For quite a while we've been beginning our magazine with life stories from my youth. But we're running out! Not because I don't have more of them, but because even if I use different names the people in them would still be too recognizable, and I don't want to embarrass old friends by revealing private information. It's just not our way. But something came to my mind after rejecting one story that can be spoken of in general because it happened with many individuals.
Many times I would've liked to have avoided a confrontation. I really didn't want to upset the family of the individual that was causing the problem, but sometimes even though that individual knew he was completely outclassed he would still push the confrontation. It was extremely difficult for a young man of eighteen or almost twenty to back down to a fifteen year old, even though that fifteen year old was six feet tall, weighed 240 pounds, was as mean as hell, and had a reputation of nearly ripping peoples' heads off if he was irritated!
The older boys simply could not admit they were wrong and walk away, even when they knew they were. It was simply impossible for them. They had to fight. Oftentimes afterwards they would even apologize to me and admit that I was right, but never in front of others. I found this very perplexing in my youth and find it just as perplexing now, and I wonder if it might be part of the problem with the creatures of Darkness, that they know full well that they are completely outclassed, yet thet there is virtually no hope of them succeeding, that sooner or later The Kingdom Of God would turn the tide and their movement would be crushed. But they are the older boys confronted by a stronger, more aggressive younger boy and they cannot back down. This may be an age old problem, that if we are not careful may destroy the world.
But I will admit to this day, it is something about the human nature that I will never understand. Sometimes when you are outclassed there are situations worth fighting for, worth dying for. But trivial things are no reason to get hurt over, no reason at all, and you wonder why people are so stubborn that they must hurt themselves and have others be hurt to sustain their ego. It is something I will never understand though some very wise people tried to make me understand it. No one has ever been able to succeed. There are some things about human beings that I will never understand, no matter how long I live among them. And this is one of them. Why some will fight so tenaciously, do horrendous harm when they know full well they are absolutely wrong, that they shouldn't be supporting what they are supporting and should be doing what is right.
A great example of this was The Confederates in The American Civil War. The greater majority of them knew that slavery was totally and completely wrong, that they should not suceed from The Union, but insatiable pride and the desire to have their way destroyed their country and caused the suffering of thousands. When a cause is just it is worth fighting for, but an unjust cause is never worth being hurt for, or, hurting others, yet humans seem to relish these causes, and I will never understand.

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Contained in this issue of "Voices From Spirit Magazine" is the first draft of The Constitution Of The Spiritist Republic, which The Children Of The Lords desire to establish on Earth when They can acquire territory from existing nations that will be recognized as Their own. Though The Constitution is basically complete, it may be rearranged in a more understandable order, subjects that are grouped, and some slight wording may be changed to make the passages better understandable to humans. But this should give people a good idea what The Children Want, what Their goal is, the kind of society They wish to establish. Check it out! Here's the link.