Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How, by the Holy Spirit, the apostles received mystical visions of the other world;

* How, by the Holy Spirit, the apostles perceived mysteries in the hearts of men.

Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How the Holy Spirit led the apostles through all sorrows and tribulations, filling their hearts with consolation and joy;

* How the Holy Spirit made those seeds of the Gospel that the apostles sowed throughout the world grow and flourish, even where they seemed to have been scattered in vain.

Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How the apostles, led by the Holy Spirit, traveled throughout the world without means and without friends;

* How they converted the rich and the poor to the Christian Faith by their words, lives and miracles alone.

Contemplate the action of the Holy Spirit on the apostles:

* How, from fishermen,, He makes fishers of men for the Kingdom of God;

* How, from shepherds of an irrational flock, He makes shepherds of the rational flock.

Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How He makes the simple wise;

* How He makes the inarticulate eloquent.

Contemplate the action of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How the small are made great by God the Holy Spirit;

* How the fearful are made fearless by Him.

Contemplate the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How all the men wondered and marveled, hearing the apostles speak in different tongues;

* How some mocked them, saying: They have had too much new wine (Acts 2:13).

Contemplate the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon the apostles:

* How there appeared fiery tongues over the apostles, one on each of them;

* How the apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to speak in various tongues, as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance.

Contemplate the descent of God the Holy Spirit upon the holy apostles:

* How the apostles stood in one mind at prayer;

* How, suddenly, there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind.

Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus:

* How He first resurrected bodily and then ascended bodily;

* How after death the souls of righteous men first ascend into heaven while the body awaits the general resurrection, general transfiguration and general ascension.

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Contemplate the ascended Lord Jesus:

* How, by His Ascension, He signified the triumphant completion of His entire work on earth in the course of some thirty-three years;

* How, by His Ascension, He teaches us that we should direct all of our aspirations toward heaven and not toward earth.

Contemplate the ascended Lord Jesus:

* How, by His Ascension, He manifested His Divine Nature and His Divine Might;

* How, by His Ascension into heaven, He reveals to man that there exists a better, loftier world and life: a heavenly world and heavenly life.

Contemplate the ascended Lord Jesus:

* How He began His saving work on earth as an ordinary humble worker;

* How He completed His saving work by His miraculous and glorious Ascension into heaven.

Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus:

* How the disciples worshiped Him;

* How they returned to Jerusalem with great joy.

Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus:

* How two angels appeared to the disciples while they were still gazing after the ascended Lord;

* How the angels proclaimed that the Lord would come again in the same manner as the disciples saw Him ascending into heaven.

Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus:

* How all the gravitational forces on earth were unable to keep the body of the Lord from ascending;

* How, by His Ascension, the Lord showed Himself to be above the laws of nature.

Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus:

* How the Lord, blessing His disciples, was raised above the earth and borne to heaven;

* How the disciples watched Him as He ascended until a cloud hid Him from their sight.

Contemplate the Ascension of the Lord Jesus:

* How He led His disciples to a hill near Bethany;

* How, with uplifted hands, He blessed the disciples.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He commanded that repentance and forgiveness of sins be preached in His name;

* How He commanded His disciples to await the Father’s promise of the power of the Holy Spirit from on high.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How His Resurrection is a great light, which dispels the darkness of our doubt, ignorance and despair concerning life after death;

* How His Resurrection is a great light that illuminates the path on which we must travel in this world in order to arrive at the other world.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How His Resurrection incites us and strengthens us for every good work, physical and spiritual;

* How His Resurrection enlightens our every good work with the light of hope in the Living God, Who counts our works, measures them and preserves them for the Day of Judgment.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How His Resurrection drives away from us all confusion, gloom and sadness;

* How His Resurrection instills serenity, courage and goodwill into the souls of men.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How His Resurrection is the beginning of a new and bright day in the history of mankind;

* How His Resurrection is my peace and my strength, and the resurrection of my soul while I am still in the body.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How by His Resurrection, He justified the faith and hope of mankind in immortality;

* How by His Resurrection, He destroyed the fear of death in the faithful.

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Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How when He appeared to the apostles, He appeared to all of us;

* How His Resurrection is the proof of eternal life and the announcement of eternal life to all of mankind.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He, as the Almighty Victor over death, does not seek revenge on His enemies who tortured and crucified Him, but, leaving them to themselves, He sustains His frightened friends;

* How even today, as in all times, in His innocence and meekness He does not hurry to seek revenge on the unfaithful, but hurries to the aid of the faithful.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He, in His glorified body, is close to His disciples; close to them who are seeking Him (Mary Magdalene in the Garden); close to those who are in fear (the disciples in a closed room); close to those who are hungry (those on the shore of the lake);

* How He is close, even now, to every one of us who seek Him, who is in fear, and who is hungry.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How His Resurrection brought unspeakable joy to those who loved Him;

* How His Resurrection brought unspeakable bitterness to those who hated Him;

* How His final coming into the world, in glory and power, will evoke different feelings among different people—either joy or bitterness.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How for forty days after the Resurrection He remained on earth, showing Himself to the faithful and strengthening them in the Faith;

* How, by His forty-day manifestation, He demonstrated that He did not resurrect for His own sake, but for the sake of mankind.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How, according to the testimony of St. Paul, He appeared alive to five hundred people at once: After that, He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep (1 Corinthians 15:6);

* How He appeared to the Apostle James, again, according to the testimony of the Apostle Paul: After that, He appeared to James, then to all the apostles (1 Corinthians 15:7);

* How in the time of the Apostle Paul, even outside the circle of the apostles, many still lived who had seen Him.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He was concerned about the physical nourishment of His disciples; how He broke and blessed bread for the disciples in Emmaus;

* How, by the shore of the lake, he asked His disciples: Have ye any meat? (John 21:5). How, when they answered Him that they had not, He prepared bread and fish and gave it to them.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He appeared to the disciples on the shore of the lake and addressed them: Children (John 21:5);

* How He filled their nets again with fish, and they knew Him, though none dared ask: Who art Thou? (John 21:12).

