Plutarch's Alexander the Great

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_plutarch_alexander.htm

Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Plutarch's objectives as an ancient is to write lives not histories. Plutarch makes a telling point in distinguishing between histories and lives and also states that glorious exploits are not clear as to virtue and vice in men,as to the discoveries of virtue and vice. Matters of less moment, for example a jest, are more revealing. Portrait painters may well reveal the souls of men than historians of great and epic battles.They are more exact in the "lines and features of the face" delineated than the historians paint them. The ancients conceive of great men as birthed from the gods or supernaturally as a matter of course and somewhat "normal".Alexander's descent is so determined:

• Alexander's descent from Hercules by Caranus



• and from Aeacus by Neaoptolemus on his mother's side



• Philip when quite young fell in love with Olympias in Samothrace



• and was initiated in their religious rites while there.



• Philip married her with the consent of her brother Arymbas as her parents had died.



• Olympias dreamed the night before the consummation of their marriage as dreams and portents to the ancients were often signs and messages from the "higher " or other worlds.



• A thunderbolt fell on her body and a great fire kindled. The flames divided, disbursed and were distinguished.



• Philip also dreamed that his wife was sealed up with a seal likened to a lion.



• The diviners interpreted this to look narrowly to his wife.



• Aristander interpreted the dream as the queen was with boy child to attain to the courage of a lion. A serpent was found lying by Olympias which abated Philip's passion for her.



• Did he think of her as an enchantress or thought she had commerce with some god?



• In Samothrace women were said to be extremely addicted to the Orphic rites and wild worship of Bacchus and imitated Edonian and Thracian women on"about Mount Haemus".



• The dancing ceremonies Olympias performed were with barbaric dread and had great tame serpents about her.



• The men looked with terror on these dances.

It being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of
Caesar, by whom Pompey was destroyed, the multitude of their great actions
affords so large a field that I were to blame if I should not by way of apology
forewarn my reader that I have chosen rather to epitomize the most celebrated
parts of their story, than to insist at large on every particular circumstance
of it. It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but
lives. And the most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest
discoveries of virtue or vice in men; sometimes a matter of less moment, an
expression or a jest, informs us better of their characters and inclinations,
than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles
whatsoever. Therefore as portrait-painters are more exact in the lines and
features of the face in which the character is seen, than in the other parts of
the body, so I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks
and indications of the souls of men, and while I endeavor by these to portray
their lives, may be free to leave more weighty matters and great battles to be
treated of by others.
It is agreed on by all hands, that on the father's side, Alexander descended from Hercules by Caranus, and from Aeacus by Neoptolemus on the mother's side. His father Philip, being in Samothrace, when he was quite young, fell in love there with Olympias, in company with whom he was initiated in the religious ceremonies of the country, and her father and mother being both dead, soon after, with the consent of her brother Arymbas, he married her. The night before the consummation of their marriage, she dreamed that a thunderbolt fell upon her body, which kindled a great fire, whose divided flames dispersed themselves all about, and then were extinguished. And Philip some time after he was married, dreamt that he sealed up his wife's body with a seal, whose impression, as he fancied, was the figure of a lion. Some of the diviners interpreted this as a warning to Philip to look narrowly to his wife; but Aristander of Telmessus, considering how unusual it was to seal up anything that was empty, assured him the meaning of his dream was, that the queen was with child of a boy, who would one day prove as stout and courageous as a lion. Once, moreover, a serpent was found lying by Olympias as she slept, which more than anything else, it is said, abated Philip's passion for her; and whether he feared her as an enchantress, or thought she had commerce with some god, and so looked on himself as excluded, he was ever after less fond of her conversation. Others say, that the women of this country having always been extremely addicted to the enthusiastic Orphic rites, and the wild worship of Bacchus, (upon which account they were called Clodones, and Mimallones,) imitated in many things the practices of the Edonian and Thracian women about Mount Haemus, from whom the word threskeuein, seems to have been derived, as a special term for superfluous and over-curious forms of adoration; and that Olympias, zealously affecting these fanatical and enthusiastic inspirations, to perform them with more barbaric dread, was wont in the dances proper to these ceremonies to have great tame serpents about her, which sometimes creeping out of the ivy and the mystic fans, sometimes winding themselves about the sacred spears, and the women's chaplets, made a spectacle which the men could not look upon without terror.

Henryk (Janus Korczak) and Flying University

http://korczak.com/Biography/kap-4.htm

By attending "Flying" ,Henryk was perfectly in sync wit the lifelong temperament he always maintained of the socialist reformer/revolutionary(?) The two socialist factions kept alive Polish history and culture ,and these were the two factions of the intelligentsia (students and professors) who attended the school. The "caught" were sent to Siberia or imprisoned or worse.The Czar was determined to stamp them out. Note the atmosphere as he attended his first lecture.The school was an underground clandestine venture,and by the mid 1880's there were over 1000 students in attendance.The secret gatherings provided social and academic opportunities. Zofia Nalkowska the well known later novelist attended these.Note Dawid's studies in Leipzig with Wilhelm Wundt and laid the foundations later espoused by Korczak for liberating the child from conventional restraints, ideas of the natural development of the child earlier by Rousseau, and Pestalozzi's theories of "Progressive Education". Dawid's experiments with the psychological responses of children embedded in Korczak's mind the preeminence of complete and uncompromising objectivity of the scientific research engaged in the study of the child. "observing clearly in order to think clearly" was an emblazoned Korczak precept.

Henryk's character is describably dichotomous. The scientist is suspicious of the artist.

Note the following influences on Henryk's emerging social consciousness:

• Waclaw Nalkowski a social activist developing modern geography (Zofia's father)



• Pestalozzi



• Dawid's experiments measuring psychological responses of children (Child development)



• Stefania Sempolowska (free lending library)



• Henryk's ideals were being formed -democratic socialism without class or ethnic divisions-no compromise of principles irrespective of consequences



• modesty without affectation.
  
