"The diamond has a splendour that places it above all the other precious stones. Like the diamond, our spirit is pure light, and we must rise to that light that shines on top of our being, working to acquire true simplicity.
Simplicity is first and foremost a quality of intellect that includes the need to vibrate in unison with the divine principle. From there, it descends into the heart to purify feelings and desires. Finally, the will, by placing itself at the service of the intellect and the heart, introduces order and harmony everywhere. To arrive at this simplicity is obviously difficult. It is necessary to have a lot of knowledge and to make great efforts to be able to strip oneself of all the foreign and contradictory elements that form in the human being an inextricable tangle. If a spiritual teaching gives us so many explanations, methods and exercises, it is to show us how to acquire true simplicity, which will make us diamonds. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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« Il diamante possiede uno splendore che lo colloca al di sopra di tutte le altre pietre preziose. Come il diamante, il nostro spirito è pura luce, e noi dobbiamo elevarci fino a quella luce che brilla in cima al nostro essere, lavorando per acquisire la vera semplicità.
La semplicità è prima di tutto una qualità dell'intelletto che comprende la necessità di vibrare all'unisono con il Principio divino. Da lì, essa discende nel cuore per purificare i sentimenti e i desideri. La volontà, infine, mettendosi al servizio dell'intelletto e del cuore, introduce ovunque l'ordine e l'armonia. Arrivare a questa semplicità è ovviamente difficile. Occorre avere molte conoscenze e fare grandi sforzi per riuscire a spogliarsi di tutti gli elementi estranei e contraddittori che formano nell'essere umano un groviglio inestricabile. Se un insegnamento spirituale ci dà tante spiegazioni, tanti metodi ed esercizi, è per mostrarci come acquisire la vera semplicità, che farà di noi dei diamanti. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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#Quotes about #Jews

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The Jews belong to a dark and repulsive force. One knows how numerous this clique is, how they stick together and what power they exercise through their unions. They are a nation of rascals and deceivers.”

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Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg

“I know of no greater plague than this race, which on account of its deceit, usury and avarice is driving my subjects into beggary.”

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Martin Luther

“And they are the masters of the world and we are their servants – yea, their cattle! I maintain that in three fables of Aesop there is more wisdom to be found than in all the books of the Talmudists and rabbis and more than ever could come into the hearts of the Jews… Should someone think I am saying too much – I am saying much too little! For I see in [their]writings how they curse us Goyim and wish as all evil in their schools and prayers. They rob us of our money through usury, and wherever they are able, they play us all manner of mean tricks…”

“In history, therefore, they [jews]are often accused of poisoning wells, stealing children and mutilating them; as in Trent, Weszensee and the like. Of course they deny this. Be it so or not, however, I know full well that the ready will is not lacking with them if they could only transform it into deeds, in secret or openly.”

“They [jews]are the real liars and bloodhounds, who have not only perverted and falsified the entire Scriptures from beginning to end and without ceasing with their interpretations.”

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Michael Bakunin

Jews were “one exploiting sect, one people of leeches, one single devouring parasite closely and intimately bound together not only across national boundaries, but also across all divergences of political opinion … [Jews have] that mercantile passion which constitutes one of the principle traits of their national character”

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Montesquieu

“Know that wherever there is money, there is the Jew”

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Philostratus

[Jews]“have long since risen against humanity itself. They are men who have devised a misanthropic life, who share neither food nor drink with others.”

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Tacitus

“Connected amongst themselves by the most obstinate faith, the Jews extend their charity to all of their own persuasion, while toward the rest of mankind they nourish a sullen and inveterate hatred.”

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Thomas Jefferson

“Jewish ceremonies were idle….mummeries…of no effect towards producing the social utilities which constitute the essence of virtue….The fumes of the most discorded imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity…..vague rhapsodies…..tricks upon words….Jesus had to walk upon the perilous confines of reason and religion; and a step to right or left might place Him within the grasp of the priests of the [jewish]superstition, a bloodthirsty race, as cruel and remorseless as the Being whom they represented as the family of the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob and the local God of Israel. They were constantly laying snares to entangle Him (Jesus) in the web of the law.”

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Voltaire

”They are, all of them, born with raging fanaticism in their hearts, just as the Bretons and the Germans are born with blond hair. I would not be in the least bit surprised if these people would not some day become deadly to the human race…”

”You seem to me to be the maddest of the lot. The Kaffirs, the Hottentots, and the Negroes of Guinea are much more reasonable and more honest people than your ancestors, the Jews. You have surpassed all nations in impertinent fables in bad conduct and in barbarism. You deserve to be punished, for this is your destiny.”

“The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous — cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.”

“I know that there are some Jews in the English colonies. These marranos go wherever there is money to be made… But whether these circumcised who sell old clothes claim that they are of the tribe of Naphtali or Issachar is not of the slightest importance. They are, simply, the biggest scoundrels who have ever dirtied the face of the earth.”

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Adolf Hitler

“You know, it is really unbelievable that it was possible to preach this insanity of internationalism to millions of people and people believed in this idea; incredible that the Jew who has been in our midst for thousands of years and yet remained a Jew, has managed to persuade millions of us that race is completely unimportant, and yet for him race is all-important.”

