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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/92366/live-minneapolis-stephen-miller-authoritarianism-and-a-nation-in-decline-senator-bernie-sanders</guid>
  <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:04:05 -0500</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/92366/live-minneapolis-stephen-miller-authoritarianism-and-a-nation-in-decline-senator-bernie-sanders</link>
  <title><![CDATA[LIVE: Minneapolis, Stephen Miller, Authoritarianism and a Nation in Decline | Senator Bernie Sanders]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<h1 style="font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">LIVE: Minneapolis, Stephen Miller, Authoritarianism and a Nation in Decline</span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">Political Tyranny | Economic Slavery | Militarised Police State</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="400" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/92364/master/" width="400"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><div id="author-thumbnail" style="margin-right: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><button id="author-thumbnail-button" style="padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;"><img alt="" height="36" id="img" src="https://yt3.ggpht.com/ytc/AIdro_lxa_BaL46W1h--oT_fw4XN58-p_Pdw1-8JzyQvYSjcz0g=s88-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj" style="margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;" width="36"></button></div><div id="main" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><div id="header" style="margin-bottom: 2px;"><div id="header-author"><h3><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Paul8Kemp" id="author-text" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); margin-right: 4px; font-size: 1.3rem; font-weight: 500;"><span>@Paul8Kemp</span></a></h3>
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</div></div><div id="content"><span dir="auto">Bernie Sanders, it is unfortunate the citizens of United States did not elect you to be President. However we can rest assured this revelation proclamation has been active in your role as a political leader in the world. &quot;The consciousness of a victorious human life on earth is born of that creature faith which dares to challenge each recurring episode of existence when confronted with the awful spectacle of human limitations, by the unfailing declaration: Even if I cannot do this, there lives in me one who can and will do it, a part of the Father-Absolute of the universe of universes. And that is &quot;the victory which overcomes the world, even your faith.&quot; As a member of the Planetary Reserve Corps of Destiny, you have done much to advance the political life of our world. <a href="https://spiritualfamily.net/groups/profile/3786/the-planetary-reserve-corps-of-destiny" target="_blank">WE SEE YOU!</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span dir="auto"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@SenatorSanders" target="_blank"><img alt="" height="100" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/90057/master/" width="305"></a></span></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></span></p>]]></description>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/89847/the-hidden-truth-of-democracy-the-theater-of-mass-illusion-nietzsche</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:56:55 -0400</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/89847/the-hidden-truth-of-democracy-the-theater-of-mass-illusion-nietzsche</link>
  <title><![CDATA[The Hidden Truth of Democracy: The Theater of Mass Illusion - Nietzsche]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<h1 style="font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">The Hidden Truth of Democracy: The Theater of Mass Illusion - Nietzsche</span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">They may seem ,&nbsp;unconquerable however in reality they are&nbsp;already full of dead men&#39;s bones. They will be exterminated.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">How does this justice function? Listen while Jesus explains this to the apostle Peter:</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp; </span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #999999;">163:3.1</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> By the time <a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/TUB-Online_Reader-WPJesusPapersRed.htm" target="_blank">Jesus</a> had finished talking with Matadormus, Peter and a number of the apostles had gathered about him, and as the rich young man was departing, Jesus turned around to face the apostles and said: &quot;You see how difficult it is for those who have riches to enter fully into the kingdom of God! Spiritual worship cannot be shared with material devotions; no man can serve two masters. You have a saying that it is `easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the heathen to inherit eternal life.&#39; And I declare that it is as easy for this camel to go through the needle&#39;s eye as for these self-satisfied rich ones to enter the kingdom of heaven.&quot;</span></p><p style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp; </span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #999999;">163:3.2</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> When Peter and the apostles heard these words, they were astonished exceedingly, so much so that Peter said: &quot;Who then, Lord, can be saved? Shall all who have riches be kept out of the kingdom?&quot; And Jesus replied: &quot;No, Peter, but all who put their trust in riches shall hardly enter into the spiritual life that leads to eternal progress. But even then, much which is impossible to man is not beyond the reach of the Father in heaven; rather should we recognize that with God all things are possible.&quot;</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">The Most Highs have given us these ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government.&nbsp;If we follow them and place them into the laws and constitutions of our governments, we CAN defeat the Rule of the wealthy FEW over the unfortunate MANY. T<a href="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_071.html#THE_EVOLUTION_OF_REPRESENTATIVE_GOVERNMENT_">hese ESSENTIAL steps or stages can be found here.</a>&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/images-2025/Plato'sCave-01v2%20copy.gif"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" src="https://mm.spiritualfamily.net/images-2023/"></span></p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 09:10:02 -0400</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/85208/marching-for-ibrahim-traore-is-not-enough</link>
