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LIVONIA — The Michigan Boating Industries Association is warning boat owners to watch the fuel they put in their tanks. The EPA has approved the use of E15 gasoline, even though it has only been approved for cars and light truck model years 2001 and newer. However, gasoline with ethanol blends over 10 percent can cause serious damage to your boat fuel tank and engine. Consumers are warned to check what type of gas they're buying before pumping. A small sticker with Ethanol levels should be found at the pump but some stations have not complied with this requirement.
'MBIA is not only trying to fight the rise of ethanol in gasoline at a national level, but we want to warn local boaters about the dangers of E15 in an effort to prevent the hazardous risks of using E15 in marine engines,' said MBIA Executive Director Nicki Polan. Other power sports engines, lawn equipment and farm equipment are also at risk.
While most marinas will carry only 10 percent ethanol blends, ninety-five percent of all recreational boats are fueled at traditional gas stations according to the National Marine Manufacturers Association. The MBIA warns consumers that misfueling with E15 that causes engine damage will invalidate warranties on boats and automobiles. Tests conducted by major marine engine manufacturers have found E15 gasoline causes major problems, including damage to valves, push rods and bearings; performance issues, such as drivability; increased water absorption in the tank; fuel tank corrosion; increased emission of smog-forming pollutants; and potential safety issues for boaters who operate in harsh marine environments; according to the MBIA.
According to the NMMA, there are currently 400 million engines of all types not designed to run on more than 10 percent ethanol in the United States.
The Michigan Boating Industries Association is a non-profit trade association representing Michigan's $3.9 billion marine industry. MBIA is dedicated to the advancement, promotion and protection of recreational boating in Michigan. For more information about the MBIA call 734.261.0123 or visit www.mbia.org.


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Hey, family! We just wanted to thank you for all of your support of our giving campaign. With your generous donations we will be able to have a fabulous, energizing retreat that will enable us to continue to do the work we love and to dream up new and innovative ways to get crunk! Your contributions have made the following possible:
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And more! Special shouts out go to the Media Equity Collaborative who recently awarded the CFC with a grant. We so appreciate the work that you do and your support of our work.
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I don't want to write about the circumstances of his suicide – it's too raw. I do want to write about who he was. I suspect that the media will turn this into a story of Aaron as persecuted hacker, which gets at only one part of him. He was one of the kindest, sweetest, and most generous people I ever knew. He made a lot of money at a very young age, which would have ruined most people (including me). It didn't ruin Aaron. He used it to live an itinerant life, jumping from project to project, all intended to work towards creating a better world. His enthusiasm was boundless, as was his generosity. When my blog had big server problems a few years ago, he immediately jumped in to offer to host us (we ended up finding hosting elsewhere). He saw that Rick Perlstein didn't have a website, back before Rick Perlstein was Rick Perlstein, and he built one for him. He gathered together everything he could of the old Lingua Franca, preserving it and making it available. A skilled techie, he helped put together the revived Baffler, a journal noted for its discontent with things technological. Aaron's life was a struggle against the forces of entropy, decay and political corruption. He never saw a good cause, but he wanted to adopt it, and do everything he could for it (if a criticism could be made of him, it was that he moved on too quickly from project to project). I knew he had been in a dark place the last few months, because of what was happening to him, but I didn't know how dark. I've lost a dear friend, but American politics and intellectual life has lost someone who did many good things for many people, often quietly, but always to good effect. Other CTers may have other memories of him; those are mine.
Update: Aaron's family and current partner. Quinn Also, Cory Doctorow, Larry Lessig, Mark Bernstein, James Fallows, Brewster Kahle , Carl Malamud, The Baffler. By request, Aaron's guest-posts here at CT. Scott McLemee's story on Aaron from a few years back is here.
Update 2: What Larry Lessig Says.
For remember, we live in a world where the architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House — and where even those brought to "justice" never even have to admit any wrongdoing, let alone be labeled "felons." In that world, the question this government needs to answer is why it was so necessary that Aaron Swartz be labeled a "felon." For in the 18 months of negotiations, that was what he was not willing to accept, and so that was the reason he was facing a million dollar trial in April — his wealth bled dry, yet unable to appeal openly to us for the financial help he needed to fund his defense, at least without risking the ire of a district court judge. And so as wrong and misguided and fucking sad as this is, I get how the prospect of this fight, defenseless, made it make sense to this brilliant but troubled boy to end it.
The last time I saw Aaron, we didn't talk about the JSTOR incident itself, for all the obvious reasons. We did talk about the Kafkaesque nightmare he had landed in, where literally anything he said could be taken grossly out of context and used against him by a prosecutorial apparatus apparently more driven by vindictiveness, stupidity and politics than by any particular interest in justice or the public interest. He told me how, when the police finally came around to search his apartment, some weeks after the charges had been laid, he jokingly asked them what had taken them so long. Of course, he then found these words being twisted by the prosecutors to suggest that he had effectively admitted he was guilty.
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You'd think the head of a gigantic company that makes money from technology and TV would know what AirPlay is, right? Or how an Apple TV works? One or the other? No? Enjoy today's edition of Oblivious Rich White Guy.
Glenn A. Britt, quasi-monopolist and "enthusiastic Apple customer" confessed his frustration with cable TV to the NYT:
"Today we want to be on every screen. Today it's a little bit clunky to get programming from the Internet onto the TV - not so hard to get it on your iPad. What's hard is the plumbing, what wires do you connect, what device do you use."
Glenn! It's not so hard. AirPlay makes it super easy to take video (or music!) and pump it to your TV. Why don't you guys start sticking that in all of your cable boxes? That'd be pretty awesome, right?
"I'm not sure I know what AirPlay is," Britt stated.
OK. What about an initiative to make it really easy to send Time Warner on demand movies and shows from, say, an iPad to an Apple TV? You already said it's easy to get on an iPad, right?
"The current Apple TV, the little thing, the hockey puck, really doesn't do anything to help enable you to get Internet material on your TV."
Glenn. Ugh. That is the opposite of the way things are. If you're ever frustrated with the way cable TV functions in the world, and wonder why we can't have the simplest nice things that seem so obvious and would be so convenient, it's because fellers like Glenn Britt run companies like Time Warner Cable. [NYT]
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The Mommy Jane Terp Pen XL ReviewI love the colour of Mommy Jane's Terp Pen XL! Will you be manufacturing that colour again, or other colours? I love my teal Terp Pen and I would love to buy the XL as well in a different colour.
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6 Fun Activities To Do While at HomeCan you use the Terp Pen with shatter? Works great with wax.
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The Laurel & Hardy Forum has posted a podcast of their interview with our good friend Randy S. - historian, renegade radio personality and
blatant fez wearer.
Randy talks TOYLANDS' marching toy solder, the difference between L.A. French and Lloyd French, press sheets and a myriad of more info which should be in his revised edition of his book on "The Films of Jimmy Cagney". Which is odd since I would think he would instead use that info for his "Magic Behind the Movies" book. Neither of which I have found time to read......
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As some of you may have noticed, Disney didn't just buy LucasFilm; it promised to make yet more Star Wars films. (Not that there have been any SW films since Return of the Jedi, of course.) Allow me to modestly propose that Disney has overlooked a back catalog of intellectual properties that could be easily adapted into animated films.
1. THE FILM: Bleak House.
THE PRINCESS: Esther Summerson.