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Lord Byron

“Who hold the balance of the world? Who reign o’er Congress, whether royalist or liberal? Who keep the world, both old and new, in pain or pleasure? Who makes politics run glibber all? The shade of Bonaparte’s noble daring? Jew Rothschild and his fellow Christian Baring.”

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Caroline Humboldt

“The jews in their depravity, their usury, their inherited lack of courage, which springs from usury, are a stain upon humanity.”

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Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“Nothing frightens the ‘Jews’ more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for ‘democracy’ which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation’s enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people…”

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David Hume

“Thus the jews in Europe, and the Armenians in the East, have a peculiar character; and the former are as much noted for fraud as the latter for probity [honesty].”

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Germany cannot assimilate the Jews because the Jews live an “animal existence that can only be secured at someone else’s expense.” ……. “Spirit alone recognizes spirit. They [the Jews] saw in Jesus only the man … for He was only one like themselves, and they felt themselves to be nothing. The Jewish multitude was bound to wreck His attempt to give them the consciousness of something divine, for faith in something divine, something great, cannot make its home in a dunghill.”

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Max Eichler

“The murder of Ernst von Rath did not slow legal measures aimed at solving the Jewish Problem, but rather sped them up. The Jews living in Germany had to pay a fine of a billion marks to discourage them from repeating the cowardly murder. Jewish-democratic voices abroad complained about the “poor” Jews. Yet after six years of a National Socialist government, the 700,000 Jews in Germany were worth 8 billion marks, while the nearly 80 million German citizens were worth only 200 billion marks. Each Jew on average had 4.57, or four-and-a-half times, as much as the average German. Jewish net worth, which had been 4 billion marks in 1918, had doubled, at the expense of the German people. Jews also owned substantial property (for example, more than half — about 60% — of Berlin belonged to the Jews, although they were only 3.8% of the population). That proves the extent to which Jewish parasites had exploited the German people. Truly, it is only a small bill that the National Socialist leadership of the German people gave to the Jews. The series of laws and regulations laid out on the following pages bring us nearer to a solution of the Jewish Question in Germany in every regard.”

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Fyodor Dostoievsky

“Yes, Europe is on the eve of a terrible disaster….all those Bismarks, Beaconfields, Gambettas and others, all of them are for me only a shadow….Their master, the lord of all the rest and the whole of Europe, is the jew and his bank….. Judaism and the banks now rule over everything, over Europe as well as over socialism, in fact in a special way over socialism, for by its help Judaism will tear up Christianisty by the roots and destroy Christian culture. And even if nothing but anarchy is the consequence, the jew will be found in control. For, though he preaches socialism, nevertheless he remains outside socialism with his fellow jews, so that when all the wealth of Europe shall have been ravaged, the Jewish bank alone will remain…. The jews will compass the ruin of Russia.”

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Denis Diderot

“Brutish people, vile and vulgar men”

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"For a long time incense was reserved for churches, but nowadays, in the West, burning incense at home has become almost a fashion: you want to breathe fragrant scents, imagining that, even if you are engaged in prosaic activities, they will sanctify the surrounding atmosphere. However, it is preferable to reserve incense for spiritual exercises, while remaining aware of what it represents from a symbolic point of view.
As it burns, incense releases a perfume. That combustion is the image of sacrifice. Every sacrifice is a combustion: a material is given to the fire so that its odorous emanations rise up to the Divinity. For us, this combustion only makes real sense if we transpose it to another level, that is, if the matter we sacrifice is our matter, our psychic matter. Those who strive to overcome their weaknesses purify their psychic matter in contact with the spiritual fire of divine wisdom and love. From that purified matter emanate the most subtle scents. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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« Per lungo tempo l'incenso è stato riservato alle chiese, ma ai nostri giorni, in occidente, bruciare incenso a casa propria è diventato quasi una moda: si desidera respirare effluvi profumati, immaginando che, anche se si è occupati in attività prosaiche, essi santificheranno l'atmosfera circostante. Tuttavia, è preferibile riservare l'incenso agli esercizi spirituali, rimanendo consapevoli di ciò che esso rappresenta da un punto di vista simbolico.
Bruciando, l'incenso sprigiona un profumo. Quella combustione è l'immagine del sacrificio. Ogni sacrificio è una combustione: una materia viene data al fuoco affinché le sue emanazioni odorose salgano fino alla Divinità. Per noi questa combustione ha veramente senso solo se la trasponiamo su un altro piano, vale a dire se la materia che sacrifichiamo è la nostra materia, la nostra materia psichica. Chi si sforza di vincere le proprie debolezze, purifica la propria materia psichica a contatto con quel fuoco spirituale costituito dalla saggezza e dall'amore divini. Da quella materia purificata emanano i profumi più sottili. »

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

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The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society. If a society succeeds in this, that society is about to perish. The obligation of anyone who thinks of himself as responsible is to examine society and try to change it and to fight it -– at no matter what risk. This is the only hope society has. This is the only way societies change.

James Baldwin (1924-1987) American author [James Arthur Baldwin]
“The Negro Child — His Self-Image,” speech (16 Oct 1963)

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