INTRODUCTION

          The following will have to speak for itself.  This is only the third installment of a proposed six treatises that expounds expressly on the subject of, The Age of Reality. The original author of this prophetic yet most profoundly obvious theme felt it quite necessary to review, amongst a myriad of relevant ideologies, the too often-overwhelming contributions of the Christian faith to the present state of mankind and more specifically to our Judao-Christian Western culture where this often antagonistic Christian influence has so totally infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives. It was conceived and remains to this day that there should be no better source of the truth than the very man that is heralded as the grand initiator of this now all-encompassing religion. Of course, it should be commonly known that these present and numerous Christian religions actually have their roots historically traced back only to the year 325 when the Catholic Church was first consolidated, into just one governing body and the various manuscripts of the New Testament were first selected from amongst a large number of supposed sacred writings for the exclusive inclusion into the one and only Bible that still remains in various compilations and translations as that singular bases for most all of these multitude of Christian faiths.  The real problems and serious questions arise as to the actually veracity of these selected writings, just why they were selected and whether they were possibly altered at that time just to satisfy what was primarily and most certainly the political agendas of the then ruling classes of the great Roman Empire that was then ruled by Constantine the Great. It has become well known by most objectively motivated academic scholars that the essence of most of the present Christian faiths have as their only source of authority this one Bible that has been interpreted, probably more rightly stated as miss-interpreted in so many differing fashions that were most probably designed only to serve something less than some spiritual intent for the individual church, its clergymen or anyone else for that matter. It is ridiculous that so many different approaches to spiritual salvation, doctrines of righteous living and promises of eternal life have immerged from this one original and still quite questionable source. Who better to set the record straight than Jesus himself?

          It should be well noted and understood that the intellectual and spiritual source for this particular installment to the body of literature that supports the ideology of this Age of Reality was not influenced by any of the various and often profound contributions of other thoughtful and serious writers.  Most specifically, the mind of J. Lamah has been filled with those more reliably reported antics of a historical nature that should hopefully be without the usual interpretations that are more often and intentionally biased in favor of a politically-correct status quo.  The very idea of a totally independent, unbiased and exclusively liberal (well-read) interpretation and understanding of our history were a concept that plagued the mind of J. Lamah from the very beginnings of his intellectual development:

      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
        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

          The inner nature of J. Lamah was serendipitously expressed in the poetry that he wrote mostly in his late adolescence and at the very time when his mind was being filled with the ideas and subtle questions raised by the often obvious intellectual inconsistencies in what he was being taught mostly by those who all too often only robotically heralded the distorted ideologies of the establishment.  As hard evidence of this ideological turmoil, J. Lamah’s high school Senior Thesis that was a requisite for graduation was questioned by its anonymous evaluator for its deeply reflective content and his final grade was downgraded to the lowest acceptable passing grade of ‘C-‘ for the simple idea that J. Lamah was not intellectually mature enough for having written such a profound thesis: The Reformation as Viewed from both the Catholic and Protestants’ Perspective.  J. Lamah, much like that of Martin Luther, seriously questioned the veracity of Christian doctrine and practice, both historically and in its various modern expressions that in and of themselves is often a spiritual anathema.

Another of J. Lamah’s poems:

MYSELF

The times have been when needs were great,

   But now there's been a change of late.

     Before and now my God's been first,

        But now I haven't that saintly curse.

          My life so far has sought ideal,

             But now I've found a fertile field;

                                          Myself

March 20, 1961

CHRISTUS VICTOR
By: Jennet R. Kennedy

Jennet R. Kennedy was an accomplished artist that showed her mostly religious artistry in New York City throughout the nineteen forties of the last century. She eventually moved to Miami where she became acquainted with my parents. She had shared with them that she had once become a Catholic nun. Her Mother Superior, recognizing her gifted talent suggested that she leave the order in favor of fully expressing her talent in the world outside of that religious order that would have more likely only discouraged her great talent of expressing religious images. Ms. Kennedy, in the above original oil painting that was gifted to my parents expressed that she viewed Jesus as a forceful strong, forward thinking man of the greatest strength and not that gentle looking depiction of most classical artists. On the back of this oil painting she had personally placed a three by five index card with the following typed inscription:

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