HER PRINCE: Woodcourt.
MERCHANDISING OPPORTUNITY: "Little Jo" dolls, accessorized with a broom that has interchangeable bristles ("clean" bristles, "dirty" bristles).
DISNEYLAND ATTRACTION: The Skimpole Maypole (overlay of Dumbo the Flying Elephant).
THE SCENARIO: After years of being mistreated by her Evil Guardian, young Esther is befriended by an affectionate talking bear named Jarndyce (song: "The Second Key on the Right"), who brings her to a mysterious castle known as Bleak House. Bleak House, we soon learn, has long been under the spell of a Scary Witch named Chancery Court (song: "Grim Grinning Guineas"). Esther's warm and loving ways soon bring a new light to the castle--so much so that even the spiders decide to help her clean it (song: "Webbing While You Work"). Meanwhile, Jarndyce, in the guise of a performing bear, entices the young nobleman Woodcourt to the castle. They all live happily ever after, except for...
DISNEY VILLAIN DEATH: ...Chancery Court, who falls backwards off the balcony after she is frightened by one of Esther's much-loved spiders.
2. THE FILM: Wuthering Heights.
THE PRINCESS: Catherine Earnshaw (you know, the first one).
HER PRINCE: Heathcliff.
MERCHANDISING OPPORTUNITY: Stuffed bulldogs named Mo, accessorized with multiple collars (a spiked collar, a velvet bowtie, and so on).
DISNEYLAND ATTRACTION: Wuthering Heights dark ride, featuring cute creatures on the moors. Lots of moors. Pretty much all moors (replaces the Alice in Wonderland dark ride).
THE SCENARIO: After years of being mistreated by an Evil Orphanage Owner, young Heathcliff runs away and finds himself lost on the moors (song: "Step in Grime"). There, he is discovered by the mysterious young Catherine, who lives in a tumbledown farmhouse, Wuthering Heights, with only her pet mouse Nelly Dean for company (song: "Some Day She'll Drop a Crumb"). Heathcliff immediately falls in love with Catherine; however, he soon discovers that she is under a spell cast by the Scary Wizard Edgar Linton, who decided he wanted Catherine for himself after she was bitten by his pet bulldog Mo. Now, Catherine can only think of Linton's money (song: "I've Got No Rings"). Luckily, Nelly Dean manages to befriend Mo, and they help Heathcliff find the anecdote to the spell. They all live happily ever after, except for...
DISNEY VILLAIN DEATH: ...Edgar Linton, who falls backwards into a midden after being attacked by Nelly Dean.
3. THE FILM: Dracula.
THE PRINCESS: Mina Harker.
HER PRINCE: Dracula (come on, it's trendy now, right?).
MERCHANDISING OPPORTUNITY: A line of "Sweet Blood Red" makeup products for little girls, all conveniently available at the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.
DISNEYLAND ATTRACTION: Seasonal Halloween overlay of the Haunted Mansion.
THE SCENARIO: After years of being mistreated by an Evil Chiropterist, young Dracula escapes to England, where he has a series of comical misadventures involving his dietary habits (song: "Let It Flow, Let It Flow, Let It Flow"). Dracula finally resolves to leave his vampiric ways and become a vegetarian instead (song: "It's Not Easy Eating Green"). However, he soon attracts the attention of a Scary Lawyer, Jonathan Harker, whose beautiful wife, Mina, is under a terrible spell: she cannot eat anything except paprikash prepared by Jonathan's pet dormouse, Hubert G. Thremnodikins III. Dracula immediately falls in love with Mina, and realizing that Jonathan was the one who cast the spell, he seeks to liberate her with the help of a friendly talking elephant, Van Hulking ("Hi Diddle Dee Dee, Who's Got a Stake for Me"). Together, Dracula and Van Hulking persuade HGT III to put garlic into the paprikash, which breaks the spell. They all live happily ever after, except for...
DISNEY VILLAIN DEATH: Jonathan Harker, who falls backwards into the Thames after Van Hulking threatens to sit on him.
4. THE FILM: Jude the Obscure.
THE PRINCESS: Sue Bridehead.
HER PRINCE: Jude Fawley.
MERCHANDISING OPPORTUNITY: Little Father Time wristwatches.
DISNEYLAND ATTRACTION: Stones of Venice Tower of Terror (renamed version of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror).
THE SCENARIO: After years of being mistreated by an Evil Renovator, Jude Fawley runs away to build circus tents. However, he soon becomes fascinated by a beautiful young woman, Sue Bridehead, who is absolutely not his cousin. Sue makes magical paintings that predict the future (song: "Who's Been Painting My Future Sched?"), and one day sees a Scary Architect (known only as Camden Society) trap Jude in a ruined building. Fearing for Jude's safety, Sue and her best friend, a cuddly owl named Little Father Time, seek out the Scary Architect (song: "The Flying Buttresses Song"). Together, they manage to avert Camden Society's plot and bring Jude home, making Sue Bridehead a feminist action princessTM. They all live happily ever after, except for...
DISNEY VILLAIN DEATH: ...Camden Society, who falls backwards off a gargoyle after being spooked by Little Father Time.
5. THE FILM: Dubliners.
MERCHANDISING OPPORTUNITY: "The Dead" snowglobes, featuring Mickey Mouse (as Gabriel Conroy) and Minnie Mouse (as Gretta Conroy) in cheerful Christmas costumes.
DISNEYLAND ATTRACTION: New costumes for the relevant meet-and-greet cartoon characters.
THE SCENARIO: Billed as "Fantasia for the twenty-first century," Dubliners combines classic hand-drawn Disney animation, the 3D experience, and atmospheric music by Elton John. Beloved Disney characters like Goofy, Donald Duck, the Mad Hatter, and, of course, Mickey and Minnie romp through musical settings of James Joyce's short stories. Notable episodes include "Eveline" (Ariel the mermaid finds a prince, escapes the sea, and lives happily ever after), "The Boarding House" (Daisy Duck's mother introduces her to a fine young goose, and they live happily ever after), "A Painful Case" (Scrooge McDuck meets a lonely Cinderella, discovers the meaning of friendship, and lives happily ever after), and, of course, "The Dead" (Mickey and Minnie Mouse go to a party, sing Christmas carols in the snow, and live happily ever after).
DISNEY VILLAIN DEATH: None. There is nothing downbeat whatsoever about this film.


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Inspired by Tree Tops from designer Jocelyn Ueng of It's Sew Emma
Quilt tester: Jan Ragaller
- 2--18×21" pieces (fat quarter) assorted white prints (blocks)
- 3--18×21" pieces (fat quarter) assorted light blue prints (blocks)
- 3⁄4 yard navy blue stripe (blocks, border, binding)
- 3⁄8 yard gray print (blocks)
- 2--18×21" pieces (fat quarter) assorted blue prints (blocks)
- 3--9×21" pieces (fat eighth) assorted dark blue prints (blocks)
- 1-1⁄2 yards backing fabric
- 30×52" batting
Finished quilt: 21-1⁄2×43-1⁄2"
Finished blocks: 12×20", 6×20"
Yardages and cutting instructions are based on 42" of usable fabric width.
Measurements include 1⁄4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated.
Cut Fabrics
Cut pieces in the following order.
