Samuel Speaks - Don't Follow Leaders

Samuel Speaks
By Scribe Orrin

Introduction

I have known Samuel since back in the days when everyone called him Sammy. My most vivid early recollection of Sammy, Sam and Samuel was just before the beginning of second grade when we were both seven years old. We were gloriously discovering boyhood, summer, and the wonder of living in the now. We were walking along a gravel road kicking rocks when Sammy just announced, “God is in those rocks. God is in you and me and the rocks and the sky and mom and dad. God is in everything. That is why everything is holy.” I also remember that kicking rocks that were Holy was a lot more gratifying than kicking ordinary rocks.

I knew Sammy had just shared a profound idea. I didn’t understand it. I still need to think about it from time to time. But, somehow I knew I needed to write it down. I showed Sammy what I had written to make sure my pre second grade printing skills had the right words. He was pleased and went on to explain that he didn’t plan to say “The Words. “Some times I hear those ideas for the first time when they come out of my own mouth. Some times I don’t remember what I said. It is good that you wrote The Words.”

That is how our roles were established while we were still children. Eventually Sammy became Samuel and I went from being Sammy’s boyhood friend to the depersonalized generic title; “Scribe Orrin.” Samuel believed the thoughts that come to him were important. I have spent 60 years of my life collecting “Samuel Speaks” so it is accurate to conclude that I think The Words need to be heard around the world.

Mostly, this is a collection of The Words. Woven in between The Words is the personal story of Samuel and Scribe Orrin.

Chapter One
“Don’t Follow Leaders!”
Bob Dylan

Samuel speaks The Words: How long must you suffer from your foolishness? For more than two millennia you have suffered the consequences of choosing to be a nation. I am attached to you. I am closer than breathing and nearer than hands and feet. You live and move and derive your very being from my Spirit so I have suffered with you as you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.

And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. According to all the deeds which they have done to me from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.”

We have suffered together for lengths of time that groan under the yearning for enlightenment and repentance. Thousand upon thousands of seasons have come and gone and even though you were warned at the beginning, yet we suffer.

Thus said the Lord: Now then, hearken to their voice; only, you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.
So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who were asking a king from him. He said, "These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you:

He will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.

He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

He will take your menservants and maidservants, and the best of your cattle and your asses, and put them to his work.

He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.

And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the LORD will not answer you in that day."

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No! but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles."

And when Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD.

And the LORD said to Samuel, "Hearken to their voice, and make them a king."

And now your slavery is more of a burden than before. Now your slave masters demand more than one tenth of the wealth you have created and being a slave to the Pharoses of old seems easier. I ache to end your slavery, and yet you steadfastly embrace that which pierces you with arrows and shackles your very being. You chose to be ruled by humans rather than God and so you will suffer until you repent and return to the Lord of All.

Scribe Orrin’s Commentary

This is from the “Later Period”. Samuel has tracked down a significant suffering factor and identified the departure from “Naturalness” that caused angst in the human experience.
It has only been for about the last five years that he has insisted that I call him “Samuel”. Our relationship is far more formal now but I have adjusted to being called “Scribe Orrin”.

The personality of the modern Samuel has become intertwined with the Samuel of ancient Israel. The fate of America also has become intermingled with Samuel’s perception of ancient Israel.

Until he was 65 years old, and had a heart attack, he was always able to keep his intuitive insights separate from ordinary reality. I think his heart problem was the first time Samuel became aware that we all have a finite amount time to lay our gifts on the altar. He became more focused and more driven by a need to finish his work before the end.

He insisted on focusing on what he calls “Naturalness”. “God can not exorcised from Nature. “ When we insist on being “Natural” we insist on being Godly.”

Just before the end Samuel started a blog. The mission statement of the that blog succinctly states some of Samuel’s fundamental thinking.

“We hold this truth to be self-evident; our creator has blessed us with a laser straight path of natural thinking, feeling and behaving that has its origins in a sacred absolute reality. If we stray from that path we will experience pain. If we stay on that path we will be happy, healthy, and whole. If you ask, the quickening of the Holy Spirit will show you the guideposts and help you navigate along the center-line.”