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Australian Election 2010 – Demonisation of the “Boat People”
Leoni Hodgson August 2010
This article takes a brief look at the stream of racism which flows through Australian history from its earliest period as a penal colony, to the current 2010 election.
Australian "boats people" 2010
The Original Boatpeople were White Convicts Shipped from England.
The climate of Australia is harsh, particularly inland – the hottest place on earth, and this atmosphere seems to have made its imprint upon the people who live here. From 1788 to 1823, the Colony of New South Wales was officially a penal colony comprised mainly of convicts, marines and the wives of the marines. Stories about the fight to survive, and harsh treatment and actions of the time, paint a picture of a very hard and difficult birth for the new nation.
To astrologers this is not surprising. The Sun Sign of Australia was set for the birth date of the Australian Federation chart in January 1, 1901 – and it is Capricorn. Australia is ruled in its personality nature by Capricorn and by Saturn. When taken to extremes, Saturn represents a harsh aspect in nature and man – the authority who is hard, heartless, exacting and cruel, and the same applies when it rules a landscape. Hence the pitiless nature of the Australian outback to those who venture there unprepared. There is no pity given when this force is in power and is being wielded by a people who are functioning at the personality level of consciousness, and who driven egotistical, selfish and material concerns. 
We can sense how hard it was for all concerned in those early settlement days. These were hard men – jailers who had a tough job, far from the moderating eye of kindness, who had power of life and death over the convict population. Were they cruel and exacting? Most likely! Then the life of a convict, torn from the dampness of England to the dry and harsh climate at the bottom of the world – they must have suffered horribly. But this is how it is under the hard side of the Capricorn and Saturn influence. A penal colony? How apt.
Racial Prejudice in Australia in the Past
Although Australia’s hard “penal” birth has given fortitude and courage to the Australian character, it has also left a taint. There is a racist element in the Australian character  which persists today. As we know, this taint is present in all unenlightened souls on earth. It flares up when moral leadership is weak, and avaricious and cruel people hold the reins of power and exploit this ugly side of human nature for their own selfish ends. Then it dies down again when men and women of strong moral fiber teach the masses about the evil nature of prejudice, bigotry and injustice – and then ashamed, people push these thoughts back down where they belong.
Albert Einstein said that “It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.”
Such strong moral leadership has often been missing in Australian leaders and politicians, and the effect has been devastating for the indigenous Australians – the Aborigines.
Cruelty and the Aborigines
According to esotericist Helena Blavatsky, the original Australians – the Aborigines, are part of the ancient 3rd Lemurian Root Race. When he is seen in his native desert setting, standing tall, black, proud – and very still, one gets a sense of the vast periods of time which have passed since his race first peopled the earth.
When members of the 5th Aryan Race – the English, arrived in Australia – in increasingly large numbers from the 18th century onwards, then a people who had virtually no contact with the outside world, were suddenly confronted with a hostile and alien force. They were forced out of their traditional homes, hunted like wild animals, poisoned or shot, and confined to the harshest and most desolate climes. The effect of British settlement upon these people led to near extinction within 120 years. [1]
Then there were the Stolen Generations
This is a term used to describe children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were forcibly removed from their families under acts of parliament between approximately 1869 to the 1970s, so they could be reprogrammed psychologically with European values and habits, and be forced to work for white settlers. [2] The effects of this cruel and inhumane treatment and the continuing refusal of the political leaders of the day to make an official apology for this ugly period in Australian history, has also been devastating for Aborigines. This apology came in 2008 under a left wing Labor Party when PM Kevin Rudd said “sorry”. Watching the emotions play across the faces of Aborigines as they heard the kind and beautiful words, and seeing the tears which fell, one senses that perhaps now this hard and dark chapter in the history of Australia has been closed.