From each white print, cut:
- 6--6-1⁄2" squares
- 2--2-1⁄2×5-1⁄2" rectangles
From each light blue print, cut:
- 2--6-1⁄2×12-1⁄2" rectangles
From navy blue stripe, cut:
- 4--2-1⁄2×42" binding strips
- 5--2×42" strips for border
- 2--2-1⁄2" squares
- 4--1-1⁄2" squares
From gray print, cut:
- 24--3-1⁄2" squares
- 8--1-1⁄2×3" rectangles
From each blue print, cut:
- 3--3-1⁄2×6-1⁄2" rectangles
From each dark blue print, cut:
- 2--3-1⁄2×6-1⁄2" rectangles
Assemble Large Tree Blocks
1. Use a pencil to draw a diagonal line on wrong side of each white print 6-1⁄2" square. (To prevent fabric from stretching as you draw the lines, place 220-grit sandpaper under each square.)
2. Align a marked white print square with one end of an assorted light blue print 6-1⁄2×12-1⁄2" rectangle (Diagram 1; note direction of drawn line). Sew on marked line; trim seam allowances to 1⁄4". Press open attached triangle.
3. Align a matching marked white print square with opposite end of Step 2 rectangle (Diagram 1; again note direction of marked line). Stitch, trim, and press as before to make a large Flying Geese unit (Diagram 2). The unit should be 12-1⁄2×6-1⁄2" including seam allowances.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to make six large Flying Geese units total.
5. Referring to Diagram 3, sew together two matching white print 2-1⁄2×5-1⁄2" rectangles and one navy blue stripe 21⁄2" square to make a large trunk unit. Press seams toward dark blue stripe square. The large trunk unit should be 12-1⁄2×2-1⁄2" including seam allowances. Repeat to make a second large trunk unit.
6. Referring to Diagram 4, sew together three large Flying Geese units and a large trunk unit with matching backgrounds to make a large tree block. Press seams toward top of block. The block should be 12-1⁄2×20-1⁄2" including seam allowances. Repeat with remaining Flying Geese units and large trunk unit to make a second large tree block.
Assemble Small Tree Blocks
1. Use a pencil to draw a diagonal line on wrong side of each gray print 3-1⁄2" square.
2. Referring to Assemble Large Tree Blocks, steps 2 and 3, use 12 marked gray print squares and blue print 3-1⁄2×6-1⁄2" rectangles to make six small blue Flying Geese units. Each unit should be 6-1⁄2×3-1⁄2" including seam allowances.
3. Repeat Step 2 using remaining marked gray print squares and the dark blue print 3-1⁄2×6-1⁄2" rectangles to make six small dark blue Flying Geese units.
4. Referring to Assemble Large Tree Blocks, Step 5, use gray print 1-1⁄2×3" rectangles and navy blue stripe 1-1⁄2" squares to make four small trunk units. Each unit should be 6-1⁄2×1-1⁄2" including seam allowances.
5. Referring to Diagram 5, sew together three small blue Flying Geese units, three small dark blue Flying Geese units, and two small trunk units to make a small tree block. Press seams toward top of block. The block should be 6-1⁄2×20-1⁄2" including seam allowances. Repeat to make a second small tree block.
Assemble Quilt Center
1. Referring to Quilt Assembly Diagram, lay out large tree blocks and small tree blocks in pairs.
2. Sew together block pairs. Press seams toward large tree blocks. Join pairs to make quilt center. Press seams toward top of quilt center. The quilt center should be 18-1⁄2×40-1⁄2" including seam allowances.
Add Border
To make mitered corners in the border as shown in the featured wall hanging, complete the following steps.
1. Cut and piece navy blue stripe 2×42" strips to make:
- 2--2×54" border strips
- 2--2×32" border strips
2. Aligning midpoints, sew short border strips to short edges of quilt center, beginning and ending seams 1⁄4" from corners (Diagram 6). In the same manner, sew long border strips to remaining edges.
3. Referring to Diagram 7, lap one border strip over the other. Using the edge of an acrylic ruler, mark a diagonal line from border seam corner to intersection of strip raw edges. Then place bottom border strip on top and repeat marking process.
4. With right sides together, match marked seam lines and pin together (Diagram 8). Beginning with a backstitch at inside corner, sew strips together, stitching exactly on marked lines. Check right side to see that corner lies flat. Trim excess fabric, leaving a 1⁄4" seam allowance. Press seam open (Diagram 9).
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 with remaining border corners to complete quilt top.
Finish Quilt
1. Layer quilt top, batting, and backing; baste. Quilt as desired.
2. Bind with navy blue stripe binding strips.


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Real Housewives' Porsha Stewart Thought Underground Railroad Was a Real Train
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Stewart had an unfortunate case of foot-in-mouth syndrome recently. During a visit to Savannah's Freedom Trail with her RHOA co-stars that aired on the show Sunday, Stewart displayed a bit of unfortunate ignorance about the Underground Railroad.
The ladies' tour guide brought them to a Baptist church and pointed out ventilation holes in the floor that were used by people crawling underground to escape slavery. "There has to be an opening for the railroad," a dumbfounded Stewart, 31, said.
Phaedra Parks pointed out to Stewart that the Underground Railroad was a "euphemism" and "not an actual train."
The episode has sparked speculation that Stewart may be dropped from the show before it returns. A Bravo rep told TVGuide.com Monday that the network could not comment on casting for the new season yet.
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Scrabble?! SUPINEIs supine valid for Scrabble? Words With Friends? Lexulous? WordFeud? Other games?
Definitions of SUPINE in various dictionaries:
adj - lying face upward
adj - offering no resistance
Lying on the back or having the face upward.
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April 7th, 2012
Taking a rare tour of a Mormon temple
By Eric Marrapodi and Brian Todd, CNN
Kansas City, Missouri (CNN) - Elder William Walker slipped white booties over his black wing-tip shoes and instructed his guests to do the same as he led them into the newest Mormon temple in the world.
This day was the first chance the public had to see inside the sacred space for the area's 49,000 Mormons, and it was also one of the last.
On May 6, when Thomas S. Monson, the head of the 14 million member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, dedicates this temple, the doors will close forever to the public. The church said it expects as many as 100,000 visitors in Kansas City before the temple will be closed to the public.
After that, only temple-recommended Mormons will be able to walk through the heavy wooden and stained-glass doors.
"This is a sacred space, set apart place for only those who are devout followers of the faith," Walker said.
For Mormons, temples serve as places of contemplation, instruction and worship experiences, like weddings and posthumous baptisms.
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The 67-year-old Walker is the executive director of the Temple Department, and he is the point man for the church's 137 temples.
Walker is a top official in the LDS church as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and he reports directly to Monson. The Canadian-born hockey fanatic has been a lifelong member of the church. He graduated from Brigham Young University, served a Mormon mission to Japan and spent time in the private sector working in securities and investment banking before being called to serve the church full-time in 2002.
Kansas City's temple is the latest to open. The church has announced it will build 29 temples across five continents. Construction is under way in Paris and Rome, and temples are planned for Peru and South Africa.
"We're building temples where the church is grown and have a concentration of members," he said.
Inside the temple the required first stop is the Recommend Desk. After the dedication, only Mormons who have a recommend card are able to enter and participate in worship. The personalized cards are given by local church leaders to adherents who profess to be living in accordance with church teachings.