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How, because of Thomas, who was momentarily the only unbelieving one among the disciples, He appeared again in His glorified Body;

* How Thomas placed his finger into the wounds of the All-pure Body of the Lord and believed.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He entered among His disciples through closed doors and gave them peace;

* How there were no material obstacles to His appearing in His glorified body wherever He wanted.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How Simon Peter and the other disciple ran quickly to the tomb to confirm the news of the Resurrection;

* How one after the other entered the tomb and saw the linen cloths and the napkin;

* How they both saw and believed, and then witnessed; and how, for their witness, they died.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He appeared to two of His disciples on the road to Emmaus, and they did not recognize Him;

* How the hearts of these two disciples burned within them when He spoke to them, and how they recognized Him only when He blessed and broke bread for them;

* How the Lord suddenly disappeared before their eyes.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* How He appeared to Mary Magdalene in the Garden and, at first glance, Mary did not recognize Him;

* How He tenderheartedly addressed Mary, and how Mary then recognized Him and rejoiced in Him, and imparted her joy to the disciples.

Contemplate the resurrected Lord Jesus:

* In an earthly body before the Resurrection, in a body susceptible to hunger, pain and death;

* In a heavenly body after the Resurrection, in a body not susceptible to hunger, pain and death.

Contemplate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus:

* How the myrrh-bearing women, with myrrh and aloes, approach the tomb to anoint the One Who is the sweet-smelling savor of heaven and earth;

* How the angel announces the Resurrection of our Lord to them with the words: Why seek ye the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5).

Contemplate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus:

* How the stone on the tomb did not split, neither was the seal on it broken;

* How the All-powerful and meek Lord did not damage the tomb during His Resurrection, as the Virgin’s womb was not harmed in His birth.

Contemplate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus:

* How the earth quaked at His return to the body, as it had at His separation from the body;

* How the angels descended into the tomb to serve Him, as they had always served Him when He allowed them to do so.

Contemplate the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus:

* How His soul returned again from hades into His body;

* How He, through His divine power, by which He had resurrected other dead bodies, resurrected His own body.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in hades:

* How He descended into hades with great power, at which hades trembled;

* How the evil spirits, who were then lords of hades, fled before His Face;

* How the souls of the righteous ancestors and prophets overwhelmingly rejoiced at His coming.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in hades:

* How His plan for salvation is all-abundant, encompassing all generations and all ages from the beginning to the end;

* How He came to earth in the flesh, not only for the sake of those who lived on earth then and for the sake of those who would live, but also for those who had already lived;

* How He, while His lifeless body lay in the tomb, descended into hades with His soul and announced salvation and redemption to the fettered.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death:

* How there lay in the grave the lifeless body of Him Who, while living, gave life to the dead;

* How against Him, even in death, there raged the hatred of His enemies;

* How His disciples locked themselves in a house for fear of the Jews (John 20:19).

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death:

* How His body lay peacefully in a grave;

* How He descended in spirit to the souls in hades in order to redeem the souls of the forefathers.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death:

* How His body was taken down from the Cross by Joseph of Arimathea;

* How Joseph and Nicodemus wrapped the body of the Lord in a pure linen cloth, anointed Him with spices, and placed Him in a new tomb;

* How faithful and unafraid were these two distinguished men in the midst of Christ’s many enemies and amidst general fear and denials.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death:

* How darkness encompassed everything;

* How fear entered into everyone present beneath the Cross;

* How the frightened centurion on guard cried out: Truly this was the Son of God! (Matthew 27:54);

* How the prophecy of our Lord’s death was fulfilled.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death:

* How all of nature trembled when He gave up the spirit, as though to protest against this criminal act of the race of men;

* How the earth quaked, the sun was darkened, the rocks were split, the veil of the temple was rent, and the graves were opened.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in death:

* How He Who raised the dead hung on the Cross, a lifeless body;

* How He died for our sake, so that we would have more abundant life, and more abundant truth about immortal life.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross:

* How He used the last breath of life and saved a thief on the Cross;

* How He commended His soul into the hands of the Father: Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit (Luke 23:46).

Contemplate the All-holy Virgin Mary:

* How she served God for eleven years in the Temple in humility, obedience and devotion;

* How she served God in her chamber in Nazareth, in humility, obedience and devotion;

* How in humility, obedience and devotion she received the Divine Annunciation from the Archangel Gabriel.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross:

* Counting the drops of His All-holy Blood and counting my sins;

* Counting His painful sighs, and counting the mindless days of my laughter.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross:

* How His compassionate love for mankind did not diminish because of His sufferings;

* How, with love, He offered comfort to His mother, commending John to her as a son in place of Himself;

* How He prayed with love to the Father for mankind: Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do (Luke 23:24).

