REC #2 GERMAIN
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1991 9:10 A.M. YEAR 4, DAY 351
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1991
Germain present in the Mighty I Am Presence. Greetings. It has been such a busy week for you that it seems difficult to settle into JOURNAL writing. It gives us a good opportunity, however, to refresh and come back within focus of subject. It is fine, Dharma, for fires must be extinguished.
I ask that you please be allowed a copy of the Sanskrit material. We will be bringing you information on craft and advanced technology and it may shock a few into attention if we compare it to that of 5,000 years ago. The ones of that time were far, far advanced of you as you will be given to see. But for this day we are going to first answer some pondered questions and then move smartly along.
As the earlier "PLEIADEAN CONNECTIONS" JOURNALS are beginning to filter through we are getting some superb inquiries regarding Consciousness, meditation and prayer. Some are saying that they have been practicing in various manners in "getting in touch" and they think they comprehend the material--but "nothing happens" and they wonder why. Let us look at a few of these and get you some help early on as is possible. For by the time you receive this book the more detailed discussion will be in your possession along with the tapes and you can have a better perspective of this subject.
QUESTION:
You say there is no need to pray "with words". Why is that? All of my life I have heard clergymen pray fervently to God in Church and heard my parents thank God for each meal. It is a beautiful and inspiring custom. I know you have a good reason but it seems to me the custom of praying at times, such as upon retiring or at meal times, is very beautiful. Also, when one is faced with a problem one should pray to God for a solution, and also pray when one desires something. Does it not say in the Bible: "Ask and ye shall receive"?
This question is not asked in a critical sense for we revere you and your teachings. It is asked simply because I have never before heard of such a custom as yours. I have heard also that you do not believe in the idea of kneeling in prayer, or bowing your heads in humility. Is that true and, if so, will you explain why?
GERMAIN:I thank you for this question, for I know that people would become very much closer to God if they pray WITHIN than with words or at periodic times, like taking meals or medicines as a habitual routine. The answer lies in an attitude of Mind, rather than in a custom God is present at ALL times not just periodically. The divergence between my suggestions and your habitual routines of mass-man is basically founded upon the fact that, as Illuminates, we have become aware ofGod's total and unswerving presence within. Having experienced a Oneness with God, I cannot possibly set periodic times when I shall be aware of His presence any more than you could set times for breathing in periodic intervals and stop breathing in between those intervals.
As you come into the experience of that UNITY of which I have been speaking you shall also recognize "knowledge" of your divinity and it becomes impossible to pray in words and sounds only at periodic times as it would be to talk aloud to yourselves at times. It is beautiful to pause and even if you speak aloud or do not--it is good to recognize in the consciousness these "special" times and give extra thanks and appreciation. It is the "habit" and "ritual" which becomes mundane which is suggested you begin to diminish in conscious attention. Life must begin to be lived as one continuous communion with God/Prayer, every moment, whether working at the daily needs or sitting to eat. In this manner God becomes an accepted andconstant companion. It is not nearly as embarrassing to one's self to be always in presence with God and expect solutions as it is to wait until you have massive problems and then give formal petition. God is an ongoing benefactor and if you keep Him within your cognition there ceases to be need to ask special favors.
The reason a time of quiet pause is most beneficial at given times is to allow ones to give their own thanks and not just the parroted babblings of the speaker--man becomes lazy and always enjoys having another do his work for him. It is not possible! It matters not where you put your head, etc., at these times--but bowing, staring or lifting one's head makes not one whit of difference--the point is to cause you to THINK about that which you are doing.
Ones often feel most close and exalted in the Light and will desire to lift his head high in the spirit of what the prophet said: "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my strength." Now, we know that the strength comes from within but the perception is that God abounds in all things and unto the farthest reaches.