As he explained the process, Walker reached into his wallet, pushed his Utah driver's license aside and pulled out his recommend card, which was endorsed by Monson, his bishop. Walker said his credit-card-sized recommend card, like all others, is only good for two years.
CNN was invited by church officials to tour the temple with Walker before its dedication. The church denied CNN's request to film inside the space, saying it was against church policy. The LDS church provided still images after the tour, which accurately depicted key parts of the temple. In a rare move, CNN was permitted to film inside the front of the temple at the Recommend Desk, but no farther.
"It's not about secret. It's about sacred," Walker said after the tour, making what the church sees as a key distinction. "We feel that it's a very sacred and special place and therefore it is reserved for those worship functions and those ordinances that take place in the temple. It's not about secret."
Walker said the policy is not unlike that for Shinto shrines in Japan, where he served his mission.
But it's a thin line between sacred and secret. Public tours of the temple are only available when they are first built or undergo massive renovations. After that, outsiders and Mormons who are not temple recommended are kept out, even from wedding ceremonies.
In the sealing room, where eternal weddings take place, Walker points out the altar at the center of the room. The bride and groom kneel facing each other and the officiant stands off to the side. The room is richly decorated with Swarovski crystal chandeliers and massive gilded mirrors on either side of the room, and Walker raves about the design on the white carpet, carefully explaining how local artisans cut the meticulous pattern by hand.
Despite the grand size of the building, each room is small: This is the biggest of the three sealing rooms, and its capacity is just 49 people.
Guests are welcome at Sunday worship at one of the church's 18,000 meeting houses, Walker is quick to note. The temple, he observes, "is a sacred, special place that's unique. There are only 137 of these temples in all the world."
The temple also contains a gleaming baptismal font. Though it's a point of pride for Mormons, it has been controversial elsewhere. A church ceremony called "proxy baptisms" by Mormons includes posthumous baptisms of Jews, some of whom have protested the practice.
However, in Mormon doctrine, baptism is essential for salvation. While converts to the faith are baptized in services at local wards, the weekly meeting place for services open to the public, proxy baptisms take place only in the temple and in private.
The proxy baptisms are supposed to be for Mormons' ancestors who were not of the faith. Walker said the baptism serves as an invitation to accept Mormonism as an avenue into heaven.
Explainer: How and why do Mormons baptize the dead?
At the temple, Walker took his visitors through the process as it is supposed to work.
The font rests on 12 oxen, which he said represent the tribes of Israel.
Adherents change into white gowns he jokingly referred to as "jumpsuits," provided by the temple. A male priest leads the proxy into the waist-high water, gives the blessing and the name of the ancestor, then the proxy is lowered into the water, fully immersed, then brought up to the surface. The desk next to the font has a small monitor and a light. That person's job is to record the act for the church's central database.
When the temple begins operation, Walker said, this is a scene that will play out "hundreds of times a day."
But some Mormons have used the church's extensive genealogy database to baptize others who are not Mormon ancestors, such as the murdered Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl and holocaust victims like Anne Frank. It's a practice that has outraged Jewish leaders.
"When people violate the church policy of doing baptisms for those who our leaders have said we're not going to do that, they're acting on their own in contradiction of church policy," he said. "We're unhappy about that. We love our Jewish friends. We don't want to offend them or anyone else by our religious practices."
"We're sorry. We live by our word and when we say we're going to do something, we're going to try and do it," Walker said.
He promised disciplinary action.
"We're now tracking those who've done this contrary to church policy and we're going to shut down their access to the church's database, Family Search, so they can't do this."
He acknowledges interest in proxy baptisms, and other Mormon practices, has spiked thanks to Mormon Mitt Romney's run for president.
While the church takes no position on party politics nor allows its officials to endorse candidates, Walker can see some good coming out of Romney's run for the White House.
"I think it's perfectly understandable people who are considering him would want to know more about the church he espouses," he said. "In many ways it may be a good thing that people will want to know more. Maybe some of the old ideas about the church that have persisted in American culture can change."
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1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Behold, I Paul, say to you, that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
3 For I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised [after believing in Christ], that he has become obligated to comply with the whole law.
4 Whoever of you tries to be justified by the law has fallen from grace, and Christ has become of no benefit to you.
5 For we, through the Spirit, by faith, patiently wait for the hope of righteousness.1 [Faith comes with the receipt of the fruit of the Spirit. Gal 5:22-23. Only when you have produced fruit, walking in love, fulfilling the law, then you are imputed righteous; and then no law applies to you. Gal 5:23. Later, when you have been born again to become a new creature that is in union with Christ and the Father, then you possess the righteousness of God; then is the end of imputation and belief. See Footnote 3 of 1 John 3 for the definition of righteousness.]
6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision, nor uncircumcision empowers a thing, but faith owing to love operates with power. [What faith owing to love?—faith is to hear the word of God spoken to you and to then obey because you love God; to obey God is to love God. When you obey what God orders you to do, you get power from Him to do it. Loving works of obedience to God's commands is faith operating with power from God; so Paul agrees with James, who wrote, "faith without works is dead," James 2:20-24. John wrote, "he who practices truth comes to the light, so that his deeds may be shown to have been produced [formed and powered] through God," John 3:21; such works are the only works that survive passing through the fire, which every man must go through. The first works of love for God are: a) to wait in humble silence as you listen and watch for His commands, and b) then to obey His spoken commands that you hear to repent from the sins He reveals in your heart. From the Word of the Lord within: "What is the evidence of your belief? — operational faith. Faith is to hear the Word of God and obey. If you love me, you will obey me. He who does not love me does not obey my commands."]
7 You were running well; who hindered you that you should not obey the truth?
8 This persuasion does not come from him [God] who called you.
9 A little leaven [fleshly rituals] leavens [spreads through] the whole lump. [If you only sit in humble silence and wait on God's commands, to then obey them, there is no occasion for pride; but if you decide to perform some work, believing it will please God, that gives rise to pride. The pride turns into self-righteousness, believing you are religious and pleasing to God. Dead works, (those not commanded by God), leave you without the heart and soul purifying grace of God, leaving you in your sinful nature, walking in the flesh. Those claiming to be religious while still sinning are hypocrites — the yeast of the Pharisees. From the word of the Lord within: "The hypocrite may talk of faith and do evil. Remember, every person who sins denies Him as Lord and Master. If you are still sinning, you belong to sin and not to Me. Truly these people call on me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Christianity has no idea what I am or for what I stand. The enemy is in all of Christendom." God must be worshiped in Spirit and Truth, and Christianity's worship is just heathenish rituals, (communion/eucharist, sprinkling infants, passing the plate for money, will-worship according to a planned agenda, group prayer, group singing, etc.), that only create an illusion of being religious; but the illusion is hypocrisy that has leavened the whole lump of Christianity.]
10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that none of you will be of a different persuasion from me; but he who troubles you will bear the Lord's judgment, whoever he is.
11 Brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? And so the offence of the cross2 would have ceased. [The preaching of the necessity of the cross for salvation offends, so much that Paul was persecuted for preaching it. When the early Quakers preached the cross, the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Puritans, imprisoned them, seized their property, and killed them. Christendom denies Jesus' insistence on salvation's prerequisite of bearing the cross to slay their selfish, sinful spirits; and they are greatly offended when told that belief in historical facts about Jesus and being dunked in water is not sufficient for salvation.]
