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At a time in the history of man when communication has expanded to fantastic dimensions, the need for restraint in all things becomes more apparent every day. Media uncontrolled, catching the ears of youth, could easily turn the world upside down; but rightfully employed to transmit values, convey ethics, and create a new climate of living, the media could become the purveyors of universal grace and order to humanity.
Men ought to live not only for the present but also for the future rewards that present efforts bring; not only should they build for the limited span of mortal life, but also should they consider laying stones in the temple of eternal being. For both longevity and a new sense of the magnitude of beauty are conveyed to men's lives when they seek to become links in universal grace, receiving and transmitting the torch of freedom to each succeeding generation in a wholesome manner.
Where the titillation of the senses is the sole object of individual life expressions, the instruments of bribe, blackmail, and fear of personal destruction are ever at hand. But when the great winds of freedom that fan the threshing floors of the Almighty flow untrammeled through the universe and are allowed to reign unchecked by human pride, they can elevate an age to new heights of achievement.
Love of humanity, rightly understood, is love of God; for whatsoever you do unto the least of these, the brethren of God, the created sons made also in his divine image, you do unto him.1 There are many in the religious world who would cast aside the water of life2 because the tin cup in which it is conveyed does not flatter their egos. Others see the water of life and the chalice of its conveyance as a Holy Grail. It matters not to them what frail form or ungainly hands may pass that cup. Their concern is that harmony, love, beauty, and happiness be the inheritance of their posterity.
To this end, patriots and leaders of the past have fanned the flame of love in myriad hearts; but the opposition has also had many adherents and these, too, have made their mark, infamous though it be, upon the pages of history.
Now we urge all men everywhere to consider education anew, not from the standpoint of buildings or laboratories but from the standpoint of a curriculum that will not only include avant-garde ideas but that will also treasure the traditions that must not and dare not be cast aside. Personal liberty as well as the liberty of nations is important; and the freedom to worship God according to the dictates of one's conscience must be preserved at all costs, for it enables men to continue in their search for divine understanding and in their probing of the mysteries of the universe.
What does it profit a man if he gains the world and loses his soul?3 If an instrument that is intended to convey grace fall into the hands of traitors, shall these traitors be permitted to destroy the instrument? Let mothers and fathers the world around, whether or not they have availed themselves of the fullness of higher education, investigate the infiltration in the universities and school systems of the world by those who deny God and proclaim science as the accredited king, by those who have no real values of their own but would wantonly destroy those that have been established by other men.
Let men stand guard over the school systems of their nations; for succeeding generations will either be turned out as regents of order and discipline, respecting age and youth alike and welcoming the opportunities of life to extend the balm of peace and peaceful pursuit to all men, or they will espouse the violent destruction of those values their fathers held dear.
These are days when men dare not cast their eyes to the ground and say, "I cannot look." They dare not say, "I will not become involved." For whether you will or no, the onrush of the age will inundate the passions of all souls. The choice that is yours is whether you will become builders of universal harmony and peace or destroyers, in the name of temporary peace, of those values which the terrorists and dissenters of the world would sweep down en masse.4
Education is necessary to humanity; but all that has been done in the past of moral value and of universal ethic, all that has been created to perpetuate order and grace must be upheld. The Christlike values that have made all nations great must be rekindled where the flame has gone out, and they must be fanned into renewed activity in the great forges of life. Enduring happiness cannot be conveyed to flesh and blood as a temporal measure, for happiness is derived from eternal levels of value.
Western man, tutored by angels of darkness who come to him in the name of God, has sought to destroy those who proclaimed the truth of reembodiment. They have said that it was against Christian tradition, but they were not present at the council of the Christ which he held privately with his disciples. They were not there when he spoke to them who had been with him of old, the Holy Twelve who were the sons of Jacob when he himself was Joseph, "the idle dreamer," with his coat of many colors.5> Once again he gathered them around himself,6 and the seamless garment he wore was a swaddling garment of light in manifestation that drew them as a star-magnet to his heart.
The mysteries of God are immense, and those who are prone to condemn quickly the "false allegiance" of men of the Spirit whose vision exceeds their own should reexamine their own hearts according to the divine idea. "I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. ... Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist."7 The reembodiment of the prophet Elijah in the person of John the Baptist was a salient example, one out of many in the holy circle of lives dedicated to the salvation of a planet.8
Let men be apprised that there are more things in heaven and earth that are unknown to them than most of them have dreamed of.9 Let them open the eyes of the soul to God and in loving care consider the proper education of their children. Certainly they should not be taught atheism and tyranny; certainly this will produce the whirlwind destruction10 of the very school systems that were instituted to educate them aright.
Remember that there are evil men in league with the dark powers and destructive forces of the world who would bring this planet under the domination of the red dragon.11 They know that the destruction of God, of his name and his power, is essential to their purposes. They are aware of the fact that in order for the state to rule supreme, they must destroy in the minds of the people all invisible images and allegiances.
Let us, then, ask that men of vision, like Gideon of old, shall cast down Baal's altar and build instead an altar to the living God.12 Let their hearts be that altar, and let the indwelling of universal awareness and universal mysticism be the star of their search. And to those who are in the front lines I say, let alert parents everywhere act as guardians of the coming age. You dare not be careless, for the Lord from heaven watcheth. "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it"13 is a proverb that lingereth in the universal conscience.
Awake before it is too late, O humanity! and let all unite in doing their lot that we may prepare for the universities of the Spirit which we would construct upon this earth so that the golden age may live.