" . . . there was a golden age
on Atlantis only 11,500 years ago.
And that golden age went down when Atlantis sank and it has never
been regained.
The nation closest to Atlantis is America, which has been sponsored
by Saint Germain
since its birth. It is because of this presence of Saint Germain
in the land that there is
a 'peculiar people' here, a people who desire to enter into the
Godhead, who do not fear
to walk alone nor to attain union with God through the ritual
of the ascension."
—Lanello. February 26, 1997
"I, the Lord thy God, stand within the midst, O children
of the sun;
I AM for the repentance and the restoration of the true Israel
in the United States of America.
I AM come with vision of the restoration of the City Foursquare,
built upon the likeness of the four living creatures.
And the name of the city is THE LORD IS HERE."
—Sanat Kumara, May 13, 1979
" . . . Blessed hearts, this continent belongs to the people
who inhabit it,
not to the fallen angels who have taken it from them at every
hand.
I say, claim the earth beneath your feet and claim it for the
age of Aquarius!
Claim it for Saint Germain! Claim it for Freedom! Claim it for
the Lightbearers!
For unless you take a stand with the armies of heaven, these armies
of Hell
pitted and poised to defeat you [will do just that]!"— Saint
Germain
"In America we have some understanding of the role of Kali.
We find American women extremely active and aggressive in all
kinds
of social movements in defense of the people, in defense of their
children.
We see that men in America can be more passive."
—Elizabeth Clare Prophet, January 25, 1977
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither
swarms
of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."
—The Declaration of Independence
Ben Franklin said,
"We've given you a Republic IF you can keep it."
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we
falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."—Abraham
Lincoln
"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless
man
is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."
—John Adams (1735-1826)
"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history
appears
like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human
race."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
"America . . . they are trying
to weaken you; they are trying to disarm
your strong and magnificent country . . . I call upon you: ordinary
working men
of America . . . do not let yourselves become weak."—Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation
was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions
but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ."—Patrick Henry
"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations,
which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost,
by the reputation of weakness."—George Washington
"Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human
race,
they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a
revolution
which has no parallel in the annals of human society."—James
Madison
(Federalist No. 14, 20 November 1787)
"I have unwittingly destroyed my
country. We have come to be one of the worst ruled,
one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments
in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion,
no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority,
but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of
dominant men."
—Woodrow Wilson
"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own
country.
He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be
useful to him
in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should
rehearse
the history of his own country."—Noah Webster
"Those people who will not be governed
by God
will be ruled by tyrants."—William Penn
"I am rather tired of hearing about
our rights and privileges as American citizens.
The time is come . . . when we ought to hear about the duties
and responsibilities
of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting
and demonstrating
God's government."—Peter Marshall
"We have to get back to the values
and perceptions of those wise old dead white guys
who invented this country."—Charlton Heston
"You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the
thing they vote for
will turn around and vote for them. Politics ain't nothing but
reciprocity."
—American humorist Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"All gave some
Some gave all."
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The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips.
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shores;
send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me;
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
(A poem by Emma Lazarus is graven on a tablet within
the pedestal on which the statue stands.)
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Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed—
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek—
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean—
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home—
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay—
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
O, let America be America again—
The land that never has been yet—
And yet must be—the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's,
ME—
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose—
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!
first published in Esquire (July 1936)
©1994 Estate of Langston Hughes
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The following is a poem written by Judge Roy Moore from Alabama.
Judge Moore was sued by the ACLU for displaying the Ten Commandments
in his courtroom foyer. He has been stripped of his judgeship
and now they are trying to strip his right to practice law in
Alabama. The judge's poem sums it up quite well.
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America the Beautiful, or so you used to be.
Land of the Pilgrims' pride; I'm glad they'll never see.
Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand,
Oh, sweet land of liberty; your house is on the sand.
Our children wander aimlessly, poisoned by cocaine,
Choosing to indulge their lusts, when God has said abstain.
From sea to shining sea, our Nation turns away
From the teaching of God's love and a need to always pray.
We've kept God in our temples, how callous we have grown.
When earth is but His footstool, and Heaven is His throne.
We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core,
Appointing Godless Judges; who throw reason out the door.
Too soft to place a killer in a well deserved tomb,
But brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.
You think that God's not angry, that our land's a moral slum?
How much longer will He wait before His judgment comes?
How are we to face our God, from Whom we cannot hide?
What then is left for us to do, but stem this evil tide?
If we who are His children, will humbly turn and pray;
Seek His holy face and mend our evil way.
Then God will hear from Heaven, and forgive us of our sins,
He'll heal our sickly land and those who live within.
But, America the Beautiful, if you don't—then you will see,
A sad but Holy God withdraw His hand from Thee.
Judge Roy Moore
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"And if life is ever to become known as it is intended to
be, man must first of all recognize the supremacy of his own great
God-Self and recognize that the individualization of that Self
must first revolve around the central purposes of creation ere
the purposes of creation will deign to revolve around his own
central being.
" . . . Columbia, the gem of the ocean!
The Promised Land is before thee, o each son of heaven! It speaks
of divine majesty, of the one star and the many stars upon the
field of honor blue. It speaks of the use of energy as God intends.
The white purity, yea! And also the washing out and transmutation
of the red dye of violence and hatred and its change into the
golden radiance of the love of God flowing through the veins of
man's being."
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Saint Germain
December 8, 1963 |
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" . . . America, we salute you in the name of God. The purpose
of this is because of the great destiny of America, that the power
of freedom, of liberty throughout the Earth may receive a new impetus,
that Washington, DC may become a greater city of light, culture
and spiritual glory, that the hearts of the American people may
reflect more of the true glory of the flame of liberty even as they
have continued to outpicture freedom to the Earth." |
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" . . . Remember that I have told you, remember that I have
shown you a vision. The choice is truly upon the shoulders of those
who have been sponsored by Saint Germain to raise up the divine
document of the Constitution and who, in a declaration of independence,
apart from and separate from those fallen angels, have chosen to
be one nation under God.
"May you find union in the Light, determination and strength
in the Vision. For surely it shall come to pass that one or the
other shall be the history of this land according to your choosing." |
Archangel Zadkiel
November 25, 1987 |
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" . . . in this hour the rise or fall
of this civilization [America] will make all the difference."
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Godfre and Lotus
July 7, 1990 |
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"In my final life as Francis Bacon I endeavored to set forth
as I was able those keys to the destiny of America that each and
every one of you hold as members of the I AM race within the nucleus
of your heart in a very precious golden box that is upon the altar
of your temple. There in the heart of Life are the secrets of
the ages and the mysteries which I have come to unveil."
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Saint Germain
May 3, 1981 |
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"We are determined to reverse the tide by a strong and united
City Foursquare of United States and Canada. And this larger square,
finding its heart in the Inner Retreat, will be the very base
and stronghold of the powers of Light and the chelas to move forth
and roll back the entire momentum and the effect of the Four Horsemen
when they are spent."
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God and Goddess Meru
January 6, 1985 |
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" . . . This indeed is America's destiny: to teach a way
of life that is a form of government whereby each threefold flame
and every living soul may commune with God and out of that communion
evolve one vote and cast that vote for freedom.
"if this nation America shall rise again to her God-destiny
in this age and shall forge that unity that is sponsored by the
Archangel Michael who comes for the deliverance, who comes to
unite you and who comes with a message: 'Remember ye are brethren.'
"
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Prayer and Meditation
Saint Germain: 1978, p. 169 |
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"First then, let the American people rise and liberate themselves
from the media and its mass hypnosis, from the bondage that they
have to the material senses. Let them be free of the psychic nonsense
and the witchcraft and the black magic—this is freedom:
freedom to defend cosmic purpose and God-government and a God-economy
throughout the Earth!"
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Goddess of Freedom
June 30, 1976 |
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"And I tell you, ask for strength. Let all who serve with
the Messenger in any part of the world and on this staff ask for
the strength of ten thousand. Ask for the power to continue that
you faint not but have the strength to disseminate the Word. Ask
for the supply and you shall receive it when your hearts are pure.