Contemplate the Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross:

* How infinite was His sorrow for mankind blinded by sin;

* How His thoughts on the Cross were directed more to His Heavenly Father than to Himself;

* How His concerns on the Cross were directed more to mankind than to Himself;

* How, even on the Cross, He was certain of His victory and Resurrection.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross:

* His head, sorely wounded by the thorny wreath;

* His eyes, closed from pain;

* His mouth, dry from thirst.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus crucified on the Cross:

* How blood flowed from His hands and dripped to the ground;

* How blood flowed from His feet and dripped to the ground;

* How blood flowed from beneath His ribs and dripped to the ground.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus on the Cross:

* How He suffered in agony on the Cross;

* How He was given vinegar and gall to drink when He said He was thirsty;

* How those men beneath the Cross, insensitive in their selfishness, did not care about Him but were vying for His garments.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus, mocked on the Cross:

* How they wrote this epithet above his head: King of the Jews (Matthew 27:37, Mark 15:26, Luke 23:38);

* How those passing by scorned Him, shaking their heads and reviling Him;

* How even the thief on the cross reviled Him;

* How through the centuries the persecutors of Christians have scorned Him.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus on Golgotha:

* How the soldiers removed His garments, and He remained silent and did not defend Himself;

* How they nailed Him to the wood with spikes, and He remained silent and did not defend Himself;

* How with uproar and tumult they raised the Cross from the ground and placed it upright, and the Lord remained silent.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus, how He carried the Cross to Golgotha:

* How He quietly and patiently carried His Cross;

* How they took the Cross from Him and gave it to Simon of Cyrene; how Simon carried the Cross, walking after Christ;

* How He looked upon the women of Jerusalem, who were weeping, and said to them: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children (Luke 23:28), declaring by this His victory and the defeat of His murderers.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus when Pilate brought Him out before the Jews:

* How the Lord was flogged by the Roman soldiers;

* How, after being scourged, He was mocked by them; they placed a thorny crown upon His head and dressed Him in a purple robe;

* How Pilate presented Him to the Jews, saying, Behold the man! (John 19:5).

Contemplate the Lord Jesus before Pilate:

* How the Lord was silent before Pilate;

* How Judas then threw the pieces of silver into the Temple and hanged himself;

* And again, how Pilate questioned and the Lord was silent.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus at the judgment before Herod:

* How Herod at first was very glad to see Jesus—not out of any spiritual need, but out of curiosity;

* How Herod had hoped to see a miracle from Jesus, but was mistaken in that, for the Lord remained silent to all of his questions;

* How Herod ridiculed the Lord and clothed Him in a beautiful garment.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus before Pilate:

* How the Jews accused Him before Pilate and how He did not say anything;

* How He did not reply, even to Pilate’s questions;

* How our Lord speaks when it is necessary to defend men from the devil, from sin, from disease and death, but is silent when He Who is the Defender of Men is asked to protect Himself from man.

Contemplate the Lord at judgment before Caiaphas:

* How the Jewish high priest detains our Lord in his home, surrounded by men almost as wretched as he himself;

* How Peter sits outside in the courtyard by the fire; and how, before the servants, he denies our Lord Jesus three times;

* How even today it happens that some Christians, out of fear of the world, deny the Lord in this manner: they also purport not to be Christians, not to be familiar with the commandments of the Lord, and not to be concerned about the Lord.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus at judgment before Caiaphas:

* How the Jewish elders searched everywhere for false witnesses;

* How their witnesses did not agree together;

* How our Lord listened to all the slanders and remained silent without anger.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in the hands of God’s enemies gathered together in the home of Caiaphas:

* How all of them hurriedly sought false witnesses, for they wanted by whatever means to kill Christ;

* How they spat in His face and struck Him on the face;

* How our Lord endured all with unspeakable dignity and without anger.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane:

* How He repeatedly commanded the disciples to watch and pray to God;

* How He rose three times from His sweat-inducing prayer, returned to the disciples and found that they were asleep;

* How they were all overcome by temptation because they forsook their Teacher and fled, for they were not prepared to overcome their fear of men;

* How we, too, become lazy and are not vigilant and do not pray to God, for when temptation comes we forsake the Lord Christ.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus at prayer in Gethsemane:

* How He falls on His face and prays three times, O My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me (Matthew 26:39), and again, Thy will be done (Matthew 26:42);

* How He sweated at prayer, And His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground (Luke 22:44);

* How all of this was because of you and me, because of my sins and your sins, and for the sake of my salvation and your salvation.

Contemplate the Mystery of Communion as a life-giving cure for the soul and body:

* As a cure that heals and cleanses the soul from sinful maladies, and restores it to life;

* As a cure that heals and purifies the body from lust and vice, and restores it to life;

* As a cure that enlivens a man and makes him a healthy member of the immortal Body of Christ. But if a man will remain a corrupt member to the end, eventually he will be cut off and cast aside.

Contemplate the Mystery of Communion as the Mystery of the Perfection of Love:

* Because, on the part of Christ, it means giving completely of Himself to His faithful;

* Because of this, Christ is received with faith and trust on the part of the faithful;

* Because of this, it leads to the joyful, fruitful and saving union of God with man.

Contemplate the Mystery of Communion as the presence of our Lord Jesus in the Church on earth:

* As the fulfillment of His promise: Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world (Matthew 28:20).

* As His constant support of the faithful, to whom He said: Without me, ye can do nothing (John 15:5).

Contemplate the Lord Jesus at the Mystical Supper:

* How He chose bread and wine, two ordinary elements of nourishment, and through them instituted His visible and invisible bond with the Church until the end;

* How the Mystical Supper has been preserved until today, and how it will be preserved until the end of time as the Mystery of Communion;

* How every day, and almost every hour, somewhere in the world, a priest consecrates the bread and wine and receives them as the Body and Blood of Christ. What a wonderful vision that is!

