LESSON NUMBER 36 THE REMEDY FOR WORLD DESTRUCTION AND THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY IN HUMAN RELATIONS

“Despair is not thy lot, O man. Thy lot is happiness, which is even now in thee when thou knowest Me.

“Through knowing Me shalt thou find strength in thy downfalling.

“From the very pit of darkness shalt thou arise to Light in Me.

“Pray not that I crush the enemies of man to save them that cometh to me, for man himself destroys[eth] his own enemies through My Law of Unity which makes[th] all ONE through Me. For behold, I am within all things centering them, and I am without all things controlling them.”

From–The Divine Iliad

Take these words from God’s Message of The Divine Iliad into the depths of your heart and Soul, for within them lies the great answer to man’s eleventh hour question: “What can save us from world destruction?”

The world is in its present perilous condition because of the casual manner in which such vital principles of TRUTH as: “We are all one”,–“The Golden Rule”, –“The Brotherhood of Man”, and “Unity” have been taken, assuming that man’s free will gave him choice of action in regard to them.

You who have gone so far in your comprehension now know conclusively, through your scientific studies of The Divine Iliad teachings, that these seeming abstract statements constitute God’s One inviolate Law of Love upon which the universe itself is founded.

Coming down to hard facts we must know that we are living in an orderly God-controlled universe of LAW where every man is as inexorably bound within fixed limitations as the planets are bound to definite paths in their orbits.

Man has been taking his right of free will too much for granted. He does not realize that he has let the right to choose his own actions, but Universal Law reacts upon him to give him back in kind that which he has given.

Let us, therefore, CEASE breeding hate, fear and discontent through our unbalanced human relations and BALANCE them by living the law of THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN in our dealings with all men.

There must be an immediate reversal of our present unfair and unethical basis of human relations, for in them is the seed of discontent which has made one half of mankind the mortal enemy of the other half, and made neighbor kill neighbor all down the ages in perpetual, ceaseless WAR–WAR–WAR.

Man must stop taking and begin giving. He must stop killing and begin nurturing. And he must hurt first himself rather than his neighbor–and exalt his neighbor first, likewise.

Man must learn to serve and think not of being served.

He must bring BALANCE into his dealings with man. He has not yet discovered that he MUST balance his dealings with man, for he has not yet discovered man. Nor has he discovered his relation to man, nor the LAW which governs that relation.

Nor has he discovered his inseparability from all other men nor the interdependence of all men upon each other nor the impossibility of an individual existence with free will to do as he chooses in his dealings with man nor that the hurt of any man is the hurt of all men nor that he cannot hurt another man without hurting himself EQUALLY. In fact, man has not yet discovered man.

MAN MUST DISCOVER MAN. NAUGHT ELSE COUNTS.

The world of man must discover the value of every man to every other man, and base his relations with him upon the result of that discovery. He must cease placing highest value on product and place it upon man who creates product. He must discover that the greatest asset of man is man–not product–not money, nor power, nor position. Man’s first need is MAN–and the service of man–and the interchange of service for service with man. Without the service of man there would be no product, nor power, nor wealth, nor position.

Such interchange creates product–and it creates abundance–together with happiness, peace and prosperity–if such interchange is BALANCED, in accord with God’s One Law. If such interchange between men is not balanced there will be a deduction from abundance, and from happiness, and from peace and prosperity EQUAL IN MEASURE TO THE UNBALANCED INTERCHANGE.

Man must cease dividing man–ennobling one and debasing the other–one being master of the servant and the other the servant of the master. Each one serves the other. Each one needs the service of the other. Each is enriched by the service of the other and would be equally impoverished by lack of it. This is Law, inviolate LAW.

Man must cease dividing work–exalting one form, degrading the other. He who degrades both work and worker–to exalt himself and his own work, will himself do the degrading work of the degraded worker. This is LAW, inviolate LAW. It is the LAW of THE GOLDEN RULE, which he who violates is self-hurt.

Witness its workings in every home. The servant has arisen to slay the mistress. There is no mistress. The mistress has slain the servant. There is no servant. The mistress and the servant have destroyed each other. Each is the other. They have become ONE. That is the LAW, and that is the way the law of THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN works.

The mistress can again have service when the value given, by one is balanced by the other–but not while one exalts that which she gives and debases the other.

THE BASIC ROOT OF A BALANCED CIVILIZATION

The very foundation of the living of life lies in the desire of every man to give service to fulfill the needs of his neighbor.

The very essence of glorious living lies in this principle–so you must fully understand it. You wonder why we do not complete the above paragraph by adding these words: “so that his neighbor will give service to him to fulfill his needs”.

If we added these words we would be adding a motive for the giving of love–a selfish motive. There is no selfish motive in Nature. There is no need for it. That also is LAW, for LAW ITSELF compels an equal reaction to every action. Nature is a Creation of Love. There is no selfishness in Love. Desire to give must be without motive other than desire to give.

We desire that you comprehend this fully. Re-read all of the previous lessons again–and pause right here until you have reviewed all that we have written about balance in Nature –in the fulcrum and lever–in the swinging pendulum–in equality of polarity–in the solar system–or the electric wave–or gravitation and radiation–or compression and expansion of your car engine–or of your very inbreathing-outbreathing sequences.

Heaven does not give rains to earth BECAUSE it desires gifts from earth. It gives solely because it has been given an abundance of itself and must give out from itself that which has been given to it to regive.

Likewise, earth does not give its forests to the heavens BECAUSE it expects gifts of rains in payment thereof. Earth gives solely because it has been given an abundance of itself which it must give out to manifest itself–even as the composer genius must give out music without thought of compensation, for he would thus manifest himself if he were alone in the wilderness.

There is naught in this creating universe which gives aught than the over-abundance of itself which has first been given it. The sun gives of its light without motive other than giving of itself. God’s One Law of balanced interchange regives to the sun that which has been given by the sun, just as forests given by earth to heavens to manifest earth, are regiven by heavens to earth to manifest heavens.

THE UNLEARNED LESSONS OF MAN

The great lesson to learn of life is the need of giving out from the abundance of one’s self in order to be ever abundant within one’s self.

Every man is a fount of living waters which must ever flow to keep them ever living. He who shuts off the fountains of his abundant self stagnates the living waters of his living self and contaminates all things with his very breathing.

