Phillip Roth on Donald Trump

“A massive fraud, the evil sum of his deficiencies, devoid of everything but the hollow ideology of a megalomaniac.”

“Humanly impoverished” and “ignorant of government, history, of science of philosophy of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance” and “destitute of all decency”.

[JB] Trump is not the cause of the current malaise in our democratic system. When personal and partisan self-interest trumps the common good, then the corruption of democracy is inevitable.

When the majority of the citizens in a country is willing to trade off the values of the common good for the price of personal material goods, then the problem is not the demagogue taking advantage of the opportunity but the materialism suffocating the spiritual life of the country.

A dying country cannot always be resuscitated by a new leadership. JFK, MLK and Robert Kennedy were assassinated five decades ago for attempting to resume Lincoln’s mission, as were Carter and Obama, not with bullets but with regressive obstructionism.

A dying country may need to rise from the ashes, reborn like the Phoenix. A worldwide economic collapse may accomplish this collective transition, if planet Earth still remains to live in after hurricane Trump.

The latent seeds of racist fascism and divisive self-interest must die before a country can rise again to lead the world in the quest for goodness, beauty and truth. We need to make the world good, beautiful and true, again. –José Becerra

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The Face of Evil

JERUSALEM: A Grotesque Spectacle

[R&I 430] These Forces of Evil work through a triangle of evil, one point of which is to be found in the Zionist Movement in the United States, another in central Europe, and the third in Palestine. Palestine is no longer a Holy Land and should not be so regarded.

The U.S. will formally move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv today. Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter, and Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, are among the high-ranking American representatives who will attend the opening ceremony. Thomas Coex/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Since the creation of Israel, G.W. Bush and D.J. Trump are the only two U.S. Presidents not elected by popular vote. Both have been recognized as Friends of Zion.

Don’t we know which Lodge sponsors Zionism? The White Brotherhood certainly does not.

[R&I 634] …the Zionist Dictators… worked through the same methods-terrorising, withholding information, browbeating their opponents, making false claims and bribing and corrupting.

A corrupt President has temporarily taken over the U.S. government making it, not the people of the United States, an agent of evil, disunity and chaos in the world, with the support of the U.S. Evangelicals, and domestically employing the same methods used by Zionist dictators: terrorizing (bullying), withholding information, browbeating their opponents, making false claims and bribing and corrupting.

[R&I 680] The menace to world freedom today lies in the known policies of the rulers of the U.S.S.R. and in the devious and lying machinations of the Zionists. (Written before 1950)

The menace to world freedom is no longer restricted to the Soviet Union and Israel.

US outnumbered 14 to 1
as it vetoes UN vote on status of Jerusalem

The 43 times US has used veto power
against UN resolutions on Israel

Last year outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama abstained, allowing a vote against Israeli settlements to pass in the Security Council of the United Nations. With the change of administration, the U.S. government has undone the corrective action, has given up any pretense of neutrality and is now openly supporting the evil Zionist dictators promoting Israel’s “greedy grabbing” territorial agenda.

As President Trump’s son-in-law calls for peace, at least [__] people have been killed today and [___] have been injured in Gaza clashes.

52 Palestinians killed on deadliest day since 2014

We must all work to seal the door where evil dwells. Those who ignored the early signs of Nazism were guilty of the complicit silence which enabled WW-II. Men and women of goodwill in America, and all over the world, must stand up and prevent the Final War. The Forces of Evil must be defeated, again.

[EOH 575] The Christian concept of the return of a triumphant Christ, coming in the clouds of heaven to Jerusalem, there to reign for a thousand years, is true in one way and utterly false as to design, location and method. Christ will return; the Jerusalem referred to (literally “the place of peace”) is not the chief city of a small country called Palestine or the Holy Land; the word is simply symbolic of a peaceful world—a world which, through its own self-initiated efforts, has attained a general quietude and has acquired a certain measure of right human relations.

The Great Invocation

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into human minds.
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into human hearts.
May the Coming One return to Earth.

From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide all little human wills –
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the centre which we call the human race
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

THE PROBLEM OF INTERNATIONAL UNITY

Spirituality is essentially the establishing of right human relations, the promotion of goodwill and finally the establishing of a true peace on earth, as the result of these two expressions of divinity.

Unity and right human relations—individual, communal, national and international—can be brought about by the united action of the men and women of goodwill in every country.

There must be freedom to travel everywhere in any direction and in any country; by means of this free intercourse, members of the human family may get to know each other and to appreciate each other; passports and visas should be discontinued because they are symbols of the great heresy of separateness.

by Master D.K.

Zionism in the US 1917-1948

The past as prelude: Zionism and the betrayal of American democratic principles, 1917-1948

Drawing on State Department records and other contemporary sources, this article shows how biblical romanticism took precedence over traditional democratic values in shaping the U .S. Middle East policy as far back as 1917, when it supported Zionism’s aims in Palestine against the wishes of 92 percent of the population. The article also makes clear that a dynamic remarkably similar to later patterns was already in place as of the 1920s: a presidency swayed by religious belief and electoral considerations, a Congress powerfully influenced by the Zionist lobby, a State Department attempting to steer a middle course and resist Zionist pressures, and an Arab American community unable to gain an effective hearing. Thus, the anti-Palestinian rhetoric of today, with its “doublespeak” overtones, has deep roots in the past.

