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Monday, March 18, 2024

Equal And Exact Justice To All - A Quotation by Thomas Jefferson

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figure in America’s early development.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Observe Good Faith And Justice Towards All - A Quotation by George Washington

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. 

George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19,  1796 

Saturday, March 16, 2024

We Fight Not to Enslave - A Quotation by Thomas Paine

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777

Thomas Paine was an influential 18th-century writer of essays and pamphlets.  During the American Revolution, Paine served as a volunteer personal assistant to General Nathanael Greene, traveling with the Continental Army. While not a natural soldier, Paine contributed to the patriot cause by inspiring the troops with his 16 "Crisis" papers, which appeared between 1776 and 1783.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Do You Practice White Or Black Magic? A Quotation by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Magic - Everyone unconsciously practices black or white magic

"Most people find the word ‘magic’ disturbing and are horrified if it is mentioned in their presence. And yet everyone practices magic; yes, on an unconscious level that is all they do. According to the laws of divine justice, every negative thought and bad feeling is in itself black magic, because it sullies and destroys. Conversely, all that brings harmony, all that is constructive, that brings beauty and enlightens, belongs to the category of white magic.

So, rather than protesting whenever magic is mentioned, human beings would do better to become conscious of the importance of how they behave. Yes, we see many people who have never opened a book about black magic, who do not even believe that such a thing exists, but those same people, because of the way they behave, think, feel and speak, are, in fact, veritable black magicians.*"

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

 

Thursday, March 14, 2024

It Should Be Our Care - A Quotation by John Adams




























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,  Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Spiritual Maturity, To Be Truly An Adult - A Quotation by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov


Spiritual maturity - to be truly an adult

"Childhood and maturity are two periods through which human beings are obliged to pass. We are a child for a time, and then we become an adult. That is true, not only in society, but also in our spiritual life. The only difference is that most people do not reach spiritual maturity at the accepted legal age of eighteen or twenty-one. Many people, even at ninety-nine, are not really adult, because they totally lack spiritual maturity.

Only those who have received the Holy Spirit can be considered true adults; the others are still just children. Yes, heaven looks on us as minors until we gain spiritual maturity, and we must maintain a childlike attitude, that is to say, always obedient, humble and submissive to the divine world. Every human being who is caught up in inextricable problems is still a recalcitrant child. True adults do not suffer, because they are always in the light."

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

Monday, March 11, 2024

A Misguided Belief Can Be Far More Harmful Than The Actual Reality - A Quotation by M.N. Hopkins

It is the belief that evil has some great power over you and others that does you the most harm.  Evil of itself has no power over you.  What must be done to break the chains of such a childish belief is to strengthen one's mind and will so you can see clearly the true nature of evil.  One must come to the realization that evil has no power of itself but only deceives you into using your own inherent  power against yourself.  You are far more powerful than you realize.  It is what has lodged itself within your mind that has caused you more harm than anything outside of yourself could ever have done. A misguided belief can be far more harmful than the actual reality.

© 2024  M.N. Hopkins

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