Ask for the light. Ask for the means. Ask for all that you deserve
for you indeed deserve the power of Helios and Vesta and we stand
ready to give it to you if you will only affirm your own Self-worth.
Open your chakras, raise your chalice of being and truly receive
the outpouring that is the solution.
" . . . And if the white-fire core representatives
of Alpha and Omega, if the components of the capstone of [the
great pyramid of the civilization America, which corresponds to]
the crown and the third eye [chakras of the nation,] now be activated,
[the components who are] those special disciples of light invoking
the judgment daily and hourly, then you will see how swiftly those
who are unreal will drop [by the wayside] and cease from their
courses and no longer have the will to fight or the will to continue
in the defense of Evil, [for their strength shall fail them].
" . . . I, Helios, now touch all upon Earth
who are designated as divine parents in the coming 33 year spiral.
" . . . Remember Helios. Remember
the mantle. Remember the judgment. Remember the light and the
enemy. 'I AM a lightbearer from the Central Sun. This Earth is
not my permanent abode and I seek no continuing city here but
only the pad, the base of the pyramid of life, for my own consummation
of Love and the transcending of cycles after I [shall] have rendered
the utmost service of Love and pursued the dharma of the Buddha
on behalf of the Buddha's own.'"
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"Alpha and Omega never say 'we' and 'you', they always talk
about 'us'. They are the Divine Us. They are one. They are the
Father-Mother God. They are one and inseparable. From that Divine
Us America has received her name, the U.S. We are the nation for
the Divine Us.
" . . . And the [Divine Us] concept
is that for the purposes of acting out our roles in the great
drama of life, some of us have to be the Spirit [white fire core]
and some of us have to be the Matter [not yet generally taking
major initiations in the white fire ray and/or within the white
fire core]."
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Elizabeth C. Prophet
April 5, 1977 |
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"America is beset with the karma that the nation has made since
its inception two centuries ago. It is beset with ancient records
of Atlantis not yet paid. And it is bowed down by a false teaching
that is not that of the Christ concerning this karma, concerning
accountability. "So many false teachers
abound and so little discrimination is exercised, even in the
New Age movement. Wherever there is a claim or a personality or
a new fad or some other exploration into the psychic, there do
they run like chickens for feed.
"Blessed hearts, find the truth of Being
in yourself. Find others who have that truth of Being. And watch
out, for the disease of the carnal mind is idolatry. Most people
on or off the spiritual path are idolatrous of themselves, quite
pleased with their meager knowledge and even less attainment,
which they deem to be great.
"Know ye not that the first step on the
Path is one of humility and self-effacement?
"The first step beyond this is forgiveness
toward all life.
"Do not jump into the arena of learning
to be a psychic channel. Do not jump into those areas where you
again jeopardize the soul. For this channeling is a form of spiritism
and it does rob you of the very sheath of light that does protect
the physical body and the chakras, and this energy once spent
is not replenished.
"Thus, when you experience exhaustion instead
of a recharge in the presence of a channel, know that your energy
is being drained to sustain that communication, which cannot be
from an Ascended Master if it does drain you.
"Therefore shun the discarnate entities
that come prattling about this and that while the stakes of human
existence hang. They hang heavy, beloved, for it is a century
that can be the springboard to a golden age but more likely will
go down in defeat unless such as you rise to a new fervor of determination
to spread the word of the karma descending, the prophecy of the
decade and its signs in the astrology of the Four Horsemen.
"Remember, then, the prophecy of Jesus Christ
for that karma descending that America must face, and recognize
that to divert it will mean [that her people must offer] a mighty
act of invocation of sacred fire, of violet flame, of diligence."
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" . . . We understand how mankind are divided into many groups,
splintered up here and there, and this is a part of the plan of
destruction for this age. But I love America. I love America for
the support that has been given to America by the ascended masters
and by Almighty God. But I also love the world. And I want you
to understand that my great love for America is because I have
felt through the ages since the formation of this land that America
had the potential to become a wayshower to the world, a cup of
light that would enable the emergent democracies in the world
to be able to uphold the teachings and principles of good example
which mankind would shew forth here in this world.
"Is it any wonder then, seeing that
this was my dream and the dream of Almighty God and the heavenly
hierarchy, that the powers of darkness and shadow should seek
to destroy this land and bring an enormous blight into this land
to create destruction everywhere by strife and by confusion?
"Let me understand then in the depths
of my soul why the conditions that presently exist in America
do exist, that by my understanding you may have imparted to you
by a form of osmosis the understanding that is within my heart.
I do not find fault or desire to chasten individuals. I do not
find fault and desire to chasten groups. For today I am looking
into the great crystal of cosmic truth and I see that in the main,
mankind have found that they reinforce one another's ignorance.
"I want you to ponder upon that for
a moment as you grasp the principle that when men have an idea,
the first thing that they do for the idea is to seek support for
it. They want to find people who will agree with them. And thus
if their idea is based upon ignorance and they can find enough
individuals to support their ignorance, they think that they are
right and that their idea ought to remain a permanent part of
life. And therefore they tell it to their children, and they tell
it to their children's children, and it is printed and bound in
books, and it remains as a perpetuation of defamatory truth, for
it defames the real.
"I want you to understand then that
the plot is legion, the plot is dispersed and spread abroad, and
many good people have put their hand to the plow that plows a
wrong furrow, a crooked furrow, and they have supposed that it
was straight because in their consciousness the concept seemed
so right. I remind you then that these individuals have been able
to compromise the very faith that they possess and that they claim
is real. They have compromised it and found an excuse for going
forth into the world and performing acts of perfidy against their
brothers.
"You would be amazed if I were to
tell you today, for example, that which has been done in the world
of finance in America alone, not to speak of the world-corruption
and crookedness beyond mankind's comprehension, which has sought
to defraud not only the children of this generation, but of generations
yet unborn of their heritage, of their right, and of the very
clothes that they should wear upon their backs. But we are not
so much concerned with the material inheritance of mankind as
we are for the spiritual; for it is the spiritual inheritance
that is obscured and that has been altered, and a thrust made
against it again and again in myriad ways.
"You may wonder why I choose this
day to speak on this subject. Because, beloved ones, it is only
this day that you are sure of. None of you are able for certain
to claim tomorrow. And today is the day when I feel-while men
are conscious of the crown of thorns, which they really ought
not to be —that I desire to teach them that there is a way
to blunt and break those thorns in mortal consciousness and in
the world of form and to bring America into a breathing awareness
of her great destiny.
"For the destiny of America is very much
in my heart, solely because America is, in effect today, the key
to the destiny of the world. The ascended masters do not actually
work for only one nation; they work for the entire human family.
And therefore I am taken in consciousness back to the time of Nimrod
and the Tower of Babel, and I am aware of the fact that those who
came together in that sun-drenched city and watched Nimrod as he
sought to build his vast tower into the heavens did not fully comprehend
the meaning of oneness. And yet they did disperse and spread abroad
through their proximity those negative qualities which were the
bane of mortal existence at the time. And therefore it was the will
of God that they be dispersed into many places upon this rich terrain
of the earth.
"I say to you all then that as the
ages have passed, the dream of God has constantly been to find
a place where a kingdom could be set up that men might enjoy the
fruits of freedom and be blessed. America was chosen, and I myself
played a mighty part in its forging destiny. My writings in the
Novum Organum as Francis Bacon and all of the work which I did
in England, merrie olde England, was also a service unparalleled,
according to my cosmic peers, on behalf of the cause of freedom.
And thus they have seen fit to award unto me the title of the
God
of Freedom.
"I give it unto you, for I myself
would rather by far that the crown that I have received should
rest upon your head and the heads of all mankind than just upon
my own. I hope that you will understand this, for every individual
who is raised from mortal consciousness into the realm of immortality
recognizes the tremendous debt he has for his freedom to mankind.
"I want you to know that it was embodied
individuals around me that provided me with the various tests
which I passed that enabled me to obtain my freedom. It was not
always those who were kind to me that enabled me to pass the tests.
