T.N.G. SIGNS OF THE TIMES - N.M. October 25, 2003 (#125)
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Dr. Russell Whitesell instructed the Tuesday Night Group in the sequential lives of certain initiates of the Hierarchy. He suggested studying the lives of Goethe after studying Da Vinci looking for similarities. He also told of how Abraham Lincoln, who took the same 4th Initiation that Jesus took called the Crucification, should be studied after studying Cicero for Lincoln was Cicero reincarnated. Knowing how Cicero studied the effects that words had on people, Lincoln also had a great way with words. Abraham Lincoln was a great being and some of his qualities have recently appeared in an article entitled: Abraham Lincoln - by Mary Senter – The Beacon Magazine – (Jan/Feb 03)
Leo Tolstoy told Russians in remote areas about the greatest ruler of the world. A hero who spoke with a voice of thunder; he laughed like the sunrise … He was so great that he even forgave the crimes of his greatest enemies and shook brotherly hands with those who plotted against his life. His name was Lincoln and the country in which he lived is called America. Tolstoy told them how wise he was, and how he rose from poverty and from the plainest of people to become a great ruler.
Why was Lincoln a world hero? Tolstoy summed it up by saying it was because of his “peculiar moral powers and greatness of character, and his realization that the greatest human achievement is love.” There were two rules Lincoln lived by and they were: “Deliberate slowly and execute promptly.” He would purposely seek out problems in order to solve them. Words fascinated him, and he would mull over them until he understood them. He was a great orator with the ability to view specific problems in a comprehensive way. He could analyze and synthesize, yet make himself understood in the simplest terms. Such was his fame especially in the immortal words of the Gettysburg Address and his second Inaugural Address.
Greatness was in Lincoln. His humble birth helped him in his future political years to relate to the peasant, the farmer and the laborer. Because of his innate honesty, he intuitively knew whether others were truthful of not. His love was immeasurable. Lincoln did not talk about love. He lived it. The humbler, the poorer a person, the closer he was to Lincoln’s heart. When he died, the southern soldiers realized they lost the best friend they had.
Lincoln had power. So great was his inner power he could not be bribed; he could not be bought; he could not be intimidated. He was loyal and dedicated to the people of this nation. He was called the Father of his nation. The Army was called “Lincoln’s men”.
Lincoln was a humble man. He was quoted as saying, “In God’s name, if anyone can do better in my place than I have done, or am endeavoring to do, let him try his hand at it, and no one will be better contented than myself.”
Purity of heart was seen in his compassion. The death penalty for desertion did not meet with Lincoln’s approval. An elderly woman asked the President how could he speak kindly of his enemies when he should be destroying them. “What, Madam?” he answered. “Do I not destroy them when I make them my friends?” How profound to know that we can kill our enemies by making them our friends.
Mary Todd Lincoln was a controversial figure. Lincoln always tried to reconcile her jealousies and unpleasant actions. He bore his cross admirably under all situations. One time, however, he did reveal his pain. When he was a lawyer, a tradesman came and complained bitterly about his wife’s unpleasant accusations of his services. Lincoln listened and with a sad face said, “If I can bear it for 24 hours, surely you can take 15 minutes of it.” The tradesman never complained again.
Toward the end of the war, deep pain registered in the lines in his face. He lost 30 pounds. He received strength from his belief in the Almighty. His other source of strength strangely enough was his famous humor. It was said that his story telling was a safety valve, a relief from oppressing cares. It relieved him of his misery and would momentarily bring in light. Once when he was put down for his story telling, he said it was his only respite, for without it his heart would break.
Lincoln had beauty, yet his features were homely. He once said, “… die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.” That was his inherent beauty – he saw and planted seeds of beauty in others.
The day of Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address was dark and stormy; yet when it came time for Lincoln to speak the Sun, like a miracle, shone through. It was then noticed that the star Venus was shining clear and luminous; and as it was reported later, it was the first and only time that it was ever seen at that hour of the day. Reports of that day mentioned a bright star visible in the heavens.
Because Lincoln never joined any church, he lacked the support of the ministry. He doubted the possibility of settling religion in the models of man-made creeds and dogmas, but he did believe, “Whatsoever a man sowth, that shall he also reap.” He once said to his law partner Herndon, “There are no accidents in my philosophy; the past is the cause of the present, and the present is the cause of the future; all these are links in the endless chain, stretching from the finite to the infinite.” Lincoln knew that a tremendous retribution had to be paid for the sin of slavery. One of his favorite expressions was, “There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.” He also recognized an orderly manner in the intervention of Deity in the affairs of men. He once told a visitor he did not care so much whether the Lord was on his side; he wished rather he could be sure that he was on the Lord’s side.
Lincoln never based his conclusions or opinions on what people thought of him, but based them on how such people could best be of service. When Lincoln was nominated for office of the President of the United States, Stanton was openly antagonistic toward Lincoln. When a replacement for the office of Secretary of War, Stanton, because of his pervious service and his organizational abilities, was chosen the position. Lincoln was warned of his animosity, but being more concerned about the right man for the right job he appointed Stanton as the new Secretary of War. The most remarkable feature is that Lincoln and Stanton became the closest of friends. Each could depend on the other at all times.
At Lincoln’s death, Stanton took the right action to identify and track down the assassin, to notify the family, the Cabinet, and the nation. At the end of long hours, when Lincoln was declared officially dead and a prayer was said, it was Stanton, openly weeping, who uttered the prophetic words, “Lincoln belonged to the ages.” It was Lincoln’s great love for humanity that conquered this man’s soul.
The Tibetan Master tells us that Abraham Lincoln was a Racial Avatar: “These Appearances [Racial Avatars] are evoked by the genius and destiny of a race. Such a man was Abraham Lincoln, coming forth from the very soul of a people and introducing and transmitting racial quality. Lincoln exemplified inherent qualities that can now be seen unfolding in the many racial types who landed on American shores and became part of the “melting pot” of the society. We can ask God to give our leaders the same qualities, the same greatness of soul, the same spirit of strength, courage, and spirit of freedom that enabled President Lincoln to say at the close of his agony: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; … to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.”
America was blessed with the presence of this Avatar at a time in history when racial conflict divided our country. His heart and soul still lives …
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The power which the New Group of World Servers will eventually yield, will be drawn … from that inner center of subjective world government, whose members are responsible for the spread of those ideals and ideas which have led humanity onwards from age to age. This inner center has always existed and the great leaders of the race, in every field, have been connected with it. The great idealists and world workers (which included Abraham Lincoln) have all been associated with this center. The Master D.K. in Alice Bailey’s Esoteric Psychology II pp.663-4.
NOTE: See TNG Newsletters: # 11 in August 1994; #17 in February 1995; and #83 in June 2000 for more information pertaining to the 4th degree Initiate Abraham Lincoln.