The LAW: Full Disclosure
To recap…“The Law” is slightly different from “the laws” in my novel the Weave of Realms, but they are both vital to the Weave, the allegorical understanding of reality that holds both heaven and earth together.
The LAW
In my novel, I’ve given names to certain aspects of Law. Here I’ll place them in a loose order of importance. I’ll spend this post and others to break them down further.
The Law of Sowing and Reaping (see that post https://www.jillcott.com/blog/the-law-sowing-and-reaping )
The Law of Full Disclosure (see that post https://www.jillcott.com/blog/the-law-sowing-and-reaping-gtdlt )
The Law of Agreements
The Law of Authority
The Law of Reciprocation
These, I believe are LAW because if the Creator were to break one these, He would no longer be Good and the Loom itself would be sundered. Let’s look at these a little closer at the next Law.
The Law of Agreement
As I proffered in my last post, I believe that those that break the Law of Full Disclosure are guilty to the degree they are knowledgable, therefore divine beings of vast knowledge who break that law risk losing their God given authority to rule in whatever capacity they had. Is the same true if they break the Law of Agreements? What about humanity? We are very familiar with this Law, when it goes well and when it goes poorly. It involves the following: contracts, deals, promises, oaths, constitutions, codes, laws…agreements.
When this law is broken it shows up as breaking terms, double dealing, breaking faith, cheating, betraying, underhandedness, being false, unreliability, untrustworthiness.
Can one get out of an agreement and still uphold the Cosmic Law? Yes, of course! People and circumstances change, two parties can re-negotiate, annul or take the agreed too steps to complete, or get out of an agreement. Getting out of one agreement usually means creating a new agreement. Let’s look at marriage as an example.
To get out of a marriage you can get it annulled but more often, one must enter into the new agreement of Divorce to legally end the Marriage Agreement. And if you want to end that Divorce Agreement with your ex-spouse and marry them again, you’d end the Divorce and enter into a New Marriage Agreement. You can also hold other agreements in place that affect or don’t affect the others. If you hold a Divorce Agreement with Spouse A you can also hold a Marriage Agreement with Spouse B.
What about agreements that aren’t material or tangible by nature?
Like an evil word or curse for example. Let’s say someone tells you that you are ugly, not attractive, not smart, “special” but in a bad way, won’t amount to much…these words spoken to us can be received by us and we can come into agreement with them. If we do make an agreement with them, those words hold power over us, potentially, forever. On the other hand, you can hear them and reject them, not coming in agreement with them and they hold no power over you. Likewise, as we showed with marriage, you can come out from an agreement you made with evil words, so long as you make a new agreement. New words. A new agreement with words spoken to you by someone or from yourself that you choose to agree with: I’m valuable, I am special (in a good way), I’m loved, I’m chosen, I am a beloved child of God, beauty is fleeting and my attractiveness comes from my confidence and inner being, etc.
What about a state of well-being that you find yourself in? Sickness, disease, problems in the body or mind…perhaps we leave the door open for agreements regarding our health and wellness? Accepting a word, diagnosis, outcome as agreement without questioning if it’s the best agreement to make?
Covenants are another word for Agreement, so is Will or Testament. Hebrews 9 tells us to remember Exodus 24:7-8 and 1 Corinthians 11:25.
Ex 24:7-8 “Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.” 8And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
1 Cor 11:25 “In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
Blood is an essential to inaugurate a covenant.
The Marriage covenant is inaugurated by conjugal blood. The Parent/Child agreement by the birth blood. The New Covenant of Christis set by the bread and cup, the blood of Jesus, to remember and proclaim until He returns. We are even told that God swore an Oath to Abraham, he swore by himself and inaugurated the covenant by passing between the bloody sacrifices laid out before them.
Heb 6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
What about when we take life for food? There is an agreement between man toward beast, one forfeits their life and the other’s life is sustained. An agreement to show honor and gratitude without waste. In return the meat eater dies and their body feeds the soil and regenerates as grass for the beast to consume. Very Lion King circle of life idea. The Nitrogen Cycle rather.
What about menstruation? Yep. Said it. There is blood with the agreement that another month is entered that the woman will not be growing a child in her womb.
What about when plants or animals or earth exposes human blood? Are they promising danger or worse if we press on? If we continue? The thorn, the bite, the scraped knee…are they promises of danger should we be careless?
What of plastic surgery? The blood of cutting the body to agree with a new version of yourself?
What of the taking of your blood to confirm a doctor’s diagnosis? a genetic blueprint?
And the crème de le crème, what of Death? When blood leaves the body in the process of death and decay, isn’t it the agreement that this life is over? Is it perhaps the agreement to enter a new way of existing? In our experience of Agreements its not foreign that some agreements are enacted by Death and others are voided by Death.
Heb 9:16 In the case of a Will, it is necessary to establish the death of the one who made it, because the Will doesn’t take effect until (they die)
Rom 7 tells us that the Law only has authority over a man as long as he lives…now, having died (to the law) we’ve been released from the law (through the body of Christ).
Agreements are all around us: Mortgages, marriages, buying and selling on Facebook marketplace, leasing, chore charts, payroll, traffic lights, you name it. The world can function because people make agreements all the time and the majority of agreements that are made are made and fulfilled in good faith. Without Agreements nothing can be reliable. It would be chaos. Without Good Agreements, nothing can be safe.
On a personal note, I think it’s wise to consider what Agreements you align with and which ones you shouldn’t in all aspects of your life. I try to “take every thought captive” so that I don’t align with a lie or a curse. I try not to agree with what big corporations say is Good for me to eat and put in or on my body, rather, I chose to Agree with common sense and a traditional wisdom. Likewise, I try to limit what Legal Agreements I enter regarding loans so that I’m not burdened by debt and Other, but mores not Agreeing with cultural norms like Consumerism in the first place.
Agreements take up space in your mind, heart and body. I’d prefer to live as Paul says…
Romans 3:18 “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”
Love is an agreement that makes more space, more joy, more capacity.
More Laws to come!