It’s a difficult chore to give a proper definition of a topic so universal and so important as attitude. This one concept can leave us at the end of life full of regrets or completely satisfied. Attitude can define and shape every experience of life. It’s essential to learn what attitude is, and isn’t, as early as possible. In the following paragraphs, we’ll investigate the definition of attitude, why it’s important and how to control it to our greatest benefit.

Don’t Give Me Any Of Your Attitude: This is a popular phrase, used mostly by a parent, usually directed at a teenager. I mention this to explain why it isn’t attitude. The parent is reacting to a set of behaviors (one of which may be rolling of the eyes). Behaviors are not attitudes, but they reveal attitudes for those paying attention.

The Real Definition Of Attitude: Attitudes are unseen, and often unexamined motivations deep within our minds. We all develop these deep motivations so early, we’re unaware of the process. Some have suggested that even unborn children are learning attitudes, based on the emotions displayed around them. As we grow, emotional events are recorded in our minds with great importance, forming unconscious motivations for almost every action and reaction later in life. As we live, our experiences either reinforce or alter these motivations. Most of these attitudes are so deeply embedded, we never have to think of them, but they drive how we think and act, almost like remote control.

Attitudes are more obvious under stressful situations, during conflict and under the influence of chemicals, like alcohol. Ever wondered why you behaved badly under a certain condition? My violent father would break things and then hit people when in conflict. Though I vowed never to be that way, I discovered (by destroying our coffee table) that my father had programmed my attitude. Fortunately, I was reading about attitude at the time, so I had, and used, the tools to see to it this never happened again. This article it to pass those tools to you. Your attitudes shape every action and reaction you have in life.

What Attitude Can For You: This is one of the most powerful keys, that every life situation is driven by attitudes. We can control them and use them to literally change our whole experience of life, from one of false starts, conflict and failure, to ever-improving successes. Our relationships can improve in amazing time. Our performance at work can be improved. We begin to see possibilities where we used to see roadblocks. Addictions fall away into our past, never to return, because we no longer have an addictive attitude. What if there was nothing in between you and your greatest dream of achievement? There is nothing…but our attitudes! If it’s good and legal and harmless and you dream of doing it, no one can stop you except you. It’s our motivating thoughts and emotions that make us think someone or something is stopping us. If our attitudes were changed so we understood this resistance we’re getting is there to make us stronger and better able to do what we dream, everything would change. Stop signs would become stepping stones toward a whole new reality. This is the reality, if we choose to control our attitudes.

A Mental New D.E.A.L. How To Control Your Attitude:

Dream as big as you can about all the things you want your life to be. My Mom used to tell me not to get my hopes up. Get your hopes up!!! How can we expect to get anywhere our hopes haven’t been? Dreams are the magnets that draw us to a satisfying life.

Eliminate limiting thoughts with positive thoughts and plans to achieve your dreams. Our self-talk needs to change as well as our actual talk. Everything we think, say, and do impacts our attitudes. If we want to be motivated towards the positive accomplishment of our dreams, we must discipline everything we think, say and do.

Act on your new, positive plans. Dreams without action are frustrating fantasy. It doesn’t matter how small the action begins as long as we’re taking concrete steps toward our dreams. As we go, we can increase our actions and efforts until we’re all in. Yes, all in! Put everything you have in every action you take toward your dreams.

Learn from setbacks, conflicts and failures, to adjust attitudes and actions. Here’s where stop signs become stepping stones. People with an attitude of failure will use some circumstance along the way to turn their backs on their dreams. People who are reprogramming their attitudes toward success will see opportunities, here, to learn, grow, gain strength and find another way to get the job done.

As I start to sum this up, I’m worried that I’ve made it seem so simple it can’t possibly of be true. You can read hundreds of books and attend dozens of seminars, to get the same information, only expanded with illustrations, examples and exercises. You’ll learn that, either way, the results are the same, as reliable as the sunrise (established by the same Designer). I was once told that people won’t value a thing unless it has a high price. The value (and price) of controlling your attitude is in the doing of it, in the effort and discipline it takes. Once you start, you’ll discover the price is high, but fair. If you feel there should be a large financial cost on top of this, well, that’s just a matter of attitude. We can negotiate if you’d like.

Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. When Jesus died on the cross, he paid for the sins of the world for all time whether past, present or future. The result of Jesus sacrifice is in effect outside time and space. From God’s point of view, the past, present and future exist simultaneously in the Now. God is omnipresent in all space and all time. Redemption is in effect even from the beginning of creation.

