RA EFDARGONSpiritual seekers, mysticism, self-realization, ascension, yoga meditation, freethinker, libertosophy, ancient wisdom, inner transformation, self-development2012-02-08T06:51:01ZUser 576http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v576/OrgSpace NewsLogMEKONG LEADERS PLAN AHEADAn end-of year (2011) good news was the meeting of Mekong leaders to plan ahead for tomorrow. A 10-year plan was forged among them, with the ADB acting out as process facilitator and co-convenor. MEKONG LEADERS PLAN AHEAD
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
An end-of year (2011) good news was the meeting of Mekong leaders to plan ahead for tomorrow. A 10-year plan was forged among them, with the ADB acting out as process facilitator and co-convenor.
The Mekong region comprises a huge section of the continental Southeast Asia which by itself is a subregion of significant proportions. Boosting development growth in the subregion will surely impact greatly for the entire ASEAN. U.S. $14 Billion was earmarked for the projects, on top of the $5 Billions that was already expended by the ADB for the program.
Note that a $100-Billion Integrated Mekong River Project is now on-going, with China providing the biggest bulk of the funding. When finished, the gigantic project, which will be led by a system of hydro-electric dams, may turn out to be the world’s biggest ever.
Peoples of ASEAN should look forward to seeing the success of the development projects in the subregion.
[Philippines, 02 February 2012]
Source: http://beta.adb.org/news/mekong-leaders-agree-wide-ranging-development-plan-next-decade Mekong Leaders Agree on Wide-Ranging Development Plan for Next Decade Date 20 December 2011 MANILA, PHILIPPINES – At the conclusion of the 4th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit today, leaders of the six nations that share the Mekong River agreed on a new 10-year plan to boost growth, development and poverty reduction across the GMS. In a joint declaration issued at the conclusion of the Summit, GMS leaders endorsed a strategic framework for 2012 to 2022 that calls for a range of new measures to strengthen regional cooperation, including more effective resource utilization and more careful balancing of development with environmental concerns. “The new Strategic Framework for 2012-2022 will move the GMS to the next level through multisector investment projects, policy development, and inter-sector coordination,” said ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda. GMS leaders also endorsed strategies to enhance agricultural development, including food safety and security; accelerate the development and implementation of the pro-poor sustainable tourism industry, with the creation of multi-country tour packages to help spread revenues more widely; and promote low-carbon development and enhance management of the sub-region’s richly diverse ecosystems. Since its inception in 1992, the GMS program has helped bring an area once divided by conflict increasingly together with investments of about $14 billion in projects with broad subregional benefits, including roads, airports and railways; telecommunications; energy; urban development; tourism; environmental protection; and the prevention of communicable diseases. Since the start of the economic cooperation program, gross domestic product growth in the subregion has averaged about 8% a year, while real per capita incomes more than tripled between 1993 and 2010. As of September 2011, ADB assistance for the program totaled about $5 billion. GMS members include Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam, and Yunnan province and the Guangxi autonomous region in the People’s Republic of China.]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v576/__show_article/_a000576-000703.htm2012-02-08T06:51:01Z2012-02-08T06:51:01ZKOSMOS AWAKENSLet’s move on to the subject of the awakening of Kosmos. All of the pre-requisites of being, existence, nature, universe, sentient life were already so far presented for our reflection. Let’s follow through with the peregrinations of the Perfected Ones who, since the very ancient times, provid...KOSMOS AWAKENS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Let’s move on to the subject of the awakening of Kosmos. All of the pre-requisites of being, existence, nature, universe, sentient life were already so far presented for our reflection. Let’s follow through with the peregrinations of the Perfected Ones who, since the very ancient times, provided us the legacy of Theos Sophia or divine wisdom.
The book of divinities known as the Book of Dzyan, the core of all spiritual truths translatable to wisdom in forms chewable, digestible, and permissible for chelas, was the basis for articulations by the Mahatmas of the spiritual Brotherhood and their chelas—notably Helena P. Blavatsky—who were tasked to write, edit, publish and disseminate the divine wisdom as per mandated by the Divine Elders.
As already noted earlier, Stanza 3 of the Book of Dzyan contains the unfolding of Kosmos. All of the stanzas contain the core cosmic truth that supreme reality is in a ceaseless progression. The Perfected Ones, who left their divine imprints in the book, revealed to us the truth about the ‘7 eternities’, that accordingly the ‘vibration of the 7th eternity’ signaled the forthcoming inception of Kosmos’ awakening.
