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Dear Trudy and Barbara
Often you channel the words of those who have gone before. Recently, it was Ray Charles. I have always been a tremendous admirer of Alexander the Great. In his time, he was a warrior, but he appeared to have wisdom and compassion. What can he tell/teach us for today? What would he do if he were on earth in this time? Thank you.
Elizabeth O.
An Answer from Alexander:
Dear Elizabeth,
What a beautiful name! It was not one known in my day and it pleases me when I hear it or think it.
It also pleases me that you notice that I was a man of compassion and wisdom. Most people remember me only as a conqueror. As I and my team of soldiers went through the land and created new settlements and even countries, the wisdom of Greece was left behind after we moved on. What was once started in that great country was continued in far away places that had never heard of what you now call democracy. There had been no rights for the common man, and concepts that are now thought of as fair and right were spread over wide areas by my soldiers, many of whom stayed in those far away places and began their families and businesses after the rest of us moved on. People were taught the ways of dignity, purpose, and the desire for education was instilled into their cultures. .Barbarian rules and rites were overridden.
This does not mean that the wars I fought were humane, for no war is. My greatness was mostly in what was begun after I left. As we conquered, ideas were changed and mankind was taught to live in a new way. What is remembered today is only a very small part of the whole.
I have had many lifetimes since that one, and in every one of them I have worked for peace and education. One lifetime always builds on another and desire comes from experience. You don’t have to live for a long time to do good things. The good men do lives after them, but not necessarily in the history books.
Alexander
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