“Thus, because of racism, colonist sentiments, and biblically rooted religious mythology, the United States betrayed its democratic principles. Arab-Americans, asserting the democratic rights of a majority to self-determination, majority rule, and representative government, were ignored. American Zionists, claiming the same rights for a minuscule minority, and doing everything they could to delay and undermine democracy in Palestine until the day Zionism could control and manipulate the governmental process, were embraced as the civilized purveyors of American principles. As it was then, so it is now —the past as prelude.”

Where Democracy And American Zionism Butt Heads

Madeleine Albright Is Worried. We Should Be, Too.

Mourning in Palestine 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCUs2zn5RFw</embed>

2018 Aries New Moon

STRENGTHENING THE HANDS OF THE NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS

Meditation is the primary form of service for those following a spiritual path. It is a means of cooperation and alignment with hierarchical intent. The new moon period follows upon the cycle of outbreathing in the rhythmic cycles of the breath; it is a time of pause wherein together we can establish a soul-mind-brain alignment. During this period we work in thought to concretize the ideas and impressions received at the time of the full moon period and undertake the sometimes difficult process of translating them into practical plans that can be of service in the world. The effect of this meditative effort is to enhance the many ways in which the “power of the one Life” and the “love of the one soul” are working out through all true servers everywhere.

https://www.lucistrust.org/event/new_moon_meeting_april_2018_ny

2018 Aries New Moon Meeting: UN Security Council

New Moon Meditation Outline

Q: What are the underlying causes obstructing the path towards human unity and the consequent need for reform within the Security Council?

A: National self-interests obstruct the international common good.

Q: How can esoteric servers contribute to the resolution of these causes?

A: Promote the development of the intuitive sense in humanity. The new yoga, Agni Yoga, is a REVELATORY practice dispelling ILLUSION. Newer TRUTHS about hierarchical democracy and spiritual governance need to be revealed by the NGWS.

Agni Yoga

No Dharma Higher Than Truth

Truth is nonpartisan. There’s no possible stance of neutrality in facing it, not even for nonprofit organizations fearful of losing their tax exempt status. We either accept or reject it. Neutrality is rejection by ambivalent attrition.

Ambivalence is mostly due to our inability to hear, touch and see a recognizable truth. If we can’t discern the good, the true and the beautiful from the evil, the false and the ugly, and act on it, what good is any esoteric training for –here and now- except for some vague future accomplishment?

May the Power of our united Light prevent the appearance, negate the quality and destroy the life of all lies, particularly the Egregor of Prevarications currently dwelling in the White House of the United States of America. -JB

The Hierarchical Plan and the World Situation Today

[JB] Excerpts from the book review by Michiko Kakutani focusing on “the president’s inability to process reality or step beyond his own narcissistic delusions…”

A version of this article appears in print on April 13, 2018, on Page A19 of the NYT New York edition with the headline: Face to Face With President, Without Mincing Words.

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In his absorbing new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey calls the Trump presidency a “forest fire” that is doing serious damage to the country’s norms and traditions.

“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” Comey writes. “His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.”

[…]

“The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”

An earlier visit to Trump Tower in January made Comey think about the New York Mafia social clubs he knew as a Manhattan prosecutor in the 1980s and 1990s — “The Ravenite. The Palma Boys. Café Giardino.”

The central themes that Comey returns to throughout this impassioned book are the toxic consequences of lying; and the corrosive effects of choosing loyalty to an individual over truth and the rule of law. Dishonesty, he writes, was central “to the entire enterprise of organized crime on both sides of the Atlantic,” and so, too, were bullying, peer pressure and groupthink — repellent traits shared by Trump and company, he suggests, and now infecting our culture.

“We are experiencing a dangerous time in our country,” Comey writes, “with a political environment where basic facts are disputed, fundamental truth is questioned, lying is normalized and unethical behavior is ignored, excused or rewarded.”

“A Higher Loyalty” is the first big memoir by a key player in the alarming melodrama that is the Trump administration.

[…]

Comey is blunt about what he thinks of the president, comparing Trump’s demand for loyalty over dinner to “Sammy the Bull’s Cosa Nostra induction ceremony — with Trump, in the role of the family boss, asking me if I have what it takes to be a ‘made man.’”

[…]

Put the two men’s records, their reputations, even their respective books, side by side, and it’s hard to imagine two more polar opposites than Trump and Comey: […]

One is an avatar of chaos with autocratic instincts and a resentment of the so-called “deep state” who has waged an assault on the institutions that uphold the Constitution.
The other is a straight-arrow bureaucrat, an apostle of order and the rule of law, […]

One uses language incoherently on Twitter and in person, emitting a relentless stream of lies, insults, boasts, dog-whistles, divisive appeals to anger and fear, and attacks on institutions, individuals, companies, religions, countries, continents.