He who withholds his giving deprives himself alone of the gifts of his desiring.

Where earth withholds for itself that which it should give, its founts dry up and parched deserts tell of the withholding.

When man withholds that which he should give out of himself to enrich himself he instead, subtracts from the abundance of himself in the measure of his withholdings.

He who withholds love from his home–or from his neighbor–makes a desert for his very Soul. And he who gives love to receive love will find in his receiving the taint which was in his giving.

He who serves abundantly will be served with abundance, yea, and he who gives more of service than has been asked of him will multiply within himself that which he has over-given by increasing his capacity for giving. Love cannot be possessed, therefore ask not FOR love but GIVE it.

The carpenter, or mason, or butcher and all who serve, who limit the service they give to less than that which they receive –thinking that they are thereby enriched–are instead impoverished with a poverty which multiplies within them, as microbes of destruction multiply their power to destroy that within which they grow.

Cross not the sacred threshold of your neighbor’s house without love in your heart. And when you recross that threshold into the world, carry naught but love there also, for he who carries naught but love is loved by man, but he who carries aught is despised by those whose love he most needs.

Man must cease bargaining with man. The bargain has already been made for him by God’s One Law of RHYTHMIC BALANCED INTERCHANGE between every pair of opposites in every transaction of Nature.

NATURE NEVER BARGAINS. NATURE BALANCES.

The suns of space and the earths which circle them dare not violate it. If our earth just dared for one day to change its orbit all the seas of earth would strip it clean and wash man into its seas. Yet man dares do it–and when disaster overtakes him he wonders why such things happen to him. He recovers and does it again, and yet again. Man is slow to learn his greatest lesson.

Man has but one price with man for service interchange, and that price is EQUALITY IN REGIVINGS FOR ALL WHO GIVE. He who gives little, little must be regiven but its value must be equal to the value of service given. And he who gives much, much must be regiven. That is LAW. It is fixed and cannot be ignored.

He who takes more than his balanced share and pays less to the producers of his wealth fills chests with useless gold which both impoverishes him and all the world of men, for the worker also consumes–but what can a consumer buy with an empty purse? And what does it profit a man whose shelves are piled high and no buyer enters his door?

BUYERS AND SELLERS ARE ONE

All sellers buy and producers consume, just as he who serves is also served. Interchange between each pair constitutes a cycle which repeats itself forever if each half of each cycle is balanced with the other half.

The slightest unbalance upsets the cycle, so the bargainer who succeeds in getting just a little more on his side of the equator of balance which controls every transaction between pairs of opposites, than he gives to the other half of it, not only multiplies his own difficulty in completing his transaction successfully but is endangered every moment from its complete collapse. A large percentage of man’s failures is due to ignorance of what God requires of him when he deals with his neighbor.

WHAT SUCH MEN DO NOT KNOW is that they are not bargaining with other men–they are bargaining with BALANCE–and balance will not bargain with any man. BALANCE will allow man to control it, and will work with men who control it but BALANCE will not work for men, nor let any man violate it–even ever so little–without threatening his downfall.

A simple example will clarify our meaning. Divide your own balance into equal halves by standing up straight. You are then in perfect balance. One half of you is on one side of the equator which divides your balance into a pair of opposite conditions.

You have no difficulty in thus controlling the balance which divides you.

It requires practically no effort and you feel no apprehension whatsoever about falling. See Figure 20 on page 232.

One half of you now says to balance “I want more for my positive half, so give my positive half more, and my negative half less than equal shares”.

So you take more, only a little perhaps, only five or ten degrees of leaning away from that equator of balance WHICH CONTROLS YOU THE MOMENT YOU CEASE CONTROLLING IT.

Now what happens? You are threatened with falling. You continue to stand but with sustained effort. You tire because of that effort.

If you now try to walk you will not be able to walk firmly, or with stability, Your balance will vary as it controls you and soon you give up exhausted.

That is why practically everyone runs into difficulties which cause disaster, or problems which they cannot solve. They try to bargain with balance to get just a little more on their side of the equator of their transaction. It never can succeed. No matter what bargain you make with man you both lose unless God’s One Law endorses your transaction.

Why try to TAKE–and LOSE–when it is so much easier to GIVE–and WIN.

MAN CONTRACTS WITH MAN

Again we say, as we said of bargaining, man must not contract with man to bind man to agreed upon terms which gives one more than he should have and the other less. Unbalanced contracts do not bind. They breed discontent. The discontented one finds ways of violating his contract and each one loses more than he thought to gain.

He who knows the law and deals with another who knows the law, needs no contract. Neither would violate it knowing that by so doing he would hurt himself as well as the other party to the contract.

That also is LAW–the law of LOVE–and of THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN.

MAN COMPETES WITH MAN, INSTEAD OF COOPERATING WITH MAN

Man must cease competing with man. The familiar quotation: “Competition is the life of trade” is not in accord with The Brotherhood of Man principle. COOPERATION is in accord with it. Competition impoverishes both who compete, while cooperation enriches.

Competition lowers quality of product. Cooperation raises it.

If you wish to compete, increase the quality of your product. “If you write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap than your neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to your door.” (Emerson)

He who sells less for less and tells man he is selling more for less than his neighbor, cheats himself and enriches his neighbor, but he who cooperates to sell his neighbor’s goods sells more of his own. He alone loses who misrepresents.

Likewise, he who prevents his neighbor from freely selling his product by creating a condition of monopoly will lose that which he would protect.

A manufacturer of high quality ice cream created a monopoly in every town in Texas by selling to only one dealer in every town to give him control in his town. Very soon the monopolist found that people thought his product inferior because the many other dealers would not handle it and they shunned his one exclusive store.

Monopoly in business is foredoomed to failure. It violates God’s Law of Balance and an unbalanced structure cannot stand. He who gathers wealth that way pays for it with loss of Soul.

The owner of a gasolene station was in deep despair because another man built another station on the opposite corner. He prospered more, rather than less, and when all four corners had similar stations they all prospered more, for more people stopped where service was plentiful.

Likewise, one shoe store will prosper more where others are than one alone will. Two–or ten–are not rivals of either one [another]. They are cooperators. Nature does not create rivals. All things in God’s universe are one whole, and each unit of the whole is needed by the whole.