Many times it was a result of those who were unkind to me and
my reaction to it that enabled me to pass the test. For God tries
every man's work that he may see as to just whether an individual
is ready for the next step.
"And thus America is currently being
tried, for the karma of America rests heavily at the present moment.
And as the sword of Damocles hangs over the head of the American
people, I remain at your side! I stand with you! [audience rises]
I stand for you! I remain to assist you! And I am determined that
we will together roll back the aggressive tide that has sought
through the youth of America and their intents to destruct this
great country and to torpedo its bastions. Won't you please be
seated.
"How is this to be brought about?
As this beloved messenger has told you, they have control of mass
media and of practically all of the books; and all of the media
of distribution are in the hands of the commercial and vested
interests of the world. It has come to the place, precious ones,
where politicians scarcely dare to breathe for fear they will
draw enough energy from God to blow over some straw man. Do you
understand what I mean? Do you understand there are so many vested
interests in the world that they are crowding one another, and
thus they scarcely can open their mouth to tell it for fear that
they will be criticized, their support withdrawn, and the political
office which they seek denied to them?
"We do not think that this is proper.
We do not think that this is correct. We do not think that this
is a standard for a candidate to a public office of high stature
to have. We feel that everyone aspiring to these high offices
should recognize that they ought to be the greatest and most dedicated
public servant. Yet at the same time, today it is scarcely possible
for any ordinary individual, regardless of his intelligence, to
find and seek the highest office in this land, that of president
of the United States. For vast sums of money are needed to control
media and to release to the news and to the American public that
information which is calculated to enable the candidate to become
elected.
"I say unto you all then that during
this election year, you must be extremely diligent, although you
have no choice. You may ask why I say this. I say it because the
greatest pressure and power in the world is the power of the ascended-master
students and the students of the light when they decree for right
action on the part of the politicians who still to this present
moment fear the opinions and the thoughts of mortal men. If you
don't believe it, look at how they pay attention to the polls.
"I say to you then, you have no choice
because the powers that be have established in all cases control
in advance over the candidates that they seek to have nominated.
We call this to your attention so that you will not be so much
interested in the choices as you will be actually in the manifestation
of obedience to the divine precepts that the elected candidate
should follow.
"However, I think that there is a
lesser of the two evils and I presume that we will throw our support
one way or the other at the proper time. Yet understand we cannot
possibly announce it from the platform or reveal it through these
messengers, for our constituency is actually itself divided and
we do not presume to dictate the political opinions of those who
follow us in this course of action."
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Saint Germain
April 13, 1968 |
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"Blessed ones, Elohim, who created the earth “in the
beginning,” have controlled earth changes throughout the
ages as continents have risen and fallen according to mankind’s
karma. Through such earth changes, they have fashioned what you
know today as the Western Hemisphere —stretching as it does
from the North to the South Pole—to be isolated between
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
"This was for a very good reason. It was
in part to protect the golden-age civilization that I envisioned
would one day thrive in the New World. The golden age, I believed,
would see its beginnings in North and South America and then sweep
the world around.
"But before that was to take place, my goal
was (and still is) to protect this hemisphere from a karma not
native to the people of the Americas—a karma carried on
the backs of aliens from other planets and systems of worlds who
settled beyond the seas among the peoples of the Near and Far
East and the Indian subcontinent."
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Saint Germain
March 7, 1996 |
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"We must see how the masters have given us a legacy of several
hundred years and then of thousands of years prior to that as
the foundation for the American dream and the new order of the
ages. We must know our Constitution. We must know that behind
our Constitution there is the divine document inspired by Saint
Germain. We must see how the outer law conforms to the inner law.
"We must appeal to the Holy Spirit and to the ascended masters
to interpret that law to us rather than assign to others the interpretation
of these laws which come from cosmos, which must be released within
the heart flame. We must understand and participate in government.
" . . . The Constitution of the United
States was not a compact entered into by the states, but it was
the law of the land as formulated and ratified by the American
people. There can only be 'Liberty and Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable!' "
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Elizabeth C. Prophet
The Great White Brotherhood
in the Culture, History and Religion
of America, SU Press, 1976,
chapter 9, pp. 113-4, 134 |
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"I come to you with an intense understanding
of the history of the United States. And I admonish you all to
study that history; for it is a history not merely of those who
are past, but it is a history of the unfoldment of the Word, even
as sacred scriptures East and West and in the Old and New Testaments
unveil the history of the individual soul and the overcoming of
every foe and fantasy of illusion that would beset the path of
the Light-bearer.
"I come to remind you of a spiritual heritage
and of the founding of a great nation. I come to remind you that
you are called to hold a nucleus of Light in the heart of America,
a magnet in that Inner Retreat that will be as a Great Central
Sun Magnet sending forth the rays, even the heart’s rays,
of the devotion of Akhenaten in your own Lanello—being pathways
of light that souls might find the way to their own God Presence
and to that place upon earth consecrated to the ascension of the
Woman and her seed!"
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"As the anniversary of Memorial Day
approaches again this year, in addition to the more sober moments
of contemplation it brings to mind, I am hoping that it shall
also bring to all who so enjoy the blessings of this great land,
MOST JOYOUS FEELINGS OF SINCERE AND LOVING GRATITUDE for all the
endeavors (and tremendous energies expended therein) of the unascended
of this world, as well as those of the ascended host—to
produce and maintain as much freedom as you do enjoy here.
"Take heart—beloved ones! The so-called
"dead" you honor today HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN for, in
the PERMANENT GOLDEN AGE into which the earth and all her evolutions
are now entering, THERE SHALL BE NO MORE WAR—NO! NOR EVEN
MEMORY OF IT—for there is coming here the REIGN OF ETERNAL
PEACE.
"Truly, America was designed from our octave
and given so much assistance from there to be 'the land of the
free . . . !' Now, EVERY nation and its people are dear to OUR
hearts—for all are some expression of God's Life and HIS
LIFE IS THE ONLY LIFE THERE IS. Each nation has a divine plan
of its own to fulfill and, according to their divine destinies,
the various nations of the world represent the various parts of
the earth's 'body.'
"Therefore, in the NEW AGE, the land of
India shall represent the 'head' of such an 'earth body;' and
the land of America, the 'heart.' Take notice, please, that the
name 'India' begins with the letter 'I' and 'America' with 'Am.'
Is this not significant?
"The land of America—in the main so
little understood by most of the dear lifestreams she shelters
—is of far more importance to all life on this planet than
most imagine. America is a land somewhat different from others—for
she has gathered to her bosom many from every land who love freedom.
Since that particular virtue is the one I personally embody (and
is my 'reason for being'), these individuals are particularly
dear to my heart. Is not America considered to be "the melting
pot" of the world?
"You will remember the words 'Conceived
in Liberty . . . ,' which appear in the 'Gettysburg Address' spoken
so eloquently by the beloved Abraham Lincoln nearly a century
ago. Privileged was I to have inspired the words of that address.
"Therefore, designed from our octave
also was the idea of placing the great Statue of Liberty in New
York Harbor—that open door to your great land . . ."
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Saint Germain
May 22, 1959. |
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"The patrons of life are the sustainers and the interpreters
of the law. They have the understanding and the knowledge, and
therefore they can educate the people concerning the law that
is set forth as the blueprint of life.
" . . . You see then, one who carries
the illumination of the law must write the books that inspire
the patriots to release that pink flame, to set the captives free,
to bring justice to the nation. Those who carry the yellow flame
must be constand, steadfast, tenacious, continually moving against
the bastions of tyranny that have set themselves up in place of
the fortification of the true law of life.
" . . . In America we have such a fusion of the consciousness
of the Christ light that among all nations its people, its common
people, have the greatest sense of individuality, of self-government,
of responsibility, of helping one another. They have an inherent
understanding of the flame of freedom--not by their own virtue
but by the virtue of those masters who have planted the mandala
and the flame of victory in her soil."