The White Australia Policy
The White Australia policy comprises various historical policies that intentionally restricted "non-white" immigration to Australia from 1901 to 1973. The end of the White Australia policy was in 1975. Read more …
Hanna Siniora
[From Common Ground]
JERUSALEM – Jerusalem is revered worldwide as the cradle of the three monotheistic religions. Moslems, Jews and Christians – all view it as a holy ground. Thus, full respect for the rights of all three – one that is based on mutual understanding and recognition – is an inevitable requirement on the road to peace.
Until each of the parties arrives at the realisation that the city cannot be solely "his" the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remain irresolvable. The past has proven that no one nation or one religion can claim sole ownership over Jerusalem and receive international recognition for it. Jordan failed to get such recognition when it ruled over East Jerusalem and the Old City between 1948 and 1967. Now Israel faces a similar response. In other words, international recognition will not be granted to one side at the expense of the other and will be given only to an arrangement whereby the local parties mutually agree to share this sacred city.
The late Feisal Husseini, perhaps the most important Palestinian leader of our age, scion of the Moslem Husseini family of Jerusalem, coined the term 'Our Jerusalem'. "A day will come when a Jew speaking about 'our Jerusalem', will mean Israelis and Palestinians, and an Arab speaking about 'our Jerusalem' will mean Palestinians and Israelis," he said. Husseini sought to tell Palestinians and Israelis that the claims of both nations should be fully recognised in this Holy City in order to reach a resolution to the conflict.
Despite extreme segregation of Jews and Arabs in the city and 43 years of efforts by consecutive Israeli governments to create a Jewish majority there is still scope for Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem. But with Israel continuing to create facts on the ground that would pre-empt the possibility of Jerusalem serving as capital to two states, time is running out. This is the reason why the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been insisting on freezing Israeli settlement building in East Jerusalem during the current proximity talks. Read more …
A Partial History of Attempts to Construct
Interstellar Transport Using Small
Pieces of Recycled Paper
The teacher spoke. No one had a tape recorder
handy or seemed to know shorthand. He used our
words instead of his, adapting a little of what he saw
we could grasp. Of the part we heard, we recalled a portion.
In time, we came to understand, vaguely, a part of what our
memory seemed to say. Of that portion, we wrote and
spoke a little, and strangers with their own political
agendas moved part of that to other languages.
We heard, or thought we did—had we been women,
we would have heard differently—but at the time it
didn't occur to us. No one in the chain thought
much about the anomalies of retro-cognition,
or vicissitudes of linguistic obscuration.
In the sky, sunlight in the air;
on Earth, fragments on the ground…
From James
 Should People Who Regard Themselves as Spiritual,
Involve Themselves in Politics or War?
Leoni Hodgson, PMAFA, MSE (Psych), PhD Esotericism
This article is generally directed to those who study
theosophical writings, particularly those of Alice A. Bailey.
(NB. Several new paragraphs were inserted on 4th of June)
There are many who believe, that to be involved in politics, to side with one side or the other in a conflict, is to be “unspiritual” – that politics is a dirty and bloody business, and to willingly involve oneself in any way is to add to the evil of it all.
Many whose thoughts tend in this direction believe that pacifism is the only correct option for those who consider themselves to be on the spiritual path.
Pacifism is defined as: 1. The belief that violence, war, and the taking of lives are unacceptable ways of resolving disputes. 2. The refusal to take up arms or participate in war because of moral or religious beliefs. 3. The belief that international conflicts should be settled by negotiation rather than war.
Although the latter point is listed under pacifism, since the Second World War, the attempt to settle disputes by negotiation so as to avoid war, has become a moral imperative, and the United Nations generally was created upon this notion.
But still, when it comes to politics opinion is divided. There are those who wage in, in an attempt to interpret events esoterically, or to assign a greater degree of “rightness” to one side or the other, throwing their support behind the “right” side. Then there are those who hold the conviction that the only right way to be involved is through prayer or meditation.
