Morning Star outside of the meatless freezer section

Deeding land to God is the juridical pre-requisite for building peacefully the society of the future -- a society born of an economy of abundance in which everyone eats and only those who enjoy working may work.

Deeding land to God counteracts that obsolete animal instinct which was been named "the territorial imperative" by removing "No Trespassing" signs from the land and from the human heart. The earth is the mother of us all; and to pay rent will be one day understood as turning mother into a prostitute and hiring her services.

Deeding land to God opens land-access-to-which-is-denied-no-one; land whereon permission to live is not required; land from which no one may be ordered to depart; land from which God is the Casting Director assembling, juxtaposing, and re-tribalizing those human forms he has chosen to help free Mother Earth from the ecologically lethal grasp of exclusive ownership; land on which life becomes an ongoing encounter for the mutual benefit of the participants who are abandoning materialistic goals and incentives.

Deeding land to God establishes laboratories for the definition, defense, and demonstration of alternative life-style consonant with human dignity for the time in the not-too-distant future when leisure will be compulsory due to the inevitable take-over of repetitive labor by our "happy slave" - cybernated industry; laboratories for expanding the bliss tolerance of human beings.

Deeding land to God is an idea which challenges imagination all over the world, because it provides an opportunity to participate actively in the solution of many contemporary problems, ecological, sociological, psychological, international, and theological.

Deeding land to God can prepare refuge for the survivors should respiratory catastrophe strike an urban center. If one day a thousand people die of asphyxiation in a smog filled city, a contingency which is not remote at all, many of the remaining city dwellers will not feel safe anywhere but on Gods land.

Deeding land to God is for the defendant appellant a ritualistic offering to the Divine, at once the pinnacle of deeply held religious convictions and the synthesis of privative, medieval, and contemporary devotional practice, fully protected by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution from legislative and judicial infringement.

But: Deeding land to God is superfluous, is it not? Since God created the universe He certainly "owns" His creations and does not require a grant deed to prove that ownership. I know that. You know that. Everybody knows that. Only the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Sonoma, Departments 1, 3, and 4 does not know that. This court found, held, and reiterated that God, the creator of the universe, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, does not measure up to certain common-law requirements for a legal grantee. It is from the judicial effects of this absurdity that relief is being sought in this action.


- Sept 9, 1971