Questions and Meditations

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However, even if one has held the charge, adversity still detains the ultimate weapon to force us to succumb – that of the atrocity which could be committed upon those one loves, if one does not surrender. What are then the karmic consequences of holding forth no matter what, relying on a higher force, or of abdicating for the safeguard of others?

Where will go the weight and the responsibility, how will they move?

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“…To hasten the awakening of consciousness…”

The collective consciousness, the consciousness of, or in, humanity? The consciousness of every human being, with the recognition of one’s part of responsibility or, more precisely, of connivance, with adversity? The consciousness in all of its forms and manifestations, disengaging itself, becoming aware again, finding itself back?

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During the rise to power of Nazism, with its goal of supremacy, it was the Lord of Falsehood, the entity that called itself the Lord of the Nations, that inspired the mustachioed pawn and puppet and placed him at the apparent reins, dictating his words and actions, and inebriating him, intoxicating him with visions of puissance. The nourishment it served was fine and rare: mysticism, ideal, greatness of the pure civilized race, organized prosperity, glorious future. By virtue of an exemplary collective discipline, a great cleansing would be accomplished, high lessons would be taught and the keys would be seized of a measured, impeccable, irresistible development of the superior race. A superman devoid of love, triumphantly separated from the vaster unity, a superman without truth.

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