LESSON NUMBER 33 KNOWLEDGE ALONE CAN SAVE THE HUMAN RACE FROM ANOTHER DARK AGE

All of these lessons, past and future, have but one dominant purpose. That purpose is to give you the knowledge you need to live gloriously and abundantly as an individual unit of Creation, and to live collectively, in peace and happiness with all other human units of Creation.

These lessons are a SCIENCE OF LIFE, or a SCIENCE OF HUMAN RELATIONS, for their supreme purpose is to give all mankind knowledge of how to live together gloriously, and abundantly, in peace and happiness. Man has never yet had that knowledge.

The time has come when the human race must have that knowledge and put it into practice, for the world is now in grave danger because of long practice of a cosmically criminal system of human relations which has bred hate and fear into the very warp and woof of the race and made every man the enemy of every other man.

Once again the world is confronted with a swift plunge into long centuries of Dark Ages. The human race is on its downward road to mass slavery which is the first step toward that degradation and degeneracy too horrible to describe which swallowed mankind from the 5th to the 12th centuries. The descent of man toward oblivion has increased with alarming acceleration of speed for fifty years. It will increase its speed until the human race is blotted out by the dehumanization process begun by the new kind of enemy and the new kind of war which he does not understand. It is undermining the moral fibre of the human race so quickly, however, and so insidiously, that he may be too weak to cope with it when he at last does comprehend it.

It can be stopped, however, when the CAUSE of it is comprehended and man has become enlightened with new knowledge needed for the transformation of all mankind.

That new knowledge is here. God sent it to you in His Message to man which has been partly recorded in The Divine Iliad and these lessons. You have read the miracle of how The Message was sent to you in Lesson No. 7.

You can save the world from another deep plunge into chaos if you learn God’s way of life and put it into practice in time–for you have but very little time. YOU HAVE BUT NINE YEARS. [TO STOP MULTIPLYING THE CAUSE OF WARS, WHICH, IN THEIR TURN, ARE DEGRADING THE HUMAN RACE.]

In two of these nine years (by the end of 1953) you must [begin to] put the entire system of human relations into reverse by an organized educational process which will awaken the world to its danger.

The next seven years will be required to gain strength from [new knowledge of] the mighty power of universal law which will then work WITH you instead of AGAINST you.

By 1960 the world will [could begin to] see the dawn of a new day in its human relations[,] if the world takes heed of God’s saving Message. [We must make this start by the e?? of 19??]

From 1953 to 1960 is the crucial period which will decide the destiny of man–and the decision is man’s. [handwriting unreadable–see image below]

We must make crystal clear to you why we have but nine years.

THE CAUSE OF THE FALL OF MAN

It is not war between nations that is causing man’s fall. War is not CAUSE–it is EFFECT. The CAUSE lies in MAN. Man is divided against himself. He is at war with himself. Man is the enemy of man–every man, everywhere, and always has been. He has never had the slightest inkling of the meaning of UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD, nor that the GOLDEN RULE is Nature’s inviolate and inexorable law. Man has been the prey of man from the beginning and still is. Because every man made every other man fear him he has built a world of fear and hate which always has been and still is. Love has not yet entered the world. Love is law–and law has never yet entered the world. Man has made his own law in violation of God’s law.

Love means balance–and unity. The whole world is disunited. Man is disunited. Every element of man’s human relations is disunited, his industry, his government, ideology, religion, education, language, race and culture.

Every institution which man ever built is divided against itself, just as every man who built it is divided against all other selves,–man against man–nation against nation.

THE WORLD HAS NEVER YET KNOWN PEACE

War has always been the basis of human relations the world over. War of man against man and war of man against law, man-made law and Nature’s law.

War is universal. War between man and man is not local, nor is it national, nor is it cyclic or periodic, with intervals of peace. War between man and man is continuous. It began when man brought his might over right methods from the jungle into his new stage of unfolding as Consciousness dawned in him.

There never have been intervals of peace without fear. There have been but truces between wars of nations, and between wars of men in their dealings with other men. These too have been but truces–truces heavy with fear.

There never has been peace between nation or neighbor where nations could fearlessly disarm, or neighbors could fearlessly unlock their doors, or cities could withdraw their police.

Fear of criminal aggression has kept nations heavily armed, cities heavily policed and neighbors doors securely locked.

Fear of hunger and insecurity has bred anarchy, nazism, communism, and Hitler-Mussolini-Stalin leaders of hate.

Fear bred greed–and greed divided the world of man into master and slave–ruler and subject–aristocrat and commoner–feudal lord and serf–rich and poor–exploiter and exploited–landlord and tenant–capital and labor–a disunited world divided against itself.

That is what war is–the EFFECT of FEAR. There is no time in human history when there has been a cessation of war, nor freedom from FEAR of war.

MAN IS DESTROYING HIMSELF

Nature is now destroying man for man’s defiance of Natural law. Nature never punishes. She but gives in kind for that which is given. Man has given hate and fear to man, and Nature has given hate and fear back to him. Man has always made war to destroy, enslave, exploit or take that which is the possession of other men–whether it be his life, freedom, love, happiness or security. Might over right has always been the sole basis of his dealings with other men.

All of man’s empires have been built that way, in violation of God’s law–and God’s law is now dismembering every empire that man has ever built for God’s law fulfills man’s desire by giving back to him that which he gave.

Man made war, and Nature’s law is giving it back to him in kind, and in equal measure, just as Nature’s law gives love back in equal measure when love is given.

All through this whole series of lessons you have full explanation of Nature’s law, but it will be well for you to begin again at lesson one and review them concentratively, and meditate upon them decentratively, so your knowledge will give you greater comprehension of what is happening to the world of man. Do this, for you are the seed which will save man from his own self-suicide. Carefully restudy lessons No. 15 - 29 - 30 and 31.

