PJ 35
CHAPTER 7
REC #2 GERMAIN
MONDAY, JULY 29, 1991 12:08 P.M. YEAR 4, DAY 347
SPIRITUAL NATURE OF POLARITY
We have painted a symbolic word-picture to exemplify our meaning. Because of it, can you not see that the world is still so primate that it has not yet learned how to live? It has not yet acquired a LIVING PHILOSOPHY which is sufficiently related to Nature's processes to even begin to find the happiness and peace which all men seek. If the world has not yet acquired knowledge of how to live in peace and happiness between neighbor and neighbor, or husband and wife, except forthe small percentage of the rare few who have acquired that knowledge, do you not plainly see that the world concept of higher knowledge has got to change from an increase in the ability to express one's self physically by creating a better material product to expressing one's self spiritually by knowing how to UNITE WITH ONE'S MATE IN EVERY HUMAN TRANSACTION?
This is the point we have been leading up to. Because of it, we are now enabled to reduce the whole principle of life to a very few words which give full meaning to the teachings of Jesus Immanuel and Krishna which have been so long ignored because of ignorance of their meaning. Without the preparation given in the foregoing lessons and in this lesson, you would be no more prepared to comprehend the few words which we will now use to picture the whole purpose of the drama of Creation than you and your ancestors were able to comprehend the words of Immanuel and Krishna quoted on previous pages.
The following few words are a basic formula for what all people are doing all of the time, during all of their lives, whether awake or asleep.
All people, and all Nature, are continually and perpetually trying to DIVIDE THE UNDIVIDED ONE into equal pairs and UNITE those equal pairs into one.
Note that I say that all things are TRYING to do this perfect thing, but the state of the world is indicative of the fact that such EQUAL dividing and EQUAL mating is rare in the human race.
An illustration of the meaning of EQUAL dividing and EQUAL uniting can be found in one's breathing. That is an action-reaction interchange of Nature and takes placewithout a mental decision. Such an interchange MUST be balanced, lest you die. The same results of EQUAL dividing and EQUAL uniting are demonstrated in your pulse, in your walking, or in your waking and sleeping interchanges. These you cannot avoid. You do not "cheat" in any of them. You cannot. Your "free will" does not extend that far.
You have an interchange of dealings with your husband or wife, or with a neighbor, or with your servant or customer. Each such interchange is the result of a decision. Equal GIVING and REGIVING in all such human decisions is rare. Inequality governs the great major portion of all human interchangings. All failure, frustrations, illnesses and wars, and all delinquency and crime are due to whatever RESIDUE OF UNBALANCE is left over in most all human transactions in which the right of "free will" is excercised.
If you DIVIDE the UNDIVIDED unequally, these two cannot MATE EQUALLY. Polarity in Nature is always balanced. The "electric" current polarizes EQUALLY. Nature is a multiple "electric" current. EQUALITY and BALANCE are the most conspicuous characteristic of automatic Nature, but INEQUALITY and UNBALANCE are an equally conspicuous characteristic of man-controlled "free will" interchangings in Nature.
In practically all human dealings, one mate--or both--in every transaction is "CHEATING". That is what is the matter with the world. Human beings have notyet begun to learn how to DIVIDE the UNDIVIDED EQUALLY. Therefore they can never UNITE them, for balanced unity is impossible with unequally mated pairs.
Until individuals and nations learn how to DIVIDE and UNITE in accordance with
the infallible law of RHYTHMIC BALANCED INTERCHANGE, there will always be strife, unhappiness and the ills which man himself makes through his ignorance of how to live.
The above stated facts bring us to another high point of comprehension regarding what HIGHER KNOWLEDGE MEANS. We will state it simply. Which is the mostimportant of the following: (1) whether a man knows how to build a better machine than was ever yet built or (2) whether a man is a good friend, citizen and neighbor or a bad one?
We unhesitatingly state that the most important element in the building of a civilization is the manner in which man deals with man, yet no educational institution on Earth has any department in which moral character is even considered to be a part of man's education. This machine-age has grown out of the brain of the machine-man. Perhaps you are now better equipped to understand: "In vain do we build the city if we do not first build the man."
