APHORISMS- Notes of philosophy by Robert Fullarton Copyright 2016

APHORISMS- Notes of philosophy

by Robert Fullarton

Copyright 2016

I

I have found the secular world to be so boring. Where one declares and lives for the paltry measures of life, for the appearance of things and not for the reason beyond people and within people. Let us not forget that the physical is only the manifestation of the spiritual, where God declared by his will and through his being that matter would be made to create forms of spiritual beings or creatures that existed contemporaneously. Man is unique in that he is both physical and spiritual, not like angels nor like beasts, he has both body and soul within him and most remarkably, the Christian believes and knows that man was created in the “image of God”.

II

Through the fire there is life, out of its smoke came a noble soul that was granted rest after the great labours and travails of the race of men, which endure, which rage, which are warring on through mind, body and soul, and seek rest to the point of spiritual decimation. One man’s morale can come to the point of such a decimation, as life seems to be baseless, hopeless, a taxing venture, a test concerning everything from which the mind can fathom and for those who are ignorant of such matters, life is a test no matter what they say and it is all this and more. We are so weary not so much in physical fatigue but when the belief of the individual cannot see resolution and confirmation that all their hopes will come to final expression. The finality of man is in the pre-existing mould, those of the world cannot understand why life began and why God begot their feelings, but call it a senseless mess and ceaselessly try to kill the hope that men have placed in the cause of heaven.

III

The kettle of the emotions, burns deep and boils within my fabric. The emotions we have, the feelings, the beliefs and sentiments are they not more than mere labels of information. Worship of knowledge without credible meaning or reason, what does it add to? The scientist he systematizes knowledge, it is a theory and not an experience to many, not something that pertains to an intelligent wish or great desire. Life itself, is called the senseless happening of accident, but man thinks his thoughts are sensible despite the paradoxical conclusion. He devalues life and his own life, he believes that he invented the rules, and wont concede his heart to the God he has denied. Man believes he has written the manual on life and that nothing can exist outside the terms given by the manual.

IV

The heart is the compass for the seeker, who points towards God and lifts his countenance towards the sun, but with aspirations for the next life. He or she lives with the spiritual promise of inheriting Eternity, as Abraham, waited and lived, not in vain- passing the blessing and the promise unto the next generation- despite the fact each man died, they did not inherit the land they stood upon, nor did their seed for another four hundred years take the land. Yet their life and desire concerned the spiritual promises of God, which concern eternity, life outside of time, love outside of season, man in immortal form, God without veil, Christ in Kingship, life in abundance like a homecoming that lasts forever, erupting in purpose and the love that is beyond the temporal, with nothing hidden from the mists of the physical world. All things in this life are the preparations for the crossing unto the next, do we not see foreshadows in this life, tasting what is possible and as attainable as Christians that what was written about will come to pass. Beyond the present the future comes to pass and from the past this word was given to the generations that came and went, as God in time and outside it acts and outlasts the kingdom of man, but we believe that the next kingdom is not one mere country but the earth itself, renewed beyond recognition, with man reborn, with death destroyed! We human’s live by the moment, not knowing what will come next, if we are without security within this life, we must make in the assurance of something greater that comes from outside it into this one we presently inhabit to him who designed our hearts to seek his face in glory. The Hebrews looked upon God’s passing resonance, reflected off Moses veiled face, we Gentile believers have permission, access and privilege to see the fullness in Jesus Christ, this is what the transfiguration amounts to, it is the union of our heart and soul with the spirit of God, something which the Hebrews could never even dream of. How blessed and loved we truly are to have such a covenant and have such access, to the Holy of Holies, which neither the Abrahamic or Mosaic covenants permitted! What the generations of antiquity toiled for another distant one reaps in harvest, drinks the cream and lives the dream they dreamt. It is a rich bounty which we must revive again and again, remember and always be thankful for.