Thus, the Perfected Ones declared, in Sloka 1 of Stanza 3, that: “THE LAST VIBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ETERNITY THRILLS THROUGH INFINITUDE (a). THE MOTHER SWELLS, EXPANDING FROM WITHIN WITHOUT LIKE THE BUD OF THE LOTUS (b). “
HPB, under constant guidance from the Mahatmas, substantiated the same sloka, in the articulation on the theme as contained in Volume I, Secret Doctrine:
(a) The seemingly paradoxical use of the sentence “Seventh Eternity,” thus dividing the indivisible, is sanctified in esoteric philosophy. The latter divides boundless duration into unconditionally eternal and universal Time and a conditioned one (Khandakâla). One is the abstraction or noumenon of infinite time (Kâla); the other its phenomenon appearing periodically, as the effect of Mahat (the Universal Intelligence limited by Manvantaric duration). With some schools, Mahat is “the first-born” of Pradhâna (undifferentiated substance, or the periodical aspect of Mulaprakriti, the root of Nature), which (Pradhâna) is called Maya, the Illusion. In this respect, I believe, esoteric teaching differs from the Vedantin doctrines of both the Adwaita and the Visishtadwaita schools. For it says that, while Mulaprakriti, the noumenon, is self-existing and without any origin—is, in short, parentless, Anupadaka (as one with Brahmam)—Prakriti, its phenomenon, is periodical and no better than a phantasm of the former, so Mahat, with the Occultists, the first-born of Gnâna (or gnosis) knowledge, wisdom or the Logos—is a phantasm reflected from the Absolute NIRGUNA (Parabrahm, the one reality, “devoid of attributes and qualities”; see Upanishads); while with some Vedantins Mahat is a manifestation of Prakriti, or Matter.
(b)Therefore, the “last vibration of the Seventh Eternity” was “foreordained”—by no God in particular, but occurred in virtue of the eternal and changeless LAW which causes the great periods of Activity and Rest, called so graphically, and at the same time so poetically, the “Days and Nights of Brahmâ.” The expansion “from within without” of the Mother, called elsewhere the “Waters of Space,” “Universal Matrix,” etc., does not allude to an expansion from a small centre or focus, but, without reference to size or limitation or area, means the development of limitless subjectivity into as limitless objectivity. “The ever (to us) invisible and immaterial Substance present in eternity, threw its periodical shadow from its own plane into the lap of Maya.” It implies that this expansion, not being an increase in size—for infinite extension admits of no enlargement—was a change of condition. It “expanded like the bud of the Lotus”; for the Lotus plant exists not only as a miniature embryo in its seed (a physical characteristic), but its prototype is present in an ideal form in the Astral Light from “Dawn” to “Night” during the Manvantaric period, like everything else, as a matter of fact, in this objective Universe; from man down to mite, from giant trees down to the tiniest blades of grass. All this, teaches the hidden Science, is but the temporary reflection, the shadow of the eternal ideal prototype in Divine Thought; the word “Eternal,” note well again, standing here only in the sense of “Æon,” as lasting throughout the seemingly interminable, but still limited cycle of activity, called by us Manvantara. For what is the real esoteric meaning of Manvantara, or rather a Manu-Antara? It means, esoterically, “between two Manus,” of whom there are fourteen in every “Day of Brahmâ,” such a “Day” consisting of 1,000 aggregates of four ages, or 1,000 “Great Ages,” Mahayugas. Let us now analyse the word or name Manu. Orientalists and their Dictionaries tell us that the term “Manu” is from the root Man, “to think”; hence “the thinking man.” But, esoterically, every Manu, as an anthropomorphized patron of his special cycle (or Round), is but the personified idea of the “Thought Divine” (as the Hermetic “Pymander”); each of the Manus, therefore, being the special god, the creator and fashioner of all that appears during his own respective cycle of being or Manvantara. Fohat runs the Manus’ (or Dhyan-Chohans’) errands, and causes the ideal prototypes to expand from within without—viz., to cross gradually, on a descending scale, all the planes from the noumenon to the lowest phenomenon, to bloom finally on the last into full objectivity—the acme of illusion, or the grossest matter.
[Philippines, 20 January 2012]
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Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Is it possible to fully monitor security of tenure in cities? What concrete policy measures and institutional requirements can be taken to conduct such monitoring efficaciously?