  

Henryk had met the editor of Voice, Jan Wladyslaw Dawid, Poland´s first
experimental psychologist, when he attended his course at the Flying University.
This underground college, so named because students and professors had to keep
moving from one location to another to escape surveillance by the police,
attracted the finest minds in the country. Though divided into two socialist
factions-one advocating national independence and the other an international
socialist alliance within the Russian empire-they were united in their
determination to keep alive Polish history and culture, which the Czar was
determined to stamp out. Those who were caught spent a few weeks, months, or
even years in a prison cell, or in exile in Siberia.
Henryk had been taken
to his first lecture in Dawid´s apartment by his friend Leon Rygier. There were
so many coats in the entrance hall they had trouble finding hooks for their own.
Once inside the candlelit living room, whose shades were drawn to avoid
detection by the police, he was introduced to other students and accepted tea
from Dawid´s wife, Jadwiga Szczawinska, who presided over the samovar with the
same energy she expended on all the projects in which she and her husband were
involved.
It was Jadwiga, a woman of formidable organizational ability, who,
while still single, had started the Flying University in her small apartment to
provide education for young women in Polish language and literature. When word
spread about this remarkable clandestine venture, men clamored to be included;
and by the mid-1880s there were over a thousand young students of both sexes
enrolled in courses at various underground locations in Warsaw. Jadwiga even
managed to set up an extensive scientific library for the university, but her
domineering personality alienated many of the faculty. Her husband, who was
known to "fight like David with Goliath" over issues he believed in, was said to
be powerless when it came to Jadwiga.
The secret gatherings of the Flying U
niversity provided social as well as academic opportunities. Zofia Nalkowska, a
precocious fifteen-year-old who wanted to be an emancipated woman (and who would
become a wellknown novelist), kept a diary of the sessions at the Dawids.
apartment during the time that Korczak was there. in one entry she notes that
the girls were really dressed up, but that she looked as attractive as any of
them in her brown dress, which gave her a good figure. She tried to concentrate
on what Dawid was saying, but sometimes found herself glancing over at the boy
with the nice smile who had asked to borrow her notes.
Zofia was not alone
in her criticism of the "wise and clever" professor´s dry , factual delivery,
yet Dawid's reputation as a mumbler who wrote much better than he spoke did not
prevent students from flocking to his courses. He had studied in Leipzig with
the founder of experimental psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, and his lectures were
filled with the radical ideas in education that were sweeping both sides of the
Atlantic at the time: ideas that called for liberating the child from the
conventional restraints of the past. Rousseau had paved the way for this
pedagogical breakthrough in 1762 with his fictional Emile, a boy who was
encouraged to grow and develop naturally. And Johann Pestalozzi, working with
real children in his famous boarding school set up in 1805 in Yverdon, laid the
foundation for progressive education.
Korczak considered Pestalozzi one of
the greatest scientists of the nineteenth century. Many of his later ideas on
education, the dignity of work, and the importance of observing clearly in order
to think clearly, reflect the influence of that dedicated Swiss educator. But it
was Dawid´s experiments with measuring the psychological responses of children
at different ages-work that anticipated the field of child development- that
made Henryk decide to do scientific research on the child that would exclude
everything that "smacked of subjectivity."
Already the two sides of Henryk´s
character were jockeying for position: the scientist would always be suspicious
of the artist, keeping him in check by compiling height and weight
charts-material that the artist would seldom find time to correlate.
Another
strong influence on the young medical student was Zofia´s father, Waclaw
Nalkowski, a fiercely outspoken social activist, who developed the field of
modern geography. " Who knows famous Poles? " Korczak would ask when writing of
Nalkowski. He saw the geographer as a "blazing star in a small firmament," who,
had he been born in a country where there was no Russian censor, would have been
internationally famous.
Henryk also became a lifelong friend of the imposing
Stefania Sempolowska (her trademark a broad-brimmed hat with two ostrich
feathers, and a long black dress with a stylish train), who wrote on natural
history and supported the rights of Jews, peasants, and workers. Her concern
about educating the illiterate masses led her to become a driving force behind
the Free Lending Library, where Henryk gave his Saturdays to inspiring unruly
children to read. The Russian authorities, convinced that the library was
spreading atheism and other subversive ideas, conducted constant roundups.
Between raids on the Flying University and the library, Henryk spent "enough
time in the cooler" to have his "rough edges" taken off.
Turn-of-the-century
liberals like the Dawids, Nalkowski, and Sempolowska -who stood for a democratic
socialism that refused to recognize class or ethnic divisions -set the moral
standards of their time; one did not compromise one´s principles no matter the
consequences. Living modestly, without affectation or false ambition, they
became Henryk´s "tutors in the social sphere." Much of the strength he needed to
draw on in later life can be traced to their uncompromising ethical character.
The Poland he felt part of was the one they represented.

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

http://korczak.com/Biography/kap-4.htm

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...

The lowest and central chakras Serapis Bey and St Germain

http://www.greatdreams.com/masters/rays-chakras.htm

I have already profiled Serapis Bey and now have a partial on St Germain, the wonderman of Europe. The lowest and central Chakras comprise this post. Each of these chakras have to be awakened which is the central premise, as I comprehend, of Gnosticism. Each of these chakras has an Elohim overseeing, and an associated archangel and ascended master. I assume what St Paul says that "we" will rule event the angels is accurate in this context of the masters.

• lowest- at base of the spine,it is lust and passion unawakened, but when so it is purity with the Elohim in charge with archangel Gabriel and ascencded master Serapis Bey, profiled hitherto. It is influenced by the 4th Ray.


• at the spleen is the central Chakra with its anger malice hatred and mild dislikes unawakened,when awakened it becomes positive as INVOCATION.The Elohim in charge is Arcturus,with archangel Zadkiel, and Chohan St Germain of the 7th Ray.


• Note the violet boldened paragraph decscription of St Germain Note his twin flame and Omri Tas.Note his incarnations and his tutoring of souls. I posted on the subject of asoul attachment in a former post. More on St Germain later.

In the following, the Elohim of Peace gives us authentic information in
regard to the "Chakras" and their influence to their particular environment.
". . . The lowest "Chakra," which is the base of the spine, is the focus of
lust and passion in the spiritually unawakened individual. This is the negative
aspect. In the "awakened," it is the positive focus of Purity. The Elohim in
charge of that "Chakra" is the Elohim of Purity; the Archangel Who would pour
His radiation of the Resurrection Flame through it is Gabriel and the Ascended
master is Serapis Bey. The Ray that influences this "Chakra" is the Fourth.
The Central "chakra," located at the spleen, is the focus of anger, malice,
hatred and even mild dislike in its negative aspect. Its positive activity is
the power of Invocation. The Elohim in charge of this centre is Arcturus; its
Archangel Zadkiel and its Chohan Saint Germain. The Ray that influences this
"Chakra" is the Seventh.