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Elizabeth C. Prophet
The Great White Brotherhood
in the Culture, History and Religion
of America, SU Press, 1976,
pp. 109, 127 |
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"The nation was bursting with discontent, when three cargo
ships cut the icy waters of Boston Harbor and dropped anchor.
In the nearby Green Dragon Tavern the colonists denounced the
new tax on imported tea. When tempers rose, there was a revolutionary
movement ready to direct the spirit of resistance, a spiritual
fellowship steeped in the inner mysteries of the Great White Brotherhood.
Its tradition . . . 'an elevation to a higher plane of political
and social life,' animated a desperate struggle for freedom over
two hundred years ago . . . "
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Elizabeth C. Prophet
July 4, 1980 |
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"Come, then, beloved, with me and recognize that if we are
to win the battle we must be every day, every day, every day,
every day moving on those forces that move against the children,
that move against the light, that move against those who represent
the United States of America.
"And I single out that nation, beloved,
because all of you know worldwide that I am commissioned by the
Lords of Karma to focus on the United States and that I do not
have the opportunity yet to encompass the entire globe. Yet I
tell you this: there is a single thread from my heart, and if
you camp upon that thread and if you meditate upon that thread,
you will also be strengthened.
"So, beloved ones, America must have
that momentum of light. And I ask you to prepare again to send
yourselves or others from our communities that others out of the
nation might have the opportunity to transcend themselves and
to know the power of the seven archangels and Archangel Michael."
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"Therefore, let our own design and our own strategy be straight
as an arrow from the heart of beloved Alpha and Omega who send
forth the call in this hour.
"Let there be more organization. Let there
be more concentration and divine planning as well as human planning
for the victory of the Light upon earth. Let those who are the
astute, let those who are the children of my heart who give their
prayers and dynamic decrees, look at America—city by city,
county by county, state by state.
"Let us examine demographics. Let us examine
the consciousness and the attitudes of the people, the economic
brackets, and how they approach life, religion, education, and
social mores. Let us appeal to that which is righteous already
in the hearts and upheld. And let us not constantly beat against
that which they believe in. For people must be left with some
beliefs. They must be left
with some understanding of life.
"Let us not tear from them all things at
once, but let us come rather with the gift of the violet flame.
Let us have greater trust in the dynamic decree itself, in the
teaching of the science of the spoken Word—let us have greater
trust in the violet flame to communicate itself, rather than to
have self-righteous chelas tearing down through criticism that
which has been the world of another for many a decade!"
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Saint Germain
July 4, 1981 |
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"Let us understand that the most direct calling of God in this
hour is to save America. Why America? Why the United States? Some
vehemently object to this seeming preference. Beloved,
it is because this nation has the great endowment and sponsorship
of Saint Germain, the greatest investment of Light of the Great
White Brotherhood in the experiment of freedom on earth.
"Therefore, to save America is to
save a dispensation that has not been given to any other nation.
To save America is to save the lost sheep of the twelve tribes,
of the legions of Sanat Kumara, and to raise up such a Christ
consciousness as will draw all Lightbearers of the earth. To seal
and save this nation under God is to preserve opportunity for
the victory in every other nation upon this planet.
"Let it be known, then, that if this
nation be lost and sponsorship and dispensation be lost, no other
shall be forthcoming to any other nation. For all upon earth have
had four hundred years and more to be aware of the great pulsating
flame of freedom that has been anchored upon this continent and
soil. Know then, beloved, that if America is lost—a generation,
her youth, a government, a constitution, a vision and the capstone
of the pyramid itself—lo! beloved, not another cause, not
another calling, not another destiny will remain to be pursued.
"How well I remember, for I moved amongst them, those who
were galvanized in the Revolutionary War with its declaration
of firmness and Christ-purity against all encroachments upon the
individual, sovereign free will of the sons and daughters of God.
How they left their businesses, their farms, their professions,
their education, all to defeat the common enemy who would have
enslaved this nation under another system and under its own crown.
"Again, beloved, the hour came, the
hour to defend this nation against the encroachments of the international
bankers. Thus, the one raised up (as George Washington had been
to lead those armies) was none other than the son Abraham Lincoln.
And though he did fight to turn back those who came now not to
control her soil but her wealth and her abundant life, yet ultimately
the cause to which he gave his life and for which he was also
crucified did not prevail."
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"You who will go forth in the name of freedom claiming my
flame and my momentum, which I have bequeathed not alone to America
but to all who fervently pursue the vow of Unity, you who will
go forth carrying that fire will also have the momentum of my
flame! For I stand this night to sponsor once again the patriarchs,
the patrons and the patriots of freedom. I sponsor those who will
take the mantle and the fire and the sword. I sponsor those who
reckon with the responsibility of an age.
" . . . As I raise my hands I contact the
chakra of the soul, the chakra of freedom. And from my hands now
I release through the hands of the Messenger a ray of fire that
will penetrate your soul. Let it come if you will! Let it realign
that forcefield if you will! Let it bring the consciousness of
soul freedom into balance so that you will know the meaning of
true freedom.
" . . . Marvel not that when the fires of
freedom come the elements of a not-freedom and a false freedom
feel the grain and feel the friction of the entering-in of the
pure wine of that fire, the pure and concentrated elixir that
is the alchemicalization of soul consciousness . . . Your soul
awareness when purified, when aligned, when quickened by the seventh-ray
action of the Holy Spirit will give you unerring perception and
a reading of vibration.
" . . . Let liberty proclaim that
every man is free to pursue the Almighty according to conscience!
This is the meaning of freedom of religion. Therefore let not
the state, let not the organizations of the councils of the churches
or the elders of the people confine the souls of this or any nation
to the doctrine and the dogma of the past, the timeworn beliefs."
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Saint Germain
The Great White Brotherhood
in the Culture, History and Religion
of America (comprising the 1975 Freedom Conference at Mount
Shasta), SU Press, 1976, chapter 13, pp. 161-5 |
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"We are determined to reverse the tide by a strong and united
City Foursquare of United States and Canada. And this larger square,
finding its heart in the Inner Retreat, will be the very base
and stronghold of the powers of Light and the chelas to move forth
and roll back the entire momentum and the effect of the Four Horsemen
when they are spent.
"Let us pray that their spending be swift. Let us pray that
the cycles of their coming be shortened for the elect. Let us
pray that the elect are out of harm's way and that they be sealed
as the servants of God in their foreheads."
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God and Goddess Meru
January 6, 1985 |
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"The coming year marks another year
of the possibility of terrorism. And we know that terrorists have
struck Americans in the Middle East, and the nations have not
cooperated with determining who those terrorists are and what
is to be done about them. And of course, they [the terrorists]
have already determined that they shall go to their death without
having told to the authorities of the United States what caused
that explosion, who did it, et cetera.
"So we come back to the United States, beloved.
Like the upheaval in Oklahoma City, many other areas of the United
States have had threats upon them, have had attempts against them.
And because of your calls, the calls of the messenger, those particular
bombings have been entirely averted. We tell you this, beloved,
so that you will not think that just because these bombings have
not happened that they may not happen.
"They may happen, beloved, if you cease
to make the calls for the children in their school buses, for
areas where they can be maimed and hurt, for situations, for instance,
with oncoming trains
and situations where people cannot extricate themselves from those
trains when they skip the rails, et cetera.
"So, there is a potential for the wiping
out of terrorism in the United States of America. And I remind
you of a decree that the messenger sent forth at Camelot where
all decreed for the binding of drunk drivers throughout the holiday
season. And when that season was over, beloved, it was announced
in the newspapers that there was not a single death on the highway
due to drunk driving.
"Now, if a group of souls can do this in
Malibu, what can you do for the entire planet? Well, I tell you
what you can do: you can do anything that you make up your mind
to do! You can do anything that you make up your mind to do if
you are willing to set aside something else. And that something
else [that you set aside], however more precious it is, promises
to you that you will make greater and greater balanced karma by
that service. If you are not in a state of being able to let go
and serve the world in this manner, then serve at the level that
you are able and God will receive your offering.