12 I wish those who trouble you would castrate themselves.
13 For you, brothers, have been called to liberty; only this liberty is not to permit rituals of the flesh, but for you to serve one another in love.
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not consumed by one another.
16 This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another. So that you cannot do the things you wish. [The flesh with its lusts and pride wars against your soul, the Spirit of God, and the inner law of God in you heart. This war must be won by you to victory, the overcoming of sin, the world, and the devil — for you to attain freedom from sin and salvation. This can only occur if you do not do the things you wish; you must crucify your lusts and fleshly desires to then be guided in thoughts, words, and deeds by God. You must be led by the Spirit, following Him, which is doing His will, not yours; the man of flesh, your carnal mind, and your will must die on the inward cross of self-denial.]
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.3 [To be led by the Spirit is to obey what you see and hear the Word from within your heart commands you to do and speak; when you are totally walking by commands from the Spirit, faith has come. Until this gift of faith by revelation has arrived, the inner law, which includes moral core of the outward law, is your schoolmaster, Gal 3:24-25. From the Word of the Lord within: "Until you witness receiving faith from Christ, you are under the law. Until you witness the law fulfilled in you, you are under the law." Note verses 19-24 below. As you follow the Lord's first commands to repent from your evil behaviors, (resulting in His removal of even your desire to sin), your confidence dramatically increases in attaining all the gospel's promises.]
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: sexual immorality (including adultery and fornication), impurity, lust, [The works of the flesh are sin, and the wages of sin are death. From the Word of the Lord within: "Consequence-free sin does not exist; the consequences are truly staggering. There is a war you must win: sin must be overcome; the fleshly lusts war against your soul."]
20 Idolatry (including covetousness), sorcery, hatred, arguments, jealousy, anger, ambition, divisiveness, factions, [From the Word of the Lord within: "Do not be misled; anger must be eliminated to enter the kingdom."]
21 Envy, drunkenness, revelry (partying), and the like; which I say beforehand, as I have said before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.4 [All men do works of the flesh because their hearts are defiled until they have been crucified on the inward cross of self-denial, and in no way shall there enter into heaven anything that is defiled. Rev 21:27. Fruit of the flesh includes: sexual immorality, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking, jesting, profanity, adultery, lack of restraint, sorcery, hatred, arguments, jealousies, rage, selfish ambition, divisiveness, envies, murders, drunkenness, revelries (partying), evil thoughts, fornications, wickedness, deceit, blasphemy, pride, anger, boasting, flattery, immodesty, immorality, and foolishness; any of these disqualify any man from heaven.]
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace (quietness and confident trust forever), patience (including longsuffering, steadfastness, and perseverance), kindness (including morality and integrity), goodness, faith, [From the Word of the Lord within, "until you witness receiving faith from Christ, you are under the law." Until you are led by the spirit, you are under the law, Gal 5:18; when you receive this fruit, you are then led by the Spirit. Those branches without fruit are thrown into the fire.]
23 Gentleness (including meekness and humility), and self-control (mastery of sensual appetites, passions, and desires). Against these there is no law.5 [After you have mortified and crucified your sinful nature on the inward cross of self-denial, you receive the fruit of the spirit. Then you are no longer subject to the law because then you are led by the Spirit. Rom 8:14, Gal 3:25, 5:18. The law has dominion over a man until his death, Rom 7:1, which death occurs when he has been crucified, Rom 7:6,Gal 2:20; as the next verse emphasizes.]
24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh [the sinful nature] with its passions and desires [lusts and affections].6 [After your sinful nature has been put to death on the inward cross of self-denial, then you belong to Christ as you walk in love, following the Spirit, fulfilling the law; and then you receive an imputed righteousness. Having suffered on the cross, you no longer live the rest of your time in the lusts of men, but you live to the will of God, 1 Pet 4:1-2; which is to be obediently led and guided by the Spirit in thoughts, words, and deeds. From the Word of the Lord within: "The purpose of this website is to teach you how to carry your cross."]
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. [For we no longer walk by sight, but by faith. 2 Cor 5:7]
26 Let us not be vain-glorious and conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
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1 we, through the Spirit, by faith, patiently wait for the hope of righteousness.
we, through the Spirit, by faith, patiently wait —
How do we wait? Reading books, watching TV, playing games, reading the Bible, etc.? No! This waiting is how to seek God's salvation and righteousness, which Jesus told us should be our first priority in life. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. Mat 6:33. This is the waiting that the prophets of the Old Testament and the believers of the New Testament observed. To wait on God is to persistently sit in humble silence, listen for his voice and words, watch for his revelations, hear his commands, and then obey Him. This is the key to spiritual growth: to wait on God, listen, and watch; this is part of the cross. This is how to sit at the feet of the Spirit of Jesus and listen to his words, which Jesus told us was the "good part" and "only one thing needed:"
And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word.
"There is only one thing needed, and Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke 10:39,42
We hear his word from within our hearts. Rom 10:8,17. The words he speaks to us are spirit and life. John 6:63
The one thing needed is to sit at the feet of Jesus and listen to his words, the words he speaks to us from within our hearts that are spirit and life. We too must sit silently and wait on the Lord, to listen, to hear, and obey.
Notice also: what she hears will not be taken away from her. Those teachings will survive passing through the fire that everyone must endure.
All your holy ones are in your power. And they sit at your feet, each receiving your words. Deu 33:3
To wait on God, listen, watch, and obey is the cross, which is the way to purity and salvation, the deliverance from all sin.
wait for the hope of righteousness.
Here Paul is speaking of the hope of righteousness to be patiently waited for by the Spirit in faith. See Footnote 3 to 1 John 3:7 for the definition of righteousness.
There is an imputed righteousness that comes with the measure of faith received with the fruit of the Spirit, which is rewarded to those who have crucified their selfish, evil spirit on the inward cross of self-denial, but not before. Believing in Jesus is not the faith that imputes righteousness; see Footnote 2 of Romans 3 for the detail of imputed righteousness.
John warns us: Little children, let no man deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. 1 John 3:7. All unrighteousness is sin. 1 John 5:17. Jesus only spoke, judged, and did as He was prompted and ordered by God; to practice righteousness we also must be able to only speak what we hear Him order us to say and only do what we are ordered to do by God. This ability only comes after we have crucified our selfish spirit and sin has been destroyed by the Spirit through bearing the inward cross of self-denial; then we are walking the same way He walked and in the world as He was with perfection, purity, and holiness. We must be restored to the image of God that Adam lost in the Garden; to put on the newly created nature [of Christ], which is created in God's image of true righteousness and holiness. When we are righteous, everything we say and do is just, fair, morally correct, perfect, true, holy, virtuous, good, and pure. When we are righteous, everything we say and everything we do is right — righteousness.
Paul is speaking of the end of imputed righteousness with the possession Christ and his righteousness, which comes with being born again in union with Christ, Him then being our controlling King who rules our thoughts, words, deeds. This is the righteousness in the new creature, the resurrection of you together with Christ in the crucified believer. And Paul has defined faith to be obedience to the leading of the Spirit, which faith comes with the fruit of the Spirit, (verse 22), which fruit comes those who have crucified their sinful natures. See also footnotes to Gal 3:24-25. From the Word of the Lord within:
- There is no righteousness apart from God.
- Righteousness need be created.
- Aim at and pursue righteousness, without which no one will see the Lord.