St. Germain - The Seventh Ray of Freedom and Transmutation : Archangel Zadkiel and Holy Amethyst are the archangels of the seventh rayElohim Arcturus and Victoria are the Elohim of the seventh ray Omri-Tas. Is the Ruler of the Violet PlanetSaint Germain's twin flame is the Ascended Lady Master PortiaSaint Germain is the Lord of the Violet RayThe Path of The Alchemist/Transformation

Earthly incarnations: Francis Bacon, High Priest on Atlantis, Samuel the Prophet , Alban, Roman Soldier, Teacher of Neoplatonists, Merlin, Roger Bacon, Christopher Columbus, Wonderman of Europe . The Count St. Germain, known as the "Wonder Man of Europe" in the 1700's. He looked the same for 100 years, spoke every language, traveled by thought, fed the poor, and worked for peace. He took his body into light (ascended), and now works with humanity mostly from the lighter realms.
Saint Germain is Chohan of the Seventh Ray, the violet ray, of freedom, alchemy, justice, mercy and transmutation. He is the sponsor of the United States of America and the hierarch of the age of Aquarius, who comes bearing the gift of the violet flame for world change. He tutors and initiates souls in mastery of the seat-of-the-soul chakra, preparing them to receive the Holy Spirit’s gifts of prophecy and the working of miracles.

The Chakras and ,the 7 rays

http://www.greatdreams.com/masters/rays-chakras.htm

This link was a very helpful one to understand the function of the Rays in relation to the Chakras and the soul expresses itself in the world of form ,albeit distortedly, through the chakra energy centers.Other points made are the following:

• the chakras relate to the physical as well as to the finer etheric bodies-


• these bodies have intrinsic qualities


• they prepare man to return to his Father in Heaven


• the chakra centers are a great relating system


• these centers govern the endocrine system which controls the 7 main areas of the physical body and are responsible fore the correct functioning of the organism


• our ganglionic system is a replica in miniature of the septenary constitution of the universe-


• the ganglionic system is the medium of expression and instrument of contact for the 7 ray force and the 7 ray force and these interact and influence man's evolution.


• the higher man ascends the ladder of evolution the more these centers expand. The reverse means the centers remain dormant.


• the endocrine system are tangible and exoteric and express the etheric vital body. and its seven centers


• what then are the chakras we read of when Jesus cleanses those of Mary Magdalen (the casting out of the 7 devils?)


• not in the physical body- close to the 7 major glands-each force center provides power to the corresponding gland


• indigenous healing we have read about re calibrates and cleanses these areas of dark energies where the centers are dormant


• these are spiritual correspondences to those glands which are the externalizations of those correspondences


• the centers are described as wheels- to the spiritually evolved man, they are vortex whirlpools


• they denote action and turn at a dizzy speed with the brilliancy of the Sun.


• their size is considerable and they clear positive and constructive colors, the colors of the 7 rays


• they were meant to be convex radiating foci of the qualities of the 7 rays


• they have reversed themselves due to human degradation and have become concave declivities in the etheric body and destructive human vibrations of evil and discord.


• The "Chakras" and the glands which correspond to their force are as follows: CHAKRAS. . . GLANDS Head Centre. . . Pineal GlandCentre between eyebrows. . . Pituitary BodyThroat Centre. . . Thyroid GlandHeart Centre. . . Thymus GlandSolar Plexus Centre. . . PancreasSacral Centre. . . The GonadsCentre at the base of the spine. . . Adrenal Glands QUOTE


• they rotate clockwise-the greater their rapidity the more impervious to discord.


• They were intended and should be magnetic centres for the drawing, into the world of the individual, the radiations of the perfections of the qualities which they represent from the Elohim, the Archangels and the Chohans of the Seven Rays. QUOTE

THE ENDOCTRINE SYSTEM
"THE CHAKRAS"
"The Bodies of Man," through their
intrinsic qualities make the human soul capable of expressing itself in the
world of form, and prepare man to eventually return to his Father from where he
will have no need "to come out again."
Closely related to the physical as
well as to the etheric bodies--the finer bodies--are the Centres, which
constitute a great relating system and bring all parts of the physical vehicle
into relation with each other. These centres govern the endocrine system which,
in turn, controls the seven major areas of the physical body and is responsible
for the correct functioning of the entire organism, producing both physiological
and psychological effects. In this gaglionic system we have a replica, in
miniature, of the septenary constitution of the Universe and the medium of
expression as well as the instrument of contact for the seven Ray force which
influence the evolutionary life of man. The higher a man ascends in the ladder
of evolution, the more these centres expand, and when the reverse occurs, they
remain dormant.
In the endoctrine system we have the tangible and exoteric
expression of the activity of the etheric "vital Body" and its seven centres.
These "seven centres" are not to be found "in" the physical body, but they are
close to the same region where the seven major glands are located, and each
centre of force provides the power and the life of the corresponding gland which
is, in fact, its externalization. They are what one could call the glands'
"Spiritual Correspondences," and which the Wise Men of the East named "Chakras."
These Chakras, primarily, are seven in number, though from them emanate
twenty-one minor ones, as well as forty still smaller, making a total of
seventy-seven, leaving out the still smaller ones.
Thus we can see that from
the "Chakras" important and vital force emanates and is distributed into the
physical body through the endoctrine system which conditions, controls, and
determines, to a large extent, the life expression of the incarnated individual.
They are the conveyors of the forces of personality--mental and emotional--and
register them in the glands, thus galvanizing the physical man into action, be
it good, bad, or indifferent.
The "Chakras" and the glands which correspond
to their force are as follows:
CHAKRAS. . . GLANDS
Head Centre. . .
Pineal GlandCentre between eyebrows. . . Pituitary BodyThroat Centre. . .
Thyroid GlandHeart Centre. . . Thymus GlandSolar Plexus Centre. . .
PancreasSacral Centre. . . The GonadsCentre at the base of the spine. . .
Adrenal Glands
The centres are usually described as "wheels" and do denote
action--a turning around. To the spiritually evolved man, they are more than
that; they are vortex, whirlpools, turning around in a dizzy speed, and with the
light and brilliancy of the Sun. Furthermore, their size is considerable. In
this condition, they carry the positive, clear, constructive colors,
representing the colors of the Seven Rays. Originally the centres were meant to
be convex in shape and radiating foci of the qualities of the Seven Rays. Due to
human degradation they have reversed themselves and have become
concave--veritable declivities in the etheric body filled with the destructive
humanly qualified vibrations that have become the roots of all evil and discord.

