The Tea Party Papers Volume Ii: Living in a State of Grace, the American Experience

By Bill Miller

Finally buttressed with Natures bounty, fortified with Natures gifts, testifying to Natures truth we must be ready to take a leap in faith. The hardest leap of faith to believe in; is a leap of faith in each other, in the individual.
In the end the only way a government of the Individuals, by the Individuals for the Individual can long endure on the face of the Earth.
Faith in God alone cannot suffice for such a government to work. It is the most necessary prerequisite for such a government to exist. But it cannot retain it cannot nurture it because the government is a covenant a pact made between God and the individual. If we lose faith in the individual we break the sacred pact.
Being granted so many gifts the last act is in our own hands we are the City on the Hill when we believe we are the City on the Hill.
When we act the part we are the Light of the world and the Inspiration to the World.
It is really simple, if enough individuals carry out this leap of faith, a new critical mass will be reached, and a miracle will turn the tide in our affairs once more and we like the patriots of old will once again fulfill our own self-actualization process and bequeath to our posterity the ability and responsibility to reach their own.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483639222

Bill Miller

This is the author and political activist Bill Miller’s second book in the series the Tea Party Papers. Bill had never considered writing and/or political activism yet was happy in his chosen field of construction when the Tea Party exploded on the political landscape in 2009. It was indeed an amazing coming together of ideas that provoked the author to begin writing. He had already made the spiritual journey from secular progressivism to “Christ” and had reconsidered many long held social and political beliefs. Although his career was in construction he was an amateur paleontologist and naturalist, and had a great love of archeology and history. All of this past experience was to help the author when he actually began to write. Bill had accepted a suggestion to start writing what was later to be his first book the Tea Party Papers (the tome) which was overloaded with detail and over 700 pages and in a way still amateurish. It just so happened that he began writing just as the first Tea Party protests sprung into being in April of 2009 and he came to the attention of Jeff Bruzzo of Island Metro Productions who had just initiated the blog site Project Shining City. Bill began to write for PSC even as he continued his efforts on the tome. Along with writing Bill would join Jeff and others from Island Metro Productions (IMP) in the filming and often live-streaming of Tea Party events and other conservative and liberation rallies. The team from IMP would film events from New York, Washington to Florida to Louisiana and all across the country for next few years. The team helped in filming of political ads and commercials on a dozen congressional campaigns and one US senate race. They collected hundreds of hours of interviews (including several presidential candidates in 2012) and even broke some hard news stories as well as provided raw film footage for the Fox News network and several Fox commentary programs. After a weak reception to “the tome” the author took the advice to break the book up and flesh out the divided parts this volume is the second of four parts to that effort. Bill Miller is currently finishing up his touring and presenting of the Tea Party Papers Volume I ;The American Spiritual Evolution Versus the French political Revolution. Uniquely as befits a film team, IMP created both the book trailer and documentary to volume I. It is 45 minutes long and the author uses this tool to inform his audiences about the book. He then usually follows up with a question and answer period and book signing. Bill Miller was the New Jersey 2011 Betsy Ross Activist of the Year. He has been interviewed and/or appeared on WOR, Sirius XM, WPHT, WDEL to name a few stations and on blog talk radio and cable. In 2011 IMP released their tribute to 9-11 titled 9-11: Reflections then and Now, although not huge commercial success (there was over forty 9-11 documentaries out that year) it did receive some laudable critical acclaim.

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The Tea Party Papers Volume II

Living In A State Of Grace,

the American Experience

Bill Miller

Copyright © 2014 by Bill Miller.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgment

Foreword

Volume I Summary

Introduction Living In A State Of Grace

Volume II

Part 1 The Garden Of Eden

Chapter 1 Inner Demons And Outer Tyrants

Chapter 2 The Ancients Cast Out Of The Garden

Chapter 3 The Eden Dream

Part 2 The Land To The Far West

Chapter 4 Letting Go Of Preconceptions

Chapter 5 A Second Chance At Eden

Chapter 6 A Faith To Build On

Part 3 The Americans

Chapter 7 The Occupants Of The Garden

Chapter 8 The Women

Chapter 9 The Great Awakening

Chapter 10 Natural Law

Chapter 11 A State Of Grace

Chapter 12 The Individual

Part 4 Our Highest Aspirations

Chapter 13 Society

Chapter 14 Government

Chapter 15 A City On The Hill

This book is dedicated to the Lord, my God.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Once again I’m beholding to a number of people that must be acknowledged. First, belatedly I am indebted to Steve Malzberg and Jeff Bruzzo for the work they did on the book trailer for the Tea Party Papers Volume I; The American Spiritual Evolution versus the French Political Revolution. I’m further indebted to Jeff Bruzzo for all the film work he accomplished on the documentary for Volume I.