Those who deliberately kneel with that sort of humility which is described in the words "for we are but worms beneath thy feet" are not truly expecting much for self. Anyone who can say, "I and my Father are ONE," and know what he is saying, cannot designate himself as a worm, or, feel like one, in God's presence. That is what I mean by saying that inner prayer differs from the way one prays who feels himself to be overcome with sin and a lowly creature who is SEPARATE AND APART FROM GOD.
Let us consider an even larger reason which will make it very difficult to continue in conventional custom. The very act of talking aloud in words implies that one is talking to another physical person outside of himself, as you talk to a friend, business acquaintance, mother or father. You must realize that God is within--that you are one with HIM--That your Mind is within His Mind. You, therefore, THINK WITH HIM instead of TALKING TO HIM. He is within you, not over there somewhere afar from you. His dwelling place in heaven is your dwelling place. He needs no body with which to hear, so why talk aloud in words? It is because you are "trained" to "lead" prayer for the benefit of those present and it is not wise nor necessary. Do the teaching and THEN, do the praying.
You need to recall what Immanuel said in this respect when he derided the piety of the Pharisees who prayed aloud that all may know of their "piety". Do you not recall the word he used in describing them? The word was HYPOCRITES.
When Immanuel went up into the mountain to "pray", He did not pray in the conventional manner of mass-man--remember? He COMMUNED! He went forth alone so that He could commune in His own silence. He wished to talk WITH Him in that silent language of inner Light as geniuses and mystics do so that God could answer and not be drowned out by the babbling tongue. You cannot hear well and be speaking at the same time--you can hear and know if you are in the silence.
What of "Ask and you will receive?" Does it make sense that it is heard by God more easily through voice aloud as from the heart within? Are there not ways to ask within? If God is within your very thought--will He not pick up the message FIRST? We are speaking, precious ones, about IDEA. The farmer has his way of asking by putting seed in the ground. That is the Creator in the action of creating, as exemplified in the farmer sowing his seed. In that very act, he is asking for a crop by becoming co-Creator with God--WITHIN. He is not asking God for a crop--in words. He is asking in the only way God answers prayer, and that is by the action of man in doing his part with the certainty that God will do HIS PART.
What would you say to the farmer who asked for a crop in spoken words, then waited for God to give him what he requested? You would undoubtedly think he was insane if he really believed that God answered prayers in that manner. You call that wishful thinking, yet countless numbers of people really believe that if they ask fervently enough God will do FOR them what they ask without cooperation by them or any action on their part.
What would you say of the man that asked for money, or love, or success, or any of the many desires of man, without doing anything about it himself--just sat and waited? What would you think of the man who asked God to cure his stomach trouble and then kept right on eating ground glass and arsenic? It becomes obvious what your answer should be, yet millions of people pray fervently to ask God to stop the wars which man just set into motion. "God save our sons"--that YOU just sent to confront the bullets--what of the other mothers' prayers for their sons who confront your son? God tells you to "STOP making war and the problem will not be present." Do you listen? Do you act? No, you go forth and make another war.
Your free will gives you the privilege of making wars or jumping over high cliffs. That is your privilege. I cannot take away that privilege without taking away your free will and making an automaton of you. I hold the right to the reaction of men for Imust balance all things in My universe, but the reaction will be as hurtful to you as is your action. That is the Law of Love which gives and regives IN KIND, and EQUALITY.
Note that the usual verbal prayer is mostly selfish request for something wanted by somebody who has no thought or intention of giving anything in return for the gift. Most all prayers and such requests are but wishful thinking if even that much. Whatof your recent war when after the war and you had lost fewer men than predicted, you pounced on this writer and said, "see, there weren't hardly any deaths. Hatonn was wrong!" Was he? What of the over two million Iraqis who will perish before this "war" is truly ended. I give you worse scenario--the war is NOT over and many millions will perish.
In the week just past the full intent was for the U.S. to bomb into oblivion Baghdad and most of the remaining portions of Iraq--the Russians stopped you. What think ye of that?
