I have felt it is important to post one of the translations from The Higher Law. This will give each of you an opportunity to experience the nature, tone, and message of The Higher Law. The translation I was instructed to provide is “The Three Pillars of Economics.” The character for this translation is shown below:
This is the 14th character translated on the outside circle of The Higher Law. As each character builds on principles established in prior characters, you will not have full context for this. Because of this, I will quickly explain two references that may be helpful in understanding the translation.
- The Moral Code – This refers to a previous translation called “The Moral Code,” which states, “The moral code is the foundation of The Higher Law and represents the moral truths upon which The Higher Law will be established. The moral code is the guiding principles to which each individual who desires to learn and follow the Higher Law consents.”
- The Beast – In a previous translation called, “The Rise of the Beast,” it states “The Beast is among all nations and people. It is made up of a diverse group of individuals, who seek for power, wealth and the honors of men. It is the most powerful evil organization that has ever existed in this world.”
The Three Pillars of Economics
(Title revealed on October 8, 2009, Translation revealed on October 13, 2009)
As I have taught you, the economic structure defined by The Higher Law is based on the natural laws that I, God, have created based on eternal truths. The Moral Code is the principles by which individual interactions and transactions are governed. To operate according to My design, this economic structure requires transparency and accountability. Transparency requires that the price, other terms and the performance of each party be reported for each transaction. Transparency does not require that a business disclose its cost or business model. Accountability requires that all involved in this economic structure be accountable for their performance for each transaction. Buyer and sellers must be able to evaluate the past performance of other companies based on the reporting of past transactions as required by transparency. These two principles allow the economic structure to be self regulating and remove any need for government intervention. Upon this foundation, I will now define the three pillars of economics.
Division of Labor
This principle allows individuals to pursue a single area of employment. This enables each individual to become specialized in their specific area and increases the overall output of the market. This further creates excess time above what is required for daily subsistence for each of My children. The division of labor creates communities where individuals can work together to meet the overall needs of the market. Each person must have complete agency in the selection and development of their employment, subject to the natural laws of the overall market. This creates an environment where I can work with each child to lead them through their passions and talents to those employments that will enable them to accomplish the purposes that I have designed for them.
The beast recognizes the power that My children obtain through a proper functioning division of labor. Thus it seeks to manipulate this through culture biases regarding acceptable employment choices, traditions and false beliefs that leads individuals away from enlightenment and understanding and various strategies that hinders the agency of the individual in pursuing their employment of choice. The beast utilizes these same tools to manipulate trade balances and other key aspects of the market.
The Market
The market can be defined as communities of individuals and organizations which share information and perform transactions. The market consists of the natural laws of supply, demand and competition. A market is required for and determines the extent of the division of labor. The market creates an environment where my children can learn the character traits and personal accountabilities necessary for their progression. By honoring the three components of agency through their interactions in the market, the opportunities, challenges and lesson are provided that lead My children to the purposes of their lives. Can you understand how valuable the market is to me in working with My children? As most of My children spend a majority of their time providing for their wants and needs through the economic structure, the market creates an environment where I can teach and help My children advance according to the eternal patterns of truth.
The beast understands the power of a market defined on natural laws. The beast’s primary efforts to stop this are to change the natural laws through government regulation, character degradation and conflict. The adversary knows that if he can manipulate the market sufficiently, he can significantly hinder my influence in a significant aspect of my children’s lives. Through this he can destroy hope, teach complacency and remove the understanding of purpose in the lives of my children.
Monetary Policy
Monetary policy can be defined as the set of rules and procedures that govern the currency or primary medium of exchange for a market. This includes the issuance of currency, the valuation of currency and all components of money supply. As defined in the translation of the “The Rise of the Beast”, the manipulation of monetary policy through central banks and its root organizations is the primary source of power for the beast. In most cases, the beast has used fractional banking to significantly increase the money supply and the volatility of the market. Through this, the beast justified the need for a central bank with limited accountability and transparency. The beast then utilizes the power and wealth it receives through the manipulation of monetary policy to influence politics, change the laws of the market and hinder the progress of my children through its calculated effects on the economy. The ultimate objective of the beast is to create a single world economy and monetary policy controlled by a central bank that it may obtain power and dominion over all of the earth.