Steve Malzberg is now in his thirty-first year in Talk Radio. Steve spent 24 years at WABC Radio in both sports and political commentary. He recently completed 5 years in the afternoon at WOR Radio in New York City. That show was syndicated into 75 cities on the WOR Radio Network. He is now on Newsmax TV Live as well as XM Radio 166 from 3PM till 6PM Monday thru Friday.

Jeff Bruzzo is the Director and Editor at Island Metro Productions, LLC. He was educated at City University of New York-Queens College and Hofstra University and served in the USAF. Jeff is a New York City School science teacher and has long been interested in film. He was the creator and editor for several years at the website Project Shining City and owner of Island Metro Productions. Jeff has been active in the conservative and grass roots movement for over five years now, he has filmed and live-streamed hundreds of hours of events from New York City, Washington DC., Philadelphia, Florida and the Gulf Coast. He has also produced and directed commercials for many political campaigns and /or for commercial purposes such as music video.

I also would like to acknowledge the numerous still photographs by Jeff that are part of this new volume.

I must also once again thank Jon Haklik who so graciously allowed me to use the second half of his poem, Majesty for this volume. Jon is a former high school and college English teacher and a published poet. He has previously won a Harriman award for best short story.

I once again owe a large debt of gratitude to my extended family especially my mother Frances Miller for all her support.

Front cover details volume II

1.   The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe; Jennie A. Brownscombe (1850-1936) painted this beautiful version of the First Thanksgiving in 1914. It currently hangs in Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, which is a city museum of fine arts in Leiden, the Netherlands. Leiden is the city in the Netherlands which granted sanctuary to the pilgrims from persecution in England, prior to their journey to America. Although, free from persecution in Holland the pilgrims felt that they were losing their identity of English Liberties there. Many of the pilgrim leaders came to the conclusion that the only way they could have religious freedom and to practice these freedoms under Natural Law was to risk the perilous voyage across the ocean and found a New World. This painting depicts the pilgrim’s humble gratitude in being allowed back into the Garden of Eden.

2.   Simple wooden variation of the Latin Cross; Crux immissa, of which the vertical beam extends beyond the cross beam depicting the cross upon which Jesus Christ was crucified. Jesus ethics would become the fuel for the expansion of consciousness that would flesh out the Ten Commandments, and foster the carrying of the word to the wider world.

3.   Replica of the Ark of the Covenant; The Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given directly to Moses from God, at Mount Sinai. The Ark contained within it the two stone Tablets of the Law. The literal basis for Natural Law.

4.   The labarum of Constantine the Great, the Chi-Rho, On October 28th 312 AD. Constantine the Great ordered his army to paint the capitalized form of two Greek letters X (chi) and P (rho) superimposed upon one another. The letters spelt the first two letters of the Greek name for Christ. Although not a cross it did symbolize the victory of the spiritual world over the secular world. Constantine’s army contained many believers of the Mithraism Mysteries as well as Christians and there were several fundamental similarities between these faiths. Including belief in an afterlife, and recognition that there were forces of good and evil and an ongoing spiritual battle between these forces. These concepts were loathed by the secularists in Rome who worshipped the state.

5.   Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry detailing the death of King Harold of England; Nearly a thousand year old tapestry commissioned and made in England that depicted the Norman William the Conqueror’s victory over Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings, October 14th 1066 AD. The tapestry was rediscovered by scholars in 1729 hanging in the Bayeux Cathedral. It is now exhibited in Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Normandy, France. The tapestry is 270 feet long and contains fifty scenes with captions in Latin. Pictured is the death of Harold. Legend above: Harold Rex Interfectus Est, Harold the King is Killed. The Saxon’s of England had already spent several centuries defending their identity and ancient rights from Viking marauders and invaders, when the Normans (decedents of the Vikings from France) defeated them. They would continue their fight for their English identity and now fight also against the concept of a powerful Centralized Collective Authority.