Cities often than not differ in their policy measures concerning tenure matters. Besides, there is the variegation in the level of institutionalization of rules and enactment—from weak to strong—so one can just imagine the challenge posed on authorities and stakeholders to enforce monitoring.
Below is a publication on the subject from the UN Habitat that can be aid to the monitoring challenges facing local administrators.
This publication, presents and innovatiove method to ascertain the extent to which security of tenure can be measeured at three main levels. Targeting cities in developing countries the methodological framework presented in this publication is entrusted, in the concept of continuum of land rights where tenure can be realised at various levels: individual, household, settlement or communitye, city and national levels. Various options to measure tenure security at each of these levels are presented. You will also find in this publication a review of the experiences of several agencies and individual academeics in measuring tenure security. From these reviews, lessons are drawn and gaps are identified, which then form the basis of the range of methods presented in this report.
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ISBN Series Number: - Not available - ISBN: 978-92-1-132415-0 HS Number: 130/11E Series Title: - Not available - Pages: 94 Year: 2012 Publisher: UN-HABITAT Co-Publisher : GLTN Languages: English Themes: Land & Tenure, Land and Housing Countries: Branch/Office: Land, Tenure & Property Administration ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v576/__show_article/_a000576-000701.htm2012-02-04T06:51:46Z2012-02-04T06:51:46ZUNIVERSE CONCEALED IN SATIn the mantra OM TAT SAT OM is embedded the Sat. Sat appertains to the totality of reality, of Absolute Being, and has no direct translation or is untranslatable. The human mind however tends to put things in mental brackets, such as to equate Sat to “universe blanketed by intelligence” which ...UNIVERSE CONCEALED IN SAT
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
In the mantra OM TAT SAT OM is embedded the Sat. Sat appertains to the totality of reality, of Absolute Being, and has no direct translation or is untranslatable. The human mind however tends to put things in mental brackets, such as to equate Sat to “universe blanketed by intelligence” which makes no sense to the spiritual Hierarchy.
Brahma, deity of the physical universe, is male-female. Yet to the fanatical blind faith followers, Brahma is presumed male. This note, focused on the theme of ‘divine thought’ in Sloka 6 of Stanza 2, Book of Dzyan, aids in understanding the subject of Sat, Brahma, and related divine truths.
The spiritually Perfected Ones thus declared, in Sloka 6, the contention: “THESE TWO ARE THE GERM, AND THE GERM IS—ONE. THE UNIVERSE WAS STILL CONCEALED IN THE DIVINE THOUGHT AND THE DIVINE BOSOM.”
HPB, with the close guidance of the Mahatmas of the spiritual Brotherhood, substantiated the theme with the following articulation, as contained in Volume I, Secret Doctrine:
The “Divine Thought” does not imply the idea of a Divine thinker. The Universe, not only past, present, and future—which is a human and finite idea expressed by finite thought—but in its totality, the Sat (an untranslateable term), the absolute being, with the Past and Future crystallized in an eternal Present, is that Thought itself reflected in a secondary or manifest cause. Brahma (neuter) as the Mysterium Magnum of Paracelsus is an absolute mystery to the human mind. Brahmâ, the male-female, its aspect and anthropomorphic reflection, is conceivable to the perceptions of blind faith, though rejected by human intellect when it attains its majority. (See Part II., “Primordial Substance and Divine Thought.”) Hence the statement that during the prologue, so to say, of the drama of Creation, or the beginning of cosmic evolution, the Universe or the “Son” lies still concealed “in the Divine Thought,” which had not yet penetrated “into the Divine Bosom.” This idea, note well, is at the root, and forms the origin of all the allegories about the “Sons of God” born of immaculate virgins.
[Philippines, 17 January 2012]
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Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Is the development agenda of the world’s top 20 wealthy nations still flying high on the menu of social interventions? Or is the same agenda being continued, if to show semblance of the glory and power of the North/West, a glory & power that is now nose-diving to oblivion?
Let’s get to the bottom of the issue: development investments, aid, and trade were the broad strategies of the Western powers to economically encumber developing countries in yokes of poverty and misery. The global economy has already turned the tides in favor of emerging markets as saviors even of the Western economies where their investments in treasuries & bonds are keeping the latter alive, so what’s the relevance of the G20 development agenda?