When Jesus Christ died on the cross and paid for the sins of the whole world, the names of everyone that exists from the beginning of time to the end are written in the Book of Life. So people of the world have their names written in the Book of Life whether they believe in Jesus or not until the very end of time. God the Father does not consider which point in your life you actually get saved before he considers you as his child. To him, you are his child from the very day you were conceived in your mother’s womb till the day you pass from this Earth.

This is the reason why before a person is saved, he can pray to God and God hears and answers him. In a sense, there is no before or after. His effect of salvation is outside time and space. His whole life is saved no matter which point he accepts Jesus Christ as his savior.

Faith operates through Jesus Christ whether we believe in him or not. The reason why we can be healed by having the faith to be healed, is because Jesus himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses on the cross in his own body. He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.

There is only One Law, Mental Law. Law is Mind in Action. The Lord is the Law. The entire universe operates through the Spirit of Christ. All Faith is of the Lord. Jesus is the Author and Finisher of Faith. Even if you do not acknowledge the real source of faith, faith still works. Law never fails. You might not know the real reason why you are healed but you can still be healed if you believe you are healed.

According to the Law of Karma or Cause and Effect, good results in good and evil results in evil. What you sow, you shall reap. Sin is mental or physical action that is not in alignment with the will of God. To sin is to miss the mark. Sin is evil and sin cannot exist in the presence of the person of God. The wages of sin is death. To die from something is to be separated from that thing. Sin causes us to be separated from God.

Quantum physics states that something which exists will continue existing forever until something else neutralizes it. So to think that we only need to pay for the penalty of our sins for a certain period of time until it is over, is a great error. Once sin exist, it will continue existing forever and so will the penalty which is eternal separation from God. God is life, health, happiness, love, joy, peace and prosperity. The penalty of sin is to be separated from the good things of life and suffering sickness, sadness, poverty and death.

In order to be reconciled back to God again, sin has to be paid for eternally and removed completely. It takes something eternal to remove something eternal. The idea of sin being paid for only for a period of time is absolute nonsense because sin being a spiritual thing is eternal. Therefore the wages of sin is eternal death. The concept of neutralizing karma when being applied to sin has turned the punishment of sin from eternal death to temporal suffering. People professing themselves to be wise become as fools.

Man has to pay for his sins forever by being eternally separated from God. In the spiritual dimension, time and space does not exist. The separation is a mental disassociation. We are still connected to the universal aspect of God which we can never be separated from but we are separated from the personal aspect of God, we are alienated from him. We are still one with the Spirit of God but we are no longer one with Him in righteousness.

Light and darkness are separated by only one degree. They differ simply moving one frequency up and one frequency down. That one degree is all that’s needed for a separation of infinity. Distance is relative in the physical dimension but it simply does not exist in the spiritual. Light and darkness are separated not by distance but by frequency of it’s own energetic vibration and by perception of the Mind of God.

Jesus being the Eternal Son of God shed his blood for us to remove our sins eternally. He does not have to pay for sins continually in hell by eternal separation from God because the blood which he shed is eternal. Having died to sin once, his blood is eternally covering our sins forever. We are continually being washed by the blood of Jesus. Our sins are continually being put away by the blood of Jesus.

We know that blood is only a form in the physical and it doesn’t actually exist in the spiritual. Blood in the physical actually represents Life in the spiritual. Every time we consider the blood of the lamb, we truly mean the very life of the Son of God. Good always overcomes evil on the mental plane because higher vibration has more energy to neutralize lower vibration without canceling itself out completely. The life of the Son of God is infinite. You cannot subtract from infinity any portion of it but you can remove the whole of it. When the infinity of eternal life and the infinity of eternal death meet, eternal death is removed completely and eternal life still retains its infinity. Death is swallowed up in victory.

How can two things of infinity coexist side by side and not merge into one another at all? They can because they are laterally infinite but vertically apart. A frequency is laterally infinite but vertically distinguished from another. Eternal life and eternal death are infinite in a horizontal dimension but separated from a vertical dimension. You can be in the presence of a person physically and yet be worlds apart from him or her mentally. You can be light years away from someone you love but yet be connected with him or her as though you are both in the same point in existence together.

Jesus Christ has reconciled the world unto himself, not imputing your trespasses to you. He is the propitiation for our sins, not for Christians only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Understanding that the effect of salvation operates outside time and space is the key to solving the mystery and reconciling the paradox of why people of the world can connect with God as though they were Sons of God even though they have yet to be saved.