He who would help a “rival” in distress enriches himself equally, but he who turns a deaf ear to his appeal will find the whole world deaf when he appeals.

If Beethoven destroyed all “rival” geniuses he would starve in a barren world, whereas he is enriched by every Mozart born into it.

There is but ONE PERSON in this universe. You and your neighbor are that ONE. Likewise, every man on earth is every other man–all being ONE.

Every man on this earth is an extension of every other man. Each man interchanges with every other man and. The welfare of each man is dependent upon the nature of [the] interchange of the whole.

Each man’s welfare is every other man’s responsibility. The sum total of each man’s giving determines the standard of man’s civilization. What you are doing this moment affects the welfare of every man on this planet. Like-wise, the good or ill of any man on this planet affects every other man, from a child in its cradle to a king on his throne.

Henry Ford expressed this thought by saying that the failure of an unknown plumber in a remote village meant one less car sold by him, which means less steel, manganese and other metals and parts from all over the world, even to oils gathered by Chinese coolies.

The world of man is all ONE BROTHERHOOD. What any man does to another he does to all men. Each person is the same person.

“There are not two separate or separable beings in the Universe. All are indissolubly united. All are ONE.”

From–The Divine Iliad.

WHEREIN LIES OUR GREATEST POWER TO UNITE AND SAVE CIVILIZATION?

A powerful group of men and women who are sufficiently united in purpose–whose members run into many millions–can alone save our present civilization from slavery.

Which element of our civilization is strong enough to meet these qualifications?

The obvious answer is INDUSTRY, for Industry speaks but one friendly universal language which is understood throughout the world, and has but one desire and purpose which is to interchange service and product with all mankind regardless of race, color or creed.

American Industry is now the greatest world-power, numerically and financially. If it can retain its financial power for nine more years without being taxed into impotency and then nationalized out of existence –and, during those nine years, if it can multiply its moral, ethical and financial powers by completing its trend to unify its parts which it began to do forty years ago, then American Industry can reverse the old system of human relations which brought about a discontented, warring world and bring UNITY and UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD into it with peace between all men.

American Industry is not only supporting the most extravagant and wasteful government the world has ever known and is contributing unlimited billions–to armament, but is giving and lending many billions more to help uplift the morale of discouraged nations and rebuild their ravaged countries.

THE AWAKENING TO THE NECESSITY OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD

About forty years ago American Industry suddenly began to discover man–the asset value of every man to every other man–and the interdependence of all men.

That discovery was the first step in uniting men into a single purpose of uplifting the living standards of all men by making all men work together as ONE. Through this discovery of Industry THE UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAN began to have a real meaning.

The Machine Age and the assembly line increased the need of men, more intelligent men, more skilled men. The demand for manual labor lessened and [the desire] for skilled labor increased. With that increased demand the long pent up resentment and discontent against the injustice of small pay for over-long hours caused labor to organize its strength and assert it for justice.

The war was on between capital and labor, and grew bitter as the demand for labor increased. The slave at last dared to rise against his master. The levelling process demanded by The Golden Rule principle also began its equalization. Unity was on its way in and discontent was on its way out, for there were many men of vision who met the challenge by gradual increases in wage and less hours of labor.

HENRY FORD TAKES LABOR INTO PARTNERSHIP

Henry Ford met the challenge by so conspicuous an increase in the direction of unity that industry at large feared that he was over-generous and criticized him for his announcement that he would henceforth share his profits with his employees to the extent of ten to thirty million dollars annually. He answered his critics by saying: “Without their cooperation I could not earn a dime. It is just that I share with them.”

Years later he gave the industrial world great concern by announcing a minimum wage of $5.00 daily. Many industrialists remonstrated saying that it would ruin them if they had to meet it.

Henry Ford replied in effect–“You are, mistaken, my friends. I have found that the more I give, the more I receive. Try it. You will find that you will make more if you give more.” Time has proven that Mr. Ford was right.

Henry Ford thus put The Golden Rule into action and many others followed in various manners and degrees. Ignominious labor began to be clothed with dignity. The slave began to sit down with his master, but he was still slave–more highly paid and better fed slave who demanded still more or else–for the slave was still discontented–he still lived on the other side of the tracks–and the miner could take what was offered him which was enough to live in a shack–and he should be thankful for that–thankful for even a job.

Unity was marching fast though. International Harvester, Standard Oil, Shell Oil, General Electric, Chrysler, Packard, Goodyear, Firestone, Westinghouse, Edison and all the great utility and other manufacturing companies were giving more and more against the inch by inch fight of organized labor to have more and more. Love was not yet born into the world, however. Man still fought man–even though he fought for needed love, and justice, and dignity by the removal of his chains, Concessions came, however, and compromise followed compromise, but the motive was still selfish. Love cannot come into the world that way.

Love was on its way though. Wonderful things were happening forty years ago to awaken the realization of Universal Brotherhood in the heart of man, even though workers and owners still threatened, and bargained, and cursed, when hating strikers burned factories and angry owners would not yield.

SERVICE CLUBS DEMONSTRATE THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN

Love then borned a new power within Industry–but apart from it–known as Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange and Rotary service clubs. Man’s need of man borned this new colossal power–and the need of man to serve man came into the hearts of many men who interchanged their services and their products in a new way which gave great happiness to them, instead of the old unhappy way [in] which man dealt with man by warning him with the words: “Let the purchaser beware”.

The formation of these four service clubs is undoubtedly the greatest manifestation of the principle of The Universal Brotherhood of Man, The Golden Rule and Unity that the world has yet known. For forty years these organizations have been practicing selflessness and service to neighbor before service to self, as they grew into millions of members in every city and town in this country and have now reached out over the world into more than thirty countries.

Their basis of human relations is The Golden Rule, business integrity and altruistic service without motive other than service. Kiwanis, Lions, Exchange and Rotary are opening the door to let love come into the world by unselfishly practicing it.

In them is the leaven which is fast spreading to the whole loaf. Within Industry, as members of it, they make possible the infinite multiplicity of Industry’s power as Industry as a whole discards motive and completes the unity of its two equal parts upon a basis of BALANCE.

