The God Who IS love, is unchanging, and Whose mercy endures forever.

Yes, the God (the Absolute, the Tao, call it him, her, what you will) IS love, is unchanging, and His mercy does endures forever.

Having read widely in our World's Faith Traditions, the above is taught/proclaimed, in myriad ways. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear.

The consequence is a Universalism, a Universalism beyond our wildest dreams, hopes and aspirations. Hell, which we know all too well, is not abolished, it is simply not eternal, perpetual. God WILLS that ALL be saved (enlightened, freed, call it what you will) and therefore SO IT SHALL BE.

The "absolute" is forever reconciling and restoring, with a love that knows no why (as per the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart) When we seek a "why" to our existence, then we stray. Simple Faith/Trust that "all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well" (Mother Julian of Norwich, from "Revelations of Divine Love) is the fundamental ground of our being. It is the polar opposite of "belief". Faith is a "letting go", belief a "clinging to".

I have blocked most of the "nay sayers" here (or they have blocked me) , those who insist upon ultimate and eternal divisions between people, the dividing line their very own creed which they claim as "all truth" and that there is no other way but their own, no other name etc etc etc. All such backed up with their own favourite root texts. I can assure them that if they actually had the Faith to look into the myriad books now available on Universalism they would see that such root texts are all referred to and reconciled with a fundamental Biblical proclamation of Universal Salvation. Again, would find that Universalism is rooted itself deep within the Christian Tradition since day one, in the earliest Church Fathers, and ever since - it is NOT a "falling away" or a modernism. But obviously they will not read this.

Universalism is NOT a soft option. The implication is that whoever we meet is, or will be, a true brother or sister; that our engagement with them demands all the love, empathy and compassion we can muster. No stranger can be dismissed. No stranger can be looked upon as one who necessarily needs us and our own message, but only as one who perhaps has their own message for us. Christ, or Amida, or Whatever, has got there first. Dishing out some cheap Tract and then thinking the job is done is the soft option.

That is it. Perhaps my last post for a while. Much is afoot at the moment in "Les Dawson's" world, piano or not.


With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

Through the unknown, unremembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always--
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.