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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
8/9/2013 7:01:19 AM
Quite convincing... But sir, then one more question comes.. Why god wanted us to be how we are today. He could give us brain to understand his creation. Off course, we have a brain but it doesn't come easily.. Right?

People are dying everyday, Corrupt nations, Poor hungry peoples...
We are a part of him.. His children.. Why doesn't he see that..
What he wants us to learn from this. Last 100 years have been rough time for the world.. World wars, Hitler, Hiroshima, Nagashakhi, India-Pak, Libya, Nigeria, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel... so many examples..

Why we are killing each other? Who has put such feelings in our mind?
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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
8/9/2013 10:50:55 AM
Hi again Ron,

It was not God but we ourselves who wanted to exist separately in order to individually enjoy the life in the material world. This can easily be understood through Jesus' parable of the Prodigal Son.

All parables have different parallel levels of understanding which go from the most basic, which a little child can grab, to the highest one - in our case, this we are commenting on. So God, our father, permits us to leave as would any loving father here in the material world... reluctant, not sure when we will come back home to enjoy His presence and all the happiness of a glorious life in paradise; but since we were created free, how would He oppose?

Of course He knows everything, and knows when we will get tired of this absurd and delusory life of suffering in the material world. This is the difficult part for us to understand; but in order for us to learn, he opts to let us play with this dangerous toy that is life, and only when we have learned from experience, and have paid off all of our karmic debt for all the suffering we have caused others and ourselves, are we ready to come back home,
back to Him.

Again, I hope this has helped.

Miguel

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Quite convincing... But sir, then one more question comes.. Why god wanted us to be how we are today. He could give us brain to understand his creation. Off course, we have a brain but it doesn't come easily.. Right?

People are dying everyday, Corrupt nations, Poor hungry peoples...
We are a part of him.. His children.. Why doesn't he see that..
What he wants us to learn from this. Last 100 years have been rough time for the world.. World wars, Hitler, Hiroshima, Nagashakhi, India-Pak, Libya, Nigeria, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel... so many examples..

Why we are killing each other? Who has put such feelings in our mind?

"Choose a job you love and you will not have to work a day in your life" (Confucius)

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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
8/9/2013 9:33:26 PM

Mysterious ‘Angel’ Priest Performs Miracle at Site of Car Crash



Katie Lentz - Touched by an Angel?

Katie Lentz – Touched by an Angel?

By Rajah Maples, KHQA – August 8, 2013

http://tinyurl.com/lzlbtfl
CENTER, MO. — Rescue workers want to thank a higher power for coming to the rescue early Sunday morning. Emergency crews spent an hour and a half trying to extricate a 19-year-old Quincy woman trapped in her in crushed car on Missouri 19 near Center, Mo.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said Aaron Smith, 26, crossed the center line and struck Katie Lentz head-on. Now, friends, family and those who rescued Lentz would love to find and thank a mysterious priest who they say helped make the rescue possible.

New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said rescue crews spent the first 45 minutes after the accident trying to get Lentz out of a car to no avail Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. The metal on an older model Mercedes dulled the department’s equipment.

“It was a very well-built car, and when you compact materials like that one, they become even stronger because you’re cutting through multiple things instead of one layer,” Reed said.

Reed says Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat. After 45 minutes passed, medical workers told rescue crews that Katie was failing and fast. That’s when Reed decided to move the car, which was standing on its side, back on all four wheels.

About an hour into the rescue, Katie asked rescue workers to pray out loud with her. That’s when a priest appeared out of nowhere.

“He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer,” Reed said. “It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as well. I can’t be for certain how it was said, but myself and another firefighter, we very plainly heard that we should remain calm, that our tools would now work and that we would get her out of that vehicle.”

The Hannibal Fire Department showed up right after that prayer with fresh equipment and was able to finish the extrication. After getting Katie safely into the Air Evac helicopter, at least a dozen of the rescue workers turned around to thank the priest who was nowhere in sight.

The highway had been blocked for a quarter of a mile during the hour-and-a-half rescue, leaving no bystanders and no parked cars nearby. Lentz’ family and friends are amazed by the story.

“Where did this guy come from?” Lentz’s friend Travis Wiseman asked. “We’re looking for the priest and so far, no one has seen him. Whether it was a priest as an angel or an actual angel, he was an angel to all those and to Katie.”