  <title><![CDATA[MARCHING FOR IBRAHIM TRAORE IS NOT ENOUGH]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<h1 style="font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-style: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #F0FFF0;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">MARCHING FOR IBRAHIM TRAORE IS NOT ENOUGH</span></span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">IBRAHIM TRAORE NEEDS YOU FOR HIM TO LIBERATE YOU. We can not keep abandoning our leaders but still expecting the best from them. It is foolishness to expect harvest where you didn&rsquo;t sow. Africans have a tendency for this and tend to be easily excitable as the enemy calculates how to trap them. We are all Ibrahim. We need whatever he is doing for ourselves. We can not sit around and watch him break as we sing pointless songs of praise . We must stand side by side with him and do our part. He needs us to get into action. We are all Ibrahim. Our words are empty if we are not making any moves . Nothing will be more beautiful than our liberation in the end so let&rsquo;s all invest in this .</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/63417/rfk-jr-who-is-god-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-lex-fridman</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:39:33 -0400</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/63417/rfk-jr-who-is-god-robert-f-kennedy-jr-and-lex-fridman</link>
  <title><![CDATA[RFK Jr: Who is God? | Robert F Kennedy Jr and Lex Fridman]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<h1 style="font-size: 2rem; color: rgb(15, 15, 15); font-style: normal; text-align: center;">RFK Jr: Who is God? | Robert F Kennedy Jr and Lex Fridman</h1><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(19, 19, 19);">Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(19, 19, 19);"><span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPtBkw5uD-0&amp;t=0s" rel="nofollow" style="color: inherit;" tabindex="0" target="">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="vertical-align: middle;"><img alt="" height="10" src="https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon.png" width="14"></span>&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;Robert&nbsp;F.&nbsp;Kennedy...&nbsp;&nbsp;</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);">GUEST BIO: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, lawyer, author, and candidate for the President of the Unites States. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(19, 19, 19); font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);"><img alt="" height="61" src="http://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-01-thin-shadow.png" width="880"></span></div><blockquote><div><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #999999;">3:5.2</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.4px;"> The Father rules through his Sons; on down through the universe organization there is an unbroken chain of rulers ending with the Planetary Princes, who direct the destinies of the evolutionary spheres of the Father&#39;s vast domains. It is no mere poetic expression that exclaims: &quot;The earth is the Lord&#39;s and the fullness thereof.&quot; &quot;He removes kings and sets up kings.&quot; &quot;The Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.&quot;</span></div></blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.4px;">&nbsp; </span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #999999;">114:0.1</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.4px;"> THE Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men through many celestial forces and agencies but chiefly through the ministry of seraphim.</span></p></blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #999999;">114:6.8</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> 4. <i>The angels of nation life.</i> These are the &quot;angels of the trumpets,&quot; directors of the political performances of Urantia national life. The group now functioning in the overcontrol of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that &quot;the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.&quot;&nbsp;</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-right: 36.0pt; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 36.0pt;"><span lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; color: #999999;">134:5.3</span></sup><span lang="EN-US"> Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p></blockquote>]]></description>
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  <guid isPermaLink='true'>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/31979/bbc-hardtalk-donald-trump</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:13:04 -0400</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/31979/bbc-hardtalk-donald-trump</link>
  <title><![CDATA[BBC HARDtalk Donald Trump]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">BBC HARDtalk - Donald Trump</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0VXYoN2ZdC7s8OFC_zHCg" target="_blank">BBC HARDtalk</a></p><p>148K subscribers<br />
