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The potential of world destruction must be measured by thinking men everywhere. Countermeasures may be too late if the bulwarks of freedom are not reinforced today. The preservation of peace is dependent upon the sanity of the leaders of the world and upon the maintenance by mankind en masse of a spirit of universal harmony that promotes world understanding. True though it may be that the power of destruction and the unleashment of that destruction is in the hands of a few, there are safeguards that can be utilized by the many in effecting the preservation of world peace.
One of the greatest problems in the world today is that of inertia and division amongst the good people and the tendency on the part of the progressive elements of society to underestimate the destructive intent of the darkened factions ruled by the malcontents. Because their own motives are kindly and benign, they find it difficult to understand that there is a strong undercurrent of unrest in the world which is marshaling the forces of darkness that have bred a new face of violence, rearing its ugly head through various potholes in the world community.
To meet force with force, anger with anger, intolerance with intolerance, and reaction with reaction is not an effective deterrent to disunity. You may understand what specific quality of unrest is behind a given situation, you may agree with it or you may disagree with it, but you cannot heal it in the world of the rebellious ones by any process whatsoever; for the bulk of those who are behind the current uprisings have sworn to defeat every segment of society that represents law and order.
They have an ally of great strength in the karmic situation that has denied to the masses in many parts of the world the very necessities of daily living. They have an ally in the fact that the dollars of the world are, in the main, in the hands of a few who are often unwilling to relinquish their control of the destiny and economics of the world, failing to foresee that their very clutching, grasping, and hoarding of the supply of mankind will ultimately produce their own downfall. Already today they are forced to reckon not just with an infant beginning to face, but a full-grown youth ready to take his place in challenging all of the old established systems that have for many decades ruled in the world community.
Now is not the time for men to feel that either the withholding or the giving is going to provide a solution to the problems of the age. What is essential is the banding together in the world community of those who can support the traditional elements of society that have proven themselves to be efficacious in the administration of mankind's needs. Then, when the banding together is more or less completed, this segment of society must determine that it will dedicate itself anew to the providing of educational facilities for the people of the world with an accent upon moral values that cannot be equivocated.
The awful stress and strain that have come to manifest in increasing and ever widening circles provide no field of hope to the incoming children and youth, but only a steadfast promise of a gradually deteriorating social structure. I assure you, if this trend is allowed to continue, its present downward course will ultimately result in the complete socialization of mankind under a group of tyrants who will sweep away the very foundations of world freedom and the individual rights of man.
Here in Shamballa where our every desire is to express the nature of the Divine among men, where our every thought is the preservation of world peace and the making possible at an early date of the glories of the golden age, it is unthinkable that the trends now manifesting as the signs of the times, whose every portent is toward greater destructivity, should continue.
There are principal problems which must be met. One of the most destructive of all is the amplification of the base elements of human nature in the youth of the world and the frightful attacks upon their sanity by the widespread use of psychedelic drugs. The combination of drugs and destructive rhythms creates a two-pronged attack that bids to dominate the minds of the future by disorder and chaos that will not be able to combat effectively the trends of those times to come, and will, therefore, yield to those who are able to manipulate mankind into their own clutches.
The making of pawns out of people in the social order, including entertainers, politicians, advertising executives, and many others whose every measure of value seems to be based on the question "Does it pay?" does not assure mankind any degree of comfortability concerning the future. The cigarette industry has sought to suppress at every opportunity the facts concerning the harmful inroads made into the human body by the tar within tobacco compounds. If mankind knew how far they have gone in this area alone they would be greatly shocked.
There is a type of music that is being played constantly today, through which, by the power of amplification within transistors and vacuum tubes, coupled with huge sound-producing speakers, the psychic world is permitted direct ingress into the four lower bodies of the youth, thus tending to break down their every moral code and wedding them to darkness. The topless bathing-suit craze, "go-go" and "key" clubs that have been popularized across America and the world cater to the decadent elements in man; and while they may be titillating to the flesh, they erode every fine facet of the soul.
