"War is sacred like death, and like death, gives access to a holier life, and a higher ideal."

- Giuseppe Mazzini

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“My ancestors who are in the heavens or pure lands watch over me, the ones that are animals or people are still with me on earth, and the ones who are ghosts, asuras or in the hell realms are the beneficiaries of my practice”

-Paraphrased from a comment of a daoist-buddhist friend

"Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why Heaven and Earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are and to continue and endure.

Therefore, the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved. Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realized?

The highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water always in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving to the contrary, the low place which all men dislike. Hence its way is near to that of the Tao.

The excellence of residence is in the suitability of the place; that of the mind is in abysmal stillness; that of associations is in their being with the virtuous; that of government is in its securing good order; that of the conduct of affairs is in its ability; and that of the initiation of any movement is in its timeliness."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

"The Tao produces all things and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called 'the mysterious Quality' of the Tao.

The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out from the walls to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space within, that its use depends. Therefore, what has a positive existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for actual usefulness."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

VII. 60-61. Predestiny or divine will is powerless before Him. Everyone knows how He set aside predestiny and divine laws in the case of His famous devotee, Markandeya. I will explain to you now the fitness of this. Listen, my dearest!

[Note: A Rishi, Mrikandu by name, who was childless, pleased Siva by his penance. When Siva appeared to him, he prayed that a son might be born to him. Siva asked him if he wished to have a dull boy long-lived, or a bright boy short-lived. Mrikandu preferred the latter. So Siva said ‘You will have a very brilliant son; but he will only live for sixteen years’. Accordingly a son was born who was very good and dutiful, and most intelligent and pious, charming all who saw him. The parents were delighted with him but grew sad as he grew up. He asked them the reason for their sadness and they told him of Siva’s boon. He said, ‘Never mind. I will see’, and took to penance. Siva was pleased with his intense devotion and ordained that he should remain sixteen years of age for all eternity.]

62. The current notion that one cannot escape one’s destiny is applicable only to weak-minded and senseless wastrels.

64-66. Destiny seizes and holds only senseless people. Conforming to and following nature, destiny forms part of nature. Nature again is only the contrivance for enforcing God’s will. His purpose is always sure and cannot be prevented. Its edge can, however, be blunted by devotion to Him and if it is not so blunted, the predisposing cause must therefore be considered a most powerful factor in a man’s life.

67. Therefore, eschew high vanity and take refuge in Him. He will spontaneously take you to the Highest State.

— Tripura Rahasya (transl. Swami Ramanananda Saraswathi)

"The older Greeks felt differently about envy from the way we do; Hesiod counted it among the effects of the good, beneficent Eris, and there was nothing offensive in attributing to the gods something of envy: which is comprehensible under a condition of things the soul of which was contest; contest, however, was evaluated and determined as good. The Greeks likewise differed from us in their evaluation of hope: they felt it to be blind and deceitful; Hesiod gave the strongest expression to this attitude in a fable whose sense is so strange no more recent commentator has understood it – for it runs counter to the modern spirit, which has learned from Christianity to believe in hope as a virtue."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"In all epochs of the world’s history, we shall find the Great Man to have been the indispensable savior of his epoch;—the lightning, without which the fuel never would have burnt. The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men" - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Lecture I

Lance also appeared on our show. In this clip he discusses the essence of war and technology with Sagittarius.

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“…the sacred is pre-eminently the real, at once power, efficacity, the source of life and fecundity. Religious man’s desire to live in the sacred is in fact equivalent to his desire to take up his abode in objective reality, not to let himself be paralyzed by the never-ceasing relativity of purely subjective experiences, to live in a real and effective world, and not in an illusion.”
- Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane

"Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened."
~ Martin Heidegger

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"Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom it is that these two things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such spasmodic actings last long, how much less can man? ...

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk easily. So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self-concieted has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Tao, are like remnants of food, or a tumor on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue the course of the Tao do not adopt and allow them."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

"There is something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth. How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger of being exhausted! It may be regarded as the Mother of all things.

I do not know its name, and I give it the designation of the Tao (the Way or Course). Making an effort further to give it a hand I call it the Great.

Great, it passes on in constant flow. Passing on, it becomes remote. Having become remote, it returns. Therefore, the Tao is great; Heaven is great; Earth is great; and the sage king is also great. In the universe there are four that are great, and the sage king is one of them.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

"It is one of the prime errors of historical and rational analysis to suppose that the 'truth' and 'original form' of a legend can be separated from its miraculous elements. It is in the marvels themselves that the truth inheres."
- Ananda Coomaraswamy

"When has religion ever been one? It has always been two or three, and war has always been raged among coreligionists. How are you going to unify religion? On the Day of Resurrection it will be unified, but here in this world that is impossible because everybody has a different desire and want. Unification is not possible here. At the Resurrection, however, when all will be united, everyone will look to one thing, everyone will hear and speak one thing."

- Jalalludin Rumi, Signs of the Unseen

When Iamblichus taught at the Neoplatonic Academy, he gave his students a reading list of Platonic dialogues that constituted an initiation into philosophy. There are two “cycles” in this curriculum. The first cycle is comprised of ten dialogues and the second cycle has two dialogues, making twelve dialogues altogether. For my own study, I am inserting The Discourses and Enchiridion of Epictetus as a primer.

The Iamblichean Platonic Dialogue reading list is as follows:
First Cycle (10):
⁃ Alcibiades
⁃ Gorgias
⁃ Phaedo
⁃ Cratylus
⁃ Theaetetus
⁃ Sophist
⁃ Politicus
⁃ Phaedrus
⁃ Symposium
⁃ Philebus
Second Cycle (2):
⁃ Timaeus
⁃ Parmenides

"Now arms, however beautiful, are instruments of evil omen, hateful, it may be said, to all creatures. Therefore, they who have the Tao do not like to employ them.

The superior man ordinarily considers the left hand the most honorable place, but in time of war the right hand. Those sharp weapons are instruments of evil omen, and not the instruments of the superior man—he uses them only on the compulsion of necessity. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory by force of arms is to him undesirable. To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

On occasions of festivity, to be on the left hand is the prized position; on occasions of mourning, the right hand. The second in command of the army has his place on the left; the general commanding in chief has his on the right; his place, that is, is assigned to him as in the rites of mourning. He who has killed multitudes of men should weep for them with the bitterest grief; and the victor in battle has his place rightly according to those rites."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

This profoundly connects military leadership and rites of mourning, but also leadership in general with a willingness to use peaceful means. The man who is responsible for many lives must be cautious to protect them from danger, or, as it is said, he will not rule over them for long. When the time comes, the man who is responsible for taking lives must mourn their loss, or he himself will not live long.