Black Sins and Red Sins

 

Hi Everyone.  This is Leo Volont with Part One of my two part Series “Black Sins and Red Sins”.

 

1   A few years back I dreamed two Angels came and instructed me on the Subject of the Two types of Sin.  They even came with Chalkboard and pointers. The way I remember it is, as the dream began, I was waiting in a train station.  At the time it hadn’t crossed my mind whether I was planning to go somewhere or just waiting for somebody.   But when the train arrived, I was met at the swing door by the Two Angels getting off.  They intercepted me, and asked me to join them.  Well, Okay.  Maybe that’s what I was waiting for.   They were dressed in Clerical Black but somehow I knew they were Angels.  They asked me to follow them and they led me to a corner in the Terminal Waiting Area and commenced their Lecture.  The train had been an old style train, and the inside of the Terminal looked like 19^th Century unpainted wood, but the glass windows were clean and I saw the green of the trees and the blue of the sky outside.  Well, That’s important because the color intensity shows it to have been an important Dream.

 

2    So, as I learned, it turns out there’s two distinct categories of Sin.  First there’s that kind of  Sin that damns one to Hell,  and then there’s the other kind of Sin that attaches only to the body and dies away when the body dies.   These two types of Sin are called, respectively, "Black Sin" and "Red Sin". 

 

 

3   The Black Sins are the ones that destine one for Hell and they’re the premeditated Evils – Evil done in cold blood, Evil done for profit, the Evil of Rugged Individuality that preys on Society like Wolves feeding on Sheep.  All such intentional and deliberate Evils that victimize and exploit others are the Black Sins.    Black Sins, as I learned,  are the cancer that can kill a Civilization.

 

4    The Red Sins, on the other hand, are crimes of passion and appetite.  Red Sins are the sins of the flesh.  As Humanity trudges the slow evolutionary process between base animality and noble spirituality, well, the Red Sins are perhaps like small residual monkey tails that while suggesting our animal origins don’t negate what Humanity we have thus far attained.   

 

5   Then there’s the conditionality of the Red Sins to consider, that even while we can still lament that our animal urges are engaged, the impulses to sin are coming unsought, with our Second Order Thinking being far more Godly than our First Order thinking, that is, wishing that we didn’t want to do these things.  Every Red Sin is somewhat akin to that of a poor hungry man stealing a loaf of bread, a deed that’s never done without mixed feelings.    

 

6   We live, after all, in a Material World and the Body insists on its own imperatives.   If only the appetites could be removed, then so also would be any impulse to commit such Red Sins.  And this is exactly what happens when the body passes away.  Death brings a final liberation from the Red Sins… or it should.  What actually happens in many cases was then explained.    

 

7   The worst that might happen in regards to these Red Sins is that we may become habituated to and identified with our purely animal appetites – as in the case of a man who makes a hobby of sex or gluttony, and takes pride in such things, to the point where such inclinations and behaviors become integral to his self-image.  As such a Soul transitions towards a spiritual existence it’ll feel lost if all its priorities and sense of identity have become aligned around what are only material incumbrances that really have no nesting place in the higher more ethereal Spiritual Realms.   

 

8    Clinging to the old habits and conditionings, the Soul will find itself too dense and too opaque to tolerate the Light of Heaven.  Remember that light streaking through a vacuum traces no beam.  Light shows itself only in collision with Matter, reflecting all that’s not absorbed.  And Light absorbed into Matter becomes heat and past a certain point heat burns and burning hurts.

 

9   Oh, please allow me here to mention an incidental fact that relates to the Truth that ‘Light not reflected is absorbed and becomes Heat’.  I had a dream in which I was in Elijah’s Dark Cave of Prayer (I mentioned this Cave in my Video Series “The Virgin Mary and a Love Story”)… In the Dream, as Elijah was telling me “Behold, the Principalities of the Sky vie for thy Soul”, well, the ceiling and walls of the cave vanished leaving me a view of a clear blue sky where I saw dozens of Flying Dragons circling around in aerial combat.  Well, I couldn’t tell who was winning or even whom I was supposed to be rooting for.  So Elijah, seeing he needed to explain, told me that the Angels of Goodness glow with their own Light generated from within, while the Demons deceive by wearing bright armor and so shine only by reflected Light.   Yeah, there might be a lot of Pretense in that Armor, but I think there’s more to it than that.  It’s probably also intended to reflect off Light that’s bright enough to burn them.

 

10   So, to the Pure Clear Soul that has risen above the Material, the Light of Heaven is a joy, a thrill, a splendid ambiance.  The most intense light can pass straight through, sensed by Ethereal Spirit but not absorbed,  registering as a pleasure, not as a pain. But that can’t be said of the Coarse and the Worldly Souls where the Light becomes a blinding burning pain.  But that’s not to say that there’s no hope.  This is one of those cases where a Curse comes packing a Blessing.   You see, In Burning, the Impurities are consumed. 

