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To All Who Would Cast Out Fear by Love:
The love, wisdom, and power of the Brotherhood, patterned after the image of God, bodes no harm to the earth or to its people. Our every wish is for the unfoldment of natural spiritual grace to the world and for the imparting of a permanent golden age to mankind.
The karmic wheels that turn are of varying sizes. They orbit the world of the individual, the family, the business enterprise, the community, the state, and the nation. Islands and continents come under their domain, and the undergirdings of the earth, according to the natural order, have their own juxtaposition of forces held in abeyance and hopefully controlled, thus making possible a peaceful lifetime for humanity over the landed area of the earth.
Few understand the correct use of prophecy. Few understand that prophecy in the hands of unspiritual people, whose egos are fattened by the fulfillment of their predictions, can and does under certain circumstances produce the very conditions that have been predicted.
Many of the psychics of the world, out of hearts filled with frustrations and subtle hatreds toward humanity, have predicted awful cataclysmic action upon the earth; but some who have foreseen difficulties are true prophets of God. Therefore, we wish to examine for you some of the motives that are involved in prophecy.
Those who gloat over wholesale and wanton destruction, wreaked upon lands and peoples, may one day find themselves in a position where they will reap that which they have sown. Meanwhile the Brotherhood of light, fully aware of the massive psychic attacks that are being leveled against the stability of the earth and its peoples, continues to pour the tenderness of watchful care and salvation to humanity from the hands of the Cosmic Christ.
Because of the conditions of mankind's karma, we are not always able to prevent destruction from taking place. It should also be understood that all destruction is not physical; one must consider the destruction of ideals and religious and moral covenants to be even more dangerous to civilization than wars and rumors of wars.1 Those who seek to destroy the codes and systems of the world that have evolved out of the dark ages of human history, from the old Babylonian Code, the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule, the Code of Hammurabi, the Magna Carta, the Constitution of the United States, and other instruments of Liberty - these would offer the world, in return for its imperfect state, one of nihilism and chaos; they are not the bearers of beauty and happiness to mankind or to themselves, but they are the harbingers of havoc whose name is Legion.2
Let me say - and my statements are not based on the bitterness of condemnation, but they are born out of cosmic accuracy and universal records - that once life is understood as purposed by God to convey to each lifestream the wonders of its own internal security in the divine system, in the order of universal beauty and perfection, then to live life to its fullest becomes the goal of individual man for himself and for his world.
Concerning matters in California and elsewhere where destruction has been predicted, we wish to emphasize that even when the Brotherhood itself has recognized the threat of danger to certain areas, we have set about to do all in our power to prevent harm before it occurs. It is never the will of God to bring the terror of falling buildings, death, and desolation to little children, young mothers, or the aged and unfeebled. It is God's will that life should be fulfilling and beautiful.
There are those who say that mankind, through their karmic violations, have brought disintegration upon themselves. While this may be true, we emphasize the fact that spiritual destruction through personal involvement in negative aspects of the psyche whereby the individual ignores the mandates of his Divine Presence and the fulfillment of the will of God for him - thereby placing in jeopardy the very existence of his soul - is far worse than the destruction of the outer world.
The scriptures have said, "Fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."3 God's law as justice is operative at every level of consciousness, for he is both law and love. Seeing that the love nature of the Father is aware of the fall of the sparrow, it should be understandable that, above all, he wishes to prevent his children from becoming involved in selfishly motivated predictions that stem from personal frustration and unhappiness or grudges against the world.4
Individual life is what men make of it. And whereas through ignorance and misunderstanding they often fall into delusions concerning one another and cast blame upon the holy innocents, we are confident that you will understand that this is never the will of God. In the case of Attila the Hun, who was called "the scourge of God," we find that his deeds were wholly malignant and in all things he was most superstitious; falling back before the cross, his end came shortly.5
Yet regardless of the perpetrations of the deluded ones, the world has advanced through the years and continues to move forward toward greater enlightenment. The order of science has reached forward in giant strides while religion has fallen backward, lagging still in medieval superstitions, in old encrusted hatreds, and in diabolical involvements of horror, fear, and greed. To condemn the world does not prepare it for salvation of any kind. The real example of benign power is to be simply the Christ. This is to show the world the meaning of hope in the renewal of all men who can do likewise.
Let men learn, then, to do well;6 and let them not accept the stimulus of a wounded ego as the motive or excuse for creating chaos and destruction. Truly, there are those who would destroy the earth because they are contemptuous of life itself, and they resent the blows that have been dealt them. They do not understand the balance of cosmic law that clearly sayeth, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."7
If they would look within themselves first and thence upward to their Presence - to the Presence of God that uniquely belongs to them, the spark of their own happiness - they would find that the means of salvation lie within the domain of the life that beats their own hearts. And when the sparkling jewellike radiance of the Cosmic Ego, the spiritual man, stands forth in his blazing identity to be seen as the reality of their own selves, as the truth that lives within them, they will begin to pour forth universal love in such paeans of praise to God for the gift of life as to receive, over strong cables of light, the wisdom that will guide their every act. And as in the matter of Jason and the Golden Fleece, they will begin to pursue their goals with cosmic diligence.
We await the era of the builders, of those who strive to build up their own and others' characters, of those who honor God and country, who understand the meaning of forging links of spiritual strength, who perceive the way of blessing, rather than spoiling. Long ago the Father said, "Woe unto those who spread malice between brethren."
Truly, our duty is to spread harmony, joy, and cosmic effort. Let us unleash, then, the power of the young sapling of truth. Let us plant a tree, build a house, sanctify a life, cleanse a leper, or even raise the dead if our faith be great enough. Above all, let us institute constructivism for the world and ignore those prophecies that are born of fear, for they have torment.8 On the other hand, let men not ignore God; for he is the hope of the earth, and his goodness, spread abroad in the lives of countless millions, will enable the fulfillment of these prophecies of beauty to occur.
Let men predict beautiful things. Let them dwell in the tents of the Lord who is the goodly Tentmaker. He spreadeth his canopy over the whole earth, and he filleth the consciousness with good things. How rich is his bounty, and how mighty are his judgments. Truly, men should trust in him. Thus we shall forestall those catastrophic manifestations that are born of human consciousness and conduct.9
Faithfully, in his cause, I remain