<< Guardian Angels 1-20
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Guardian Angel of FREEDOM
I am the Angel of Freedom.
My advance is inexorable.
No despotic army of whatever size can withstand
my assault.
My battering rams can and will pierce all battlements.
Freedom: A precious gift, which further unleashes mankind’s other potentials.
More valuable than the rarest gem.
Interlinked with man’s AUTONOMY.
Interesting, as we are always at-risk
for the Tyranny of the Majority.
And are always at-risk for demagoguery.
Yet, by-and-large, matters seem to work out.
Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.
The tidal wave of history. Liberty.
An idea at the core of the human psyche.
Implanted there at the dawn of time.
Its exquisite and extraordinary offshoot,
Jeffersonian Democracy. Thank you, Thomas.
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Guardian Angel of MERCY
Ah, yes
Mercy.
My constituency is the powerless.
The supremely vulnerable.
Often the guilty.
Often those on the wrong side of history.
Certainly those on the wrong side of power.
Yet, on some level, capacity for mercy defines who
we are, doesn’t it?
For with Mercy, we make-an-exception –
albeit temporarily – to our Program.
We put aside our usual internal apparent self-interest guidelines.
We are placed in a position of reaching out to an entity whose actions are generally unacceptable to us – on some level – or who does not have a significant claim on our intervention.
Yet, Mercy, has a unique dimension to uplift us.
To upgrade how we define ourselves, to ourselves.
~continued~
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