Under the economic structure that I am teaching you in the Higher Law, there is no need for a central bank. As this economic structure will not allow fractional banking, and as the monetary policy will be defined according to natural laws, the valuation of currency and the money supply will be self-regulated by the market. I will hereafter define this in greater detail. For now let it suffice that I, God, also desire to build a worldwide economy and monetary policy for the specific purpose to ensure that all of My children have the liberties, opportunities and patterns of truth that I, God, have designed for the progress of My children.
In the history of the world, has God ever intervened with the monetary and economic control of society? I am not attacking, just curious. What is different now than at other points in society? I need to look into this a little more before I comment.
Sure there are problems with our society, but I think we have the best economy in the world. I think it all comes down to being honest in your business, with others, and developing your talents so that you can provide for your family. It is within the family that we are able to grow and develop our talents. Teach your kids to work hard and within our society there are ways to succeed. The “beast” won’t have a chance if future generations are taught correct principles while they are young.
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Hi Mary,
Since you asked, maybe I can help provide a new perspective. If God is synonymous with truth, does truth ever intervene in any aspect of our lives? If I need to make bread, but all I have is water and honey, does truth physically intervene to prevent me from trying to make bread out of water and honey? No…I can keep trying to make bread this way until I die, but in the end truth has the final say because making bread from water and honey is not in accordance with truth.
That being said, there is universal truth, or natural laws that govern an economy, which laws are higher than the laws we create. If a company does not make decisions based on truth (for example if they spend more than they produce), then according to natural law the company would have to reduce its spending, produce more, or suffer demise. If it does not correct its disorder then a competing company that has made decisions in accordance with truth (it produces more than it consumes) would naturally rise in its place.
However, when men in government do not want a large company to collapse because the members of the company contribute financially to their political support, these men then use their positions in government not to create laws based on truth (laws that protect individual rights and freedoms), but create laws to force citizens to continue to support the disordered company, which of course creates more disorder. In essence, it would be as if the government was made up entirely of beekeepers who did not want my “bread making company” to fail because I keep buying large amounts of their honey. Since nobody wants to buy my “bread” made of honey and water, the government beekeepers then force my fellow citizens to give me their money because I can no longer afford to buy honey from the government beekeepers. This in turn takes money away from the companies that make real bread according to true laws, and also takes money away from the people that are trying to buy bread for their families, all to support my fruitless endeavor.
So in this example, it is man who has intervened in the economy by creating false laws. In this translation, God, a representative of truth, is trying to help us discern the false laws men create that bind us to destruction and restore an economic system based on truth. Does that help answer your question?
To touch on the other points you made, yes, the U.S. is the most productive economy in the world. However, no one can say it is the “best” because an economy has just as much to do with consumption as it does production. Someone who makes $5 billion a year might have what you consider the “best” salary, but if they spend $10 billion a year they are destined for financial ruin if this is not corrected. This is where transparency comes in – we do not know what the true state of our economy is because we have not been able to audit the Federal Reserve. They will not allow their books to be open to public scrutiny and so we are under their control.
The last points you made are about honesty, family, and correct principles. What is honesty? The beekeepers can claim they are being honest when they funnel taxpayer money to my “bread making company” because they did so according to the law. Under the law, I can say my business is honest. But is it? Do business owners teach their children honesty according to the laws of men or the laws of God? This knowledge is what makes or breaks an economy and a society.
To consider this further, I highly recommend reading “The Law” by Frederick Bastiat. It’s long but worth every minute.
http://www.constitution.org/law/bastiat.htm
Never in all the words that God has spoken, has he encouraged competition! Consider Isaac and Ishmael, Ishmael’s desire to be better than Isaac led him to be condemned by God. Consider Joseph and his brothers – the brothers were condemned for what they did to Joseph because of their competitive nature. Just thinking that you believe God thinks competition is good goes against the New Law that Christ brought upon the earth. Instead of reading this blog, everybody please visit Matthew for real “Higher Law”. Seriously, you need to stop the insanity. It is probably swallowing people in its wake. I think the “Beast” is in you.
Thankyou for the insights, I will check out the reading material you reference.
Christy,
God hasn’t condemned competition at all. There’s nothing wrong with competition. That’s what makes people and things great.
