-Portia by J. W. Wright, 1846
Is it possible that men and women can be so simple that they fail to understand that misunderstandings are often compounded as one person catches the ball of someone’s misunderstanding and then passes it to another, having added his own misunderstanding to it? As inaccuracies pile up layer upon layer in the minds of people they retain an electrical impulse that can be transmitted to other minds of a similar frequency. Those who remain constant with their mind fixed on God and the purposes of Love are unmoved by subtle influences that abound in the mass consciousness; but those who adjust the frequency of their thoughts to negative manifestations rather than to the perfection of their God Presence easily become the victims of all types of human thought and feeling….
When I consider the number of wars that have been fought and the conflicts that have been engaged in by mortal men in defense of political or religious ideals I pray that more men and women will develop that strength of character which will afford them a greater degree of tolerance for one another’s views and their right to hold them and thus bring about a state of peace on earth with goodwill to all….
Dogma is like unto dead letter, it does not contain in and of itself spiritual potential, which man himself must invoke, of bringing comfort and understanding to humanity. The Holy Spirit does, the Presence of God does. Therefore let men learn to be in contact with the living essence of the Spirit of truth rather than with the manifestation of the letter that killeth….
Will you think about that razor’s edge, that fine line which enables you to contemplate the nature of truth, to understand the precepts of the Law and to ask God to lead you into paths of righteousness for His name’s sake?
How mighty indeed would be our thrust for light’s purpose if men would bring themselves into harmony with the universe and with one another! When they see each meeting as a confrontation between opposing philosophies, as a testing of egos, when they transfer thoughts of fear and failure to one another they lose the balance of the Middle Way and quite frequently do not recover their loss in the space of a lifetime.
(by Ruth Hawkins)
-Archeia Mary: Pearls of Wisdom 15:39
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Taoist Immortals by Josie Grant, SF Chinatown mural, 1979
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6-5-18 Parts of the missile that shot down MH17 were shown by the group investigating the atrocity, the Joint Investigation Team or JIT, at a press conference on May 24. According to investigators, the 9M38 missile, which they showed had been fired by a unit from Russia’s 53rd Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade, based in Kursk, was manufactured in 1986 in a factory outside Moscow.
Moscow shot back on May 25 with the claim that it could not have been a Russian missile, as such hardware would be put be out of service after 25 years in use by the Russian army. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, all missiles produced in 1986 were “requisitioned, written off, and dismantled” back in 2011, as the maximum service life of a Buk missile is 25 years.
However, on his Twitter page on June 5, Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins posted a picture showing that the Russian weapons company Almaz Antey, during a test in 2015 on the MH17 case, used a Buk missile that had been made in 1988, and which had thus already been in service for 27 years – contradicting the Kremlin’s claim. He later corrected the manufacture date to 1987, making the missile 28 years old. The Buk missile that shot down MH17 had also been in service for around 28 years. https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/bellingcat-shoots-down-kremlin-claim-about-mh17-missile.html
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6-25-18 Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Ukraine for allowing Malaysia Airlines plane MH17 to fly over a conflict zone before it was shot down. In a rare interview with a foreign news broadcaster, the Russian president told Austrian network ORF that despite Russian weapons being used in the downing of the plane, Moscow was not responsible.
Last week, investigators named Ivannikov, a GRU officer, as being behind the transportation of the Russian-made BUK missile system that shot down the Boeing 777 over the Donbas region, in the eastern Ukraine, on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board. http://www.newsweek.com/putin-admits-mh17-was-downed-same-weapons-used-russian-army-still-denies-958776
The day after the downing of the plane, the Ukrainian security service published an intercept dated two days before the incident in which "Orion said": “We got a BUK now ... so we start shooting the hell out of their planes.” When contacted by investigators, Ivannikov refused to come to the phone. https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-gru-agent-linked-to-downing-of-mh17-report
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