Of what use are better techniques in the making of a better engineer, doctor, inventor, mathematician, historian or industrialist if in so doing we also build greed, avarice, lust for power to conquer, or desire to take more of the fruits of such techniques for one's self?
Can you not see, therefore, that if the most important thing in the world is the manner in which one person deals with another, it is plainly obvious that the highestknowledge man can obtain is the knowledge of his UNITY WITH ALL MANKIND WITH AND GOD?
RHYTHMIC BALANCED INTERCHANGE IN NATURE
We have talked long about divided pairs and the uniting of those pairs. The greater portion of mankind thinks of those sex-divided pairs as males and females of the human and animal species. They do not even think of mineral and vegetable life as sex-divided males and females. We have now reached the point where we desire to have you think of all Creation as divided pairs of males and females. This includes light itself and the wave. This also includes all of the elements of matter in the mineral kingdom and all of the gases and vapors of matter. It includes also all of the colors of the spectrum. Red and orange are as much male as man is, and blue and green as female as woman is. In other words, this entire universe consists solely ofmale and female bodies which unite to live and to create life and divide to die and be reborn again into life.
Let us help your visualization of this by arranging six of the nine octaves of matter in their true marital relations as equal pairs. See Fig. 8. These six octaves are rearrangements of the Russell Charts which will be reprinted later.
Please study these charts in their octave arrangements. The symbol of Fig, 8 (+/-) means one of an equally divided pair, and this symbol (+/+) means a united pair. Science deeply errs by using symbols like these (+ -) to symbolize equally divided pairs which have equal power and calling one positive and the other negative.
Each of these pairs in Fig. 8 will unite as stable, balanced mates. They are perfect marriages in Nature. If you will think of them as seesaws and their centering zeros as fulcrums, they will be like the example given on a previous page in which many children played seesaw with each other. Being fully balanced and equal, they demonstrate the fundamental principle which Immanuel and Krishna taught, each inHis own words but each being the essence of true science. Each of them, therefore, demonstrates the EQUALLY DIVIDED AND EQUALLY UNITED principle which completes a wave cycle of God's creative thinking.
Fig. 8
Nature knows no other process than that of
SEX DIVISION AND SEX UNITY
To further illustrate the meaning, there are three of these balanced pairs below the diagram. Take note of them. When the upper pair, lithium and fluorine, marry, they form the very stable element of lithium fluoride. They will abide together happily forever. Likewise, sodium and chlorine will abide together as a united pair known as sodium chloride, which is table salt. If you examine a crystal of this salt, you will see that it is a true cube, which is the perfection of balance in crystallitic Nature. Now look at the third pair--potassium and bromine. United as potassium bromide they will lead a happy, rhythmic, balanced life.
Each time we are drawn to the brilliant perceptions of Dr. Walter Russell and Lao, we are humbled by the contribution unto MAN. I gave unto this genius being the information as I relay unto this receiver--but his was total clarification and comprehension and he left a legacy which will now be awakened throughout the planet wherein prior to this it only touched the tiny few. His charts and diagrams bring to life the word descriptions and become easily understood from out of the fog of words. When the WORD is put to audio tape, an addition of the diagrams must be made for a picture is truly worth more than a thousand words. Can you ones see that man never dies--he is immortal? Walter Russell, as great as he was, was unrecognized--buried by the Elite deceivers. Now in this time after his departure from his last experience in manifestations--he shares with the regiving of this Truth and his beloved balanced mate sits with him and oversees that which we do here. It is the glory and abundance of the universe and such joy will flow into your being as you come intothis wondrous miracle of regiving. I bow in humble gratitude for a job done in perfection and unto my scribe, now, who tediously receives so that we can more clearly relate to the man of this day.
Brothers, the Hosts have truly come to prepare for the final steps of the return of the Master Teacher and I am honored and humbled to have allowance of service in this time and with you. Each of you who comprises this "team" is so loved and so appreciated by we of the unseen Hosts for you serve without demand for that which is not yet ready for manifestation in your comprehension. So be it.
Let us now go back and consider these pairs from the point of view of mismatings. If sodium marries bromine, or fluorine, they will "get along" together pretty well as long as chlorine keeps out of the way, but if chlorine appears, there will be a divorce more surely than with mismated men and women. If you examine the crystals of these mismated pairs, you will see them as distorted cubes, not true cubes. Sodium iodide is a greater mismating than sodium bromine. The crystals of this union are conspicuouslydistorted from the cube form.
