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?