One from the HARDtalk archives: Tim Sebastian interviews Donald Trump on location at the Trump Tower, of course, in 1998.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p><p style="text-align: center;">NOTES</p><p><a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_071.html#THE_EVOLUTION_OF_REPRESENTATIVE_GOVERNMENT_" target="_blank">Recent revelations received</a> on this world and placed into print in the year 1955 as the <a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/TUB-Online_Reader-WP.htm" target="_blank">Urantia Revelations </a>describe the ten essential steps or stages to the formation of a true type of representative government. Below is the tenth step in these disclosures. This video is to help you to determine if Donald Trump is technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit.</p><p><a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_071.html#THE_EVOLUTION_OF_REPRESENTATIVE_GOVERNMENT_" target="_blank">Tenth Step or Stage</a><br />
10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:08:26 -0400</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/31918/what-is-the-new-world-order-by-jeremy-lee</link>
  <title><![CDATA[What is the New World Order? by Jeremy Lee]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">What is the New World Order? by Jeremy Lee</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQSdEO7O4QGpwz_F5wtb5fg" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Douglas Social Credit :: The Policy of Freedom</span></a><br />
405 subscribers</p><p>What is the New World Order? by Jeremy Lee - April 1991</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2019 11:16:13 -0500</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/26077/capitalism-will-eat-democracy-unless-we-speak-up-yanis-varoufakis</link>
  <title><![CDATA[Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up | Yanis Varoufakis]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up | Yanis Varoufakis</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="525" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/21614/master/" width="700"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="113" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/26071/master/" style="float: left;" width="200"></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4s5b9NL3I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TED</a><br />
15.7M subscribers</p><p>Have you wondered why politicians aren&#39;t what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece, says that it&#39;s because you can be in politics today but not be in power &mdash; because real power now belongs to those who control the economy. He believes that the mega-rich and corporations are cannibalizing the political sphere, causing financial crisis. In this talk, hear his dream for a world in which capital and labor no longer struggle against each other, &quot;one that is simultaneously libertarian, Marxist and Keynesian.&quot;</p><p>TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world&#39;s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/26074/master/"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2019 00:38:07 -0500</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/26001/trudeau-talks-trump-china-and-national-unity-in-year-end-interview</link>
  <title><![CDATA[Trudeau talks Trump, China and national unity in year-end interview]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Trudeau talks Trump, China and national unity in year-end interview</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p>CBC News<br />
1.59M subscribers<br />
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discusses U.S. President Donald Trump, Canada&#39;s rift with China, national unity, the Conservative leadership race and more in a wide-ranging interview with CBC&#39;s Vassy Kapelos.&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><img alt="image" src="http://machiventa.org/phpBB3-Forum/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
<span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 26px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><span style="font-size: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government.</span></span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
<img alt="image" src="http://machiventa.org/phpBB3-Forum/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;">THE EVOLUTION OF REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT</span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 28px;" width="560"></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="158" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/5864/master/" style="font-size: 14.4px; float: left;" width="200">Democracy, while an ideal, is a product of civilization, not of evolution. Go slowly! select carefully! for the dangers of democracy are:</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">1. Glorification of mediocrity.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">2. Choice of base and ignorant rulers.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">3. Failure to recognize the basic facts of social evolution.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">4. Danger of universal suffrage in the hands of uneducated and indolent majorities.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">5. Slavery to public opinion; the majority is not always right.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;&nbsp;Public opinion, common opinion, has always delayed society; nevertheless, it is valuable, for, while retarding social evolution, it does preserve civilization. Education of public opinion is the only safe and true method of accelerating civilization; force is only a temporary expedient, and cultural growth will increasingly accelerate as bullets give way to ballots. Public opinion, the mores, is the basic and elemental energy in social evolution and state development, but to be of state value it must be nonviolent in expression.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;&nbsp;The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment.</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">&nbsp;</p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><a href="http://mm.spiritualfamily.net/Urantia_Book-Online_Reader-2019/Paper_071.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 20px;">There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are:</span></span></a></p><p style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-size: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" style="font-size: 20px;" width="560"></span></span></p><ol>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;"><span style="font-size: 14.4px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law</span></li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear.Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than good.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants.</li>