The G20 nations are definitely living in the past as they marshall toothpick resources to give to their imagined forever hungry peoples of the South whom they can continue to control and manipulate as semi-slaves of the global order ruled by the financier oligarchs or so it seems. As this happens, the G20’s very own marginal peoples lose jobs and access to healthcare, a situation that inflames passions against immigrants and revives hate-politics of neo-fascist directions.
[Philippines, 29 December 2011]
Source: http://www.devex.com/en/blogs/the-development-newswire/sarkozy-to-keep-development-high-on-g20-agenda-french-diplomat Sarkozy to Keep Development High on G20 Agenda – French Diplomat Posted by Ivy Mungcal on 02 November 2011 08:03:55 AM The G-20 summit in France on Nov. 3 and 4 will focus largely on the global economic crisis, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy can be expected to keep development a priority, the French ambassador to South Africa has noted. The summit, to be held in the resort city of Cannes, will tackle food security, infrastructure development, and new sources of development finance, Jacques Lapouge said, according to the Star. Lapouge noted that these three issues are among the nine development pillars outlined in a consensus approved by G-20 leaders at their last meeting in Busan, South Korea. France hopes to encourage the G-20 to support at least one innovative approach to raising development finance, Lapouge said. Sarkozy can also be expected to stress the need for donor countries to to reaffirm their commitments to increase official development aid levels despite the current global economic downturn, the French diplomat added. Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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The Chinese New Year just kicked off, serving as kick off of a year of radical transition to new mega-realities. The year is declaratively a year of the Yang Water Dragon. That bodes well for those aspiring to j...46 WEEKS TO 12/21/12: YANG WATER DRAGON YEAR’S SIGNIFICANCE
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Guru Ra 31 January 2012
Gracious day to all enthused spiritual aspirants, Lightworkers and people servants!
The Chinese New Year just kicked off, serving as kick off of a year of radical transition to new mega-realities. The year is declaratively a year of the Yang Water Dragon. That bodes well for those aspiring to join the New Earth soon, while it bodes ill for those who will be driven out of the planet to join their own fellows with whom they share low levels of awareness.
The Yang in the Dragon makes for Yang Dragon, which reveals the workings of the Father who has been intervening on Earth since 1974 yet. The Water in the Dragon yields the Water Dragon that is the Mother’s aura of protection and nurturing, as water will truly come in colossal amounts to serve as the amniotic fluid of a new world birthing in the Mother’s Womb.
Meantime, spiritist mediums and pretenders who now form the large entourage of false prophets and false teachers are intensifying their dissemination of confusing claims that tend to obfuscate the phenomena of planetary ascension and divine grace that will be granted upon the Service-for-Others who will mutate to 4th dimensional humans just 46 weeks from now. Let it be re-echoed: karmic penalties await such quacks as Gabriel is readying the enforcement of the sticks on them.
Just a couple of years back, there were still approximately a million Evil Masters who comprised the ‘gods of Pralaya’ (diffusion) remaing Evil Ones that pestered Earth for many eons. Gabriel’s Forces then commenced with the arrest and imprisonment of the said gods of destruction, in consonance with Divine Plan for Earth, around late 2009. I was among the Brothers of Light who witnessed the commencement of the arrests, and I’d say verily that the influence field of the Evil Ones has narrowed immensely since then.
As a result of such karmic action, fewer Evil Masters now remain who desperately ensue with their sinister agenda, while the numbers of White Robes and Melchizedeks are increasing by the month. The balance of forces has already clearly tilted in favor of the Light Forces since after the autumnal equinox of 2011 yet.
But that isn’t enough a karmic action sweep. Gabriel’s Forces likewise enforced punitive action on the souls of many Demoniacs down the surface, locked up their souls in the Kama Loka (hell) planet reserved for them. Result: as much as 200 millions of Demoniacs have their physical shells remaining here since the campaign begun. Such shells behave much like the hybrid soul-less Men-In-Black or Deros that can be felled by defending Terrans without causing guilt at all, for the shells are mere objects.
As the balance of forces tilts rapidly towards the Light, evil operators are busy expanding meditation groups as front organizations, groups that deny the Ascension Plan altogether. They flaunt concocted links with the Masters of Light, yet intentionally don’t recognize the Brothers of Light who are on the surface, thus revealing what they truly are: Luciferan operators. One such False Prophet unabashedly used St Germain’s name to sales-talk people into the Luciferan agenda of catch-as-many-souls-as-you-can who will later join the Hell Planet awaiting them.