The centres, or "Chakras," on their movement follow a clockwise rotation and the greater their rapidity, the more non-recordant they are to discord. They were intended and should be magnetic centres for the drawing, into the world of the individual, the radiations of the perfections of the qualities which they represent from the Elohim, the Archangels and the Chohans of the Seven Rays.

Serapis Bey ascended master and Chohan of the Fourth Ray

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

Serapis Bey like all of the masters has left footprints in time and has a record of accomplishments on the plane of history in elevating us to spiritual perfection,as do all of the masters.The descriptive words are often past my comprehension but I do get a sense of these words and accomplishments:

• he holds open temple doors on the etheric level. The significance of the temple having multilevels of access to different worlds ansd spiritual "states" is obvious. His holding these open is making the temple accessible to the qualified adepts.



• He is associated with Luxor (temple) in Egypt.



• Came from Venus and keeper of the white flame.



• He works with the archangel Chamuel on the ray of compassion and is the only master working with the Seraphim



• his ascension seat is Luxor. More of the meaning of the ascension seat later.



• He was priest in Atlantis and Pharaoh Akhenaten IV and Amenophis.



• Master of the 3rd yellow ray of active creative intelligence .



• He is the master of the third ray, the yellow ray of active, creative intelligence, helping to bring perfection, focus and independence to artists, musicians, peacemakers, philosophers and meta physicians QUOTE



• He works to balance and activate artistic beauty in all areas of life. He helps with personal initiations. QUOTE

Serapis
Bey - Chohan of the Fourth Ray - Serapis Bey, an ascended
master associated with Luxor in Egypt, who holds open the Temple doors on
the etheric level, and is one of the great teachers of ascension on the planet.
Serapis Bey originally came from Venus and is the Keeper of the White
flame. He works with Archangel Chamuel on the ray of compassion and is the only
Ascended Master who works with the Seraphim. He has an ascension seat Luxor. In
past incarnations he was a priest in Atlantis and was the Pharaoh Akhenaton !V
and also Amenophis. He is the master of the third ray, the yellow ray of active,
creative intelligence, helping to bring perfection, focus and independence to
artists, musicians, peacemakers, philosophers and metaphysicians. He works
to balance and activate artistic beauty in all areas of life. He helps with
personal initiations. Serapis Bey - Red
Ray - Root

Never again -More than just words/diplomacy

http://http://blog.z-word.com/2009/04/on-never-again/

I believe that options to the Iran problem are viable only if they are adhered to without subsequent withdrawing the options. They have to be believable, and thus with an intent to action.

Post Two The priesthood of On Temple of Ra

http://http://books.google.com/books?id=agd-eLVNRMMC&printsec=titlepage#PPR5,M1

This above link may not open

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliopolis_(ancient)

The temple of Ra was a depository of royal records.The priesthood of Heliopolis was well known to the Greek historian Herodotus. Heliopolis was a seat of learning in the Greek period.

• temple schools of philosophy and astronomy and were frequented by Greek philosophers Orpheus, Homer, Plato and Pythagoras.



• Did Plato learn of the existence of Atlantis at this school? Where did he obtain the "supposed" myth of Atlantis?



• I have a post of Pythagoras who instituted a school of his own . Was the content of that mystery school based on what he learned from this priesthood? Was it an accident that his school was destroyed? Read the former post on this topic?



• Ichonuphys lectured at the school in 308 BC after Alexander the Great's death by a few years.



• Hellenism and the syncretistic mystery religions- did they try to get at this type of mystery knowledge and what part did the school of On play in these undertakings of the Hellenistic syncretistic period?



• Manethon,chief priest of Heliopolis under Ptolemy II collected the history of the pharaohs.



• Alexandria eclipses the learning of Heliopolis and the Great Library is built, one of the wonders of the ancients, and it mysteriously burns down . Mysteriously?



• Obelisks were taken from the temples of Heliopolis and relocated? What is the real why of this action? There is still an obelisk still standing one of a pair set up by Senusret I. during the 12th dynasty.



• I believe the temple schools were ongoing teaching the mysteries handed down from Atlantis, after its being flooded . Heliopolis by the time of Christ dwindled .Strabo found it uninhabited with priests still there and Yeshua and Moses were reputed to have studied there. Jesus years of silence hypothetically place him in Egypt and India.

The temple of Ra was said to have been, to a special degree, a depository
for royal records, and Herodotus states that the priests of Heliopolis were the
best informed in matters of history of all the Egyptians. Heliopolis flourished
as a seat of learning during the Greek period; the schools of philosophy and
astronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer,[5] Pythagoras, Plato, Solon, and other Greek
philosophers. From Ichonuphys,
who was lecturing there in 308 BC, and who numbered Eudoxus among his pupils, the
Greek mathematician learned the true length of the year and month, upon which he
formed his octaeterid, or period of eight years or ninety-nine months. Ptolemy II had Manethon, the
chief priest of Heliopolis, collect his history of the ancient kings of Egypt
from its archives. The later Ptolemies probably took little
interest in their "father" Ra, and Alexandria had eclipsed the
learning of Heliopolis; thus with the withdrawal of royal favour Heliopolis
quickly dwindled, and the students of native lore deserted it for other temples
supported by a wealthy population of pious citizens. By the 1st century BC,
however, Strabo found them deserted, and the town itself almost uninhabited,
although priests were still there.
In Roman times Heliopolis belonged to the Augustamnica province. Its
population probably contained a considerable Arabic element. (Plin. vi. 34.) In
Roman times obelisks were taken from its
temples to adorn the northern cities of the Delta, and even across the Mediterranean to Rome, including the
famed Cleopatra's Needle
that now resides on the Thames embankment, London (this obelisk was part of a
pair, the other being located in Central Park, New York) . Finally the growth of Fustat and Cairo, only
6 miles (9.7 km) to the southwest, caused the ruins to be ransacked
for building materials. The site was known to the Arabs as ˁAyn Šams ("the well
of the sun"), more recently as ˁArab al-Ḥiṣn. It has now been brought for the
most part under cultivation, but the ancient city walls of crude brick are to be
seen in the fields on all sides, and the position of the great temple is marked
by an obelisk still standing (the earliest known, being one of a pair set up by Senusret
I, the second king of the Twelfth
Dynasty) and a few granite blocks bearing the name of Ramesses II.

