I have found that two very different levels of law exist in life and that these two are often at odds with each other, only because the one has been fashioned by imperfect hands, the other by God to show us how to act as human beings should we ever get there. So does the higher law, in its watered-down state, struggle to get out from underneath this contamination by the darker side of human nature. Like the pieces of an island submerged below the surface of the water does the higher law remain hidden behind the man-made law in the dark shadows of human ignorance until some individual dives deep enough below the surface to retrieve it.
Most people, who live on the surface, tend to move in the direction of the man-made law, against the individual caught up in the undercurrent created by the higher law. Because these people lead surface lives, they believe only what they see on the surface. They disbelieve the higher law when the individual brings it to the surface. These people, who see with the eyes and mentality of the surface only, are quick to denounce the higher law as preposterous. Clinging to the man-made law, they try to discredit the individual, or to punish him, or if necessary, to eliminate him by imprisonment or execution. They display a low level of tolerance for the individual, who stands against the current on the surface, for they do not wish to see their own darkness.
So do those who are guilty of the real crime, the transgression of the hidden but perfect higher law, find the individual who obeys the higher law guilty of an obvious crime, the transgression of an imperfect man-made law. The individual is then made to pay a great price for his transgression by the people on the surface who, at first, appear to go scot-free in the face of their transgression but, in the end, are made to pay an even greater price than the individual himself.
