Claim. The Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages (August 31, 1989, Kodiak, Alaska) concluded the vertical and horizontal eight-level indemnity courses — individual through cosmos — and ended the war-frame between Cain and Abel by restoring the right of the eldest son.
Elaboration. “Now that the vertical and horizontal eight-stage indemnity has all been completed, the Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages could be performed on August 31, 1989, in Alaska, the most northerly location in the West” (1.1. Ceremony of the Settlement of the Eight Stages: restoration of the, 199-157, 1990.2.16). The eight stages are listed: “There are eight stages in indemnity, namely on the levels of the individual, family, tribe, people, nation, world, cosmos and God’s heart” (ibid, 199-188, 1990.2.16). The strategic conclusion is the end of brother-war: “War and struggle to restore the right of the eldest son are no longer necessary in the realm of parental love” (193-173, 1989.10.3). The implication: the Cain-Abel structure of providential history closes at this ceremony — what follows is parent-mediated forgiveness rather than fraternal indemnity-combat. This ceremony is the providential pivot to the completed-testament-age.