What think ye of the Administration of the U.S. who now wishes to convict (in absentia) Khun Sa of the Drug Cartel, the world's biggest Drug Lord, for Drug Trafficking by the U.S. Yes, I said "by the U.S.". They also wish to blame him for the failure of the BCCI banking network. How can you pray about that? The man offered to stop trafficking for his only real customer was the United States of America--headed by men in your highest government. What do you pray for in such a circumstance? Most of you deny this as I speak, but it will come forth in proven form as given here--and then what will you think? You will have been praying for destruction instead of "cure" in your ignorance. Is it not better to come into knowing what is about?
The entire stories are now in print by totally credible "witnesses" to the FACTS--you have but to read them--in fact, they have been given unto you right from Hatonn in the JOURNALS and EXPRESSES as quickly as fingers can type. A lot of you have written and told Dharma that you are praying diligently for her salvation for she is obviously trapped in evil. You would pray that God leave her? God is doing the writing in all instances--would you have Him leave her? You see, ye know not that for which you pray. Can you not pray unto God silently in offer of doing His will that this terrible thing come to a close and ask what service you can accept? He will give you the IDEA of service--but if the petition is empty then you will most certainly not perform the task. This is what is meant by "God helps those who help themselves."
Let us consider the crippled person in the wheeled chair. Say he prays to walk again. Say he has two legs but damage has left him unable to walk but there is nerve sensation within the limbs to minute extent. Would he not be wise to begin to work diligently at building those leg muscles in preparation for supporting his weight when he finally stands to walk? Why would God cure you if you could not utilize the cure? Surprise! You are cured and you don't know it for you have prepared for no cure.
The greatest obstacle to the fulfillment of prayer is the belief that God is somewhere out in pace and hears every word you utter with His "senses", the way you hear spoken words. This concept is due to the fact that 95 % of the human race has hardly begun as yet to unfold intellectually. They do not know any better for they are still babes in primate, and primacy means ignorance. Note, I did not say in stupidity--I said ignorance which means, not with knowledge.
QUESTION: I would like to know more of the meaning of that phrase which is used so often:"Be still and know".
GERMAIN: The universe of all-knowledge is the invisible universe of stillness from which motion springs. The entire chapters of two units of these writings are devoted to explaining this universe of Mind where God dwells. It is called "space" in common terms. It is actually a universal vacuum. Spend time with the fully diagrammed drawings of rings with holes in them which tell you how matter is created. For you who do not have privy to the books, we have rediagramed them for you in this JOURNAL.
Centering those fast whirling rings is a shaft of gravity which is perfectly STILL. That is where inspiration and thought come from. That center is like the fulcrum from which a moving lever extends. The centering fulcrum is still. The lever alone moves but it borrows its power to move from the still fulcrum.
That is what the universe of Mind and matter is like. That which is immortal, eternal, changeless and unconditioned is still. That which moves is mortal, transient, changing and conditioned. REALITY is still. The make-believe universe of matter in motion is always in motion. There is no knowledge, power or reality to motion.
QUESTION:Why cannot other people see the Truth in these books? I speak primarily of "educated university people".
GERMAIN:The conventionally educated man may know the whole encyclopedia yet be bored by listening to an opera which would lift you to the higher joy. He might be able to sell a million dollars worth of invented product, yet not be able to invent a mouse trap. The human race first unfolds its Physical nature. It then unfolds its spiritual or mental nature. The friend of education out of all knowledge has simply not begun to unfold his spiritual nature and has not present interest in so doing. He is devoid of feeling that which you feel. His imagination has not yet awakened and his receptors dulled by that which he has been told. His own creative powers are not yet awakened for he still functions according to that which he has been told to believe. If such a man wrote a book, it would be a re-hash from his memories of other books. If he were put on a board of directors of a large company, he would resist change. These ones are stuck in ignorance. These ones can go endlessly to school after school in subject after subject and then turn about and even blame you for spoiling their program by your absurd interference. This is why you offer--you do not demand nor push--WHEN THE STUDENT IS RAIDY THE TEACHER APPEARS! I do suggest that you get the copy of the material "back" so that you might try it on another.