Contemplate the Lord Jesus Christ at the Mystical Supper:

* How he told His disciples that one of them would betray Him;

* How after all that He had done for Judas and after washing his feet and indicating that He knew his intention to betray, Judas remained obstinate in his desire to sell his Teacher and his own soul for silver;

* How our Lord was saddened at Judas’s destruction and downfall, as He is with the destruction and downfall of those who betray Him and His Church throughout all the ages till the end, all of which He foresees with His All-seeing Spirit.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus at the Mystical Supper:

* How He washed the feet of His disciples, and how by this act He especially taught them humility and love for one another;

* How Peter, one of the most faithful, was ashamed and forbade the Lord to wash his feet;

* How Judas, the unbeliever and traitor, was not ashamed and did not forbid the Lord to wash his feet;

* How, today also, the faithful receive countless blessings from God with embarrassment and shame, but the faithless receive the same without embarrassment or shame, and even murmur against God.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Bread of Life: I am that Bread of Life (John 6:48):

* As the Bread by which the soul is nourished and lives;

* As the Bread by which the mind is nourished and enlightened;

* As the Bread by which the heart is nourished and ennobled.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Vine: I am the true Vine (John 15:1):

* As the Vine from which sprouted numerous fruitful branches in the persons of the saints;

* As the Vine Who with His sap, that is, His blood, waters and feeds all the branches with Himself;

* As the Vine from Whom the Divine Church has branched out on earth and in the heavens;

* As the Vine from Whom I too should not separate the branch of my life.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in the boat with His disciples (Matthew 8:24).

* How a tempest arose while the Lord slept;

* How the frightened disciples woke Him and sought His help;

* How the Lord rebuked the disciples because of their little faith, and calmed the sea and the winds;

* How I need not be afraid of any tempest in life if I keep the Lord in my heart as at the rudder of a boat. (The body—the boat; the heart—the rudder).

Contemplate the Lord Jesus sitting in the boat, teaching the people on the shore (Mark 4:1).

* How a great multitude of people crowded around to hear Him, so that He had to enter the boat;

* How He taught them in parables about the sower, the seed and the ground, i.e., by those comparisons and examples which, day in and day out, have been repeated from the beginning of the world and will be repeated until the end;

* How He does not teach them with the aid of some rare and strange events, but with ordinary ones, which entered into time along with man and will exit time along with him.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a stumbling block:

* For sinful self-conceit, i.e., for the perverted mind of mankind, which thinks in a sensual and fleshy way and opposes the mind of Christ;

* For sinful self-love, i.e., for the perverted heart of man which does not accept in itself either the love of God or the love of man;

* For sinful self-will, i.e., for the perverted will of man, which opposes the will of God.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with the woman of Samaria (John, Chapter 4):

* How the woman’s mind was at first smothered completely by carnal sophistry;

* How the meek Lord gradually led her mind toward a loftier and more spiritual reasoning;

* How this encounter culminated in the conversion of many to Christ;

* How the seeds scattered by the Lord at first seem to decay in the physical mind, and how later they resurrect, grow, ripen and bring forth much spiritual fruit.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with Martha and Mary:

* How both sisters cordially received the Lord and desired to hear His word;

* How Mary was more concerned about spiritual things, and Martha about the material reception of the Divine Guest;

* How the Lord rejoiced more in feeding someone with spiritual nourishment than in being fed Himself with material nourishment.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with the rich young man (Luke 18:18-23):

* How the rich man sought counsel but was not prepared to sacrifice;

* How our Lord pointed out to him the way to sacrifice, which is necessary for the purchase of eternal life;

* How the rich man left sorrowfully, for he could not part with his riches.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in conversation with Nicodemus (John, Chapter 3):

* How Nicodemus, though a teacher in Israel, did not perfectly comprehend spiritual things;

* How our Lord intentionally began the conversation with the question of spiritual birth—a question most inaccessible to the mind of Nicodemus—so as by this to bring Nicodemus to meekness and then to further cultivate him as a good field;

* How in the beginning Nicodemus approached Christ with hesitation and shyness (as even today most of our scholars do), but afterward more boldly.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus in the midst of the common people:

* How with love He taught the people as a parent teaches his children;

* How the common people received His words, were astonished by His works, and glorified God;

* How even today, the common people, free from corruption, receive His words with joy and thanksgiving.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus among the Pharisees and scribes:

* How He made every effort to raise up the Pharisees and scribes and to save them, and how they made every effort to overthrow and kill Him;

* How He wished to correct their every thought and word, and how they wished to twist His every thought and word;

* How He was saddened that He could not bring them to life, and how they were saddened that they were unable to kill Him.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as an Artist above all artists:

* Who, from the body of man, which has become wild from the passions, creates a noble organ of every virtue;

* Who, from the chaos in the soul of man, creates the cosmos—a pure and shining mirror of the glory of God;

* Who, from ignoble men creates an undefiled kingdom, a country of the holy—an artistic work without precedence and without comparison.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus, praying on dark nights, alone in the mountains, for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men:

* How He lifted His hands up toward heaven; how He bent to the ground; how He knelt in prayer many nights; in prayer for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men;

* How He sweated at prayer and wept for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men;

* How He kept vigil in prayer, tormenting His body without sleep and rest, for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men.