They have no creed, and no doctrine other than the spreading of friendliness, peace and goodwill through absolute adherence to The Golden Rule. If any neighbor is in need, whether a member or not they take his hurt unto themselves and extend their warm love in service, not coldly, the easy way, by money gifts alone.

Together they run a farm for a neighbor who has broken a leg, rebuild another neighbor’s uninsured house and thousands of services which only the closest of brothers would do for each other without motive other than love.

How long this intolerant, disunited world has awaited so great an expression of brotherly love, and how great was its need!

THOMAS J. WATSON INFILTRATES HIGHER ETHICS INTO HUMAN RELATIONS

Then came another great demonstration of the power of Unity which has spread out all over the world since then. The seed of this power germinated in the thoughts of Thomas J. Watson, President of The International Business Machines Corporation and, likewise, President of Kiwanis.

In those hard days of the go-getter salesman whose value was appraised by the total of his sales, with not too much questioning of the methods he used, when attorneys were retained by all corporations to help them make money within legal bounds without too much questioning of ethics, and business executives frankly claimed that no one could get rich honestly, Mr. Watson thought differently, and he desired to put his altruistic thoughts of service into action against the resistance of business traditions of that day.

It was not an easy task in those days when anyone with high ideals and motives in Industry was considered an impractical dreamer, and crucified because of it.

Mr. Watson being thoroughly in agreement with my principles of higher ethics in human relations–which were founded upon Natural Law–asked me to address his directors and executives to convince them of the scientific basis for his altruism.

This talk was the beginning of twelve wonderful years of my association with Mr. Watson in building a code of ethics based upon his ideals, and scientifically interpreting them into a working philosophy, which has so ably proved the practicability of SERVICE FIRST in earning power that IBM has never been in the red, even during dark depression days when many corporations faced many deficit years. During those years we founded a school of moral, ethical and business training which has made IBM one of the greatest exponents of The Golden Rule in the business world.

Mr. Watson summed this work up in one of his talks in these words: “In all the seventy-nine countries where we do business, we are all one brotherhood. We have but one thought, one creed, mutual helpfulness to each other. We feel that brotherhood in our very handshake. It is real. Our very language is a universal one. We all understand each other, no matter what our tongue. We want that friendliness to reach out into every other business.”

THE GOLDEN THREAD OF SHARING

This is the golden thread thought which is gradually–but too slowly–uniting the business world today. Like Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Exchange it is leavening the whole loaf, nationally and internationally.

Big business is reaching out over the whole world and conquering country after country with gifts of love instead of the sword. The great corporations of the world have [been] given all the territory that each needs for their mutual interchange. They are building friendly empires by GIVING instead of TAKING, which has made a world of hate.

That golden thread could be seen interweaving its promise all through the unfolding pattern of those beginning days of The Machine Age when the manufacture of quantity product would have been impossible without intelligent and friendly cooperation by labor. “Take him into partnership with us. Let him help run our industries”, urges Paul Litchfield, as he establishes a mutual governing body in the Goodyear Rubber Company.

“Give him better homes”, insists Walter J. Kohler, following it up by replacing his factory slums with a modern city of homes which attracted the admiration of the beauty-loving world.

A new world was in the making by one brother of man finding happiness in fulfilling the needs of another brother.

Even though the two great partners of industry still bargained and thought of self first in their yieldings, they were coming together, and the world was changing wherever industry brought unity more and more into the world. The basic principle of all of the five great religions of the world–the ONENESS of all men–was being put into action.

And the burden of heavy and arduous labor was being lessened as industry and science united for constructive purposes, in contrast with the destructive purposes of science when it unites with government to find more ways of killing more of God’s children. The washing machines of science and industry engender love, while the bullets of science and government kindle hot fires of hate.

“In vain we build the city if we do not also build the man”, sings Edwin Markham.

“Little kindnesses constitute the march to better things”, said Sir Edward Beatty.

“What is the use of mass production without a mass consumer?” cries Henry Ford. “The only consumer is man-in-the -mass–and man-in-the-mass is chained to the treadmill. He needs no luxuries. He has neither the time nor the energy after his long day to enjoy them. Release him from his slavery. Give him better wages so he can buy our product. Free him from the curse of philanthropy. Stop patronizing him. Give him dignity by making him independent.”

“Invent things for him to buy’”, said Charles Kettering. Shorten his hours. Teach him better things. Give him what he wants, and educate him to make our luxuries his necessities.

“This is not the Machine Age. It is the Age of Man”, said Thomas Watson.

“All our dealings begin with man and end with man. There is nothing higher in this universe than man. To make a business grow, begin growing man.”

Gerard Swope, Owen D. Young, Walter Chrysler, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, Clarence Woolley, Cyrus McCormick, Pierre DuPont, Eastman Kodak, Proctor & Gamble, and many others, offered various plans for profit sharing, all aimed toward raising the living standard for [of] man-in-the-mass.

So successful were these plans that, in one generation, a factory wage of twenty cents an hour for a long twelve hour day grew to a dollar and more for an eight hour day. The growth is still continuing–but too slowly. We must speed it up. We can do that only by greater comprehension. We must be able to see the picture of unfolding man as a whole. Without that comprehension capital and labor still experiment, still bargain, still try to get a little more for themselves than for their needed partners.

The great tragedy of the age is that the proffered expressions of UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD extended by owners to workers is too frequently met with resistance. When both sides recognize this resistance as underlying FEAR which has become accumulative through age long centuries of unbalanced TAKING and realize the sincere desire to create a BALANCE through mutual interchange for the good of BOTH–by EACH GIVING TO THE OTHER EQUALLY–then indeed UNITY of purpose will bring abundance to all mankind.

Without this mutuality Industry could not be unified. THIS ONE WORLD OF UNIFIED MAN MUST COME.

THE PLAN FOR ELEVENTH HOUR ACTION BY INDUSTRY

There is only one way for Industry to save the human race from degradation.

That way is to immediately multiply the present power of Industry a hundredfold to its maximum. This it can do by eliminating the last trace of discontent from its working human units by immediately equalizing the two working parts of Industry upon the basis of Universal Law and thus multiply their incentive, within which lies their power.