There is now, then, no longer any need to pull punches. The hierarchy of light has taken off its gloves, and we are determined that mankind shall be apprised of these many insupportable situations. You do not know how much law and order have already broken down in the world community. The citizenry today fear even to take a stand to protect those who are attacked by the depredations of isolated individuals as well as gangs. Many men and women fear for their lives and therefore they continue to live in the flesh according to the lusts thereof while their spiritual lives are being snuffed out and devoured by the denizens of darkness.
Can we here in Shamballa, basking in the light of God that never fails, remain content while child-man is continually subjected to the awful attacks upon his divine opportunity that exist in the world of form today? There is no hope, blessed ones, anywhere else except in the thought and action of hierarchy. True brotherhood under the Fatherhood of God, the linking of hearts to promote world destiny as God intended, is the only countermeasure that will abate the unprecedented assaults upon common decency and cosmic law in the world community.
There are so many treacherous tricks that are employed by the powers of darkness that it has become difficult for us to reach the masses successfully. The mass media of the world are controlled. Our messengers, such as those who serve in this activity of light, are ridiculed by those who cannot comprehend that the powers of heaven are able to reach mankind in this age of man-made communication and the power of electronics to ring the world. What a pity that they so limit the Deity while acknowledging human supremacy in the field of communication. We have no bitterness in this matter except that we deplore the denial by mankind of their own immortal, God-given birthright. We deplore the fact that they must abide in unhappiness when divine happiness is waiting to bestow upon them the fruit of striving.
We are not purveyors of gloom, and our purpose in revealing this knowledge in this Pearl of Wisdom is to institute in the thoughts of mankind some awareness of the need to reinforce the bulwarks of light and to counteract the tides of human aggression against the eternal purposes. Divine grace is not spawned in human darkness; but the fruit of that which is created in the minds of the unperceptive and limited is often full of rotten energy, corrupting the entire field of human endeavor.
The plea entertained in this release is for an awakening of mankind on a world scale to the dangers of division. The Lutherans deny confession, even as the Catholics affirm it; but what difference does this disagreement make in the field of honesty and decency among men? Cannot men learn to work together regardless of doctrinal differences and can they not strive for that better world which they know within their hearts ought to manifest? Why do they spend so much time in religious competition? Why is there such a sense of loyalty to mere facets of truth when, as has been said, the great monolith of devotion to Almighty God ought to be raised beneath the sun and point heavenward to show the incoming children and youth the integrity and value that God himself has embodied within nature.
I have spoken much, but much has been left unsaid. I seek to alert, I seek to quicken, I seek to preserve the schoolrooms of Earth as places of opportunity where men can yet learn. When the day comes that man is no longer able to learn the lessons that God has intended him to do, as an embryonic God - made a little lower than the angels, yet crowned with more glory and honor - there will be no further excuse for the preservation of life upon this blessed planet.
Destroy the opportunities in the world for freedom of expression, destroy the opportunities for conformity to the individuality of the self as expressed in the noble Shakespearean statement, "This above all: to thine own self be true, and ... thou canst not then be false to any man," and you have removed the raison d'etre of life from the field of man's consciousness; and the pinch of cosmic dust that the Earth is had better fall into the heart of the sun and be absorbed by the cleansing flame thereof.
The meaning and purpose of life in its totality is to express that peace and good will which was the message of the angels long ago at the birth of the Christ in Bethlehem. Both the Arab and the Jewish communities, the Gentile community, the East and the West, the North and the South, men of learning and men without learning - all men ought to understand within themselves that universal brotherhood must be lived! They must employ every force that is representative of justice and perfection in the service of the world order that divine purpose be served and that disease, inharmony, struggle, pain, and hopelessness shall vanish from the earth in the sunburst of that eternal reality for which the world waiteth now centuries without end.
I am forthrightly raising the banner of Shamballa to the waiting world. To East and West in full view I say, long may it wave as the banner of God's hope for man.