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Destiny of the Nations Free FREE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS PDF Alice A. Bailey | 161 pages | 01 Feb 1987 | Lucis Press Ltd | 9780853301028 | English | London, United Kingdom The Destiny of Nations - Wikipedia By Julie of Light Omega. The world of nations comes into existence according to a planfulness that is similar to the incarnation of an individual soul. Thus, a nation is conceived as idea, is born, carries its own vibration upon the earth, and endeavors within the limits of its consciousness to fulfill the blueprint for its own creation. Each national identity that is conceived develops first as an idea in the Mind of God. It is not accidental according to the historical trends of a culture or civilization. Rather, the entire global harmonic and vibration of the earth is composed, in part, of the individual vibrations of national entities whose purposes, when held in light, contribute to the overall wellbeing of the planet. Nations, like individuals, can depart from their sacred purpose. They can misrepresent the ideals that they have come into being to fulfill. And whether there is more on the side of light and of the fulfillment of Divine expectations that is expressed through that nation's policies and actions, or more on the side of darkness and self-seeking which takes a nation out of the global Destiny of the Nations and more into its own sphere of self-interest, is a choice that individual governments, peoples, and societies make over time. The current situation related to national identity is one that is very precarious based on the intrusive presence of those who would seek to influence the national identity of other nations. This kind of intrusion into the cultural identity of other nations can never be legitimate. It is always necessary that a nation grow and transform from within in order to reach its destined place in the family of nations, both in the world and on a spiritual level. Destiny of the Nations cultural and spiritual identity of nations cannot be determined from without, but only from within, in accordance with the inner perceptions and cultural and spiritual values of those who comprise its physical and spiritual body. It is for this reason that conflicts of huge proportion are presently taking place on the world stage - because nations fear losing their integral right to maintain their own identity and erect defenses Destiny of the Nations a governmental level or on a personal level in order to counteract the threat that is present. Each nation of the world has come into being in order to make a contribution to the whole, and each is meant to work in harmony with the interests of the whole. Where one or several nations determine that others are moving in the wrong direction in terms of their practices and policies, it creates a situation of endangerment for all. This is not Destiny of the Nations say that intervention is not needed when there are massive abuses of human rights within the civilian population of a nation and people in large numbers are fearing for their lives. This aberration, which is based entirely on darkness, cannot and should not Destiny of the Nations silently observed, since this creates complicity with the very forces of darkness that are seeking to gain the upper hand. But Destiny of the Nations to help preserve life and to prevent the destruction of a people is different than the dismantling of a national identity so that it adheres more to what others would like it to be. The identity of a nation is part of its spiritual essence and belongs to the central idea that has been translated from the Divine level to the human level in order that the earth can prosper. When we recognize the integrity of peoples and nations in the way that we recognize the legitimacy of each being and its right to create its own life, we, as a planetary family, will have Destiny of the Nations a long way toward creating peace. Destiny of the Nations energy healing therapy can assist your body, mind and spirit to find greater harmony, ease, and balance. These prayers for healing are offered to help support and assist you in your daily prayer and Destiny of the Nations. Read More. The Destiny Of Nations By Julie of Light Omega The world of nations comes into existence according to a planfulness that is similar to the incarnation of an individual soul. Comments Share your thoughts about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below. Latest News! Get Our First to Know Updates Receive first notice of our newest classes, ebooks, free healing circles, and one-time only special offerings, created specially for The Destiny of the Nations (paperback) - Lucis Trust Store • Lucis Trust The lines were later isolated from Southey's and expanded. The new poem includes Coleridge's feelings on politics, religion, and humanity's duty to helping each other. The idea for Destiny Destiny of the Nations the Nations originates during mid while Coleridge gave lectures and was working with Southey on Joan of Arc. Charles Lamb 's response to Coleridge's reuse of the lines was to say in a letter on 5 February [2]. You Destiny of the Nations surely mean to degrade the Joan of Arc into a pot girl. You are not going, I hope, to annex to that most splendid ornament of Southey's poem all this cock and a bull story of Joan the publican's daughter of Neufchatel, with the lamentable episode of a waggoner, his wife, and six children; the texture will be most lamentably disproportionate. The first forty or fifty lines of these addenda are, Destiny of the Nations doubt, in their way, admirable, too; but many would prefer the Joan of Southey. At the beginning ofColeridge attempted to complete the poem for a edition of his poems. However, he was unable to finish and was discouraged by Lamb's words. He soon replaced the poem with Ode to the Departing Year in the collection. Coleridge continued trying to finish the poem inbut he Destiny of the Nations it at the end of until taking it back up again in mid The final version of Destiny of the Nations poem contains lines, the last being incomplete, of which lines 1— correspond to lines 1— of Joan of Arc Book II. These lines are followed by those published in the Morning Postwhich make up lines —a. The poem is concluded with a series of fragments from Joan of Arc Book II that Destiny of the Nations up the rest of what he wrote for the epic. The poem begins with the narrator's searching for the divine through use of his senses: [7]. For all that meets the bodily sense I deem Symbolical, one mighty alphabet For infant minds; and we in this low world Placed with our backs to bright Reality, That we may learn with young unwounded ken The substance from its shadow. Then, the poem introduces the figure of the Greenland Wizard: [2]. Or if the Greenland Wizard in strange trance Pierces the untravelled realms of Ocean's bed Over the abysm, even to that uttermost cave By mis- shaped prodigies beleaguered, such As Earth ne'er bred, nor Air, nor the upper Sea: Where dwells the Fury Form, whose unheard name With eager eye, pale cheek, suspended breath, And lips half-opening with the dread of sound, Unsleeping Silence guards, worn out with fear Lest haply 'scaping on Destiny of the Nations treacherous blast The fateful word let slip the Elements And frenzy Nature. The actual "maid of Orleans" is described in terms of her knowledge of humanity, her background, and her relationship with nature in the next section: [10]. From her infant days, With Wisdom, mother Destiny of the Nations retired thoughts, Her soul had dwelt; and she was quick to mark The good and evil thing, in human lore Undisciplined. For lowly was her birth, And Heaven had doomed her early years to toil That pure from Tyranny's least deed, herself Unfeared by Fellow-natures, she might wait On the poor labouring man with kindly looks, And minister refreshment to the tired Way-wanderer, when along the rough-hewn bench The sweltry man had stretched him, Destiny of the Nations aloft Vacantly watched the rudely-pictured board Which on the Mulberry-bough with welcome creak Swung to the pleasant breeze. Here, too, the Maid Learnt more than Schools could teach: Man's shifting mind, His vices and his sorrows! And full oft At tales of cruel wrong and Destiny of the Nations distress Had wept and shivered. The poem continues by explaining how she works to help humanity and society. Afterward, the narrator describes her condition within an imperfect world, how she is one of God's elect, and her destiny to lead people towards a better world: [10]. And now her flushed tumultuous features shot Such Destiny of the Nations vivacity, as fires the eye Of Misery fancy-crazed! For a mighty hand Was strong upon her, till in the heat of soul To the high hill-top tracing back her steps, Aside the beacon, up whose smouldered stones The tender ivy-trails crept thinly, there, Unconscious of the driving element, Yea, swallowed up in the ominous dream, she sate Ghastly as broad-eyed Slumber! Thus as she toiled in troublous ecstasy, A horror Destiny of the Nations great darkness wrapt her round, And a voice uttered forth unearthly tones, Calming her soul,— "O Thou of the Most High Chosen, whom all the perfected in Heaven Behold expectant—" [12].
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