WW@: A Personal Perspective and Comment

After listening to David Kennedy, Professor of History at Stamford University, on the radio in Australia, I wrote the following quite personal view of WW2 which I hope readers here will allow me to post.-Ron Price, Tasmania8)

A WAR TO END WARS

David Kennedy, Professor of History at Stamford University, gave a lecture in October 2001 at La Trobe University in Australia. It was entitled Key American Strategic Decisions in WW2(1). In that lecture he emphasized the transformative effects of WW2 on America, a transformation from being a nation of poverty and unemplyment in 1940, to being the most prosperous nation on earth in 1945. This entire event, WW2, occurred during the first stage, 1937-1944 and 1944-1946, of the implementation of the Divine Plan, 'the weightiest spiritual enterprize launched in recorded history.'(2)-Ron Price with thanks to (1)ABC Radio National, "Background Briefing," 9:00-10:00 am, 30 December 2001; and (2)Shoghi Effendi, Citadel of Faith, Wilmette, 1965, p.43.

Those fate-laden years,1
when the war to end wars ended
did indeed set the stage,
a new one was just beginning:
for the initial clash of that army of light.
I have lived my life in the context
of the forces of darkness of this war
and identified myself in this titanic enterprise
with those forces to capture the cities
of the hearts of men since I was young,
43 years ago, when the Kingdom of God
on earth was just beginning and that prelude
which he called entry-by-troops sounded
the signal for a spiritual conquest of the planet
and its mass conversion in the century-centuries
to come. Spiritual battalions were moving into position
driven by forces its prosecutors could not hope
to properly assess. Yes, yes, those were fate-laden
years when the process of entry by troops,
saw but modest beginnings to a long-awaited
mass conversion and toilsome labours had begun
with richly deserved rewards, with their vista
of alluring, yet hazy and entrancing, musical notes,
as far as the fringes of a Golden Age.

Those fate-laden years
and their devastating conflict,
the darkest in history,
called for a Physician
which only this Plan,
this gigantic movement
and its unsleeping Pilot,
its Charterer and Founder,
its Bestower of that primacy
which is the hallmark of their destiny
could administer and remedy.2

1 The war years: 1939-1945
2 Citadel of Faith, pp. 21-22.

Ron Price
30 December 2001
(updated for WW2 History Forum
29/3/08)8)

 

Great post!! Thank you for sharing it here

 

Thank you!-Ron Price, Tasmania:arrowspelling of appreciation is incorrect in the title: sorry about that!-Ron)