Gluttony does not consider the starving mother and the malnourished baby crying in the night… Gluttony does not consider what sin the mother may engage in just to feed her child… Problem is the mother does so many things against the better nature and peace within herself. She is so consumed by self-destruction, anger, and self-hatred that she tries to drown out the memories and sensations of her transgressions. When that happens, she no longer is focused on the child. So now I have — as sin — come between the child and mother… severing one of the greatest bonds in the conception of humankind… The child suffers from not only the lack of physical sustenance, but emotional and mental sustenance once provided by the mother… so it is more likely the baby will die or grow into a destructive man or woman full of hate for the world for he or she will hate God that once was seen in the visage of their mother…. But to such a child it will seem God has abandoned them and they will turn to me in all my forms, and the cycle will continue… The gluttony celebrated by so many is indirectly a celebration of the disparity of others, who do not and often will not have enough resources to live peacefully and happily. It is temperance that many forget to promote most, but especially at the times of celebration.
Temperance must be maintained at all times. Vigilance is not simply a matter for looking for sin at your gates or within others, but my essence that lies within yourself. The eternal fires of gluttony can only be combatted by the ethereal fires of temperance. Though it is cliché these days, there is a profound wisdom I have never fully understood, and thus contemptuous of which is “it is better to give than it is to receive”. God has given and continues to give, but neither you nor definitely not I will give back as much — we can not — so why choose to? It is foolish in my opinion — and yet to get closer to Him, it is better that you give more, far more than you have been given, nor should you expect to receive anything in return… However, here is where the ethereal fire is stronger than the eternal fire — for to burn bright and to give in the name of God is greater than to take in my name or in the absence of God. God never has wanted a people — chosen or otherwise — to take land from others, to consume so much that they become drunk with elation and possess no control over the craving to have more. You were never to be gluttons who were driven by addictions for anything you needed, but it was your desires that led to this course of action and the continue war within each of you to control your wants and be clear on your needs. God gives and provides opportunity. Opportunity is strength, but abuse of strength to serve the whims and wants of anyone undermines temperance and serves only gluttony.
Sloth is based in a number of sins that result in complete stagnation externally and internally. Non-activity is not based in not moving, but not thinking, not feeling, not living. With the mind that contemplates, the heart that loves, and the body in motion — the spirit is never weakened. It only grows more powerful. You were created to create, to act, to experience, to share, and to discover… but the fire of sloth smolders and smothers the spirit… Sloth is designed to take the heart and make it beat with less passion, to make the mind slow, to make the body’s senses dull. Sloth is creates a form of isolation, where one is locked into a perpetual state of monotonous, but hellacious lack of change and arrested development. When people are slothful they may have once reclined and enjoyed peace as a need or reward from physical or mental strain, but they never found more comfort in doing nothing. Yet slothfulness becomes a comfort when one finds little peace in activities necessary to keep life crisp, clear, and in perspective.
Remaining active enlivens the ethereal fire and reduces the eternal fires. Even I am active, always active… plotting and menacing things I find worth my time and focus… Yet, sloth still serves me because it takes kings and makes them drunkards… these kings of old are now moguls, businesspeople, politicians, leaders… and once they feel they have attained enough power or control, they feel they can do no more and they fall under their own ego and weight. They fall into depression because power and control with no direction founded in serving the betterment of the many leads to an abyss of depression. Why? Because to serve the self leads to nothing. You have immortal spirits, yet your very personalities and minds are as temporal as your bodies, they will decay and fall away. Therefore, any activity that invests solely into serving the self eventually results in some form of slothfulness. It may at first appear to be well-deserved rest, but to be enchanted with rest in itself leads to the collapse and loss of keenness and strength. For the vigilant are active, keeping watch, and seek a deeper connection with Him… They are the ones I can not attack and enter through the lack of activity. They are the diligent ones.
Diligence is rooted in determination. From such determination one can undo the knots of slothfulness that often ensnare the supposedly successful or those who continue to fall and feel they have failed. Your race has yet to understand you are not failures if you try. I might be the most detested being known among the living, the dead, the unborn, and the yet to be born — but I do not feel I am a failure. I am diligent. I was diligent when I was simply the known as the Light Bearer — Lucifer, and served Him. I suppose now my diligence is not sanctified or celestial… But simply to another of your timeless clichés, “You have to fight fire with fire.”
Diligence of humankind can overcome my diligence… at times…The ethereal fire is of God to be used by you to burn away the eternal fires of which I agitate within in you… to work against your better nature. Determination that is built upon diligence is an immutable force that can not be turned from its course… And whosoever wields it is with God… For instance a man struggles with a loss of a job, a marriage in shambles, and debilitated health. Slothfulness would make him accept it all and slowly deteriorate into nothing or turn to vices that would further destroy him and his family. But the element of ethereal fire found in diligence would burn away slothfulness. He may seek counseling for his marriage, and his wife will see this as strength to bring them back together. At his job, he may seek a unilateral move or ask to be demoted only to be promoted again at a later time. He may also simply change his diet and exercise to improve his health despite the fact that doctors may tell him little will be accomplished. The man is with Him. Because unlike accepting the perspective I present him making him slothful, he pushes to be diligent… I despise such diligence… unless it’s of my own generation…
Greed is one of my favorite means to feed the eternal fires within your kind… It is similar to lust, generates wrath, and feeds gluttony. Greed has made men make slaves of entire civilizations. It has made your kind dehumanize the meekest of people in order to justify destroying not only their humanity, but your own. You have put prices on everything that was given to you for free. You sell land. You sell water. You sell food that grew wild for centuries. You sell knowledge. You even sell the worship of your beloved God and all His many manifestations. You would sell life if you could package it… You even attempt to sell what can never truly be marketed which is love… What you sell as love is nothing but vanity and lust dressed up with pretentious smiles and hidden selfishness… You sell means to cope with death as in the burial of your dead…