Priesthood or school of On -were Jesus, Moses its devotees?

The Matarayyiah (Heliopolis) Obelisk (Masalla)

Very spare is the information on the priesthood of On and we hear of one sparse mention or referral to it by allusion in the book of Genesis that Joseph's wife Asenath was the daughter of Potipherah Priest of On. I have read and cannot recount the reference that both Jesus and Moses were adepts of the school of On. I had sparse references but as of now cannot locate them. On is another name for the Egyptian city of Heliopolis. This city of Heliopolis contains the most early temple obelisk 68' high made of red granite of Senusret I of the 12th dynasty and is the only one still standing.The city's name is also known as Iunu and also spelled pronounced/ transliterated as On in Greek and Hebrew. It was the principal seat of sun worship from of the most ancient antiquity but ,I believe, only popularized, and not initiated by Pharaoh Akhenaten during the Amarna period. He introduced monotheistic or henotheistic worship of the sun god Aten,the deified solar disc. He built a temple, Wetjes Aten, and its blocks later were used to build medieval Cairo. The popularizing done by Pharaoh Akhenaten and his later construction of the city of Akhetaten are my own surmises as to the issue of popularization of the worship already current from the most ancient of antiquities, of one solar deity of light . The blocked quotes below is the research I have been able to unearth. This one post is ended but will be followed by other full posts to continue this all important saga. The temple of Ra will comprise one full post.

• Diodorus Siculus mentions a flood which destroyed all Greek cities leaving the Egyptian cities intact . WHY only the destruction of the Greek cities? These facts of the flood and Egyptian worship as the remnant of the once famed Atlantis are hinted at by Herodotus and in the writings of Plato. These cities did not survive fortuitously, but did so as a matter of intentional design and later served as points of sun worship. WHY? to promote the worship of one supreme being. The Atlanteans who controlled the seas and the world had a world empire and worship of the one Supreme G-d in ways and manners we cannot even conceive now and were engulfed in a flood, again alluded to by Plato and other writers (Ignatius Donnelly).



• Jesus(Yeshua) and Moses were mentioned by tradition as being adepts of this priesthood of On. I have not located the references but when I do I will b certain to blog those.



• Did Joseph use the city to store bread? It was the capital for a while and grain was stored here for the famines. The Book of the Dead states it was used to multiply bread and explains the legend that Horus fed the masses there with only seven loaves. This account reminds me of Jesus feeding the crowds with only 12 loaves. I do believe that what we today call miracles were known to these priestly adepts and the higher laws of physics and mathematics were attained in this priesthood to enable its adepts to perform these miracles. and this faintest breath of hint in this legend is telling. We today have no knowledge of these laws and Yeshua and other adepts such as Moses could have studied here. There is a tradition of Jesus in Egypt during the lost years and "Moses in the house of Pharaoh as the son Pharaoh's daughter raised. None of these are fortuitous events but all part of the evolutionary chain (spiritually) of mankind.



• Note the Grecian Roman allusions by ancient writers-they are copious.



• Alexander the Great very attune to all embraced knowledge halted in his march at Baalbek or the Syrian Heliopolis, which had a priest colony at the time. (Arrian and Macrobius as sources cited below).

In ancient times it was the principal seat of sun-worship, thus its name,
which means city of the sun in Greek

Now Heliopolis contain the earliest temple obelisk still in its original position. The 20.7 m / 68 ft high red granite Obelisk of Senusret I of the XIIth Dynasty is at Al-Matariyyah part of Heliopolis.[2] It is now in Al-Masalla area of Al-Matariyyah district near Ain Shams district (Heliopolis). It is 67 feet (20 m) tall and weighs 120 tons or 240,000 pounds.
The city's Egyptian name (shown in hieroglyphs, right,[3] transliterated ỉwnw), is often transcribed as Iunu (literally "[place of] pillars"), and was often written in Greek as Ὂν On, and in biblical Hebrew as אן ˀÔn and און ˀĀwen.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliopolis_(ancient)#Ancient_Heliopolis

Potipherah
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Potipherah
was a priest of the Ancient Egypt town of On, mentioned in
the Book of Genesis
(41:45,50). He was the father of Asenath, who was given to Joseph as his wife
by Pharaoh, and
who bore Joseph two sons: Manasseh and Efraim. His name means "he whom Ra has given".

GENESIS 41:44 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without
thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
GENESIS 41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah (1);
and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On.
And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

Heliopolis has been occupied since the Predynastic
Period, with extensive building campaigns during the Old and Middle
Kingdoms. Today, unfortunately, it is mostly destroyed, its temples and
other buildings having been used for the construction of mediæval Cairo; most information about it
comes from textual sources.

According to Diodorus Siculus Heliopolis was
built by Actis, one of the sons of Helios and Rhode, who named the city after his
father.[4] While all Greek cities were
destroyed during the flood, the Egyptian cities
including Heliopolis survived. The chief deity of Heliopolis was the god Atum, who was
worshipped in the primary temple, which was known by the names Per-Aat (pr-ˁ3t; "Great
House") and Per-Atum (pr-ỉtmw; "Temple [lit. "House"] of Atum"). The city was
also the original source of the worship of the Ennead pantheon, although in
later times, as Horus gained in prominence,
worship focused on the synchrentistic solar
deity Ra-harakhty (literally Ra, (who is) Horus of the Two Horizons). During
the Amarna Period, king Akhenaten
introduced monotheistic or perhaps henotheistic
worship of Aten, the
deified solar disc, built here a temple named Wetjes Aten (wṯs ỉtn "Elevating
the Sun-disc"). Blocks from this temple were later used to build the city walls
of mediaeval Cairo
and can be seen in some of the city gates. The cult of the Mnevis bull, an
embodiment of the god Ra, had its centre here, and possessed a formal burial
ground north of the city.

As the capital of Egypt for a period of time, grain was stored in Heliopolis for the winter months, when many people would descend on the town to be fed, leading to it gaining the title place of bread. The Book of the Dead goes further and describes how Heliopolis was the place of multiplying bread, recounting a myth in which Horus feeds the masses there with only 7 loaves.