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Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Traveler:

* How, in traveling he grew weary, perspired, hungered and thirsted—for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men;

* How even at night He labored for my salvation, for your salvation, and for the salvation of all men;

* How, on every journey, He contemplated, desired and cared about my salvation, your salvation, and the salvation of all men.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Father who weeps for His children in the wilderness, calling to them and gathering them together:

* The children of the nation of Israel (at one time);

* The children of all peoples on earth;

* The children of all times, from the creation to the end of the world.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Lamb of God:

* As a Lamb born in the dwelling place of lambs;

* As a Lamb persecuted by men of wolflike temper, such as Herod and others;

* As the Sacrificial Lamb, Who patiently endured pain and death;

* As the Victorious Lamb of God on the heavenly throne.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as an ascetic:

* How He fasted, not to subdue His All-pure Body, but in order to give us an example;

* How He fasted for my sake;

* How I need to fast for the sake of my salvation and for the sake of His love.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Good Merchant, Who came into this world as to a market to give and to take:

* To give His labor and to receive the numerous fruits of joy from that labor;

* To give Himself to be humiliated, spat upon, smitten, bruised, pierced and crucified, in order to usher the army of His faithful into His eternal glory;

* To give His Body, in order to redeem numerous souls from among the multitudes.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Beauty of the entire created world:

* As the Beauty of all created things, a Beauty dulled from fear and the melancholy of sin;

* As the Beauty of man, the most rational being in the material world, a Beauty dulled by fear and the melancholy of sin;

* As the Beauty of a pure, mental, bodiless world of the angels;

* As the Beauty of the Holy Trinity, revealed by Him and through Him.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Source of Joy:

* In the tribulations of life, which only He is able to replace with joy;

* In the bondage of passions, which only He can replace with the joy of freedom;

* In death, from which He alone can resurrect us.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Commander:

* As a Commander Who entered into battle against Satan;

* Who entered into battle against sin in men;

* Who took up the defense of good against evil in this world;

* Who defeated Satan, sin and death.

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Sower

* As a Sower whose seed grows slowly and surely

* As a Sower of the new teaching, new power, and new order

* As a Sower of the new spiritual food, by which mankind will be fed until the end of time

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as a Laborer

* As a physical Laborer through many long years

* As a spiritual Laborer, Who constantly taught man, comforted man, and healed man, giving the new covenant to the world

* As a tireless Laborer, Who left the commandment, Walk while ye have the light (John 12:35)

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the only true Enlightener

* As the Enlightener of every individual man

* As the Enlightener, consequently, of both society and all mankind

* As the Enlightener Who enlightens the mind, the heart, and the will of man with eternal light

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as Joy

* As Joy that refreshes the whole spirit of man

* As Joy that enlivens and strengthens in man as power toward good

* As Joy from His name, Joy from His words, Joy from His works, and Joy from His Spirit

Contemplate the Lord Jesus as the Cornerstone

* As the Cornerstone in building personal character

* As the Cornerstone in building the family and the nation

* As the Cornerstone of every good-intentioned social transformation and inspiration of mankind

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In Between Two Ages Brzenzki calls America a porous empire stimulating economies, introducing international banking, and building corporations as a tool of nation-building much more than utilizing military domination, and this is carving a path for a broader business relationship. He goes on to lay out how America’s development of technology has moved it into an international order, a world without borders, a land blurred by the public and private sectors, unable to distinguish between the two and making cross institutional cooperation easier. He then discusses keeping the peace through an international order with a common goal of science and technology driving the world’s focus into the future. 

John Perkins’ book Confessions of an Economic Hitman exposes how the CIA infiltrates multi-national corporations in order to pressure foreign governments to increase the profits influence and power of American based corporations. The coup in Iran was organized when the Iranians refused to cooperate with BP. Many of the directors of the CIA were either international bankers or corporate CEO’s – Allen Dulles and George H W Bush. The public private merger has been taking place for years and has become standard operating procedure for many US bureaucracies. 

Is it so absurd to believe that we’ve hit a point in history that other nations have come on board with the US in a potential global partnership? I offer you the UN as evidence this has been happening for a long time.  

I offer an anecdote as an example: When I first met my wife she told me that around 80% of the infrastructure in ZA was built by Chinese companies. At no time has America attempted to curb Chinese influence in ZA, on the other hand the US is gifting millions to ZA every year, and when my Brother-in-law started looking for an oil and gas company to go to work for it was only western countries offering oil and gas jobs – he ended up in New Zealand, not Asia. It’s as if behind the scenes there’s a deal that allows US to intervene in African and Middle Eastern countries in order to control oil and gas while China works on the infrastructures… as if what the citizens will tolerate goes into the decisions as to what each country may do to introduce other nations to the corporate hegemony (Americans worship the military and the Chinese are proud of their infrastructure growth) – Trump never attacked Apple or other tech companies depending on Chinese minerals and cheap labor; he attacked the steel and soy industries, Tik Tok, and wa-weh while being called xenophobic, but Hunter Biden and his uncle can openly be in bed with Chinese intelligence agents and corporations with no corporate media scandal to speak of. Mitch McConnell can be married to the CEO of a Chinese logistics company run by the CCP, and no one bats an eye.

These open public private partnerships are not unfamiliar to your audience; the creation of the Federal Reserve, lobbying, the AMA, the military industrial complex, and corporate welfare are often spoken of in liberty circles and all represent public private partnerships.

The WEF mission statement is global public private partnerships (for austerity purposes let me fill in the importance of WEF – Al Gore is on the board, Partners include Cisco, Citi, Bank of America, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Goldman Sachs, among others; a few contributors include Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Rand Corp, Brookings In, Chatham House, and there are a ton of others that you’ve heard of), and over the last year all they’ve been talking about is the Great Reset.

What is the Great Reset?

https://darkoutpost.com/conspiracies/very-detailed-explanation-of-the-great-reset-and-the-new-world-order/

As explained by journalist James Corbett in his October 16, 2020, Corbett Report above,1 the Great Reset is a new “social contract” that ties every person to it through an electronic ID linked to your bank account and health records, and a social credit ID that will end up dictating every facet of your life. 

https://mises.org/wire/what-great-reset-part-i-reduced-expectations-and-bio-techno-feudalism

Michael Rectenwold writes: Klaus Schwab writes that the covid-19 crisis should be regarded as an “opportunity [that can be] seized to make the kind of institutional changes and policy choices that will put economies on the path toward a fairer, greener future.” 

