chief impediment of government lies in mechanical mixing of opposite principles; Gareth Jones

Mt. Shasta

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II, iv, 5.  Do you notice that we even try to speak in the simplest words only to bring nearer the downfall of the Tower of Babel?         -Leaves of Morya’s Garden 1925

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43.  do not tire yourself with argument but remain silent in cordial solicitude.  Let the fiery energy work, it will know how to find at least a narrow entrance.  Thus in all circumstances remember that you possess a store of the all-pervading energy.            -M:  Fiery World 1933

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133.  But the chief impediment of government lies in the mechanical mixing of opposite principles; hence comes premature dissolution.  Heart and communion with Hierarchy will tell where would be the combinable parts.  Man is in need of equilibrium of mind and heart.  Cooperation is confirmation of equilibrium.

246.  Cooperation lies in mutual solicitude and hearty labor.

248.   It is tedious to listen to babblings which lack the heart quality      

 (by Schmiechen, 1882)

                                                                 -M:  Fiery World 1934

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234.  Let us point out that people come to truth by many different ways.  Some may use the shortest way, but others have to build a Tower of Babel and create complicated formulas in order to arrive at a simple conclusion.        -M:  Supermundane 1, 1938
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10-13-2017

Gareth Jones was a young Welshman, only 27 years old at the time of his 1933 journey to Ukraine.  For three days, with no official minder or escort, he walked through more than 20 villages and collective farms at the height of the famine, recording his thoughts in notebooks later preserved by his sister:

I crossed the border from Great Russia into the Ukraine. Everywhere I talked to peasants who walked past. They all had the same story.
“There is no bread. We haven’t had bread for over two months. A lot are dying.” The first village had no more potatoes left and the store of burak (“beetroot”) was running out. They all said: “The cattle are dying, nechevo kormit’ [there’s nothing to feed them with]. We used to feed the world & now we are hungry. How can we sow when we have few horses left? How will we be able to work in the fields when we are weak from want of food?”

Jones slept on the floor of peasant huts.  He shared his food with people and heard their stories.  “They tried to take away my icons, but I said I’m a peasant, not a dog,” someone told him....Jones himself was kidnapped and murdered by Chinese bandits during a reporting trip to Mongolia in 1935.   https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/10/red-famine-anne-applebaum-ukraine-soviet-union/542610/