Chapter 2: On Humility and the Labor of the Earth
About This Series This series, The First Epistle to the Aquarians , is a thirteen-month cycle of proclamations designed as an ethics curriculum for the dawn of a new age. Published on each Rosh Chodesh (New Moon), these chapters explore the intersection of Messianic faith, vegan ethics, world federalism, and the ethics of augmented intellect. The series operates on the Aquarian Vegan Era (AVE) calendar—a private sectarian complement to the Gregorian year—which identifies the 2026 CE as the Aries Point of a new 2,148-year Great Year cycle. By keeping the Watch of the New Moon, we seek to align our internal lives with the Interbeing of the New Creation as foretold in Isaiah 66:23. 1 Having set the Watch of the Moon in the fire of Aries, we now descend into the fixed earth of Taurus, where the contemplation of the mind must become the labor of the hands. 2 This is the Second Great Threshold of the Year: where the "Veg" of our Vegetarian beginning meets the "An" of our ...