6.   Magna Carta also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England; The 1215 charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties and accept that his will was not arbitrary. This is a picture of one of only four surviving copies of the 1215 document, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin, using standard abbreviations of the period, authenticated with the Great Seal of John. The original wax seal was lost over the centuries. This document is held at the British Library. Several clauses of this document are still the law today the most important of which is due process of the law.

7.   The Hiawatha Belt; At about the same time as the Battle of Hastings ushered in the Norman interlude in England, in North America a prophet named Dekanawida or Skennenrahawi in Mohawk meaning (two rivers flowing together) converted his first follower a Mohawk named Hiawatha. Hiawatha was a great orator and would carry the message of the Great Peacemaker to the Iroquois peoples living in the five finger region of New York State beginning with the Mohawk who were impressed by several miracles Dekanawida performed. Dekanawida counseled peace between the warring tribes and an end to cannibalism. He advocated the basic structure of the Iroquois confederacy including the establishment of clan and village chiefs, a matrilineal system of decent and property holding, equality between the sexes in political processes and a parliamentary system in which each representative had an equal voice. The oral traditions from Hiawatha’s time would be codified by the time of the pilgrims’ arrival in North America into the Great Law of Peace which was the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Hiawatha Belt is made of 6574 wampum beads 38 rows by 173 rows, and has 892 white and 5682 purple beads. The purple represents the sky or universe that surrounds us, and the white represents purity and Good Mind (good thoughts, forgiveness, and understanding). The belt symbolizes the unity of the five nations from west to east in their respective territories across New York state: Seneca (keepers of the western door), Cayuga (People of the Swamp), Onondaga (Keepers of the Fire), Oneida (People of the Standing Stone) and Mohawk (keeper of the eastern door)—by open ‘squares’ of white beads with the central figure signifying a tree or heart. The white open squares are connected by a white band that has no beginning or end, representing all time now and forever. The band, however, does not cross through the center of each nation, meaning that each nation is supported and unified by a common bond and that each is separate in its own identity and domain. The open center also signifies the idea of a fort protected on all sides, but open in the center, symbolizing an open heart and mind within. The tree in the center represents the Onondaga Nation the capital of the confederacy’s spiritual as well as political system. This is a picture of a belt dated from the time of the early colonial period when the Iroquois took on the role of guardians (uncles) to the struggling new colonies.

8.   The Gadsden Flag; The concept for the Gadsden Flag came from a political cartoon published in 1754 by Benjamin Franklin. The flag depicted is the most popular version of the flag. This flag with a yellow field depicting a snake coiled and ready to strike. Positioned below the snake are the words Don’t tread on me, was designed by the South Carolina patriot and General Christopher Gadsden. This flag was the first flag carried by the Continental Marine Corp. This flag has become a favorite one to display at many Tea Party events for whom the period of our War for Independence is a period to draw spiritual strength and commitment from. And so the adverse is also true is that the Gadsden flag has become loathed by the secular progressives who are often remarkably ignorant about our own history, and this has led many socialists to consider this flag a conservative banner.

9.   The Grand Union Flag, also the Continental Colors, the Congress Flag, the Cambridge Flag, and the First Navy Ensign) is considered to be the first national flag of the United States of America. The flag consisted of 13 stripes with the British Union flag (of the period) in the canton. The Continental Colors were first hoisted on board the USS Alfred in Philadelphia by Lt. John Paul Jones on December 2nd 1775. This flag was used as a naval ensign an garrison flag throughout 1776 and beginning of 1777 and was our flag at the time we committed ourselves to the new covenant.

10.   The New Covenant the Declaration of Independence; Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, as authorized by the Continental Congress, July 2, 1776 with minor revisions and released publicly on July 4, 1776. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion., Thomas Jefferson, 1825. The document that expressed our resolve not to allow Great Britain to impose a Centralized Collective Authority on us, the document that articulated our acknowledgement of the primacy of Natural Law, this document expresses our new covenant with Nature, the document which posited our advancement from the concept of English Liberties into American Exceptualism, the document which affirmed the relationship between the individual and Divine Providence, the document that chronicled a critical mass paradigm shift in the conscience of those individuals living in the Garden of Eden, and finally the document which absolved US of all ties to Great Britain and indeed the entire history of spiritual bankruptcy of top down government. This document is why we were able to form a government Of the Individuals, by the Individuals for the Individual. The beginning of a new stride in Human evolution.