We tell you this because you should be able to know the laws and processes of Nature in order to relate them to your life and in order for you to command them. If you went further and collected a few of these various crystals for study and comparison, you would find that the harmonies and inharmonies of human existence corresponded inprinciple with the harmonies and inharmonies of Nature. If you take another step further and combine any of the series marked 1 with the series marked 2 or 3, you will produce more and more violent disharmonies in the order of their difference in potential, which means from 1 to 4. In the series marked 3 is nitrogen which, with other mismatings, forms the base of many explosives.
Explosives in chemistry are produced entirely by attempting to unite pairs which are far apart in their electric potential, pressures and frequencies. Explosives in human emotions arise from the same cause. We can sum up this entire principle in the fewwords we made use of earlier: residue of unbalance in any transaction between any pairs. Look therefore to your angers and passions and open your chemical chart for an explanation of the angers and passions, the inharmonies and divorces, and the failures, bankruptcies and wars of humans.
Once again we repeat ourselves and say what should be said a million times each and every morning and another million times each and every night, if necessary, to stamp upon your consciousness THE ONE THING THAT EVERYBODY IS PERPETUALLY DOING EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY HOUR AND EVERY HOUR OF LIFE. EVERY ACTION IS A PERPETUAL DIVISION OF THE UNDIVIDED INTO EQUAL OR UNEQUAL PAIRS AND SEQUENTIAL UNITING OF THOSE PAIRS INTO EQUAL OR UNEQUAL ONES.
This is the idea which we are endeavoring to cement into human consciousness in order that the givings and regivings of man shall find balance in each other. That is the great lesson of life. Until it is learned, the brotherhood of man can never become the practice which is a necessary precedent to a unified civilization. That is the lesson of all these many millions of years in which men are trying to learn how to live together. It seems simple. To divide one into equal pairs is simple if it means only the cuttingof an apple in halves. Then by putting those halves together to make a whole apple also seems simple, and it works just that way and just as simply in Nature when one cuts the IDEA of the sun into two equal hemispheres and puts them together equally to form the body of the sun-idea, or harnesses an old, weak horse with a strong one to pull a heavy wagon.
If man would but learn Nature's way of balancing her transactions, you could have perfect civilization tomorrow, but as long as man divides UNEQUALLY and then TAKES the larger half instead of GIVING EQUALLY, he will never learn the long lesson which is the purpose of Creation.
God sends teachers unto men to help them learn that lesson. He sends Illuminates whom men call Messiahs, prophets, mystics, geniuses, poets, translators of cosmic rhythms of the arts and the lesser inspired but sincere ones who desire to love and be loved. These inspired men God sends to leaven the human loaf by inspiring other men. The Light they have within them, they can give to other men in the measure of their power to give, while the illumined ones can give in their greater measure. God perpetually talks with every creature in the measure of its ability to comprehend Him. Instinct is small measure but inspiration is large measure. That means that you can uplift the whole world by giving in your measure as we are giving in ours. That is the way that a united world will some day come to pass. It is a long road but each illumined step in it is another step in the direction of the goal of ecstasy which must come before enduring happiness can ever be known by man.
Do you not see by the above how necessary it is that you know the things which bring you to that goal rather than the things which prolong a treadmill existence in the chaotic whirlpool which so many think of as an enlightened civilization? Do you not see why you should constantly seek wisdom, knowledge and power directly from God? If you do see the necessity and thus desire in your heart to save yourself many reincarnations of more treadmill existence while learning that lesson, you will use everyendeavor to transform yourself into a higher being by multiplying your comprehension of the teachings which God gave to give to you by oft and long communion with Him in deep meditation.
This is why I continually insist upon your complete comprehension of the idea of polarity which DIVIDES and UNITES to give and regive. That is why I continually say to you that if you fully comprehend just one wave cycle of light, you have within you the basis of knowledge for light waves are God's language of Light.
