August 30, 2025

Mithila painting featuring
God (महाविद्या-पार्वती and महाविद्या)

Saturday:
Is God above the law? | August 30, 2025

Just to clarify: by the heading "Is God above the law?" I am referring to man's laws, those laws that are imposed on some political unit and enforced within that defined jurisdiction: often a state or a sub-unit of a given state, such as a region, a lesser state, or a lesser kingdom within that state. I am not referring to God's law and whether God is above his own law or not; that will be a subject of a later post, but I may cover some parts of that if it becomes necessary for this post. In the United States of America back in 2015, the Supreme Court (the SCOTUS) in a landmark decision, (Obergefell v. Hodges) decided that it was unconstitutional for states, the present 50 United States of America, to discriminate against same-sex couples seeking to enter into marriage and that any such law had to be overturned or at the very least not be enforced by the state, but since this was a civil mater there was no law to enforce, but rather the absence of laws that "protected" same-sex marriage that was the issue, or indeed laws that stated that only couples of opposite sexes, male-female, was allowed to legally obtain a marriage certificate that proved that the state recognized them as having entered into a union, and in this context a legal union, since marriage is a protected status throughout the 50 United States of America, and since most states at that time, June 2015, did not recognize male-male or female-female marriages, the SCOTUS decided that those states discriminated against homosexuals and that such discrimination was unconstitutional, for it violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Which leads us to today 2025, where it is fully legal in all 50 United States of America for persons of the same sex to enter into marriage, the legally recognized union of marriage not the divine and sacred union of marriage. Today that ruling from a decade ago is being challenged in the SCOTUS by a former county clerk from Rowan county, Kentucky (Kim Davis), who claimed that she was being discriminated against for having been made to pay damages, by a lower court in a separate case, to a gay couple who she refused to issue one of those previously mentioned marriage certificates to, because according to her she had has a first amendment right to refuse to issue that marriage certificate for doing so would have violated her religious beliefs and put her in a bad standing with the creator, Jehovah, but she also claimed that regardless of the United States Constitution, she followed the commands and the will of God, that God was her boss, or at least that the buck stops with God if you will, and that essentially her conviction and her belief in God's laws, not the laws of the United States, stands above everything else and that she had no choice but to defer to the Bible and the laws as issued by God in the Bible. Essentially Kim Davis, the county clerk, made the case that her law, the law of Jehovah, stood above the United States Constitution, and she was even willing to spend three days in a federal jail for her obstructionism, which showcased her conviction. I recited this case because I felt that it showcased the importance of that question in the heading: should you defer to God instead of the law of the land issued by mere mortal men? Again, I need to provide a quick clarification: I am not calling on anyone to break the law and if you do break the law, then you should not be surprised if you end up being arrested. So tread carefully. I will also add this: you are of course free to break any law you want, but always remember that doing so will put you into a greatly adverse relationship with the state, and unless you have a way to escape the country in which you broke that law in, you are very likely to end up feeling those legal repercussions, and this is also why I call for Radical Peace and the pacific route, something I've covered in the past. In answering that question I will provide two answers, since there are really two ways to relate to that question: again Radical Peace and the pacific outlook, or the way of willful obstructionism in the name of Jehovah, both of which are valid and moral ways to deal with the world, from a spiritual perspective beyond the material.

    To begin with: Kim Davis's case is—from a legal and material point of view, not a spiritual point of view—absolute nonsense: Kim Davis was a duly elected officer and her job was to enforce the law, in this case issuing marriage certificates, and since she refused to follow the law she didn't do her job and she didn't uphold the United States Constitution, whether she was right from a spiritual point of view, and subsequently her case in the SCOTUS that challenges the the damages she was made to pay in a lower court in a separate case and the Obergefell v. Hodges case from 2015 is not likely to get anywhere; indeed it's not likely to be taken up by the SCOTUS, and even if it is taken up in the SCOTUS it's likely that the court will only consider the first issue, pertaining to the damages she was made to pay. But there is still a distinct possibility that the SCOTUS will simply overturn the Obergefell v. Hodges decision from 2015, and in that event Kim Davis's original case would have a better legal standing, but I still think it would be dubious, since the law of the land at the time required her to recognize same-sex marriages, regardless of what may happen in the future, 2025. In the end, Kim Davis chose to become a county clerk, and if she didn't want to do that job, then she should've simply resigned her position, since she didn't have a legal right or duty to be the clerk of Rowan county, Kentucky. I don't see how she was oppressed or discriminated against, not in that position as an agent of the state. However, from a spiritual perspective that transcends beyond the profane and the laws and dictates issued by men, I think Kim Davis is a modern day prophet: indeed Kim Davis is surely a person of ascendant rank that has seen the face of God and is operating as the ambassador for God and his son Jesus Christ, and for her refusing to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples—and heterosexual couples—was an act of divinely inspired love: it was an attempt, futile as though it may have been, to restore the scales of the celestial order and to set an example as a master teacher for other men and women to embrace. Kim Davis's actions were illegal and they didn't adhere to the pacific route or the concepts of Radical Peace, but they did challenge the beast and the powers that be, and to that extent she was and continues to be a hero and a warrior: a warrior for the righteous path. Kim Davis like her brothers and sisters of the ascendant order appeared on Earth among men, to teach them about the right path and the creators infinite love for his creation, something men of the liberal axiom will never see: for such men, love is merely transactional and always indiscriminate towards the acceptance and tolerance of sin, as long as that sin favors the perpetuation of the material order.

Tibetan depiction of
the Black Vajrapani (वज्रपाणि)

    While I don't call on any man to break the law, I will not condemn such men, if they broke the law with the righteous intention of operating for the benefit of all sentient life – the Bodhicitta. Kim Davis broke the law and her legal case holds no water or real legal weight, but Kim Davis operates not on the material level, for Kim Davis has transcended above the Earth and the material: for Kim Davis what matters is not whether the law of the land is being enforced or not, but rather whether the laws of the universe, this our existence, are being enforced, which they are not in this our era of the Kali Yuga, where men have convinced themselves of their own greatness and their own importance, the idolatry of man. So to answer that first question, "Is God above the law?": yes, God—the creator of the universe, all of our Jehovah, the force that put every particle of the creation into motion—is above man's law and men and women of ascendant rank, such as Kim Davis, are not here to live by and for the material, they are here to teach men of open nature and to warn the beast that his impending doom is near and that the wrath, the divine vengeance of God, will shake the kingdom of the serpent and the beastly order, and that the scales of the celestial order will be put into their divinely proper order. Kim Davis is the sign of our times: the Kali Yuga.

Reginald Drax – August 30, 2025.