(At Link's wedding, finding sanctuary in the lower room of Zion)
Link: Ok, I'm going to need a few moments now. Alone.
Timeus: Sure. Not having second thoughts are you?
Link: (laughing) No worries. The first thoughts were on the mark. No need for revisions. Just want to hold to that originalist line.
Timeus: That's the spirit. And you've come to the right place. I'll see you in the chancel, Link. (Closes the door behind him)
Link: Well...(looks up) you're with me, right? (looks around the room and eyes a passage of Scripture:
10For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
All right. I am not without gratefulness, but perhaps you have overly blessed me with forgetfulness. Please. Help me to remember my gratefulness to Ann and you. Every day. Please help me, Lord. I will listen. I will honor your Word today. And always. (bows his head) Amen.
Echo of Abraham:
...the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation.
Link: Huh? Reading my mind, namesake? Nobody's going to prevent this consummation; we're at polar opposites now. We need to "indorse" this consummation precisely to prevent another political dynasty. I am not a fool for the appearance of things.
Echo of Abraham: Good. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Link: Thank you, father Abraham. All in all, I'd say we've arrived at that last sticking point. What was it you said...in The House Divided?
Echo of Abraham: Such a decision is all that slavery now lacks of being alike lawful in all the States. Welcome, or unwelcome, such decision is probably coming, and will soon be upon us, unless the power of the present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown. We shall lie down pleasantly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free, and we shall awake to the reality instead, that the Supreme Court has made Illinois a slave State. To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty, is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation. That is what we have to do. How can we best do it?
Link: Yes. Ok. "Indorsing" the consummation this time around and preventing the return of the old political dynasty is our reversal of misfortune. But a rose by any other name than slavery? Would you say, socialism, communism, fascism, for example? The liberal H.G. Wells version in slow doses over a century?
True, no whips and chains from the S&Mers outside of the leather club, just a constant chipping away, a slow defacement, a spiritual erasure until we're back to square 1: the progressive's regressive illusion of inequality and a mere change of masters.
If you don't submit to their categorical imperatives: the color-coding, gender bending brain tics of the plantation masters who are too busy minding your business to mind their own, then you will have to be muzzled.
Oh, wait a minute, that wasn't you...the illusion of inequality. That was Chesterton:
In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is a thing of changing lights and lengthening shadows. a twilight full of fancies and distortions. We find a man famous and cannot live long enough to find him forgotten; we see a race dominant and cannot linger to see it decay. It is the experience of men that always returns to the equality of men; it is the average that ultimately justifies the average man. It is when men have seen and suffered much and come at the end of their elaborate experiments, that they see men under an equal light of death and daily laughter; and none the less mysterious for being many. Nor is it in vain that these Western democrats have sought the blazonry of their flag in that great multitude of immortal lights that endure behind the fires we see, and gathered them into the comer of Old Glory whose ground is like the glittering night. For veritably, in the spirit as well as in the symbol, suns and moons and meteors pass and fill our skies with a fleeting and almost theatrical conflagration; and wherever the old shadow stoops upon the earth, the stars return.
Yes, Chesterton. What is America? Or, what was America, then, by alchemy, was transformed from equal in the eyes of God to equal in the outcomes of Man...and seditious Nannies.
Echo of Abraham: A mere change of masters...
Link: Yeah, that's the link.
Echo of Abraham: No pun intended.
Link: Hey, that's my line. The equality is liberty for all, the inalienable right from our transcendent Creator whose ordered liberty, being objective, is not subject to subjective alienation: that power grab when reason and self-reliance are forsaken by the overlords from the underworld.
Echo of Abraham: All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all"—the principle that clears the path for all—gives hope to all—and, by consequence, enterprize, and industry to all.
The expression of that principle, in our Declaration of Independence, was most happy, and fortunate. Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government, and consequent prosperity. No oppressed, people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters
Link: Yeah, that's it. The way back. From the letter of the law, back to its Spirit. That's why you were victorious.
(From the choir in the chancel)
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
let me hide myself in thee;
let the water and the blood,
from thy wounded side which flowed,
be of sin the double cure;
save from wrath and make me pure.
Oh, Ann! Oh! (Runs up the steps two at a time to The Wedding Song, There is Love)
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(Two weeks later at the Keepsake, Olam and Freiah's home)
Olam: Well, Happy Independence Day, all!
Keepers: Hear Hear!
Olam: ...All ye good people, united in your independence. And ye may be gods, but there is only one God. I will do my best to remind myself, foremost, of that during the next few weeks as we pursue this Leadership course in this third most important election in the history of our country--the first being the first, the second being Lincoln's election to save the House Divided, the third, 2008, when the American people renew our sovereign and Constitutional Republic, wresting it from the 100-year reign of the shape-shifting overlords from the underworld.
Though our Congress is replete with dead wood, half our Judiciary tyrannical if not treasonous, and our Presidential hopefuls in training for One World governance, the vast majority of the American CITIZENRY--I must emphasize what used to be unstated because understood--will rally in their going Forward, the American Way. The revolutionary specialists in innovative change really don't need overlords in this congenital capacity.
Our treasured best in this renewal will be: Townhall's square where current social and political analysis will inform and Heritage.org where the Leadership plan for America is well underway. Many other "conservative"--translation: classical liberal American--sites will be crucial in righting our country's listed course. Claremont.org, American Solutions, GOPUSA, the Patriot Post, National Review, American Thinker, and many more.
Plus all the talk radio patriots who have broken up the anti-American monopoly of historical revisionism that the "Fairness" doctrine unfairly mandated. Broadcaster freedom, like free speech, is here to stay. Get used to arguing with the facts not fancy; it's the grown-up American way.
The overriding strategy of this third revolution to renew our Constitutional Republic is to ask, of each presidential platform, Congressional law, Judicial decree: what does this have to do with OUR Constitution. Name the Article; name the section; name the Amendment. And be prepared to defend your arguments rationally with all the facts at our disposal, not selecting out those found to be uncomfortable or avoiding responses to pointed questions.
The PC nightmare is over; America has woken up, and it's morning again.
When the Constitution does not source a candidate's plan for the nation, then the Spirit of the Declaration from the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God must, and any unConstitutional blasphemy will be as that same divided House of cards upon the table. That will fall; this Republic will stand.