Transcript of excerpts:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3966817.stm

Bin Laden was wearing a gold robe with a white headdress and white
cloak. He had a long mostly gray beard, and appeared to be sitting
behind a desk, reading from a paper statement, occasionally moving his
right hand as he spoke.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/binladen.tape/index.html

In the tape, Bin Laden speaks directly to the camera in a quiet, calm
voice, making small gestures with his right hand. He appears in good
health.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3967139.stm

He gestured easily, appeared composed, and spoke in level tones. He
looked neat and well dressed. His appearance was not that of a man on
the run.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3966955.stm

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AAB-DK:

An Effort to avert War.
Reasons
1. Because the next war would annihilate the greater part of the
human race.
2. Because, having a religious basis, the hate involved would be
greater far than anything hitherto known.
3. Because Shamballa would be involved, and this has never been the
case.

You can see therefore how critical, spiritually, are these times, and
how urgent is the task which confronts the Hierarchy and its workers
on earth. The war may be over in the physical sense, but great issues
are still involved and undetermined and can lead either to peace or to
a renewal of those conditions in which wars are generated and which,
once generated, cannot be avoided.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/externalisation/exte1235.html

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The United Nations, with all their faults, limitations, weaknesses and
nationalisms, are focussing the conflict between the Dweller and the
Angel, and thus the three forms of glamour and the final form of the
conflict between the spiritual ideal and its material opponent are
appearing simultaneously.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/externalisation/exte1152.html

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For the first time in human history, the lines of demarcation between
that which is right from the angle of the spiritual values (the
essential freedom of the human spirit) and that which is wrong (the
imprisonment of the human spirit by materialistic conditions) are
clearly perceived by the majority of the nations of the planet. Within
the United Nations is the germ and the seed of a great international
and meditating, reflective group—a group of thinking and informed men
and women in whose hands lies the destiny of humanity. This is largely
under the control of many fourth ray disciples, if you could but
realise it, and their point of meditative focus is the intuitional or
buddhic plane—the plane upon which all hierarchical activity is today
to be found.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/discipleship2/disc2072.html

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When the spiritually-minded people of the world, the men and women of
goodwill, the idealists and the kindly, decent folk in every land can
bring to bear upon the physical plane the same unified determination
and the same united will-to-victory that the forces of evil have
shown, then the Forces of Light will assume the upper hand and control
human affairs.

The difficulty with which the Hierarchy was confronted in the effort
to bring this about was due to the fact that the condition of unity of
objective, of method and of interrelation had to be brought about
without any infringement of the free will of the individual, group or
nation. The occult law of spiritual freedom had to be recognised and
protected. No such recognition or safeguarding hinders the activities
of the forces of evil. The will-to-power and an organised, evil
minority took control. Freedom of conscience and of action was
removed, and the enforced submission of the majority to the will of a
ruthless minority brought about a spurious but temporarily most
effective unity. This has been lacking in the case of the United
Nations, fighting for the Forces of Light and on behalf of human freedom.

Freedom, my brothers, can itself prove a limitation when it delays
right action, when it centres attention upon the petty differences and
the personality inclinations of people and when it serves to prevent
that unity of action which can win the war. It has been necessary for
the leaders of the peoples to take valuable time to bring them to a
proper sense of values and to the realisation that individual and
national differences and points of political and religious
disagreement must all give place to the one supreme requirement—the
winning of the war and the releasing of humanity from the threatened
slavery, the steadily mounting fear, and the world domination of the
Black Lodge.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/externalisation/exte1145.html

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The United Nations is still the hope of the world and can remain so;
it is a great field of experimentation, but is suffering today from an
initial error. That error was the admitting of a totalitarian Power
into its nations. For seven long and terrible years the Forces of
Light had been fighting totalitarianism. In the early days of the
post-war period the Nations compromised with principles and admitted
Russia to the United Nations. Had they proceeded to unite all the
other nations of the world on the sure ground of economic reform, of
needed national reorganisation and of regional groups (a better term
than "blocs"), Russia would have been forced to conform, for her very
existence would have been at stake. An initial error can lead to much
trouble, and it is this type of trouble which the United Nations today
faces.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/externalisation/exte1275.html

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What at this moment appears to prevent world unity and keeps the
United Nations from arriving at those necessary settlements which the
man in the street is so eagerly awaiting? The answer is not hard to
find and involves all nations: nationalism, capitalism, competition,
blind stupid greed.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/problems/prob1068.html

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The true problem of the United Nations is a twofold one: it involves
the right distribution of the world's resources so that there may be
freedom from want, and it involves also the bringing about of a true
equality of opportunity and of education for all men everywhere. The
nations which have a wealth of resources are not owners; they are
custodians of the world's riches and hold them in trust for their
fellowmen. The time will [Page 175] inevitably come when—in the
interest of peace and security—the capitalists in the various nations
will be forced to realize this and will also be forced to substitute
the principle of sharing for the ancient principle (which has hitherto
governed them) of greedy grabbing.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/problems/prob1069.html

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The United Nations, through its Assembly and Committees, must be
supported; there is as yet no other organization to which man can
hopefully look. Therefore, he must support the United Nations but, at
the same time, let this group of world leaders know what is needed.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/problems/prob1070.html

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This Being [Avatar of Synthesis] is closely related to the Will Aspect
of divinity, and His cooperation has been made possible through
Christ's Own attainment along the line of the highest, spiritual will.
He works under the great natural Law of Synthesis, producing
at-one-ment, unification and fusion. His function (in unison with the
energy of Christ) is to generate spiritual will in humanity, the
will-to-good; His potency works in three fields of activity at this time:

a. Within the spiritual Hierarchy itself, revealing the nature of the
divine will-to-good which the Kingdom of God must express, and the
nature also of divine Purpose.

b. Within the Assembly of the United Nations, though not within the
Security Council; He is there generating a slowly growing will-to-unity.

c. Within the masses of men everywhere, fostering the urge to a
general betterment.