	<li style="font-size: 14.4px;">Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.</li>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 23:44:26 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[GEORGE GALLOWAY: UK IS IN REAL DANGER OF MAKING ITSELF AN INTL PARIAH]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">GEORGE GALLOWAY: UK IS IN REAL DANGER OF MAKING ITSELF AN INTL PARIAH</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img alt="" height="188" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/21733/master/" style="float: left;" width="178">RT UK<br />
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  <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:18:48 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Real Leaders we failed to recognize. 'World fears US as a war-hungry drunk' - ex-Senator Mike Gravel]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">The Real Leaders we failed to recognize. &#39;World fears US as a war-hungry drunk&#39; - ex-Senator Mike Gravel</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000080;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><div>The US is like a drunkard who charges to war with anyone who might pose a threat, ex-Senator and former US presidential candidate Mike Gravel says.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><p>&ldquo;I like the US. But at the same time I think my country is an imperial country that is going downhill, and our leadership does not even acknowledge the problem,&rdquo;&nbsp;confesses Gravel.</p><p>&ldquo;Phony triumphalism has turned into a device to make Americans live in fear of a terrorist attack, yet you are a thousand times more likely to catch cancer than ever be hurt by that,&rdquo;&nbsp;he points out.</p><p>&ldquo;All I can say about what the US is doing &ndash; it&lsquo;s immoral,&rdquo;&nbsp;Gravel says, explaining that&nbsp;&ldquo;as a result of 9/11, we have altered our moral compass. And people began to get used to brutalizing each other.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;We Americans used to think &lsquo;oh, what happened in Germany could never happen with us!&rsquo; Well, it is happening with us. And it is happening to the detriment of our global position.&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;In Afghanistan, in Iraq and in Vietnam at the era, all American soldiers died in vain,&rdquo;&nbsp;Gravel claims, recalling the millions of war victims in Vietnam, which is now developing along its own path, regardless.</p><p>New American policies enable US military or security officials to take a decision and dispatch a drone to kill a suspect without trial &ndash; together with all civilians who happen to be close to the target, Gravel says.</p><p>&ldquo;The morality of that is removing responsibility &ndash; those who drop bombs [from remotely operated robot drones] do not see people die,&rdquo;&nbsp;he says.</p><p>&ldquo;We have not matched the progress in the private sector of technology and science with the ability to govern ourselves in a proper fashion. We do not have a democracy. We have a system of representative governments worldwide, and that is not good enough for people to govern themselves in the XXI century,&rdquo;&nbsp;argues the former Senator.</p></div><p><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/us-wars-corporations-gravel-925/"><strong>Read more</strong></a>&nbsp;</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="525" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/21614/master/" width="700"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></p>]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2018 20:39:01 -0400</pubDate>
  <link>https://spiritualfamily.net/videos/view/14352/lindsay-shepherd-free-speech-victimhood-culture</link>
  <title><![CDATA[Lindsay Shepherd - Free Speech &amp; Victimhood Culture]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><span style="font-size: 28px;">Lindsay Shepherd - Free Speech &amp; Victimhood Culture</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><span style="font-size: 28px;"><img alt="" height="36" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-arch-01.png" width="560"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px;">Lindsay Shepherd is a graduate student and teaching assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University. Known for being reprimanded by her university for playing a Jordan Peterson video in one of her classes, she discusses freedom of speech and victimhood culture on campus in her </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">ideacity</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> talk.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></span></p><p><img alt="" height="158" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/photos/thumbnail/5866/master/" style="float: left;" width="200">The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment.</p><p>There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are:</p><blockquote><ul>
	<li>1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear.</li>
	<li>2.<span style="color: #006400;"> </span><span style="color: #FF0000;">Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than good.</span></li>
	<li>3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law.</li>
	<li>4. <span style="color: #FF0000;">Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions.</span></li>
	<li>5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property.</li>
	<li>6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship.</li>
	<li>7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government.</li>
	<li>8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated.</li>
