Lucifer7, October 2007
Contents
New
on Katinka Hesselink Net
Burma: online
petition
Short Quotes
The Ideal and the Actual,
Iverson L. Harris
King James bible.
The Second General Epistle of Peter; Chapter 1
A mental
problem...
New on Katinka Hesselink Net
Burma: online
petition
News in Australia, Canada, UK and
many other countries, have in the first page the comments of Stallone:
“Sylvester
Stallone has revealed he and the film crew from his Rambo sequel
witnessed atrocities while filming along the Burmese border.
"I
witnessed the aftermath - survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of
land mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off. We saw
many elephants with blown off legs. We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia
and this was more horrific," Stallone said in a telephone interview.
He
returned eight days ago from shooting John Rambo, the fourth film in
the action series, on the Salween River separating Thailand and Burma.
He said it was "a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams".
The
scenes he described occurred before the crackdown against large
pro-democracy protests when soldiers responded by opening fire with
automatic weapons on unarmed demonstrators.
For
decades, Burma's
army has waged a war against ethnic groups in which soldiers have razed
villages, raped women and killed civilians.
http://entertainment.aol.co.uk/stallone-tells-of-burma-atrocities/article/20071001160209990013
"Stallone's
next challenge is trying to get an "R" rating from the MPAA.
"This
is full scale genocide. I want an 'R' and I want the violence in there
because it is reality. It would be a whitewashing not to show what's
over there,'' he told Associated Press."I think there is a story that
needs to be told," Stallone said."
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22517232-2,00.html
Meanwhile
in Yahoo news we find the follow:
"Soldiers
responded last week by shooting at unarmed demonstrators. The
government says 10 people were killed, but dissident groups say
anywhere from several dozen to as many as 200 died in the crackdown.
Dissident groups say up to 200 protesters were slain and 6,000 detained
in the junta's crackdown, compared to the regime's report of 10
deaths..."
The Top news in the first page of yahoo
is about the Giant Snakes a reporter saw, in a Chinese lake... no
comments....
http://www.yahoo.com/
The
UN expected Gambari, to solve diplomatically the problem. That is
ridiculous and obvious Gambari, who waited days and days to be received
by the government in Burma, would not have any possibility to have a
positive result.
The petition, An appeal
to the UN Security Council to protect the people of Burma,
Has until now only 27 thousand signatures.
http://www.petitiononline.com/9848/petition.html
The
second petition asking: UN must act, Call for action on Myanmar
Military Government ,Now !!!! Has only 7 thousand signatures.
http://www.petitiononline.com/kha8954b/petition.html
While
other petition as for sample: Remove JewWatch.com from the Google
Search Engine! Got in no time 377981 Total Signatures.
http://www.petitiononline.com/rjw23/petition.html
And
the petition: Christians Say, "Enough Is Enough!" has 70437 Total
Signatures.
http://www.petitiononline.com/miram/petition.html
Is
this an inversion of values or what? Of course any group must fight for
their rights, and any religion to defend their principles. But what
shocks me most, is the great indifference for what is happening in
Burma. Such indifference from part of the
authorities is
barbarian. The worker of a hospital in Burma called the owner
of
a web site in tears, saying that they were removing injured monks from
the hospital, and incinerating them still alive!!!!!".
The
United Nations have the following agreement:
Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Adopted
by Resolution 260 (III) A of the U.N. General Assembly on 9 December
1948.
Entry into force: 12 January 1951.
Article
III: The following acts shall be punishable:
(a)
Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c)
Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt
to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Article
IV: Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in
article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally
responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.
Article
V: The Contracting Parties undertake to enact, in accordance with their
respective Constitutions, the necessary legislation to give effect to
the provisions of the present Convention, and, in particular, to
provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of
the other acts enumerated in article III.
Article
VI: Persons
charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article
III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the
territory of which the act was committed, or by such international
penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those
Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.
http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm
Unfortunately
the UN can be considered the major responsible, for the continuing
state of terror and chaos that exist in Burma. Is Burma eventually
going to have the same end Tibet did? For as it seems China supports
the dictator leader of Burma. Consequently its obvious that
no
military interference will happen from the UN in Burma, is obvious that
the monks and the people will continually be living in a state of
terror, its obvious that many more will die, their bodies left in the
middle of the jungle or incinerated, that many more will be beaten to
death, tortured, etc. Burma is not USA or Israel so why the authorities
would take any immediate action?
The point is we
as persons,
who are deeply shocked with what is happening there, what can we do? To
raise our voice, sign the petitions, denounce the indifference and
criticize it, just do not remain silent in front of such crime.
Erica
Letzerich Georgiadis (reprinted from a private e-mail with permission)
Short Quotes
Talbot Mundy, Queen Cleopatra
"We recognize a
kindred spirit, or a greater spirit, neither by eye nor by ear, but by
the heart, which sees by flashes of the Light within ourselves."