- There is a righteousness imputed only after death.
- We, through the Spirit, wait for the hope of righteousness.
- The Spirit makes alive unto righteousness.
- Awake to righteousness and sin not.
- He who does righteousness is through with sin.
- Pursue righteousness and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
- He who is righteous is done with sin.
- Make yourselves slaves to righteousness, whose reward is holiness.
Righteousness is imputed when you receive faith with the fruit of the Spirit, against which is no law, to then walk in love, obeying the continuous commands of Christ; this occurs at the death of your selfish spirit on the inward cross of self-denial. When you possess the fullness of Christ, that ends imputation, and you are righteous as He is righteous. Until then we, through the Spirit, by faith, patiently wait for the hope of righteousness, Gal. 5:5. We wait by hearing the Lord speak to us from within our heart and believing what he says. We exercise our faith to carry the inward cross of self-denial, which is to obey the commands we hear God speak to us as we wait, watch, and listen in silence for his directions, teachings, commands, encouragements, convictions, and destruction of sin in our hearts.
2 the offence of the cross. What offence? For we are to God the sweet aroma of Christ to those who are being saved; and in those who are perishing: To this latter we are the aroma of death to death; and to the former the aroma of life to life. 2 Cor 2:15-16. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1 Cor 1:18.
Christendom denies the cross is necessary. Christendom claims that believing the cross is necessary is to deny Jesus having saved all believers through his death. Although Christ's death did pay for the sins of all men, our bearing the cross is not to pay the penalty for our sins; Christ has already paid for that. We suffer, so that our selfish spirit dies on the inward cross to be finished with sin, and then by the grace of God, we receive salvation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, union with God, and entry into the Kingdom of Heaven, to be there forever. Christ tasted death for all men, allowing all men to access the grace of God, by going to Him, hearing Him and obeying Him; Christ died on the cross to show us the extent of obedience required to attain salvation; our cross is to sacrifice our own will and follow the commands of God that we hear, as we go to Him, wait on Him, listen for Him, watch for Him, hear him, eventually see Him, and obey Him.
So because Christendom denies the cross is necessary, which Jesus said at least five times was absolutely necessary, then Christendom is perishing for the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing. 1 Cor 1:18. To Christendom, the cross has the aroma of death. 2 Cor 2:15-16. But the cross is the power of God to be delivered from sin, to be made free from sin forever, a forever cleansing and perfection.
3 If you are led by the Spirit [mark! if led by the Spirit, you are prompted, ordered, or commanded by the Spirit], you are not under the law. But until you are led by the Spirit, the inner law on every man's heart is your schoolmaster. Until you are led by (being obedient to) the Spirit's commands to you, you must be schooled by the inner law on every man's heart; this inner law convicts us when we steal, lie, disrespect our parents, etc. When you hear a command from the Spirit, speaking from within your heart, that imparts the life of God to you; and that command is established as a new law in your heart, added to the existing inner law of God on the heart of every man. From the Word of the Lord within: "When you have heard the dead words in the Bible and recall them, heed what is said; always obedient to His commands. You must obey every law the Spirit establishes."
The next verses show that you must rid yourself of the sins of the flesh (19-21), which occurs by crucifying your selfish, evil spirit on the inward cross of self-denial (24); to then receive from Christ the fruit of the Spirit, including faith (22-23). Then, and only then, are you free from the law as your schoolmaster; for you are walking in love, the love of God having been perfected in you.
4 Paul discloses the fine print of the covenant, identifying the exclusions of "just believe in Jesus to be saved:" sexual immorality (including adultery and fornication), impurity, lust, idolatry (including covetousness), sorcery, hatred, arguments, jealousy, anger, ambition, divisiveness, factions, envy, drunkenness, revelry (partying), and the like, which I tell you before, as I have also told you in times past, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Paul also warns, You can be sure: No sexually immoral, or impure, or covetous person, who is an is idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with vain words. For because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Eph 5:5-6. And Jesus tells us: For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man. Mark 7:21-23. Everyone with any of these evils, even those who call themselves Christians, will be banned from heaven. If people with these kinds of selfish behavior were allowed in heaven, heaven would be as bad as earth. Only former sinners enter heaven. There is no such thing as a sinner saved still sinning; a saved sinner, is an oxymoron. Look at Jesus; is there any sin in him? Jesus is holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners, Heb 7:26. Do you expect him to join his body in marriage to wicked people still sinning? I assure you, only the lovely, pure, holy bride will he join.
5 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace (quietness and confident trust forever), patience (including longsuffering, steadfastness, and perseverance), kindness (including morality and integrity), goodness, faith, gentleness (including meekness and humility), and self-control (mastery of sensual appetites, desires, and passions). Against these there is no law. To receive the fruit of the Spirit, you must have mortified and crucified your sinful nature on the inward cross of self-denial. Until you have produced the fruit of the Spirit, you are under the law; until fruit, you do not have freedom from the law. To produce fruit is the mark of the true follower of Christ; the mark of the true disciple. To produce fruit, you must abide [remain, live] in Christ's word and light, and Christ must remain in you. When you produce much fruit you bring glory to the Father. Until you produce fruit, you are subject to being thrown into the fire of Hell at death. Until you have produced the fruit of the spirit, you must obey the law that is in every man's heart, which includes the moral core of the outward law, as supplemented by all the commands you receive directly from the Lord speaking to you as you wait on Him in humble silence. After your selfish spirit has been crucified on the inward cross of self-denial to then receive the fruit of the Spirit, then all your thoughts, words, and deeds are prompted and commanded by God; then you are no longer subject to the law. From the Word of the Lord within: "There are no laws when you are under complete control of the spirit; you walk in love in obedience as prompted — you don't walk in restricted flesh. Until you witness receiving faith from Christ, you are under the law."
The receipt of this level of faith within the receipt of the fruit of the Spirit is:
- the faith that comes, Gal 3:24, to free from the schoolmaster, Gal 3:25
- the faith that results in you being led by the Spirit, Gal 5:18
- the faith that imputes righteousness to you, Rom 3:22
- the faith that allows you to walk by faith rather than by sight. 2 Cor 5:7
- the faith that is a mystery held in a pure conscience. 1 Tim 3:9
- the faith that is revealed. Gal 3:23
- the faith that is authored and perfected by Jesus. Heb 12:2
- the faith that is the gift of God. Eph 2:8
This faith is not the faith that everyone assumes they have by believing in Jesus; but by persistent listening to Him and believing what He says, you will produce fruit and receive faith then.
6 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh [the sinful nature] with its passions and desires [lusts and affections]. The missing cross that leads to fruit, that leads to purity, that leads to salvation, that leads to union, that leads to the Kingdom — to have any of these, you must have first crucified your flesh, (sinful nature, lusts, affections), on the inward cross of self denial.
So then those who are in the flesh cannot please God. Rom 8:8
For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 8:13
And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh [the sinful nature] with its passions and desires [lusts and affections]. Gal 5:24
Until you have killed the sinful nature in you, you of course are going to continue to sin. As Jesus said, Truly, Truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. John 8:34. And if you die while still sinning, you have no inheritance in the kingdom of God; instead you will be banned from heaven to learn about the evil in yourself the hard way with far less reward that comes from putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision performed by Christ while still alive on the earth.