FOREWORD

In Volume I of this series we extrapolated on the differences between the American and French Revolutions; we recognized that the American Spiritual Evolution was uniquely inspired by God and developed slowly through one of God’s favorite tools evolution. That the French Political Revolution was conducted by those wanting to play God, in other words the French revolutionaries used government as a tool to attempt to reorder a society through control mechanisms. This is the oldest fight there is between the rights of the only real minority; the minority of one, the individual and of society’s need to organize itself.

Ever since man’s behavior drove himself from the Garden of Eden he has desired to return to it.

We will now look behind these urges to see what drives them. The utopian dream the Garden of Eden and the Kingdom of Heaven; how the secular progressive’s (this same motivation has been and is true of all statists since time immemorial) have desired to duplicate the Garden of Eden with variations of a utopian vision and thus brought endless suffering to the world. How the herd mentality is what keeps the individual from reentry to the Garden.

And the other side of the coin the urge of the individual to aspire to improvement of their individual relationship to Nature. How God always nurtured such relationships. Indeed all of God’s early covenants were between God and certain individuals whom attempted through their actions to emulate God, to please God.

The teacher is there when the student is ready; God has slowly revealed his truths as the individual became capable of understanding God’s truths. Again God’s first covenants were with individuals such as Noah and Abraham, it was only with the exodus from Egypt that God for the first time made a covenant that applied both to the individual and to society as a whole, we call this covenant, the Ten Commandments.

Much growth was needed to take place within the individual for the individual to be able to achieve the Kingdom of Heaven within them, a necessary prerequisite to reenter the Garden of Eden.

Eventually God would allow the individual the chance to reenter the land of milk and honey, where the kingdom of heaven within the individual could be combined with the bounty of the Garden of Eden outside the individual. And a government of the individuals by the individuals for the individual could be established, creating the semi-mythical City on the Hill.

And these individuals inspired by God had evolved enough to participate with God in creation of a new covenant; we call this covenant, the Declaration of Independence.

The journey was slow sometimes punctuated by a rapid paradigm shift these radical changes were often triggered when a critical mass of individuals reached a certain advanced awareness of conscience. But mostly the evolution of the process was slow because a slow process gave the individuals the opportunity to recognize the truth and to fight for the truth. It took three centuries for Judea-Christian morality to develop before that morality was defined enough and vigorous enough that it was capable of supplanting the secular government of Rome. On top of the old paganism and statist secularism a new government predicated on Judea-Christian morality would come into being on October 28th 312 Anno Domini. It would suffer with statism but it was an important step toward a government predicated upon Natural Law.

There would be other critical steps on this journey, the English fight for identity against the imposition of a Centralized Collective Authority by the Normans. This fight would produce the Magna Carta the ancestor of the Declaration of Independence and the legal guarantee of English Liberties.

When individuals were finally capable of fulfilling the ancient dream by sailing across the ocean in the hope of improving their personal relationships with God, they met with another spiritual people whom just had a religious awakening of their own. The Haudenosaunee (the people of the longhouse) would accept and nurture and became the family of the newcomers. The newcomers would learn the practical lessons of government from the Haudenosaunee political arm League of Peace and Power. The Hiawatha Belt was the manifestation of this tribal/individual link and since it was too a spiritual link it was also a prerequisite to the Declaration of Independence covenant.

Finally after uniting ourselves; even as we broke our ties with Great Britain we were evolved enough to willingly enter a new covenant with God. And English liberties evolved into American exceptualism and God blessed us and we knew that it was good.

We became the City on the Hill because we believed we were the City on the Hill.

We remain the City on the Hill as long as we humbly honor our agreement with God. Whenever we’ve strayed from that agreement with ego or pride or disbelief or by emulating Satin by playing God, we have suffered, justly. However, whenever we’ve returned to honor the covenant to the best of our ability, with humility and reverence we are once again blessed with bounty.

This is the story of that journey, and of the individuals who reentered the Garden of Eden.