His activity is necessarily a mass activity, for He can only channel
His energies through the mass consciousness or through a group
conscious entity, such as the Hierarchy, the United Nations or
Humanity. The focal point of His effort and the Agent through which
distribution of His energy can be made is the New Group of World
Servers; [Page 78] this group is uniquely related to this Avatar of
Synthesis. The bringing together of all the agents of goodwill (who
are responsive to the energy of the divine will-to-good) constitutes
the major objective of the New Group of World Servers and always has
been. Their work can now be constructively and creatively intensified
through the association of the Avatar of Synthesis with the Christ.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/reappearance/reap1023.html

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I have enlarged thus upon the Jewish conflict because it is the symbol
of all past conflicts in human history, based upon universal
selfishness and the greed of undeveloped humanity, and because the
crucial test of the nations and [Page 636] of the United Nations
Assembly is to be found in the decisions which they made and may make
concerning Palestine.

The test, as far as the nations are concerned, lies in their
willingness to give refuge to the Jews, and such a refuge would have
been offered if the partitioning of Palestine had been refused. The
unwillingness of the nations to admit the Jews (though many have
willingly offered), and particularly the refusal of the United States
to admit them, is separative, wrong and based upon political
expediency. The test, as far as the United Nations is concerned, was
whether they would endorse partition, and thus perpetuate the spirit
of aggression and territorial greed, against which the Forces of Light
were arrayed in the last war. The United Nations has already made a
major mistake by their original admittance of Russia—a totalitarian
power, as was Germany—to their councils. Now they have made another.
In the first mistake they precipitated into the United Nations the
element of conflict and that spirit of "fanatical imposition" which is
distinctive of the totalitarian ideology; in this second case, through
the endorsement of partition, they perpetuate the ancient technique of
taking what is wanted (with force of arms, if necessary) from the
rightful owners. It was a test for the United States, for it is the
American Jews who have created the situation, with relatively little
help or endorsement from the Jews of other nations. The United
States, urged by expediency, by the financial weight of the Zionists,
and by the strategic position of Palestine, have thrown the weight of
their influence into the conflict on the side of aggression and of
territorial theft. They could have worked for the Principle of
Harmony and permitted time and the non-separativeness of the nations
to adjust and solve the Jewish problem.

More I will not say; the symbolic nature of this basic world problem
and its dynamic importance to humanity have led me thus to enlarge.
The decision anent the Jews is one of hierarchical importance, owing
to the karmic relation of the Christ to the Jewish race, to the fact
that they repudiated Him as the Messiah and are still doing so, [Page
637] and of the interpretive nature of the Jewish problem as far as
the whole of humanity is concerned.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/rays/rays1236.html

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The leaders of the Zionist movement of aggression constitute a real
danger to world peace and human development and their activities have
been endorsed by the expediency policy of the U.S.A. and, in a
secondary degree, by Great Britain, under the influence of the U.S.A.
It is the Zionists who have defied the United Nations, lowered its
prestige and made its position both negative and negligible to the
world. It is the Zionists who have perpetrated the major act of
aggression since the formation of the United Nations, and who were
clever enough to gain the endorsement of the United Nations, turning
the original "recommendation" of the United Nations into an order.
The rule of force, of aggression and of territorial conquest by force
of arms is demonstrated today by the Zionists in Palestine, as well as
the demonstration of the power of money to purchase governments.
These activities run counter to all the plans of the spiritual
Hierarchy and mark a point of triumph of the forces of evil. I am
emphasising the activities of these two countries because through the
leaders of these groups of aggressive men the forces of evil—dammed
back temporarily by the defeat of the evil group which Hitler gathered
around him—have again organised their attack on the spiritual
development of humanity.

The world today still remains divided into people of evil intention
and great power and their victims, plus the negative reactions of the
remaining nations. There is no nation in the United Nations which has
attempted to swing the tide of evil by ranging itself and other
nations on the side of freedom. There are only groups of unillumined
men who seek to control national destinies. There is still emotional
reaction to situations and the emotional exploitation of individuals
and nations by those who are in [Page 682] no way emotional but who
are mentally convinced that certain lines of activity must be
followed, leading to their own individual good but which—in the long
run—are not good for the peoples involved.
http://beaskund.helloyou.ws/netnews/bk/rays/rays1255.html

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[JB] If the Teachings are not *applied* to our daily lives and to the
"problems of humanity," what are They good for?

Thus aided, can we discern the CAUSES of the troubles that we are in
right now?

How best to fight the evil of terrorism (both Islamic and Zionist)? Is
it best fought with the world democracies divided against a common
enemy? Or with the full support of the United Nations?

-Jose B.
http://ngsm.org/USA.htm#1