From Lincoln’s Address to Congress December 6, 1864:

“In stating a single condition of peace, I mean simply to say the war will cease on the part of the government, whenever it shall have ceased on the part of those who began it.”

Journal 9-4-07

Abraham, I ask for comments this evening on war and peace. I feel drawn to this topic and I give you the chance to speak to this issue. I ask for your energy to flow through these words and use them as connecting links.

Jess, my son. This is Abraham speaking this evening on one of man’s greatest catastrophes. In war he presumes he is God and takes it upon himself to destroy life and determine its worth in the balance. War can be considered nothing but an aberration that man has devised for control over others to empower his domination. He strikes at his equals and presumes to judge them lesser. He has not the right to do this. His is not the authority.

Only the Creator Source has the power to end his creation. He alone can judge it necessary. His idea gave life originally to the manifestation of energy that became the physical entity. His determination is the closure man realizes when its progress is finished.

Man has waged war throughout his history in an increasingly violent effort to impose his will upon another. His concept of life is no more accurate than that of the man he is subjugating. The universality of all mankind is at base, and although the actions of an individual may seem distinct and discrete, they have a unity with all others that is provided by the love of their Creator Father. They have forgotten this universality in an attempt to establish their own set of rules to direct their accomplishments. They have lost their sense of the Creator’s approval for their actions; they blindly seek to establish their own set of parameters for evaluation and judgment.

The battle that was the Civil War in America lasted five bloody years and sacrificed the country’s best young men for the vanity of business and servitude. Slaves were necessary for the continuation of a way of life that was driven by economic demands. This was acculturated for generations and was accepted as necessary with no consideration of the injury it caused to the Creator’s concept of one. My Emancipation Proclamation was necessary but delayed in being accepted because the opposing context presupposing the existence of slavery was battling to support its own validity. This notion was defeated when the opposing governmental view was made to surrender. Only then was man free to imagine the liberation that had been fought for and won.

This notion of economic servitude is inherent in the devastation that had been brought to Iraq. The country was not balanced to begin with in terms of acceptance of other beliefs and political persuasions. Its dictator had been supported by other countries’ interests and never had considered the best interest of the people above his own or above those of his supporters. He used terror and forced himself to maintain the control he felt was proper. His removal was a positive step, but the reason it was taken was not honorable, nor serving the best interest of his country. His downfall was prelude to additional looting and an attempt to steer the people in a direction they did not want to go. The resources of another people’s country were deemed appropriated for the benefit and aggrandizement of the few launching the attack. This present-day war has dragged on in an even bloodier fashion than the Civil War in America, although in this instance our country’s participation was unnecessary and unwarranted. This was not a battle to support political control, from the American standpoint. It was an invasion of another sovereign nation with the selfish intent of taking over its resources and geographical position.

Now is the time to end this struggle. It has served no purpose beyond ravaging an unprotected country and destroying any sense of cooperation and unity it could have forged between rival religious sects. It is now time for peace to come to Iraq. It is time for America to come home and address its own overwhelming issues of lack and political and economic subjugation. Slavery has still not ended in a real sense in America, nor has it been eliminated in any of the other economic powers surrounding the globe. This ideological war was fought already in this country, but its continuance has been prolonged through a blinkered awareness manipulated by economic control.

I speak to the beginning of peace and to the realization that all men on Earth are brothers and sisters with equality in the eyes of their Creator. No action shall be decided that harms another. No disadvantage shall be purposefully contrived to treat someone unfairly. Interactions shall be weighed in the balance of equitable dealings, and the decisions involved must be as discerning as any that are required.

Abraham Lincoln, in love, and for the advancement of unity and unfettered freedom.