We have the power to begin the world again; a situation similar to the present has not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand.—Thomas Paine, 1775

VOLUME I SUMMARY

Although this is the first in a series of books, the narrative stands perfectly centered alone. The author uses Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of two types of revolutions—the slow-sweeping social type in which society changes itself and government and the political type in which a government attempts to change a society. The author alleges that de Tocqueville recognized the spiritual nature of Americans but missed the point in why America evolved the way it did into the United States. That the United States is the archetype for this first type of revolution in that it was literally created out of a series of epiphanies of critical mass in social awareness that took over several millennia to develop through the process of evolution, tools of nature itself.

That the other type of revolution, political revolution, has its modern archetype also—that of the French revolution, where one centralized collective authority replaced another and each ensuing government attempted to impose its ideals on society.

All of this comparison is meant to enlighten the differences between the Tea Party Patriots of today and their adversaries, both domestically and foreign, and the author does an excellent job of it. Simply put, the Tea Party Patriots actively fighting corruption in their government are actually fulfilling Jefferson’s first requirement for citizenship. They are living in a state of grace with nature by using the choice that providence endowed them with to find happiness through self-actualization. They are not just kindred souls or spiritual brethren of the founders and framers—they are the founders and framers.

The author uses a unique method of expounding these facts. The Tea Party Papers are in themselves a part of the epiphany taking place all across this nation by using a mixture of spiritual, physical, and psychic to enlighten the process by which the United States evolved into being, a collaboration between God and the individual to improve the relationship between God and the individual.

This volume is divided into five parts. The first part is about the individual and society. Chapter 1 starts where it always begins: the true minority, the minority of one—the individual—and the individual’s quest for happiness. Chapter 2 is about how the mass of individuals called society can function in harmony with each other and indeed assist each other with their individual goals of self-actualization. That the American constitution is a collimation of all the great awakenings from time immemorial, when for the first time in history, a government of the individuals, by the individuals, for the individual was created.

The second part is a spiritual analysis of the opponents. Chapter 3 elaborates the differences between religion and spirituality. Chapter 4 is about how the spiritual sickness among socialists leads to mental defection and fosters it. In chapter 5, the author uses the Socratic method of questions and answers to address the utopians’ fear and hatred of religion. Finally, in chapter 6, the author describes the American spirituality, which was impressed on our government. It was meant to function like the gyroscope on a rocket, in helping it maintain its internal equilibrium with a multifaceted checks and balances.

The third part is the historical context. Chapter 7 is a chronicle of America’s first contact with a centralized collective authority. Great Britain attempted to impose such a collective authority on the freedom-loving Americans, who, after nearly a century and a half of practicing self-determination, were used to living in a state of grace with nature. By the time the shooting started, America was lost to Britain; the Americans had evolved beyond the British. The American practice of English liberties had evolved into American aspirations. The remainder of the war was America forcing a paradigm shift on a hardheaded, hard-hearted English government. The French government took advantage of the English faux pas to intervene and hurt her archrival. Chapter 8 chronicles the end of the war, the peace treaty, and the French Revolution. The French went from one type of centralized collective authority after another with breathtaking speed, showcasing the various modern variations of these authoritarian states.

The fourth part is about today’s troubled world. Chapter 9 explains the modern continuum of the French model—why after so many years most revolts end up some kind of variation of the French model and why no new United States model has yet sprung into being. Chapter 10 is about our other adversaries. Chapter 11 is about President Obama and the Nobel Prize—what it really means.

The fifth part is the solution. Chapter 12 describes the process of assimilation based on natural law. Chapter 13 is about foreign affairs, what is proper under natural law and what isn’t, where and how it is proper to use the military force and how it should be committed, so as not to violate military science as well as not to violate natural law. Chapter 14 returns to the volume’s basic theme that American development was a process of evolution, that in the end, today, if the Tea Party sticks to its guns, it has to come out on top because revolutions can be crushed (in fact most are) but evolution is inevitable and a work of God, and it cannot be stopped. Chapter 15 is the conclusion, a summing up and rehash of the narrative.

The Tea Party Papers are a must read! If you are already predisposed toward the Tea Party or you yourself are a Tea Party Patriot, this book will fortify your resolve. If you have questions about the soul of the Tea Party, this will answer many of your questions. If you are