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In a dictation given July 3, 1976, the Ascended Master [[Godfre]], speaking on behalf of the [[Great Divine Director]] and the [[Karmic Board]], ratified the Supreme Court decision affirming the death penalty in the United States. The teaching of the Great Divine Director on this subject was summarized in a dictation given April 15, 1981, by [[Lord Lanto]]: | In a [[dictation]] given July 3, 1976, the Ascended Master [[Godfre]], speaking on behalf of the [[Great Divine Director]] and the [[Karmic Board]], ratified the Supreme Court decision affirming the death penalty in the United States. The teaching of the Great Divine Director on this subject was summarized in a dictation given April 15, 1981, by [[Lord Lanto]]: | ||
<blockquote>The Karmic Board approves of the death penalty, for it represents a lesson to souls: that if they continue to take life, life will be taken from them. It teaches them that the end of the road of their activity is the [[second death]]; and by losing that physical life and being reborn again, they have the deepest record in their soul to reinforce in them the will to resist the marauding [[entities]] of [[evil]] that take over their temples to destroy life....</blockquote> | <blockquote>The Karmic Board approves of the death penalty, for it represents a lesson to souls: that if they continue to take life, life will be taken from them. It teaches them that the end of the road of their activity is the [[second death]]; and by losing that physical life and being reborn again, they have the deepest record in their soul to reinforce in them the will to resist the marauding [[entities]] of [[evil]] that take over their temples to destroy life....</blockquote> | ||