QUESTION:When a battery discharges, is it not the same as a body dying? If that is so, is not a growing body a charging body? Is not that what you are calling life and death?
GERMAIN:I believe I can answer yes to each of these. Life's simple process of creating matter is an electric charging effect. Everything grows in strength and more powerful by electric charge just as your battery grows more and more powerful by electric charge. In electric terms, that is called charge. In biological terms, it is called life. It is the same effect as inbreathing. When Nature manifests idea, it then rests from the creative action. Discharge then takes place of charge. Decay replaces growth. Death replaces life.
I have described a wave cycle. The universe consists solely of wave cycles which come and go to manifest the idea of eternal life by repetitive sequences of life and death cycles.
QUESTION:The subject of meditation interests me more than anything else in your teachings, for it is beginning to mean much to me. At first I thought I had to concentrate upon some idea, or think hard. The more I do the opposite, the more I feel ideas coming to me. Will you explain more about it?
GERMAIN: So many feel that meditation means concentration that I am glad to respond to that specific question. Meditation means communion WITH GOD. It means being TAUGHT by God--directed by Him and controlled by Him. To accomplish this, you must open your Mind and give God a chance to teach you. To concentrate, you are shutting God out by doing all the talking yourself. The purpose of meditation is to give you knowledge of the part you are to play in the drama of creation. God sometimes tells you the next few lines in your part of the play and sometimes tells your part and your destiny for many years ahead, as He always does to Illuminates. One little inspiration which comes to you in meditation is like unto one paragraph, or more, in a very long chapter. God gives you that little now because you can bear only that little now. When you are strong in the Light, you will have many full chapters given you in a timeless flash, and you will begin to unfold those chapters in action for years.
God never gives to people more than they can bear, so if you deeply desire knowledge and power, learn to seek the silence of His World with Mind unfettered from body-sensing. That is the real meaning of meditation. It must begin by stopping your thinking.
It might be well for you to reflect upon the great world geniuses. Imagine a Pucccini or Wagner walking out into the forest. Very soon he forgets that he is walking into the forest. He eliminates body from his awareness. His Mind is wideopen to hear the rhythms which come out of the silence. Soon they come to him in the mood of Nature which reflects them to him in Light and he reflects them back in sound. The Moonlight Sonata, for instance, is a reflection of a mood of Nature such as that. You can readily understand that Beethoven did not go out into the moonlight to commune with God by shutting his Mind up tight by concentrating. It was wide open to listen with his inner ears to the mood of Nature.
Let me add, that he who is enabled to so decentrate that he can translate nature's moods does so only because he has been enabled to talk to God in God's language of light-waves and light-rhythms. The immortals of the world who have given to it therhythms which constitute world culture, ethics and righteousness are those who have been enabled to transcend human senses. The moment you have so transformed yourself so that you can translate those rhythms of God's thinking, you will have taken your first step toward immortality.
QUESTION:I have a son whose sole desire is to paint pictures. He would willingly give up every pleasure that boys usually indulge in order to paint. We do not mind his painting but we are informed that good artists cannot make a living since modern art degraded good art. Also, he neglects his schooling and other duties of life. He listens to classic music for hours but will not listen to television. The general impression of his friends is that he is an impractical dreamer who will never amount to anything, and my men friends seem to be sorry for my wife and me for having so dull a son. What do you think about it, and what should we do about it?
GERMAIN:Your son is one of the small percent of the human race who has unfolded his spiritual nature beyond the other large majority of physically-sensed humans. The physical majority do not understand the spiritually-advanced ones. It is an experience which they have never had for themselves; therefore they either deny it in others or do not recognize it.