Since the sins of the whole world are paid for, and God’s justice is satisfied, there results a universal offer of salvation to the entire human race. But this does not mean that every person is automatically saved. One must accept Christ’s work on his behalf by personal trust. So the issue in salvation is not sins but only one sin. The sin of unbelief is the only thing standing between God and each member of the human race. When that is reversed by trusting in Christ, all other sins are forgiven.

The only work that is involved is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He sent. At the last judgment, the issue will be faith in Christ, not sins. If someone has failed to trust in Christ during his lifetime on earth, his name is blotted out of the book of life and he will spend eternity separated from the Godhead in the lake of fire which is the Second Death.

The effect of salvation is upon all people, but only those who have personally accepted Jesus Christ as their savior are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise until the day of redemption. So can salvation be lost? Yes, only for those who are not born again in this lifetime. They will lose their salvation at judgment day.

Your name is already written in the Book of Life, and will remain so until the end of time. The question is, will you believe in what Jesus Christ has done for you at the cross and personally accept him has your Lord and Savior? All your sins have been wiped away. The only sin that the holy spirit now reprove the world of is the singular sin of unbelief. Believe in Jesus and your name shall not be blotted out at the end of time. You will escape the second death with the angels in the lake of fire and experience eternal happiness and fellowship with God the creator who loves you so dearly, forever in the highest heavens. Is it so hard to believe? Not at all.

There’s a word for people who have no problems…deceased. As long as we live in this world, problems will happen no matter what we do. Most of us endure trouble with our relationships, jobs, money…everything we deal with. There is no way to live a life free of setbacks, disappointments, failures, abandonments and betrayals. Solving life problems is all about dealing with them in a way that doesn’t break us but makes us stronger and more resilient.

Relationship Problems: These are some of the most serious issues we’ll face. It starts with our parents and siblings and moves on to friends. It’s complicated enough just to work things out between two people, but there are never just two people and never just one kind of relationship. Family, friends, parents, children and marriage all seem to require a different you. When you please one, others are upset and offended you didn’t do the same for them, or just ignored them, or something. Those who have no relationship problems have no relationships, which is a problem.

Problems On The Job: Just when we thought relationship issues were handled, we got a job and discovered a whole new set of complications. There’s the pushy boss, the dishonest co-worker, the flirty person of different gender, the flirty person of the same gender (I live in California), the people who think they should have your job and the ones who think you’re after their jobs, to name a few common ones. You all spend 8 hours a day in the same play pen, working through projects, deadlines, setbacks, disasters, back-stabbings, revolts, threats, audits, and team meetings…and that was just my ministry job. Can you say, “Stress in the workplace?” There’s a reason more than 50% of heart attacks happen on Mondays. But, we have to have a job to earn money, at least before Welfare.

Problems With Money: You don’t really have trouble until you have money trouble. Now we’re talking problem with a capital P. At some time in our lives, we realize we’re in competition with others. I noticed it first in 3rd grade when Tommy had Converse All Stars tennis shoes, but my parents could only afford Keds. In third grade, you had to have that star or you weren’t cool. So, now you’re thirty or forty and the star has grown into a 2,500 square foot house, flashy SUV or import sedan, plasma TV, designer clothes, designer vacations and cell phones for the kids, so your seven-year-old can coordinate her social calendar. Somehow the word strapped doesn’t quite say it…maybe hog-tied is a better term. I often counsel people who have money trouble, to add up all their credit card balances and then list the cost of everything they remember buying to get to that number. A precious few might remember half of the stuff that was so important they went into debt for it. Imagine paying 20 years on Christmas gifts the kids broke within weeks.

One Solution To Life Problems: It’s my hope that, like me, you saw yourself in the above paragraphs. These kinds of problems are so universal, they’re common themes used in stories, from drama to comedy, even science fiction. Even suffering crimes, disease and abuse is common…everyone gets their share. The unusual thing would be to have few troubles, or none. Some problems are obvious and some hidden, but we’ve all got ‘em, whether we admit it or not. The difference comes in how we deal with these issues and how they affect us. One person buckles down and makes improvements in his life…another becomes depressed and kills himself…why? All problems happen outside of us, but some people bring them inside and give them a home, nurture and feed them until the emotions are overwhelming. This brings us to one solution that works with all life problems…living inside out.

