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Anatomy of Honorable Character

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Dellacation

Character and Honor are hard concepts to differentiate. When we “honor” someone we are commending them for a difficult accomplishment, rewarding them for going above and beyond the call of duty, or simply pointing out their better attributes. Honor is something that is commendable; it is a status or a high level of being. Therefore, when someone makes a promise on their honor, they are really using their high level or status of character as collateral. Honorable character then, is when there is a maximum level of trust, faith, or investment in one’s person or words. In a sense, one reason why we can have perfect faith in God, is because God has perfect honor or perfectly honorable character.

The catch with character, is that it has to be built in order to be honorable. One cannot say one is honorable to make one honorable; one must act or do in order to become such. There are seven foundations to honorable character and the strengthening of each or any one of these foundations qualities or traits directly strengthens or builds honorable character.

1. Integrity

Integrity is the first pillar of honorable character. Integrity can simply be defined as “doing what one believes or has committed to doing even when no one is watching.” This means that no matter the temptation, or availability of a dishonorable thing, those with integrity will not indulge. Integrity then, is offspring to honesty. Honesty is the total and absolute use of truth, truth about the past, truth about what is currently happening and the truth about future intentions. Without integrity, honesty cannot exist. If one does not have integrity, one will not have the incentive to be honest on a regular basis. Honesty is easier as well as one does things that do not cause a loss of character or honor.

2. Sobriety

Those with addictions are naturally liars and often will feed the addiction over all else including close relationships. Addictions often come above all else and will dictate life to those with the addiction. Addictions make the addict a slave. Promises made while intoxicated are not to be expected to be honored, nor can promises be honored under intoxication.

3. Chastity

One of the most base instincts on this planet is that of reproduction. This carnality is an enemy of self control and divinity. When we are chaste, abstinence before marriage and fidelity in it, we conquer one of the most powerful animalistic instincts a human can deal with. This self control can empower any individual to do great things that others tied down to these impulses and instincts cannot. A chaste person is a trustworthy person who will not try and steal others precious relationships from them, who will be capable of raising mighty posterity, who will have light in their eyes and wisdom beyond any rival or individual unable to control or elevate their body above their instincts.

4. Humility

Humility is more than the absence of pride, it is the ability to recognize one’s own limitations. Without humility, anger, frustration, over-promising and under delivering is prevalent. A humble person is a person able to progress and overcome mistakes, limitations, faults, or even crimes against man or God. They are ever seeking to become greater in the acknowledgment that they are not great on their own. Humility is a slippery possession as once it is acknowledged, it is not longer there. One must continually strive for self awareness and to listen to the council of others in order to gain in humility. A humble person is a person able to ask for forgiveness, is able to ask for help, and is a person who is slow to incite opposition through rash actions or words.

5. Charitable

A Charitable person is a person who understands their blessings, who is grateful for what they have and is someone filled with the love that Jesus has for others leading them to a highly empathetic, sympathetic, service oriented feelings and desires. They are the ones to give the beggar their new sunglasses, the freezing woman their coat, the hungry person their food. They seek to lift the world through love and service

6. Loyalty

Commitment is the key part of loyalty. Loyal to commitments, people, places, etc. A person of little character is always moving to the winning team, the more popular person, the obvious choice. A charactered person is loyal to their cause, family, religion, God, covenants, promises, and themselves. Loyalty is not instantly believing all and every gossip that comes around and not kicking someone when they are down but instead helping out those you are close to in their times of great need of support.

7. Cheerful

Doing ones duty grudgingly acts against the duty in the first place. One might as well not be honorable if it makes them a miserable wretch. Being happy is an important part of honor. The absence of cheer often indicates one of the other pillars being out of balance. One of the foremost tenants of CHEER is TOUGHNESS. Being tough is not the absence of pain or discomfort, it is with the understanding that the ailment and situation is all part of the process and is a sheer determination to remain upbeat even under the most difficult of circumstances. Times may call for a charactered person to be somber and sober, yet hardly ever does the time come when life is free from trouble that moodiness and polarized emotions allow for a successful person. Cheer can be faked, it can be worked for, it can be focused on, but all who seek after it eventually gain it or become it. Let honor be accompanied with a smile, and let us cheerfully endure our hardships.

8. Meekness

Meekness is so much more than being “meek.” Being meek is an incredibly difficult thing. It takes an incredible amount of courage. Meekness is the conquering of fear through repeated acts of intense courage. It is the ability to forgive. Forgiveness comes with great terror that the same pain will come again yet it allows for previous pain to be released and allows for an individual to become void of anger, spite, guile, hostile, defensive, and vengeful feelings. A meek individual is not a push over. A meek individual understands that occasionally violence is the only answer and when violence is called for, they are extremely efficient in their violence, although it is committed with absolute horror and displeasure. The meek are the ones the savior declared would inherit the earth and this is because they will not fight each other but instead look for reasonable and win/win ways to solve problems, disputes, or dilemma’s. Temper is a form of intoxication and a meek individual does not have issues with emotional control.

