Vol. 31 No. 9 - Elizabeth Clare Prophet - February 28, 1988
New Year’s Retreat
at the Royal Teton Ranch
IX
The Abdication of America’s Destiny
Part 1
Inasmuch As Ye Have Done It unto One of the Least
of These My Brethren, Ye Have Done It unto Me
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When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:31-46 |
On November 29, 1987, Saint Germain said in Washington, D.C.:
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Keepers of the Flame, by your leave I AM sent from the Great Central Sun to stand in the midst of this city as a pillar of violet flame, my aura, then, sealing a destiny–a destiny far spent. For America has abdicated her role as the nation of Christhood, the eternal Law of God, as the nation wherein The Lord Our Righteousness should raise up a standard, an ensign of the people and a two-edged sword. Thus, beloved, through your hearts and yours alone, the Lightbearers in all the earth–those who know me and may not know my name but have espoused the Cause of Freedom and of Peace–through them I shall continue to work. <1> |
My message to you from the heart of Saint Germain is entitled “The Abdication of America’s Destiny.”
It is America’s destiny to be the Comforter Nation, to fulfill the mandate given through the prophet Isaiah: “Comfort ye, comfort ye–comfort ye my people, saith your God.” <2>
Our forefathers founded this nation on the principle of the Comforter. The comfort of the unalienable rights to “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” <3>is the opportunity to walk the path of individual Christhood and to enjoy the fruits of one’s sacred labor in the abundant life.
America is the place set apart from all nations where God’s people were called to raise up an ensign–a sign. That sign is the sign of the I AM Presence, individual Christhood and the banner of Maitreya. It foretells the coming of the standard-bearer. America, individual by individual and heart by heart, is sent by God to be the standard-bearer of the path of individual Christhood, bringing that path to the nations of the world, to all who would receive us, even as one of the least of these the brethren of the Lord.
America is the nation sponsored by the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood who have come because Saint Germain has raised up his standard of freedom on these shores. Here, then, in an experiment of freedom we gather. We gather together through the Master/disciple relationship under Jesus Christ and the apostles, Moses and the prophets, Gautama Buddha and the bodhisattvas–all of whom trace their lineage to the Ancient of Days, our Lord Sanat Kumara.
America is destined to bring forth the culture of the Divine Mother that was once on Lemuria and Atlantis and in previous golden-age civilizations. The founding pyramid of her civilization is the path of the soul’s reunion with the Divine Mother.
The capstone of this pyramid is the highest spiritual teaching of East and West which Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ taught to their disciples. But in order for the capstone to be placed on the pyramid, that lost teaching must be regained and embodied heart by heart through The Lord Our Righteousness, whom we address as our beloved Holy Christ Self. On this path of the putting on of the garment of the Lord, the sons of God in America must become the living Word if we are to see the sealing of the capstone of this civilization.
Through the teachings of the “Chart of Your Divine Self” which unfold the path of individual Christhood (the path of the bodhisattva), all discover the foundation and the consummation of America’s destiny. Saint Germain teaches that Americans are called upon to champion every man’s right to joint-heirship, with Jesus Christ, of the Presence of the Great I AM. Under the Master’s sponsorship Americans have a destiny, a dharma, if you will, to bear the flame of liberty, the four sacred freedoms and the example of representative government and free enterprise to the nations of the world.
They are sent to teach, working side by side with the people, that those who have the right to govern as “God’s overmen” are those who have disciplined themselves before Christ in a sacred labor by which they serve the people and, in the process, balance the threefold flame and transmute personal and planetary karma, thereby earning (by grace) the right to wear the Lord’s mantle (his authority to rule).
The true representatives of the people in every race and nation are the anointed of God, i.e., “the Christed ones,” <4>who have raised up the light of the Ancient of Days within their temples. These anointed have come to America’s shores to fulfill a soul destiny, and they or their descendants must one day return in spirit or in person to their point of origin to deliver the light of the Goddess of Liberty to their people and their nations.
Without the freedoms we enjoy in America today, protected by law, secured by Divine Right, there is, there can be, no individual path of soul-testing or initiation unto the soul’s union with God. Without the freedom to create with God, the entering in to the Word and Work (the Alpha and Omega) of the Lord, there is no living Spirit of America–and by definition, there are no “Americans.”
The early Americans compared the colonies to the tribes of Israel–their trials, their tribulations and their God-ordained destiny–and referred to America as the “New Israel.” Preachers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries developed this theme. They gave their sermons titles like “The Republic of the Israelites: An Example to the American States” and “Traits of Resemblance in the People of the United States of America to Ancient Israel.”