	<li>9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants.</li>
	<li>10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved.</li>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 20:42:28 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title><![CDATA[World Unity in Government]]></title>
  <description><![CDATA[<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><img alt="dbl gold bar" height="24" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" width="700"></p><div style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center;"><img alt="image" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Urantia_Book_Quote_Art-121.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://forum.spiritualfamily.net/viewtopic.php?f=47&amp;t=2391&amp;sid=77cd0b2bfd5357afebd6b45ba7efc861" rel="nofollow" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(80, 151, 207);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 128, 128);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 19.5px; vertical-align: baseline;">Political Sovereignty and True Representative Government</span></span></a><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><img alt="image" height="24" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);" width="700"></p><div style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 26px; vertical-align: baseline;">Political Sovereignty and True Representative Government</span></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
<img alt="image" height="24" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);" width="700"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
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<img alt="image" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-01.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
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&nbsp;</p><div style="margin: auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);"><img alt="image" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-C-FlagsSmall.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(237, 240, 245);">The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment.&nbsp;<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
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<img alt="image" height="24" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);" width="700"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are:</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
<img alt="image" height="24" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-Bar-Soft-Gold-Dbl-42x700.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);" width="700"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(233, 233, 233);">
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<img alt="image" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-bouncing_ball.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.&nbsp;Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<img alt="image" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Ani-bouncing_ball.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left;" width="28">&nbsp;<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;">2.&nbsp;Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated -- taught to think intelligently and plan wisely -- freedom usually does more harm than good.&nbsp;</span><br />
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<img alt="image" height="50" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Occupy-the-World-684x50.gif" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px transparent; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14.4px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="684"></p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000FF;"><strong>SOVEREIGNTY -- DIVINE AND HUMAN by Jesus of Nazareth, May AD 25 at Urmia</strong></span></p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; The brotherhood of men is founded on the fatherhood of God. The family of God is derived from the love of God -- God is love. God the Father divinely loves his children, all of them.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; The kingdom of heaven, the divine government, is founded on the fact of divine sovereignty -- God is spirit. Since God is spirit, this kingdom is spiritual. The kingdom of heaven is neither material nor merely intellectual; it is a spiritual relationship between God and man.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; f different religions recognize the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, then will all such religions remain at peace. Only when one religion assumes that it is in some way superior to all others, and that it possesses exclusive authority over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to persecute other religious believers.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Religious peace -- brotherhood -- can never exist unless all religions are willing to completely divest themselves of all ecclesiastical authority and fully surrender all concept of spiritual sovereignty. God alone is spirit sovereign.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;You cannot have equality among religions (religious liberty) without having religious wars unless all religions consent to the transfer of all religious sovereignty to some superhuman level, to God himself.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;The kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men will create religious unity (not necessarily uniformity) because any and all religious groups composed of such religious believers will be free from all notions of ecclesiastical authority -- religious sovereignty.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;God is spirit, and God gives a fragment of his spirit self to dwell in the heart of man. Spiritually, all men are equal. The kingdom of heaven is free from castes, classes, social levels, and economic groups. You are all brethren.