A Better World

My brothers and sisters, we live in a complex and challenging world, our culture is besmirched with greed, fear, and inequality but, no matter what the challenge, intelligent, wisely bestowed, love can provide the solution. The children of this world cannot be defeated using the ways of this world – the bio-logic of the flesh; intimidation, deception, and treachery, for these are not only demeaning of personal dignity they are utterly bankrupt when it comes to the task of Kin-Dom building; righteous and noble ends cannot be established using unrighteous and ignoble means, for we reap as we sow.

When the children of the Divine Ideal set themselves the task of subduing their material natures, that they might more effectively do the will of their Heavenly Father, they have overcome the world. For, having learned how to dominate every impulse using the power of love they thereby become immune to the things of this world. No more can the Snares of Beliar trip them up, henceforth they hunger only for spiritual things and not material and draw happiness from helping others and not themselves. Thus liberated from material concern they are free indeed and, oh!, how the world hates to see such freedom and very often determines to kill such before they free the world. But the children of darkness fail to see that error cannot destroy truth, darkness cannot dispel light, neither can the wiles of the wicked undo the plans of the Almighty.

It is said that ‘Nature abhors a vacuum’ - whatever about the merits of such an assertion, of one thing we can be certain ‘Nature abhors imbalance’. Nature prefers balance, harmony, proportion and will unhesitatingly precipitate the collapse of a whole system in order to re-establish equilibrium, regardless of the consequences to the parts. This phenomenon is a temporal reflection of the indivisible unity of the Eternal Source from whence all life springs.

The sublime unity that underpins the almost limitless diversity of an eco-system takes its origin in Undivided Deity. However, harmony with the divine order or pattern is a choice with free-will beings, thus do error, sin, and iniquity exercise a distorting effect on the harmony and balance of a system. As harmony and symmetry are the foundations of Life it becomes inevitable that the higher a civilisation ascends the more it recognises that its stability and integrity is a co-efficient of harmony. Inequalities are, therefore, dangerous [sign posts] to an evolving civilisation.

The horrific distortions precipitated by the acts of the cruel, wicked, selfish, and corrupt are – in the last analysis – surface scars that will, in time, heal; they are not truly real, they are temporal bumps that will be smoothed out on the face of eternity. But, I guess, we live in the ‘here and now’ and not the ‘ever after’, the damage today is real and painful – as real and terrifying as a nightmare – and the healing and correction has not yet occurred for us; justice is yet to be established. Wilful sinfulness distorts, unbalances, and, if not corrected, damages [can - if uncorrected - even destroy] a system but wilful righteousness – the doing of the Father’s Will – restores order, heals, strengthens, nurtures, nourishes, and balances a system, establishes it in greater harmony, integrity, and stability. Upon His Will was the Universe founded and it shall be victorious over the small and self-serving plans of the wicked.

The Wicked may act to unbalance a system but such efforts run counter to the trend of the Universe and while they may appear successful in the short term, the fact is that they are merely fighting against the tide of Nature - the Great Mother will correct all imbalances and the little structures of the wicked will be crushed to dust in the Correcting Time.

We must awaken to the fact that our world is desperately out of balance, a reflection of the unbalanced human heart; even our weather testifies to this truth and unless we turn about, abandon the path we are on, we will topple head first into calamity; and, alas, such is the tremendous momentum of our age, we will drag many generations down with us, thus will the woeful cost of our selfishness be made plain and our age will become a byword and a curse.

Part of the great challenge of our age is bound up in our conformity with custom and tradition. Conformity with custom and tradition is all well and good provided that such customs and traditions are so designed to enrich and nurture life but when they diminish and debilitate it to live according to them is the equivalent is of following the herd over the cliff. The great change we must undergo will not be primarily for our benefit but for the enrichment or, more accurately, to lessen the damage – the burden faced – by future generations as a result of our blind and self serving ways.

It is important to remember that children are born into the world with a clean slate. Wherever they grow up, whether that environment is ennobling or corrupting, that is what is normal for them and unless their circumstances are particularly unpleasant they will have little motivation to change them. They will be content to follow along in the groves of custom and tradition, to maintain the status quo, if for no other reason than the fact that ‘it didn’t do them any harm.’ Unless you question life you don’t know anything about it. Unquestioning conformity with the customs, conventions, and values of the dominant group is not to live but to sleep. You will hardly be motivated to make the world a better place if you think that it is perfectly adequate as it is. One must be fearless when questioning life, one must be determined to uncover truth, for without truth there is no liberty, no progress. Once you can honestly face and accept the inadequacies of a system only then can you discover viable alternatives and no generation will ever be exempt from the duty of finding new ways to achieve perfection.

When the generations look back upon us they we be impelled to ask, ‘How did they not know? The tragedies, injustice, and villains were so obvious, how could they not care?’ Are you content with the status quo? Do you know the Better Way? Can you lead people to it? Have you the personal fortitude to go against the herd and make your way to green pastures?