Thomas Jefferson said in his second inaugural address delivered in 1805, “I shall need...the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessaries and comforts of life.” <5>
Archaeologist Raymond Capt writes, “Our Pilgrim Fathers called themselves the ‘Seed of Abraham,’ ‘God’s Servants,’ ‘Children of Jacob,’ ‘His Chosen’; they followed after the council of Moses, the lawgiver of Israel and in all their undertakings asked for guidance and the blessings of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” <6>
God’s covenant with Abraham founded the nation of Israel. The LORD commanded our father, the patriarch: “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” <7>
Our forefathers believed that through the founding of the United States of America all families of the earth would be blessed. They believed that the American Revolution was fought not just for themselves or for the 13 colonies, but for the whole world. They saw their experiment as a gift to all mankind.
Historian Bernard Bailyn says that “what was essentially involved in the American Revolution was...the realization, the comprehension and fulfillment of the inheritance of liberty and of what was taken to be America’s destiny in the context of world history.” The Founding Fathers believed, says Bailyn, “that the colonization of British America had been an event designed by the hand of God to satisfy his ultimate aims.” <8>
John Adams wrote, “I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.” <9>
By 1776, writes Bailyn, “Americans had come to think of themselves as in a special category, uniquely placed by history to capitalize on, to complete and fulfill, the promise of man’s existence.” <10>“The liberties of mankind and the glory of human nature is in their keeping,” John Adams wrote in the year of the Stamp Act. “America was designed by Providence for the theater on which man was to make his true figure, on which science, virtue, liberty, happiness, and glory were to exist in peace.” <11>
James Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers, “Happily for America, happily we trust for the whole human race, [the leaders of the Revolution] pursued a new and more noble course. 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.” <12>
New England clergyman Lyman Beecher said in a speech given in 1832 that America was “destined to lead the way of moral and political emancipation of the world....It is time she understood her high calling, and were harnessed for the work,” <13>the work that is the Lord’s work.
The moving force behind the Revolution and the formation of the United States was Freemasonry. As many as 53 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Masons and all but five of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention were Masons. <14> They were concerned not only about the physical establishment of the new nation but also about the fulfillment of its inner calling.
The purpose of Masonry, writes W. L. Wilmshurst in The Meaning of Masonry, is “the expediting of the spiritual evolution of those who aspire to perfect their own nature and transform it into a more god-like quality.” The Mason’s goal is to become “a just man made perfect, with larger consciousness and faculties, an efficient instrument for use by the Great Architect in His plan of rebuilding the Temple of fallen humanity, and capable of initiating and advancing other men to a participation in the same great work.” <15>
The word Israel means in Hebrew “he will rule as God” or “prevailing with God.” <16> This was the goal of our Founding Fathers for America, the “New Israel,” to embody that LORD Our Righteousness, to be the instrument of that one who rules as God–whose coming was prophesied by Jeremiah.
The Ascended Masters have taught us about America’s destiny and mission in the world. Saint Germain said on April 13, 1968, “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....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 way-shower 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 show forth here in this world.” <17>
Again, in June 1977 Saint Germain said, “People of light, accept your mission of the ages! Accept your role as the ones who are the protectors of freedom on earth. 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.” <18>
America is meant to teach other nations. On New Year’s Eve 1985 Gautama Buddha explained, “The people of this nation have an endowment and a protection from the Master [Saint Germain]....America must come to her original purpose and fulfill it. She has ever been established and sponsored by Saint Germain as the guru nation.”
The Lord of the World said the people of America should be “going forth to transfer [Saint Germain’s] science, his economy, his religion, his way of life, which represents that of the entire Great White Brotherhood, to every nation....Thus, though the chelas of Saint Germain and of America throughout the world may have in some areas perfected and gone beyond the disciplines of the people in this nation, yet the mantle has not yet been taken from [Americans] to restore the earth to the place of peace and freedom.” <19>
Let us sing, then, to Old Glory, the sign of the standard and the standard-bearer and the symbol of our raising up of the Christ and the I AM Presence within every citizen of the world who will claim that banner for the “I AM” Race and for himself as a member of it!