Let us make it easier for you to visualize what is meant by dividing the undivided and uniting the divided, by giving you some of Dr. Russell's drawings. Fig.9 represents theundivided static zero universe of MIND-KNOWING and MIND-ENERGY. It is the zero white Light from which Creation emerges. Former lessons have made known to you that all of the REALITIES of the IDEA of Creation are within that zero undivided ONENESS. Understand, therefore, that God's KNOWING is your KNOWING. You must now know how the IDEA of Gods knowing and your knowing assume form, for the tought process which creates them is the same.
Fig. 9-A is the first step in telling you how. You see there two discs which are comprised of four rings of divided Light, one within the other. They represent the beginnings of God's spectrum thinking. They are the basis of the octaves. They areHis imaginings. In them is the pattern of His imagined IDEA. They are IDEA IN CONCEPT--UNCREATED IDEA in concept. Science calls them the INERT GASES.
Light-waves now begin to divide that concept into pairs and set them in motion to create bodies which image the imaginings in form. That is MIND-ENERGY expressed by thinking. Thought-waves divide these four rings of white Light into four pairs of rings of the spectrum colors and project them toward each other for the purpose of uniting the FOUR PAIRS INTO ONE. These four pairs collide and become two hemispheres of compressed spectrum light centered by white incandescent light. Together they make one perfect sphere. That is the way that all matter is created.
I am not telling you this as a principle of physics for it is not even known in physics. I am telling it to you as a universal principle whether in morals, character-forming or invention, or whether in the painting of a picture or trading furs forfood. Every transaction in Nature or in the social, marital or business life of people must follow this octave principle of DIVISION of an idea into its two parts and the uniting of those parts by four progressive steps toward the mature idea. THE RESULT OF THAT UNITING is what counts for success or failure, happiness or misery, peace or war.
If you study Fig.10 you will see that there is perfect symmetry in the divisions of the pairs which interchange with each other to consummate a oneness in themselves--such as sodium chloride--and then unite with each other as a whole to consummate a unity of the whole idea.
If you will now think of the universe as one undivided Idea and of all the parts of the universe as many IDEAS which are divisions of the whole ONE IDEA, you can better comprehend that the divided ideas are expressed in octaves because the wave which divides them is expressed in spectrum-divided octaves. Octaves grow. They become waves. Waves come and they go. In "electric" terms, they are called frequencies or cycles. In terms of growth, we call these cycles life and deathcycles. They come and go. Everything in nature comes and goes in order that it may come again.
That is the way IDEA is given bodies to simulate IDEA OF MIND which has no body. We might clarify this also by symbolizing it. The idea of MAN is part of the whole Idea of Creation. Within the IDEA is the DNA/RNA of the manifestation of the idea. Let us see how God creates a body form for an idea by dividing the undivided Idea, which has no body, into four pairs which must grow into the matured idea and then uniting those four pairs into the ONE to become a complete octave.
MALE FEMALE
0 1 2 3 4-0-4 3 2 1 0
baby youth United youth baby
embyo child man-woman child embryo
Let me do a little concluding here, please. If you will but give deep thought to this diagram, you will see these comings and goings of what you call life and death as constant repetitions of action with rest periods between the actions. That is what life is. You manifest it every second of your life. If you could but look at your life cycles as you look at the swinging of the pendulum, you would have a still clearer idea of the continuity of life-expression in the reincarnations of your own life. There is action,reversal and rest in the pendulum's swinging, but the pendulum forever swings. No cycle ever ends or begins. Cycles are but never-ending pulsings. There is growth, reversal and decay in the expressed idea of the tree, but the tree forever reappears. Thesame law applies to YOU. YOU DISAPPEAR but YOU FOREVER REAPPEAR.
Can you not see the universal meaning of sex in these explanations? The universal sex principle, like the universal life principle, is a continuity. It never ceases. The sexinterchange which begins life is continuous. It never ceases. That is what growth is. That is what mother-fatherhood is. That is what Love is.
The entirety of all the universe is a continuing expression of the Love principle, which God is. It is a ceaseless, endless continuity of giving and regiving. Man's life is given over to the purpose of learning how to give and regive EQUALLY. That is man's problem. That is civilization's problem. Man's entire present life, and thousands of lives before the present one, is spent in learning that one lesson. Whatever happiness or misery, success or failure, man creates through his experiences during his long lesson-learning, are made by himself. These are the rewards or punishments which he creates for himself. As a man thinketh, so is he. As a man acteth so he becomes. Every creating thing in this universe is SELF-created--and that SELF within each creating thing is GOD.
