The Racial Avatar

2003-5-15 06:30:00

Susan writes:
Does this (the possibility that Lincoln was a walk-in) explain why Lincoln could make the following sorts of comments early in his career, but then seem to want to free the slaves? If I am to believe the historians, I think Lincoln is one of the biggest enemies against our freedom in the United States that I have ever seen. He made the Federal Government strong at the expense of the states and its citizens suffered a loss of rights. I find what Lincoln did abhorrent, not worthy of someone who is supposed to be an initiate.

JJ:
It would take a book to give a good overview of Lincoln, but he was indeed a polarizing figure within his lifetime and continues to be to some degree in the present.

The quotes you cite from Thomas Dilorenzo give a distorted view of Lincoln's thinking. From what I have read from this guy he seemed to have formulated the mindset in advance that Lincoln was a bad guy and set out to find quotes and data to back it up. The mental approach is to find the facts and then form a conclusion.

If we were to use this approach on Jefferson, we could make him appear to be much worse than Lincoln. Unlike Lincoln who was always against the institution of slavery Jefferson owned slaves and never freed them. And unlike Lincoln, who practiced what he preached when he became President, Jefferson became very authoritarian as President and also assumed near dictatorial powers in many instances.

Does this make Jefferson a bad guy?

By no means. We cannot pull out a small section of his life and judge him nor can we judge him by the standards of our time. All men of history must be judged by the standards of the time in which they live. Even the most enlightened advocates of racial equality in past era would look racist today if we quoted their politically incorrect statements.

Below are three quotes from DK about Lincoln:

1. Racial Avatars. These Appearances are evoked by the genius and destiny of a race. The typical man (in quality and consciousness, not necessarily physically) foreshadows the nature of some race. Such a man was Abraham Lincoln, coming forth from the very soul of a people, and introducing and transmitting racial quality-a quality to be worked out later as the race unfolds. Coming forth correspondingly from the realm of cosmic evil and responsible for the focus of materialism upon the planet today was Bismarck. Both men came forth within the same one hundred years, thus demonstrating the balance in nature and the constant interplay of the pairs of opposites. They are both types of the most powerful Avatars which humanity itself has as yet produced. They emerge along the lines of government, of the first ray and in the department of the Manu, and are very sensitive to Shamballa force. Such Avatars frequently emerge at the founding of a nation. This is true of both Bismarck and Lincoln.

The power which the New Group of World Servers will eventually yield, will be drawn from two sources:-first, from that inner centre or subjective world government, [Page 664] whose members are responsible for the spread of those ideals and ideas which have led humanity onwards from age to age. This inner centre has always existed and the great leaders of the race, in every field, have been connected with it. The great idealists and world workers, (such as the Christ and His great brother, the Buddha, and those lesser workers, such as Plato, Spinoza, Abraham Lincoln, or Florence Nightingale) have all been associated with this centre.

1. The will aspect of divinity made its first definite and direct contact with the human mind. The impact was direct and not deflected-as had hitherto been the case-to the Hierarchy and from thence to humanity. According to the type of man or group who responded or reacted to this contact, so were the results; they were very good or exceedingly bad. Great and good men appeared and enunciated the truths needed for the New Age, and of these Lincoln, Roosevelt, Browning, Briand and a host of lesser men could be cited. Evil and pernicious men also emerged, such as Hitler and the group he gathered around him, bringing much evil upon the Earth.

Notice that Lincoln was called a "Racial Avatar." This is much more than calling him a disciple or mere initiate. An avatar on behalf of the hierarchy is one who changes the course of history for the better.

Question: What are the three ways that Lincoln altered the course of history for the better?