Living inside out means deciding that nothing happening outside of us will be allowed to control us, or our outlook on life. We can’t change other people, mean co-workers, diseases, crimes…they just are, and we accept that they are. The rain falls on everyone, good and bad, alike. Based on how they’ve decided to be, inside, some people curse the rain…others use it productively, to quench thirst, wash, and grow things. Living inside out means using our troubles to grow and strengthen ourselves. We can use relationship, job, money and other problems to identify those things inside us that need to improve, and improve them. Instead of cursing the things outside us we can’t change, we change the things we can…those things inside us.

Living inside out means we can turn our problems inside out, making them tools with which to build a better life. Think about it! Without relationship problems, we’d be bored with everyone. Without work problems our employers wouldn’t need us. Without money problems we would never understand its value. Problems are the texture in the fabric of life, nothing more. Without them, our lives would be flat, lacking excitement and fulfillment. How can we appreciate being loved if we’ve never been hated? How can we have the pleasure of success if we never fail? Trouble means we’re still in the game! Next time a huge problem hits you, thank God, because it means you’re alive and you still have important work to do and room to grow. If you don’t have problems, check your pulse.

Mention of the Great Masters, also called the Great White Brotherhood, evokes images of highly evolved beings, visiting the Earth to help man in his struggling attempts to realize his spiritual nature. Based on my readings, that’s exactly what the Brotherhood does. We are very fortunate to have a council of Master’s who devote their energies to monitoring our progress and personally intervening with individuals and world events at times of need.

The Brotherhood goes by many names and is chronicled by such diverse authors as Alice Bailey (referring to them as the seven Kumaras), Baird Spalding (calling them the White Brotherhood and the Thirteenth School); Dane Rudhyar (the seven Avatars); Omraam M. Aivanhov (the Universal White Brotherhood); Madame Blavatsky (the Dhyan Chohans, Great White Lodge); and of course, the ancient authors of the Rig Veda who referred to them as the seven Sapta Rishis (teachers). Gurdjieff also makes indirect references to the Brotherhood.

Questions are often raised as to whether there is a racial bias in the term, the Great White Brotherhood. This concern is well addressed by Frater Achad: “…reference to the word ‘white’ has nothing to do with the color of the skin or to any race. It does indicate the radiance of the spiritual color of the soul (its aura)…. The Divine wears many colored bodies.”
As we explore the Brotherhood, certain writers stand out. The accounts that follow begin ancient Asian texts and continue through more recent authors.

Yogic Tradition (India): Probably the most ancient references to the Great Masters are found in India in the Rig Veda. Here they are referred to as the seven Sapta Rishis, who are said to guide mankind from the inner worlds. It is said that these Rishis were the first disciples of Shiva, the Adi (first) yogi.

Sufi Tradition: The Sufi’s association with the Brotherhood has been documented in depth-most notably through publications of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK) and Octagon Press. The Naqshbandis have been the most prominent “order” of Sufis involved in supporting the work of the Brotherhood, who they refer to as the Hidden Directorate. The Naqshbandis also speak of the Qutb, a spiritual leader, or Axis, whose presence enables the continuation of the world.

Classical Greeks: Plato, considered to be an Initiate himself, made reference to the “Seven Spirits before the Throne of God.”

H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1888: The iconoclastic Madame Blavatsky did much to pave the way for contemporary esoteric spirituality. The Secret Doctrine, her greatest work, is a fascinating chronicle of ancient cultures and integrates much of the common essence running through the great world religions.

Much of her focus was on the great Masters. She explains that (the Dhyan Chohans) “are all Anupadaka (parentless), i.e., self-born of divine essence…. (They) are seven, of whom five only have hitherto manifested (Sinnett’s Esoteric Buddhism), and two are to come in the sixth and seventh root-races.” Through her extensive research, Blavatsky points out that the divine “seven” were expressed in some manner in all classic world religions.

Baird Spalding, Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East, 1924, 1948: Spalding is perhaps one of the most respected documenters of the Great White Brotherhood. Volume I describes the author’s personal experiences with several Masters of the Himalayas. These Masters can materialize at will, communicate through telepathy, and exhibit some of the most saintly behavior ever seen. They would appear to represent higher echelons of the White Brotherhood.

