“You are my brother, but why are you quarreling with me? Why do you
invade my country and try to subjugate me for the sake of pleasing those
who are seeking glory and authority?
Why do you leave your wife and children and follow Death to the distant
land for the sake of those who buy glory with your blood, and high honor
with your mother's tears?
Is it an honor for a man to kill his brother man? If you deem it an
honor, let it be an act of worship, and erect a temple to Cain who slew
his brother Abel.
Is self-preservation the first law of Nature? Why, then, does Greed urge
you to self-sacrifice in order only to achieve his aim in hurting your
brothers? Beware, my brother, of the leader who says, "Love of existence
obliges us to deprive the people of their rights!" I say unto you but
this: protecting others' rights is the noblest and most beautiful human
act; if my existence requires that I kill others, then death is more
honorable to me, and if I cannot find someone to kill me for the
protection of my honor, I will not hesitate to take my life by my own
hands for the sake of Eternity before Eternity comes.
Selfishness, my brother, is the cause of blind superiority, and
superiority creates clanship, and clanship creates authority which leads
to discord and subjugation.
The soul believes in the power of knowledge and justice over dark
ignorance; it denies the authority that supplies the swords to defend
and strengthen ignorance and oppression - that authority which destroyed
Babylon and shook the foundation of Jerusalem and left Rome in ruins.
It is that which made people call criminals great mean; made writers
respect their names; made historians relate the stories of their
inhumanity in manner of praise.
The only authority I obey is the knowledge of guarding and acquiescing in the Natural Law of Justice.
What justice does authority display when it kills the killer? When it
imprisons the robber? When it descends on a neighborhood country and
slays its people? What does justice think of the authority under which a
killer punishes the one who kills, and a thief sentences the one who
steals?
You are my brother, and I love you; and Love is justice with its full
intensity and dignity. If justice did not support my love for you,
regardless of your tribe and community, I would be a deceiver concealing
the ugliness of selfishness behind the outer garment of pure love.”
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OneLove
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