“We would like to find this gentleman and be able to thank him,” Reed said. “As a first responder, you don’t know what you’re going to run into. We have a lot of tools, and we have intensive training. In this particular case, it is my feeling that it was nothing more than sheer faith and nothing short of a miracle.”

Two witnesses have described the priest to KHQA. Click here for description.

Katie has undergone surgeries to repair several broken bones. She is scheduled for more surgeries in the coming weeks, but friends and family say her spirit has not wavered.

“Both of her legs are very damaged,” Lentz’s friend Amanda Wiseman said. “Her wrist is broken, several broken ribs, so she’s had a lot of broken bones to deal with.”

According to Katie’s mother, Katie’s condition has been upgraded to serious in Blessing Hospital. In addition to several internal injuries, she has undergone orthopedic surgeries and has more to face.

“All along the way, her foremost request is for people to pray and to pray out loud,” she said. “We would like nothing more than to carry that message forward for her.”

The driver of the other car in that accident, Aaron Smith, has been charged with a DWI, second degree assault and failure to drive on the right half of the roadway.

KHQA asked the Missouri Department of Transportation if there have ever been talks of turning Missouri 19 into a 4-lane highway.

A MoDOT spokesperson said a group called the Tri-State Development Group has identified that highway as a priority to examine. However, MoDOT has never identified that road as a priority.



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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
8/9/2013 10:13:07 PM

Frontrunner in Mali election runoff pledges to reinforce peace

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A man rides a bicycle past electoral campaign posters in Bamako August 9, 2013. REUTERS/Joe Penney

By Daniel Flynn and Tiemoko Diallo

BAMAKO (Reuters) - The frontrunner in Mali's presidential election wound up his campaign on Friday with a promise to restore peace and dignity to the West African country scarred by a coup and Islamist uprising last year.

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, 68, an ex-prime minister with a reputation for toughness, won last month's ballot with nearly 40 percent of the vote - but fell short of a majority. He will face ex-finance minister Soumaila Cisse in a runoff on Sunday.

Drawing wide support for a pledge to impose order after a military coup that plunged Mali into chaos, Keita has been endorsed by over 20 of the 27 first-round candidates. Cisse, who took 19 percent in the first round, has focused on improving education, creating jobs and reforming the army.

Once seen as a model for democracy in turbulent West Africa, Mali imploded last year when al Qaeda-linked rebels took advantage of the coup to seize control of the vast desert north, where they imposed a harsh version of sharia (Islamic law).

France intervened militarily in January to destroy the Islamist enclave, which it said threatened the West, but Paris is now looking to pull out most of its remaining 3,000 troops.

"For the honour of Mali, I will bring peace. For the honour of Mali, I will bring security," Keita, universally known by his initials IBK, said in a campaign broadcast late on Thursday. "I have promised this and I will do it, God willing."

Sunday's election should unlock some 3 billion euros in aid and allow France to hand responsibility for maintaining security to a 12,600-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission being deployed.

With the end of campaigning coinciding with the Eid festival to mark the end of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, both candidates canceled their political rallies.

The waterlogged streets of the riverside capital Bamako, Keita's stronghold, were quiet after heavy rains, but some small political meetings took place.

"IBK is someone who has a firm hand and we need that right now in Mali," said Saidou Salif Traore, 33, a university teacher who attended a youth rally in support of Keita. "He is the only one who saw these problems coming."

Keita opposed a 2006 peace deal with Tuareg separatists that demilitarised much of northern Mali - a sparsely populated area the size of Texas. He was a critic of the government of President Amadou Toumani Toure that was ousted amid widespread frustration over its corruption and passivity towards Tuaregs.

VOTING FOR REFUGEES

Keita has captured the popular mood by avoiding outspoken criticism of the coup leaders, earning the tacit blessing of the military. He has also successfully courted Mali's powerful Islamic clerics, several of whom have endorsed him.

Critics say Cisse, who condemned the coup, defends a corrupt political class which dragged Mali into the current crisis by ignoring rising frustration at poverty. The majority of Mali's 16 million people live in poverty on less than $1.25 a day.

Cisse rejects the claim, saying he was defending democracy.

With hundreds of Islamist fighters killed and those who survived scattered by the French-led offensive, the most pressing challenge facing the new president will be peace talks with the Tuareg MNLA separatists.