In Volume 4 of the series Spalding addresses a few misconceptions about the White Brotherhood. He says that “… they never make themselves known as such… So long as constructive forces work in ‘secret,’ they grow unnoticed by those who would destroy their effect. There will come a time, however, when they (the illumined) will work more openly… when there are enough illumined people to know and understand what they are doing…. At this time of such helpless disintegration, and only then, are the activities of the Brotherhood likely to come out into the open to strengthen the Truth in the minds of all the people.”

Nicholas Roerich, Shambhala, 1930: Roerich was a Russian mystic and an artist of the spiritual and metaphysical. He wrote at least four books that popularized the Great White Brotherhood and documented his extensive travels through Central Asia in search of the legendary Shambhala or Agartha, said by some to be the physical headquarters of the Brotherhood. Some researchers of Roerich have speculated that his writing borrowed heavily from Ossendowski and Blavatsky.

Dane Rudhyar, Astrology of Personality, 1936: The deeper we dig into the Great White Brotherhood, the more intriguing the findings. According to Rudhyar, a student of the famous esoterist Alice Bailey, the seven Avatars comprise all of God that exists now. Rudhyar suggests that, when God “became” the Universe, God’s spirit became embodied in the seven Avatars as well as the Universe itself.

G.I. Gurdjieff, Meetings with Remarkable Men, 1963: Gurdjieff has a fascination with the ancient mystic brotherhoods and monasteries of Central Asia (Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, etc). Much of Meetings with Remarkable Men is devoted to his tenacious search for the secret teachings of these mysterious brotherhoods. The brotherhoods that Gurdjieff visited appear to be spin-offs of the Great White Brotherhood.

One of the monasteries that Gurdjieff was successful in locating and visiting was the “World Brotherhood” in Kafiristan, which appears to be in northern Pakistan. According to Gurdjieff, it was a brotherhood “which any man could enter, irrespective of the religion to which he had formerly belonged…Among the adepts of this monastery there were former Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, Buddhists, Lamaists, and even a Shamanist. All were united by God in the Truth.” He indicated that some of the brothers at this school were 200 to 300 years old. One of the monastery’s teachings which Gurdjieff adopted concerned the importance of learning through experience-so that what is learned becomes inherent in one’s being.

Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 1946: Yogananda did not speak of the White Brotherhood per se, but spoke extensively of the avatars and the “Great Ones.” He explains that the “descent” of Divinity into flesh results in the presence of an avatar. Yogananda gives us a beautiful account of Babaji, a living yogi and avatar of the Himalayas who “has maintained physical form for centuries or millenniums.” Babaji teaches the potential for bodily immortality, and has promised to stay his physical body forever (during this world cycle). According to Yogananda, Babaji is “ever in communion with Christ.”

Frater Achad, Ancient Mystical White Brotherhood, 1971: Frater Achad (Rev George G. Price) was a retired minister and channel. Accordingly to Achad, “Ever since man has been, the ancient mystical White Brotherhood after the Order of Melchizedek has been… It is birthless, ageless, and deathless… It is not a mundane organization, having no earthly lodges nor material buildings… They are very high spiritual beings from many planets of the universe, including this planet Earth.

“Its members are assigned to teach and enlighten the leaders of the Earth, seers, prophets, kings, presidents, educators, philosophers, etc. They always guide through inspiration… They were referred to in the sacred (Judeo-Christian Muslim) books… as angels… The presiding elders of the White Brotherhood are the Master Jesus and the beloved Gautama Buddha… The Brotherhood exists ‘to develop humanity’s perceptions of it’s own Divine inherent nature.’”

J. J. Hurtak, The Keys of Enoch, 1977: According to Hurtak, “…the Brotherhood of Michael, the Brotherhood of Enoch, and the Brotherhood of Melchizedek, direct the seventy Brotherhoods of the Great White Brotherhood… They will take the Exodus to other star systems in order to begin a new genesis in the next ordering of creation. At this time the Great White Brotherhood will come to take its own seed; for twenty million years ago it planted its seed crystal within the galaxy.

Omraam Mikael Aivanhov, A Philosophy of Universality, 1980: Aivanhov was a Bulgarian master who lived from 1900 to 1986. He named his fellowship of students (10,000 worldwide) the Universal White Brotherhood. Aivanhov acknowledges that, “The true Universal White Brotherhood on high is composed of all the highly evolved beings that have ever existed.”

Georg Feuerstein, of one Aivanhov’s biographers and a noted scholar of spirituality and yoga, refers to the Universal White Brotherhood as “that invisible college of higher beings who have the spiritual evolution of humankind at heart.”

