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Beloved Friends of the Heart of Freedom,
The level of the spiritual culture of the world has waned with the increase of material knowledge and the emphasis that has been placed upon worldly success. Let me make clear that mankind need not cast aside prosperity and success in order to be spiritual. But, by a like token, they do not need to cast aside spirituality in order to be materially prosperous and successful. High ethics and high standards always evoke a benevolent karma wherein all success can be translated into God-success. I feel that all who read would certainly agree that Mr. J. C. Penney, the mercantile, gentleman so familiar throughout North America, is an example of one who has for many years applied the golden rule in his dealings with the public. It is to the upholding of this standard in public and in private that I dedicate this Pearl of Wisdom.
Now, I should like to point out the shifting pattern in the values of men that has been outpictured in the current age. This is the result of the interplay of old karmic patterns upon a new permissiveness in society which has been advocated through works of fiction and nonfiction dramatized on the stage, on film, and in radio and television. We find that this accent on material happiness has led to a greater preoccupation with materialism, not only among those who are financially successful but also among the young men and women in the colleges and universities.
Let us, therefore, examine certain techniques used in controlling the masses, one of the most obvious yet effective of these being that which is known as "divide and conquer." Since men have the tendency to take sides, those who would manipulate nations and peoples find it to their advantage to divide humanity and to pit them against one another as a means of controlling the world. While political parties, various interest groups and matters of foreign policy provide the means of dividing people on a national scale, miniature power blocks are sustained even within families and small business firms. Furthermore, the smoke screen that is created through the deliberate release of misinformation through the press and other news media makes it literally impossible for either the people or their elected representatives to properly assess the issues and to formulate sound policy.
Strange as it may seem, from time to time both sides of a question have their own peculiar rightness. But, as a means of preventing popular support in a given body for a certain issue, minor points are emphasized and major points are distorted in such a way that the pros and cons cannot be systematically and objectively evaluated. Then, too, once an individual has committed himself to a particular view or has taken a particular side (human nature being what it is), he is reluctant to consider the other side of the question. Thus, many are bound to their peculiar philosophy, politics, or religion for a lifetime, never knowing the freedom to reevaluate their positions.
Occasionally people or parties make changes. Religious theology or dogma can become progressively more informed or retrogressively more bigoted. But, in general, the up, down, and sideways movements of human attitudes and public opinion create uncertainties and vagaries that never allow the soul to clarify the real meaning of life.
We are interested in revealing the fact that behind the plots that pit the blacks against the whites, the North against the South, the East against the West, the poor against the affluent, and the ignorant against the learned are the manipulators who use a stream of divergent ideas to set the brethren against one another as a means of unbalancing the population-pushing them either farther and farther apart or closer and closer together as it suits their purposes.
The chameleonlike educational policies that change in every generation according to the designs of the manipulators - who, if they cannot slaughter the holy innocents as of old, will carefully shape their thought patterns at an early age - have acted as snares for millions of young souls. Thus, those who would control men have produced many shames, for by confusing the issues they have prevented God-seeking men and women from finding him. By dividing men on two or more sides of a given question, political divisions have far too often turned into religious, social, and even personal schisms. These have brought people to the point where they are completely alienated from one another because of the synthetic fabric the kingmakers have wrapped around the various elements of life.
One of the current plots that is having far-reaching and dangerous effects in the United States is the rash of motion pictures, novels, and articles centered around the South which are calculated to convey the image that the Southland has a premium on bad-mannered, ignorant, and prejudiced people. In reality, the citizens of the southern States have traditionally endorsed high standards of living, of education, and of fairness to all. It is lamentable that since the founding of the nation those who have been in positions of financial control have often abused the labor market of the South and denied to it, through tariffs and other forms of governmental control, the economic stability that it well deserves.
The War between the States has long been over, but the manipulators who originally caused it are themselves guilty of having perpetrated greater harm to both black and white than has ever been realized by the great-hearted citizens of the North and the South. In reality, the people of the South have held the hand of God more firmly than those in any other part of the nation with, perhaps, the exception of those in the Far West. The God-fearing people of the South, in their deep love of God and country, have maintained a patriotism and a religious fervor to raise their children in memory of the Lord Christ that has not been paralleled in any other part of the nation.
To keep this spirit from spreading throughout the nation, the manipulators have determined to keep the North and the South divided; and they have created images of ignorance, of intolerance, and of injustice in order to accomplish their ends. In the interest of maintaining one nation under God, the Great White Brotherhood has asked that I point out to the people of both the North and the South that geographical and regional rivalries, which also exist in various other nations in the world, should have no effect upon their expression of true brotherhood; for these are synthetically and cunningly contrived. Greatness exists throughout the nations and all over the world, but the belittlement of one part of the world by another can only bring about great harm to all parts of the world.
The common enemy of the people should be exposed. Those who in magazine and newspaper articles, in books and in the fields of entertainment are deliberately and with malice aforethought playing one group against another should be seen for what they are. Who is the bigot that extends his hand accusingly at another and sayeth unto him, "Thou art a bigot," or unto others, "He is a bigot"?
In the manifold strata of society and the present cultural polarization the individual is the key. The Brotherhood does not welcome the destruction of individuality and the harmony of the soul with his God Presence; yet, this is exactly what is accomplished as region is divided against region, brother against brother, and as the people's energies are consumed in sustaining momentums of mass hatred rather than in seeking their attunement with the Christ.
Ours is the way of love. And in freedom's name, if humanity would really end all wars, they must do so by an unequivocal acceptance of the golden rule of the Prince of Peace. Nations and peoples must be willing to negotiate, but not at the expense of justice and reason. World unrest, which should long ago have been calmed by true religion, has unfortunately been fanned by religious intolerance and the mortal wickedness of the manipulators. Therefore, the Brotherhood prays that wise men everywhere, kneeling at the feet of God, will learn to distinguish between a genuine complaint and one that is synthetically manufactured in order to spread discord.
Connected as I am with the Departments of Cosmic Psychology and Geopolitical Studies, I am concerned that honesty of heart be proclaimed as a means of adjudicating all human differences. Let the malcontents be ignored wherever possible; but, by a like token, let every legitimate claim for human justice be honored and fairly assessed. My prayer is for world peace through individual peace and understanding, but not at the cost of giving in to the manipulators or the warmongers who wave an olive branch that belies the violence in their hearts.
The omnipotence of God could never be sustained if the errors of humanity were given precedence over the justice of God. He is all things to all people1 and in him is no darkness at all;2 but to hierarchy he has given the charge of administering political, social, and economic justice. Therefore, in trust and in patience let all possess their souls until the whole world becomes free through right knowledge, understanding, harmony, and true divine love.
I remain an emissary of freedom and peace for the Brotherhood,