Let us sing to the Star-Spangled Banner that reminds us that we the people enjoy the blessings of the flame of liberty solely because we are endowed by our Creator with a divine spark. Let us sing the anthem of our America that is more than a nation, that is a spirit of oneness shared by people of every land who know their God is with them in the Presence of the I AM THAT I AM, who also went before the children of Israel “a pillar of fire by night.”
Yes, the letters of America spell out the words “I AM” Race as though encoded for our discovery when we should come to see our God face to face not only in the I AM Presence but also in the noble mien of Saint Germain. Yes, we the people of this “common wheel” of Light, hovering with wings of cherubim just above our heads, share an uncommon Light and Destiny as we are gathered on these shores out of every race and nation to prove our reason for being. [“The Star-Spangled Banner” is sung followed by the pledge:]
America, we love you!
America, we love you!
America, we love you!
And our Love is great enough
to hold you eternally victorious in the Light!
(Thank you. Please be seated.)
How and where and when, then, did America abdicate her destiny?
The turning point in America’s history was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at 10:13 p.m., April 14, 1865.
The archetype of America’s emergent Christhood through a path of individualism, Abraham Lincoln, was born in humble surroundings in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky. As president he fought to preserve the Union. His secondary goal was to free the Negro slaves, although he said he would not free them at the expense of the Union. He was opposed by business and financial interests in both the North and South.
With his assassination the balance of power shifted from “we the people” to a power elite that has controlled the higher levels of government, the economy and our cultural life ever since. As a result, the Union for which Lincoln gave his life has been steadily subverted in an ongoing revolution that has nearly destroyed the delicate architecture of the American republic with its limited powers, checks and balances, and individual sovereignty. Concurrently, the people of America have become progressively disenfranchised.
The history of the Civil War (1861-65) is complex. Lincoln was opposed not only by the Confederacy but also by Northerners who wanted to trade with the South. Lincoln’s blockade of Southern ports hurt Northern moneyed interests who had been making it rich off the war. A coalition of speculators, financiers and a group of congressmen known as the Radical Republicans determined to do anything they could to restore trade–and thus their profits. Lincoln’s blockade was also slowly strangling the South. And so, in this matter the Northern bankers had a common interest with Southern Confederate leaders, businessmen and bankers.
Lincoln opposed the financial powers in other ways as well. At the beginning of the war, Lincoln tried to borrow money from national and international bankers to finance the Union Army. According to one source, they wanted to charge him 24 to 36 percent interest. <20> Rather than accept the bankers’ terms, he decided to print paper money–greenbacks–which became legal tender. Had Lincoln borrowed money at those usurious rates, the bankers would have essentially owned the United States government at the close of the war.
Next, the bankers proposed a national banking system which would allow them to issue bank notes backed by U.S. government bonds. These notes would be just short of legal tender since the law said that they could be used in payment for all debts except duties on imports. The National Bank Act which incorporated their plan would allow expansion of the money supply through a fractional reserve system: banks could lend out more money than they had on deposit. <21>
After heavy lobbying by bankers led by Jay and Henry Cooke, the act was passed in 1863 and it resulted in a surge of inflation. Furthermore, as economist Murray Rothbard writes, it also “paved the way for the Federal Reserve System by instituting a quasi-central banking type of monetary system.” <22>
An undocumented source says that during his second term in office Lincoln planned to repeal the National Bank Act or restrict the powers it had granted bankers. Had Lincoln repealed this privilege, banks would have lost a huge money-making opportunity.
In their book The Lincoln Conspiracy, David Balsiger and Charles E. Sellier, Jr., demonstrate that bankers and politicians North and South plotted to eliminate Lincoln. The authors worked from the missing pages of John Wilkes Booth’s diary and recently uncovered letters and documents to show that the plot against Lincoln included not only the frustrated racist, John Wilkes Booth, but also Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s secretary of war who coveted the presidency, and greedy bankers who wanted Lincoln out of their way.
Booth talked with financier Judah Benjamin, a Confederate cabinet minister who took him to meet the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. Davis arranged funds for Booth to conduct trade for the Confederacy and Benjamin arranged for him to meet with important Northern speculators, including Philadelphia financier Jay Cooke.
Cooke invited Booth to a meeting at Astor House in New York. There he met gold and cotton speculators, bankers and industrialists. Among them were Cooke’s brother Henry, political boss Thurlow Weed, cotton broker Samuel Noble and the Radical Republican senator Zachariah Chandler.
Balsiger and Sellier point out that for Booth this was a curious situation–“one of the top men in the Confederacy’s cabinet had sent him to meet the very bankers who financed Lincoln’s war.” Booth was dedicated to the victory of the Confederacy and could not understand why important figures from opposing camps were cooperating.