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;But the moment you lose sight of the spirit sovereignty of God the Father, some one religion will begin to assert its superiority over other religions; and then, instead of peace on earth and good will among men, there will start dissensions, recriminations, even religious wars, at least wars among religionists.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Freewill beings who regard themselves as equals, unless they mutually acknowledge themselves as subject to some supersovereignty, some authority over and above themselves, sooner or later are tempted to try out their ability to gain power and authority over other persons and groups. The concept of equality never brings peace except in the mutual recognition of some overcontrolling influence of supersovereignty.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;The Urmia religionists lived together in comparative peace and tranquillity because they had fully surrendered all their notions of religious sovereignty. Spiritually, they all believed in a sovereign God; socially, full and unchallengeable authority rested in their presiding head -- Cymboyton. They well knew what would happen to any teacher who assumed to lord it over his fellow teachers. There can be no lasting religious peace on this world until all religious groups freely surrender all their notions of divine favor, chosen people, and religious sovereignty. Only when God the Father becomes supreme will men become religious brothers and live together in religious peace on earth.</p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-02-Thick-Shadow.png"></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;">&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong><span style="color: #0000FF;">POLITICAL SOVEREIGNTY</span></strong></p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;<sup>While the Master&#39;s teaching concerning the sovereignty of God is a truth -- only complicated by the subsequent appearance of the religion about him among the world&#39;s religions -- his presentations concerning political sovereignty are vastly complicated by the political evolution of nation life during the last nineteen hundred years and more. In the times of Jesus there were only two great world powers -- the Roman Empire in the West and the Han Empire in the East -- and these were widely separated by the Parthian kingdom and other intervening lands of the Caspian and Turkestan regions. We have, therefore, in the following presentation departed more widely from the substance of the Master&#39;s teachings at Urmia concerning political sovereignty, at the same time attempting to depict the import of such teachings as they are applicable to the peculiarly critical stage of the evolution of political sovereignty in the twentieth century after Christ.</sup></p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;War on this world will never end so long as nations cling to the illusive notions of unlimited national sovereignty. There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole. Between the level of the individual human being and the level of the total of mankind, all groupings and associations are relative, transitory, and of value only in so far as they enhance the welfare, well-being, and progress of the individual and the planetary grand total -- man and mankind.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Religious teachers must always remember that the spiritual sovereignty of God overrides all intervening and intermediate spiritual loyalties. Someday civil rulers will learn that the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;This rule of the Most Highs in the kingdoms of men is not for the especial benefit of any especially favored group of mortals. There is no such thing as a &quot;chosen people.&quot; The rule of the Most Highs, the overcontrollers of political evolution, is a rule designed to foster the greatest good to the greatest number of <em>all</em> men and for the greatest length of time.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Sovereignty is power and it grows by organization. This growth of the organization of political power is good and proper, for it tends to encompass ever-widening segments of the total of mankind. But this same growth of political organizations creates a problem at every intervening stage between the initial and natural organization of political power -- the family -- and the final consummation of political growth -- the government of all mankind, by all mankind, and for all mankind.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Starting out with parental power in the family group, political sovereignty evolves by organization as families overlap into consanguineous clans which become united, for various reasons, into tribal units -- superconsanguineous political groupings. And then, by trade, commerce, and conquest, tribes become unified as a nation, while nations themselves sometimes become unified by empire.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;As sovereignty passes from smaller groups to larger groups, wars are lessened. That is, minor wars between smaller nations are lessened, but the potential for greater wars is increased as the nations wielding sovereignty become larger and larger. Presently, when all the world has been explored and occupied, when nations are few, strong, and powerful, when these great and supposedly sovereign nations come to touch borders, when only oceans separate them, then will the stage be set for major wars, world-wide conflicts. So-called sovereign nations cannot rub elbows without generating conflicts and eventuating wars.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;The difficulty in the evolution of political sovereignty from the family to all mankind, lies in the inertia-resistance exhibited on all intervening levels. Families have, on occasion, defied their clan, while clans and tribes have often been subversive of the sovereignty of the territorial state. Each new and forward evolution of political sovereignty is (and has always been) embarrassed and hampered by the &quot;scaffolding stages&quot; of the previous developments in political organization. And this is true because human loyalties, once mobilized, are hard to change. The same loyalty which makes possible the evolution of the tribe, makes difficult the evolution of the supertribe -- the territorial state. And the same loyalty (patriotism) which makes possible the evolution of the territorial state, vastly complicates the evolutionary development of the government of all mankind.