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[[File:Korban.jpg|riht|300px|thumb|[[Corban|Korban]] of ancient societies differed  and while the word could be etched in stone it was the ''means and method'' that etched it in the [[heart and mind]] of the [[masses]]. There were [[cities of blood]] which often had to do with their "Inscriptions of a religious and public character" or an "[[Instrumentum]] domesticum".<Ref>Jerusalem and Caesarea Inscriptions and New Testament Study: A Review Article, Simon Gathercole, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK Page 395.</Ref><Br>There [[Goddess]]es of [[social welfare]] which provided for the [[public religion]] or [[Feasts]]. If that [[daily bread]] is provided by [[Faith]], [[hope]], and [[charity]] it will produced strong [[social bonds]] which are the natural [[fruit]]s of that relationship. If the means and method of that distribution of free bread is performed by force and fear the fruit of that relationship ends in  the [[fealty]] of the [[foolish]]? <Br>This is because the "[[dainties]]" of these rulers and "... their [[table]] become(s) a [[snare]] before them: and that which should have been for their [[welfare]]...  become(s) a [[snare|trap]]."<Ref> [[Psalms 69]]:22</Ref> There are many [[warnings]] of scripture but many [[modern Christians]] again turn a blind eye <Ref name="Blindlead'">{{Blindlead}}</Ref> to the [[Truth]] and are [[entangled]] again in those [[covetous practices]] with an [[appetite]] for the [[wages of unrighteousness]]  offered by "[[benefactors]] who [[exercise authority]] one over the other".<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> ]]

== Nature of the Beast ==

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase ''[[Nature of the Beast|nature of the beast]]'' first appeared in the 1600s: The ''nature of the beast'' was said to be “the inherent or essential quality or character of something, (usually undesirable) which cannot be changed and must be accepted.”

First appearance was said to be in the midst 1678 John Ray's ''Collection of English Proverbs''  (ed. 2) 77 “It's the nature o' th' beast.” It was suggest it was an accepted idiom at that time. 

But I found in the 1567 translation of '''Ovid's<Ref>Publius Ovidius Naso, known in English as Ovid, was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of [[Augustus Caesar]]. His influence in the Christianity of the Renaissance was second only to Vergil. </Ref> Metamorphosis'''<Ref>the Metamorphoses, a continuous mythological narrative in fifteen books written in dactylic hexameters.</Ref> by Arthur Golding who died in 1606:

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: Yee mortall men, forbeare to frank your flesh with wicked foode.
: Yee have both come and frutes of trees and grapes and herbes right good.
: And though that sum bee harsh and hard: yit fyre may make them well
: Both soft and sweete. Yee may have milk, and honny which dooth smell
: Of flowres of tyme. The lavish earth dooth yeeld you plentiously
:Most gentle foode, and riches to content bothe mynd and eye.
:There needes no slaughter nor no blood to get your living by. 
: '''The beastes doo breake theyr fast with flesh:''' 
: & yit not all beastes neyther. 
: For horses, shéepe, and Rotherbeastes too live by grasse had lever.
: '''The nature of the beast''' that dooth delyght in bloody foode, 
: Is cruell and unmercifull. As Lyons féerce of moode,''' 
: Armenian Tigers, Beares, and Woolves.
: Oh, what a [[wicked]]nesse
: It is to cram the mawe with mawe, and frank up '''[[flesh]] with [[flesh]]''',
: And for one living thing '''to live by killing of another''':” See [[Nature_of_the_Beast#Metamorphoses_Context|context]].
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''Metamorphosis'' was the Roman poet Ovid's ''magnum opus''. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of [[Julius Caesar]] as the [[Son of God]].
 
We see the word ''“unmercifull”'' used by Golding in [[Romans 1]]:31 “Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:”

The word unmerciful is translated from the Greek word aneleemon <Ref>{{415}}</Ref>  which is the negative form of the word for [[mercy]] from ''eleos''<Ref>{{1656}}</Ref> meaning “mercy: kindness or good will towards the miserable and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them “ and is a distinguishing characteristic of “true Christians” who lives by [[faith]] rather than taking a [[bite]] out of his neighbor through [[force]].
 
== Void of Right Reason ==

The [[Nature of the Beast]] is void of “Right Reason” and of [[faith]] in righteousness but it desires with a seared conscience to [[bite]] friend and foe to fill or satisfy it's appetite. 

[[Right Reason]] is equated with [[divine will]] and the [[Natural Law]] but if you read the rest of Romans 1 to know that the “[[righteousness]] of God [is] revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”

: [[Romans 1]]:17 "For therein is the [[righteousness]] of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith."

Living by [[faith]] is not living by [[force]].