S. Subramuniyaswami, The Lemurian Scrolls, 1998: Satguru Subramuniyaswami gives the Brotherhood a prominent place in his recent epic, the Lemurian Scrolls. Transcribed from the Akasha and acclaimed by the Hindu community, the book gives a broad account of the Brotherhood during Lemurian times.

Subramuniyaswami explains that a Brotherhood of gurus has been present of Earth throughout human history to guide our evolution. He indicated that this secret order lived monasteries in past yugas (ages), but now move freely about the world in varied walks of life. “Through their great telepathic powers, they (meet) in council most regularly…Their purpose on the planet, after dissolving their monasteries at the end of the Treta Yuga, has been to set new patterns and innovate systems.”

According to Subramuniyaswami, “The rishis are to lead all the deserving beings from this planet in the (Satya) Yuga, thus completing their mission.”

When we see the continuity of accounts of the Rishis, the White Brotherhood, the Great Masters, we can’t help but feel grateful for their dedication to helping us in our attempts to grow toward the Divinity from which we came and to which we are evolving. I believe that the Brotherhood is as active today as ever, maybe especially today, as the Earth and its peoples are confronting seemingly unprecedented challenges.

In my experiences with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, a yogi master from Southern India who has visited the US in recent years, I have observed that he always concludes his program with a heartfelt expression of gratitude to “the Masters” who have guided us. When one views the depth of Sadhguru’s commitment and his accomplishments in his lifetime thus far, it appears very plausible that he works directly with these beings.

I clearly believe that the Masters are with us today and love us dearly, and that they and their designees are here for us whenever we call on them for spiritual help and direction.

To ignore the significance of Trinity is to ignore the model of community and individuality that God expects Mankind to imitate. To understand how Humanity is required to emulate the triune God, we need to briefly revisit the nature of Trinity.

When we speak of Trinity we have two ideas in mind; the ontological Trinity and the economical. The ontological Trinity refers to the being of God. The economical has to do with God as the active agent in the created realm. Mankind is supposed to imitate both the ontological and the economical aspects of Trinity. However, for our purposes in this article we will examine the responsibility of mankind in imitating the ontological Trinity only.

As we discussed previously each of the three persons in the Trinity are equally God. The Divine Being is of one indivisible essence and yet three individual subsistences (having real being or existence). With a bit of reflection it should be obvious to us that within God, the one and the many are equally ultimate. Since there is no aspect of God’s being which he is somehow unaware of, we can rest assured that he does not waver between the one and the many, unsure of which is the supreme concept. Rather, within the Trinity there is perfect fellowship and love expressed in perfect unity and diversity. In God the one is every bit as fundamental as the many.

This truth has profound implications for human society. For instance, the Christian faith is expressed in both the individual believer and in the corporate church. It is impossible that they be independent of one another or that one should have precedent over the other. Thus the covenant community ought to reflect the reality of the ontological Trinity; the institution of the Church must not overthrow the conscience of the individual and the individual Christian cannot justly believe that they may worship God in a “church of one.”

Mankind should imitate the Trinitarian example in the institution of the State as well. A God honoring civil government recognizes that neither the one nor the many is separately ultimate. However when the triune God of the Bible is no longer worshiped, the State grows in power, claiming to be the One that represents the Many. In reality, the godless State seeks to make the One ultimate and grows ever more powerful and intrusive. Thereby an authentic concept of the Many is quickly eliminated. The godless State assumes power unto itself and demands that the individual find his identity as part of the one State and nowhere else. A natural outcome of this is the impetus toward a leveling of society. If there is no such thing as individuality then it becomes the duty of the One (the State), to eliminate the differences between one member of the state and another. A common manifestation of this is the effort to redistribute wealth through taxation and welfare.

If a concerted effort is not made to check the State it continues to amass power so that it may fend off any challenge to its supremacy. Individuality disappears under a blizzard of legislation which serves to crush the populace into a unitary mold. The drive toward universal education, increased enrollment and graduation rates reveals not an interest in learning but in creating a bland and easily manipulated populace.

To overcome these pressures requires tremendous effort which is rarely rewarded. Commendation is reserved for those who resign their will to the state while independent thinkers often find themselves in conflict with the authorities.

Efforts to roll back the unitary State must be energized by Trinitarian thinking in order to succeed. Unfortunately, few politically active persons understand this. Hence, they fight fire with fire and manage to fan the flames of the conflagration.