"Take note, then, that our goal is to see
the Northern Hemisphere free, absolutely free of terrorism. To
that end, we have asked you to give the calls to Cyclopea, K-17
and Lanello, one hundred and forty-four, once a week. Beloved,
if you want to avert these things, then do it twice a week and
you will hear about fewer calamities than before.
"What I am saying now in my heart of hearts,
beloved, is that you must make your choices. You deliberate in
your own heart. You consider what Saint Germain has done for you
and [what] Archangel Michael and the hosts of the Lord [have done
for you]. You deliberate upon these
things and ponder and say to yourself: 'What will I tackle? What
will I do?'
"My recommendation to all, since it
is the greatest threat of all, is to move with an understanding
of who is in the military of the Far East, of the former Soviet
Union, to know what is being done, to study what is happening.
And we would appreciate having that information given to those
souls in the United States and around the world. It is far and
away the most important assignment to stop all alien powers who
have hatred and anger against the United States, to stop them
from waging war upon this continent, to stop them from causing
nuclear attacks against this very soil. This, of course, is utmost
in importance."
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Sanat Kumara
December 31, 1996 |
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"For this is a mighty movement of the people of God across
the desert sands, through the valleys, into the civilizations
and cities of the world, thence to return to that Promised Land
of the I AM Race [the United States of America] and once again
to find the security, as the security of Sinai, which you discover
here in the vastnesses of the Inner Retreat."
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"Mankind must remember the vision on
the battlefields of life that even was seen by the enemy in World
War II—those who thought they had won, those who thought
they had conquered all of Europe. And as they were marching to
take that land of liberty where freedom is enshrined in the heart
of France and thought that all was in their hands, these generals
of the foreign armies looked up and saw marching toward them the
hosts of the Lord, the angelic hosts, the sons and daughters of
God riding then on white horses led by the one, the Faithful and
True. And they saw the oncoming light that would not recede. No
matter how they tried or what they did, the hosts of the Lord
as the spiritual armies of heaven moved against the Darkness.
And the Light prevailed!"
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K-17
The Great White Brotherhood
in the Culture, History and Religion
of America (comprising the 1975 Freedom
Conference at Mount Shasta),
SU Press, 1976, chapter 10, p. 141 |
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They Cannot Extinguish the Flame Which Is Inextinguishable
To the Patriots of Every Nation:
America is more than a nation; she is an ideal.
From her earliest conception to the present hour, the divine forces
have sought to transfer the higher consciousness from the realm
of the ideal to the realm of manifestation. This was done in order
that America could exhibit to the world a master radiance after
which the family of nations might pattern.
The ascended masters have never been partial
in their love of endowing man with cosmic grace. The Eternal God
has desired that the whole family of nations should share jointly
in the blessings which he would manifest upon the earth. America
was a wilderness land; in selecting that land, God sought to produce
a miracle framed as a new beginning in order that a beacon of
hope might shine forth universal grace to every nation, buoying
them up and removing the dust of the ages.
The strength that has been the forte of America
has been spiritual. The words "In God We Trust" engraven
upon the coins of this land, the emblem of the Great Seal of the
United States together with her constitution and sacred relics
were dedicated as holy talismans to lock the benefits God intends
to bestow upon the world into the hearts of the American people.
The flame of patriotism that in past decades
made the hearts of the people to beat faster at the sound of martial
music and patriotic songs has always been a stimulus toward decency,
order and charity. It is easy to see that the legacy of virtue,
preserved within this great nation by the Eternal God for the
whole world, has become the target of those enemies of righteousness
who would extinguish the eternal flame.
They do not know that they cannot extinguish
the flame which is inextinguishable. But they try, as they have
done, to hide it from view, to opaque its glory to the masses
of mankind and the emerging young souls who come into life without
awareness of their inheritance.
The busyness of the age and the chaos it has
generated have concealed the truth from the youth of the world
by means of many clever methods. The dark powers of the land have
given voice to violence and discord to arouse the demons in human
nature and then to cloak them with the vestments of the Church.
The living Christ in all of his glorious radiance,
standing forth and saying unto the world, "Come unto me,
all ye who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,"
is forgotten as men and women, under the malefic intent of the
very denizens of the netherworld, open the doors of the great
cathedrals to jazz masses and orgiastic activities.
The educational systems of the world are promoting
a godless atheism which brings forth only partial glimpses of
the evolutionary process as though the part were the whole. Mass
media have been invoked to report sensationalism and to deny voice
to truth. Government, which was instituted to serve the basic
needs of man, has been involved in interminable controversy.
The forces of safety and protection, inherent
within the very system and way of life that constitutes America,
have had to be invoked against the people whom they should serve.
And now the world is asked to witness with rejoicing the downfall
of the greatness that the Eternal Father, through the founding
fathers, brought into manifestation to be a cup of light and blessing
to the world.
We fan the fires of patriotism this spring.
We fan the fires of allegiance to the eternal nation under God
that serves only a world of divine unity, not a world of unity
by force or violence. Past history records that whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad. We look, then, for an awakening
on the part of the American people; we look to them to repudiate
the voices of discord that masquerade as wolves in sheep's clothing
and plot the overthrow of a way of life that, while it may need
correction in many ways, is still the highest and best that the
centuries have produced in modern time.
The words "God mend thine every flaw"
(from "America the Beautiful") ought to be accepted
by every American as a fiat that is intended to evoke personal
and national introspection and a striving toward perfection. Criticism
is a disease that does not produce the fruit of rightful striving.
It is lawless and destructive in its base intent and drags down
the soul of the individual who submits to it. Thus the admonishment
"Judge not lest ye be judged" went forth.
We are aware of the fact that the godless societies
criticize the flaws of those nations that are outside of their
fold whom they would overpower. We understand their methods of
boring from within, of hiding behind legitimate facades, and deceiving
the people. We urge, then, in view of the awful plots that have
been hatched to overthrow the forces of freedom in the world,
that every lover of freedom will heed our warning in his prayers,
in his contacts, and in the renewal of his faith.
Jesus said long ago, "They that are whole
need not a physician; but they that are sick." The sickness
of the nations must be healed, the shield of righteousness must
be used, the sword of the Spirit must be employed, and every magnificent
action that man can take must be taken for the preservation of
right values.
The proper education of the masses must be accelerated
and the protection of freedom must be carried on to the fullest
extent of the law. Armageddon is at hand. The forces of destruction,
with their godless philosophy, and the sweet, spiritual powers
of the world to come are locked in a deadly embrace.
It is never a question of outcome, insofar as
the power of right is concerned; but the battle can be lost in
the realm of the individual-in the militant and vicious individual
who, in the name of social justice, can excuse a conduct that
tarnishes the image of justice and produces only the fruit of
misery, never of order and peace. Knowing, therefore, that the
little children who are incoming will be victims of man's dangerous
defections from just action, we urge that this activity of light
be expanded more and more.
A strengthening of the bonds of devotion to
the preservation of God's dream for America and the world is in
order. For the ascended masters, in far-off retreats and far-off
worlds, are watching as the struggles of mankind go on, hoping
and calling forth an avalanche of light to awaken men before it
is too late.
Understand, then, O men of earth, that eternal
vigilance is the price that you must pay if you are to preserve
liberty upon the earth. Oh, act before it is too late! As a cosmic
mother, I speak.
Obediently yours, I AM
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Goddess of Liberty
April 27, 1969 |
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"Understand, beloved, that few officeholders are perfect
but the mantle of the office that comes from the Great White Brotherhood
is indeed perfect. Therefore, respect the mantle of the office
of the President of the United States, which since the anointing
of George Washington has been a mantle in the hierarchy of the
Brotherhood.
"There have been officeholders who have scarcely understood
the mantle. Some have betrayed it, some have gone against the
Light [Christ consciousness] of the I AM Presence. But because
the mantle itself was present, as some have remarked, the nation
has survived its presidents!
"Understand, then, that although there is a willing heart
in your President, there are circumstances and individuals and
even his own karma that may prevent the best use of that mantle
and the wielding of it in a stronger defense of freedom. I say
pray for the officeholder to come into alignment with the mantle
itself. And offer the prayer upon all elected representatives
and those not elected that the mantle of Christ descend.
