Sunday, April 26, 2009

Henryk (Janusz Korczak) and the inhuman medical schools, and the urchins of poverty






An idealist, he was impatient of his medical training as dehumanizing and was willing to sacrifice himself for the impoverished children of the Warsaw streets. The novel Homeless People became his bible and text.They were street urchins with sad tales brushed off by most who heard them except for Henryk.How could the children of the street be saved? By education in their early years.Henryk wrote a novel of his encounters, Children of the Street.He published in Thorns and then in Voice Magazine.








Henryk had committed himself to a medical career, but he was impatient with
his training. He considered most of his professors pompous, insensitive men who
seemed detached from the suffering of their patients. As far as he could see,
medical schools dehumanized doctors. Students were taught little more than "dull
facts from dead pages," and when they finally received their degrees, they
didn't know how to cope with sick people. His critical attitude toward the
system did not go unnoticed by his professors, one of whom told him: " Hair will
grow on the palm of my hand before you become a doctor. "
Because of his
extracurricular activities as a journalist and the mandatory hours of military
training he had to put in oVer a two-year period, it took Henryk six years
instead of the usual five to graduate
. Even that was an achievement given that,
like so many of his generation, he was caught up in the revolutionary fervor of
the time. Poland was in transition from an agricultural society to an
industrialized one, and Warsaw was rapidly changing as new factories were built
and tens of thousands of peasants crowded into the slums in search of jobs that
only a few would find. Successful writers devoted much of their time to
championing the cause of workers and peasants. Stefan Zeromski´s novel Homeless
People became a bible for Henryk and his friends; its protagonist, Dr. Judym,
gave up love and personal happiness to serve the poor: " I am responsible! " he
cried. " if I, a doctor, will not do it, who will? "

Henryk was equally
ready to sacrifice himself for the impoverished children he observed in the
Warsaw streets.
He saw them as the most disadvantaged proletariat of all because
they had no one to represent them: " Unkempt boys in run-down shoes, shiny
frayed pants, caps thrown carelessly on shorn hair, agile, slight,
undisciplined, practically unnoticeable. Not yet burned out by the heat of life,
not yet sucked dry by exploitation, no one knows where they manage to find
strength, these active, silent, numerous, poor little workers of tomorrow. "
The roguish little street beggars soon flocked to the medical student who
was willing to listen to them.
They besieged him with sad tales of hunger and
abuse, while holding out their hands for whatever they could get. Other
passersby brushed them off, but they knew that he would always have something
for them, if only a piece of candy, an encouraging word, or a kiss on the
forehead.
A friend with whom Henryk was walking one day was amazed by an
urchin who came running after them, shouting that he wanted to return the twenty
kopecks he had received two years before.
" I lied when I told you my father
would kill me if I didn´t come home with the money i´d lost ," the boy
confessed. " I´ve been looking for you a long time so I could give your money
back. "As the child counted out the kopecks with his grubby little fingers,
Henryk asked how many times he´d used that trick:
" A lot.""Did it
work?""Most of the time.""Have you given the money back to the others,
too?""No.""Then why are you giving it back to me?""Because you kissed me on the
forehead. It made me feel sorry for what I did.""Was it so strange to have
someone kiss you?""Yes, my mother is dead. I don´t haue anyone to kiss me
anymore."" But didn´t anyone tell you that it's not good to lie and beg?""The
priest told me it´s not good to lie, but he says that to everyone."" And was
there no one else who cared enough to guide you?""No one," says the boy, no
longer able to hold back his tears. "I have no one."
Henryk set down his
encounters with these urchins, driven to lying and stealing by poverty and
neglect, in a novel, Children of the Street.
His message was that they could be
saved only if they were reached through education in their early years. But who
was to educate them? Certainly not their drunken, debauched parents, for no one
had educated them. If the process weren't interrupted, the evil would be passed
on.
Not everyone appreciated his lofty ideas. When he wrote in Thorns: " I
am a person concerned above all else with the problem of uplifting the lives of
children, "
the editor (who was concerned above all else with entertaining his
readers) suggested he find another outlet for this preoccupation. From then on,
Henryk published in Voice magazine, a sounding board for intellectuals who
congregated around the Flying University

St Germain continued the Chohan of the 7th Ray







St Germain as the all pervasive mind "soul attached" in recent and ancient embodiments rather than as incarnations. I think the distinction not merely pedantic but involves the principle of gilgul ibbur as hitherto alluded to in my post of Isaac Luria Ashkenazi. Note his all pervasive influence:


  • he laid the empirical foundation for the Age of Enlightenment as the all pervasive mind

  • He attached and embodied Roger Bacon and inspired devotees of the sacred science.

