Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00465)

Dear Friends,
 
 
It seems Abraham Lincoln had a dream about universal brotherhood.  
 
In a speech in September 11, 1858, in Illinois,  Lincoln talked about a bright vision of the world.  
 
If pursued by all nations, that  vision  would have prevented  things like the CIA-inspired bloody military coup in Chile, September 11, 1973  –  or  the coward terrorist attacks against the people of the USA, in  September 11,  2001.    
 
Also, Lincoln did not have to use a sanskrit word to warn about the law of karma.  
 
He said: 
 
“What constitutes the bulwarlk of our own liberty and independence? ...... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bossoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men,  in all lands, everywhere.  Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.  Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them.”   
 
So the bulwark, the fortification and the trench of liberty is --  liberty itself. 
 
The same principle applies to the theosophical ‘nucleus of universal brotherhood’, or rather to the small seed of such a future nucleus, which was planted between the years 1875 and 1891,  and which is by now still a very young seedling. 
 
The wise and sustainable exercise of liberty needs things like open-mindness, sincerity and a sense of inner unity with outer diversity. 
 
Yet in order to preserve  it,  we must exert vigilance.  This may be a paradox, but without some sort of vigilance troubles come.   In  1863, for instance, Lincoln said:  
 
“Mother has got a notion into her head that I shall be assassinated, and to please her I take a cane when I go over to the War Department at nights – when I don’t forget it.” (2)  
 
Those were the security measures for U.S. presidents at the time. 
 
Regards,   Carlos. 
 
 
NOTE: 
 
(1)  “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Edited by Bob Blaisdell,  Dover Thrift Editions, Dover Publications, N. York, USA, 2005, 90 pp., see p. 03.  
 
(2) “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Edited by Bob Blaisdell,  see p. 15.   
 
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