Moth's To The Flame (About Unity with Diversity) Oil & collage on canvasboard, 22" x 28", 2017
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Creating Unity

This could be useful, not only for a marriage, a friendship or a family, but also for the work place or for creating Unity within a movement - like the Truth Movement, for example.

If we use a set of spiritual principles which are derived from Natural Law, in all of our interactions with each other, we could get along.

Inner Monarchy

The first and most important ingredient in this Alchemy would be to have a set of principles within which each individual is self-cleaning. Difficulties in relationships mirror in us that which we have not accepted or changed about ourselves, so having inner monarchy is imperative to having interdependent relationships with others vs. dependent relationships. If I am disturbed by another person, how I am not going to immediately blame them and want to get rid of them? - I must look at myself and find a way to work with the material.

A basic method would be to ask myself at night and throughout the day when I feel tangled up:
Where am I being selfish? Have I lied to someone? Or omitted the truth? Where am I afraid? Have I caused harm to someone? Do I need to make it right?

This basic method is taken from the Rosecrucian methods of self-mastery which you can investigate further, as you choose, and also from Emmet Fox, The Golden Key method which can be found here https://www.makingpositivechanges.co.uk/wpsystem/wp-content/uploads/goldkeyemmett.pdf which goes back to the self-mastery knowledge of the ancients.

Principles

The premise of this article is that the Truth Movement needs a set of principles to counteract the tremendous force set against us by the Dark Occult to keep us divided and conquered. We have to individually realize that in order to keep our freedom we are going to have to get along in some sense. We are going to have to find the need to Unite along the lines of at the very least, desiring our freedom, to stand up against the Tyranny we face. What we have been doing so far, has not worked. Each day more of our freedoms are ostensibly taken away.

Critical Thinking

The First and Base Principle of creating Unity is: (and there 11 others which I will present separately) but all of these principles are nested together, and fall upon this Basic Principle.

1. Our common welfare should come first. If we are to win the battle of Freedom, we must have Unity.

"If you have one hundred people who live together, and if each one cares for the rest, there is One Mind."
--Shining Arrows, CROW

Anarchists might find this idea distasteful because we are caught up in the idea that to have one mind is to have group think or be a cult, or to be socialists, however, this is a polarized view. There is a middle path with regard to being Unified and still remain individualized. Using Principles!

If principles are used to make every decision, and if everyone individually is responsible for their own inner monarchy, what is instead created is a group in Higher Consciousness. In essence, when practiced as a group, driven by the motivation of LIFE vs. the slow death of slavery, what is achieved is a miraculous Higher Mind Consciousness and a Unity which cannot be divided.

Unity begins with each individual. Having a solid relationship with a Natural Law Principles, Spiritual Principles or God, The Creator, or Spirit Within or your own logic - whatever you want to call it - is vital to expressing unity in a relationships with others. If you are following the guidance and will of Spirit or your logic and will and ultimately dependent upon It, you are more able to participate in a relationships with others.

Why? Because a working relationship with Spirit Within or your logic and will, provides faith and faith removes fear. Unity requires harmonious cooperation. Unity demands a willingness to listen to the ideas, feelings, and opinions of others with an open mind. Unity means sharing views and not insisting on promoting our own way as the only way. It also requires the ability to practice Live and Let Live - we can remain unified and not agree with everything others believe - if we are Unified for Freedom and nothing else, using Principles with critical thinking is the way to do that.

Apophatic Inquiry

The Trivium

So basically what you do is you take a situation - and ask yourself within the group - Does this situation or issue support or destroy "Our Common Welfare". Through discussion of the principle, using the Trivium Method and Apophatic Inquiry, you weed out the divisive from the unifying.

Unity cannot automatically preserve itself. Like the rulership in the Inner Monarchy, we shall always have to work to maintain it. Here too, we need honesty, humility, open-mindedness, unselfishness and, above all, vigilance. So we must ponder carefully the experience others have already had of trying to work and live together.

"Hear me! A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong."
--Tecumseh, SHAWNEE

CHECKLIST for this first principle of Our Common Welfare Comes First

• What am I willing to sacrifice for Unity within the group?
• What affect do my actions have on Unity?
• Am I a giver or a taker?
• Do I do unifying things? or am I quick to criticize? Slow to praise?
• Do I use silence as a refuge or punishment while expecting others to read my mind?
• Do I listen when others has something to say?
• Am I a healing, mending, integrating force in our group or am I divisive?
• Am I a peacemaker? Or, because of my own insecurity, is it critical to my ego that I be right?
• Can I be flexible? Flexibility is taught by Nature. You will see the trees bend in the wind. You will see that tree branches are flexible. To be rigid is to break. When we have problems it is good to be flexible. Sometimes we need to flow with what is going on. If we resist, it becomes more painful. We need to be on the path of least resistance, while sticking to our principles. The Path of Least resistance right now is to go against principles so how do we present a new direction and yet still work with each other?

"Flexible strength is better than inflexible. Let the storm flow over you, and then pop back up."
--Michael Kabotie, HOPI

• What must people do to accommodate my insecurity? My ego? Can they have friends that are not my friends? Can they go wherever they want with whomever they want, whenever they want?
• Do I try to be understanding when others rub me the wrong way or am I abrasive and rageful?
• Do I spout platitudes about love while indulging in and secretly justifying behavior that bristles with hostility? Do I sneak around and do things that I know others won't like or that will violate our values?
• Do I share all of me - good and bad? Or do I have secrets?

Have some secrets. In a group, family or relationship it's not unifying to tell all.

The Next Principle I will Discuss is:

There is one Authority: Natural Law. Each of us is a servant of Natural Law. None govern.

This principle is nested under our common welfare coming first for a reason. The order of the principles is relevant.