"But as it is an inexorable law, that the ground must be tilled if the
harvest is to be reaped, so Theosophists are obliged to work in the
world
unceasingly and very often in doing this to make serious mistakes...
Yet
it is an absolute fact that without good works the spirit of
brotherhood
would die in the world; and this can never be. Therefore is the double
activity,
of learning and doing most necessary; we have to do good, and we have
to
do it rightly, with knowledge." (Let Every Man Prove His Own
Work,
H. P. Blavatsky)
Paul Brunton, The Secret Path, Chapter IV
The treasure-trove of the real self is within us, but it can be lifted
only
when the mind is still.
Only a mind that is quiet and relaxed can ever
approach the truth.
St. Paul
has written one of the very great texts of the Bible in the words: "The
things that are seen are
temporal; the things that are unseen are
eternal." This is true for
religion, but also for philosophy, and for science as well.
The kingdom of heaven is within you, invisible,
uncreate. No man can reveal his heaven
to his brother; it is an apocalyptic
vision for his self alone. Know ye not,
says St. Paul again, that Jesus Christ is in you? Closer than
breathing, nearer than hands and
feet, is the assurance of Tennyson who had the vision splendid if any
man ever
had.
The Ideal and the Actual
Iverson L.
Harris, Theosophical Forum, October, 1937
The most
vital teachings of religion, philosophy, and science, are those which
throw light on human relationships - family, community, nation and
humanity; in other words, on life as it is on earth, here and now, in
all
its phases, physical, mental, and spiritual. There is a perpetual ebb
and
flow between emphasis on the ideal and emphasis on the actual -
represented
in ancient China by Lao-Tse and Confucius, in Greece by Plato and
Aristotle,
at the dawn of Christianity by Christ and Ceasar, and in the Nineteenth
Century
possibly by Blavatsky and Darwin.
When the ideal is
divorced from the actual, it becomes at best quixotic or sentimental,
and at worst fantastic, superstitious, or fanatic. It is
then rightly branded as 'the opiate of the people'; for, instead of
giving
men the spiritual elixir of an awakened mind, which brings 'the peace
that
passeth all understanding', it puts them to sleep with the soporifics
of
blind faith, emotionalism, or credulity. On the other hand, when the
actual
turns its back on the ideal it degenerates into sordid selfishness - a
poisonous
bootleg that drives men mad.
The woods are full of
both kinds of addicts at the present time - on the one hand, people
drugged with the opiates of dogmatism or fantastic pseudo-mysticism,
and on the other hand, people mad with the moonshine of unilluminated
theories and half-truths about economics and politics. It is part of
the mission
of Theosophy to teach men to follow 'The Middle Way' pointed
out by
the Buddha and the Christ - 'to render unto Caesar those things which
are
Caesar's and to render unto God those things which are God's.'
All men may be divided or they daily and hourly divide
themselves into two classes: those who think and those who merely
react. Few of us are wise enough always to enroll with the thinkers;
few are so far divorced from
the human thinking principle innate in all of us that we never do any
thinking for ourselves at all. But those who keep always in touch with
actuality
and yet ever use their divine power of thought and reason in striving
towards the ideal, are the salt of the earth. They are on their way to
becoming
the Philosopher-Kings of who Plato wrote in his Republic.
Those
who merely react to the impact of their environment and the stimuli of
their personal desires and animal propensities are they who will always
have to be regimented; and it is they who make necessary the endless
series of laws and rules and regulations which so afflict our modern
world. The
mass of mankind will always be forcing upon themselves additional
restrictions of their liberties, in order to prevent them from injuring
their neighbors. But the wise man is truly free, because his desires
are few and the world that he lives in is limited only by the scope of
his own thoughts. The greatest minds of all ages are his confreres and
his home is the Universe. In the
words of Vergil:
Felix qui
potuit rerum cognoscere causas,
Quique metus omnes, et
inexorabile fatum,
Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis
avari -
"Happy the man who has learned the causes
of things, and has put under his feet all fears, and inexorable fate,
and the noisy strife of the hell of greed."
King James
bible. The Second General Epistle of Peter; Chapter 1
1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
and to virtue knowledge;
1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to
patience godliness;
1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness
charity.
1:8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you
that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see
afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pe2001.htm#001
A mental problem...
It
doesn't hurt to take a hard look at yourself from time to time, and
this should help get you started. During a visit to the mental asylum,
a visitor asked the Director what the criterion was which defined
whether or not a patient should be institutionalized.
"Well,"
said the Director, "we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a
teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the
bathtub."
"Oh, I understand," said the visitor. " A
normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon
or the teacup."
"No." said the Director, "A normal
person would pull the plug. Do you want a bed near the window?"
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