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March 12th, 2007
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Oliver Cromwell.
You are reading about what I did in Ireland. Well, no pen
can describe the tortures that were mine when I came over
here. Many of these same Irish I murdered came to me with
their screechings and their curses, and I had to take it.
Oh, it was indeed a hell! I was trapped. There was no way
out. In my great distress, I felt tremendous grief and
remorse, for I saw the truth of what I had done - I had
been a cold-blooded murderer.
As you have surmised, I was able through repentance to
rise above my sad and tortured position. I got into a
better sphere, but my expiation followed me like a huge
weight. But each time I progressed, the penalty got less,
until it disappeared altogether. This occurred because my
soul saw the truth, and it liberated me. I saw, finally
saw, that the Irish, just like any of God's children, were
worthy not of brutal murder, but of the deepest love and
respect.
Now let me address your question. You are perplexed. You channeled
Cotton Mather, who said that his sufferings
were not as great as others because he truly wanted to serve God.
So why did this not occur to me, since you have read that I too
wanted to serve God?
Well, the answer is that God knew my heart, and what He
saw was not a misguided but sincere believer, but a
cold-blooded murderer. There is a huge difference here.
I truly wanted to kill them. Cotton Mather agonized over
his decisions and submitted his situation to God. He did
choose wrongly, but he tried his best to be faithful. He
just couldn't overcome his innate prejudices and
limitations. In my case, it was sadism - that's what it
really was, a desire to exterminate, pure and simple.
I know you don't see the difference clearly, but God does, and
He will not be mocked. No, no mortal can escape the wrongful consequences
of his evil actions. If a person or persons is hurt or killed with
a desire to hurt or kill, the penalty will be equally severe.
Oliver Cromwell (April 25, 1599–September 3, 1658) was an
English military and political leader best known for making England
a republic and leading the Commonwealth of England. He was a mid-gentry
yeoman farmer for the first forty years of his life; a religious
conversion experience made religion the central fact of his life
and actions. A brilliant soldier (called "Old Ironsides")
he rose from the ranks to command the army. Politically he took
control of England, Scotland, and Ireland as Lord Protector, from
December 16, 1653 until his death. Cromwell is a very controversial
figure in English history—a regicidal dictator to some historians
(such as David Hume and Christopher Hill) and a hero of liberty
to others (such as Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Rawson Gardiner).
Cromwell's career is full of contradictions. He was a regicide
who debated whether to accept the crown himself and decided not
to—though ironically he had more power than Charles I. He was
a parliamentarian who ordered his soldiers to dissolve parliaments.
Under his rule, the Protectorate advocated religious liberty of
conscience but allowed blasphemers to be tortured. He advocated
equitable justice but imprisoned those who criticised his raising
taxation outside the agreement of Parliament. Admirers hail him
as a strong, stabilising and stately leader who brought international
respect, overthrew tyranny and promoted republicanism and liberty.
In a BBC poll of 100 Greatest Britons, he was voted number 10. Cromwell's
critics ridiculed him as an overly ambitious hypocrite who betrayed
the cause of liberty, imposed puritanical values and showed scant
respect for the nation's traditions. When the Royalists returned
to power, his corpse was dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded. (Source:
Wikipedia.)
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