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Because knowledge commands respect and monetary compensation, the youth flock to the colleges in search of recognition and stature that they may compete in the marketplaces of life. Seldom, with all their getting of knowledge, do they understand the power of the manipulators. Nevertheless, it is a fact that the manipulators are behind current trends in education which prepare the young people not for an understanding of the science of soul and the goal of life, but for a competitive, materialistic economy.
Those who manipulate the masses as puppets on strings are far too shortsighted to understand the inevitability of cosmic law: That which hurts one hurts all. Thus the ultimate end of their efforts of control is the return of the cycles of energies misused to their point of origin. The nefarious plots hatched by the powers of darkness continue to trap the unwary; and the masses are traditionally enslaved by political and religious snares together with an infestation of destructive energies that in the last days of this age have sought the total disorganization of man.
There is always the danger, frankly, that mankind will consider our admonishments as a broken record; and this, of course, is the fondest desire of the evil ones - that men should fail to heed our warnings which are born of the necessities of the hour. It must be remembered by every keen observer that to go against an entrenched system or a commonly accepted tradition is to incur the displeasure of one's fellowmen and to make such a brave one a target for the opposition of the world.
Without a doubt there are times when individuals lack the courage to take a stand contrary to mass opinion. This often results in social and political trends that are not welcomed by many among the masses who, themselves lacking the courage to do something about the "state of affairs" in which they find the world, continue to wag their tongues in dismay even as the shifting sands of mortal opinion stifle their voices of protest.
Through the ages the few have been in the vanguard in the material as well as the spiritual sciences; these have sought to preserve for their fellowmen tenets of truth of great worth and to assist all in adapting to those necessary conceptual rephrasings that outline progress for the future. The crying need of every hour, then, is for men to perceive their lives, not as chips tossed to and fro by the weight of mortal opinion and the flood tides of commerced tradition, but to assert the potential of the individual to make his mark upon the sands of life, hollowing out a way in which the children of the future can safely walk.
Universal knowledge is intended to be a multifaceted monolith. Inherent within the unity of its structure, provision was made for the needs of each social segment. Out of the stellar luminaries in the field of education, not chaos and diversity, but order and unity will best preserve for all time to come a steady rate of progress to the world. A civilization divided against itself cannot ultimately stand, for the interplay of forces in all past ages has ever created out of the brew of tyranny those internal dissatisfactions which have shaped the destruction of societies.
To disregard the tomes of prophecy, while heeding the strident voices of variegated human opinion, is utter foolishness. The powers of darkness know, even as the apostle of hatred, Adolf Hitler, knew, that the key to the future is in the youth. As the decades pass, so pass the centuries, and with the flowering maturity and falling bloom, the best fruits become traditional markings which posterity may disregard or enhance.
In the days of golden-age Atlantis so much emphasis was placed upon the education of the youth that society en masse, regardless of the differences emphasized in individual attainment, was moving constantly toward a golden-age standard of Christlike beauty. Certainly in stability and order there is security in heart and mind. When human viciousness is allowed to spread and, in fact, is encouraged, when integrity is disregarded and men feel a sense of great personal power that is in no way subject to cosmic law, this gives rise to a code of ethics based on the philosophy that the end justifies the means and that to the victor belongs the spoils.
In the current racial crises that have been festering as a boil across America and other parts of the world, there seems to be a disregard on all sides for the justice of God. Nothing won without merit can be long retained. To legislate equality is one thing, but to evolve it within the personal equation of the individual is another. By the reeducation of values and the assessment of personal goals as these relate to the total progress of society as a whole, men can produce both knowledge and understanding. When a sense of values is lost and the carnal wages of sin are reaped, death is the fruit. Life and love are synonymous with justice, and divine justice will always produce good fruit on the vine when the Lord of the harvest is consulted and his precepts followed.
The tendency on the part of mankind today to legislate equality on one hand and to deny opportunity to men on the other is a fraud of first proportions. All of the governments of the world, whether they are totalitarian or democratic have a responsibility to all of the people of the world. To rob people of freedom in the name of social interest or to give them excess freedom in name only when robbing them of economic and social opportunities - such imbalance produces a yin and yang in human affairs that always results in strife.
Divine economics requires the employment of the efforts of all men toward the promotion of understanding and unity. The inroads of centuries of unrest and strife are not usually removed in a moment, but noble beginnings can be made by man and the more critical evils relieved. The Brotherhood desires to see, together with the fruit of striving for a better world, the creation of a climate of understanding among all peoples which will relieve the stresses that a false science has produced in the world of form as the antithesis of a false religion.
Religion and science are opposite poles of the same rod. Without science, religion cannot flourish; for true science produces the fruit of divine intelligence to relieve drudgery and provide all with the opportunity to pursue happiness in the onward march of man's spiritual progress. Yet, true religion affords the means whereby the mind is freed to sense the blessedness of becoming one's brother's keeper, not as a mogul of power to rule over one's fellowmen but as a member of the same human family, not so much dedicated to defend one's nationalistic and racial differences as to draw close to the strands of immortal brightness held ever within the tenets of the brotherhood.
One of the great founding strengths of America was her Constitution. The more the inalienable rights of man can be regarded and freedom enhanced for the people of the world, the more quickly the discordant manifestations that are so unappetizing to men of perception can be eliminated. Thought precedes action, and thus there must be released into the world of form a greater measure of understanding in order for the fruit of right knowledge to manifest.
The harvest of brotherhood, beloved ones, comes from the sowing first of the gentle seeds of brotherhood.
Toward the illumination of the age,