At the meeting Jay Cooke declared, “I will continue to have dealings with the Confederacy. Not out of fear of betrayal, but because, in peace and in war, a businessman must do business, whatever the stakes.” At the end of the meeting Cooke told Booth, “There are millions of dollars in profits to be made, and we’re being denied our share. We’ll be ruined if Lincoln’s policies are continued.” <23>
The leaders of this alliance, both North and South, hired Booth to kidnap President Lincoln, write Balsiger and Sellier. After failing in six attempts, Booth became desperate and on the night of April 14, 1865, shot the president as he sat with Mrs. Lincoln in the balcony of Ford’s Theater. <24>
The country has never been the same.
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least
of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
The Civil War had destroyed the power of the Southern landholding aristocracy and established the Northern industrial powers. “A new plutocracy emerged from the War and Reconstruction, masters of money who were no less self-conscious and no less powerful than the planter aristocracy of the Old South,” wrote historians Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager. “The war, which had gone far to flatten out class distinctions in the South, tended to accentuate class differences in the North.” <25> This set the stage for the emergence of the Northern banking establishment as a national ruling class.
The era of political chaos which followed Lincoln’s assassination was to be instrumental in the rise of this power elite. Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, fought to carry out his lenient reconstruction plan. Echoing Lincoln’s sentiments he said, “If a State is to be nursed until it again gets strength, it must be nursed by its friends, not smothered by its enemies.” <26>
Lincoln had promised to recognize governments of Southern states that would emancipate their slaves and pledge loyalty to the Constitution and the Union if they were backed by at least 10 percent of the number of voters in the 1860 presidential election. Johnson’s plan followed the same basic lines.
The Radical Republicans virulently opposed both plans. Over Johnson’s repeated vetoes, they passed their own more extreme reconstruction legislation. With fiery rhetoric they called for the punishment of the South in the name of morality and justice. But their real aim was to see that their own power remained unchallenged.
During the war, the Radicals had passed economic measures benefiting Northern industrialists. They feared that once Southern Democrats reentered the Union and joined forces with the Western lawmakers, their programs and newfound political supremacy would be jeopardized. Some critics also accused the Radical Republicans of wanting to buy up the best Southern land for a nominal price. <27>
Johnson turned out to be as much of an obstacle to the Radicals as Lincoln had been. He declared himself the enemy of their goals of monopoly, centralization of power in a national government, and the unlimited exploitation by corporations of the country’s natural resources. “Wherever monopoly attains a foothold,” he said, “it is sure to be a source of anger, discord, and trouble.” <28> As Professor Howard K. Beale writes, “For the future of industrial America, Johnson’s championship of public interest and the common man was far more dangerous than any Southern policy he might conceive.” <29>
During his term Johnson took a firm stand against the attempts of big business to use the federal government to exploit unsettled Western lands. He opposed grants of public lands to railroads and favored reserving them for pioneer farmers. Of interest is his veto of two bills which would have permitted corporations to purchase public lands in Montana and thus monopolize the mineral and coal resources of the state for their own private gain. <30>
The Radical Republicans counterattacked. They set out to strip the presidency of its power and render Congress omnipotent, even if it meant bypassing the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. In March of 1867, Congress passed three bills that were unconstitutional, one of them taking from the president his role as commander in chief.
When Johnson openly defied another of these laws by removing from office his secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, who had been plotting with the Radicals against him, they voted articles of impeachment against him and he missed being convicted by only one vote. After Johnson’s term was finished, a more compliant president was elected–Gen. Ulysses S. Grant–who allowed the Radicals to control the executive branch.
While Johnson had been able to slow down the industrialists and protect the powers of the presidency, he could not stop them and the lawmakers they controlled from ushering in a new economic order and an age of big business. Following the Civil War, the robber barons–men such as Jay Gould, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor–and other financiers and industrialists seized control of the institutions of the country through their unscrupulously gained wealth.
By definition, a nation’s leadership is an elite. It is when this elite becomes self-serving that the problems of the nation arise.
Prior to and during the Revolutionary War (1776-83), the elite had been composed largely of civic-minded individuals. Sociologist C. Wright Mills in his influential study of the American ruling class, The Power Elite, said that from the years spanning the Revolution through the beginning of the nineteenth century, America’s elite were “political men of education and of administrative experience, and, as Lord Bryce noted, possess a certain ‘largeness of view and dignity of character.’”
