Military Force and Police Force

Nature and Mission Of These Entities The discussion was whether military force is different in nature and mission from police force. Traditionally these forces are seen as different. The argument put against this traditional understanding was that, since war itself is unacceptable, West Point and the United States Army, the foci of the discussion, are…

Constant Mission, Adjusting Ministries

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, The Ministries of the Church Target the Needs of the Times A lady wrote wishing to revive and reinstitute the ministry of 19th Century Divine Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka, Kansas. I replied: The writer of this article on Sheldon’s ministry shares your enthusiasm for…

Memories Of An Inhuman Horror / 11 September 2001

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, They overplayed their hand.  Americans are neither weak nor prone to cowardice. The United States harbors large populations prone to direct treason through action or indirect treason through sullen jealousy and hatred of “Americans” or “whites.”  We…

Comments On The Levant

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Responding to an inquiry: When I was at the Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1965 to 1969, I participated with UTS/JTS (Jewish Theological Seminary) faculty and students who were colloquial-izing…

To Finish The Work

We are going to finish the work begun by Generals MacArthur and Stratemeyer, whose sister I knew in Hemet years ago (she told beautiful stories about accompanying her bother to military balls and dancing with General Pershing). Five nations are in the van: India, USA, Russia, Germany and Japan. These nations are in fact brothers…

Short Takes, AUG98-NOV99

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Another thought on this “where does the Kshatriya spirit go” during Kali Yuga?”  The generic and most important answer is that it goes where everything good goes, namely, into the monastery, which is…

The Warrior Code In Action

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A major reason one never hears Southerners run down Grant is because of his actions in re the defeated Army of Northern Virginia, CG R. E. Lee. In contrast, Southerners’ feelings…

Death, Regret, and Destiny

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The first thing is to recognize the facts, the essentials, the constants, the fundamenta, the intrinsic phenomena. These are distinguished from the variables, the ephemera, the partialities, the extrinsic phenomena. This…

The Balkans: A Lesson In Political Philosophy

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The purpose of this essay is twofold: To illuminate the purpose of NATO activity in the Balkans. To encourage its leaders and participants. Ground:  There are two principles that organize a human community:…

Answering Questions On Tillich’s Systematic Theology

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT He is describing the purpose of theology, and says “European theological orthodoxy,” comparable to American fundamentalism, which combines both “wrongs” of confusing the eternal truth with a current interpretation. What is…

Sonrise

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, I So-And-So, I have realized what it is you wish us to understand: vedanta and, therefore, the parameters of acceptable discussion are the details of your marketing plan for your line of products. Vedic/Pythagorean scholars and theraputes do not accept much less…

Spiritual And Physical

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Ethiopia as very important to the mix of matters under discussion, yes, very strongly. Ethiopian Royal House calls itself Lion of Judah. Direct trace to David and Solomon and before. Ethiopia…

Ramayana

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Vashista, who one could consider a “great/greatest/realized yogi”, served as the Court Preceptor (Court Priest) for the Solar Dynasty his entire life, preforming all of the day-to-day duties of worship. He…

The Solar Dynasty

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT On the subject of India and USA, I want to mention a little history that I find enlightening and cheering. The summary is that USA is, as Swami said, member of…

Love God And Do What You Want

The famous statement of Christian Ethics is Augustine’s. Every end has a means to it. If the end is Being God (a redundancy), the means is Loving God (a tautology). The dance has to be made and with the delicious participation of the “opposite number” or counterpart … the “inseparable other.” It is the nature…

Curriculum Vitae Meum

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Before Swami hauled me in, I had risen rapidly (age 23) to the verge of very great prominence in both academic, governmental and industrial circles. I was a classic “fair haired boy.”…