The question as to whether or not your boy can make money out of art is not the issue. He must cultivate it for what it will do for himself, whether he becomes an artist or not. Such expressions in the arts denote the creative mind rather than the imitative one. That is what he is efforting to develop. You should assist him in doing so, even if he has to earn his living some other way and use art as an avocation.
The point for a parents is to be most discerning. That means that you must carefully attend that which the child is doing, to be aware if this is his love of art or his cop-out on living. Some people go endlessly to school, then graduate school and postgraduate and NEVER ARRIVE. This is not the same as having a driving desire to accomplish expression of creative Mind. Watch what is being listened to on those noise boxes--if it be heavy metal noise--it is brainwashing the child into negative experience. You must use wisdom and I can only respond to the extent that you have given me input. It appears you have a most precious gift which must be nurtured, but you mustdiscern and judge the circumstance. You see, you must NEVER "JUDGE" THE PERSON--YOU MUST ALWAYS JUDGE THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND ACTIONS.
As we move through these lessons I continue to accept and respect the commission given unto me--the responsibility to you and to the world to point out the way of life which God intends for man. This is in order that we may reverse the downward trend of the race which is becoming more and more alarming daily. This downward trend can be expressed by the fact that intelligence has not increased at the same rate as the complexity of the problems to be solved. Thus you are on the downward spiral. This causes our contention that man's desire for mechanical and scientific advancement for the purposes of fulfilling body needs exceeds his desire for spiritual unfolding in the direction of culture, ethics, character and creative achievement in the finer arts and creative expressions.
You must take note that the pursuit of the kind of happiness which is based upon material values is not bringing you happiness, but it has shown itself incapable of preventing your deterioration.
That is why it is time, now, to show the world what is the matter with it so that it can remedy the trouble. Our analysis of the meaning of higher knowledge is given to you for that single purpose. That is also why we are telling you that man must know his universe in order to understand its ways, just as a motorist must know the rules of the road in order to journey through a city. To know your universe, you must become scientists, whether or not you wish such, for you cannot know Nature's ways without becoming "scientists". Before the days of Galileo, dread, superstition and ignorance pervaded the land. Science had progressed far in these centuries even if its concepts were not in accord with Nature. The ancients fully believed that the Earth was flat and that the sun and stars revolved around it. Copernicus dispelled this belief, however, and proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe with heaven immediately surrounding it and Dante's hell just beneath it. That discovery of Copernicus started new thinking, and more knowledge of your universe will bring the great revolution of understanding which will bring a new era of peace on earth. Does this change, even when the facts are proven, come easily? Nay! It is all but impossible to bring about real change.
The new knowledge being brought herein of the meaning of higher knowledge, and a program for giving it unto the world, will soon become the basis for the establishment of a new way of life in which Love and the Law, will be its basis. Well, "soon" might be a bit strong a word--but you actually do not have much time remaining--therefore, it must be soon.
Therefore, know your universe and its Creator, for a new world of man must issue from it within the next ensuing few years.
Can it be accomplished? With God, all things are made possible.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1991 2:13 P.M. YEAR 4, DAY 351
DIAGNOSIS
When the high moral and righteous civilization of about four thousand years ago fell into degradation because of its lowered moral condition, its people, great and small, said: "Woe is me for the misery of this time. I would that I might die." Little children said: "Would that there were none to keep me alive." Universal despair settled down upon that highly intellectual and moral civilization in which righteousness, justice and morality had developed character in man as has never since been equalled. That is what happened to the Old Kingdom in Egypt at the end of the Pyramid Age, and that is what will happen to the human race before your newborn child shall have reached another five years unless the present system which is now the basis of your human relations is reversed.
You do not believe this because you now have a comfortable home and a motor car. But, there are now over 3 million homeless in this once flourishing nation. People are being laid off in great numbers daily, businesses are closing or moving to other countries--and there is no evidence of new business nor startup again of the old. How long will YOU have a home and other property? The Elite have planned to take it ALL from you so that you will be too helpless to rise against them--you are nearing the point of having only months to take action rather than even years--there are no more "decades" to consider in the waiting.