Puppets of Fallen Aliens, such as that evil extraterrestrial leader who manifests with the face of a Lion to beguiled folks, are likewise busy quacking anti-Galactic Federation pedantries and styling themselves as messianic role-players out to save many folks from coming inundations. Yet they too deceive people by denying the Ascension Plan for Earth! They constitute networks of New Age cults that have mushroomed across the past four (4) decades, cults whose leaders are directly controlled by Ahriman or AntiChrist today.
We Brothers & Sisters of Light and our chelas could only but be amused with the pedantries of the Evil Ones’ puppet sycophants, knowing that they are getting exposed more and more by the day. The Dragon of Wisdom is awakening among those in the know, and this Year of the Yang Water Dragon will show greater favor for those preparing for the New Earth.
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Welcome the Yang Water Dragon! ]]>http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v576/__show_article/_a000576-000698.htm2012-01-31T02:17:34Z2012-01-31T02:17:34Z‘SEVEN SONS’ & UNIVERSE’S ESSENCEThe ‘7 sons’ and mulaprakriti or svabhavat (plastic essence of the universe) were then clarified by the spiritually Perfected Ones. Note that the ‘7 sons’ and ‘plastic essence of the universe’ are intertwined, as the divine creator beings (sons) couldn’t work out on manifesting reali...‘SEVEN SONS’ & UNIVERSE’S ESSENCE
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
The ‘7 sons’ and mulaprakriti or svabhavat (plastic essence of the universe) were then clarified by the spiritually Perfected Ones. Note that the ‘7 sons’ and ‘plastic essence of the universe’ are intertwined, as the divine creator beings (sons) couldn’t work out on manifesting reality down to the lowest planes without the svabhavat.
So was it declared by the Perfected Ones, in Sloka 5 of Stanza 2, Book of Dzyan, the thesis: “THE SEVEN (Sons) WERE NOT YET BORN FROM THE WEB OF LIGHT. DARKNESS ALONE WAS FATHER-MOTHER, SVÂBHÂVAT, AND SVÂBHÂVAT WAS IN DARKNESS (a).”
HPBlavatsky substantiated the sloka in Volume I, Secret Doctrine, through the following articulation:
(a) The Secret Doctrine, in the Stanzas given here, occupies itself chiefly, if not entirely, with our Solar System, and especially with our planetary chain. The “Seven Sons,” therefore, are the creators of the latter. This teaching will be explained more fully hereafter. (See Part II., “Theogony of the Creative Gods.”) Svâbhâvat, the “Plastic Essence” that fills the Universe, is the root of all things. Svâbhâvat is, so to say, the Buddhistic concrete aspect of the abstraction called in Hindu philosophy Mulaprakriti. It is the body of the Soul, and that which Ether would be to Akasa, the latter being the informing principle of the former. Chinese mystics have made of it the synonym of “being.” In the Ekasloka-Shastra of Nagârjuna (the Lung-shu of China) called by the Chinese the Yih-shu-lu-kia-lun, it is said that the original word of Yeu is “Being” or “Subhâva,” “the Substance giving substance to itself,” also explained by him as meaning “without action and with action,” “the nature which has no nature of its own.” Subhâva, from which Svâbhâvat, is composed of two words: Su “fair,” “handsome,” “good;” Sva, “self;” and bhava. “being” or “states of being.”
[Philippines, 14 January 2012]
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Erle Frayne D. Argonza
The Middle East and North Africa or MENA has some good news going concerning clean energy. This surely freshens the region a bit that has been mired in bloody conflicts between the youth-driven anti-Old Order movements and the status quo of Stone Age prinzeps-military dictatorships-family oligarchies.
US $9 Billions was allocated recently by stakeholders in Morocco to leapfrog the renewable energy or RE sector there. The project is largely in the domain of solar panel power production, which I find truly appreciable. The project could spin off RE across the entire region, or at least North Africa, so let’s cross our fingers that a new light will spark off human development in the entire region.
Below is a report on the subject from the World Bank.