The Great Reset means reduced incomes (constantly repeated) and carbon use. But Schwab and the WEF also define the Great Reset in terms of the convergence of economic, monetary, technological, medical, genomic, environmental, military, and governance systems. The Great Reset would involve vast transformations in each of these domains, changes which, according to Schwab, will not only alter our world but also lead us to “question what it means to be human.” 

The Great Reset means the issuance of medical passports, soon to be digitized, as well as the transparency of medical records inclusive of medical history, genetic makeup, and disease states. 

On the genomic front, the Great Reset includes advances in genetic engineering and the fusion of genetics (mRNA vaccine), nanotechnology, and robotics. (Moderna top scientist Ted talk admits they’re reprogramming people with this new technology:  https://leohohmann.com/2021/03/09/modernas-top-scientist-we-are-actually-hacking-the-software-of-life/ )

In terms of governance, the Great Reset means increasingly centralized, coordinated, and expanded government and “governmentalities,” the convergence of corporations and states, and the digitalization of governmental functions, including, with the use of 5G and predictive algorithms, real-time tracking and surveillance of bodies in space or the “anticipatory governance” of human and systems behavior. 

https://mises.org/wire/great-reset-part-ii-corporate-socialism

The collectivist planners of the Great Reset... mean to drive ownership and control of the most important factors to those enrolled in “stakeholder capitalism.” The productive activities of said stakeholders would be guided by the directives of a coalition of governments under a unified mission and set of policies, in particular those expounded by the WEF itself. 

While these corporate stakeholders would not necessarily be monopolies per se, the goal of the WEF is to vest as much control over production and distribution in these corporate stakeholders as possible, with the goal of eliminating producers whose products or processes are deemed either unnecessary or inimical to the globalists’ desiderata for “a fairer, greener future.” Naturally, this would involve constraints on production and consumption and likewise an expanded role for governments in order to enforce such constraints—or, as Klaus Schwab has stated in the context of the covid crisis, “the return of big government”4—as if government hasn’t been big and growing bigger all the while. 

https://time.com/5742066/klaus-schwab-stakeholder-capitalism-davos/

“Stakeholder capitalism,” positions private corporations as trustees of society, and is clearly the best response to today’s social and environmental challenges. 

In https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/klaus-schwab-on-what-is-stakeholder-capitalism-history-relevance/ Stakeholder capitalism is further defined euphemistically-stakeholder capitalism: it is a form of capitalism in which companies do not only optimize short-term profits for shareholders, but seek long term value creation, by taking into account the needs of all their stakeholders, and society at large. 

(In every speech I’ve listened to they emphasize that companies will lose between 2-5% in the short term by impact investing and ESG guidelines, so this will necessarily devastate small businesses.) 

Back to Time article: 

The US Business Roundtable, America’s most influential business lobby group, announced this year that it would formally embrace stakeholder capitalism. And so-called impact investing is rising to prominence as more investors look for ways to link environmental and societal benefits to financial returns. 

But to uphold the principles of stakeholder capitalism, companies will need new metrics. For starters, a new measure of “shared value creation” should include “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) goals as a complement to standard financial metrics. Fortunately, an initiative to develop a new standard along these lines is already under way, with support from the “Big Four” accounting firms and led by the chairman of the International Business Council, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan. 

The second metric that needs to be adjusted is executive remuneration. In the new stakeholder paradigm, salaries should instead align with the new measure of long-term shared value creation. 

Finally, large companies should understand that they themselves are major stakeholders in our common future. ...all companies should still seek to harness their core competencies and maintain an entrepreneurial mindset. But they should also work with other stakeholders to improve the state of the world in which they are operating. 

They can bring the world closer to achieving shared goals as outlined in the Paris climate agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda. (Redistribution internationally to assist poorer countries increase standard of living and decrease carbon emissions) 

As noted in the book, “Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order”: “… Sustainable Development is Technocracy … The Sustainable Development movement has taken careful steps to conceal its true identity, strategy and purpose, but once the veil is lifted, you will never see it any other way. Once its strategy is unmasked, everything else will start to make sense.” 

Shaping 4th ind notes 

In Ch 3 he is arguing that tech must be centered around a global new ethic – When developing tech or starting a business your first motivation should be to “do no harm” so to speak – forget the old methods of earning a living, your first priority is to your fellow man. We must engage in a transformative value based leadership in order to rid our world of past oppressions (in chapter 4 he goes woke in some detail) Tech may no longer be used in a laissez-faire manner, consumers as well as developers must consider the values of tech (this comes across as admitting that if they fail to control the tech they will lose power and influence) – if anybody is left out or not benefitting than the tech should be abandoned. You should only use tech that acts in equitable fashions… aka, not btc. He’s setting the stage for the ESG score. He never comes out and says it like he does in the Time article, but the preachy tone makes it evident. Ethics and values must always be considered: socially responsible processes are priority - the only way to reach these goals is a revolution – The way to move the world is to move the money, and investors have the carrot to get entrepreneurs and citizens to adhere to these new values.

Pg 40 was the part that got me, a section called education curricula

Ch 4 – Pg 49 equitable to pg 50 – Then on page 51 he begins making an imperialist argument: we know what’s better for everyone is tone, and he seems to verbalize disdain for cultures that haven’t embraced tech: it’s technological colonialization (these shit hole countries and backwards people can’t be left to their own devices; we must impose our standards and way of life on them) *Freedom pg 51

How do they implement this?