You cannot picture your own son slaying you, his own father? How about prostituting wife or daughter? What about turning your back while another man slays his brother as men like you and your son are doing in this day--and even passing out honors and having parades for the action. It is only that you cannot believe it has happened to you--you cannot believe that it ever could happen to you. Do you forget how quickly degradation and wholesale prostitution overtook the little peaceful, moral German villages of home-loving, church-going people immediately after the first World War? What of the second World War? What of the atrocities in Viet Nam? Even with the gang wars and drug related crimes and killings you cannot believe that this can happen here and to YOU--this prosperous young nation being plunged into the very dregs of debauchery and misery in less than one generation. It has happened, brothers, and while you slept the Elite would-be rulers stole your Constitution, set up drug trafficking centers in your own military installations and your children are killing each other in the streets of the cities. You who are young will see it, however, for you are in it and you will yourself sink to the lowest levels along with the rest, or kill all you love and yourself, too, to escape it. You will then find that the present civilization is only a thin veneer which will strip itself off from its base in a few short years after morality and character have reached a certain level toward which it is now almost at crescendo. One more World War will create this dread chaos within only days or weeks as millions of homeless city refugees flee the cities to desecrate the countryside for very survival.
The most conspicuous symptoms which have accompanied every FALL OF MAN for thousands of years are these: Lowered idealism with resultant lowered culture, character, morality, righteousness and justice--disappearance of sex-idealism with resultant promiscuity and homosexuality--greed and lust for possessions and power--crime and youth delinquency--and fear of wars arising from international disunity. These causes you have with you this day in greater intensity and measure than ever before in all of human history. A CAUSE cannot exist without being followed by its EFFECT. It is time to admit that the CAUSE is here. You must also know that its EFFECT IS ALSO HERE AND CANNOT BE LONGER AVOIDED. Yet few seem to be concerned and refuse to look at the proof because it seems unbelievable that it could have happened to YOU. Socrates did not believe that the high civilization of Greece could fall--but it did.
The great artists and idealists of 1900 would starve today. Entertainment has grown vulgar and pornographic. Character, morality and justice are all but GONE. Crime, even unto TREASON, is fast consuming the last portions of your nations. Sex-idealism is gone and sex-looseness is blatantly present at every turn from the lower grades on. Diseases associated are wiping out great numbers of your citizens--including your babies. Abortion is rampant and not only sanctioned but demanded. Promiscuity is destroying the sanctity of an increasingly larger percentage of homes--it is remarkable to have an intact family of origin. Above all this is FEAR--fear for loss of security and fear of war. Fear of the Truth and fear of the ignorance. Terror sweeps the nations like wild fires out of control. There is a reason for this, and that reason is that the basic underlying CAUSE of this world disaster to the human race lies in gross ignorance of balance in human relations and its consequent malpractice. You have not kept watch and the wicked have stolen all while you noted it not.
The world has not yet realized that the only way a civilization can endure is by practice of the LOVE PRINCIPLE of GIVING instead of TAKING. When man learns how to serve man rather than to exploit or enslave him, morality, justice and character will then come again into the world. Former JOURNALS tell you why and how greed and fear came into the world and caused man to "gain the whole world at the cost of his Soul". We wish to show you that civilisation has advanced technically for thousands of years but has retarded spiritually to the point where none of your great institutions gives any thought to the development of character in spiritual man, while the development of character and righteousness during the Age of Character, when God was thought of as Light and symbolized by the sun, was paramount. Ever since that day of high standards of righteousness and culture, which men then valued, there has been a gradual tendency to create machine-men who could produce material wealth for an ever increasing material-minded world.
