mind is one in which God is somehow destroyed or is dead to the world. I would rather suggest that it is not mankind's present conceptions of their God's actual existence that needs to be annihilated, but the total annihilation of the misperceptions of those various understandings and interpretations of these Gods.
     I come to you simply as a man who would call himself the Freedom Seeker. I would stand before you in the flesh, garbed in the simplest of clothing and bearing if anything only a plain golden cross, a symbol to me, not of any Christian church nor even a belief system of any professed Christian. To me, it has become an explicit symbol of Truth and Love. It continues to represent the sacrifice of Jesus the man, but only in the sense of that prophetic statement in which he proclaimed that "no greater love hath you for a friend, than to lay down your life." Jesus of Nazareth was not a Christian either, as he was born a Hebrew that was so crucified two thousand years ago as the King of the Jews. He was simply a man whose unusual destiny was to offer a way of salvation for a people that had been enslaved not only in body but also in spirit.  His promise of freedom was not at all based on some man-made belief system that demanded supreme allegiance and devotion to some mythological God as well as absolute obedience to some man-conceived spiritual institution and its self-proclaimed despots. He profoundly and explicitly said that the source of man's ultimate freedom was most simply the truth and only the truth. His one great commandment was that we should love one another, as we were to love ourselves. As we were encouraged to fulfill this one great commandment, we were assured to have joy in our own lives. Nothing so heals the broken spirit of man than that of simply loving and being loved.  Jesus taught us that the entirety of mankind's governing laws was to be founded on this one explicit and simple commandment.  I find it so pathetic that even today many people who profess to being a practicing member of some Christian religion will often express the totality of their faith in the words of the Nicene Creed that makes no reference at all to this one and only great commandment proclaimed by Jesus. That is precisely why I do not profess to be a Christian. I am one who would come to you and lovingly offer you that promised salvation through truth and love in much the same manner as Jesus.
     I am simply one of many voices that have been called to herald this message of the second endeavor at universal salvation. The first attempt was prophetically doomed to failure almost from the beginning, which is why there was a promise of a Second Coming.  Its time has arrived, but it will not be delivered in the embodiment of some risen-from-the-dead mythological Jesus, and then only exclusively confined to those who are deemed saved by some Christian church that does not even embody the essence of the great commandment of that first true messenger of truth. This salvation is totally available to all of mankind inclusively irrelevant of one's chosen religion, ethnic origin, sex, or any other of the infinite number of caustic labels that are deliberately misapplied to both men and women in order to discriminate or eliminate one group of humans from another. It is so terribly sad that these same discriminations still doggedly remain throughout and within most of mankind's various religious institutions.
     There is definitely a need for every temple, church, mosque, hogan and any other group of religious believers that may exists in all the various human communities throughout the entire world, to redefine their mission and recognize in each other the universality of all mankind. What have the greatest needs to be eliminated are those equivocal teachings that have so pathetically and inequitably separated the Devine from the nature of the individual. "I and the Father are one" is a universally conceivable concept and spiritual reality that can be legitimately invoked by any living/loving individual.  Man was not made and conceived in the image of one Devine God known only to the Hebrews. The Gods were mankind's own imagined creations in the various projected self-images of our spiritual enslavers and despots. It is interesting that we are so apt to accept this profound statement if I had only so stated it from your particular prospective as not at all applying to your own particular brand of religion, but to every other religious notion outside the realm of your own idealized ideology. Well, my soulful friend, even your own cherished belief system is aptly considered by those multitudes of others as something less credible than their own; it's simply the nature of these contrived religions with only a few exceptions.  Whose to say which uninspired notion is the right one? Of course, the mutual and judgmental evaluation of each other's varying beliefs will most naturally clash proportionately to their degree of difference.  Most of the Hebrews some two thousand years ago rejected one of their very own in the person of Jesus.  I have addressed this message of truth to you not in order to dissolve the sum and substance of what you have been taught or even to suggest that you dismantle the sacred place in which you practice your own religion. I have come to you to generously offer not a new message at all, but to remind you of a sanctioned decree that has been here from the beginning.
     You must put aside those things and teachings that would keep you unnecessarily enslaved to a doctrine that has possibly and sometimes prevented you from unconditionally loving even your next-door neighbor. Some of these self-same enslaving doctrines have no doubt also kept you from totally loving yourself. A good beginning might be for you to become that inculpable infant you most assuredly were at birth when you were innocent and totally devoid of any imagined form of that equivocal concept of original sin. Be dead to that sometimes-oppressive world you have come to know and be born again in the spirit of innocence; in truth and love. In this second birth award yourself a loving mother who had wittingly conceived you in love and brought you into this life with an unconditional passion to guide you to becoming uniquely who and what you are in that original state of innocence. This is the essence of the meaning of the virgin birth—untainted by mankind.
     It is only here that the Phoenix finally rises triumphantly from the ashes of disempowered gods. I would hope to persuade you to take undivided charge of your own rebirth and the spiritual direction of your own life and its salvation from those who would sometimes seek to misdirect your own life's course.  In that same rightfully selfish vein, offer only your love and the truth to those others that would be likely saved in a similar manner and most certainly never in a manner prescribed by neither you nor any other brother of sister.  Demand that your neighbors solely determine their own self-chosen destiny in this enlightenment of truth and love and that you only serve these fellow neighbors and friends as a living and externally expressed example of the God that resides within your own Devine being. This is the only true decreed witness necessary for the complete and spiritual redemption of our own soul and the basis for the universal redemption of any and all mankind. The salvation of mankind begins with you and me; take care that you become and are indeed your brother's keeper only in Truth and Love.

                     WHY AM I HERE?

                 I'm not here
                    To read what others write,
                 Nor to see
                    Without some guiding light.

                      I'm not here
                         To reap what others sow,
                      Nor to see
                         The arts which others show

                            I'm not here
                               To learn what has been taught,
                            Nor to see
                               My life, result in naught.

                                 I'm not here
                                    To waste my life away,
                                 Nor to see
                                    My each and every day.

                                      But, then why;
                                         Why am I here at all?

                                         May' because
                                            I heard my Neighbor call.

                                                                        March 8, 1960

                    TO ALL MY FRIENDS

       I think of you and wonder why
         The traits you show are dear to me.
       They're things that silver cannot buy;
         They're things that only friends can see.

         Sometimes I wish I had them all,
           But God gave me a different set.
         So you and I must heed that call;
           In each our way, provide respect.

           The fruits I have are few and small,
             But each I grew and nursed with Love.
           The worst in me has never stalled,
             Yet still I sense the Light above.

             We each must grow our private way
               And use the gifts that's given us.
             But never let us go astray
               Because of greed and ways unjust.

               Of all the thoughts that I can tell,
                 Not one alone do I possess.
               For what I have is yours as well;
                 The Truth alone will I confess.

                 Of all the things that I call needs,
                   There first comes Love and what it gives,
                 Then mother earth and all her seeds;
                   Then you my friends, for whom Love lives.