 

11   The Angels explained that this is the very point of Purgatory where the suffering comes not from the Fires of Hell but from the Light of Heaven.   You see, there’s no fixed boundaries between Purgatory and Heaven, but that the Absolute Light of God is fixed in the Center, where the White Light is a Liquid Fire,.. but with distance it diminishes in intensity until at the outer reaches of Purgatory the Light is only the lightest of pinpricks to those still retaining Animalistic Contaminations.  The Angels emphasized that if I remember anything from their lecture and pass it on it should be this:  To Go Towards The Light, even when it hurts.  The closer you can get to It, and the more pain you can endure, the shorter will be your time of Suffering.  

 

12   But many souls doom themselves for near eternities in a barely endurable twilight, fearing the pain that brings them closer to Perfection.  If only they could push themselves to rush onwards, to charge into the Blistering Beautiful Light with open smoking flaming arms.  After all, it is not like it could kill them, right?  And don’t they say that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?  But in this case, we’d say “Purer” or “Clearer”.

 

13    But, no, we don’t need to wait until we’re dead.  The ties, attachments and the pull of the Red Sins can be addressed all while we’re still alive.  Mostly we need to etherealize our interests.   Replacing often works better than Renouncing.   Simply pulling ourselves away from our cravings would leave a vacuum that would suck us back in, wouldn’t it?  But if we move into Newer and Higher Interests first then we wouldn’t have the same time and attention left over for the Old and the Lower, would we? 

 

14   But, then again, Life must be lived and we do in fact have appetites that tell us as much about what we need as what we only want, and so we shouldn’t deny ourselves necessities to which we’re honestly entitled, and Charity was never intended to be a weapon by which we commit suicide.    

 

15   Of course, when it comes to Etherealizing our appetites, Youth is as much a Curse as it is a Blessing, and Old Age as much a Blessing as it is a Curse.  The Young and Inexperienced  haven’t the insight that “there can be too much of a Good Thing”, you know, that excessive drinking leads to hang-overs and occasional weekends in jail, that prolonged sex is like a forced march where our heart’s real deepest yearning would be for a rest break and a beer, and that the most beautiful women are often super high maintenance with exorbitantly expensive tastes, and often they’re the nastiest nags.  

 

16   And the same kind of complaints can cover the full span of our desires, so we should all become familiar with the concept of ‘Engineering Compromise’, where, for example, The Greatest Speed may be the Ideal for a Race Car, but then there would be scarce provisions for Comfort, Noise Reduction, Air Conditioning, Gas Mileage, Fuel Tank Range and Affordability.  If Life In The Fast Lane has taught me anything it’s that the Fastest Cars, Airplanes and Motorcycles are Budget Breaking Torture Racks!  So, yes, maybe the Lesson of “Moderation In All Things” can come only with Real Life Experience, and, yeah, if you’ve never gotten tired of partying, then you probably haven’t partied enough.    

 

17   Yes, it is also a common observation noted by the Worldly Wise that we only need to get what we wish for in order to break the spell of wanting it at all.    For instance, I once had a real laugh when a friend of mine told me that the two of the happiest moments of his life were, First, when he got the boat he had always dreamed of, and then, Second, when he was finally able to sell his boat.  But can’t we infer that had he never gotten the boat then he would’ve continued on wanting it?  So, yeah, it may be the case that those most spiritually twisted up by carnal and material desires are those who experienced fulfilling them the least, going to their graves still yearning for the Beautiful Women, Fast Cars and everything else they never had. 

 

18    But does that mean it’s only the Sated and Fulfilled that can go peacefully to the Great Beyond?  Well, it shouldn’t and so the ideal we should aim for is to die leaving our appetites behind with a sense of Relief and not with Regret, looking Up and not looking Back.  But, the way it might actually play out for us is, well, we might still be caught up in our Worldly Desires up until the time we realize it’s really too late, and that our “the Boat has Sailed”,  and that we had our Day in the Sun and now we’re in the Twilight of our years.   And this is how I think that Old Age becomes a Blessing, because it brings us to the point where we no longer wish for anything more than simply to be content contemplating our Sunset.

 

Well, this is it for Part One and now onto the Second and Final Part.  Thanks everybody!        

 

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Hi Everyone.  This is Leo Volont with Part Two of my Two Part Series “Black Sins and Red Sins” 

 

19   Part One was about the Red Sins but the Black Sins are a different story altogether.     

 

What makes the Black Sins so much more terrible?  Well, there’s their inherently predatory nature, a morbid Individualism that sets Self against the Herd.   All Humans are of the same Species and shouldn’t be preying on each other, right?   To calculate one’s own gain at the expense of another’s loss, well, that’s Spiritual Cannibalism, isn’t it? 

