THE GATES OF THE PARADISE GARDEN
The devil wrecked the garden, produced dissonant music and lied to our first parents.
So to get back to paradise, we tend the garden, sing in harmony and be frank about which fruit is good and which one is bad:
Upon completion of this first year curriculum, the residency becomes permanent for those who so wish.
UPDATE: The requirement has been upped to three years to more closely simulate a college experience and incidentally the school of Jesus as well, which lasted about three years.
Living close to nature taught Thoreau that as our human family matures, it will be able to govern itself and will no longer need to be governed.
"when men are ready for it, that is the kind of government they shall have."
(see for example the book of Kings, where God tells Samuel that the people should not ask for a king.) The more we recognize this truth and make it our own by behaving as one family, the more peace will organically take hold, like a tree of life, and the more the tree of discord and death will wither away.
Not in a marxist atheistic way, but in a Eucharistic way.
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