The Palladium
Palladium 1. A sacred object having the power to preserve a city or a state possessing it. 2. A safeguard, especially one viewed as a guarantee of the integrity of social institutions: 'the Bill of Rights', palladium of American civil liberties. [Latin, from Greek Palladiom, the fabled statue of Pallas Athena that assured the safety of Troy as long as it remained within the city, from Pallas (stem Pallad-), Pallas (Athena).] The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

America
America, you're better off than
Our continent, the old.
You have no castles which are fallen,
No basalt to behold.
You're not disturbed within your inmost being
Right up till today's daily life
By useless remembering
and unrewarding strife.
Use well the present and good luck to you
And when your children begin to write poetry
Let them guard well in all they do
Against Knight-robber-and-ghost story.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 - 1832 (Weimar, 1812)

Dio- He- Ko
Dio- He- Ko
Corn Beans Squash
Corn Beans Squash

So sang the maidens of an Iroquois agricultural society. They worshiped a three-in-one goddess who appeared in the world under the guise of corn, beans, and squash, the three crops that were planted together in Iroquois village plots.

What where the virtues of this goddess? She was herself a community. As Dio, corn, she grew tall and sustained the people with her fruit. (A native farmer could sing the song that counted every leaf, every joint, every tassel in the order that it appeared on the plant from seedtime to harvest.) As He, beans, she twined about the corn stalk, making of it a living trellis on which to support the vine and its fruits. In return, as beans, she fed the roots of the corn and the squash. And last, as Ko, squash, she put on spiny leaves and stems to defend the plot from marauders.

This triple goddess- a kind of New World Hecate- is the founder of the Thanksgiving feast, and so it might be said she is ruling deity not only of the agricultural native peoples but also of the newcomers who survived their first winter only owing to her bounty. It is not just bad policy to reject her, as we have done over the past three centuries. It is sacrilege, and it is being avenged every day in farm fields across the continent. pg. 168

Dirt~ The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
by William Bryant Logan

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True Money

True money, the coin of the realm (heavenly treasure) is Brain Power, which is Creative. The pure and legitimate ORIGIN of our Banking System may be found in the human brain. This is the money we are told not to squander."LAY UP for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal."

If brain 'esse' , from which mental power and physical strength are generated, is conserved (used wisely and hence constructively), treasure -- actual money -- is laid up in the heavenly bank. This INCREASES, for the QUALITY of both energy and substance actually improves with each and every conservation. Thus interest is created which eventually doubles and trebles itself. There is much in Scriptural writings to prove this; for instance, the story of the talents. There are numerous references relative to the INCREASE resulting within a specified time from laying up the first fruits in the temple. (pgs. 200 - 01)

The Zodiac and the Salts of Salvation by Dr. George Washington Carey and Inez Eudora Perry (63)

The Other America, The Western World in the Light of Spiritual Science by Carl Stegmann (51)

America with its rich original forces of growth! Rudolf Steiner draws our attention further to something very significant in connection with the deeper knowledge of the will. When the human should ascend into the higher spheres of existence after death, then above all else the consciousness of man changes. Man attains an all-comprehending, highly will-imbued cosmic consciousness which becomes constantly brighter. Through this he gradually becomes one with his own higher spirit-being. Later there comes once again his descent into a new earthly life, and here a reverse process takes place. When man or woman descends again to a new incarnation on earth, then in stages they lose their brightness, the strength and breadth of their cosmic consciousness. Shortly before they unite themselves with the germ of a new embryo, their consciousness's become totally dimmed and the spiritual forces of consciousness thus released are transformed into the forces of growth of the future man and women. There where we have received the first illumination for the spiritual world, in a more wakeful consciousness than we can have on earth, just there on our return to earth, the consciousness is dimmed, until it is so far dimmed down that it is then nothing but forces of growth.