 

20   Okay, but where’s this Evil come from?  Yes, I’ve discussed in previous Blogs the origins of Human Evil, but what of Evil in the Spiritual Realms?  For that let’s refer to the Ancient Traditions that tell us of the actual or allegorical War in Heaven.  But for that to make sense, well, first we need to define what Heaven is, that is, the Spiritual Realm, just one step below the Highest Realm that belongs to the Transcendental God of Oneness.   Heaven was where Dualism first set its Fork in the Road creating the distinction between Good and Evil, a distinction that the Transcendental God in his Realm of Oneness was too high and mighty to make, and therefore He She or It left it up to the Angels, both Good and Evil, to fight things out between themselves.    

 

21   Michael, called Mithra by the original Persians who first told this Story, was the Chief Angel of Goodness and Light, and he assumed the Scepter of Divine Authority.  Lucifer, the Bad Guy, lead the Rebellion.  It’s significant that the Ancient Epics tell us that the split between the Good and Evil Angels was not Half and Half, not 50-50,  but Two Thirds Good and One Third Evil.   What we need to understand about that is that while the Numbers of Angels divided unevenly, the Quantity of the Effective Power between the Good and Evil stayed at parity.  That means that one Angel of Darkness is worth two of the Light.  Evil has always had an edge over Good.  Why?  Well, Evil is Tooth and Claw, it thrives on Action, enjoys the Hunt, has no Inhibitions, shows no Mercy, and It’s quick to Anger and so first to strike.   And then how do we explain the relative weakness of the Good?  Well, the Morality of Goodness is like carrying excess baggage while Evil travels light.   “Nice guys finish last” because they take on a heavier load.   The Cross we all bear is Morality.  

 

22   But don’t the Traditions tell us that the Angels of Light won the War?  So why all this talk about the Prowess of Evil?  Well, the Truth the Two Lecturing Angels made me privy to, but which has rarely been revealed to Men before, is that before the Angels of Light Won the War, well, they were losing all the Battles.  The first engagement ended in a rout.  But just as soon as Evil thought that Victory was theirs, then… their own Weakness was revealed..  Can you guess what that was?  Well, think about it:  Would those who wouldn’t serve God be happier serving the Devil?  Well, not too likely, huh?

 

23   Yes, their Leader was Lucifer, the “Morning Star”, under the sign of the Planet Venus.   The Rebellion was his idea and, yeah, he ordered the Attacks, but it was the Mars, the Dark Red Angel of War, that actually lead the Charges.  So what did Mars need Lucifer for?  Did Mars conquer Heaven just to hand it over to Lucifer?  Hell No!  

 

24   Oh, by the way, Lucifer was known as the Most Beautiful Angel, but what did Mars care about Beauty.  He wanted Power, not hugs and kisses!  So Mars plotted and conspired and so again there was the same kind of uneven split as before:  Mars took the hardiest, meanest most robust One Third of Realms of Darkness and Evil, and left Lucifer with the namby-pamby leftovers.  Remember, then as now, that in dividing the Spoils of Conquest, the fewer the Victors there are, the More each Victor gets, and the more Losers you have to pillage, the more there is to take.  

 

25   It was only during the Battle of the Dark Angels against Themselves that the combined forces of Good swept down and were able to recapture Heaven.  Yes, The Angels of Light, never wavering from Michael’s command, stayed organized even in retreat, and then, still stinging from Defeat, when the Battle recommenced, well, this time they fought without hesitation or mercy.   So it turned out to be the War of All’s Well that Ends Well.  Yeah, Goodness and Light did always have the Numbers on their side, but it could have gone either way except that Evil became it’s own enemy.  

 

26   And the Angels of Light have been able to hold the Higher Ground ever since.  The Dark Angels were never able to regroup after having broken trust among themselves.  The same dynamic applies to Evil Men, that the impulse that leads them to Fight the Good also goads them to Fight each other.   They fight not for Principle, whatever they may tell you, but for Power, and to be under the Power of another, even one of their own, is a Humiliation that the Pride of Evil can’t bear. 

 

27   Yes, it’s no secret that Freedom is their Highest Ideal, but isn’t it true that only He who has power over all others, holding them in constraints, can ever be certain of being Free?   And so it is that the Freedom of Some depends upon the Subjugation of others.  So how could such Demons ever fight side by side without stabbing each other in the backs, always trying to get the Upper Hand?  There is no honor among all those Freedom Loving Thieves. 

 

28   So, certainly those Predators of the Black Sins wouldn’t be fit company for decent souls, would they?   And so their “Hell”, whatever it be, only requires that it have no overlap with our Heaven.  The Paradise for us Sheep can’t include any of those Wolves, can it?   