"Whether they will use that mantle to divide the waters and
proclaim the Truth of the Lord's prophecy or whether it will become
a judgment upon their own treasonous acts against this nation,
so be it. The mantle itself will perform its work when invoked
by you. Since it is a qualification of the representatives of
the people of this nation to be the bearers of the Light and the
mantle of the Christ, therefore you may invoke it. And therefore
you may use the Judgment Call to demand the judgment of those
individuals who have betrayed the office of Mediator, which office
is essential in the interpretation and execution of the Constitution.
"Realize, then, that in this hour as I stand and as I have
appeared to the people of America at the soul level, there is
come to pass this initiation and this reinforcement: that the
calling of the Lord is that those who represent the people—whether
in public office, private industry, education, or society—must
therefore be compelled to uphold the standard of the Cosmic Christ.
They must be compelled by the Lightbearers in the nation who form
the ensign of the enlightened ones—and this by the calls
to the Almighty, to us, the body of the Lords of Karma, to your
Christ Self, and to the entire Hierarchy.
". . . That for which the people have prayed—which
is the intercessor, the deliverance of this nation in the face
of world situations-has been answered by Almighty God in my person,
beloved, because I am the one Ascended Master upon whom all people
of this nation can agree and to whom they may give their allegiance."
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Goddess of Liberty
November 23, 1986 |
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"I say to you, people of light, accept your mission of the
ages! Accept your role as the ones who are the protectors of freedom
on earth. This is indeed America's destiny—to teach a way
of life that is a form of government whereby each threefold flame
and every living soul may commune
with God and out of that communion evolve one vote and cast that
vote for freedom.
" So let it be that this understanding of the inner communion
is the foundation of God-government of the people, by the people,
and for the people that shall not perish from the earth if this
nation, America, shall rise again to her God-destiny in this age
and shall forge that unity that is sponsored by the Archangel
Michael who comes for the deliverance, who comes to unite you,
and who comes with a message: "Remember, ye are brethren!"
Therefore let brethren unite for the glorious victory of the Christ...And
let souls who love the flame of purity now acquaint themselves
with the flame of Mother, and let that Mother of Cosmos nourish
once again new life and the new birth."
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Science of the Spoken Word,
Mark L. and Elizabeth C. Prophet
Saint Germain, Chapter I |
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"[H]onesty
will be found on every experiment, to be the best and
only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just."—George
Washington
Circular letter to the States, 14 June 1783
"The propitious smiles of Heaven
can never be expected on a nation
that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven
itself has ordained."
—George Washington
The Founding Fathers of America, in
Congress, July 4, 1776,
“with firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence,”
mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor.
"Where liberty dwells, there is
my country."—Benjamin Franklin
(letter to Benjamin Vaughn, 14 March 1783)
"To sit home, read one's favorite
paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things
is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count
upon
the good men's doing."—Theodore Roosevelt
"Blessed hearts, I have chosen
to give that declaration of love with you
that there might be the confirmation by all octaves of being,
by all lifewaves
who are of the Light in this system of worlds, of the meaning
of my own beloved America.
Cherish her as I have. Hold her to your heart. For the dream of
America must not die on the earth!
Let it continue to be the dream, the hope, the faith, the longing
in the hearts of those
who are the oppressed—even the Light-bearers of El Morya
in Mother Russia,
even those who feel my presence and my dictation in this hour."—Saint
Germain
"The difference between death and
taxes is death doesn't get worse
every time Congress meets."—American humorist Will
Rogers (1879-1935)
"About all I can say for the United
States Senate is that it opens
with a prayer and closes with an investigation."—Will
Rogers
In case we find ourselves starting
to believe all the anti-American sentiment
and negativity, we should remember England's Prime Minister Tony
Blair's words.
When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so
much in America,
he said: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to
look at
how many want in . . . and how many want out."
"Let each citizen remember at the
moment he is offering his vote
that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual—or
at least
that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the
most solemn trusts
in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."—Samuel
Adams
"When more of the people's sustenance
is exacted through the form of taxation
than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government,
such exaction
becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental
principles
of a free government."—President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
"If the people fail to vote, a
government will be developed which is not their government . .
.
The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box.
Unless citizens perform
their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure."—Calvin
Coolidge
"[L]et us solemnly remember the
sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly,
on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our
heritage of freedom,
and let us re-consecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an
enduring peace
so that their efforts shall not have been in vain."—Dwight
D. Eisenhower
“Ah sinful nation, a people laden
with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,
children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,
they are gone away backward.
"Why should ye be stricken any more?
ye will revolt more and more:
the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
"From the sole of the foot even unto
the head there is no soundness in it;
but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not
been closed,
neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.” Isaiah
1:4-6
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" . . . Yes, let the discussions on God-government continue.
Let the sacred heritage be known! Let every one of you be able to
come to me and pass my test on this Constitution of this land, the
United States of America. These laws are divine laws. They come
from the schools of the Brotherhood. They are enshrined for your
freedom. And to preserve each article you must have a greater love,
a greater love for the structure as well as the foundation of a
nation." |
Confucius
August 26, 1982 |
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" . . . To sit in the aura of the ascended masters is a privilege
of many lifetimes, and yet it ought not to be a privilege but a
right. It is truly the rite of spring and of Eastertide to know
your Lord, but it is not a right that can be guaranteed by the Constitution
of this nation. You see, beloved, it is a spiritual right that ought
to belong to everyone but is forfeited by many. This forfeiture
takes place because of the density that people have consented to
have wrapped around themselves like strips of uncooked dough—yes,
a dense dough that they have kneaded but not fired."
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" . . . To seal and save this nation under God is to preserve
opportunity for the victory in every other nation upon this planet.
"Let it be known then that if this nation be lost and sponsorship
and dispensation be lost, no other shall be forthcoming to any other
nation. For all upon Earth have had four hundred years and more
to be aware of the great pulsating flame of freedom that has been
anchored upon this continent and soil. Know then, beloved, that
if America is lost—a generation, her youth, a government,
a Constitution, a vision and the capstone of the pyramid itself—lo!
beloved, not another cause, not another calling, not another destiny
will remain to be pursued.
"How well I remember, for I moved amongst them, those who were
galvanized in the Revolutionary War with its declaration of firmness
and Christ-purity against all encroachments upon the individual,
sovereign free will of the sons and daughters of God. How they left
their businesses, their farms, their professions, their education,
all to defeat the common enemy who would have enslaved this nation
under another system and under its own crown."
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"The tragedy of tragedies, beloved, is therefore in the disarming
of Europe. And as I have told you in my Pearl of Wisdom [number
25 ], with the coming of Wesak there has been a conclusion of
the dispensation accorded to me by the Cosmic Council through
the efforts of these Messengers. Beloved, any dispensation that
I may have had for the sponsorship of the European continent has
been withdrawn. The only sponsorship, then, which I retain is
to assist the Lightbearers of Europe. But to place myself upon
European soil in order to stand between that continent and the
karma that is coming upon it, this I am not allowed to do according
to Cosmic Law, to our Father and to the Cosmic Council.
"Therefore, beloved, this is the message
that I bring to you, for I desire your hearts to understand the
meaning of this. And inasmuch as the earth is one, you can see
the ramifications and the repercussions of that which may come
upon Europe by her being left vulnerable as well as that which
may come upon America.
"Thus, it is necessary for the Lightbearers
to gather together, to give the calls, to establish such a mighty
fortress of Light at this Royal Teton Ranch as to create a pillar
of fire for the protection of this continent. For it has the maximum
opportunity according to its karma, beloved, to be a place of
survivability.
"Even though you may consider other
areas of the world far out of reach of harm’s way in an
East/West power conflict, I tell you it is the sponsorship of
this nation and the Lightbearers here by Sanat Kumara, despite
the evildoings of their leaders, that does enable them to receive
that divine intervention in time of trouble that many others are
not able to receive. Thus, if it has occurred to you that you
are called to gather in a place [America] of danger, I tell you,
beloved, often where there is maximum danger there is maximum
protection. And so it is the case."