This could be done at once if ten of the many great Minds within Industry could see the over-all picture at once–as a whole–and institute a procedure which would make it reach its maximum quickly instead of the slow experimental way it has been painfully following through inability to see the problem as a whole.

These ten men of great vision must bind themselves together as ONE and accept the sacred trust of extending their vision to the whole of Industry to make all of its units see the picture as a whole.

This is the immediate first step. Industry must first be one united, cohesive WHOLE, It must be a mighty power of contented men whose happy condition of dignity and security will dissolve discontent in other men, and thus insulate America from the discontented enemy whose strength lies in stirring disunity and discontent in American Industry.

This is the only possible way. A war with guns would not do it. Such a war would defeat us in two directions, even though we win. One would be the irreplacable loss of vast numbers of our most fit American youths. The other would multiply bureaucracy sufficiently to reduce this proud American democracy to the slave condition of an autocracy.

This has already happened in China where more than a million of its intellectuals have been mercilessly executed within a few months, and in Russia where all of its intellectuals who could not escape have been slaughtered and many millions of peasants starved within a few years. Do not be so naive as to think that it could not happen here. The Chinese of five years ago thought that it could not happen there–BUT IT DID. This country could not withstand another four years of war without being engulfed in the deep depths of moral degradation which is now sweeping decency, justice, and the last trace of kindliness off the face of the earth and substituting for it an inhuman brutality heretofore inconceivable as possible for the human race.

Why are we so blind that we do not see chaos ahead of us when half the world is already deep into the first stages of another seven centuries of Dark Ages? Why do we lack the courage and common sense to do something about it? Why do we still think that the money we make today is more important than preventing a return to cannibalism tomorrow?

IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING HERE

Why do we think it will not happen in America when the seed of it is sprouting visibly in every department of American life?

COMPREHENSION, and a REALIZATION of our danger can stop it if we but have the COURAGE to apply our knowledge. The weapon for it is in our hands. WE MUST USE IT OR PERISH, There is no alternative.

The only weapon to use against fanatical hate, disunity and discontent is the moral, impregnable armament of millions of contented and united men, who are banded together with the impregnable bonds of Universal Brotherhood, all working as ONE–all voting as ONE for a righteous, ethical leader of the nation, and all serving each other as ONE.

Ten united men who comprehend the power of Universal Law when you work with it, could institute a quick educational procedure which would unify eighty millions of people within a few months. This MUST be done within a few months –and it could be by an organized educational campaign as outlined herein.

As one sheaf of ten kernels of wheat could fill the granaries of the world ten leaders of men representing the two working arms of Industry can extend to another ten, and they to another ten men of vision in industry, until legions shall again multiply into an invincible force working WITH Universal Law to dissolve that sinister force which is working against it.

Again we say THAT IS THE ONLY WAY.

All men seek peace and happiness. The sole purpose of man on earth is to seek that “kingdom of heaven” in which he will find peace and happiness.

Mankind can find peace and happiness only through knowing the ONENESS of man. Eighty million men and women who have found the oneness of implicit trust in each other, through their unity for one common purpose, cannot be divided into two opposed parties, for two opposed parties would represent two desires, and two purposes, not ONE. These would vote together as ONE. An undivided ONENESS of purpose is not debatable.

Two opposed and divided purposes ARE debatable.

So long as the policies, desires or purposes of man are necessarily debatable THE UNITY OF MAN MUST AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF DEBATE.

We have wasted forty years, in debate, argument–compromise–yielding too little–bargaining too little at a time–bargaining too long each time–all because divided man wanted a little more for himself–a little less for his mate.

For forty years Creators and Producers cheated each other out of power which unity would have given them each thinking that the concessions made by compromise and bargain were adding to their strength.

For forty years these endless debates continued to divide employers and employees into two opposed groups with two opposed purposes–that of getting as much as each working arm of Industry could get out of the other working arm.

And as they bargained they hurt each other. Employees struck–and with–held service. Less bricks were laid. Less joy in work–less incentive–less initiative–more advantage taken by weekday absence for week-end double time. Owner lost heavily. Worker lost heavily. Each caused the other to lose.

Employers conserve–lay thousands off periodically–devise other methods, other materials to outwit double-time plotters.

UNITY COMES TOO SLOWLY THAT WAY, UNITY BEGINS WHEN DEBATE ENDS.

We cannot wait for unity to come through slow debate and gradual yieldings. There is not time. All the wealth and power of all owners and workers alike will too soon be worthless to them unless bargaining debates end NOW and UNITY begins NOW.

Every time owner and worker have come closer together through yielding to each other in debate each have made more product and more money. The truth of that fact is not debatable. If that fact is true it is also true that when they come so close together that they will UNITE AS ONE their product and profits will then be maximum. Why, then, do we take the SLOW, and HARD, and COSTLY way?

Notable examples of this fact are The Eastman Kodak Co. and Proctor and Gamble. Their profit sharing plans have practically ended any labor troubles and have increased their earnings through giving incentive, initiative and contentment to their employees. Each employee gives maximum service because he feels that every dollar he earns for the Company is partly his. The plasterer or bricklayer withholds because he lacks that incentive.

CONCEDEDLY UNDEBATABLE FACTS OF INDUSTRY

Industry exists for the purpose of conceiving IDEAS and producing BODIES to manifest its ideas. We have, therefore, in Industry, CREATORS and PRODUCERS–those who think IDEAS for bodies and those who make BODIES for ideas.

THE FACT THAT EACH OF THESE TWO IS OF NO VALUE WITHOUT THE OTHER IS UNDEBATABLE. ALSO THE FACT THAT EACH IS OF VALUE WHEN INTERCHANGING WITH THE OTHER IS UNDEBATABLE, It necessarily follows that each is of EQUAL value.

We have other names for them but they have the same meaning. We call them OWNER and WORKER–or CAPITAL and LABOR–or MANAGEMENT and LABOR. The OWNER is he who supplies the IDEA for product and the CAPITAL to produce it–and the WORKERS are those who manufacture the product.

The relation of OWNER (or capital) to WORKER (or labor) is the relation of the fulcrum to a lever. The fulcrum supplies the power to both ends of the lever to motivate their work, but the fulcrum does no work–nor do the two workers supply power (or capital) to the fulcrum.

