A grand cycle of opportunity and freedom, part 2

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-Bacon sketch from Northumberland manuscript

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2)

-portraits of Shakespeare/Bacon--by Grafton (1588), J. Taylor (~1605), N. Hilliard (1578).

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3)      Rembrandt:  Polish Rider, ~1655 (detail)

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According to Jefferson, it was late in the afternoon (July 4, 1776 at Philadelphia) before the delegates gathered their courage to the sticking point.  The talk was about axes, scaffolds, and the gibbet, when suddenly a strong, bold voice (of a mysterious stranger in the balcony of the State House) sounded -- "Gibbet!  They may stretch our necks on all the gibbets in the land, they may turn every rock into a scaffold, every tree into a gallows, every home into a grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die!  They may pour our blood on a thousand scaffolds, and yet from every drop that dyes the axe a new champion of freedom will spring into birth!  The British King may blot out the stars of God from the sky, but he cannot blot out His words written on that parchment there.  The works of God may perish:  His words never!  The words of this declaration will live in the world long after our bones are dust.  To the mechanic in his workshop they will speak hope:  to the slave in the mines freedom:  but to the coward kings these words will speak in tones of warning they cannot choose but hear...
"Sign that parchment!  Sign, if the next moment the gibbet's rope is about your neck!  Sign, if the next minute this hall rings with the clash of falling axes!  Sign, by all your hopes in life or death, as men, as husbands, as fathers, brothers, sign your names to the parchment, or be accursed forever!  Sign, and not only for yourselves, but for all ages, for that parchment will be the textbook of freedom, the bible of the rights of man forever.
"Nay, do not start and whisper with surprise!  It is truth, your own hearts witness it:  God proclaims it.  Look at this strange band of exiles and outcasts, suddenly transformed into a people--a handful of men, weak in arms, but mighty in God-like faith; nay, look at your recent achievements, your Bunker Hill, your Lexington, and then tell me if you can that God has not given America to be free!
"It is not given to our poor human intellect to climb to the skies and to pierce the Council of the Almighty One.  But methinks I stand among the awful clouds which veil the brightness of Jehovah's throne.  Methinks I see the recording angel come trembling up to that throne and speak his dread message.  'Father, the old world is baptized in blood.  Father, look with one glance of Thine eternal eye, and behold evermore that terrible sight, man trodden beneath the oppressor's feet, nations lost in blood, murder, and superstition, walking hand in hand over the graves of the victims, and not a single voice of hope to man!'
"He stands there, the angel, trembling with the record of human guilt.  But hark!  The voice of God speaks from out the awful cloud:  ‘Let there be light again!  Tell my people, the poor and oppressed, to go out from the old world, from oppression and blood, and build My altar in the new.'
"As I live, my friends, I believe that to be His voice!  Yes, were my soul trembling on the verge of eternity, were this hand freezing in death, were this voice choking in the last struggle, I would still, with the last impulse of that soul, with the last wave of that hand, with the last gasp of that voice, implore you to remember this truth---God has given America to be free!"        -in Manly Hall:  Secret Destiny of America, 1944, chapter 17, apparently out of the library of the Theosophical Society. 
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-photo of Saint Germain said to have been manifested into Guy Ballard's hands
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The Sun cannot limit its shining to one beam nor the love of God to one human consciousness, no matter how well attuned it may have been to the vibrations of the masters.  The souls of men are our concern--all men of all colors, all countries--because from the flame in their hearts will come the illumination which will make this dark star a flaming Sun of freedom....          
It is to be regretted that the very activity which I instituted at so great a cost of energies and such a great investment of love should have again built into the inner bodies of those who responded to my keynote fear and superstitions that have atrophied the reasoning processes in the mental body and energized the emotional bodies with fanatical zeal rather than God-controlled enthusiasm.
It is so easy for energy to get away from the original purpose to which it was dedicated, especially if the channel through which that energy has been focused diverts from the original motive which became the pulsation of the release.        -Saint Germain:  10-1-1952 via Messenger Geraldine Innocente
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7)  Right now today you stand upon the threshold of fulfillment in your lives as you realize the beauty of nobility so ably stated by Sir Galahad of old:  "My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure."      -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:9
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8)  But we are concerned with the sinews of mission, and the mission is freedom for all.  If we would have freedom be the joy of all then we must give freedom to all, for then none can exclude freedom from us.  It is therefore to the passions of freedom that our experiments in alchemy must be dedicated.  We must rise to emotional control, for when God said "Take dominion over the earth!" he meant individual dominion over one's energies, one's consciousness and one's four lower blodies.      -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:13
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9)   Although the blind lead the blind and shall all fall into the ditch (Matt. 15:14), there are great potential leaders among the youth, vital and courageous men and women who, proud of their ancient heritage and tradition, see that the banner of freedom must not be lowered and that the quality of life must be improved.       -Saint Germain:  Pearls of Wisdom 13:22
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10)  What mattered was that I was in closest proximity to the master.  Then everything else fell into line.  I am what I am today because of that, because that is where I place value.  From my experience nothing in the universe is more important than being as close as you can to the one who is closest to the Brotherhood.  I wouldn't trade being next to Saint Francis for a million years of whatever else you can do in this world.     -Messenger E C Prophet: Community, pp. 130-1.
 -Portia by John William Wright, 1846