is not in some distant sphere -
it is very near!
Nations fall apart,
Mankind weeps, Country burns - for -
War is in the heart.
Babel reigns
with no heir.
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TO BE SURE, War is never won - War only waits till we, all of humanity - in spirit (heart) as well as in form (our one family of nations), are utterly defeated by it.
For the cessation of conflict that heavily involves our nations - as their wholes, relies on attrition, exhaustion or petition and none of these constitute as victory over War.
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War can only be deferred. For the spirit of War has no other ambition than the utter annihilation of all our human nations and through this, all of our shared humanity and by extension, all the life of visible creation.
War confers victory to no one, not even itself. For War has no place either in heaven or here on our earth, in exile time as well as at the beginning of all things new.
We are always left with two things where the focus of the will is on War, the degradation of the human spirit and the defeat of the truth.
Where there is any virtue in conflict, that is exclusively the merit of good human beings. We must always be mindful of this and confuse not the nobility of man with ignoble, base and evil things.
To every battle, an outcome. War has no outcome. In the Art of War, the Tao (a dynamic system or climate) of War is deception. But the Tao of peace is victory.
It is good for the military to study battles but know that War must be understood. For War has no outcome that is favorable to the military.
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu states that it is inhuman to prolong conflict. For the prolongation of conflict favors no one - it exhausts the state, dulls the noble military, and brings great suffering to the people.
In my view, the Tao of battle is no battle - that is to say, a way of decisiveness of spirit; a clarity of purpose.
For the cessation of conflict that heavily involves our nations - as their wholes, relies on attrition, exhaustion or petition and none of these constitute as victory over War.
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War can only be deferred. For the spirit of War has no other ambition than the utter annihilation of all our human nations and through this, all of our shared humanity and by extension, all the life of visible creation.
War confers victory to no one, not even itself. For War has no place either in heaven or here on our earth, in exile time as well as at the beginning of all things new.
We are always left with two things where the focus of the will is on War, the degradation of the human spirit and the defeat of the truth.
Where there is any virtue in conflict, that is exclusively the merit of good human beings. We must always be mindful of this and confuse not the nobility of man with ignoble, base and evil things.
To every battle, an outcome. War has no outcome. In the Art of War, the Tao (a dynamic system or climate) of War is deception. But the Tao of peace is victory.
It is good for the military to study battles but know that War must be understood. For War has no outcome that is favorable to the military.
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu states that it is inhuman to prolong conflict. For the prolongation of conflict favors no one - it exhausts the state, dulls the noble military, and brings great suffering to the people.
In my view, the Tao of battle is no battle - that is to say, a way of decisiveness of spirit; a clarity of purpose.
For the greatest battles of all are those that are won but never fought. And the battles we must fight must be won without War.
For War as a paradigm whole is not to be fought, only God Himself can slay this Beast, because as it is from Heaven thrown down, it must on earth be refused.
Peace as a paradigm builds on its own truth, a reality that is very distinct from that of War, along a path that takes our nations far away from the midnight darkness of War -
- It serves the people.
- It guards our hope.
- It defends where it must.
- It teaches our nations.
- It ennobles our states.
- It fosters our own undertakings of Country.
- It preserves the order of our generations.
- It prospers the spirit of our humanity.
- It is sufficient in and of itself, being confident of its own truth.
- And it leaves all things to the invincible and omnipotent defense of Almighty God.
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"Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.
The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it."
Revelation 12: 7-9
Forsake War, Embrace Peace!
Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.