[Philippines, 28 December 2011]
Source: http://menablog.worldbank.org/morocco-lights-way-clean-energy-future Morocco lights the way to a clean-energy future Submitted by Inger Andersen on November 18, 2011 Some countries of the Middle East and North Africa region are once again lighting up a new path. Following the social revolutions which showed the world the effect of combining non-violent protest with new media technology, an energy revolution is now underway. It also utilizes cutting-edge technology with the potential to lead the world into a new energy era. Pointing beyond fossil fuels, this revolution aims to harness an older and more abundant resource: sunshine. Morocco has launched a National Solar Plan that is as bold as it is ambitious. Using Concentrated Solar Power technology, this $9 billion project aims to build five commercial-scale solar plants, with a generating capacity of 2,000 megawatts, the equivalent of a large nuclear power plant. The first solar plant will be constructed on the Ouarzazate plateau, south of the Atlas mountains, and is expected to begin generating power by 2014, with the full project slated for completion in 2020.
Morocco might be classified as a developing nation, but it is making a huge investment in its future, and championing the challenges of climate summits in Copenhagen and Cancun to fundamentally change our energy consumption models to protect the environment. This is no small feat for a country almost wholly reliant on coal and oil. Ouarzazate represents the first step in a radical transformation that by 2030 aims to cut the country's consumption of oil by 40 percent. Morocco currently imports 97% of its primary fuels, and this move toward domestic production will both provide significant energy security and eventually convert it into an energy exporter.
Apart from the economic benefits gained from nurturing a new industry - with the new jobs and skills it will create - the investment will also be a boon to the environment. It is calculated that the first phase of the Ouarzazate project will spare the atmosphere the equivalent of 240,000 tons of carbon dioxide per year, while the full solar project will reduce annual emissions by three million tons.
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is on the sharp end of climate change. Significant action to mitigate its effects is a necessity, not a subject for debate. Of the 19 countries that experienced record temperatures in 2010, five were in MENA.
From a development standpoint, this sort of extreme weather can have disastrous social and economic consequences; reversing gains and driving people back into poverty. The effect of lower precipitation and droughts is one example and precious water resources will become increasingly scarcer forcing people to spend more time looking for it, potentially foregoing critical activities such as education. In Yemen, where the search for water is the culturally defined job of young women, water scarcity could have a multi-generational impact on gender parity.
Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and while MENA is already grappling with its very real consequences, Morocco is showing a way forward. It is moving beyond pronouncements and translating commitments into actions. It is taking advantage of its wide open spaces and abundant sunshine. Although the World Bank and the Clean Technology Fund are supporting the project with low-cost financing, the leadership is Morocco's own. It is the first to launch a project under the MENA Concentrated Solar Power Scale-Up Program, a landmark World Bank development initiative that is designed to fund eight other commercial-scale power plants in the region.
Concentrated Solar Power technology has proven dependable in generating consistent levels of electricity, and the Moroccan plan will prove its suitability to large-scale industrial application. It will also prove to all the participants of the COP 15 and 16 climate summits, that mitigating the effects of climate change through the gradual replacement of fossil fuels with renewable energy is possible. It just means taking the summit pronouncements seriously, and turning them into bold actions.
There is no GDP test for innovation. It is not size that matters, but vision and commitment, and Morocco is displaying plenty of both. The progress of the National Solar Plan will be watched closely by its neighbors, eager to follow in its footsteps. Morocco could very well unleash a green energy revolution in the heart of the sunshine belt. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Let’s move on to the subject of ‘germ of life’. Stanza 2 seems to parallel much the phenomenology of Hegel whose disputations centered on the process of ‘being-in-itself’ mutating into a ‘being-for-itself’. Along such a line of thought, we can reflect on the evolutionary process it takes for the ‘germ of life’ to proceed from “was-not” (potentiality) to “is” (actuality).
The subject of ‘germ of life’ brings us back to the theme of Cosmic Egg from which the former issues from. To aid us in our understanding of the recondite subject, the Perfected Ones advanced the following cogitation, in Sloka 3 of Stanza 2, Book of Dzyan, to note: “THE HOUR HAD NOT YET STRUCK; THE RAY HAD NOT YET FLASHED INTO THE GERM (a); THE MATRI-PADMA (mother lotus) HAD NOT YET SWOLLEN (b).*”
The lotus surely has very esoteric significance in comprehending deep spiritual truths. It was directly employed by the Perfected Ones as a wisdom tool in relation to the ‘germ of life’, in like manner that yogi-Christs or rishis liken the crown chakra to the 960-petalled lotus.
A further substantiation of the subject was articulated by HPB, chela of the Mahatmas & Chohans, in Volume I, Secret Doctrine, to note:
(a) The ray of the “Ever Darkness” becomes, as it is emitted, a ray of effulgent light or life, and flashes into the “Germ”—the point in the Mundane Egg, represented by matter in its abstract sense. But the term “Point” must not be understood as applying to any particular point in Space, for a germ exists in the centre of every atom, and these collectively form “the Germ;” or rather, as no atom can be made visible to our physical eye, the collectivity of these (if the term can be applied to something which is boundless and infinite) forms the noumenon of eternal and indestructible matter.