Mills says that during the next period of time, roughly from Jefferson to Lincoln (1801-65), “no set of men controlled centralized means of power; no small clique dominated economic, much less political affairs....For this was the period...when the elite was at most a loose coalition.” <31>
Nevertheless, a power elite had some control over the government even prior to the Civil War. In 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt, a bona fide member of the Establishment, wrote to Col. Edward House (a Kissinger-like figure), “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” <32>And that was since the 1830s.
The stage was set and after the assassination of Lincoln the power elite was able to use the government to increase their wealth and power. It was at that point, according to Mills, that “the supremacy of corporate economic power began, in a formal way, with the Congressional elections of 1866.” <33>
It is hard to imagine just how unscrupulous this new elite was. Mills, summarizing the words of several of their most severe critics, writes:
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The robber barons, as the tycoons of the post-Civil War era came to be called, descended upon the investing public much as a swarm of women might descend into a bargain basement on Saturday morning. They exploited national resources, waged economic wars among themselves, entered into combinations, made private capital out of the public domain, and used any and every method to achieve their ends. They made agreements with railroads for rebates; they purchased newspapers and bought editors; they killed off competing and independent businesses, and employed lawyers of skill and statesmen of repute to sustain their rights and secure their privileges. There is something demonic about these lords of creation; it is not merely rhetoric to call them robber barons. Perhaps there is no straightforward economic way to accumulate $100 million for private use; although, of course, along the way the unstraightforward ways can be delegated and the appropriator’s hands kept clean. If all the big money is not easy money, all the easy money that is safe is big. It is better, so the image runs, to take one dime from each of ten million people at the point of a corporation than $100,000 from each of ten banks at the point of a gun. It is also safer. <34> |
The financial moguls of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries made a conscious effort to seize the power of the nation’s institutions as a means of enriching themselves. They recognized that they could not gain great wealth any other way. They also realized that they had to neutralize or circumvent the constitutional and legal barriers to their activities.
There emerged a set of unspoken rules by which they operated which were, oddly enough, written down in 1906 by power-elite financier Frederick Clemson Howe in his book entitled Confessions of a Monopolist. Howe wrote:
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These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you: and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kimberley or Comstock lode [these were fabulously rich diamond and silver lodes, respectively] since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation.... Mr. Rockefeller may think he made his hundreds of millions by economy, by saving on his gas bills, but he didn’t. He managed to get the people of the globe to work for him. <35> |
Professor Antony C. Sutton comments on the modus operandi of the power elite in his book Wall Street and FDR:
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Old John D. Rockefeller and his 19th century fellow-capitalists were convinced of one absolute truth: that no great monetary wealth could be accumulated under the impartial rules of a competitive laissez-faire society, [that] the only sure road to the acquisition of massive wealth was monopoly: drive out your competitors, reduce competition, eliminate laissez-faire, and above all get state protection for your industry through compliant politicians and government regulation. This last avenue yields a legal monopoly, and a legal monopoly always leads to wealth.... This robber baron schema is also, under different labels, the socialist plan. The difference between a corporate state monopoly and a socialist state monopoly is essentially only the identity of the group controlling the power structure. The essence of socialism is monopoly control by the state using hired planners and academic sponges. On the other hand, Rockefeller, Morgan, and their corporate friends aimed to acquire and control their monopoly and to maximize its profits through influence in the state political apparatus; this, while it still needs hired planners and academic sponges, is a discreet and far more subtle process than outright state ownership under socialism.... Success for the Rockefeller gambit has depended particularly upon focusing public attention upon largely irrelevant and superficial historical creations, such as the myth of a struggle between capitalists and communists, and careful cultivation of political forces by big business. We call this phenomenon of corporate legal monopoly–market control acquired by using political influence–by the name of corporate socialism. <36> |
Howe, the monopolist, recognized that there was a profound difference between free market capitalism and the capitalism he and his fellow capitalists practiced. He wrote:
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This is the story of something for nothing–of making the other fellow pay. This making the other fellow pay, of getting something for nothing, explains the lust for franchises, mining rights, tariff privileges, railway control, tax evasions. All these things mean monopoly, and all monopoly is bottomed on legislation.... Monopoly and corruption are cause and effect. Together, they work in Congress, in our Commonwealths, in our municipalities. It is always so. It always has been so. Privilege gives birth to corruption, just as the poisonous sewer breeds disease. Equal chance, a fair field and no favors, the “square deal” are never corrupt. They do not appear in legislative halls nor in Council Chambers. For these things mean labor for labor, value for value, something for something. This is why the little business man, the retail and wholesale dealer, the jobber, and the manufacturer are not the business men whose business corrupts politics. <37> |
What we are seeing here is the compromise of a nation conceived in the heart of the Goddess of Liberty founded upon a dispensation of tremendous moment from the causal body of Saint Germain. We see those of ulterior motives denying her ensoulment by the original Founding Fathers, who had been chosen and picked by the Master, sponsored as his initiates and disciples.