A ceasefire deal that allowed voting in northern Mali obliges a new government to open talks within 60 days. The MNLA says fighting may resume if it does not win greater autonomy for their northern homeland, which they dub "Azawad".

Many in populous southern Mali, however, are bitterly opposed to any concessions to the Tuaregs, who they blame for triggering the crisis with their uprising.

The overall turnout of 49 percent in the July 28 first round of the election was a record, though it was far lower in the north and in camps housing 170,000 refugees in neighbouring Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Niger.

The United Nations flew election material to Mauritania on Friday in an effort to boost participation in the runoff.

(Editing by David Lewis and Mark Heinrich)


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RE: IS THE NEW AGE REALLY COMING?
8/9/2013 10:15:57 PM
Dear frieds, here is part 4 of Steve Beckows' article on Saint Germain

Holy Brother: The Lives and Work of Saint Germaine – Part 4

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St. Germaine as Christian Rosenkrantz

Just a reminder that a lot of romance surrounds the lives of St. Germaine. We do not certify as true any of the information contained in this series. As I said at the outset, I love the romance surrounding St. Germaine as much as I do the truth of the story so I post this series as much for the lore as for the history.

(Continued from Part 3.)

Change is on the Horizon: St. Germain’s World Trust (Continued)

http://revolutionizingawareness.com/documentaries/st-germains-world-trust/

Sanctus Germanus as Christian Rosenkrantz, 14th Century: Keeping the Ancient Wisdom alive

Charles W. Leadbeater, the renowned theosophist, says that Sanctus Germanus incarnated as Christian Rosenkrantz, a monk interested in occult studies and said to be the founder of the Invisible Order of Rosicrucianism in Germany . We know little of his work but in his later incarnation as the mysterious Count of St. Germain, Sanctus Germanus is known to have a cipher Rosicrucian manuscript bearing the secret codes of the symbolism used in the Rosicrucian movement. Whether he was or was not Christian Rosenkrantz, we note the continued trend in the reincarnations of the Master: the preservation of the mysteries of the Ancient Wisdom.

Sanctus Germanus as Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Sanctus Germanus as the Italian-Spanish navigator Christopher Columbus was both well versed in theology as well as maritime studies. His personal aim was to a westward route to Asia . He first tried to convince the crown in Portugal to support a westward trip over the Atlantic but failed. He then moved to Spain where after many difficulties, convinced the Catholic monarchs, Isabel and Fernando, to support his project.

His voyage of 1492 failed to land him in Asia . Instead, he had discovered the New World which made him famous throughout Europe . He managed to secure for himself the title of Admiral, and more royal patronage poured in. He made two more voyages to the New World after being named the Viceroy of his discovered lands and after extracting an agreement from the King and Queen to receive ten percent of all wealth brought back. However, his fame within a decade became tarnished with charges of corruption in his administration of the new territories. Thereafter he was banned from further movement and died in political obscurity.

Sanctus Germanus himself has admitted that during this incarnation, he easily succumbed to personal greed and avarice, however, this does not obscure the fact that through his endeavour, he is credited with opening the New World to the rest of humanity.

Sanctus Germanus as Francis Bacon of England (1561-1626): The Planting of Ideas.

As the First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans, English philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon, became one of the pioneers of modern scientific thought. Following along the lines of his previous incarnation as Roger Bacon, Sanctus Germanus again revolutionized mankind’s thinking by introducing ampliative inductive reasoning to the formation of scientific hypotheses, contributing to the fundamental advancement of the scientific method. His work on “cleaning” facts of prejudice and preconceived notions added much empiricist thinking and logic.

As a holder of high office throughout most of his life, he was able to obscure his active involvement in the secret societies of the Ancient Wisdom. Such activities undoubtedly contributed to his incisive thinking that advanced scientific thinking.

Sanctus Germanus was born Francis Bacon on January 22, 1561, at York House, in the Strand, London , and educated at Trinity College , University of Cambridge . Elected to the House of Commons in 1584, he served until 1614. He wrote letters of sound advice to Elizabeth I, Queen of England, but his suggestions were never implemented, and he completely lost favor with the queen in 1593, when he opposed a bill for a royal subsidy. He regained the respect of the court, however, with the accession of James I to the English throne in 1603.