THE COSMIC PENDULUM SWINGS THE OTHER WAY

People who are fearing the probability of another world war are thinking of a war of guns, bombs, battleships and marching men. Tradition and habit have made them think that way. Such people are watching for the approach of an enemy from outside our borders.

The enemy will [may] not come that way, nor will he [may he need] come with guns. The enemy is already here–in every country of the free world–and his [stronger than guns] armament is fanatical hate–deep hatred in the heart of the slave who has arisen to slay his master.

The world divided unto itself–half master–half slave –cannot stand. [[handwriting unreadable– see image below]]

There has never been any other kind of world. Call it lord and serf–conqueror and conquered–rich and poor–exploiter and exploited–privileged and underprivileged–or employer and employee–it makes no difference. All are master and slave when the interchange between the two is unbalanced. When interchange between the two opposites is equal–they are then mates –and their interchange gives power to each equally–instead of to one of the pair–unequally. Both are enriched–instead of both being impoverished.

Under Nature’s law of universal brotherhood of man the cosmic pendulum swings both ways. The power wielded by the master for centuries, generates hatred of equal power in the slave. The cosmic pendulum then swings the other way to balance the action of inhumanity to man with its equal reaction of inhumanity to man.

That is what is happening in the world today. This war which has already been raging for years is not a war of nation against nation to build greater empires, it is a war of man against man within the borders of every nation. It is a war of hate in man, hate risen from the dead to give hate back to man to degrade him completely.

THE HUMAN RACE IS NOW REAPING THE WHIRLWIND

Natural law is now swiftly giving back to world conquerors the agony which they gave to the dead whom they have conquered by the sword. The dead are arising–and behold–the dead are swiftly advancing toward the living. And in the hand of the mighty dead is the same sword with which the dead were slain. All the atom bombs in the world will not reach the enemy which now awaits to destroy the destroyer of man, for it is not man who is the enemy, nor is it nations of men. The new insidious enemy is hate–hate in dehumanized man who waits–and works while he waits–to dehumanize you.

Hate sits with you in seeming friendship–waiting–plotting–hating. Hate sits in your office, working against you–in your government, stealing its secrets, opening doors for your enemies and closing them for your friends–in your church–your home–your labor union–your club–undermining–destroying–lying –vilifying–stealing–saying “yes” and doing “no”–practicing sabotage–treachery–treason.

You do not know this enemy whom you are feeding, coddling, patronizing, supporting and protecting in his right of free speech, even though his speech tells you plainly that his aim and purpose is to overthrow your nation’s freedom and enslave you behind his iron curtain.

It is difficult for Christian people to understand the power of hate which denies God and ridicules GOOD, but that power is strong. It is the power of might over right which the free half of the world used to enslave the other half. It is the same power which the enslaved half is now using against its conqueror: to first enslave, then dehumanize until no semblance of divinity will be left in the human race.

You have had enough examples of that dehumanizing process which is awaiting you and all mankind in the dozens of trials of innocent men accused of hideous crimes who admitted their guilt, and believed in it, after having been given but a few weeks of that Soul deadening process.

The whole world is familiar with the workings of this Russian Inquisition with high prelates of the powerful Catholic Church, such as Cardinal Mindszenty. No one dreamed, however, that hate in man was so strong that it could force the leading clergy of Hungary to swear allegiance to the monster of hate who starved millions of his own people to serve the ends of hate.

This not only happened, however, but these Christian priests were forced to disavow their allegiance to the Vatican by tortures far more brutal than those of the Spanish Inquisition.

Such amazing happenings should awaken the world to the methods of an enemy which does not use guns to conquer with. When hate is so strong an armament that it exhibits greater power over loyal subjects of the Vatican than the power of the Vatican itself, and the whole world appeases hate rather than meet it, it is time that we ceased worrying about approaching armies which will probably never come, and give deep thought to the one and only kind of armament which will dissolve that hate, a kind of armament which we are now plentifully supplied with but will not have nine years from now. The explanation of this statement will follow in Lesson 36.

Why is it that the plan of this enemy who thus waits is not plainly seen by every man? He is here in the free world awaiting to enslave you–and to then dehumanize you. And he will succeed here as he is succeeding everywhere, unless we render him powerless through universal law working with us–when we know how to work with it–by reversal of the world system of human relations which caused this world tragedy.

The free world is disappearing. The slave world is swallowing it up. Free nation after free nation is being enslaved behind the iron curtain of dehumanizing men.

THE FABLE OF THE MASTER AND THE SLAVE

Civilization of man’s making is like unto the fable of the master and his servant who were cast upon a lonely island in the tropic seas. The master bade his servant build for him a shelter high above the sands to be safe from the seas. And the servant built it for him, filled it with comforts–soft moss for his bed and great palm fronds for shade. The servant hunted, and fished, and cooked and did other heavy labors from dawn to dark, till he dropped from weariness in the sands where he slept, for his master gave him no time to make a bed for himself–so great were the master’s needs.

Many a night was there when the servant shivered in the cold of the night–and the wet of the storms–and discontent grew in his heart–for joy had gone out of him.

One black night a great storm lashed the seas over his bed on the sands. Miserable from cold and wet he listened to the full breathing of his master asleep in comfort–not knowing the storm.

Discontent flamed to anger–anger to fury–and the servant went up unto the master–threw him into the sea–and took his master’s bed.

The ending of this story foretells the ending of the story of our present epoch unless the masters serve also in helping the servant to build a better bed on higher ground where he is equally safe from life’s storms.

It is time that we comprehend the cause of this tragedy which is destroying man’s free world. To better comprehend it let us look back fifty years to what the world then was—and then look forward again to realize the great speed of the dehumanizing process[,] when once man begins his downward plunge from high pinnacles.