We see that light of Aquarius in the Master/disciple relationship becoming America. We see the movement of people from the 13 colonies across a continent. We see coming to life the green shoot of a new hope for millennia of freedom by the power and presence of Saint Germain.
Yet in the shadows, not perceived, there are lurking those who have not that original light, have no heart tie to the Ascended Master of the seventh age and dispensation and are not sponsored by him, for they came not bearing the kindling light of freedom. They affirm, “We are the law, we bow to no other.” Such as these have no direct access to the Light of the I AM THAT I AM, for they long ago extinguished the divine spark in their absolute rebellion against Almighty God and the Christ of His offspring.
They see the people of Light coming from all over the world impelled by the Spirit of Freedom. They see them bearing the flame of the I AM Presence to America’s shores to fulfill a grand experiment in freedom. They see them becoming a part of the great tapestry of America, stitch by stitch, life by life, hard won.
They watch and wait and they move in to control, to subjugate, once again to elevate themselves. They assume the posture of a royal dynasty–not as “noblesse oblige” but as “mon droit,” my right–an elitist corps. They think they are a privileged class because of their heavenly origins. But they descended not in grace as world saviours but as falling stars–fallen angels, so named “Watchers” by our father Enoch. <38>
They have come to subjugate and enslave the Christ of all people. They know that it is the light of the people that produces and multiplies the wealth and the health of the economy. They have come to live off of that light and to make all Americans–all who are of the Race of the I AM THAT I AM–pawns in their monopoly games.
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Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least And so they moved in to control the money system in order to siphon off that light. As Sutton notes in Wall Street and FDR, “In modern America the most significant illustration of society as a whole working for the few is the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. The Federal Reserve System is, in effect, a private banking monopoly, not answerable to Congress or the public, but with legal monopoly control over money supply without let or hindrance or even audit by the General Accounting Office. It was irresponsible manipulation of money supply by this Federal Reserve System that brought about the inflation of the 1920s, the 1929 Depression, and so the presumed requirement for a Roosevelt New Deal.” <39> |
In his work The War on Gold, Sutton explains:
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The groundwork for the Federal Reserve System was laid at an unpublicized meeting at the J. P. Morgan Country Club on Jekyll Island, Georgia, in November 1910. Senator Nelson Aldrich, bankers Frank Vanderlip (president of National City Bank and representing Rockefeller and Kuhn Loeb interests), Henry P. Davison (senior partner of J. P. Morgan), and Charles D. Norton (president of Morgan’s First National Bank), met in secret to decide how to foist a central bank system on the United States. Others at the meeting were Paul Moritz Warburg, the German banker, and Benjamin Strong (a Morgan banker who later became first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York). Out of the Jekyll Island cabal came the basic bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Under the earlier sub-Treasury system, bankers had no control over the money supply in the United States and, even less to their liking, none over currency issues. <40> |
Thus we have inherited from these masterminds meeting in secret behind closed doors the central banking system. Jekyll Island participant Frank Vanderlip in his autobiography, From Farmboy to Financier, had no compunctions about revealing the purpose of the Jekyll Island meeting. He wrote, “Our secret expedition to Jekyll Island was the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System. The essential points of the Aldrich Plan [Senator Aldrich’s proposed legislation for a central banking system] were all contained in the Federal Reserve Act as it was passed.” <41>
The power elite came to dominate both the Republican and Democratic parties. They elected and defeated presidents, especially in the post-Civil War days, and simply bought senators and judges. They gained control of the media and set the national agenda and the tone of the debate on the issues.
But ultimately, it was the American people who were at fault. They allowed these men to control them instead of electing those who would follow the principles of the Founding Fathers. Lincoln once said, “If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” <42>
America, we have got to get in there and kick out the power brokers! It’s the moneyed interests who have been responsible for the wars of this century. It’s the capitalists who have built up Nazi Germany and the Communists and betrayed the people of light around the world.