It is not correct, therefore, to call CAPITAL and LABOR the two opposites of Industry, nor the two WORKERS of Industry. Capital is ONE. It represents IDEA–or OWNER–or CREATOR. It is the fulcrum from which the lever extends–and the working lever is TWO.

Capital (owner) and labor are THREE–not TWO. They are a trinity, as the swinging pendulum is a trinity of two moving parts extending from one which does not move–or as the electric battery is a trinity of two oppositely polarized cells extending from an equator which divides, and motivates their interchange–or as an engine is a trinity of compression-expansion conditions which are extended from a static dead center which is an equilibrium between the two.

LABOR is, therefore, not ONE, but TWO. Labor occupies opposite ends of the Industrial engine. LABOR works two-ways–toward compression and toward expansion. Industry is polarized into positive and negative workers. These two workers interchange to create PRODUCT. The two workers of Industry are the PRODUCERS.

It is not correct, therefore, to use the term MANAGEMENT and LABOR, for management IS labor. It is not correct, also, to differentiate the two working producers of Industrial product by a white-collar superior class called MANAGEMENT, and an inferior overall class which is called LABOR.

Both are WORKERS–or PRODUCERS. To exalt one and debase the other, inferentially–is to continue discontent. Also it is shortsighted, for class distinction is dissolving, as workers children gradually become cultured University men who will refuse to become “laborers” but would become “producers”. As standards of living rise there will be no uneducated laborers.

Such a classification would drive “laborers” out of industry as “servants” have been driven out of homes.

To classify a bookkeeper or salesman as MANAGEMENT, and a skilled lathe worker, or precision instrument maker as LABOR, would be forcing the perpetuation of the master and slave relation which must disappear from the face of this earth by being blotted out of human relations.

Under the law of balance the slave will always rise to slay his master. To ennoble a bookkeeper as MANAGEMENT and debase the highly efficient and intelligent producer of gear wheels as LABOR would eventually make it impossible to secure highly paid mechanics.

“Management” must look forward to the time when uneducated laborers who live on the other side of the tracks will be living in pretty little homes on the same streets and their growing youths taking degrees from the same universities.

Growing sons of “LABORERS” who have become intellectual and cultural equals–or even superiors–of office workers, may seek to become salesmen, research workers, engineers or executives, or they may seek professional careers, but they most certainly will not become ignoble LABORERS, while the lesser skilled white-collar office worker is presumably a superior being.

THE POLARITY OF INDUSTRY

The two workers of Industry are those who manufacture product and those who distribute it. The worker who manufactures is the positive cell of the Industrial battery. The worker who distributes is the negative cell. BALANCED INTERCHANGE between the two make for maximum power. ANY unbalance in either, no matter how slight, lowers the potential of Industry’s power.

Producing workers of positive polarity are the designers, research workers, construction engineers, chemists, metallurgists, laboratory workers, carpenters, masons, machine makers and all those who actually build the bodies of product. THEY PRODUCE PRODUCT.

Distributing workers of negative polarity are the sales force, advertisers, bookkeepers, public relations workers and all those who actually distribute product to consumers. THEY PRODUCE SALES OF PRODUCT.

THE FACT THAT EITHER OF THESE ARE POWERLESS WITHOUT THE OTHER IS UNDEBATABLE.

IT IS ALSO AN UNDEBATABLE FACT [THAT] VALUE ARISES ONLY BY INTERCHANGE BETWEEN THE TWO.

If each are [is] vitally necessary to the other what justification has either one to bargain with the other saying: “What I give is more important and of more value than what you give, so I want more than half.” The other refuses to concede this and “goes on strike”. Neither half then receives any value whatsoever.

Likewise if the OWNER of the IDEA [may] says to his two working producers of product and producers of sales: “Without me you could not earn one dollar, so you will take what I am willing to give you or go without”. The worker took what he could get for many years, for he was helpless. Not so today. The producers (labor) now say: “Without us you could not earn one dollar Try it.” And they quit.

THE NECESSITY FOR EQUALITY IS UNDEBATABLE. Equal service is of equal value.

Why bargain? The bargain is already made. God’s law gives equally of that which is given. He who gives less is given less.

Why bargain then, if bargaining is so costly to the bargainer? Why not work WITH the law and obtain maximum blessings by giving maximum blessings?

The positive cell of the battery does not demand more than one half of the whole potential on the ground of superiority of service, or of importance.

Nor does the north pole of a magnet ask for more than half, for if it could be possible to lessen one half the other would be weakened EQUALLY.

Neither pair of any opposites in Nature is stronger than its weaker half, nor is there stability in any unequally divided pair.

Nature is the great teacher. The more that [the] INDUSTRIAL MACHINE is like that of Nature the more perfectly it works to produce its maximum of product with a minimum of resistance.

UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD–LAST WEAPON LEFT TO MAN

God’s command from The Divine Iliad:

“GO THOU THEREFORE TO TEN MEN WHO WILL BELIEVE ON THEE AND MULTIPLY THOU THEM BY TEN AND YET AGAIN TEN UNTIL AN ARMY SHALL BE AS A WALL OF GRANITE BENEATH THY FEET.”

These words hold a sacred command to all who read them with inner Eyes for the time has come when man must work to bring UNITY into the world or perish by his own hand.

Our world is toppling through unbalanced conditions in every element of human relations. That balance MUST be restored lest we again destroy ourselves.

Fear, hate, discontent and disunity must go out of our human relations and love must come in.

TAKING unequally by force must be replaced by GIVING equally with love.

This deeply suffering world has long been saying that a “miracte” must happen to save us.

There is no magic wand which wishful thinking can use to perform the miracle now needed by man. That miracle which can happen to save the world lies within you and your neighbor.

First there must come the great awakening of the world to its danger by those who comprehend that danger. That awakening should come like a great siren reaching out into the comprehension of the whole country by a campaign of education instituted by Industry to gather all men together in an organized movement for working with a greater SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE than the world has ever known.

That one single purpose is to bring the Universal Brotherhood of man into world-consciousness and thus unite all men as one.

PLAN OF CAMPAIGN FOR UNITING MANKIND

1. Ten known leaders in Industry and world-thought must be found who will dedicate themselves to giving mankind his divine heritage. These ten must become a committee to reach out and find “yet again ten”, as instructed.

