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Re: Theos-World Re: Please listen to this video, from 'theocracy watch'

Feb 03, 2005 07:22 PM
by Jerry Hejka-Ekins


Dear Pedro,

Interestingly, and germane to HPB's comments, the 1880s marked the 
beginning of this war between those who sought to preserve the 
separation between church and state when a well organized Christian 
lobby sought to amend the Constitution to acknowledge Christ and the 
Bible. This battle re-surfaces about every forty years and is now in 
its fourth re-occurance. I fear that they might win this time.  

--j


prmoliveira wrote:

>--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Hejka-Ekins <jjhe@c...> 
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>>Clearly, the Bush agenda is out to 
>>destroy the fundamental principle of the separation of church and 
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>>so carefully established by our founders. This "Theocracy Watch" 
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>Reconstructionism" 
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>>came about, who are the players in and out of Government, their 
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>>plan, how they rally support to their cause, and what bills they 
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>>Behind all of this political manipulation is the clever use of 
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>>political and social hierarchies and destroy the postmodernist 
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>> Unfortunately, those who have been apathetic to politics either 
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>>discouragement, or just feel that politics is beneath them, or are 
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>Thanks for your comments Jerry. After seeing the video and reading 
>the posts commenting on it here, I am left with a (probably) naive 
>question in my mind: what happened to the legacy of Martin Luther 
>King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement, the strong Feminist 
>Movement, the Fist Amendment, the Counterculture, among others?
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>How come a nation that with fierce and courageous struggle enshrined 
>the fundamental principle of individual freedom under the law, has 
>now become exposed to the rule of a political, economic and 
>religious oligarchy that is out to destroy everything America has 
>stood for? 
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>Can you identify the historical turning point that has led to this? 
>Or has Christian ultra-fundamentalism always been that strong and 
>influential in America? 
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>It seems virtually impossible for two other traditional democracies 
>in the world - England and France, for example - to undergo a 
>similar process: a theocratic domination. People would be out in the 
>streets in their millions at the very first sign of it and there 
>could civil wars. On the other hand, a civil war in the US today is 
>unthinkable as a Christian ultra-fundamentalist already has his 
>hands on the WMDs codes and controls.
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>Is it possible that HPB could have foreseen this developments, as 
>early as 1889? The following are excerpts from her article "The New 
>Cycle" (for the full article see:
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>http://www.austheos.org.au/topics/thenewcycle.htm)
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>"We have already said elsewhere, in The Theosophist, that "born in 
>the United States of America the Theosophical Society was 
>constituted on the model of its Mother Land." The latter, as we 
>know, has omitted the name of God from its Constitution, for fear, 
>said the Fathers of the Republic, that the word might one day become 
>the pretext for a State religion; for they desired to grant absolute 
>equality to all religions under the law, so that each form would 
>support the State, which in its turn would protect them all."
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>"We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to 
>ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the 
>unknown when the hour shall strike. It is useless to leave it to 
>chance and await the intellectual and psychic crisis which is 
>preparing, with indifference, if not with crass disbelief, saying 
>that at the worst the rising tide will carry us naturally towards 
>the shore; for it is very likely that the tidal wave will cast up 
>nothing but a corpse. The strife will be terrible in any case 
>between brutal materialism and blind fanaticism on the one hand, and 
>philosophy and mysticism on the other - mysticism, that veil of more 
>or less translucency which hides the eternal Truth."
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>"But although the man of today may be a fanatic, a skeptic, or a 
>mystic, he must become thoroughly convinced that it is useless for 
>him to struggle against the two moral forces today unleashed and in 
>supreme contest. He is at the mercy of these two adversaries, and no 
>intermediary force is capable of protecting him. It is but a 
>question of choice, whether to let himself be carried along without 
>a struggle on the wave of mystical evolution, or to writhe against 
>the reaction of moral and psychic evolution, and so find himself 
>engulfed in the Maelström of the new tide. At the present time, the 
>whole world, with its centres of high intelligence and human 
>culture, its focal points of political, artistic, literary, and 
>commercial life, is in turmoil; everything is shaking and crumbling 
>in its movement towards reform. It is useless to remain blind, it is 
>useless to hope that anyone can remain neutral between the two 
>contending forces; one has to choose either the one or the other, or 
>be crushed between them. The man who imagines he has chosen freedom, 
>but remains submerged in that boiling caldron, foaming with foul 
>matter called social life, most terribly betrays his own divine 
>Self, a betrayal which will blind that Self in the course of a long 
>series of future incarnations. All of you who hesitate on the path 
>of Theosophy and the occult sciences, who are trembling on the 
>golden threshold of truth -- the only one within your grasp, for all 
>the others have failed you, one after another -- squarely face the 
>great Reality which is offered you. It is to mystics only that these 
>words are addressed, for them alone have they any importance; for 
>those who have already made their choice they are vain and useless. 
>But you, Occultists, Kabbalists and Theosophists, you well know that 
>a Word, old as the world, though new to you, has been sounded at the 
>beginning of this cycle, and the potentiality of which, unperceived 
>by others, lies hidden in the sum of the digits of the years 1 8 8 
>9; you well know that a note has just been struck which has never 
>been heard by mankind of this era; and that a New Idea is revealed, 
>ripened by the forces of evolution. This Idea differs from 
>everything that has been produced in the nineteen century; it is 
>identical, however, with the thought that has been the dominant tone 
>and the keynote of every century, especially the last -- absolute 
>freedom of thought for humanity."
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>"For all the past centuries our nineteenth has been the most 
>criminal. It is criminal in its frightful selfishness, in its 
>skepticism which grimaces at the very idea of anything beyond the 
>material; in its idiotic indifference to all that does not pertain 
>to the personal self, more than any of the previous centuries of 
>ignorant barbarism and intellectual darkness. Our century must be 
>saved from itself before its last hour strikes. For all those who 
>see the sterility and folly of an existence blinded by materialism 
>and ferociously indifferent to the fate of their neighbour, this is 
>the moment to act; now is the time for them to devote all their 
>energies, all their courage and all their efforts to a great 
>intellectual reform. This reform can only be accomplished by 
>Theosophy, and, let us add, by Occultism or the wisdom of the 
>Orient. The paths that lead to it are many; but the wisdom is one." 
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>I am afraid.
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