PARAGRAPH
2 "Now, there will be no
holocaust unless you believe that you are so evil that you,
as a race must punish yourselves. But there will always be
benign old spirits like me that tell you that, although you
are bad, you are perfectly bad, and utterly beautiful, and
nothing will destroy you unless you are convinced you are,
as a race so evil you must be destroyed. And even then, only
those who so believe will partake in that probability!
PARAGRAPH 3 "The prophets speak truly, that speak of doom. They speak
truly when they speak from a framework that believes in
doom. But that framework is a mere probability that gains
its strength only from a belief in evil. So, the prophets
felt that belief, and are themselves terrible driven by that
belief; and paint dire pictures that reside within the
psyche of those who themselves feel damned.
PARAGRAPH 4
"There are other directions that your race can take, and I'm
trying to point out those directions to you. And if you take
those directions, then indeed-in your terms-there will be a
birth of a new species-a species that understands its
blessed creature hood, that understands its spirituality,
that does not despoil its planet, that purposefully creates
the kind of world a sane god would create, a god who has no
need for a heaven or a hell!
PARAGRAPH 5
"Quite simply, a belief in the good without a belief in the
evil, may seem highly unrealistic to you. This belief,
however, is the best kind of insurance that you can have,
both during physical life and afterwards. It may outrage
your intellect, and the evidence of your physical senses may
shout that it is untrue, yet a belief in good without a
belief in evil is actually highly realistic."
PARAGRAPH 6 "Your beliefs generate emotion. It is somewhat fashionable
to place feelings above conscious thoughts, the idea being
that emotions are more basic and natural than conscious
reasoning is. The two actually go together but your
conscious thinking largely determines your emotions, and not
the other way around. Your beliefs generate the appropriate
emotion that is implied.
PARAGRAPH 7
"The race must learn the value of the individual man. The
race is also learning its dependence upon other species, and
beginning to comprehend its part in the whole framework in
physical reality. Now: some individuals are being reborn at
this time simply to help you understand. They are forcing
the issue, and forcing the crisis, for you still have time
to change your ways. You are working on two main problems,
but both involve the sacredness of the individual, and the
individual's relationship with others and with all
physically oriented consciousness.
PARAGRAPH 8
"The problem of war will sooner or later teach you that when
you kill another man, basically you will end up killing
yourself. The over-population problem will teach you that if
you do not have a loving concern for the environment in
which you dwell, it will no longer sustain you--you will not
be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you
see. You will not be destroying the birds or the flowers, or
the grain or the animals. You will not be worthy of them,
and they will be destroying you. You have set up the problem
for yourselves within the framework of your reference. You
will not understand your part within the framework of nature
until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it
apart. You will not destroy consciousness. You will not
annihilate the consciousness of even one leaf, but in your
context, if the problem were not solved, these would fade
from your experience.
PARAGRAPH 9 "The crisis is a kind of therapy...And you need it now,
before your race embarks upon journeys to other physical
realities. You must learn your lessons now in your own back
yard before you travel to other worlds. So you have brought
this upon yourself for that purpose and you will learn.
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10
"If you become so frightened of realities that are not your
own; if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist
in your reality, in your moment, you weaken your position,
and you think you are helping. You must operate from
strength, not from weakness. When you stand on a firm shore,
you can extend your arm to the man that is in quicksand. You
cannot help him by leaping into the quicksand with him, for
surely both of you will go down, and he will not thank you.
Organize your reality according to your strength. Organize
your reality according to your playfulness, according to
your dreams, according to your hopes, and then you can help
those who organize their reality according to their fears."
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