Decentralized tyranny

Twitter mobs, BLM, Antifa, youtube banning creators, etc… it’s in effect

But, the investors have the carrot, so introduce ESG scores to investment firms, banks, and investors

Environment - Partnership for carbon accounting and finance (PCAF): 

https://carbonaccountingfinancials.com/about#about

Banks represent most of the available capital globally and since the Paris Climate Agreement the largest banks have still invested more than $3.8 trillion into the fossil fuel sector. This is equivalent to $2 billion for every day since the end of 2015, with no downward trend and no assessment of the carbon impact of that finance.

Mission - Facilitating financial industry alignment with the Paris Climate Agreement (using Greenhouse Gas’s accounting methodology) 

The following asset classes are currently covered by the methodology: listed equity & corporate bonds, business loans and unlisted equity, project finance, mortgages, commercial real estate and motor vehicle loans... the globalization of PCAF also focuses on investors (i.e. pension funds, asset owners and managers). We encourage investors to join the initiative and commit to assess and disclose their GHG emissions associated with their portfolio. 

By starting with a global group of willing financial institutions, capitalizing on their network and engaging with other influential actors (e.g. NGOs, UN, governments, regulators, etc.), the PCAF initiative aims to grow the number of commitments... 

Social - Willis Harman 1981 giving the pets meaning 

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/the-post-human-world/517206/

Yuval Harari 

“...you could argue that people already spend most of their lives in virtual games. Most religions are virtual games superimposed on the reality of life. Do this, and there’s a penalty. Do that, and you get extra points. There is nothing in reality that corresponds to these rules. But you have millions of people playing these virtual reality games. So what is the difference between a religion and a virtual reality game? 

Recently I went with my nephew to hunt Pokémon. We were walking down the street and a bunch of kids approached us. They were also hunting Pokemon. My nephew and these children got into a bit of a fight because they were trying to capture the same invisible creatures. It seemed strange to me. But these Pokémon were very real to the children. 

And then it hit me: This is just like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! You have two sides fighting over something that I cannot see. I look at the stones of buildings in Jerusalem and I just see stones. But Christians, Jews, and Muslims who look at the same stones see a holy city. It’s their imagination, but they are willing to kill for it. That’s virtual reality, too.”

Q, American Mythos, Woke, SJW, CRT & covid cult…

Rainbow flags and BLM Corporations lead the populace army in their search for meaning 

Soros funding [daily mail 30 million to Ferguson protestors, 220 million to racial justice organizations NYT; the head of BLM has 4 houses – someone paid her, and he’s funding AG’s] (Many people like to say that they’re still waiting for their Soros bucks… this says more about their gullibility than Soros… a whore gets paid to do what a slut does for free.) - Soros is a board member of the organizations funding movements - why are the wealthy so interested in giving the pets meaning: French Revolution… so they happily give the BLM and Antifa movements their meaning, critical race theory, 1619, their virtual reality…

And the Cathedral is fully on board with woke and crt… who is the cathedral – CIA in media and Academia

Governance – diversity of board, how much you pay, diversity of ownership, accounting, taxes…

several US banks have signed on https://carbonaccountingfinancials.com/financial-institutions-taking-action 

Bank of America, Citi, Amalgamated, Morgan Stanley... black rock 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blackrock-must-hit-esg-targets-or-pay-more-to-borrow-money-11617769833?redirect=amp#click=https://t.co/fdCLZOIqVw

Bank of America Merrill Lynch have added ESG scores to customer dashboards https://www.investmentnews.com/merrill-edge-adds-esg-scores-to-client-dashboard-73417

The SEC has also gotten on board... 

Acting Chair Allison Herren Lee spoke to Center for American Progress about enforcing and mandating ESG compliance 

https://www.sec.gov/news/speech/lee-climate-change

The most fundamental role that the SEC must play with respect to climate and ESG is helping to ensure material information gets into the markets in a timely manner. Investors are demanding more and better information on climate and ESG, and that demand is not being met by the current voluntary framework. Not all companies do or will disclose without a mandatory framework, raising the cost, or resulting in the misallocation, of capital. Investors also aren’t getting the benefits of comparability that would come with standardization. And there are real questions about reliability and level of assurance for the disclosures that do exist. Meanwhile issuers are assailed from all sides by competing and potentially conflicting demands for information. That’s why we have begun to take critical steps toward a comprehensive ESG disclosure framework aimed at producing the consistent, comparable, and reliable data that investors need. 

In 2010, under the leadership of Mary Schapiro, the Commission for the first time provided guidance to public companies regarding existing disclosure requirements as they apply to climate change matters. Part of what the staff will do now is review the extent to which public companies address the topics identified in the 2010 guidance and comply with current requirements. It’s also important that the staff engage with public companies on these issues and use the opportunity to evaluate the current state of climate disclosure. Much has changed in the last decade – in terms of market practices for gauging ESG-related risks, in terms of the science of climate change, and, unfortunately, in terms of the urgent nature of climate-related risks. And we need to assess how these risks are being analyzed and disclosed by companies now to inform an update to the 2010 guidance – and to inform our policymaking going forward. 

Of course we already have an extensive public record demonstrating investor desire for the SEC to ensure better disclosure in this space. 