Notice, you do not belong to Christ until you have crucified your sinful nature on the inward cross of self-denial. You are not in Christ until you have crucified your sinful nature on the inward cross of self-denial. You are not one of his sheep until you have crucified your sinful nature on the inward cross of self-denial. You do not have salvation until you have crucified your sinful nature on the inward cross of self-denial.
There are two stages of perfection, which Fox and Crisp both described.
After this [seeing Him] it will bring you to the holy watch, to take care that you do so [sin] no more, and that the enemy not surprise you again. Then thoughts, as well as words and works, will come to judgment, which is the way of holiness, in which the redeemed of the Lord do walk. Here you will come to love God above all, and your neighbors as yourselves. Nothing hurts, nothing harms, nothing makes afraid on this holy mountain. Now you come to be Christ's indeed, for you are his in nature and spirit, and not your own. And when you are thus Christ's, then Christ is yours, and not before. And here communion with the Father and with the son you will know, and the effectiveness of the blood of cleansing, even the blood of Jesus Christ, that immaculate Lamb; which speaks better things than the blood of Abel, and through the living faith cleanses from all sin; their consciences being sprinkled with his blood, ceasing from dead works to serve the living God.
In his Journal, George Fox describes the consequences of having fulfilled the law and having received the fruit of the Spirit, but not closely watching in the first stage:
But if you look out from the faith, and from that which would keep you in the victory, and look after fleshly things or for words [speaking your own words] you will be brought into bondage to the flesh again, and to the law which takes hold upon the flesh and sin, and works wrath, and the works of the flesh will appear again. The law of God takes hold upon the law of sin and death; but the law of faith, or the law of the spirit of life, which is the love of God, and which comes by Jesus, (who is the end of the law for righteousness' sake), makes you free from the law of sin and death. This law of life fleshly minded men do not know; yet they will tempt you to draw you from the spirit into the flesh, and so into bondage. Therefore you, who know the love of God, and the law of his spirit, and the freedom that is in Jesus Christ, stand fast in him. Stand in that divine faith which he is the author of in you, and don't get entangled with the yoke of bondage. For the ministry of Christ Jesus and his teaching brings into liberty and freedom; but the ministry that is of man, and by man, which stands in the will of man, brings into bondage and under the shadow of death and darkness. Therefore none can be ministers of Christ Jesus but in the eternal spirit, which was before the scriptures were given forth; for if they have not his spirit, they are none of his. Though they may have his light to condemn them that hate it, yet they can never bring any into unity and fellowship in the spirit, unless they are in it; for the seed of God is a burdensome stone to the selfish, fleshly, earthly will, which reigns in its own knowledge and understanding that must perish, and [reigns in] its own wisdom that is devilish. The spirit of God is grieved, vexed, and quenched with what brings into the fleshly bondage; and what wars against the spirit of God must be mortified by it; for the flesh lusts against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary to each other. The flesh would have its liberty, and the spirit would have its liberty; but the spirit is to have its liberty, and not the flesh. Therefore if you quench the spirit, join to the flesh, and be servants of it, then you are judged and tormented by the spirit; but if you join to the spirit, and serve God in it, you have liberty and victory over the flesh and its works.
In this stage accidental sins can occur; a man is still learning how to walk in the light continually. But if a man accidentally sins, the blood of Jesus promptly cleanses Him. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7. As George Fox wrote in his letter 262:
That is to be condemned in yourselves, which has led you from Christ, from God, and from unity in the light; I say, that is condemned by the light, and must be executed and killed, and stoned with the living stone, and run through with the living sword, and hammered down with the living hammer to pieces, and burnt up with the living fire, and so made an end of. For that which leads into looseness, whimsies, imaginations, false visions, though it is condemned, yet, if it is not executed, it is in danger of rising again; and if it rises again, and gets over you, it will be your ruler, if it gets out of prison and is alive, and not executed. For after a thing is condemned, such as drunkenness, adultery, fornication, or any manner of looseness whatever, or running out from the spirit and light, if it is condemned, and judgment passed upon it, if it is not executed, there is danger of its reviving. For after a thing is condemned, and judgment passed upon it, it is to be executed. For you know, after a thief or a murderer is condemned and judged, and has sentence passed upon him, yet he is not executed that day; the execution comes afterwards. And therefore, after condemnation or judgment is passed upon any inward evil, or any outward action of evil, let execution be speedily done with the living hammer, and the living sword, and the living stone; so that the living fire may burn it up and consume it.
No man after he has beaten his child, hates him ever afterwards, but loves him, if he repents and changes; so does the eternal Father. And if a child falls down into the dirt, he does not go and tumble him more into the dirt, or into the ditch, and there let him lie in the dirt and ditch, but takes him out and washes him; and so does the heavenly Father, who leads his children by his hand, and dandles them upon his knee.
Should we fall to temptation, unless we wilfully disobey, we can still choose to repent as we walk in the light and the blood of Jesus that cleanses us of all sin. However, once we have arrived at this first stage of perfection and purity, if we wilfully disobey the Lord, then we are lost; this is the sin that leads to death.
For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
But only a certain fearful looking for judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries of God.
Whoever despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses.
How much more severe a punishment, do you suppose, will be thought worthy for one who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has acted with spite [contempt] to the Spirit of grace? Heb 10:26-29
Years ago, when I had sinned, thinking I was following the Voice of the Lord, but instead was deceived by the enemy pretending to be Him, I was very despondent and almost sure I had lost my chance to attain salvation; then I heard the Lord say to me: "Until you look me in the face, and then return to sin, you can come back to me;" that message is in perfect harmony with the Heb 10:26-29 verses above, because in this first stage of perfection you enter paradise and have fellowship with Christ and God, where you certainly receive knowledge of the truth.
Those who fall to wilful, disobedient sin in this stage are the stars that fall from heaven as described in Revelation 6:13; and the devil's greatest tool to tempt us, then and now, is sexual immorality; so be intensely on guard against even wilfully imagining commission of sexual immorality. In this first step also be on your guard against covetousness. Guard yourself against sexual immorality and all sin doubly now so that you are doubly ready to withstand the temptations then, the consequences of falling then being disastrous.
Also, don't preach or teach unless you are specifically commanded what to say, (all, and only all, words from Him); and if you are told to preach or teach, do nothing less, nothing more; completely obey your commands, and when the commands stop, return to your home to wait on Him in humble silence. Failure to comply with this can result in your never advancing to permanent perfection, the second stage; or with deception, deliberately sinning with resultant loss of life.
"For there is a state of discipleship, by which a man hardly knows a settlement, so much as how to watch with Christ rightly and constantly [the first stage]; but it is a great matter to be able to dwell and abide with Him [Christ]. None can do this, but he that can dwell with devouring fire and everlasting burnings for the pure word of life is a fire, and he that sits down in the heavenly place in him, must sit down in that fire [the second stage]."
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, he who despises the gain of oppression, who keeps his hands from taking bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
He will dwell on high; his place of defense will be the fortress of rocks; bread will be given him; his waters will be sure.
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will behold the land that is very far off. Isa 33:14-17
In his Letter 222, George Fox wrote: "For are not here kindness and riches, for man and woman to be brought out of that state in the fall, to the state of Adam and Eve before they fell. And he that brings them here is Christ, and it is by his blood, it cost him his blood, his life, and he does not leave them in the state that Adam and Eve were in before they fell, but he sets them down in himself, who never fell, a safer state than Adam was in before he fell. Now who sit here in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, the first and the last, the beginning and ending, the safe place, in the wisdom of God."