By thus giving you this knowledge of all of WORLD HISTORY boiled down to that spoonful so you can see it as a whole, you will then readily see that the only chance for human survival and growth into a united and cohesive one world of cooperative man is through rhythmic balance in industry, for Industry could be the greatest and most powerful institution on Earth뾲he only one which can unite mankind into its ideal of ONE-WORLD, which Government, Education and Religion have all failed to do. Where nations have conquered nations by might-over-right and spread fear and hatred in so doing, Industry could gradually conquer the whole world through friendly service which binds men together through the giving and regiving to each other of the needs of the other. All mankind has to trade with all mankind and loves to do so. This necessity for mutual trading would gradually become more ethical, and character is the product of ethical interchange. That is the secret of the greatest opportunity for expressing unified power the world has ever known. This great unifying power is hardly awakened as yet, for it is new. It does not yet know its own long-sleeping Soul.
BIRTH OF CHARACTER AND RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF MAN
To understand man and to know what is the matter with man and man's world of today, it is necessary to go back to the very beginnings of his awareness that he is a man. That period was the dawn of his Consciousness, which means the very first awareness of his immortality. That was probably about eight thousand years ago, but two or three thousand years of twilight preceded that dawn of a sufficiently conscious awareness of morality, character and righteousness to form a social order where justice and a philosophy of life were strong enough to unify man's interests into what you call a civilization. During all of this period a language slowly grew, together with a way of writing that language in word forms and symbols. The Age of Character then began in Egypt. Its rulers and its people considered character building as of first import. All else was secondary, as we shall see.
Then came into being an intellectual, moral, righteous, cultured and scientific civilization such as the world has never yet equalled in its spiritual standards, with the qualities which are essential to an enduring civilization. Man of the pre-Pyramid Age has never been surpassed as a moral intellectual during all of these thousands of years. The reason for that is because individual greed for physical possessions and power had not yet come into the world. People's desires were collective for the good of the whole. In man's discovery of man, he valued man above all things for he discovered that every man working together in unity could produce wonderful things.
Greed came gradually and did not gain force, to the detriment of character, until about the 25th century B.C. From that time forward, man set the product of man before man himself. For this reason he has now become a part of his machine and is so considered. In appraising the value of any laborer, his ability to produce more output from his machines than another man is the measure of his worth. In the upper brackets of industry, the man who can produce more profit for his employer is the man of greater value. This has been the slow growth of centuries during which time man has forever thought of his civilization as highly advanced over the barbarous ages of the past.
We can point to the airplane, the motor car, the telephone, television, radio, computers and a thousand other inventions which stand as proof of great human progress over even the horse-and-buggy days about which you still make movies from only a couple of generations past. We do not, however, point to the great advancement of man in the art of killing in which he has been supreme. The stone hatchet, the arrow, then the sword and bullet, could kill only one man at a time. During the past century of what man calls his "greatest" era of human progress, man's advance in the art of weapon building has made it possible to kill thousands and thousands of men and wipe out whole cities with just one discharge of his new weapons. As a matter of fact, with the weapons now available, man can wipe out the entire planet and civilization in about 15 minutes or less. Man's only really great advancement has been in the art of killing other men and destroying his own character as a consequence.
Today you think of a civilization of five thousand years ago as savage and primitive, yet if a high intellectual of the Pyramid Age could be escorted through your country he would be highly shocked at the workings of justice and the low standards of your educational and religious institutions in creating machine men of low ideals and no departments in them for the development of character. Such a man would instantly say that you are developing a criminal race which must eventually destroy itself, and he would be quite correct for most of your institutions breed fear, evil and disunity by the "every-man-for-himself " policy of TAKING what one wants by the power of might-over-right. It is rampant in your sports arenas to no longer have integrity--right where a child used to could look unto heros. Even the teachers and police go on strikes for money and leave the children loose and confused as to values. Governments practice this principle in their empire building, which is the same thing individuals do when they want something, but they call it STEALING.