The Seven Degrees of Being

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dellacation

It is often said that all sin is sin and this is true in a sense, yet completely false in another. Can the same be said for righteousness? Is all righteousness the same? Or can wickedness and sin, or righteousness be classified with degrees. How this is true is that one single sin, one dark stain on our spiritual cloak, and we are not longer allowed to be in the presence of God. Yet, a simple lie cannot be compared to genocide in any way; these simply do not go together as one may barely harm a small number of people whereas the other indefinitely changes the course of history.

God’s judgment comes after the resurrection of the dead, which means that judgment comes after we are redeemed from permanent physical death and removed from the horrifying presence of darkness and evil and that all is forgiven in terms of mistakes, but not in terms of what level or degree of glory our resurrected body has attained. Our resurrected body will reflect both the intents of our heart as well as where our soul gravitated towards in our original earthly experience as well as post-mortal experience. This gravitation is why God’s gift of free agency is so vital and important, so that we ourselves are freely able to sift ourselves and the degree of glory in which we would like to attain or posses in that decisive hour.

These degrees have my own names added to them, yet are based on the scriptures. With the scriptures as the foundation, I am attempting to add my understanding in my own words to these degrees of being, usually called glory. These degrees include:

1. Devilish (Low Degree Telestial and Perdition)

Those who are devilish are no longer able to experience pleasure through shear sensuality. They are miserable and dark to the core and the only moments of gratification they experience are when others are miserable as well due to their own doing. They are those who are full of secrets, lies, cunning plots, pacts and gangs, and who love death and destruction especially indulging in the destruction of innocents or beauty. Being a devilish person is a wicked person, someone who actively seeks to make the world a worse place, a place less enjoyable to live in or void of scenic vistas and culture and beauty.

2. Sensual

These are those who have sought to not only indulge in the desires of their flesh, but who enjoy the carnal experience beyond their instinctual place and actively seek out acts of the flesh to derive enjoyment from them. Often, these perversions are based on the desire to reproduce but taken to levels well beyond simple reproduction. Sensuality can also come from willfully rebelling against the laws of god, the laws of man, or the laws of civility or the prominent culture of the time. Thrills and pleasures that are short lived and cost something in terms of innocence or integrity are at the heart of this level of being.

3. Carnal

Carnality is also known as “the natural man.” This is the state in which an animal is born especially in a Telestial sphere. King Benjamin declares that this state is an enemy of God and that all of mankind became carnal after the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden. Being in a carnal state is the heart of damnation or spiritual death. Transgressions of the laws of God will happen freely as life is driven by instinct and a pursuit of instinct namely after a desire to be dominant and reproduce. Being driven by instinct and the drives of the body leaves almost no room for divine intervention in one’s life and is a state of being allowing for little amount of glory through overcoming the flesh.

4. Lukewarm

Those who are lukewarm are those who could be described as generally slothful. They are those who are engrossed in themselves to the point of not even acting on base instincts. They belong to neither the side of good or evil, they are not necessarily good people but are not people to be feared. They do not have desires to heart others yet they do not have desires to help others. They allow themselves to be stuck in a routine and do not particularly seek to repent of their wrongs, progress their station, seek after truth, help others or even pursue after their carnal instincts. They are those whose personality, intelligence, and character atrophies over time and at the end of their life, find that they did not accomplish much in terms of either doing good in the world or seeking after thrills.

5. Paradisaical (Terrestrial)

Being in a paradisaical state is when you are in a state in which you are a great person. You have learned to control your carnal desires, quash the impulses, learned to obey law, to resist temptation, and to even repent of personal sins being holy before God and His son. Paradise is not a person who is past taking care of themselves, or in other words is seeking for the salvation of those around them. They yearn for a state of peace and contentment. Like they could sit on a beautiful beach all of their lives sipping delicious drinks and staring at the sunset. They are hard workers but the work is always for their betterment of their situation. A person who is paradisaical is someone who is rewarded for their obedience, their sacrifice, their repentance, their faith and belief yet is someone who does not want to necessarily put others before themselves. They are totally content taking care of their needs and experiencing life for themselves within the parameters set by God.

6. Selfless (First and Second Degrees Celestial)

A person who is in a state of selflessness is someone who has attained all the attributes of those who deserve paradise but who has come to be less ego centric and more focused on the welfare of others. Selfless people extremely love people who are happy to help, serve, support, and do what is in their power to make the world around them a better place. They look for those who are greater than they to guide them in their work, to allow for others to seek their help or be called to help others. They are happy to answer the call, but they don’t necessarily have the spiritual desire to be the one making all the calls. This is someone who might still carry with them fears and limitations in this life with regard to their abilities but who generally are able to radiate love to those around them. Being selfless is someone who will forget themselves when assigned a task and get the job finished if they know it will help the person they are asked to help. In the scriptures, the angels of God are often these individuals receiving great glory and highly content in eternal service of the Father and others who are a full degree above them!