Copies of these teachings can then be sent by this committee to other great Industrial leaders and thinkers, who head the great corporations of the country and to those who have been most active in the furthering of closer relations between the two great partners who CREATE and PRODUCE the material necessities of man.

2. Send a strongly worded letter with these teachings, signed by one member for the whole, urging immediate study of the plan in preparation for a mass conference to be held at Swannanoa–the headquarters of The Walter Russell Foundation–from where, on this glorious mountain-top in Virginia, these teachings are being sent all over the world.

During the past three years students from all over the world have been gathering here to study and prepare themselves for bringing this higher knowledge into being.

3. Here in this beautiful palace and gardens–which have been dedicated to the unification of man–the most historic decision ever made by man shall be consummated and broadcast to all the world, which [This decision] will herald the news of peace and good will to all mankind for this New Age of Cosmic man now dawning, which shall endure for three thousand years, as promised to man.

That momentous decision shall be that the division of profits made by OWNERS and PRODUCERS in Industry shall henceforth be mutually shared EQUALLY in harmony with the Universal Law of Rhythmic Balanced Interchange which inexorably governs every transaction, great and small, in Nature’s whole Universe.

To apply the law of Rhythmic Balanced Interchange, this division means that after all expenses of operation are paid, including amortization of–and addition to–capital investment, a proper reserve set aside and salaries of all workers paid, the net amount, which is the actual profit made by the mutual service rendered by all workers, is to be equally divided, one half going to the OWNER–which is CAPITAL–either as an individual, partner group or stockholder group, and the other half to be divided pro rata, as a percentage above salary, for each worker in the entire plant, inclusive.

By workers we mean all who give active service, whether they be presidents, directors, managers of sales or other departments, assistants, stenographers, bookkeepers, salesmen, and other office help and all workers in every department who create the product, including even the least paid porters or sweepers.

This means of sharing is a recognition of the fact that every cog in the wheel of the Industrial machine is of relatively equal value to the whole machine.

A system of stamp books could be devised which could be issued to each employee, each stamp representing number of hours of service rendered by each employee, and each calling for a pro rata share of the dividend set aside for that purpose.

Such a division would give equal dignity as well as equal justice to the overall worker and white-collar worker. It would also kindle incentive and initiative in each worker to give his maximum of service and loyalty, for he would feel that every dollar which he added to earnings was being justly shared by him.

From the moment this momentous decision is made, and millions of Americans unite to work WITH the law instead of AGAINST it, this nation will begin its approach to that high ideal set for it by Lincoln as a nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

4. The basis of our educational programme here, at Swannanoa is–Man himself.

5. MAN himself as an individual. His purpose on earth.

6. Man collectively as a whole. His ONENESS with man and God.

7. Man as a working unit of Nature and controlled by Nature.

8. Man’s relation to man, to the universe, and to the laws of the universe by which his every action is governed.

9. The Mind of man. The thinking of Mind. Inspiration in man.

The awakening of genius in man. His Consciousness. His Soul, His power

10. Application of knowledge of man’s relation to the universe in the building of character, dignity, honor, ethics and integrity without which man as an individual or as a civilization cannot hold together.

11. The ten chosen leaders and their affiliated committees should unite with The Walter Russell Foundation to organize an intensive distribution of this programme which would permeate every element of life including every department of government. Every element of thought-distribution should be used. Homes and neighborhood groups–radio–motion pictures–the press–magazines–newspapers–business groups–Service Clubs–Boy Scouts and Brownies [Girl Scouts]–Women’s Clubs–and all other means of intercommunication between men. Ever[y] radio and press advertiser should plan his advertisements in harmony with these teachings.

A tremendous opportunity for cooperation in building our needed WALL OF TRUTH lies with the Motion Picture Industry. Great writers could so effectually symbolize the workings of THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN in story form that millions of people could visualize its workings and emulate them with growing comprehension.

It would be impossible to estimate the value to the world of such cooperation by Motion Picture Producers.

It goes without saying that stories visualizing the horrors of what goes on behind the iron curtain would stimulate action by all people. Likewise, it goes without saying that Motion Pictures should eliminate all gangster and underworld stories which glorify crime and criminals, for such pictures add materially to crime by the making of criminals.

6. EDUCATION. It is of vital importance that organized education cooperate with our national programme of building our–moral and ethical WALL OF TRUTH consisting of millions of men of highest honor and integrity.

EDUCATION should begin with the children to instill into them the QUALITIES which knowledge alone gives. Hitler trained his youth to hate, and Stalin is teaching them to denounce God. As the twig is bent so is the tree inclined.”

EDUCATION has long felt the desire for a new concept and a new practice in its work of increasing the intelligence of the nation. In our programme outlined above EDUCATION could find that new concept.

The basic purpose of EDUCATION is the building of man by giving him KNOWLEDGE, the awakening of genius in him, and of desire in him for creative expression.

Modern educational programmes do not awaken genius or inspiration. On the contrary they suppress genius and develop inferiority complexes and frustration[s] which discourage the really bright students.

Modern education teaches students to remember and repeat information concerning effect. Instead of that it should teach them to think and to know the CAUSE of those effects.

Information is not knowledge. A human encyclopedia may have all the information in the world, yet be without knowledge. Just as food is not nourishment until it has been transformed to the blood stream of life, information is not knowledge until comprehension has transformed it from its record on the brain to the consciousness of Mind.

Great geniuses, such as Edison, Mark Twain and countless others, have been considered stupid in school and given low marks because they could not pass the intelligence tests which lesser students with photographic memories could easily pass. Parrot like minds are not usually creative and great creative minds are never parrot like.

If EDUCATION desires to develop a highly cultured civilization it should develop creative powers in men, not imitators who add nothing to world-culture[.]

7. RELIGION–The scientific meaning of the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN could be added to all religious teachings for man’s comprehension is ready and waiting for this new knowledge.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN IN ACTION should be part of all religious teachings. When all great religious groups concede that ALL MEN ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD regardless of their race, color or creed then God will–at last–be recognized [by all ??] as the only POWER IN THE WORLD BY ALL MEN and the worship of personalities will cease.