What God has condemned is inequality, including in competition. More specifically, man-made inequality.
In the case of Joseph and his brothers, they (obviously) violated his natural rights by selling him into Egypt. That’s not a matter of competition, that’s envy elevated to the level of crime.
Admittedly, I don’t know as much about the story of Ishmael, but I have no doubt that with a little study it will prove similar.
Competition has never been condemned (unless you can point to the specific references where it has). Envy, illegal advantage and self-proclaimed or sought superiority (rule) have always been condemned.
It is possible to be competitive and still just. In an economy, that’s exactly what is expected of us. That’s the engine of innovation. Equality and competition are not only mutually compatible, they are complimentary and exceptionally powerful.
In a closed system with given resources, the model of rules you give ensures monopolies and poverty because it allows open competition and does not forbid gathering of excess.
This allows one person or group to gather a controlling portion or share of resources through competitive practices in a free market.
The same thing happens in nature, in competition for resources some animals win out over others, this induces a form of natural poverty. This is normal for any system with given or fixed annual resources, a growing population and competition. In nature through such systems, single organisms tend to come to dominate an environment over time: even nature promotes monopolies which end up limiting the resources for newcomers.
In other words, your proposals of a law reflect those of nature and thus if God created nature then your laws are like gods, but they still ensure poverty and suffering, just like nature does.
But then God doesn’t work though language, books, words or institutions, God works in each of us, and we are all born knowing the higher law, because God made us in his image.
What language was the original in?
Can you provide translation notes?
The PoGP, with the controversial glyph in it, was not actually considered scripture by Joseph Smith, who never included it among the scripture works of his church when he was alive. It was added after the reformation of the Church. FYI
@josh:
What makes you think this is a “closed system with given resources?”
Also, you assume that all control and power is tipped in favor of one side vs. another. In an open, unregulated, transparent system, the check against monopolies is the consumer. They have full freedom to choose where they commit their resources. If one provider provides consistently superior products or services, that provider should not be punished by a system that forbids the “gathering of excess.” They should be rewarded without limitation.
Further, who defines the boundaries of “excess” that you suggest must be forbidden?
Also, your comparison to “nature” is misleading.
“All animals are created equal” is not a statement of truth. Animals don’t have sufficient intelligence to consider and act according to such notions as truth and equality. They simply react to their environments by instinct.
That’s why we’re different. We’re held to a higher standard–a “higher law” if you will.
>>>who defines the boundaries of “excess” that you suggest must be forbidden?
Where did I make this suggestion?
>>>What makes you think this is a “closed system with given resources?”
Basic economic reality. GWP is something someone who knows economics should be aware of.
If you think that all humans are created equal then you betray your obstinate mentality, for no claim is capable of being more untrue than this one. I have an uncle with downs syndrome, he cannot work, and to suggest that he was created with equality in any functional capacity in terms of this world is absurd. Moreover when individuals we know and love become injured or unable to work then the libertarian models that your work is based upon fail to help them.
And for me there lies the difference between us and animals, for animals cannot care for their wounded, their infirm or their invalid, they may bellow and mourn as the lion takes the infirm creatures, but they cannot act upon their compassion, and we can.
And that is not to suggest that animals lack com[passion, surely they have it, however they lack the ability to define their own actions according to their own ideology, while we can act and thus promulgate our ideals in ways that animals cannot even imagine. This blog is an example of this concept of promulgation: the bringing into effect a philosophical concept and thus illustrates the difference between humans and the other animals in a superb manner.
Animals do not require a code, a law or any form of instruction and I only think we need this to undo the damage being done by society to our spiritual identity.
…the model of rules you give ensures monopolies and poverty because it allows open competition and does not forbid gathering of excess.
Maybe I’m misreading that, but it sure looks like you’re pointing out what you consider to be a flaw because it does not account for a way to “forbid gathering of excess.” Is there some other way to read that?
Next: So you don’t believe the statement that all men are created equal?
(2 + 2) = (1 + 3). Different, but equal. Equal does not mean the same. Disabilities (born or developed), environmental circumstances, etc. do not make humans less equal. They make them different.
I don’t disagree at all with your comments about compassion, but as soon as a system is instituted by which compassion is compelled, you’ve broken the founding law of our creation: that all men are created equal.
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