Greco-Roman Heliopolis
Heliopolis was well known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, being noted by most major geographers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54; Herodotus, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 1; Aelian, H. A. vi. 58, xii. 7; Plutarch, Solon. 26, Is. et Osir. 33; Diogenes Laertius, xviii. 8. § 6; Josephus, Ant. Jud. xiii. 3, C. Apion. i. 26; Cicero, De Natura Deorum iii. 21; Pliny the Elder, v. 9. § 11; Tacitus, Ann. vi. 28; Pomponius Mela, iii. 8. The city also merits attention by the Byzantine geographer Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Ἡλίουπόλις.
Alexander the Great, on his march from Pelusium to Memphis, halted at this city (Arrian, iii. 1); and, according to Macrobius (Saturn. i. 23), Baalbek, or the Syrian Heliopolis, was a priest-colony from its Egyptian namesake.

Dialog of St Catherine of Siena pt 1 download of sound reading

http://www.archive.org/details/CathDialog1

This sound book surely indicates that the tongue cannot relate the love desire and grief of the servants of G-d. There is a place for the necessity of grief as well as love given to us by our Father in Heaven.Gift of grace is also alluded to . Life of grace is the "coming out of sin".I will later present her bio but for now just to listen to her words in silence."Labor to increase the fire of your desire".

St Augustine Christian Doctrine

http://marialectrix.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/1500-chs-12-22-bk-1-on-christian-doctrine-by-st-augustine/#comment-27325

http://marialectrix.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/1500-chs-12-22-bk-1-on-christian-doctrine-by-st-augustine/#comment-27325

St Augustine on the Love of G-d and my comments on this blog. As put forth as link. Love covers a multitude of sins, and divine love engenders undeserved forgiveness and comes in divers fashions and a multitude of wellsprings.This blog has a wellspring of the classics of great literature in mp3 download. This download is Augustine's Chrisian Doctrine 12-22.

Faith through love is our salvation and not faith without it. For love supercedes faith and is the enduring element of our "salvation".

Stimulus Protesters and Job Creation

You are out there protesting stimulus increases and having tea parties as you state there will be tax increases and a greater poverty gulf. Bush had tax cuts and created a huge deficit thereby. You had a tea party and then you want jobs . What is your solution to create these jobs. ? Who will step forward, you? What is your detailed solution to creating jobs with out a tax increase. How will your protests put food on yours and your neighbors' table.? When you get home after your party, I will arise early and greet the morning news with anticipation as to how many jobs you created with created with your tea party. People in glass houses should not throw rocks if you know what I mean,

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis: March 15 in Russian history. Executions of communist leaders.

De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis: March 15 in Russian history. Executions of communist leaders.

Koestler Thieves in the Night

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieves_in_the_Night
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler I will post and discuss his works and life in another post .



Thieves in the Night
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Thieves in the Night : Chronicle of an Experiment is a novel by Arthur Koestler written in 1946. Originally intended to be the first of a trilogy, Koestler later concluded that the book stood well enough on its own for further novels to be redundant.

Based on the author's own experiences in a kibbutz, it sets up a stage in describing the historical roots of the conflict between Arabs and Jewish settlers in the British ruled Palestine.

The book tackles many subjects, such as Zionism and idealism. Koestler was Zionist early in life, but later abandoned the idea.

The title is a Biblical reference, quoted on the title page:

"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night." (2 Peter 3:10)
Related Biblical references:

"If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night, (how art thou cut off!) would they not have stolen till they had enough? if the grapegatherers came to thee, would they not leave some grapes?" (Obadiah 1:5)
"If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? If thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough." (Jeremiah 49:9)
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Graf von Galen Against Euthanasia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_August_Graf_von_Galen

This was a populist sermon of enormous popularity. Its points include the following:

Fear reduces every German to apprehension of imprisonment in a concentration camp and abducted in the secrecy of night.Von Galen rejected that notion that war demands a solidarity that his speech supposedly rejects. He denies that assertion categorically and quotes Cardinal Pacelli the future Pope Pius XII :

• Opus Justitiae Pax and Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum-peace is the work of justice


• Justice is the basis of domination-The 3rd Reich undermines justice and reduces the German people to a perpetual state of fear and cowardice.


• Confiscating religious institutions result in the destruction of the German people from within and not from allied bombing.


• In the third sermon he attacked euthanasia directly and the lies perpetrated while performing deportation and killing of the mentally ill notifying their relatives they had died.


• To be unproductive is no justification of what is in reality murder, a rejection of the laws of God. If the state can nullify the fifth commandment, it can destroy all the others as well.


• These sermons were sent all over Germany.Allegedly, Karol Wojtyla read a copy in Krakow.The local Gauleiter wanted to arrest von Galen . Goebbels, Bormann and others preferred to wait til the end of the War. The furor aroused by these sermons put an end to Aktion T4. It was however done in greater secrecy.


• The British Royal Air Force dropped this populist sermon among German troops.


• http://kirchensite.de/downloads/Aktuelles/Predigt_Galen_Englisch.pdf Sermon at Xanten
  

Protests against German euthanasia
On July 13, 1941, von Galen publicly
attacked the regime for its Gestapo's tactics, including disappearances without
trials, the closing of Catholic institutions without any stated justifications,
and the resultant fear imposed on all Germans throughout the nation. The
powerful Gestapo, he argued, reduces everybody, even the most decent and loyal
citizens, to being afraid of ending up in a basement prison or a concentration
camp. As the country was at war, von Galen rejected the notion that his speech
undermines German solidarity or unity. Using the lines of his friend Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli, as written in Opus Justitiae Pax and Justitia fundamentum
Regnorum, von Galen noted that "[p]eace is the work of justice and justice the
basis of domination," then attacked the Third Reich for undermining justice, the
belief in justice and for reducing the German people to a state of permanent
fear, even cowardice. He concluded: As a German, as a decent citizen I demand
justice.[10]

In a second sermon on July 20, 1941, von Galen informed the
faithful that all written protests against Nazi hostilities had proven to be
useless. The confiscation of religious institutions continued unabated. Members
of religious orders were still deported or jailed. Since Christians are not
typically revolutionaries, he asked his listeners to be patient and to endure,
and that the German people were being destroyed not by the Allied bombing from
the outside, but from negative forces within.[11]