From the Word of the Lord within:
Based on scripture and the writings of the early Quakers, we can separate the various descriptions of spiritual maturity into the two stages:
Status or Occurrence
After Crucifixion
(1st Stage of Perfection)
The "End"
(2nd Stage of Perfection)
Freedom from sin*
Fruit of the Spirit
Imputed Righteousness
Freedom from Law
Walk in the Light
Walk in the Spirit
Worship in Spirit and Truth
Able to Do Most of the Lord's Work
|Know all things. See everything.
Son of God**
Born Again Son of God
Enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Inherit the Substance — Christ
(without imputation)
Eternal Life of God
Permanent Perfection
Circumcision of the Heart
Protected from Ever Sinning Again
Sit Down in Christ in the Rest
* These occurrences were also attainable in the Old Covenant [Old Testament].
** Despite Old Testament scripture referring to sons of God, (though scant), about which George Fox wrote in his letter 246, Fox states that a son must be born again; since one born again is protected and cannot sin, the new covenant son is radically different than the Old Testament sons referenced.
According to the Word of the Lord within, the first stage is not even a shadow of what you will inherit in the second stage.
After you have crucified your selfish, devilish nature, (the first stage of perfection), you must be continuously watchful, (against temptation), as you walk according to the Lord's guidance because without watchfulness you can fall to temptation, just like Eve fell.
When George Fox was raised to this first stage, he was immediately tempted to practice medicine as his Journal relates below:
Now I came up in spirit, through the flaming sword, into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before, beyond what words can utter. I knew nothing but pureness, innocence, and righteousness, being renewed up into the image of God by Christ Jesus; so that I came up to the state of Adam, which he was in before he fell. The creation was open to me; and it was shown to me how all things had their names given them, according to their nature and virtue. I was at a stand in my mind, whether I should practice medicine for the good of mankind, seeing the nature and virtues of the creatures were so opened to me by the Lord.
He was tempted to practice medicine according to his own desires; his carnal mind was at a stand, not yet destroyed. Those of us who reach this first stage of perfection will likewise be severely tempted; but we can minimize our risk of falling if we remember to: 1) continue to obey any commands we have received in the past, and 2) reject anything that we want to do, only doing what we are ordered to do by the Lord. Should we fall, unless we wilfully disobey, we can still choose to repent as we walk in the light and the blood of Jesus that cleanses us of all sin. The less we fall, the sooner we attain the second stage and inherit the substance, Christ.
From the Word of the Lord within: "Many fell and erred from the true faith. When the fruit withers, I remove the protection."
I would submit the following additional admonitions to guard against falling to sin at this stage, (lessons learned from the sad failure of James Naylor):
Concerned about the risk of loss in the first stage of perfection, the Word of the Lord within said, "speak slowly, forever hold your peace." Previously He has said:
The death of the early Quaker, James Naylor, appears to be the classic example of protection being removed due to wilful disobedience after reaching the first stage of perfection. James Naylor was an eminent early Quaker preacher who had reached the 1st stage of perfection. However, he sadly dropped his watchfulness and refused the written order of the Society along with written and in-person warnings from George Fox to disassociate himself from a group of fawning admirers that were out of the truth. In writing Fox warned him from the Word of the Lord that he was "against the Truth in willfulness and stubbornness." Shortly afterwards, Naylor precipitated a great scandal, which resulted in him suffering severe punishment and imprisonment; as he was returning home, he was beaten, robbed, left bound and naked in a field, found by a passer-by, and taken to a Quaker doctor where he died a day later at the age of 42. These events are detailed in the web page on James Naylor.
As I was reviewing James Naylor's failure in my mind, I heard the Word of the Lord within say: "stunning willfulness." If you are aware of how eminent James Naylor was among the early Quakers, it is indeed stunning what he did and continued to do over a significant period of time.
Before George Fox had entered the second stage of perfection and the kingdom, for about three years he was sent on limited, specific assignments by the Lord. But he only did what he was specifically told to do, exactly when he was told to do it; he then returned to his residence and continued waiting on the Lord. Plus, he was sufficiently perfected that he was able to preach, debate, and pray with words supplied by the Holy Spirit; so powerful were his words that even churches shook when he prayed within them. So limited teaching or preaching can be instructed by the Lord before you are completely perfected; but be careful to only do what he tells you to do, nothing more, nothing less; then return to your home to continue to wait on the Lord's further imparting of his Spirit by his words that you hear him speak to you.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Edmund Dulac's Beauty and the Beast
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Friday, September 25, 2009
Jack Kirby Photo
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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Bill Stout Comix
Bicentennial Gross-Outs #1, 1976.
Weird Trips #2, 1978.
Cocaine Comix #1, 1975.
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Labels: Bill Stout, underground comics
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Posters of La Belle Epoque
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Labels: Alphnose Mucha, posters
Monday, September 21, 2009
The Joker is Wild!
Batman #366, April 1983.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Friday Odds and Ends
Brinke Stevens dressed up as Vamipirella.
The Dirty Dozen, Dell Movie Comic, 1967.
Weird Tales, Dec. 1932
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Labels: Brinke Stevens, cheesecake, movie comics, pulps, Weird Tales
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Calling All Girls!
Calling All Girls! #9, August 1942.
Girls' Life #1, 1954.
Girls in Love #47, October 1955.
Girls' Love Stories #2, 1949.
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Labels: romance comics
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Comics and Concerts
3-D Invisibles flyer, art by Bernie Wrightson.
Robot Monster (w/spliced in skull) on a 3-D Invisibles flyer.
Dave's Comics ad, art by Glenn Barr.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers, art by Peter Bagge.
Gimme Shelter Benefit Concert, art by Glenn Barr.
More monster mayhem with the 3-D Invisibles.
Bela Lugosi as the Wolfman.
Some insanity from Flaming Carrot's Bob Burden makes me want to go to a 3-D Invisibles concert!
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Boy Hungry!
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Brain Bolland: Short Science Fiction Story
Here's a science fiction story, written by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Brian Bolland. DC Comics published it in Madame Xanadu Special #1 in 1981. This was before Bolland began to become popular in the United States with the publication of Judge Dredd reprints and Camelot 3000 in 1982. The facial expressions in the story are what really stand out to me, particularly the alien's expression on the third panel of page two. Bolland packs a lot of emotion in an alien looking face, not an easy thing to do. The crowd scene on page 4 is a standout also, looks like some mayhem straight out of a Judge Dredd story.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Aurora Comics Scenes: Superboy
In the mid-1970's Aurora model company brought out a series of models called "Comics Scenes." They were based on comic book, radio serial, and pulp characters. The models came with a comic book complete with a centerspread to use as a backdrop for the completed model. Below is a scan of a stat of the original art and the published comic cover for the Superboy model kit. Art by Dave Cockrum.
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Monday, September 7, 2009
Swamp Thing!
Swamp Thing, 1974.
Swamp Thing #9, April 1974.
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Katy Keene
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Friday Odds and Ends
Death Rattle #1, June 1972. Cover art by Richard Corben.
Cover art for Captain Crossbones by Donald Barr Chidsey, 1958. Unknown artist.
Brinke Stevens
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