Let us break here for a brief rest and begin a new chapter. Thank you.
PJ 35
CHAPTER 8
REC #3 GERMAIN
MONDAY, JULY 29, 1991 2:10 P.M. YEAR 4, DAY 347
MORAL CHARACTER
As these lessons move along, I must state that I deeply know my responsibility to you who are seeking to awaken the Light of all-knowledge and power within you and to the world of men who are seeking to build a unified civilization which is only possible when MAN, as a whole, shall have found that Light within himself.
The moral world is fast sinking because all of its institutions base their beliefs upon the education of man's body instead of upon his Mind. You, and all mankind, will be caught in that maelstrom of world-degeneration and immorality whether you will it or not. Our responsibility to you--an yours to the world--hangs heavy upon your beings as we put to print these lessons. We can give you the key to the door of heaven, but itis for you and the world to turn the key and enter into its Light. That key is KNOWLEDGE, for ignorance alone keeps man imprisoned within his body and compels that body to ever walk the treadmill of a physical existence under the lash of its slavery.
The world is grossly ignorant of its greatest essential--CHARACTER. You are continuing to build a criminal, immoral world of fear and licentiousness because your concept of values is "material". The Soul which ties man to God is not only allowed to sleep, but is forced to sleep by a civilization which is forever trying to "gain the whole world at the price of losing its own Soul".
I ask that you stamp these next words upon your Consciousness with indelible ink:
1. The MOST IMPORTANT THING in life is what you do to your neighbor.
2. The LEAST IMPORTANT THING in life is what you or your neighbor believes
3. He who gives of himself to his neighbor enriches his Soul and builds character, but he who takes from his neighbor seals his soul in its tomb and enslaves his body to the world-treadmill from which there is no escape other than the awakening of his Soul.
4. The most important and noble attribute of man is CHARACTER.
What are world institutions which are endeavoring to build a stable civilization doing about the building of character in the world? What are education, religion, science and government doing to build the character in man which is a necessary prerequisite for a unified civilization? This is the need for some 25 of the prior JOURNALS--so that you can see that the intent is not only to NOT build character--but in fact, to tear it down completely. In every facet of your life--personal and social--you have been betrayed and pushed into deeper ignorance.
EDUCATION is entrusted with the unfolding of Mind-awareness which alone unites man with God. The primal necessity of education is the building of character in man through giving him knowledge of the arts end skills of man's produce and of the interchanges between men which make better neighbors and citizens. It is, instead, creating machine men, robots and parrots who remember and repeat instead of geniuses who think and know. Education is training bodies instead of illumining minds. Our schools and universities have teachers for everything but CHARACTER.
RELIGION is entrusted with bringing love into the world in order to unify mankind into ONE WORLD. Religion is the most disunited organization on Earth. It consists of over 400 disunited sects which are divided one from another by unnatural pagan beliefs in miracles, superstitions, creeds, dogmas and doctrines which have bred disunity, intolerance, fear, ignorance and licentiousness throughout the world for long centuries. DISUNITY CANNOT UNITE.
The Christ who founded Christianity told the world of a God of Love, Unity and Brotherhood of Man. The many religions teach fear, sin, evil and a God of wrath whom man must fear. They teach GOODNESS as a reward for virtue. They teach many things which Immanuel did not say--things forged into the New Testament by those who wished to keep fear alive in man for their own profit.
Religion has fought science and the acquisition of knowledge since its very beginning to keep fear of eternal damnation and freedom to think alive in him. Its history is written in the blood of martyrs who suffered the tortures of the Inquisition. The eyes of thousands of "heretics" have been gouged out for refusal to believe the excesses of its creeds and doctrines. Even unto this day the charge of heresy rises quickly to the tongue of one churchman who believes a shade differently from another one, for freedom of religion is not a characteristic of churchmen. That one thing which the Christ deemed most necessary in His teachings--brotherly love and unity--is impossible in a disunited system of many religious beliefs and faiths as it is for thedark to illumine with light.