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Political sovereignty is created out of the surrender of self-determinism, first by the individual within the family and then by the families and clans in relation to the tribe and larger groupings. This progressive transfer of self-determination from the smaller to ever larger political organizations has generally proceeded unabated in the East since the establishment of the Ming and the Mogul dynasties. In the West it obtained for more than a thousand years right on down to the end of the World War, when an unfortunate retrograde movement temporarily reversed this normal trend by re-establishing the submerged political sovereignty of numerous small groups in Europe.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;This world will not enjoy lasting peace until the so-called sovereign nations intelligently and fully surrender their sovereign powers into the hands of the brotherhood of men -- mankind government. Internationalism -- Leagues of Nations -- can never bring permanent peace to mankind. World-wide confederations of nations will effectively prevent minor wars and acceptably control the smaller nations, but they will not prevent world wars nor control the three, four, or five most powerful governments. In the face of real conflicts, one of these world powers will withdraw from the League and declare war. You cannot prevent nations going to war as long as they remain infected with the delusional virus of national sovereignty. Internationalism is a step in the right direction. An international police force will prevent many minor wars, but it will not be effective in preventing major wars, conflicts between the great military governments of earth.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;As the number of truly sovereign nations (great powers) decreases, so do both opportunity and need for mankind government increase. When there are only a few really sovereign (great) powers, either they must embark on the life and death struggle for national (imperial) supremacy, or else, by voluntary surrender of certain prerogatives of sovereignty, they must create the essential nucleus of supernational power which will serve as the beginning of the real sovereignty of all mankind.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Peace will not come to this world until every so-called sovereign nation surrenders its power to make war into the hands of a representative government of all mankind. Political sovereignty is innate with the peoples of the world. When all the peoples of the world create a world government, they have the right and the power to make such a government SOVEREIGN; and when such a representative or democratic world power controls the world&#39;s land, air, and naval forces, peace on earth and good will among men can prevail -- but not until then.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;To use an important nineteenth- and twentieth-century illustration: The forty-eight states of the American Federal Union have long enjoyed peace. They have no more wars among themselves. They have surrendered their sovereignty to the federal government, and through the arbitrament of war, they have abandoned all claims to the delusions of self-determination. While each state regulates its internal affairs, it is not concerned with foreign relations, tariffs, immigration, military affairs, or interstate commerce. Neither do the individual states concern themselves with matters of citizenship. The forty-eight states suffer the ravages of war only when the federal government&#39;s sovereignty is in some way jeopardized.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;These forty-eight states, having abandoned the twin sophistries of sovereignty and self-determination, enjoy interstate peace and tranquillity. So will the nations of the world begin to enjoy peace when they freely surrender their respective sovereignties into the hands of a global government -- the sovereignty of the brotherhood of men. In this world state the small nations will be as powerful as the great, even as the small state of Rhode Island has its two senators in the American Congress just the same as the populous state of New York or the large state of Texas.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;The limited (state) sovereignty of these forty-eight states was created by men and for men. The superstate (national) sovereignty of the American Federal Union was created by the original thirteen of these states for their own benefit and for the benefit of men. Sometime the supernational sovereignty of the planetary government of mankind will be similarly created by nations for their own benefit and for the benefit of all men.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;Citizens are not born for the benefit of governments; governments are organizations created and devised for the benefit of men. There can be no end to the evolution of political sovereignty short of the appearance of the government of the sovereignty of all men. All other sovereignties are relative in value, intermediate in meaning, and subordinate in status.</p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp; &nbsp;With scientific progress, wars are going to become more and more devastating until they become almost racially suicidal. How many world wars must be fought and how many leagues of nations must fail before men will be willing to establish the government of mankind and begin to enjoy the blessings of permanent peace and thrive on the tranquillity of good will -- world-wide good will -- among men?</p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="111" src="https://spiritualfamily.net/images/Bars/Bar-00-break-c.png" width="1000"></p><p style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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