Observer 3

By John Fabius

As the war in Iraq seems to go from bad to worse and tensions with Iran are rising, many are beginning to question America’s foreign policy. Does America have a moral responsibility to spread democracy to the rest of the world? Should America try and topple despotic regimes? Is America justified in initiating preemptive wars to protect its national security interest? Fortunately, the teachings of Manisis provide the answers to these questions.

According to Manisis, prior to the birth of America the Celestial Beings lost hope that the nations of the Old World would evolve into spiritually advanced societies. Even the best of the Old World nations could not rise above endless racial, ethnic, nationalistic, and religious strife or downright moral decadence so as to have any realistic possibility of eventually bringing the earth into a heavenly state. All of the nations and peoples of the Old World were tried over many centuries, and in every instance, were found wanting. As a result, the Celestial Beings devised a bold plan. The Celestials determined to give mankind one last chance. Their plan was to create a new nation using only the most spiritually advanced souls from the Old World under a constitution patterned after Celestial Law. That nation, of course, is the United States.

Many of the founding fathers were highly advanced souls that reincarnated during the time of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution so that they could take part in implementing this grand plan. That the founding fathers believed in America’s special purpose is revealed by the motto Novus Ordo Seclorum, which to this day appears on the back of the one dollar bill. This phrase is translated as “a new select order” or “a new order of the centuries.”

Thus, Manisis taught that the United States represented a clean break from the Old World countries. The location of the United States between two mighty oceans was no accident. The United States was designed to be a place where the most spiritually advanced could reincarnate and attempt once more to create a spiritually advanced society, unencumbered by the blood feuds and decadence of the rest of the world.

But, alas, the United States has since slipped, albeit gradually, into the clutches of Old World intrigue and strife. Rather than remain apart from the ancient struggles of the Old World and work toward its divine purpose, the United States has entered the Old World fray, and unfortunately, will have to suffer the consequences. The current situation in Iraq is no exception. The religious and ethnic strife among the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds date back hundreds of years and it is beyond the power of any outsider to settle these age old disputes. Until the people themselves determine to change, the fighting will continue. Manisis stated:

Virtue forced upon those of my brethren whose hearts have not comprehended the Law and who seek not the path of virtue, is vice. Therefore seek not to cause my brethren to be good by the sword [military power] nor by the other compulsion [legislation], lest they turn from the one evil to a greater one and the penalty be upon your heads.

Bruington, The Manisis Chronicles p. 265. Whatever America’s intentions in the middle east, its attempts to “democratize” the region will only end in failure.

Concededly, some Old World nations are far better than others. Moreover, even in the most decadent Old World countries, there can be found brave and spiritually advanced souls that, out of love, return to these countries time and again to struggle for improvement. Indeed, there are accomplished students of the Great Work all over the world. It is important never to pass judgment on a single person because of his or her nationality, much less an entire people. After the Great Separation, people from every country will survive and have an opportunity to take part in the coming New Renaissance. On the other hand, it cannot be avoided that many souls that reincarnate in the Old World, especially the most violent and authoritarian countries, do so because they remain steeped in hatred and revenge, and return to settle old scores and work out their karma. Until these ugly feelings have been transmuted, they pull the soul like a magnet back into ancient struggles of violence and bloodshed. Sadly, it is precisely into this environment that the United States has thrust her sons and daughters in uniform.

As proof that the founding fathers believed in America’s special purpose, consider George Washington’s Farewell Address, written with the help of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. Published in 1796, Washington, a Philosophic Initiate, clearly saw the trouble ahead. Not only did he appear to foresee the Civil War, but he may have intended to warn us against the current trouble as well. With respect to American foreign policy, Washington wrote:

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all . . . .

[N]othing is more essential than that permanent inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray to its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of nations, has been the victim.

So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation . . . .

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world . . . .
(emphasis added).
            It is striking today to see how these words continue to ring true. Although much of the current political intelligencia would scoff at President Washington’s views as “isolationist,” the fact remains that the current trouble in the middle east probably could have been avoided had America heeded this advice. It is now believed that Osama Bin Laden determined to attack the United States on September 11 because of America’s support for Israel and the presence of U.S. troops on Saudi Arabian soil- the Arab holy land. In addition, the United States has entered into numerous treaties of alliance, maintains numerous foreign military bases, and continues to interpose itself in dangerous conflicts all over the world, including the disputes between North and South Korea, China and Taiwan, and Israel and the Arabs. Given America’s current track, there can be little question that the Great Separation is drawing near.
            Returning to the questions posed at the beginning of this article, the answers become clear. It is not the duty of the United States to spread democracy to the world by force of arms. Instead, it is America’s duty to build a free and spiritually advanced civilization. Similarly, it is not the duty of the United States to depose despotic regimes. To do so embroils America in Old World disputes in which it is supposed to remain apart. Lastly, it is not the duty of the United States to launch preemptive wars, for the simple reason that if America remained aloof from the Old World struggles, these nations would remain busy with their own regional battles and leave the U.S. alone.
            In closing, those with a heart beating with the love of humanity may ask, does the United States have an obligation to try and uplift the Old World? Is there nothing the United States can do to help these struggling nations? The answer to these questions can be seem in the good that America has already accomplished. At the outset of this country, the founding fathers harbored grave doubts whether a republican form of government could survive. Up to that time, throughout all of history such governments had only survived for a brief time. The American experiment may have even failed had not the Celestial Beings sent the Initiate-President Abraham Lincoln to lead the country through the catastrophic Civil War. However, since the founding of America, we have seen democracy spread throughout Europe and much of the rest of the world, where before there had only been centuries of corrupt monarchies and dictators. Therefore, America’s obligation to the rest of the world is not to spread freedom by force of arms, but to the lead the world out of darkness by acting as a beacon of light for the rest of the world to follow. When America returns to its true purpose, there will be great hope for the entire world.

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