SCIENCE, which is entrusted with the responsibility of verifying God by acquiring knowledge of God's processes of Creation and other qualities of the Creator and Creation, has denied that responsibility on the ground that God cannot be verified in the laboratory. Instead of being the equal mate to religion which, together, could lead mankind to a comprehensible God, science has severed itself completely from the responsibility of having anything to do with man's Soul and has relegated its offices entirely to the multiplication of the product of man's body, and draws no line between the production of implements which man needs for body comfort or which nations of men need for body destruction. There is not one-quarter of an inch provided for in the platform of this great element of social welfare for the development of the most needed element of the social order-- CHARACTER.
GOVERNMENT, whose very essence is unity--and whose very purpose is to serve its people in order that their complex and diverse interests can be resolved into one harmonious working whole--does not fulfill that purpose and never has. Government governs; it rules now as it always has. Governments and rulers have built empires by slaughtering and exploiting other nations of men. They have spread hatred and fear throughout the world and created enemies which have impoverished them and caused them to tax their peoples for generations to come as the fruits of their RULING.
Governments started as the expression of power and might of ONE MAN OVER ALL MEN. Pharaohs, kings, emperors, czars and other absolute rulers of nations governed justly or unjustly, brutally or kindly, but in them was all the power of "might-over-right" which each potentate chose to exercise. Warsbegan that way. One king desired more power and wealth and got it, or lost his own by descending upon his neighbor with his sword. It has ever been thus since the dawn of history. The lust for power has always crushed the desire for spiritual unfolding of man which built character in him.
No greater element of your social order is so tainted with the qualities which foster a criminal growth than politics. The very word is tainted with the connotation of corruption and bribery. Like other elements of your present social order, government standards are fast declining. The statesmen of today have not the standards of dignity which were characteristic of your first presidents. Empires have ennobled pirates, conquerors and magnates, but God ennobles only those whose characters have made them like unto Him.
As far back as your counting of 35th century B.C., represented by monuments erected throughout the world, is evidence of man's search for power in which the machinery of human government became the organized expression of the thirst for power--the appetite for the exercise of force. Practically every war ever fought has been a political one in which one man, or one nation, sought for power over other men or nations and/or to gain of their wealth. Up to this very MOMENT in this generation today, one man in many nations had the power of life and death over every man in his country. In no other organization of human life has the thirst for power been so drastically exercised, and by might-over-right methods which are the opposite of all that is morally "christian" or ethical.
Religion and government have persistently fought each other for power supremacy since the dawn of history. That power, which both church and state fought for, was the power over other men, and such power was always based upon self-motives. We are not criticizing any world institution--I have no purpose nor intent to do so. We are telling YOU what is the matter with YOUR WORLD, just as a physician must diagnose an ill patient. It cannot be said of the doctor that he is criticizing a patient by telling him he has a cancer. Must it always mean that if we tell Truth we are somehow less your friend? The human race is still primate intellectually and barbarous physically, and that includes your institutions. If we, who are teachers of God's ways and processes, cannot diagnose world faults and thus help to cure them, the world will still suffer from its ailments without knowing what those ailments are. The world needs leadership, but when the church or government desires power,leadership then means dominion over men. However, it should be guided by the teachings of one of God's Messengers who taught that the leader is best who works WITH men in such a manner as to make them believe that they DID IT THEMSELVES! SALU!
I offer unto you these things so that you will know what is the matter with the world and offset it by the one and only thing which will offset it, the development of character in man. Previously, we said that a certain statesman said that we might cure the ills of the world, "If we only knew what they were." In the foregoing pages we have told you what they are. The question now is shall you remedy them, or have you time to remedy them? Has the world fallen too low to remedy them? Every symptom which existed as cause of the fall of other great civilizations exists today in your whole world. Enmity, fear, greed, lust for power, hatred, a fast lowering culture, a fast increasing sex looseness and promiscuity including teen-agers, treason, slavery, crime increase and race hatred, and the killing of an average of a million brothers of men by other brothers of men, have lowered the standards of world morality, honor and character more since 1900 than the world has gained in eight centuries prior to 1900, and with it world culture has degenerated in like measure. This does not, you must know, include murder through "legal" means such as abortion.
