KEN RUEGG
VICTIMIZED BY MILLIONS
Epilogue
On the rights and responsibilities of citizenship: "Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have the obligation to be one!" "It is better to light a single candle, than to curse the darkness!" -Eleanor Roosevelt On defending freedom: "I know one thing, and I believe that History bears me out: the price of freedom is blood!" -A Marine Corps drill sergeant, lecturing recruits. "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing!" -Vince Lombardi, Head Coach, Green Bay Packers. On Geniuses: "We throw bricks at them, and they use the bricks to build roads for us!" On Mind: The evolution of mind is the natural and expected consequence of the evolution of body. Successive stages of mental development are each a unique type or species of mind, more advanced than, and different from those completed before them. Because this is true for individuals, it is also true for the Human Race, although all individuals alive at any given time, have not achieved the same stage of mind. Mental evolution of the race through time, results in the progressive achievement of higher stages of mind, by increasingly larger percentages of the human population of the Earth. "...and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, neither shall they make war, any longer." -from The Holy Bible: on the wall outside the entrance to the United Nations, in New York City. On Mind contemplating Mind: Creation is a progression into existence, from matter and energy, to life, to mind, and mind is the goal of that progression. The "Big Bang" is an act of will by DIVINE MIND creating human mind, using a process which we call "Evolution". That process is intrinsic to mind. Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am!". Awareness of self-existence is the first stage of self-contemplation. God said to Moses, "Tell them 'I AM' sent you!". Man seeks to understand Creation. He is attempting to understand himself, and his Creator, by so doing. He is "contemplating" Him. THE FELICITY OF GOD IS SELF-CONTEMPLATION. THE DIVINE MIND CREATES BY AN ACT OF WILL. THE CREATOR IS ETERNAL MIND. HE MAGNIFIES HIMSELF BY CONTEMPLATING HIMSELF WITHOUT END. HE ADVANCES HIMSELF TO HIGHER STAGES OF HIS NATURE, WHICH IS ETERNAL MIND, BY SO DOING. SUCH CONTEMPLATION IS INTRINSIC TO HIM. HE WOULD CEASE TO EXIST WITHOUT IT. GOD INCREASES HIMSELF INFINITELY IN THIS MANNER. HE MAINTAINS HIMSELF TO INFINITY, OUTSIDE TIME, WITHOUT CHANGE. ONLY INFINITE MIND IS OMNISCIENT. THE DIVINE MIND IS LIMITLESS ONLY IN THIS WAY. THIS IS THE INFINITE GREATNESS OF GOD. IT IS WHY THERE IS ONLY ONE. THE GREATEST POSSIBLE. GOD IS ETERNAL MIND. AMEN. "And He created Man in His own image and likeness!" -The Holy Bible Acts of creation by God, bringing into existence distinct forms of being, different from those forms resulting from the "Big Bang", are beyond my experience or knowledge. My ideas are based upon matter and energy, the numbered motion of matter and energy which is time, biological life, and mind developing in biological life, all of them resulting from that one explosion. Creation evolves. It definitely reveals aspects of God. It is His. But mind dependent upon biochemical action cannot survive death. Consciousness after death requires an act of will by God, which is additional to that resulting in the "Big Bang". "Out of body" experiences by a few of those having near-fatal heart attacks are being reported. For all others, immortality is the province of Faith. The ability to will Creation into existence is an aspect of Infinity of Mind. Only God's Mind is without limitation, i.e. Infinite, Almighty, and Omniscient. "And God said, 'Let there be light!'. And there was light!" "And God breathed into him...and Man became a living soul!" -Genesis "Shield your sword...lest you impale your immortal soul upon it!" -Becket THOU SHALT NOT MURDER! Kenneth Ruegg, November 26, 2024