President Barack Obama: reflection of Abraham Lincoln

February 12, 9:48 PMAtlanta Astrology ExaminerPatricia Lantz

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Abraham Lincoln,16th president of the United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history...the Civil War.

“Over the next 14 years, our country will face critical challenges that will require enlightened leadership as well as collective commitment. United by a common purpose, perhaps we Americans can perfect the union envisioned by our founding fathers, and ensure, as Abraham Lincoln spoke on November 19, 1863 in his Gettysburg Address: …that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

Excerpts from: Reclaiming Our Revolutionary Roots, by Judith Goldberg

 A Personal Mission

“Barack Obama is a man on a mission. He is often compared with JFK, yet a stronger resonance exists with Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s election, coming at a time when the Union was fracturing into slave and free states, is on the Saturn-Uranus timetable, with the current red-blue state electoral map reflecting these pre-Civil War boundaries. Obama almost seems to be channeling the 16th President; he certainly shares the gift of inspired oratory. Lincoln’s portrait hangs above his Senate office desk.

Following in Lincoln’s footsteps, Obama announced his candidacy on the steps of the Illinois State Capital in Springfield, site of the famous 1858 house divided speech. He spoke in the Great Hall at Cooper Union where, in 1860, Lincoln delivered the anti-slavery speech that is said to have won him the presidency. Lincoln, also a lawyer from Illinois who served in the State Legislature before being elected to the Senate, was in Congress only two years before occupying the White House.

Last March, prominent psychic, Gordon Michael Scallion, speaking to a group at the A.R.E.(Association for Research and Enlightenment, The Edgar Cayce Foundation) in Virginia Beach, channeled the information that Obama is a reincarnated Abe Lincoln-- a compelling if improvable thesis. Lincoln may have freed the slaves and defeated the Confederacy, but he did not live to complete his mission of reuniting the nation. Many of the deep divisions that persist today are the legacy of a reconstruction gone awry.

Obama is passionate about uniting the country, as if to complete Lincoln’s unfinished business. His statement, " I don’t see red and blue states, I see the United States", echoes Lincoln’s sentiment to bind up the nation’s wounds. Pundits are already predicting that the electoral map will morph into the color purple. Obama often cites the motto on the Great Seal, epluribus unum, out of many one. Unity is essential if we want to effect real political change and fulfill the founders’ vision.”