The other chooses his words carefully to make sure there is “no fuzz” to what he is saying, […]

One is an impulsive, utterly transactional narcissist who, so far in office, The Washington Post calculated, has made an average of six false or misleading claims a day; a winner-take-all bully with a nihilistic view of the world. “Be paranoid,” he advises in one of his own books. In another: “When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.”

The other wrote his college thesis on religion and politics, embracing Reinhold Niebuhr’s argument that “the Christian must enter the political realm in some way” in order to pursue justice, which keeps “the strong from consuming the weak.”

[…]

It’s ironic that Comey, who wanted to shield the F.B.I. from politics, should have ended up putting the bureau in the midst of the 2016 election firestorm; just as it’s ironic (and oddly fitting) that a civil servant who has prided himself on being apolitical and independent should find himself reviled by both Trump and Clinton, and thrust into the center of another tipping point in history.

They are ironies that would have been appreciated by Comey’s hero Niebuhr, who wrote as much about the limits, contingencies and unforeseen consequences of human decision-making as he did about the dangers of moral complacency and about the necessity of entering the political arena to try to make a difference.

Michiko Kakutani, former chief book critic for The New York Times, is the author of the forthcoming book “The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump.”

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/books/review/james-comey-a-higher-loyalty.html

GOP unveils mock cover of Comey book with ‘ego’ attack

The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Thursday kicked off its ad campaign against former FBI Director James Comey ahead of the release of his new book, releasing a mock cover of the memoir attacking the former FBI chief’s “ego.”

[…]

Comey compares Trump to a mob boss in the book and reveals that Trump asked him to probe salacious allegations in an unverified dossier of opposition research compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

The former FBI director writes that Trump repeatedly brought up the unproven allegation that while staying in Russia, he asked prostitutes to urinate on a bed previously used by the Obamas.

According to the New York Post, Comey wrote that Trump “brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true.”

Trump denied the allegations in conversations with Comey, and said that he didn’t like how the claims affected the first lady, according to The Washington Post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-unveils-mock-cover-of-comey-book-with-‘ego’-attack/ar-AAvPysl

Comey on a Trump impeachment

https://abcnews.go.com/video/embed?id=54492973

Discerning Truth and Finding Clarity

Aries 2018 Solar Festival webinar

focusing on the Seed Group of Political Organizers

with Alexandra Ratcliffe (UK)

“Taking Back Control:

Discerning Truth and Finding Clarity

in the Complex Information Age.”

Today we live in a unique time in modern history, as we experience the flux, confusion and complexity that accompanies the old age passing out and a new age beginning to dawn; a time when means of communication and ways of sharing information have increased exponentially; a time when truths and untruths are confused, and illusions are heightened; a time when humanity faces enormous challenges and crucial decisions. It is a time when things feel to be spinning out of control. Who is in control and what control do we as individuals have, if any? What choices do we have and how do we make those choices? How do we find clarity amidst excess information, and discern what is true? And, what do we most need to know and do? These are significant questions we hope to address in this Aries talk at the start of a new astrological cycle as we prepare at Easter for this higher interlude of the spiritual year.

https://www.2025initiative.org/aries-fm-18

Spiritual Discernment

A Mathematical Approach to Spiritual Discernment

https://agniyoga.info/2000/01/01/mathematical-approach-to-spiritual-discernment/

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THE RULES OF THE ROAD

{Source: Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. I, by Alice A. Bailey]

1. The Road is trodden in the full light of day, thrown upon the Path by Those Who know and lead. Naught [Page 584] can then be hidden, and at each turn upon that Road a man must face himself.

2. Upon the Road the hidden stands revealed. Each sees and knows the villainy of each. And yet there is, with that great revelation, no turning back, no spurning of each other, no shakiness upon the Road. The Road goes forward into day.

3. Upon that Road one wanders not alone. There is no rush, no hurry. And yet there is no time to lose. Each pilgrim, knowing this, presses his footsteps forward, and finds himself surrounded by his fellowmen. Some move ahead; he follows after. Some move behind; he sets the pace. He travels not alone.

4. Three things the Pilgrim must avoid. The wearing of a hood, a veil which hides his face from others; the carrying of a water pot which only holds enough for his own wants; the shouldering of a staff without a crook to hold.

5. Each Pilgrim on the Road must carry with him what he needs: a pot of fire, to warm his fellowmen; a lamp, to cast its rays upon his heart and show his fellowmen the nature of his hidden life; a purse of gold, which he scatters not upon the Road, but shares with others; a sealed vase, wherein he carries all his aspiration to cast before the feet of Him Who waits to greet him at the gate—a sealed vase.

6. The Pilgrim, as he walks upon the Road, must have the open ear, the giving hand, the silent tongue, the chastened heart, the golden voice, the rapid foot, and the open eye which sees the light. He knows he travels not alone.

Author: Jose Becerra

Phillip Roth on Donald Trump