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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.


Max Planck,  The Nature of Matter, speech at Florence, Italy, 1944


















The Temptation of St. Anthony
By Mathias Grunewald

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Oppression
Ignorance is Strength

Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim -- for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -- is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal. Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again. For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice. As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High. Presently a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins over again. Of the three groups, only the Low are never even temporarily successful in achieving their aims. It would be an exaggeration to say that throughout history there has been no progress of a material kind. Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre nearer. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.


Opening excerpt from  The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism 
By George Orwell



Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.



(from The Meditations)
By Marcus Aurelius



   Among thousands of men, only some work for perfection; and even of those who have reached perfection, and who are assiduous, only some know me truly.

   I am earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, understanding, and individuality—my nature is divided into these eight parts. But this is a lower form of my nature. Know that there is another form of my nature, and higher than this, which is animate and by which this universe is upheld. Know that all things have these for their source. I am the producer and the destroyer of the whole universe There is nothing else higher than myself; all this universe is woven upon me, like numbers of pearls upon a thread. I am the taste in water, I am the light of the sun and moon, I am 'Om' in all the Vedas, sound in space, and manliness in human beings; I am the fragrant smell in the earth, the light in the fire; I am life in all beings, and penance in those who perform penance.

   Know me, O son of Pritha, to be the eternal seed of all beings; I am the discernment of the discerning ones, and I am the greatness of the great. I am also the strength, unaccompanied by fondness or desire, of the strong. And, O chief of the descendants of Bharata, I am the love which is unopposed to devotion among all beings. 

   And all entities which are of the quality of goodness, and those which are of the quality of passion and of darkness, know that they are, indeed,
all from me; I am not in them, but they are in me.

Krishna
The Bhagavadgita
Ch 7: Knowledge and Understanding

Editorial:

The Question of Gender
By Dale Cox

Lets Make A Slave  By WIllie Lynch
The Origin and Development of a Social Being called "The Negro"

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism 
By Emmanuel Goldstein











These thoughts are creative thoughts in the life of the soul because human beings are destined in the future to become what they regard themselves to be. This is something that had to come about during the course of wisely guided world evolution so that the human being might really attain to a full and free consciousness of self. One aspect is that the gods had to give the human being the possibility of becoming his own creation. The other aspect is that in order for the human being to be able to give this self-created being a supersensible purpose, in order for him to be able to find in what he has made of himself something that can give him an eternal direction for the future – for this it was that Christ Jesus entered into the Mystery of Golgotha. If one understands Christ Jesus through spiritual science, if one understands him in one’s thoughts, then one can find the way to him: the way from the animal nature to the divine.
 





In my recent lecture on mysticism I spoke of the particular form of mystic absorption that appeared in the Middle Ages between the time of Meister Eckhart and that of Angelus Silesius. This type of mysticism is distinguished by the fact that the mystic seeks to become free of all the experiences aroused in his soul by the external world. He seeks to acquire the feeling that proves to him that, even when everything of the everyday world is removed from his soul and it withdraws into itself, a world of its own still remains within it. This world always exists but is outshone by the experiences that work so powerfully on man from without. Thus, it generally appears as a light so faint that most men do not even notice it. The mystic usually calls it “the spark.” Yet, he feels sure that it can be fanned to a mighty flame that will illumine the source and foundation of existence leading man along the path of his soul to the knowledge of his origin. This may, indeed, be called “knowledge of God.”....  Rudolf Steiner


“This we know…..the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected, like blood that connects one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life-he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”    

Chief Seattle around 1854


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