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: [[Romans 1]]:19 "Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them. 20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became '''vain''' in their imaginations, and '''their [[foolish]] heart was darkened'''. 22  Professing themselves to be [[vanity|wise]], they became [[fool]]s, 23  And '''changed''' the glory of the '''uncorruptible God''' into an image made like '''to corruptible man''', and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24  Wherefore '''God also gave them up to''' uncleanness through the [[lust]]s of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25  Who changed the [[truth]] of God into a lie, and [[worship]]ped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26  For this cause God '''gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature''': 27  And '''likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman''', burned in their [[lust]] one toward another; '''men with men working that which is unseemly''', and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 28  And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, '''God gave them over to a [[reprobate]] mind''', to do those things which are not convenient; 29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, [[fornication]], wickedness, [[covet]]ousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30  Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31  Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
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We should expect irrational and unjust behaviors without [[mercy]], nor [[love]], nor [[forgive]]ness from the agents of governments we create by selfish intent, [[wantonness]] and [[avarice]], or even [[sloth]]. 

Because we have been [[bite|biting one another]] in the [[world]] we have created we should expect to be devoured.
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: [[Galatians 5]]:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulful the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; [[Adultery]], [[fornication]], uncleanness, [[lasciviousness]], 20 [[Idolatry]], witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall [[not inherit the kingdom]] of God."
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Because the people ''profess themselves to be [[vanity|wise]], they became [[fool]]s'' and again live in darkness.<Ref name="darkened">{{darkened}}</Ref> 

Because the [[masses]] recieve a [[strong delusion]] they are blind to the [(iniquity]], [[evil]], and [[wicked]]ness of the [[covetous practices]] of their systems of [[legal charity]] provided through ''men who call themselves [[benefactors]] but [[exercise authority]] one over the other''.<Ref name="exauth">{{exauth}}</Ref> 

=== Race to hate ===

Darkness does not exist but is the mere absence of light. The same is true of cold which is the absence of heat. If this pattern continues in creation then hate is the absence of love.

This would mean that if there is any appearance of an increase in the levels of hate it is actually a decrease in the love that is present in society.

Is there a rise in [[racism]] or just in [[hate]]?

People who are infected with guilt or shame will often seek an escape from the pains, misery, and humiliations that accompany any state of mortification or abasement by projecting that pain in the form of abuse through acts of bias and bigotry.

Blaming someone else for that internal pain may seem to give at least a temporary relief from our personal feeling of agony.

Directing or projecting that emptiness onto another is not physically possible. Darkness cannot be projected but to create darkness in others by causing them to reject the light and love of the Creator by repeating the process in another is the best that can be desired. 

As [[wicked]] and [[evil]] as that maybe the [[Law of Nature]] dictates there will only be returned for our trouble more agony and disgrace.

Nothing decreases love and the practice of love in a society than an increase dependence upon and an [[appetite]] for [[legal charity]], the [[dainties]] of rulers, and the [[benefits]] from "men who call themselves [[benefactors]] but [[exercise authority]] one over the other."

In the social welfare state there is a killing of [[care]], a nurturing of perversion, a creeping corruption

Any hope for a personal relief is is a false hope.

There is no relief possible when there is a lack of love, no love possible when there is a lack of forgiveness. The practice  prejudice breeds more hate, more emptiness, and therefore, more [[wantonness]] and [[licentiousness]] and of course more darkness. In that darkness ignorance and foolishness grows leading to more debasement and degradation.

[[Race]] gives a convenient target to direct this self defeating process because we do not have to know our victim. [[Racism]] is the lazy man's [[scapegoat]].

== Metamorphoses Context ==

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: “The first foundation of the [[world]]: the cause of every thing:
: What nature was: and what was God: whence snow and lyghtning spring:
: And whither Jove or else the wynds in breaking clowdes doo thunder:
: What shakes the earth: what law the starres doo keepe theyr courses under:
: And what soever other thing is hid from common sence.

: He also is the first that did injoyne an abstinence
: To feede of any lyving thing. He also first of all
: Spake thus: although ryght lernedly, yit to effect but small:
: Yee mortall men, forbeare to frank your flesh with wicked foode.
: Yee have both come and frutes of trees and grapes and herbes right good.
: And though that sum bee harsh and hard: yit fyre may make them well
: Both soft and sweete. Yee may have milk, and honny which dooth smell
: Of flowres of tyme. The lavish earth dooth yeeld you plentiously
: Most gentle foode, and riches to content bothe mynd and eye.
: There needes no slaughter nor no blood to get your living by.

: '''The beastes doo breake theyr fast with [[flesh]]:''' 
: & yit not all beastes neyther. 
: For horses, shéepe, and Rotherbeastes too live by grasse had lever.
: '''The nature of the beast''' that dooth delyght in bloody foode, 
: Is cruell and unmercifull. As Lyons féerce of moode,''' 
: Armenian Tigers, Beares, and Woolves.
: Oh, what a wickednesse
: It is to cram the mawe with mawe, and frank up flesh with flesh,
: And for one living thing '''to live by killing of another''':”
[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0074%3Abook%3D15 P. Ovidius Naso], Metamorphoses, Arthur Golding, Ed.
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