The Founder's Philosophy
To restore the foundation of principles that will support our destined existence of the “Beloved Community”, we call EDEN AGAIN. The building blocks needed for this everlasting platform are:
Faith – Environmental Conservation – Economics – Education
These fundamental principles described below are designed to solidify each independent block needed to restore the load bearing interdependent structure that will sustain the lives of all mankind:
Faith -- Spirituality, interdependence, servitude…
To be the evidence of the interdependency of man and his Creator makes us our greatest. We must believe that no man or nation can stand out boasting of its independence. We only become our best when we inspire another to be their best through love; the agape form…the overflowing unconditional love for all, including adversaries. Love in action -- seeking to restore and preserve community; it’s purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative.
Environmental Conservation -- Reduce, recycle, reuse, rebuild, restore, re-establish…
By understanding our first responsibility to life is to become good stewards of our environment, we must accept the fact that everyone must play their role. Our environment consists of man’s provisions in abundance that’s meant to sustain life eternally. We must re-establish the proper respect of property to person. Some wince at a distinction between property and person – they hold both sacred. Only life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is a part of the earth man walks on, it is not man. When we embrace this mindset, we can live responsibly amongst another, reinforcing the sense of purpose that every man has to become practitioner of the never ending principles of environmental conservation. We must be persistent with teaching this to our youth, and there's no better way than to encourage them to work with us.
Economics – Inalienable, allocation, affordability…
Our concept of economics is long outdated and non-sustainable. The science of allocating the world’s resources to the needs and wants of modern man has to evolve. Though capitalism had its place in the development of our global society, it has shown itself to be incapable of producing the sustainable human livelihood in regards to the equality, fairness, and global standards of human decency. In a progressive democracy our choice should be of a system that freely allows for all mankind needs and wants, not for just a few that have been allowed to accumulate vast amounts of monetary wealth and use it to distort ones sense of being, through institutionalize poverty, racism, and militarism. With our past experiences and present technologies, we can clearly see that there’s no longer a need for social economic classism. It is truly only one people of the world, and that’s Mankind. We all have the same needs and deserve the same rights to the provision of our needs. The price has been paid and all debt cancelled by our Creator through LOVE.
Education – Intelligence, humanity, science, knowledge, wisdom…
To fully benefit socially from education, there must be a mindset that insists on establishing the character of whom we hope to teach. This character is established in the minds of our youths in the home, church and most importantly the community. It all begins with a baby being surrounded with a sense of a united community, a state of something larger that itself, but requires their best to become greater. This state of community helps the child to ultimately establish the character they will need to achieve the goal of true education. We should ensure the child hungers for the integration into its community and that he or she will have the opportunity to live out their vocation. Through their individual pursuit for knowledge, they will be blessed with the wisdom that enables their contribution to the humanity of the community. Because the child is our hope for the future, should cause us to be transformed, by the renewing of our minds, to the united state of one "Beloved Community", and bring death to our conformance to the smaller form of one.
UNIFY TO UNITY – Is the process of dissolving the form of one to the overflowing uncontained state of oneness that’s necessary to restore a foundation strong enough to support and sustain the Beloved Community; EDEN AGAIN!!!
The building material and the fundamental tenets that create the cohesive components that seed the establishment of The Elijah International Foundation, become the roots of our initiatives that will sprout the branches that bear the everlasting fruit of our "Beloved Community".
WE’VE BEEN RESTORED TO UNITY -- EDEN AGAIN, THE BELOVED COMMUNITY
Now that the foundation has been restored, the dream of the "Beloved Community" is fulfilled. It’s the reality of our perfect union, the perpetual oneness; where all things come together in the presence of pure love; GOD. It’s HOPE MANIFESTED standing on the practice of the Kingdom principles. All mankind worships through service and dwells harmoniously in this world of purposed abundance and pleasure. In this place, we all invest our gifts: our dreams and visions, our time and efforts, our funds and support, our passions and desires, our successes and shortcomings, while together reaping a harvest full of love, purpose, liberty, joy, and peace. WE ALL LIVE ETERNALLY THEN! In restored and new communities, our children will grow freely in Love and prosper, in an environment where we all are truly living together to dress and keep. It’s an awakening to a new HORIZON, where we ALL are practitioners of the Law of Reciprocity, ‘Give and it shall be Given unto You’, which produces the manifestation of our Divine Destiny. We present this world as the everlasting "Beloved Community", called ‘EDEN AGAIN’; where we ‘Love GOD with all thy heart, soul and mind, and love thy neighbor as thyself’; and together, through Faith, receive the glory of LOVE ALMIGHTY!!!
PEACE, until then, LIFE EVERLASTING!!!