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 %HOLY SPIRIT STILL SMALL VOICE GUIDE MOTIVATE LOVE+940529
   %CONFORM PRISON PRESCRIBE FORMULA PROHIBIT TABOO+940529
%THREAT EXCOMMUNICATE ALIENATE CONSEQUENCE FAIL JOY+940529
   %ESCAPE TRANSCEND HEALTH HONESTY INTEGRITY HEART 940529

    Legalists insist that lives be lived in conformity  to
their collections of prescriptions, formulas, prohibitions
and  taboos---under   their   threats  of  excommunicative
consequences in the case of failures to conform. Legalists
do  not  trust people to seek integrity,   honesty,   holy
relationships and health apart from coercion and threats--
-because    they   themselves  do  not   seek   integrity,
honesty, holy relationships and health apart from coercion
and  threats.   They believe that others are motivated  as
they  are,  and so they do not trust others,  because they
know that they themselves are not trustworthy.

    Holy people  who enjoy holy intimate relationships are
whole   people  who  enjoy  integrity,   honesty,    whole
relationship  and  health---apart from  coercive  threats.
Holy people are  not striving to conform to any collection
of prescriptions, formulas,  prohibitions or taboos.  They
do   not  live  under  threats  of  excommunications   and
disintegrative  consequences  in the case of  failures  to
conform.

    Holy people are not dominated by legalists  who do not
trust   others---because they know legalists cannot  trust
themselves to be true to  self  and others.   Holy  people
transcend  the manipulative paradigms of legalists.   Holy
people are  not  preoccupied  with  laws,  and  leave  the
legalists  free  to figure out how they (the holy  people)
have let go of legalistic shackles and so are free of them
while being true to the insights to which integrative laws
points.

    Holy  people  listen to the still small voice  of  the
Holy  Spirit   calling them to seek  honesty,   integrity,
wholeness   and  health  within  gentle   relationships---
wherein   they  are  free  of  coercion  and   threats  of
excommunications  which  lead  to  personal  and  communal
disintegration.

    Legalists fear the promptings of the still small voice
of  the  Holy Spirit---for it leads people to abandon  the
collusive  games  of  mutual self deception to  which  the
legalists  cling, and with which they  shackle  themselves
and   each  other  within  their  legalistic  prisons   of
conformity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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