We are now to the point where we can paint the whole world picture of the struggle of man very simply and briefly. For at least a million years, man has been able to make implements for his domestic and war purposes, but not until about 8,000 years ago did he know right from wrong. He led an instinctively controlled life supplemented by primal reasoning ability for survival only.
Reduced to its ultimate simplicity, the fight for survival of body means TAKING what one needs for survival of body. To take from others means the development of the physical power and strength needed for taking.
THE PHYSICAL EXPRESSION OF UNFOLDING MAN IS EVIDENCED BY TAKING.
THE SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION OF UNFOLDING MAN IS EVIDENCED BY GIVING.
The Dawn of Conscience came into the human race about 8,000 years ago, and with it simultaneously began the Dawn of Character and Righteousness. We mean by that, that man began to know right from wrong and began to govern his actions accordingly.
Two thousand years of increasing ability to think and create gave to man a language and an ability to carve that language into words, symbols and forms on the stones of his tombs and temples. Thus began the ages-long fight between the physical desires of primal man as expressed by TAKING and the slowly dawning spiritual man as expressed by GIVING. Even the giving of justice, consideration and friendship until then was unknown.
The fruits of the TAKING principle are the exercise of might-over-right for acquisition of power and material possessions. The fallacy of the taking principle is that what one takes from another to enrich one's self with possessions and happiness will impoverish him instead and bring anguish to his house in the measure of his taking. The law respecting the taking principle is that the exercise of might-over-right by the strong over the weak will strengthen the weak to destroy the strong. The slave will always rise to slay the master. He who slays by the sword is slain by thesword. The richest and most powerful empire builders in the world have been reduced to living on rations behind barricades of armaments lest they be destroyed by the descendants of those whom they have destroyed.
The fruits of the GIVING principle are love, happiness, inspiration and the exaltation which comes only to those who have become aware of the Inner Light to some extent. The law respecting the giving principle is that what one gives he always has whether or not he is regiven, but he who gives is regiven in kind.
There you have it, precious ones, the story of the rise of man from his jungle to his high heavens. It is the story of ages-long learning the lesson of love through countless experiences in which the unfolding of the spiritual in man gave to him more and more awareness of the, Light of his own divinity and Oneness with God.
Now returning to the meaning of higher knowledge. If what you do to your neighbor is the most important event of every moment, can you not see, therefore,that you either TAKE or GIVE to him in every action? If you TAKE, you are exercising primitive physical practices which will react against you. If you GIVE, you are storingup the most valuable attribute a man can acquire--CHARACTER--and you are on the road to making the supreme discovery of your Self, which is the goal of all mankind.
Is it not plain to you that the Creator of forms for His IDEAS has as distinct a pattern for the unfolding of world destiny and your part in it as He has for an oak tree or a butterfly? Is not all Creation patterned in the form of its IDEA? Do you not truly realize this glorious fact? If you do, we can now return to the statement made in otherpages that God sends illumined teachers among men during every period of man's unfolding to reinspire in them the inspirations He has given men. This has been so since the beginning. You know of them as far back as around the 34-35th century B.C. You have known about two of the greatest of these, Immanuel "Jesus" and Krishna. We have recited their basic teachings to you, teachings which were for the sole purpose of awakening the Light of God-awareness in man and the development of nobility of character in man. We will now tell you about many of the hundred to two hundred lesser teachers whom God has illumined down the ages, in differing measure, to give you the great gift of character which is the fruit of those who have become transformed from one who TAKES to one who GIVES.
These names are those of the immortals who will never be forgotten to the very ends of history. The reason for and the measure of their immortality lies solely in the fact that they have learned to walk and talk with God, and because of that fact they have learned to give priceless gifts to man which endure forever. These mystics, prophets, poets, creative geniuses of the arts, and wise sages, are what they are solely because they have transformed themselves through knowledge within them directly from God, instead of acquiring only the simulation of knowledge through their senses. These are the Messengers of God to man who give of all they have and enrich themselves and the whole world by their giving.
Do you know what we mean by this? If not, think of a Beethoven or a Leonardo. These men cannot help giving all they have of themselves, whether they are regiven or not. They cannot be impoverished by thus giving for they are like unto wells of living waters. The more they give, the more they have to give, and God's law works as surely for them as it does for the lily in the field which gives no thought of reward for its perfume, and it will work equally for you in the measure of your awareness of the Light of our divinity.