Bacon proposed schemes for the union of England and Scotland and recommended measures for dealing with Roman Catholics. For these efforts he was knighted on July 23, 1603, was made a commissioner for the union of Scotland and England , and was given a pension in 1604. His Advancement of Learning was published and presented to the king in 1605. Two years later he was appointed solicitor general.

In the last session of the first Parliament held (February 1611) under James I, the differences between Crown and Commons grew critical, and Bacon took the role of mediator, despite his distrust of James’s chief minister, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury. On Salisbury ‘s death in 1612, Bacon wrote several papers on statecraft, particularly on relations between Crown and Commons, in order to gain the king’s attention. In 1613 he was appointed attorney general.

In 1616 Bacon became a privy councilor, and in 1618 he was appointed Lord Chancellor and raised to the peerage as Baron Verulam. In 1620 his Novum Organum was published, and on January 26, 1621, he was created Viscount Saint Albans.

In the same year he was charged by Parliament with accepting bribes. He confessed but said that he was “heartily and penitently sorry.” He submitted himself to the will of his fellow peers, who ordered him fined, imprisoned during the king’s pleasure, and banished from Parliament and the court.

After his release, he retired to his family residence at Gorhambury. In September 1621 the king pardoned him but prohibited his return to Parliament or the court. Bacon then resumed his writing, completing his History of Henry VII and his Latin translation of The Advancement of Learning (De Augmentis) . In March 1622 he offered to make a digest of the laws, with no further consequence despite repeated petitions to James I and James’s successor, Charles I. He died in London on April 9, 1626.

Bacon’s writings fall into three categories: philosophical, purely literary, and professional. The best of his philosophical works are The Advancement of Learning (1605), a review in English of the state of knowledge in his own time, and Novum Organum ; or, Indications Respecting the Interpretation of Nature (1620).

Bacon’s philosophy emphasized the belief that people are the servants and interpreters of nature, that truth is not derived from authority, and that knowledge is the fruit of experience. This philosophy would in part sow the seeds of revolution in the following century.

Bacon is generally credited with having contributed to logic through the method known as ampliative inference, a technique of inductive reasoning. Previous logicians had practiced induction by simple enumeration, that is, drawing general conclusions from particular data. Bacon’s method was to infer by use of analogy, from the characteristics or properties of the larger group to which that datum belonged, leaving to later experience the correction of evident errors. Because it added significantly to the improvement of scientific hypotheses, this method was a fundamental advancement of the scientific method.

Bacon’s Novum Organum successfully influenced the acceptance of accurate observation and experimentation in science. In it he maintained that all prejudices and preconceived attitudes, which he called idols, must be abandoned, whether they be the common property of the race due to common modes of thought (“idols of the tribe”), or the peculiar possession of the individual (“idols of the cave”); whether they arise from too great a dependence on language (“idols of the marketplace”), or from tradition (“idols of the theater”). The principles laid down in the Novum Organum had an important influence on the subsequent development of empiricist thought.

Bacon’s Essays, his chief contributions to literature, were published at various times between 1597 and 1625. His History of Henry VII (1622) shows his abilities in scholarly research. In his fanciful New Atlantis Bacon suggested the formation of scientific academies. Bacon’s professional works include Maxims of the Law (1630), Reading on the Statute of Uses (1642), pleadings in law cases, and speeches in Parliament.

Bacon was part of the period of Enlightenment, a philosophical movement based on the belief that science and human reason can triumph over political and religious tyranny. An intellectual spirit that knew no national boundaries, it drew proponents from America , England , France , Germany , Italy , Scotland , Spain , and Russia.

He is regarded as one three English prophets of the Enlightenment along with John Locke and Sir Isaac Newton. American statesman Thomas Jefferson, a disciple of the Enlightenment, agreed with this assessment, ordering for his library in 1789 a composite portrait of the same three men. They had, he wrote to a friend, laid the foundation for the physical and moral sciences of modernity and were “the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception.”

It is said that Sir Francis had a secret side to life and served as the Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order, which at that time was a highly secretive organization. He may also have been a leader of the Masons. Sanctus Germanus was to be intimately involved in both earth-shaking revolutions, as we shall see in his next incarnations.

(Continued in Prosperity Programs Part 1/2.)


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