But we must also make progress on standardized ESG disclosure more broadly... such as offering guidance on human capital disclosure to encourage the reporting of specific metrics like workforce diversity, and considering more specific guidance or rulemaking on board diversity. Another significant ESG issue that deserves attention is political spending disclosure. The SEC is currently prevented from finalizing a rule in this area, but political spending disclosure is inextricably linked to ESG issues. Consider for instance research showing that many companies that have made carbon neutral pledges, or otherwise state they support climate-friendly initiatives, have donated substantial sums to candidates with climate voting records inconsistent with such assertions. Consider also companies that made noteworthy pledges to alter their political spending practices in response to racial justice protests, and whether, without political spending disclosure requirements, investors can adequately test these claims, or would have held corporate managers accountable for those risks before they materialized. Political spending disclosure is key to any discussion of sustainability. 

In addition, two weeks ago, we announced the formation of the first-ever Climate and ESG Task Force within the Division of Enforcement.[27] The Task force will work to proactively detect climate and ESG-related misconduct, including identifying any material gaps or misstatements in issuers’ disclosure of climate risks under existing rules and analyzing disclosure and compliance issues relating to investment advisers’ and funds’ ESG strategies. 

Press release: 

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-42 

“This task force brings together a broad array of experience and expertise, which will allow us to better police the market, pursue misconduct, and protect investors.” 

In addition, the Climate and ESG Task Force will evaluate and pursue tips, referrals, and whistleblower complaints on ESG-related issues, and provide expertise and insight to teams working on ESG-related matters across the Division. 

It’s easy to see why these huge multi-national corporations are getting so woke. Their credit and well being depends on it. So I’m looking at this and I’m thinking who’s gonna suffer? 

We’ve seen people losing their jobs due to twitter mobs. They’ll jump all over this. It’s decentralized tyranny intended to move us into a post-individualist reality in which we are all acting as cells of a global organism. They’re using a type of economic sanction strategy to get you to comply.

It’s reminiscent of Obama’s Operation Chokepoint – DOJ pressuring banks to cut off loans to gun dealers and manufacturers. We saw banks drop Trump, patreon drop Sargon and Lauren Southern, an investment firm dropped Curt Schilling, Beck and Alex Jones have had issues with credit card processors (Stripe) - all of these were for governance or social justice, so expect Gun manufacturers, religious institutions, 401k’s, seed companies, credit unions, and small businesses to feel the impact extremely hard. And once your score begins to be uploaded to your banking center will they drop you for not getting vaccine or having the passport, will your social media be looked at, google search, investments like Bitcoin, purchases like guns or from companies with low scores? What if you smoke or drink? You’re immunocompromised and a “laggard” in society. Why would your bank want to continue doing business with someone with a low score? How about car insurance? Home owner’s insurance? Mortgages? Car loans? Medical services? Where does it stop? If you refuse to adhere to the regulations and continue living your life on your terms as if it’s pre-Trump, pre-covid, pre-Paris climate agreement, and pre-boomer capitol tour how will you function in society with these standards mandated by the SEC following all of us around? 

Now, I know we’re being told that these ESG scores are just there to help you decide which banks or investment firms are hedging against risk and fighting climate change and oppression, but if that’s the case why is the IMF discussing linking your google search history to your credit score? 

https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-fintech/

the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. 

So what you buy, where you buy it, whether you use a VPN, encrypted decentralized blockchain, brave, google or DuckDuckGo, your social media interactions (look no further than the social media platforms selling your information to the CIA), the news you read, the people you interact with, podcasts you listen to, websites you visit... the data that is available online is immense, and invaluable, and now we know why they’ve been making so much money selling your data. 

https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2020/English/wpiea2020161-print-pdf.ashx

In this paper, we develop a simple conceptual framework that distinguishes between two key dimensions of financial innovation, information (data collection and processing) and communication (relationships and distribution)2. We argue that both are key ingredients in the financial intermediation process, and allow banks to exert market power through informational and spatial capture. Both are affected by technological change. We identify the proliferation of hard information and the shift away from in-person interactions as long- standing developments. The existing literature offers useful insights that remain valid in an environment where those forces are accelerating. 

We contrast the continuation of past trends with more novel developments, such as the rise of machine learning and artificial intelligence enabled by an abundance of (non-financial) data, and the dominance of digital platforms and smartphones. We argue that technological progress may lead to the vertical and horizontal disintegration of the traditional bank business model. Novel communication channels enable specialized providers to side-step banks’ distribution networks and offer financial services that do not require access to a balance sheet, for example in the areas of payments and wealth management. Moreover, digital platforms can interject themselves between banks and their customers, introducing another layer of intermediation that captures most rents. In the extreme, this would relegate banks to upstream providers of maturity transformation services. 

In short they are attempting to combat the decentralized moneys and platforms that allow for peer to peer financial transactions outside the scope of central banking institutions; think cryptocurrency. 

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Rather than searching for the most brilliant minds to draft arguments convincing the masses that liberty is to their benefit individuals must begin to act in pursuit of their own liberty; setting an example and living a life of self-sufficiency and self-worth.

Disclaimer: This episode was recorded a week ago, so all coronavirus related discussion is outdated. 

Eric Ciaramella began planning to blow the whistle in 2017, and Trump believes the deep state when it's in his interest.

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At the 16 minute mark there's some static that lasts the rest of the podcast due to a call that rings in. I hope that doesn't ruin the fun.

Government operates as if it owns you and your existence is for its advancement. Tommy disputes this claim by decrying self ownership and natural rights. If liberty were the original state of nature any construct claiming dominion is illegitimate and criminal.

In Episode 54 Tommy looks at faith in the state and other ideologies. Blind subservience to any ideology is dangerous, and given the wedge within the nation I think the canyon between the belief systems is a strong indication that it's time the different factions divorce before there's serious violence on the strets.

In conversations I've had with people from the left I've discovered that the main difference in our approach to the government abusing people is that they want justice while I want liberty.