Fear--especially after-death fear--did not enter the Consciousness of man during the great Age of Character.Fear gradually entered human consciousness, fear of after-death punishment for the wrong actions of men. This sense was delayed in early man for he did not at first have a sense of right and wrong even when character was at its highest standard because he did not sense the idea of evil for thousands of years, and that sense of evil is a necessary precedent to a sense of right and wrong. This very strange element in the unfolding of the spiritual nature of man is difficult to understand by present-day man because evil and a satanic god for evil, and after-death punishment, have been ingrained into man for long centuries. We will devote a great part of the next section to an explanation of this high mental state which preceded the concept of evil and trace the CAUSE of the growth of the beliefs of sin and evil to man, himself, and to his institutions. We shall look at these beliefs which are man-structured and have no existence in God's universe of Nature.
Oh yes indeed, I have heard your retort that Hatonn said evil was alive and well on planet Earth and that Satan is considered a real entity--NOTE: HE SAID, "ON PLANET EARTH--AMONG HUMANS." HE HAS NEVER SAID WITHIN THE PLACES OF HIGHER ENERGY FORMS IN THE UNIVERSE. HE HAS, IN FACT, SAID THAT NO EVIL NOR SATANIC INTENT WILL BE ALLOWED WITHIN THE PLACES OF GOD OF LIGHT!
The Golden Rule, Proverbs and the Ten Commandments were born in Egypt thousands of years before the Hebrews REVIVED them, together with the principle of brotherly love and unity. This we will show you to make you more and more aware that there has never been a time since man first became aware of God when the standards of character, righteousness and sense of the GOOD were as high as they were 5,000 years B.C.
We will also show you that the principle of brotherly love and the necessity of unitial mankind into oneness was born in Egypt thousands of years before the Hebrew civilization rewrote it in revised forms. The purpose of acquainting you with these facts is that there has never been a time since God first revealed Himself to man that He has not illumined a Messenger, or Messengers, to reinspire other men and help to awaken the Light in all men. Further still, we tell it to let you know that every divine Messenger who ever dwelt among men as genius, Illuminate or Christ-Conscious mystic, always spoke words with the same meaning as those first uttered by pre-Pyramid Age man. These few words which portray the Love Principle upon which the universe is founded have been repeated all down the ages in the inspired word of every mystic, from Ikhnaton (Akhnaton) to the one you call Jesus (Immanuel), and from Jesus to Baha'u'llah--every poet from Homer to Emerson and Whitman--and every sage from Confucius to Franklin. They all have but one purpose, that of making man know God through the awakening of the Light of his own divinity. The important thing for every man to fix upon his consciousness is that a RELIGION of RIGHT PRACTICES exalts him.
No civilization can grow which is founded upon unnatural and supernatural beliefs. These beliefs divide and disunite mankind and breed hate and intolerance in him. Mankind still must learn that the most important thing in life is what one does to his neighbor.
Religion did not come into the first civilization for a long time, for religion is a system of beliefs in spiritual beings--according to the Encyclopedia Britannica--which takes time to develop. Moral character was most essential to a race of men who were trying to live together, cooperatively as a social order, and so it was that early man began his civilization by realizing that what one does to his neighbor was the most important thing in every man's life.
We will describe later the mental and objective process of arriving at the conclusion that the universe was founded upon GOOD and that human practices must be GOOD. Out of this grew a code of ethics which became a working practice based upon a philosophy of GOOD. Religion did not come into the Egyptian life until much later, but from that moment of building religious BELIEFS into men's minds instead of ethical practices, FEAR came into the world and moral character and righteousness began their decline and have continued so unto this very day.
Take rest, please, and when we continue we will note the religion of beliefs in spiritual beings soon added supernatural beings and magic and caused a movement into a big thing of FEAR.
Thank you for your attention.
I AM--GERMAIN
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응답: "The sacred Spirit Within." Dedication and Prelude