Unless we stop them, in the name of Almighty God, we, too, will have abdicated even our right to decide the life or death of our nation. If we allow them to kill our nation, it may be suicide by proxy, but it will still be suicide. If this nation is destroyed by others because we do nothing, it will be just the same as if we had destroyed it ourselves. If we want to fulfill our destiny, it’s time we realize who the real culprits are and stop allowing them to use our nation as the means to their world takeover!
Civilizations do fall for lack of leadership and the real cause of their collapse is always self-destruction. Historian Arnold Toynbee conducted an exhaustive study of the world’s civilizations. He recognized that a civilization cannot continue to grow unless it can successfully respond to all challenges.
This parallels the life of the individual. When you cease to be able to meet all challenges to your identity, to your life, to your personhood, to your path and to your soul, you will cease to grow and you will wither away.
Toynbee also concluded that as a civilization evolves, more of its challenges are internal rather than external. He wrote in his monumental work, A Study of History, “It has to reckon less and less with challenges delivered by external forces and demanding responses on an outer battlefield, and more and more with challenges that are presented by itself to itself in an inner arena.” <43>
“The criterion of growth,” he says, “is progress towards self-determination,” <44>unencumbered by either internal or external challenges because one is meeting both. Growth is dependent upon creativity–ingenuity, the ability to put down those forces that assail one’s highest calling–“perpetual flexibility and spontaneity,” as Toynbee defines it. <45> And this is precisely what we need when we are fighting for our highest reality.
The ability of a nation to defend itself against external and internal challenges depends on comparable spiritual development. “Real progress,” wrote Toynbee, “is found to consist in a process defined as ‘etherialization’, an overcoming of material obstacles which releases the energies of the society to make responses to challenges which henceforth are internal rather than external, spiritual rather than material.” <46> If a society cannot etherialize, or spiritually transcend itself, then the civilization breaks down and enters what he calls a “time of troubles” preceding its ultimate dissolution.
What we see here is that nations go through the identical phases of initiation as do individuals. First we must deal with the objective enemy who is without and then we turn to deal with the psychology of the subjective enemy who is within. Nations, as people, come to the hour of self-transcendence when all of the foundation and body of the pyramid that they have built is focused in that moment of quintessence in the capstone in the All-Seeing Eye of God, thence to give birth to a golden age.
If the components of society, which are made up of the complex components of individual psyches, are not ready for self-transcendence, the civilization cannot meet this initiation of the Universal Christ which must be self-realized in the corporate body of the national will. Failure to pass one’s initiation at the hour appointed by the law of cycles effectively halts the forward march of progress–spiritually and industrially.
Yet life cannot stand still. The law of motion governs stars and cells and the body politic and the heartbeat of freedom and the spirit of a people. That which ceases to breathe the breath of immortal Life or to be endowed with creative fires from the altars of God, that which ceases to experience growth ceases to entertain Be-ness. Whether it is the individual who abdicates his path of personal Christhood or a nation (as a collective of individuals) that abdicates hers, without the Holy Christ Flame fanned and hard won as the centerpiece of existence there is no integrating factor for the continuity of Life anywhere–period.
One of Toynbee’s most important conclusions is that civilizations die by suicide and not by invasion. “The most that an alien enemy has achieved,” he says, “has been to give an expiring suicide his coup de grâce” <47>–that is, the final blow that brings death to a sufferer.
When, individual by individual, a nation abdicates a path in the Master/disciple relationship under Jesus Christ, then the nation as a whole must flounder and fall. In the light of this understanding of histories of all civilizations, we can see why Jesus called us on May 28, 1987, to the path of the ascension through the path of Love and self-givingness–to be world teachers and to claim the mantle of Mediator on behalf of those who know not the way to go.
We can see why on that same date he called for ten thousand Keepers of the Flame who will invoke the Light (through prayer and invocation and dynamic decrees) that will stand between a people, a world, a continent and their own returning karma. <48>
We can see why he has cried unto us and called us to be his disciples, even naming the date of November 1, 1987, when we must begin in earnest to realize that path of individual Christhood: <49> It is because there must be Lightbearers in a nation who fulfill this chemistry, this alchemy at this hour when a nation must transcend herself or enter the deceleration spiral of a suicidal recession.
America has come to the Y: to choose to embrace the living Christ for the glorification of the God Self and the giving of the light unto others for God Self-determination or to choose not to be and to take what light one has for the glorification of the not-self, thus entering the left-hand path of the enslavement of souls to Antichrist under the tyranny of fallen angels.
