20090417

Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

The evil in evil things, my love, as a general rule, becomes aware of us when we become aware of it. This spirit of evil, my love, conscious of our being aware of it, constantly seeks to make itself part of our will, that it may have free access to our hearts. This seeking is commonly manifest in various temptations that like a horde of rabid beasts, lay constant siege at the very door of our hearts, ever plotting diverse ways from secret and subtle to violent and overt to make their final assault against the threshold of our souls. And their way of temptation, my love, always, always involves one thing - a lie. This lie is a venom that once accepted by our will as truth corrupts the line of our common defense from within, causing much to deny from our hearts, the promise of many, many things.

Now, that is the mildest way that I can put, what terrific harm the Devil and his fallen angels can cause to the souls of our native humanity, and by direct extension to the spheres of sacred life that fall under the special care and specific protection of the stewardship of the one family of the nations of Mankind. For as every nation is a scion of our generations each of which is a one whole lineage in time sprung from our one parental inheritance as human beings, they are kindred in form; their visible form. And as every nation is established by an everlasting Covenant before the LORD, each of our nations is kindred also in their natures; their invisible natures.
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I have to go for now, my love. There is yet much to be gathered, I know in my heart, from our further meditation on these things - and we will gather with them.

For all things visible are all things sprung from the substance of invisible things, were we to envision something as lasting as human civilization without careful consideration on the things beyond the veil of this fleeting world that truly last, it would be reckless - but knowingly doing so, that is not our work.

I love you.

Always to always,

Pusing

P.S.

By the way, I have been thinking about the concept of a secondary capital and I believe it would be advantageous to establish one, rather, two here in the Philippines as well - one in Mindanao and another in the Visayas; that would work - in their proper seasons - to eliminate attenuation in the executive will, put our Congress in the locality and our juridical institutions disciplined by even proximity to the will of state. These cities, especially the one in Mindanao, would acquire the charter that would allow them to possess the Abrahamic vision of the "New Cordova" that we are still presently trying to make clear in the eye of our mind. Now, each nation is unique in its course and so we must understand that there are some things in the application that should only belong to a particular nation.

However, all things particular to this specific endeavor of Country shall be as naught if War in the Philippines shall be allowed to persist for these visions do not belong in that paradigm, my love.

I have also been thinking of our common market and its inherent potential - of a suitable heavy industry, of something maritime in nature - like shipbuilding - a very viable thing depending on other things - on tourism, resource conservation, proper waste disposal, honorable citizenship - etc. I have also been thinking of other nations, those who are in need in the same way that we are in need - which ultimately means all our nations - at this present time, least to greatest - of the one family of the nations of Mankind but specifically those who are most affected by the curse of War.

We have to muster in our Republic will, the strength to turn away from this present darkness that seem to cover this, our inhabited earth, with a murky blight that makes our kindred nations strangers to one another.

Lastly, in my own view - the war in Afghanistan can not be won by military means alone - there must also begin a real political dialogue between the sides who are involved in her interest. It must be understood in the pursuit of lasting peace that there are things particular to Afghanistan as herself without which her people shall be restless. Both sides must understand that their will must take this into its regard - that Afghanistan herself as a whole must be given time to find her own peace - without which no vision of Country shall take rest from among the Afghan people.

Once again, each nation is unique in its course and so we must understand that there are some things in the application that should only belong to a particular nation - but that all belong to one family, that all belong to life, and none to death.

In the interim, static area defense, most especially focused on the major cities that relieve the area population and allow for the building of the habitations, systems and institutions of life, reactive deployment and not proactive manoeuvre should be the gist of operations. I shall not linger on the specifics as I have already proposed this type of defense in the past in one of my posts - many months back.
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20090318

Dear darlingest Annemiyang Marie,

Here in my native Philippines, my love, this month of March is Women's Month. We should work on an entry about Women within the month and polish up what we already have here in Planet Annelies and include something about the hijab or the Muslim headscarf with a view to quell common stereotypes and broaden the understanding of people about this as an issue for Women.

Now, I am no expert on Islam, my love, but I do know about chastity, having been constantly fighting to maintain it in my soul. The battle for chastity, its course and its objective, is the same in both sexes, yet this is a warfare that is oftentimes more intensely fought within the souls of men more than in women. Further this with an understanding of the complementary functions of the gender opposites, free will and the link between the hijab and the virtue of chastity can now be established.

I care about the Filipino in particular, my love, as I care about all human beings in general. And should I have been destined by Almighty God not to marry and not to have children, then I know in my heart that I also have my nation as my own, greater family of friends, (of cats, big and small) - in the universe that lives within my soul with you, my loveliest love - as a nation distinct from other nations and dwelling in Covenant grace with all the kindred nations of Mankind. And that means caring for and understanding our Filipino Muslims most especially, them being our most visible minority. Of course, that is not to say that the less visible shall be less wanted or cared for - the "one" in the "one Republic" does not stand for lies, half-truths or fractions but for the unity of the one whole nation of the Filipino people under the eternal vigilance of Almighty God. Because if we as a nation in time and dimensional space are unable to care for the least of our brethren who are in the language of the one Solidarity: our Lord's poor, there will be no eternal Philippines. And if we can not establish in our hearts the timeless destiny of the Filipino nation, we will never gain sight of our vision in God as one Country.

Mind you, it is not mere consolation for me to be granted by our LORD with the enabling grace to remain single and chaste for the rest of my life here in this world, my love, but it is what I personally prefer to be - because, if our LORD shall permit it, I simply want to be laid to my rest, one day after my purpose is done, in Bergen Belsen with you, my darlingest dear.

One last thing for the day, my love. Our military as a whole must be apolitical, that is true. But the soldier is also a citizen of the Republic and therefore must be able to exercise their right to vote. But in secret ballot and as individuals not as a political bloc. Within the AFP, they can not discuss politics with their peers but within their families, they must be able to express their own democratic views within the framework of the trust that exists between families as a one whole within greater wholes that form our one Republic. It would not serve the Filipino nation in the mid to long term not to have our own Republic defenders have their own stake in the electoral process that form the civilian government under whose command structures they shall with courage, honor and fidelity submit nothing less than the entirety of each of their lives together.

We have much to learn as we mature as a nation and we must be glad to learn them for by doing so, we not only help our fellow compatriots, past, present and future, advance the cause of our own particular endeavor of Country but we also help build a better place for all the generations of life to come by gaining for the one family of the nations of Mankind, the fruits purposed by Almighty God from eternity to become fulfilled by the good of our nation as a mature nation and most especially as a nation ascended and perfected in God in eternity.

And so it is the same with all the nations of Mankind, some are young, some are searching for themselves, some are near the realization of their promise as a mature whole, and some are even yet to be born.

For nothing in this world really stays still, a stone becomes a hearth, a tree becomes a home, water and earth cycles from life to life, from stars to worlds, creature to creature, all the giving through grace of our LORD God is everywhere poured forth to gain for all of sacred life, the higher purposes for which all of this creation is established which is the glory of God and the realization of all living hope for the gifts of lasting and everlasting things. Only the heart must stay still in the stillness that awaits the dawning from within and the advent of peace. And everywhere around us, everything is stirring towards remembrance of the things that must remain, the things that ought to endure with the prevailing of all things, as the terrible darkness of the past slowly fades away into nothingness.

It's been a swell day, uhm, night at work, my darlingest dear. This afternoon - novena, rosary and Holy Mass then a little dinner out with my Yang-yang Marie. Yay! I'm so glad to have you as my friend, my love.

I love you.

Always to always,

Pusing