Economics vs. Legalism

In dealing with our fellow humans as we travel along our Heaven Path we will come again and again to the difference between the Laws of God which simply cannot be violated and the Laws of Humans which can and will be violated.

Today we will look at the category of Laws of Humans referred to as prohibitions vs. the category of Laws of God referred to as supply and demand.

Supply and Demand is usually though of as an Economic Law, and this tends to make people think of it as a glorified theory, that can be applied when it suits someones purpose to do so. This is not the case.

Supply and Demand is better thought of as a Law of God because it is the way things are whether anyone likes it or not.

Prohibitions, on the other hand, are a codification for the purpose of coersion of an opinion.

An excellent example is the prohibition of alcohol that existed in the United States during the early 1900s. The majority opinion was that alcohol was bad, and so a codification for the purpose of coersion was passed with the expectation that alcohol would be removed from the equation thereby ending its effect as a 'bad thing.'

The problem with this was that the Human Law violated Law of God, and we have discussed previously, a Law of God cannot be violated.

Alcohol, for all its perception by the majority as a bad thing, was in fact a necessity (in the scientific sense) to about 1/4 of the population. In that it was a necessity to that segment of the population, the demand was sufficiently high that the price those who needed alcohol were willing to pay was high enough that people were willing to violate the codification and risk the coersion to supply it. Beyond that, there was enough of a profit built into the demand that the very people that were charged with the coersion could be paid to look the other way.

Alcohol continued to be available along with all the effects that made the majority believe that it was a bad thing. But we also added the effects of the coersion which was doomed from the outset to have no positive effect on eliminating the bad thing. In other words a bad thing was made worse by ignoring God's Law.

And of course there are the people that were the recipients of the coersion; those who were made to suffer as an example to those who might, and undeniably would, violate the law. How do we classify them?

I like to deify the the principle that says that a Human Law can be valid while being in direct contradiction of a Law of God.

I call the principle the god of ignorance, because one has to ignore God's Law to find validity in a Human Law that contradicts it. In acting on this principle, one serves the god of ignorance.

And those who suffered were merely human sacrifices, made by the priests of the god of ignorance, to the god of ignorance.