(b) One of the symbolical figures for the Dual creative power in Nature (matter and force on the material plane) is Padma, the water-lily of India. The Lotus is the product of heat (fire) and water (vapour or Ether); fire standing in every philosophical and religious system as a representation of the Spirit of Deity,† the active, male, generative principle; and Ether, or the Soul of matter, the light of the fire, for the passive female principle from which everything in this Universe emanated. Hence, Ether or Water is the Mother, and Fire is the Father. Sir W. Jones (and before him archaic botany) showed that the seeds of the Lotus contain—even before they germinate—perfectly formed leaves, the miniature shape of what one day, as perfect plants, they will become: nature thus giving us a specimen of the preformation of its production . . . the seed of all phanerogamous plants bearing proper flowers containing an embryo plantlet ready formed.‡ (See Part II., “The Lotus Flower as an Universal Symbol.”) This explains the sentence “The Mother had not yet swollen”—the form being usually sacrificed to the inner or root idea in Archaic symbology. The Lotus, or Padma, is, moreover, a very ancient and favourite simile for the Kosmos itself, and also for man. The popular reasons given are, firstly, the fact just mentioned, that the Lotus-seed contains within itself a perfect miniature of the future plant, which typefies the fact that the spiritual prototypes of all things exist in the immaterial world before those things become materialised on Earth. Secondly, the fact that the Lotus plant grows up through the water, having its root in the Ilus, or mud, and spreading its flower in the air above. The Lotus thus typifies the life of man and also that of the Kosmos; for the Secret Doctrine teaches that the elements of both are the same, and that both are developing in the same direction. The root of the Lotus sunk in the mud represents material life, the stalk passing up through the water typifies existence in the astral world, and the flower floating on the water and opening to the sky is emblematical of spiritual being.
[Philippines, 08 January 2012]
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Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Severe drought just struck northern Afghanistan, inducing shortfalls in crop yields. Over 2 millions of Afghans up north have begun to feel the severity of the shortfall.
The news is surely alarming, as it comes amid the eco-catastrophes of similar types in the Horn of Africa, parts of Pakistan, and other regions of the planet. The seeming coincidence of too many droughts is indicative of the dire consequences of ecological changes brought forth by both human intervention and natural phenomena.
Meantime, as winter now knocks at the doors of northern hemispheric communities, over 2 millions of Afghans face coupling disasters of hunger, diseases, and gargantuan mortalities due to the drought there. Is the world ready to respond to the new eco-challenge and help out the said small tillers and workers?
[Philippines, 26 December 2011]
Source: http://www.devex.com/en/articles/in-afghanistan-millions-face-hunger-as-winter-approaches?source=ArticleHomepage_Center_6 In Afghanistan, Millions Face Hunger as Winter Approaches By Ivy Mungcal on 21 November 2011 More than 2 million people in northern Afghanistan are facing hunger following a severe drought that has caused crop shortfall in the region. The situation is expected to worsen with the upcoming winter, according to several aid groups. Nine aid groups, including Oxfam, have released a joint statement to highlight the situation and urge the international community and Afghan government to ensure people receive the food assistance they require quickly. “Donors and relief agencies must remain vigilant and responsive as more resources will be required if the situation deteriorates because of a harsh winter,” said Manohar Shenoy, Oxfam’s country director in Afghanistan, according to The Associated Press. Some aid agencies have also raised questions on why the situation in northern Afghanistan persists despite the billions of dollars in foreign aid received by the country. One theory is that donors focus their aid programs in Helmand, Kandahar and other conflict-torn cities in southern Afghanistan, BBC notes, adding that aid agencies have slammed this policy, which they describe as “militarized aid.” “They are aiming on winning hearts and minds by implementing quick fix, quick impact projects,” said Louise Hancock, Oxfam’s policy and advocacy director in Afghanistan. “These result in schools being built in areas where there are no roads going to them, where needs are not at their greatest or where there are not enough teachers to staff that school. Read more development aid news online, and subscribe to The Development Newswire to receive top international development headlines from the world’s leading donors, news sources and opinion leaders — emailed to you FREE every business day. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@