The empire game that many people play, usually machiavellian in style where fear plays a large role

11-2-18    Mohammed bin Zayed (known as MBZ), the crown prince of Abu Dhabi (capital of UAE), has entered into several foreign adventures with MBS, the two most notable being the Yemen war and the air, land and sea blockade of fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member Qatar.  https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/tale-gulf-crown-princes-181101131901710.html

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  The empire game that many people play, often machiavellian in style where fear plays a large role, is not the real developer of planetary evolution.  There is a real reason for ethics; the corruption of this world is countered/purged by ethics practiced very soundly, constantly and conscientiously.

  The love of money, being the root of all evil, is often as sand forming the foundation of empires, and those aligned thereto are not true builders upon the rock of ages.       -r, mt. shasta

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           -Shasta

    -Nicholas Roerich:  Last Angel, 1942
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III, iii, 5.  Do not live on income from money.  This profit is stained.  The best interchange of goods is by direct exchange of objects, or if necessary they can be allowed to be exchanged into money to be reconverted immediately.      -Leaves of Morya's Garden 1925
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217.    There are two kinds of skepticism--one benevolent as in him who seeks confirmation, the other faint-hearted as in a proprietor resisting innovations.  The manifestation of the second is customary in circles of poor education.  Never begin a dispute with people of this kind; propose to them to read and to add to their education.  The first kind of skeptic represent for us an agreeable manifestation, for out of their ranks are obtained useful co-workers.  Indeed they are usually far more cultured and their former experiences are richer. Thus they can more easily compare data of different domains of knowledge.  In fact they are already prepared for acceptance of the community, and for them comparisons will be only a removal of temporary cataract.
241.  When you come come as if forever.  When you depart depart as if forever.  When you come possess everything because you have renounced everything.  When you depart leave everything because all has been assimilated.  Affirm renunciation amid goods and chattels; affirm possession in the midst of the desert.  If you perceive a thirst for things, quench it.      

                                                -Morya:  New Era Community 1926
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418.   People often hear movements and rustling, but they think of mice or centipedes in order to drive away all thought about manifestations of a distant world.  The same people will complain that the subtle world does not manifest itself.  But subtle movements are not like blows of a hammer!  As with everything else the approach of the subtle realm should be acknowledged and fearlessly studied.  We must not condemn that to which we did not even give attention.  Yet if some people are so fortunate as to behold a fiery being, they will think first of all about a demon.  Such is the corruption of contemporary consciousness!  Such crass ignorance is called skepticism, critical judgment or erudition, when it would be far more accurate to call it plain stupidity.       -Morya:  Fiery World 1933