7. Divine (Exalted)

A Divine person is someone who has been able to not only be selfless but also overcome many personality limitations through constant self awareness, humility, meekness, repentance and character building through trial and experience. They have developed outstanding character in all the pillars of life remaining diligent and sober, keeping their covenants and doing all they are asked, being filled with love but above all else, they are those who wish to create. They are those who adore life, love, and again creation. They have overcome fear and above all other desires wish to create life, beauty, relationships, etc. They are those who are no longer even tempted by carnal or sensual desires, who adhore those who are devilish and will defend at all cost life and liberty. They are exceptionally empowered individuals able to respond to life in a carefully decided or premeditated fashion having overcome impulse, impatience, and general reactivity. Light and truth are their banner and they are always seeking to live out each scenario full of faith and true progression. These are they who are entrusted with all the Father has, as they are they whose desires and actions are in line with those that he would do in the same scenario. No other individual has more personality and uniqueness, yet is more in tune with those of the same degree of glory.

A Confession of My Religion

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Dellacation

I believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing and all-present God who lives in eternity and embodies all truth, love, justice, and mercy and who is the supreme intelligence in all the universe and who has created all that exists in the same universe and who is a personage of Flesh and Bone and in whose image all mankind is created and who is the direct father of all the souls or spirits that inhabit mankind and who is aware of and plays an active part in the journey of each of His spiritual offspring.

I believe that faith in God is the foundation of religion and the exercising of faith is the purpose of the earthly experience. That both repentance and prayer are fundamental acts of faith and that through repentance and prayer, God may directly affect or influence our lives.

I believe that in order to provide mercy without denying justice, God provided a proxy individual to be punished in my place even if I do not accept that proxy punishment. I believe that through this eternal sacrifice, I can overcome my natural limitations, be forgiven of my crimes or sins, be lifted above the natural calamities of this world, be given power whether in this life or the next to deny the injustice others may inflict upon me through their poor decisions and to put away all fear including the real fear of death and its potentially eternal sting.

I believe that a though the Holy Ghost, truth, comfort, love, wisdom, direction and many other forms of inspiration can be communicated to man from God and that these communications are entirely good, uplifting, wholesome, and beneficial in every case or in all instances.

I believe that the search for truth and the adherence to true principles is an empowering act of faith and the pursuit of truth through faith is one of life’s purest yet painful pursuit.

I believe that marriage is a divine institution empowering mankind to overcome all that is base, carnal, sensual, and devilish and to be part of a higher order of life both in this world and the next.

I believe that life did not begin with this world and does not end with this world but has always and will always exist through different stages of organized matter and different levels of intelligence, estate and endowment.

I believe the entirety of the purpose of life is to achieve exaltation and by doing so we glorify and uplift the God that created us all.

I believe that obedience is greater than sacrifice and that sacrifice is an essential part of religion and that servicing others is a higher order of sacrifice. That faith leads to sacrifice but also leads to the submission to God through obedience to his commands and principles and that obedience will guide us to exaltation.

I believe that organized religion is an abomination before God unless it is done by his authority organized through his Holy Order of Priesthood and is directed by Him through His Son and the administration of Angels.

I believe that there is opposition and competition in all things and as God seeks for the Exaltation of his spiritual offspring, the building of worlds, the uplifting of each soul; so does the enemy seek the destruction and misery of those same spiritual children.

I believe that happiness in the present is possible; and as we exercise faith, happiness can become our constant companion.

I believe that someday all of mankind will be redeemed from death and hell through the resurrection made possible by the eternal sacrifice of the great redeamer and that all resurrection beings live in a constant state of happiness being rewarded greater then they feel they deserve. That resurrected beings do not experience physical pain nor exist in the darkness of fear.

I believe that it is through the use of both official and unofficial covenants that God both empowers and endows his earthly children and also opens the way for Exaltation. That covenants allow God to increase our blessings as we exercise the faith to make and keep those same covenants. That God is bound to keep His end of the covenant so long as we keep ours and that official covenants require the duly constituted priesthood signs, oaths, names, and tokens done before God, Angels, and Earthly Witnesses in a specific earthly place dedicated unto God for the administration of those same covenants.

I believe that a life lived based on the pursuit of self-indulging pleasure or one that focuses on pleasure does not bring happiness but masks misery and those who indulge in the forbidden things of this life will find themselves in bondage, without character, with pain unending and fear of both the future and the past. True love cannot thrive in an atmosphere of self-indulgence or a world with a self-centered core. All joy comes from living or following the commandments of God through much tribulation and great trials.