Thou shalt not give up
Utah lawyer Brian Barnard may have lost in the land's highest court on the Summum Aporisms case, but he tells me the battle's anything but over.The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the First Amendment was not violated when the city of Pleasant Grove refused to let a small Salt Lake-based religious group put a granite marker engraved with its sacred Seven Aphorisms in a public park where the Ten Commandments are on display.
Barnard told me that the Summum still have avenues to pursue, including a case under church-state entanglement, basically arguing that Pleasant Grove is supporting a religion by turning the Summum or any other religious message away.
In the case before the Supreme Court, Pleasant Grove has adopted this speech [the Ten Commandment monument] as their own. That gives us a strong case.
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I was curious about this, so here are the Seven Aphorisms:
I. The Principle of Psychokinesis
"SUMMUM is MIND; the universe is a mental creation."
II. The Principle of Correspondence
"As above, so below; as below, so above."
III. The Principle of Vibration
"Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." -- [oooh, I like this one!]
IV. The Principle of Opposition
"Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes bond; all truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled."
V. The Principle of Rhythm
"Everything flows out and in; everything has its season; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing expresses itself in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."
VI. The Principle of Cause and Effect
"Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is just a name for Law not recognized; there are many fields of causation, but nothing escapes the Law of Destiny."
VII. The Principle of Gender
"Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all levels."
These are explained and expounded on in much greater detail--much. greater. detail.--at this web site:
http://www.summum.us/philosophy/principles.shtml
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