  • he was called the Wonderman of Europe and "outpictured the quintessence of the alchemists' dream

  • the highest alchemy ,he teaches, is the transformation of human consciousness to a higher level.This is tantamount to pushing back limitations in the physical and spiritual sciences.

  • the divinity of the Higher self-this is Gnosticism reborn as it always has been in successive ages when the world is prepared for its advent.

  • He mentions he would release the technology of the Aquarian Age upon nations putting aside the destructive uses of science and religion.

  • Note his etheric retreats and what he wrote in cipher.He is talking of America and its spiritual promise and enfired the Masonic order in this regard- Many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Free Masons.He devoted himself to the raising of the consciousness of the Americans and went before the Lords of Karma to plead the cause of freedom in this 20th century for and on behalf of the original 576.

  • He has expanded the circle of the Lightbearers of all centuries-the original keepers of the flame who came with Sanat Kumara

  • Revelation-the Dark cycle has also entered into our evolving.

  • We have not evolved as we should and the "I AM" Race has not hearkened to the Lord.

  • Some must become direct initiates of Sanat Kumara. Always the requirement of the ransom



http://www.greatdreams.com/masters/ascended-masters.htm





Two of his well-known embodiments were Christopher Columbus and Merlin the
magician, a spiritual adept who has unfortunately been mythologized. In a series
of recent embodiments from the prophet Samuel to Francis Bacon, Saint Germain
was the all-pervasive mind, laying the empirical foundation for an age of
enlightenment, pushing back the barriers of limitation in the physical and
spiritual sciences. As Roger Bacon he directed and inspired devotees of the
sacred science, then in his embodiment as Saint Germain, the Wonderman of
Europe, he outpictured the quintessence of the alchemists’ dream for all to see.
The Ascended Master Saint Germain teaches that the highest alchemy is the
transformation of one’s human consciousness into the divinity of the Higher
Self.
He stands ready to assist all souls in this endeavor. He has also said he
would release the technology of the Aquarian age when the nations shall have put
behind them the destructive uses of science and religion to accept the challenge
which lies at the heart of both, which is for man to enter his heart and the
nucleus of the atom and to harness from both the unlimited spiritual and
physical resources to establish the golden age
.
His etheric retreats are
located over Transylvania in Romania and Table Mountain in Wyoming.
He wrote
in cipher, "I trusteth all to the future and a land that is very far towards the
sunset gate....I keep the future ever in my plan, looking for my reward, not to
my times and countrymen, but to a people very far off, and an age not like our
own, but a second golden age of learning."
Having discovered the continent and
encouraged its colonization, he must also insure a proper foundation for the new
nation. Saint Germain stood by George Washington throughout the Revolution and
during the winter at Valley Forge. His past efforts in initiating the society of
Freemasons had enfired many of the key figures of the Revolution. General
Washington, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin
and as many as fifty-three out of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of
Independence were all members of the Masonic order, whose principles had guided
them in founding the new nation.
Further, Saint Germain called for the signing
of the Declaration of Independence, directed the writing of the Constitution and
anointed Washington first President of the United States. America was secured as
the land of opportunity and Saint Germain devoted himself to the raising of the
consciousness of her people. In the twentieth century, the Master went before
the Lords of Karma to plead the cause of freedom for and on behalf of the
original 576 he has sponsored, expanding that circle to include the Lightbearers
of all centuries--the original Keepers of the Flame who came with Sanat Kumara
as well as the children of God who had been evolving unto the spiritual gifts
and graces through earth's numerous ages
. However, as the decades have passed,
the rate of increase in the return of mankind's karma has precipitated what is
known as the Dark Cycle--the era of Chaos and old Night whose signs are foretold
in Revelation, even as the hoof beats of the Four Horsemen can be heard
throughout the land.
Let us listen to the prophet Samuel--dubbed Uncle Sam by
his people--who has indeed begun to sound his prophecy to the chosen. He has
warned that the I AM Race--those who have the seed of the name I AM THAT I AM
within their hearts--"have not hearkened unto the LORD, nor have they fulfilled
the wholeness of the Law." Therefore, the Master says:

Some among this people must be and become direct initiates of Sanat Kumara, for
always there has been the requirement of the ransom. Let those who are the inner
circle of the devotees, those who are the first fruits who come and stand as the
ensign of the people, raise up the banner of Christ as the one whom they serve,
the one who by his very Communion promise at the Last Supper designated each and every son and daughter of God for the internalization of the
Word...