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Question:
Then would you say that the resemblance between the republican
form of government and hierarchy, as you describe it, is no coincidence?
Elizabeth C. Prophet:
It is not a coincidence. But you know, El Morya has said it really
doesn't matter what the form of government. Any form of government
can work when the basic principle of the integrity of the soul
and the soul's relationship to God is maintained, and when the
ruler or governing body—be it the single enlightened despot
or a committee or a larger group or the people themselves—considers
its supreme obligation to be the safeguarding of the individual's
right to become one with God.
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"Beloved ones of the Light, Saint Germain and I would.speak
to you concerning the future of the nations and the future of
their economies, which hangs in a delicate balance, and Saint
Germain would speak to you now regarding the presidential elections
in the United States.
". . . I tell you, beloved hearts, the most valuable commodity
in America is the heart flame of the people and their sacred labor.
Yet, this divine spark, this labor of love is trampled upon, it
is misused, it is desecrated, and their life energy is squandered.
This commodity of life itself has been a source of unending Light
[ingenuity of the Christ consciousness] and supply to all of the
fallen angels of the earth for at least a century and more.
"Realize, therefore, that those who have
such a precious gift as the Light of the Great White Brotherhood
in their daily service and workplace ought to cherish that Light,
cherish the holiness of their labor, and begin to realize that
because it is sanctified by God it must be protected. And in order
to have that protection they must invoke the intercession of the
Archangels.
"We, the members of the Darjeeling Council,
consider, therefore, that the acquaintance of the people of this
nation and the Lightbearers of all nations with the Seven Archangels
is a most important and worthy effort that ought to be undertaken
by the Messenger and chelas. People need the understanding of
how to call to the Archangels for that divine intercession of
the angelic hosts that is absolutely necessary to their spiritual
and physical survival. This heavenly ministration must take place
if the people are to rise up lawfully, according to the revolution
of the heart and the revolution in Higher Consciousness, to overtake
those who usurp their Light, their Power, and their Authority
to govern themselves.
"I can only tell you that with an alternative
administration things could be far worse; we desire to see things
far better. We cannot say that we endorse an individual but we
do say that we stand on a platform of freedom, and we can only
work through those who have determined in their hearts to at least
lend an ear and consider our counsel.
"Beyond this you must realize that
when the counsel is given and many voices speak and modify and
recommend other solutions, it is difficult for any leader to maintain
contact with our level and to take that strong stand that is necessary,
especially when that leader has no direct personal knowledge of
our counsel."
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"We gather today at a symbolic center, center of immigrant
experience in America, to celebrate America's longstanding and
continuing embrace of new Americans from all parts of the world.
After a hundred years, the words inscribed on another part of
this memorial, the Statue of Liberty, remain the best expression
of our nation's commitment to welcoming new Americans:
" 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled
masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming
shores; send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me; I lift
my lamp beside the golden door.' These were the words of Emma
Lazarus a young poet who herself was the descendant of immigrants,
Sephardic Jews driven from the Iberian Peninsula. They came to
the United States of America as religious refugees when New York
was still called New Amsterdam. By the time Emma Lazarus penned
her famous words, they were successful merchants, professionals
and intellectuals.
"Her poem is testimony to the uniquely American
experience, which, in her words, provide a basis for new Americans
finding not just a welcoming, but an unapologetic expression of
confidence in the power of freedom.
"Ms. Lazarus did not write, 'Give me your
top 10 percent,' or 'Give me the cream of your crop, give me the
Merit scholars on the SAT.' She wrote, 'Send me the homeless,
the tempest-tossed, the wretched refuse.' She understood that
the power and chemistry of freedom itself could provide a basis
for ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
"And that's the story of the United
States of America. For a hundred years, Lady Liberty adorned this
harbor and has beckoned new Americans. Her promise is that when
people are allowed to breathe the air of freedom, to exercise
themselves and their talents in an environment of opportunities,
that there is no limit to the heights to which individuals can
rise."
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Written by an Australian Dentist
To Kill an American
You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually
a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper,
an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.
So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial
the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So
they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)
'An American is English, or French, or Italian,
Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American
may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.
An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee,
Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many
other tribes known as native Americans.
An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish,
or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America
than in Afghanistan . The only difference is that in America they
are free to worship as each of them chooses.
An American is also free to believe in no religion.
For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or
to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.
An American lives in the most prosperous land
in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the
Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right
of each person to the pursuit of happiness.
An American is generous. Americans have helped
out just about every other nation in the world in their time of
need, never asking a thing in return.
When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army
20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable
the people to win back their country!
As of the morning of September 11, Americans
had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.
The national symbol of America , The Statue
of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse
of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in
fact are the people who built America.
Some of them were working in the Twin Towers
the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their
families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were
from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages,
including those that aided and abetted the terrorists.
So you can try to kill an American if you
must. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung,
and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.. But, in doing so
you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not
a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment
of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit,
everywhere, is an American.
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"Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting
for the blessings of Liberty." —George Washington
"There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And
he can double the reward on my head!"—John Hancock (upon
signing the Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)
"It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted.
Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please
the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards
defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the
honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."—George
Washington (as quoted by Gouverneur Morris in Farrand's Records
of the Federal Convention of 1787, 25 March 1787
"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend
his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will
not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity;
but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp
political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.—George Washington
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and pursuit
of Happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."—Declaration
of Independence, 4 July 1776, Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson
ed., Library of America
"It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country,
by their conduct and example, to decide the important question,
whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing
good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are
forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on
accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis
at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era
in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the
part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as
the general misfortune of mankind."—Alexander Hamilton,
27 October 1787
"From these honored dead we take increased devotion to the
same cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
. . . that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom
. . ."—Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November
19, 1863
"The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this,
that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more
than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations."—George
Washington
"I am well aware of the toil and blood
and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and
support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can
see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end
is worth more than all the means . . . "—John Adams
"The Reformation was preceded by the discovery of America,
as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted
in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor
safety."—Thomas Paine
"We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light
of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and
superstition, and that every person may here worship God according
to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in
this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious
tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive
him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that
are known in the United States."—George Washington
"Against the insidious wiles of foreign
influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy
of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and
experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful
foes of Republican Government."—George Washington
"If men are
so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?"—Benjamin
Franklin
"The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America,
as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted
in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor
safety."—Thomas Paine (Common
Sense, 1776) Reference: Paine Writings, Foner, ed., 25.