 

29   So it is that the Anti-Social Black Sin Beings are spun out from and repelled by polar forces away from Spiritual Society, away from our Heaven.   The denser and heavier ‘vibrations’ of greed and selfishness, with their “rugged individualism”-oriented egos, giving them each the weight of a separate Universe, well, these predators would resolve into lower levels and more distant orbits, like the work of a centrifuge that keeps the purer lighter fluids at center while spinning off the contaminants.    

 

30   It reminds me of the difference between Song Birds and the birds that have grating and ugly voices.   The Birds that cheerfully Sing and whistle enjoy a diet of seeds, fruits, and bugs, but the harsher-voiced birds feed on the eggs and the young of the other birds.   So, yeah, isn’t it a remarkable coincidence that in the Nature of things  that the character of birds are reflected in the calls they’ve been given.  If you’ve ever been in an Early Morning Meadow and paid much attention then you’d know what I’m talking about.   

 

31    The Song Birds all respect each other’s nests and territories irrespective of species – they consider each other friends and neighbors, and in the early morning meadows one can hear each Songbird take its own turn, never interrupting another, as the songs go round and round in ordered sequence, and the tone and generalized happiness in the process lets everybody know that all is at Peace. 

 

32   But the predatory egg-eating birds with their ugly calls: the Crows, Jays, Jackdaws, and Magpies, well, they sound the alarm against even themselves – their Voices expressive of the Evil of their intent.  Their arrival brings an abrupt stop to the Happy Morning Meadow’s Song Fest.  Taking turns with their Songs ceases and the Panic is piped out in crowded chorus.  The Imitative Song Birds scream out their warnings… while the sweet flutes of the Whistlers become shrill trumpets sounding out their alarm far into the next field and forest.   And so it is that we find that even Nature divides itself between Good and Evil.   

 

33    The difference between our Spiritual Realm and the Morning Meadow is that, as a rule, in our Spirituality the Low Vibes can’t intrude upon the Higher.  Low is low and high is high.  But, well, I can think of one exception.  Often enough when first going Out of Body, you know, when Astrally Projecting, our starting point is at ‘base material’ and we have yet to rise up to our natural spiritual altitude, so then we might find ourselves starting from a twilight darkness and meet up with some surly wise-guy low-life earth spirits who can be quite rude.  But typically you only need to pay them no mind and gather your self and then your vibrations will automatically step up and you’ll notice that your ambient scene brightens, the colors intensify, and then if there is anything left of the “Wise Guys”, if they are at all able to follow you up into your Spiritual Light of Day, well, their manners will undergo distinct improvements.   

 

34    This brings us to the discussion of what Hell must really be like.  The predatory souls would have to be contained in something like a Metaphysical Jungle which could only be a ‘Paradise’ for the most powerful and dominant of Predators, right?   In Hell only the most imposing and intimidating can have any margin for ease or comfort.   But, yes, from our Cultural Mythologies and Religious Legends we hear that there must be some Chief of Hell, a Satan, a Lucifer, some Lion King; not because of any special Dispensation from God… No!  God would never give Satan the reward of a Throne for being some Paragon of Evil… that would be ridiculous, wouldn’t it?  So, no, it would be by Satan’s own prowess, abilities and cunning, in a realm totally cut off from God, whereby he could come to capture control of the Crown of Hell.  Then of course it would follow that Satan would make existence a “living Hell” for every other less endowed Predator, and justice would then follow in that they’d all finally be served the same way they served us. 

 

35   But what about Satan? Is the Devil himself to go without torment?  Well, again, as mentioned before, it’s Evil’s Nature to Rebel even against Itself.   Just as we have Extremists, Radicals, Anarchists, Terrorists, and Rioters here among us now, shouldn’t we expect the same kind of Revolutions in Hell –  Evil demanding the Government it deserves – where the Envious Weaklings and the Grasping Powerful and all the fractious factions in between would attack each other and grind each other down, all while trying to impose their Will upon the Others by installing their own Leader that would serve only themselves, you know, like the way it works in Democracy.   Really, maybe “Satan” might not even be an Individual after all but a … Title or an Office that the Demons continuously fight over, you know, the same way we fight over who’s President.  And what President hasn’t been tormented and at times wished his Job on the Devil?  So, yes, Satan is tormented too.  

 

36    Okay, so where does that get us?  The Angels just gave me the info but didn’t tell me what to think about it.  But, yes, if left up to me I’d say we need to respect each other’s Humanity, and live at Peace under the Authority of a Civilization made Holy by its Social Moral Ideals.  And then that would create a Unity strong enough to repel any Host of Predators that could threaten us.   And then whatever Red Sins we pick up from taking Life too seriously, well, they would soon be processed through and left behind, and we’d find ourselves once again at that Train Station, this time with those Swing Doors open and unblocked, so we could finally catch that Express Ride to Paradise.  

 

Thanks everybody, that’s it. I appreciate you all stopping by.