Clemency

 
I have followed the news leading up to and following the execution Tuesday morning of a convicted murderer (I do not mention his name because it is impolite to talk about the damned) and as I followed this news I marveled at the energy expended and the sincerity offered by so many people famous and not famous in attempting to get his execution stayed.
 
The thing that strikes me is those same people of such good and caring hearts have no objection at all to America's torture-execution of me; and I have never murdered anyone; and I have never committed a felony.
 
I find this a fascinating thing; perhaps it is no more than just another mystery for the mystery pile, but fascinating.
 
Perhaps we might talk a little about life and death today, since we all share both, and both are mysteries in the mystery pile.
 
First, to the subject of murder.  If you take a life you should be able to give it back.  By this I do not mean to do good works and seek to improve the lives of others, to polish up your karma so the stain does not show; no, by this I mean you should be able to raise your victim from the dead.  Anything less, and you are ruined.
 
The murderer changes the course of the world for the worse.  Each and every murderer does this.
 
The murderer's soul is lost at the moment of the murder; the best the murderer can do after the murder is avoid death for as long as possible.
 
There is something about death I have been asked to tell you today; I have been asked to make a brief mention of the human being's pattern of recycling back into life after death.
 
As a general rule, even if a soul just drifts along, drifts along, it will be reincarnated within 83 years.  If it is damned, it will never reincarnate.
 
Every reader of this work, without exception, has lived at least one life before this life.
 
Everyone who has ever lived on this Earth is currently alive on this Earth, either in the spirit or in the flesh, with the possible exception of some astronaut or cosmonaut who may have died in orbit, but as far as I know no such deaths have taken place.
 
Even those especially qualified for Heaven remain on this Earth and are proud to do so.  This is where the battle is; and no one quits the battlefield.  Jesus is here, and never left, although Christians seem to think he has been sitting in some throne room some place at the right hand of God.  God is here, always was and never left, and there is no throne room.
 
When you die, you cannot leave this Earth no more than you could leave your mother's womb after one month's gestation.
 
Death outside the gravitational pull of Earth should be avoided.  Space travel is actually a natural part of evolution, but it is accomplished when the species has learned to live in space outside any container, like the lungfish in reverse, going from land to space, like the child being born.
 
The human soul is dependent on the physics of the Earth whether that soul is in the flesh or in the spirit, although the souls within the flesh and in the spirit respond to that physics slightly differently.
 
As a general rule, all souls in the spirit want to be born again into the flesh; I suggest this is the case despite the teachings of Buddhism; and I suggest the Great Buddha himself is happy to be born again in the service of God, and frequently has done so..
 
To be born again frequently is an honor, like favorite soldiers sent on patrol more frequently than the laggards.
 
Much of the politics and power-balance of the Land of the Dead involves jockeying for position to enter the Land of the Living, a fact which has caused great turmoil in the Land of the Dead for centuries, and easing that turmoil was the primary reason Jesus descended into Hell after the crucifixion.
 
The Earth is not as it would naturally be, either in the Land of the Living or the Land of the Dead, because of a collision between this galaxy and another some eons and eons ago.  We Space Sailors say Earth is an apple on a broken limb, meaning this part of the galaxy is damaged by the collision; but it is not so damaged as other parts.
 
Ultimately, as far as you are concerned, the broken limb is Satan, it is the source of all your turmoil, all your confusion, all the retardations of the human being.
 
Were it not for this broken limb, were it not for the collision of galaxies, you long ago would have walked to the center of this galaxy; that is what all God's children do.  That is, you would have walked there, not gone there in space ships.  All the Angels have done this.
 
I do not know if this larger story is of any interest to you, but if it is please let me know.  It is a delicate subject, and the fabric of it is easily ripped, and as such it is hardly worth telling to the hostile or the bored..   If there ever was one, this is a pearls before swine story.
 
Going back to the subject of murder, and the damnation of the murderer.  If a gang of men were to hold a woman down and rape her until she died, you can see all would be guilty of the murder, even those who only held her down but did not penetrate her.
 
It is the same with America's torture-murder of me.  Anyone who has ever participated the torture of me is co-murderer in the crime, whether they actually inflicted torture or only held me down.  It is best for them that I be free before this murder is complete, and failing that best they never enter the Land of the Dead again.