# Chain: Simplicity Of The Path > *Simplicity as the effective register of the path and its ministry* **The argument it traces:** The Divine Love path is inherently simple and complication is human-made → the simple register is what actually reaches the soul, and esoteric complexity has no effect (the failure mode) → lived simply, the complexities fall away or fall into place → the scope covers both the walking and the speaking: the seeker's life and the servant's ministry **4** messages · **15** supporting · complete --- ## Foundation ### 2016-04-17 - [[2016-04-17 The Simple Way of Love|The Simple Way of Love]] **(anchor)** The message's spine, the path inherently simple and complication human-made, given as a developed statement with first-person Testimony. Presumptive section anchor. The scope covers both the walking and the speaking, the seeker's life and the servant's ministry, under the argument-not-image ruling. ## Elaboration ### 2016-08-26 - [[2016-08-26 This House Is Blessed by God|This House Is Blessed by God]] The path's simplicity applied to ministry, with the reason it matters and the way it fails: "to espouse upon the values and understandings of esoteric religions falls at the feet of those who come for nurturance and comfort and healing. It has no effect; it is the power of love, the simplicity of a simple hello, I love you, that reaches the soul, that nurtures the heart." Closest member [[2016-04-17 The Simple Way of Love|2016-04-17-af-francis-of-assisi]] (Foundation, the simple life chosen, with Testimony); new facet: the complication lies in what the servant says, and that is why it fails. ### 2016-09-09 - [[2016-09-09 Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love|Put Away Your Shield and Your Armour and Lead with Love]] The thread's claim argued rather than asserted, with its mechanism stated: faith itself removes the appetite for analysis. "The world is a complex place filled with many complex ideas. The truth is not complicated; the truth is simple... It does not need to be complex or difficult to understand and when one is truly of faith there is no great desire to analyze, merely to act in accordance to the knowing of the soul." Other members say the path is simple, or show a ministry being simple; this says why a person stops complicating it. ### 2016-12-02 - [[2016-12-02 Turn to the Soul Rather than the Mind|Turn to the Soul Rather than the Mind]] Augustine takes the complication of seeking more and more spiritual knowledge and answers it. Those who "go here and there speculating, trying to understand" are told "the key is within your soul, the key is in your communication with your Creator," and the path "does not require great learning, research, building complex paradigms of understanding. No, my beloveds, it comes in your relationship with God, it comes in your sincere prayers to your Heavenly Father, it comes with your willingness to open and be touched deep within you." He keeps the simple register for ministry, "You need not go into a deep dialogue, no my brethren, simple words, simple prayer, simple love is all that is required," and separates simple from easy, "It is very simple, my beloveds, but hard to do in a challenging world." --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2015-08-20** [[2015-08-20 Express the Truth to Others - Padgett Talks of Why This Is So Important|Express the Truth to Others: Padgett Talks of Why This Is So Important]] (witness) - The ministry register asked for, "Can you do this, to express the Truth so simply, to give so willingly, to walk so boldly?" - **2016-08-17** [[2016-08-17 The Minds of Men Hunger for the Reality that Words Create but the Soul Hungers for Love|The Minds of Men Hunger for the Reality that Words Create but the Soul Hungers for Love]] (witness) - "be simple, be humble and above all be loving," closing "It is always simple; it is always simple." - **2016-08-26** [[2016-08-26 Seek the Light of God's Love|Seek the Light of God's Love]] (witness) - "It is a simple opening of yourselves to this blessing of Love... Powerfully, beautifully, simply." Asserted; roster witness. - **2016-08-28** [[2016-08-28 Pray for the World Healing Centre|Pray for the World Healing Centre]] (witness) - "it really is so very simple and as you live this simple life all the complexities will fall away or fall into place"; the path-and-life assertion with a consequence attached; roster witness. - **2016-09-04** [[2016-09-04 Continue in Your Service|Continue in Your Service]] (witness) - The ministry half of that chain's scope, "your message is simple, your love is accepting," with the failure mode put as a prohibition rather than a warning: "Do not argue with others. Be sure of the Love. Do not express contrary opinions, but be sure in the love." - **2016-09-07** [[2016-09-07 You Are Cradled in His Care|You Are Cradled in His Care]] (witness) - The failure mode located inside the seeker's own head rather than in the teaching. "It is so simple, beloved souls, so very simple. Do not clutter your minds with speculation and doubt and fear." That chain locates complication in doctrine, in esoteric expounding and in how a servant speaks; this locates it in the private mental activity of someone who already believes, and names its three components as speculation, doubt and fear. Two sentences, with nothing built on them. - **2016-09-10** [[2016-09-10 Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You|Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You]] (witness) - Two facets, both stated rather than built. The complication is given a motive: "So many wish to complicate the truth, to control it, to have great power, the power to disseminate God's Will to mankind. This is such folly and error." This puts complication down to a will to control. And the simplification runs inward: "your lives become simple, your motivations, and goals, and ambitions, become simple." The motive of complication is the facet worth promoting if it is developed as an argument, since it would also join this thread to [[Chains/Religious Error|Religious Error]] at the ambition step. - **2016-10-17** [[2016-10-17 Let Your Light Shine|Let Your Light Shine]] (sighting) - The same sentence read from the other side, simplicity as the whole of the method. - **2016-11-26** [[2016-11-26 When You Follow Your Guidance, and Be a Channel of God's Love, Many Blessings Follow|When You Follow Your Guidance, and Be a Channel of God's Love, Many Blessings Follow]] (witness) - "It is so simple, my beloveds, so simple," with the manner named, "you will be that channel of love in innocence, simplicity and grace." Said twice, not built out. - **2016-11-27** [[2016-11-27 Drawing Many Kindred Spirits|Drawing Many Kindred Spirits]] (sighting) - "you, my beloveds, must simply be in harmony with God." The word is used in its ordinary sense here rather than as the chain's claim. - **2016-11-27** [[2016-11-27 The Value of Knowing Your Souls|The Value of Knowing Your Souls]] (witness) - Complication located in the seeker's own accumulated spiritual information, judged from the far side of death. "It is all very simple and it is based on the foundation of love"; "You need to shake off the clutter and the error and the irrelevant details and focus, focus, my friends, on love"; "Prayer, faith, trust in God, an eagerness for love; this is simple." The chain has held complication in how a person lives and in how a servant speaks. This would add a third, complication as knowledge-hunger. - **2016-11-28** [[2016-11-28 Why Complicate Life|Why Complicate Life?]] (witness) - The chain's claim in its lightest register, "Oh, how you wish to complicate life when it is so simple and joyful. Go with God and go with joy and life will be simpler, easier, lighter." What is new is that joy is the thing doing the simplifying, and that the complication is located in the seeker's own heaviness rather than in doctrine, in speech, or in a way of living. Two sentences in a short message. - **2016-12-03** [[2016-12-03 Open Your Souls to God's Love|Open Your Souls to God's Love]] (witness) - The simplicity put in terms of time and effort, "it is simple, it takes little time, it takes but a sincere effort and it will indeed change your life, given enough of this blessing within you." - **2016-12-07** [[2016-12-07 Pray from Your Heart|Pray from Your Heart]] (sighting) - "This is not complicated, no, this is so simple and powerful." - **2018-11-28** [[2018-11-28 All Truth Comes from the Soul|All Truth Comes from the Soul]] (witness) - "Yes, it is a simple path, is it not? It is not adorned with many complex ideas and this is for a reason," the reason being that "until all is predicated upon love, awakened in love, and reflection of love, you cannot venture into these more complex arenas with confidence."