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==Power of Faith==
==Power of Faith==
Faith is the power that rekindles hope, energizes enthusiasm, empowers idealism. Just as life overcomes death, faith overcomes defeat. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2003-08-03-Cycles_%26_Vantage_Vista#Power.2C_Faith Elyon]
Faith is the power that rekindles hope, energizes enthusiasm, empowers idealism. Just as life overcomes death, faith overcomes defeat. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2003-08-03-Cycles_%26_Vantage_Vista#Power.2C_Faith Elyon]
==Hope & Illusion==
Hope is instilled in the human soul by the human act of faith. Faith reaches toward the unknown and hope is instilled in the human heart in reciprocal measure by the spirit. Hope then becomes an increasingly permanent attitude of the soul toward life in general. Hope does not necessarily attach itself to any one particular hoped for outcome. Hope is rather that attitude of faith which believes in God’s goodness, trusting his guidance. Hope is believing the future will turn out for the best, however that may be.
Illusions come about when hope is attached to a specific future outcome. Illusion can then dominate hope and cause a person to do whatever it takes to create that illusion in reality. In this way, the ends begin to justify the means, so much so that the greater the utopian nature of the illusion, the more worth its increasingly desperate and even immoral measures become justified by that illusion.
This is a universal human trait. But faith, true faith, does not hold on to any specific illusion of the future. Human faith must be child-like trust, and in that trust the individual human must forgo their own illusions about what should or should not be. Sublime faith is made ever more pure by the constant relinquishing of your own investment in the outcome. The Master said constantly at the end of his prayers, "Nevertheless, not my will but your will be done Father". This is the epitome of human wisdom. - [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=2004-09-12-Hope_and_Illusion#Lesson Ham]
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