"A man who thinks of himself
as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet
become an American."—Woodrow Wilson
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from
revolutionists and rebels—men and women who dare to dissent
from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest
dissent with disloyal subversion."—Dwight Eisenhower
"It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States,
derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority
of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the Constitution,
will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act."—James Madison
"The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."—George
Washington
"A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction
of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government
honest and unoppressive."—Thomas Jefferson "There is but
one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily."—George
Washington
"In a word, I want an American character, that the powers of
Europe may be convinced we act for ourselves and not for others;
this, in my judgment, is the only way to be respected abroad and
happy at home."—George Washington "'Tis our true
policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of
the foreign world." —George Washington
"There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be
misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current
one that the interest of the majority is the political standard
of right and wrong . . . In fact it is only reestablishing under
another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right
. . . "—James Madison
"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the
danger of oppression."—James Madison
"Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive
their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim
them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the
public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges,
and Governors, shall all become wolves."—Thomas Jefferson
(letter to Edward Carrington, 16 January 1787)
"It has ever been my hobby-horse to see
rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or
three hundred millions of freemen . . . "—John Adams
"To the press
alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for
all the triumphs
which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."—James
Madison "The powers delegated
by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and
defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are
numerous and indefinite." —James Madison
"It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting
that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the
people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of
government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted
for the attainment of this object."—James Madison
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent
and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all
Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation
of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of
conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment."—George Washington
"If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused
among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be
their great Security."—Samuel Adams
"The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential
to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that
arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources
nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters
and capacities impressed with it." —James Madison
"Your love of liberty—your respect for the laws—your
habits of industry—and your practice of the moral and religious
obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual
happiness." —George Washington
"[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please
myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work
imperfect."—George Washington
"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous
citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which
our Founding Fathers used in the great struggle for independence."—Charles
Beard
"Government is instituted for the common good...the people
alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right
to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change
the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness
require it."—John Adams
"If Congress can do whatever in their
discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General
Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing
enumerated powers, but an indefinite one. . . "—James
Madison
"The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put
the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation
also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of
the fine fruits we gather from it."—James Madison
"Where an excess of power prevails, property
of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his
person, his faculties, or his possessions."—James Madison
"It is a common observation here that
our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting
for their liberty in defending our own."—Benjamin Franklin
"I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ
in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the
poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving
them out of it." —Benjamin Franklin
"A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite
to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care,
and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible,
free from every other control but a regard to the public good and
to the sense of the people."—Alexander Hamilton
"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right
to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have
earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their
estates, their pleasure, and their blood."—John Adams
"Where an excess of power prevails, property
of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his
person, his faculties, or his possessions."—James Madison
"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions
of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without
constraint."—Alexander Hamilton "It should be your care, therefore,
and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage;
to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite
in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice
and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty,
and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy,
they will grovel
all their lives."—John Adams
"As riches increase and accumulate in few
hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater
degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and
the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard."—Alexander
Hamilton
"I am well aware of the toil
and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration,
and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom
I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that
the end is worth more than all the means . . . "—John
Adams
"The great
trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence
of that second-rate —shall I say third-rate?—mind,
Karl Marx."—H. G. Wells
"Good intentions will
always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly
too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the
people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in
all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They
promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."—Daniel
Webster
"The Sun never shined on a cause of greater
worth."—Thomas Paine
"The whole of that Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the
right of the people at large or considered as individuals . . .
[I]t establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and
which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."—Benjamin
Franklin
"Let the pulpit resound with the doctrine
and sentiments of religious liberty. Let us hear of the dignity
of man's nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of
God . . . Let it be known that . . . liberties are not the grants
of princes and parliaments."—John Adams
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world
is indebted for all the triumphs
which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."—James
Madison "Liberty cannot be preserved without
a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the
frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who
does nothing in vain,
has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides
this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible,
divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge;
I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."—John
Adams "Our new Constitution
is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency;
but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death
and taxes."—Benjamin Franklin
"Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners
in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and
trust must be men of unexceptionable characters."—Samuel
Adams
"States, like individuals, who observe their
engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the
fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct."—Alexander
Hamilton
"Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid
and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates
so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve
of any political institution which is founded on it."—John
Adams
"Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left
to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we
cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition
of others."—Alexander Hamilton "Citizens by birth or choice
of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your
affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your
national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism,
more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."
—George Washington
"If we desire to insult, we must be able to repel it; if we
desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of
our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times
ready for War."—George Washington
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth
and pursue it steadily."—George Washington
"Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced
hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the
meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and
Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in
protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum
for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions."—George
Washington
"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have
the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to
be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations
of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own
engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all:
Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to
do so."—George Washington
"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard
knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again,
poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves."—D.
H. Lawrence "Take calculated risks. That
is quite different from being rash."—Gen. George S. Patton
"They accomplished a revolution which
has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the
fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.
They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent
on their successors to improve and perpetuate." —James
Madison
"War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and
perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice."—Alexander
Hamilton
"America united with a handful of troops, or without a single
soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition
than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for
combat."—James Madison "It
is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight
finer—to fight for another man's." —Mark Twain
"[T]here is not a syllable in the [Constitution] which directly
empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the
spirit of the Constitution . . . "—Alexander Hamilton
in The Federalist Papers, the definitive explication of our Constitution
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians;
not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very
reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity,
and freedom of worship." —Patrick Henry
"O most glorious God . . . Direct my thoughts,
words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the
Lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit . . . Daily frame me
more
and more into the likeness of thy Son Jesus Christ . . . Thou gavest
thy Son to die for me, and hast given me assurance of salvation
. . . "—George Washington
"Let America Be America Again"—Langston
Hughes "My anxious recollections, my
sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited
whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the
banners of freedom."—George
Washington
"Let me now take a more comprehensive view,
and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects
of the Spirit of Party generally."—George Washington
"The foundations of our national policy will
be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality,
and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the
attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command
the respect of the world."—George Washington
"[T]he propitious smiles of Heaven, can never
be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order
and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."—George
Washington (First Inaugural Address, April 1789)
"The name of American,
which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt
the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived
from local discriminations."—George Washington (Farewell
Address, 1796) Reference: Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents
of the United States
"The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age
of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epocha when the rights
of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than
at any former period."—George Washington (Circular to
the States, 8 June 1783), Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett (379)
"And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth,
we shall find that, instead of possessing the pure religion of the
Gospel, they may be divided either into infidels, who deny the truth;
or politicians who make religion a stalking horse for their ambition;
or professors, who walk in the trammels of orthodoxy, and are more
attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to the oracles
of truth."—Samuel Adams
"In the supposed state of nature, all men
are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly,
the laws of the Creator."—Samuel Adams
"It does not take a majority to prevail . . . but rather an
irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom
in the minds of men."—Samuel Adams
"I had rather starve and rot and keep
the privilege of speaking the truth than of holding all the offices
that capital has to give, from the presidency downward."—Henry
Adams
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human
nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."—Alexander
Hamilton
"If there be any among us who would wish to
dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand
undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion
may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."—Thomas
Jefferson
"Not until I went into the Churches of America and heard her
pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the greatness
and the genius of America. America is good. And if America ever
ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."—Alexis
de Tocqueville
"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not
only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation
of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are
willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."—John
F. Kennedy
"It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but
for men. . . . I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun
has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything
else." —C.S. Lewis
"I only regret that I have but one life to
lose for my country."—Nathan Hale
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men
who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."—Gen.
George S. Patton
"They summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest
virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death,
and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism
and virtue."—Gen. James A. Garfield
"Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but
to God."—Inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
"Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote
and protect the rights of all who wish to be free."—President
John F. Kennedy
"A politician thinks of the next election—a statesman,
of the next generation."—James Freeman Clarke
"And having looked to the government for bread, on the very
first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them."—Edmund
Burke
"The things that will destroy America are
prosperity-at-any price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead
of duty first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory
of life."—Theodore Roosevelt
"Our country offers the most wonderful
example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world
has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see
whether we succeed or fail."—Theodore Roosevelt
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without
character; business without morality; science without humanity;
and worship without sacrifice."—Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
"These are the times that try men's souls.
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis,
shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."—Thomas
Paine "I love a dog, he does nothing
for political reasons."—Will Rogers
"If we want to save the whales, we call the
Democrats. If we want to save the world, we call the Republicans."—Tom
Adkins
"All centralized systems mean the rule
of the few; and educational machinery is among the most centralized
of all systems. If the modern American really wants to know what
his fathers meant by democracy, he will never learn it in school.
He must make the supreme and awful sacrifice. He must get out and
think."—G.K.Chesterton
"The First Amendment . . . does not say that in every respect
there shall be a separation of Church and State . . . Otherwise
the state and religion would be aliens to each other—hostile,
suspicious, and even unfriendly . . . The state may not establish
a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing
or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe
in no religion over those who do believe."—Justice William
Douglas
"The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such
a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest
exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national
deliberation that the world has ever seen."—John Adams
(quoted in a letter from Rufus King to Theophilus Parsons, 20 February
1788), Reference: The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King, King,
vol. 1 (321)
"A government big enough
to give us everything we want is a government big enough to take
from us everything we have."—President Gerald Ford
"Education is the process of casting false
pearls before real swine."—Professor Irwin Edman |
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