Fourscore and seven years ago our predecessors were ending a long global war that brought forth a new ethic, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all humans have the inalienable right to refuse or give informed consent to any medical procedure and cannot be lawfully coerced. This has been duly inscribed as the Nuremburg Code.

Now we are engaged in a global civil war, testing whether our species so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure against censorship, disinformation, artificial intelligence, biowarfare, and arbitrary use of force. We are met on a great battlefield of that war—the internet. We have come to dedicate a portion of that information field, as a final resting place for truths that others gave their lives for, that liberty might live. Now those same truths, if uttered too loudly and effectively, may get us burned in the genocidal holocaust now underway. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should address this regardless of the danger from the demonic forces pursuing the mass murder and enslavement of us all.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this morpho-noetic field of consciousness in which our minds meet as a super-organismic whole. The brave beings, living and dead, who have struggled here to speak the truth despite ridicule, defamation, threats and physical attack, have consecrated it with their courage, far above any newcomer’s poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget the power of the heroic acts of all those who stand up for truth and freedom against illegitimate authority, willing to face torture and death.

It is for us, the still-living and awakened, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they, who have spoken out for uncorrupted goodness of the heart, have thus far so nobly advanced. It is for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—to fulfill that commandment we have all received from our many glorious spiritual traditions.

Thus, we offer our lives in full devotion to the attainment of transcendence of the ego, to realization of the infinite, immortal Self, to be absorbed in total union with God. That is the cause for which we must all give the last full measure of devotion—may we who read this wholeheartedly resolve that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Krishna, Rama, Mahavira, Zhuangzi, Buddha, Socrates, Muhammad, and all the other prophets, saints, and lovers of God shall not have taught and died in vain—and that this human species, as manifestations of the One and Only God, the God of righteousness, compassion, and divine love—shall have a new birth of freedom—and that divine government of wise and holy people, by the wise and holy people, for all the people, shall rise again, after having perished from our sacred Earth.

Amen.