List of comments from those who believe “spiritual” people should not get involved in politics:
1. Spiritual people stay completely neutral where both good and evil are concerned. The minute you find yourself taking sides you are not being spiritual.
a. A disciple stands in the middle always. Anti-anything is a polarized field – it means one is taking sides.
b. To take sides would only create greater separation than what already exists.
c. The spiritual are neutral, do not take sides they stand in the middle always.
2. Disciples must exercise an unprejudiced attitude. Criticising someone creates harm.
3. There is no problem in the world which cannot be solved by love. // Just keep your heart open in love, stay aligned with God/ Heaven/ Jesus/ the Hierarchy, and all will be well.
4. Disciples must only work on the higher level – in meditation.
5. The spiritually inclined, the New Group of World Servers (NGWS), do not get involved in politics. Master Djwhal Khul says so. Read more …
 URANUS – SATURN OPPOSITION
AND THE USA HEALTH BILL
Defeat for the forces of darkness and materialistic conservatism,
as the USA Health Bill is signed into power on the 23 march 2010
By Leoni Hodgson, April 2010
PMAFA, PhD Esotericism, www.brisbanegoodwill.com
The Magician and the Devil.
symbols of higher Uranus and lower Saturn
In 2008 I wrote a paper “Pluto in Capricorn”, in which I highlighted the fact that the universal force called “the arrow of death” (Pluto) , had entered the sign which represents corporate and government power – Capricorn.
This combination predicts the purging of corruption and greed from governments, corporations, and all large institutions which wield power and influence, so that they can serve the masses better. Pluto is also a ruler of the field of finance in the sense that it rules the 8th house – “other people’s money.” So its effect is especially felt in this area as well.
This brings the attention to unregulated capitalism, an economic system which has evolved into one which perpetuates greed. The evil of unregulated capitalism from the spiritual point of view, is that man and his labour has been placed into the market place as another commodity to be bartered over. Due to “over-supply”, his value has been determined by materialists to be zero, and he is treated accordingly – like a slave to be discarded. This has set the standard of measure in the capitalist world – if you have money you are somebody to be respected and admired; if you don’t, you are an unworthy human being. This violates spiritual law which holds that all are children of God, and are deserving of all the bounties of the earth.
So when Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008, the battle began – between the forces of materialism working through greedy corporations and executives, and the New Group of World Servers – people of goodwill in all fields who work for the betterment of humanity.
This is a follow-up to the first article. Read more …
 The Messenger
Poetry
by Kurt Abraham
They had reached that level of arriving
in the comfort of a known fragment.
I came with a singular and simple purpose
much in the manner of a Western Union messenger.
How do you say when people get carried away
with themselves and move off center—Narcissistic?
I waited patiently for their stories to end.
All three, at the very same time, became conscious of their extensions.
Observe now how the mechanism works:
In the kind of laughter that emulates friendship
they asked me to share similar such stories
that they might then smile and gloat in the passing of the fool.
But in this very intent the fool still rode high on their shoulders.
It is said, even clinically now, that laughter heals.
If vultures (and I have nothing against these great birds) cackle-laugh
before they pick the bones, then I laugh with them.
After the laughter, that long moment …
Not easy to remain so centered when they wanted
the energy to swing pendulum-like.
Have you ever overflowed with the kind of love
that is tinged with nothing lower?
This love sought a connecting object quite automatically.
I found in that room a dog in the corner.
Look at that dog! I said, truly in wondrous exclamation.
One of the three now doubly aware and re-centered got up and left the room.
Eventually I found the moment when I could impart the message.
I had been compelled to carry it, hence the purpose, the joy.
They must have thought that I had come out of egoism,
but I was allowed to utter the words only simply
and only once.
Having pervaded this entire
universe with a fragment of
Myself, I remain… Shri Krishna
 A New Commandment I Give Unto You:
"That you love one another, as I have loved you.
Christ, the World Teacher
A generous heart, kind speech, and a
life of service and compassion are
the things which renew humanity… Gautama Buddha
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