From International Viewpoints (IVy) Issue 3 - November 1991
 
Philosophical Considerations
By Todde Salén, Sweden

Nostradamus Prophecies and the "Second Empire"

Many people are interested in the American and the French Revolutions 
(1772 and 1789). So am I (as I happened to loose my life in France at 
that time - 1792).

I recently read a very good book about the French Revolution. I 
learned some very interesting things about it. One such interesting 
thing was that there were huge amounts of people, who participated in 
both these two revolutions. Of the famous (historical) persons we had 
from the USA both Thomas Pain and Thomas Jefferson (later became 
president of the U.S.A.) and from France laFayette and Talleyrand.

In the prophecy of Michael deNostre Dame (Nostradamus) these two 
incidents in the history of the western civilisation are called "the 
two sisters that were born 16 years apart" and he also mentioned that 
the greater sister would come to rule the world using freedom as 
source of Power.

From a modern buddhistic viewpoint, these two revolutions established 
"the second Empire" (the empire of Understanding and free 
communication or ITSA as it was called by LRH). Already Jesus Christ 
and Gautama Siddhartha talked a lot about this "other kingdom" that 
would once become established on this planet. Well here we have our 
modern western civilisation, that today is conquering the world by 
demand for it's democratic and free enterprise systems (just like the 
Roman Empire once was demanded because of it's "Pax Romana".) Thus it 
definitely fits the description of the "second Empire" of old 
prophets.

The new religion

What Nostradamus had to say more about the future of religion on this 
planet was that a New Sect of Thinkers (philosophers) would get their 
philosophy started at the time when "the grave of the Great Roman" 
(St. Paul) was discovered in the month of April (which would mark the 
year this would happen) and the grave would be found to have been 
"poorly built".

Well, in April 1939 the grave of St. Paul was discovered in Rome and 
the entrance was half destroyed, because of poor construction. I hope 
that everybody who reads this knows that the book Excalibur was 
completed by LRH in the year 1939, but never properly printed and 
published. However later on according to LRH, most of the materials of 
his book Excalibur has appeared in the "OT-levels" and other places.

So we have been able to trace the establishment of the second Empire 
as well as the first seeds for the third Empire (being the new 
Religion which would develop out of the "sect of thinkers, whose 
teaching shall be improved").

There is a lot of contributions needed from many people to get this 
"show on the road". Antony Phillips is making one such contribution (I 
believe and hope) by publishing "Ivy" and thus creating a comm-line, 
which can be used by people, who are taking responsibility for the 
spiritual heritage, that exists on this planet, to be taken care of 
and developed further to fulfill the goals and purposes of Mankind.

Auditing Technology

The primary responsibility for each one of us is to take advantage of 
the technology of Auditing (Live Meditation) to put our feet on the 
road to OT (the road to truth) and at the same time learning to know 
the technology well enough to deliver it to others.

You have to learn to deliver it to others also. It is not enough to 
receive it for yourself. Because you are not basically a lst Dynamic 
being. You are an 8-dynamics being (an OT). An 8D-being can never 
benefit in the long run only through his 1D (which after all only 
lasts about 70 years).

Thus it is time for each one of us to start to take some active 
responsibility for the future of our own self (our 8D-self) and the 
societies and 3rd dynamics we live in.

It is not always fun to "do the ethical things" one is supposed to do. 
But in the long run, you get the most enjoyment and happiness if you 
follow this road. It has been paved by many wise men who started 
walking it long before you or I started in this lifetime. It is quite 
a comfortable road right now, compared to what it has been. But it 
still requires lot's of patience and an earnest mind that is willing 
to grant beingness to others to move significantly on this road.

The important thing is not to say the right words or believe the right 
beliefs. The importance is on getting active in learning to apply the 
technology to oneself and others (i.e. to speak the right actions in 
the language of actions).

P.S. Both Gautama (Buddha) and Jesus told their pupils that "many were 
called, but few were chosen", just like LRH did. People who do not 
involve themselves in the religious activities, do not understand that 
it is the individual himself that is doing all the choosing, even if 
the group is doing most of the calling. As a matter of fact you are 
choosing yourself to be one of the "chosen ones" by your actions. In 
this case you will select yourself to be chosen by training yourself 
to be a clever Auditor (Meditor) and then act as one. Those actions 
are all the actions you need to take some huge leaps closer to the 
truth on the road to truth. But you will not be able to take these 
huge leaps in one afternoon. They take time. They require patience and 
a will to learn and help.