The fundamental laws of God are the Ten Commandments.

And the First Commandment prohibits his people from being enslaved to earthly governments.

The reason for this is simple. God only relates to his people in the form of covenants, and all covenants are contracts binding on both parties. And the purpose of all contracts is to provide benefits to each of the parties. And contracts can only be made between people who are free to bestow benefits on the other party to the contract. Enslaved people are not free to contract.

God, like everyone else in politics, must make offers to entice the people to live under his law and governance. He sets people free in the First Commandment and therefore, he cannot coerce anyone into a covenant with him. Just as human politicians cannot force anyone to vote for their governance.

And God and human politicians compete and promise extravagant benefits to become the governor of the people.

They agreed that Joseph saved them from famine by confiscating their lands for pharaoh and allowing them the privilege of living as taxed tenants on the land they formerly owned…

You have saved our lives, they said to Joseph.
We are grateful to you that we can be pharaoh’s slaves.

(Genesis 47:25)

And the industrious Israelites seemed to prosper until the pharaoh became jealous and fearful of their influence and sought to oppress them without mercy…

The Egyptians, then, dreaded the Israelites and reduced them to cruel slavery.
(Exodus12-13)

This is where God’s politics and human politics part ways.

Earthly governments offer privileges which can be revoked at the whim and discretion of the one granting the privilege.

In a contract, both parties have enforceable rights not revocable privileges promised by each party to the other.

And in every covenant from Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden down to your local banker on the corner, there is a penalty clause for defaulting on the promise.

You local banker must let you keep your house or your car as long as you make your monthly payments to the bank as you agreed to do in a contract.

But, if you stop making those payments, the penalty clause kicks in and the bank takes back your car or house and all the benefits those things provide. The banker, by contract may not take your property away on a mere whim.

God offers lavish benefits by contract and must provide them and let his people retain them unless they default on their promise to be faithful to his law; and they did promise…

We will do everything the Lord has told us.
(Exodus 24:3)

It is only for default on their word that causes God to be true to his contract and act to apply the penalty clause.

Allegiance to the promised privileges of human politics does not guarantee that the human government will keep granting those privileges.

Politicians running for office offer sweeping and extravagant benefits without knowing much about exactly how they will “create jobs” or put “a chicken in every pot.”

And they find after assuming office with all of its previously unknown commitments and pressures that they cannot grant those privileges…at least not to the extent promised.

And so human politicians often must backtrack on their campaign promises because they need the help of others to fulfill their promises. And those other politicians may not be committed to the promises made.

God, as the creator, knows exactly what he can promise and deliver, and will deliver, if the people do not default on their allegiance to their promise to keep his Commandments.

He does not need anyone’s help or approval to provide the benefits of his own creation to his chosen people.

So, when God’s politics seek to govern his people with benefits he creates and bestows on them, he speaks the truth and offers to back it up with a contract that binds himself to deliver.

When human politicians make promises, no matter how sincerely, they have little control over the creation of the benefits they promise to bestow.

And that is how God’s politics differ from the politics of both ancient and modern-day pharaohs.

But, isn’t it ironic that many people have full faith in human politicians’ promised benefits but find freedom under God’s law and its benefits to be burdensome and untrustworthy…

Why did you bring us out of Egypt?
Did we not tell you this in Egypt when we said

“Leave us alone. Let us serve the Egyptians”?

Far better for us to be the slaves of the Egyptians

than to die in the desert.

(Exodus 14:11-12)

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The Law of Attraction

I am assuming that you, the reader, are familiar with the law of attraction. Remember that the law of attraction brings together objects and experiences of like vibrational level. Individuals and groups of people with a common tribal consciousness will attract experiences that are in sync with their vibrational levels. What you put out is what you get back.

Politics

The ideal of political leadership is service to the community as a whole. In reality, politics involves a heavy dose of self-interest as well as making endless compromises in order to make the machine called government work. Conflict and violent confrontation are part of the vibrational level that politics has typically occupied. This has been true across cultures throughout history.

It is not to say that the forms of government have not evolved to some degree along with our consciousness. The modern democracies that exist today avoid violent confrontation at least within their own structures. You don’t see bloody coups and civil wars occurring in most modern democracies. Most modern democracies still exist, however, at a vibrational level of violent conflict and confrontation. You can see this evidenced by the continual wars being fought by these entities.

If you want to measure the vibrational level of a government, you need only look at the overall vibrational level of the tribe that it governs. While there are clearly great variations in the vibrational level within the population, there is an overall set point for the group. This set point explains the failure inherent in trying to install a modern democracy by force in a culture that is not ready for it. You only need to look at the Middle East to see this situation.

Politics will continue to change to reflect the growth in consciousness levels. We will always have those evolved individuals that are light posts for change along the way. I am referring to those catalysts such as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. Countless other unnamed evolved beings are working behind the scenes to make political evolution happen.

Religion

Looking at the dictionary, at the definition of religion, I see two possibilities. A more comprehensive definition is “a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.” I would include for our purposes any philosophy or doctrine that someone seeks to have imposed on others because they believe that they are right, and others are wrong. This definition, then, includes atheism. You could even include some forms of politics although I keep politics and religion separated here.

With religion, the ideal is again service to the tribe, but the overall reality is often an attitude of self-interest and self-preservation. Usually, but not always, the prevailing religion practiced by a given tribe is a vibrational notch up from its government but not very far above it. For instance, you won’t have a tyrannical government co-existing well with a prevailing compassionate religious viewpoint. An example of this is the Dalai Lama being sent into exile.

Like politics, religion is evolving to keep pace with the gradual evolution of the tribal consciousness. There are new spiritual organizations that have sprung up over the last 150 years that support New Thought beliefs like the law of attraction. Existing religious organizations are evolving based on tribal consciousness evolution. Even the Vatican makes changes, as evidenced by the Second Vatican Council.

Acceptance and Appreciation

One small step for law of attraction student to take towards the subjects of politics and religion is the giant step of acceptance. You must accept that everyone is at their own stage in the spiritual journey. Their journey is not your journey. Their politics and religion don’t have to be your politics and religion. Acceptance doesn’t mean that that you agree with them or that they are right. Acceptance just means that you are not pushing against them in an angry or emotional way.

You can even learn to appreciate the products of politics. The roads your drive on and the schools that educated you are there because of the government. There are many people working hard behind the scenes to make sure your life runs smoothly. There are soldiers and civil service employees working around the clock. Learn to appreciate them and what they do for you even though you think they should do things differently.

Religion has brought us a tradition of wonderful teachers, even if they have been mistreated and misunderstood. Their underlying messages stand as a testament to the power of truth. Religion, including atheism, is also a ladder of spiritual progression for people at many different levels of spiritual growth. You wouldn’t want to knock the ladder out from beneath someone, would you?

Exposing Yourself to the Media

The section heading can be taken in different ways. What I mean is watching a lot of pre-programmed political or religious media that is trying to sell you on thinking in a certain direction. Even news programs or articles that appear to be unbiased are appealing to your built-in human bias to focus on the negative aspects of things. Popular fiction often has underlying political and moral themes. The serious law of attraction student avoids getting sucked into what the media wants them to believe. Be aware and always think for yourself.

Try to balance your life by continually exposing yourself to positive teachings from the masters. At very least, be aware of what you feed your mind. Peace and unconditional love to you.

John Baylor is an author and spiritual teacher. He has studied and written about t