You recall that Jesus in his Last Judgment set the sheep to his right hand but the goats to his left. “The blessed of the Father” take the right-hand path of the glory of God, the Divine Ego; “the cursed” take the left of the glory of the human ego. The judgment of the latter pronounced by the Son of God was “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”
When the power elite rose up in America, it was for the glorification of their identity as a proud race of fallen ones. This was to be accomplished through the taking of the light–that is, the money, i.e., the value of the sacred labor–of the people. The shift was from one nation under God to a plurality of monopolies under the Luciferian hierarchy of the Eastern establishment. We had been taken and taken over by the Watchers and the agenda of their false hierarchy of America which was to be the abdication of America’s destiny as designed by Providence.
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The fulcrum for change, change for the better or for the worse, is a civilization’s leadership. Toynbee sees two types of leadership classes: the creative minority and the dominant minority. Here we see the creative minority as the sons and daughters of God, co-creators with him; the dominant minority as those archdeceivers who subjugate the people by the abuse of power.
Toynbee explains that the creative minority have the ability to lead civilization up the mountain of self-transcendence. We see these leaders as the Founding Fathers, the Masons, the Lightbearers, those, both Christian and Jew, who knew they were the descendants of Israel. A society’s transfiguration, says Toynbee, comes only as its people imitate this creative minority.
Thus, El Morya wants the profile of your Christhood and of the leadership of the I AM Presence with and in you to shine. He wants your example to be an image of what the people deserve to have raised up in the highest office in the land.
Toynbee observed that when the creative minority lose their creativity and become oppressive–when they let the threefold flame go out and the divine spark–they degenerate into a dominant minority which rules by force. Thus, those who in heaven were the guardian spirits of our grace fell into disgrace when they descended to earth to lust after the daughters of men. <50> This creative minority became the oppressors of the sons of God in the earth. And the Lightbearers are displaced by the fallen ones who come in their cunning with their serpent schemes and their plots of takeover–and they are well-organized plots.
As it is written, “The dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” <51> Therefore the Lightbearers, off guard, not fully integrated on the path of initiation for want of a true path of the religion of the Divine Mother, a true path of a God-government and a God-economy understood and taught to them by true shepherds, are set aside and displaced by those in whom no candle burns.
In reaction to the oppression of the dominant minority, Toynbee says, the people withdraw their allegiance to their leaders and no longer seek to imitate them. This schism between the people and their leaders marks the disintegration of the civilization and heralds an epoch in which it is no longer able to adequately respond to challenges.
Today, Western civilization is the preeminent world civilization and America is its leader. Since Lincoln was assassinated a dominant minority concerned solely with the interests of the ruling class has gradually replaced the creative minority in America. With the advent of this New Year of ever-new challenges to our integrity as individual sons of God, my friends, that transition is virtually complete. And the people, untutored by the heart of Christ, continue to allow their leaders to make decisions that are not in the best interests of their nation or their world.
As a result of this change in leadership, which has brought the United States under the dominant sinister force of an elite inner circle comprised of the powerful Watchers, America has been taken step by step on the road leading to the abdication of her Divine Destiny–complete in the twentieth century!
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not
to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment:
but the righteous into life eternal.
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2. Isa. 40:1.
3. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
4. The word Christ is derived from the Greek Christos, meaning “anointed,” from chriein, “to anoint.”
7. Gen. 12:1-3.
9. John Adams, “A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law,” quoted in Capt, Our Great Seal, p. 85.
10. Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, p. 20.
12. James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 14.
13. Capt, Our Great Seal, p. 85.
20. Appleton Cyclopedia, 1861, p. 296.
22. Murray N. Rothbard, The Mystery of Banking (n.p.: Richardson & Snyder, 1983), p. 224.
31. C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (New York: Oxford University Press, 1956), pp. 270-71.
33. Mills, The Power Elite, p. 271.
36. Sutton, Wall Street and FDR, pp. 72-73.
37. Frederic C. Howe, Confessions of a Monopolist, quoted in Sutton, Wall Street and FDR, pp. 73-74.
39. Sutton, Wall Street and FDR, p. 75.
40. Antony C. Sutton, The War on Gold (Seal Beach, Calif.: ‘76 Press, 1977), p. 84.
41. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
47. Toynbee, Study of History, abr. of vols. 1-6, p. 272.
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