On August 3, 1941, von Galen informed his listeners in a third sermon about
the continued desecration of Catholic churches, closing of convents and
monasteries, and the deportation and euthanasia of mentally ill people (who were
sent to destinations, usually concentration camps, while a notice was sent to
family members stating that the person is question had died). This is murder, he
exclaimed, unlawful by divine and German law, a rejection of the laws of God. He
informed them that he had forwarded his evidence to the State Attorney. "These
are people, our brothers and sisters; maybe their life is unproductive, but
productivity is not a justification for killing." If that were indeed a
justification for execution, he reasoned, everybody would have to be afraid to
even go to a doctor for fear of what might be discovered. The social fabric
would be affected. von Galen then remarked that a regime which can do away with
the Fifth Commandment (thou shalt not kill) can destroy the other commandments
as well.[12]

The sermons were reproduced and sent all over Germany to
families, and to German soldiers on the Western and Eastern Fronts. Allegedly,
Karol Wojtyla is to have read a copy in Krakow (it is unclear whether he read a
copy while already a member of the Polish Resistance, or whether the sermon
itself influenced his decision to join). The resulting local protests in Germany
led to an immediate end of the euthanasia program Aktion T4.[13] The local Nazi
Gauleiter was furious and asked for the immediate arrest of von Galen. However,
Joseph Göbbels, Bormann and others preferred to wait until the end of World War
II , as not to undermine in the heavily Catholic area the German morale during
the ongoing war.[14] Of von Galen's remarks, perhaps the most effective was his
question asking whether permanently injured German soldiers would fall under the
program as well. A year later, the euthanasia program was still active, but the
regime conducted it in greater secrecy.

According to scholars, "[t]his
powerful, populist sermon was immediately reproduced and distributed throughout
Germany — indeed, it was dropped among German troops by British Royal Air Force
flyers. Galen's sermon probably had a greater impact than any other one
statement in consolidating anti-‘euthanasia' sentiment."[15]

In 1929 Clemens August von Galen was called back into the diocese of
Münster and appointed parish priest of St Lambert’s Church in Münster.
After the death of Bishop Johannes Poggenburg, Clemens August von Galen
was made Bishop of Münster. The consecration took place on 28th October
1933. As his motto he chose: „Nec laudibus nec timore“ - „Unconcerned
about praise, unaffected by fear“.

Already in his first Lent pastoral letter in 1934 Bishop Clemens August
exposed the neo-heathen ideology of National Socialism. Time and again he
stood up for the Church’s liberty, for that of the church associations, and
for the protection of religious education, by presenting petitions to the
competent state authorities and by pleading these rights in public speeches
and sermons.

When Alfred Rosenberg in his „Mythos of the Twentieth
Century“ attacked the Church and the Christian faith, he assumed the
responsibility for a rejoinder written by Catholic men of science, the „Studies
Concerning the Mythos“, and had them published as supplement to the
gazette of the diocese of Münster.

Bishop Clemens August belonged to those bishops whom Pope Pius XI in
January 1937 invited to Rome in order to discuss the situation in Germany
and to prepare the encyclical letter „With Burning Anxiety“, which taxed
and accused the National Socialist regime before the world public.

Together with the others bishops Bishop Clemens August, in several pastoral
letters, stood up against the racial doctrine of the Nazis. In the Fulda
conference of bishops he was one of those who demanded that a determined
stand be made against National Socialism, and this above all also in public.
In 1941, when the Third Reich had reached its height of power, the state
authorities began to confiscate convents and monasteries and to expel the
religious. At the same time it transpired that extensive measures were being
5
taken for the killing of mentally handicapped persons. In three great sermons
on 13th and 20th July and on 3rd August the Bishop publicly exposed this
outrage upon justice.
In his sermon in St Lambert’s Church in Münster on 13th July 1941 he
says: „None of us is safe - and may he know that he is the most loyal and
conscientious of citizens and may he be conscious of his complete innocence
- he cannot be sure that he will not some day be deported from his home,
deprived of his freedom and locked up in the cellars and concentration
camps of the Gestapo (i. e. the State Secret Police)“. Most emphatically he
pointed out: „Justice is the only solid foundation of any state. The right to
life, to inviolability, to freedom is an indispensable part of any moral order
of society ... We demand justice! If this call remains unheard and unanswered,
if the reign of Justice is not restored, then our German people and our
country - in spite of the heroism of our soldiers and the glorious victories
they have won - will perish through an inner rottenness and decay.“

Together with the others bishops Bishop Clemens August, in several pastoral
letters, stood up against the racial doctrine of the Nazis. In the Fulda
conference of bishops he was one of those who demanded that a determined
stand be made against National Socialism, and this above all also in public.
In 1941, when the Third Reich had reached its height of power, the state
authorities began to confiscate convents and monasteries and to expel the
religious. At the same time it transpired that extensive measures were being
5
taken for the killing of mentally handicapped persons. In three great sermons
on 13th and 20th July and on 3rd August the Bishop publicly exposed this
outrage upon justice.
In his sermon in St Lambert’s Church in Münster on 13th July 1941 he
says: „None of us is safe - and may he know that he is the most loyal and
conscientious of citizens and may he be conscious of his complete innocence
- he cannot be sure that he will not some day be deported from his home,
deprived of his freedom and locked up in the cellars and concentration
camps of the Gestapo (i. e. the State Secret Police)“. Most emphatically he
pointed out: „Justice is the only solid foundation of any state. The right to
life, to inviolability, to freedom is an indispensable part of any moral order
of society ... We demand justice! If this call remains unheard and unanswered,
if the reign of Justice is not restored, then our German people and our
country - in spite of the heroism of our soldiers and the glorious victories
they have won - will perish through an inner rottenness and decay.“

If it is once admitted that men have the right to kill
„unproductive“ fellow-men - even though it is at present applied only to
poor and defenceless mentally ill patients - then the way is open for the
murder of all unproductive men and women: the incurably ill, those disabled
in industry or war. The way is open, indeed, for the murder of all of us,
when we become old and infirm and therefore unproductive“.

Far and wide the sermons of the Bishop created a sensation. They were
secretly duplicated and passed on far beyond the frontiers of Germany.
After having preached these sermons the Bishop was prepared to be
arrested by the Gestapo. It was Reichsleiter Bormann who suggested to
Hitler, that the Bishop should be taken into custody and be hanged. The
Nazi command, however, feared that in such a case the population of the
diocese of Münster had to be written off as lost for the duration of the war.
The Bishop was deeply dejected when in his place 24 secular priests and
13 members of the regular clergy were deported into concentration camps,
of whom 10 lost their lives.