The worship of idols, and then personalities, have been the CAUSE of division and disunity in religions. For this reason the world is divided into five disunited religions of irreconcilable views all being intolerant of [to] each other–yet all MUST worship the same ONE GOD.

Disunity in religion has divided the world of men into intolerant groups.

When there is but ONE RELIGION and ONE GOD whom all men worship alike, RELIGION will then be the most powerful force in the world.

8. The Walter Russell Foundation was solemnly dedicated to the purpose of disseminating this new knowledge and we have for three years been spreading this great DIVINE ILIAD MESSAGE for the saving of the human race throughout the world through our Books, Home Study Course, Forum and [S]ummer students classes.

There are deeply inspired students like yourself who are forming study groups in practically every country of the world.

With the cooperation of the combined efforts of all elements of life as organized into a cohesive whole by the genius of the ten leaders, who will be chosen to gather together the forces which will build this great WALL OF TRUTH, we will add to our present activities an extensive programme of disseminating this new knowledge by radio, nation-wide lectures, teachers and the organizing of study groups as well as a daily lesson to adults and to children which will go forth by radio from Swannanoa to all the country.

We will also publish as soon as possible all books and literature in popular bindings at the lowest cost possible so that they may be accessible to all.

In addition to the glorious marble palace and gardens of Swannanoa our plans include the erection of a Temple of Learning on the highest point of this sacred mountain which will seat 10,000 people and will in itself be a world broadcasting station.

CONCLUSION

Will you who read this–with all mankind–again turn a deaf ear to God’s Message given yet again today in man’s hour of peril? Will you lay it aside after reading it and say: “How terrible I hope someone will do something about it”, and then turn to business as usual to make another thousand dollars which may cost you the agony of seeing your own children suffer untold ignominy and your elderly parents “liquidated” as useless encumbrances.

You can do something about it by calling your neighbors together and telling them of their danger–then uniting with the great effort of Industry to build an impregnable WALL OF TRUTH which will alone save you from the agonies which will be YOURS and OURS within our lifetime unless we turn away from the dark toward the Light.

The tragedy of human nature is that when we have a comfortable bed to sleep in, plenty of food and clothing, our children going happily and freely to school and parties, having a car to transport us and making more money than ever we say “Everything is fine”.

That is what a hat manufacturer in Hungary who had eighty employees, a city home and a country villa had thought until the Economic Police stepped in and took over his factory for the State because he had more than five employees. They allowed him to open a small shop with four employees until it was successfully running. The Economic Police again stepped in saying: “From this moment on, this business and all its mobile and immobile assets belong to the State. Hand over your keys–all of them.

Keys to your villa too. Let’s see the books. Good.–Bank statements.–Good. Your private bank account too. Now let’s see what you have in your pocket.” Thus this prosperous manufacturer became a pauper and an outcast in less than five minutes.

You still do not think it can happen to you perhaps? (Remember that it is the physically weak [Intelligentsia] who are killed off as useless and their wealth confiscated, while the physically strong worker is made a slave at heavy labor until he either commits suicide or succumbs from fatigue.)

These were fine people, like you, cultured people, the wife a gifted pianist, the son a noble youth like your sons. He escaped through bloodhound guarded boundaries with three others who fear that all their relatives have been “liquidated.”

[As a last hope] the son looked forward as a last hope of [to] escaping to America and watched for his opportunity for two long years. Where is there another America for us to escape to?

This is what the son said: “In 1948 they nationalized the factories. In 1949 they liquidated the wholesale trade. In 1950 they started taking over the stores. And now there is nothing to liquidate but the people.” (From Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 15, 1951.)

Place yourself in these peoples position. Five years ago they had as much freedom to live, and work, and laugh happily as you now have. Today hundreds of thousands of similar happy homes in Hungary alone are wrecked, old folks killed, strong men forced to labor until death mercifully releases them and pretty daughters forced into the slavery of concubinage, until they too mercifully die.

Awaken and act to save yourself and your fellow men for remember your enemy is not just inhuman, he is unhuman. Stop appeasing and feeding your deadly enemy. Awaken as New Zealand awakened and stopped appeasing communists after they so completely tied up her shipping that thousands of volunteer citizens had to load and unload her ships lest her people starve.

Stop hiring communists. Stop feeding them. Stop appeasing them. Stop fearing them. Eliminate them from our government, our labor unions, our factories as we would eliminate termites in our foundations or vermin in our cellars. The liberty of free speech we are giving them they are using to deprive us of the very freedom to live.

They cannot possibly live in this country unless we support them. There are too many of them, tens of thousands of them, being fed by us whom they would destroy.

Let us build our impregnable WALL OF TRUTH and exclude all who are opposed to truth. They feed upon untruth–upon discontent–upon disunity. Our great WALL OF TRUTH will have nothing within it upon which communism can feed.

That is the way to fight communism. There is no place for a communist in a unified world. Communists are opening the door for us to degradation and oblivion. We are helping them to open that door. It is inconceivable that humans of our intelligence could be so simple and so naive as that. Yet we…

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…great Universal Question–WHAT CAN WE DO TO SAVE MANKIND FROM DESTRUCTION? It is the first time that mankind has been given this conclusive ANSWER.

THERE IS NO OTHER WAY THAT MANKIND CAN BE SAVED and the time is short. Therefore, we urge you, each and every one, go forth and spread THE MESSAGE given to you in these lessons. LIVE this message and tell all and everyone WHY they MUST live God’s Universal Law. Explain to them the One Law of RHYTHMIC BALANCED INTERCHANGE which MUST be the basis of every transaction between men. Demonstrate to them just HOW it has worked in your life.

Remember God’s command in THE DIVINE ILIAD - “See Me, Be Me, Know Me. Be thou fulcrum of thine own power.”

If you will follow this command and LIVE these teachings America can be the savior of the world, for this great country is the ONLY country where man’s free will can win FREEDOM for him and the world–and that FREEDOM can only be saved by the power which UNITY gives to man.

God bless you for so valiantly going forward with us for we KNOW that with your help a new and glorious day will dawn.

Our loving thoughts to you always,

Sincerely,

Walter and Lao Russell

16. 19. In our next unit of lessons we will continue the subject of Unit [8] but we know you will realize the urgent need for this special unit at this time.

23. & L. R.