Previously, we told you that immortals from every age left heritages to man for the building of character in him. There has been no interval in all history in which messengers thus prepared have not been among men to transform them and awaken in them that Light which will make of one man out of ten million. We wish to leavewith you one other thought before we give you the greatest teachings the world has ever known, teachings which have had no meaning as yet to the human race which is still in its early barbarous stage of TAKING by man-killing, teachings which are the basis of character but ignored by your educational institutions.
That one thought is that every illumined Messenger ever born to Earth for the purpose of uplifting the moral standards of man brought only one message, and that could be put into these words--LOVE YE ONE ANOTHER. Their teachings were limited to telling people how to live to manifest the Love principle upon which this universe is founded. In reviewing these teachings since recorded history began about60 centuries B.C., you will find that one golden thread running through all divine Messengers' teachings. We will now search for that golden thread of the master poets' and mystics' thinking to tell you why that which they have given to the world should become the source of higher educational teachings for the building of a moral and righteous civilization, and why their omission from human educational teachings is the cause of the present growth of crime and degeneracy which will inevitably plunge all mankind into another long Dark Age.
It is difficult for people who ride in luxurious motor cars and live in comfortable homes to believe this for most of the world believes that you are in a high state ofcivilization. The poets know better, however. Listen, to what Emerson said to the world in the 1870's:
"We think our present civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only as the cock-crowing and the morning star. In our barbarous society the influence of character is in its infancy.
Herbert Spencer said at that same time:
"Our civilization is based upon piracy. Until we become a moral and ethical people no civilization can endure."
James H. Breasted also said:
"The more pressing need of America at the present critical juncture is not more mechanization but more character:
Your greatest Minds of all time gave their messages to mankind in vain. They have been ignored because man was not ready for them. The physical man is still dominant and he wants only a physical world with more comforts for his body, more machines to multiply his physical productivity, and more and better explosiveswith which to kill. Man has not yet discovered that such a world breeds crime as well as wars. We do not mean the underworld crimes alone. We lay stress upon the inevitable increase of treason and that kind of disloyalty which leads to rebellion and governmental overthrow by war-made enemies boring within.
Empire building and colonialization have furnished the cause for the state or world hatred which exists today, and lack of teachings which build character and righteousness was the cause of empire building.
If it is not too late, there is still hope for the reversal of world degradation if the educational and religious organizations would even now build character and righteousness in man by giving him the knowledge of the higher teachings of God's few Messengers who He illumined for that purpose.
In conclusion, we have now laid the foundation for your full comprehension of what higher knowledge means, and have clearly shown why mankind will continue to fall in eternal sequences of Dark Ages until man as a whole, and all of his institutions as his working parts, realizes : "In vain do we build the city if we do not first build the man."
Next we will go back to the earliest known Messengers to man, about 8,000 years ago in Egypt where the Dawn of Consciousness and Character began. We will trace the essence of their teaching down to this day. It is my hope that the inner knowledge will begin to become apparent within each of you.
Remember, as we close this chapter and allow digestion and a bit of rest for the scribe--BALANCE. The other words were added to help man comprehend that one word.
Another thought is to ask you to give deepest thought to the word UNITY and realize what that word means to your physical and spiritual manifestation of God in Action. Fully realize that unity is impossible if the pairs of a transaction are not equal. We have told you that you can trace all of your ills and the world's terrible troubles to that inequality in the transactions of Man in Action, which leaves a residue of unbalance which has not been able to be united with its mate.
Learn to think of the two equal hemispheres of the sun as a perfect mating. Each half is equal, and each half cannot function without the other. Think of yourself and your mate that way. Say to yourself, "I have no intellect of my own, or body of my own, or thought of my own. The other half is my wife/husband and I cannot fully function unless both halves are as equally balanced as the two hemispheres of the sun." If you can think and act that way, you multiply the power of both immeasurably. Likewise, every transaction of life is between pairs, and the pairs must balance with each other in order to become united. Will you take this thought into every moment you can give to meditation for it is the BIGGEST THOUGHT IN ALL CIVILIZATION. If you can master it all else will be added unto you.
Thank you for joining me. We will continue on the morrow. Good-day.
I AM --- GERMAIN