SERMON AT XANTEN 1936

Thus did the Christian confessors and martyrs think and act. You know that
many martyrs of the Catholic church have been drawn from the ranks of
brave soldiers: St. Theodore, St. George, St.Sebastian, St. Mauritius, Cassius
and Florentinus, Gereon, and your own St. Victor, with whom according to
legend all the officers and men of their legion suffered martyrdom for the
sake of Christ. They allowed themselves to be mown down by their heathen
comrades, without defending themselves or offering resistance. The swords
which they had so heroically wielded in the heat of battle for their emperor
and their fatherland they did not draw against their comrades who on the
orders of the emperor fell upon them like enemies, to massacre them. In
them they saw not enemies, but misguided friends. They did not fight the
emperor, rather they obeyed the emperor unto death. For it was the
emperor who ordered that they must either sacrifice to the idols or die.
Because they could not offer up that sacrifice without sinning, they chose
to die, in order not to sin. Is that not faithfulness? Is that not heroism? Is
that not courage in the service of the emperor, and in the service of God
even unto death?

August Von Galen Bishop made cardinal and his "sermon"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemens_August_Graf_von_Galen

He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI and a German count and bishop of Munster and friend of Pius XII when he was Papal Nuncio Pacelli. He knew of and relentlessly condemned Nazi rule

and had a sermon condemning the euthanasia program of the Nazis. He was later made a cardinal by Pius XII. His sermon on Euthanasia inspired the White Rose movement. I surmise he was educated as a Jesuit. Hitler wished to arrest him but Goebbels advised against it due to his tremendous popularity. His sermons and widespread popularity makes me take notice that the mass of the people knew of the Euthanasia atrocities and of the camp atrocities as well. THEY KNEW. Most were silent and bystanders . Note the memorable event that changed his life as boldened in green below. I deem his aristocratic lineage served to protect him as well as his church standing and popularity with the masses. Note the manner of his election as Bishop of Munster. He was accused of being bossy and paternalistic. e criticized the Nazi approach to education in their preventing the establishment of Catholic schools, and like Pacelli used the Concordat to legal advantage championing Catholic Schools. He criticised Nazi racial ideologies as did Pius XI and attacked the ideological constructs of Alfred Rosenberg. He refused their criticising the Old Testament because of its Jewish authorship.

Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
(March 16, 1878 – March 22, 1946) was a German count, Bishop of
Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic
Church. He received his education in Austria at the Stella
Matutina (Jesuit School). After his ordination he worked in Berlin at Saint Matthias, were he
became close friends with Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, later to be Pope
Pius XII. An outspoken critic of the Nazi regime, he issued forceful,
public denunciations of the Third Reich's euthanasia
programs and persecution of the Catholic Church, making him one of the most
visible and unrelenting internal voices of dissent against the Nazis.

Blessed Bishop Clemens August
Graf von Galen
"Lion of
Münster"
Born
March 16, 1878(1878-03-16), Dinklage Castle,
Germany
Died
March 22, 1946 (aged 68), Münster, Germany
Beatified
9 October
2005 by Pope Benedict XVI
Feast
22
March
Clemens August von Galen belonged to one of the oldest of the most distinguished noble families of Westphalia,[1] and was born in the Catholic southern part of the Duchy of Oldenburg (Oldenburger Münsterland, near the German border with the Netherlands), on the Burg Dinklage, now in the state of Lower Saxony. He was the son of Count Ferdinand Heribert von Galen, a member of the Imperial German parliament (Reichstag) for the Catholic Centre Party, and Elisabeth von Spee.[2]
He received his main schooling in the elite Jesuit boarding school Stella Matutina in Austria, where only Latin was allowed to be spoken. He was not an easy student to teach, and his Jesuit superior wrote to the parents: “Infallibility is the main problem of Clemens, who under no circumstance will admit that he may be wrong. Wrong are always his teachers and educators.[3]

Because Prussia did not recognize his Austrian degree, Clemens spent the last years of his education near home. Upon graduation, his fellow students wrote in his yearbook: Clemens doesn't make love or drinking, he does not like the worldly swindling. In 1897 he began to study a variety of topics, including literature, history, and philosophy. In 1899 he met Pope Leo XIII in a private audience and after that decided to join the priesthood. He studied in Innsbruck and Münster and was ordained in 1904. At first he worked for a family member, the Auxiliary Bishop of Münster, as Chaplain.[4]
Soon he moved to Berlin, where he worked as parish priest at St. Matthias.[5] A memorable event occurred there, which changed his life: During a sermon he noticed the presence of the Papal Nuncio among the listening faithful. He lost his train of thought and began to stammer. From then on the two became very close friends. Eugenio Pacelli knew to poke fun: When Galen, on a beautiful sunny day, encouraged him to enjoy nature and stop working for a change, Pacelli replied with a laugh, before I could do that I must develop much humility, become parish priest in St. Matthias, so I too may get stuck in a sermon. They both joked over this incident in February 1946, when Pope Pius XII elevated von Galen into the College of Cardinals.[6]

Bishop of Münster

Von Galen was elected bishop of Münster in 1933. Documents in the Vatican Archives, which opened related information in 2003, indicate that von Galen was elected only after other candidates had turned down the offer, and in spite of a protest from Nuncio Orgegnio to Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who expressed his opinion that von Galen is bossy and paternalistic in his public utterances :[7]
Once elected, von Galen campaigned against the totalitarian approach of the National Socialist Party in national education, appealing to parents to insist on Catholic teaching in schools. He successfully used the recently agreed-upon Reichskonkordat (§ 21, granting the Church the right to determine on its own religious instruction) to force the National Socialists to permit continued Catholic instruction in Catholic schools. It was one of the first instances where the Reichskonkordat was used by the Church as a legal instrument against Germany, which was one of the intentions of Pope Pius XI.[8]
Shortly thereafter, von Galen began to attack the racial ideologies of the new regime, partly poking fun at it, partly critiquing its ideological constructs as published by Alfred Rosenberg. He declared it as unacceptable to refuse the Old Testament because of its Jewish authorship, and to limit morality and virtue to the perceived usefulness of a particular race.[9]