this morning. Good morning. We have, I think, a very unusual subject, one which I don't think comes up very often, and we're going to try to explain something that will be of value to you in many areas of research. We know in principle that creation is a pattern of vibrations, that everything is moving at certain different rates within one grand rate that includes them all. This is true of solar systems, and it is also true of kindergartens in a school. That is part of life, of everything that grows step by step through an octave of vibrations. Now, in government, for example, all the different forms of government are subdivisions within the principle of government. The principal is the master vibration, and all the different tones of government that develop, good, bad, and indifferent, are conditions of this one master rate. And this rate has both its positive and negative aspects. The positive-negative aspects of vibration in political or authoritative arts and sciences rest in the ability of various objects or beings to move through these patterns of vibratory rate and change.

their functions to meet these patterns. Also, wherever a pattern is met by something unreasonable, destructive, or negative, the pattern fights back. That popeyetrip patterns will never let evil survive. They will continue to negate that which is wrong and build up that which is right. Now, most of the patterns with which we are concerned have been functioning for hundreds of thousands, perhaps hundreds of years, and they represent practically every phase of life. They are constantly mutilated and changed by the conditions of society and the governmental system. Of course, there will be the one theory, that of government. This theory of government then will develop into ten types of government, which normally will be sequential, representing degrees of the event of defense and protection. These different degrees may be monarchy, democracy, communism, or whatever it may be, but they are all minor divisions of one vibratory master note, the note of political authority, leadership. That which must be controlled, directed, and protected comes under a master rate, and this will go on throughout all the passages of true creation. It was going on long before our

planet was discovered in space. It will continue long after our planet is gone. Before, wherever government is necessary, it is reborn. The one master pattern comes back until it is fulfilled, and when it is complete and fulfilled, it means its impulses have perfected in manifestation, and it ceases or transfers to a next higher level of vibratory rate. Now, in dealing with the problems of religion, which of course is our primary interest, we have to recognize that religion is one master rate of vibration. It has existed from time immemorial on many different levels, but religion as a principle represents the relationship between deity and its creations. Religion is the DEITY recognized through all the aspects of its manifestations. Therefore, we say that the deity itself is made manifest in its works, and it works in every case of rates of vibration. They are the degrees of energy and the specializations of energy that we find in connection with the theories of religion. We must therefore expect to find and to find 10 major divisions of the religious principle. We find this represented

through the religions of the world, those that have come and those that have gone, for the religion is growing up, pulling old and dying just like any other entity, and when it dies, it dies only because it is completed, that there is nothing left that it can add. At that time, the development of humanity passes to another level, and a new power takes over. When every power is complete, a cycle is complete. Wherever an individual, through his religious affiliations, passes from one level of religion to another, this is a time of growth. The religions of the world are a ladder, and the individuals, living things, climb the rungs of this ladder gradually until they have mastered the mysteries of the faith. When they have mastered the whole key to religious manifestation, then religion as such is no longer applicable to them. It is no longer applicable because there is no possible way in which they can infringe upon the integrity of life. So, we watch the development of religions, and we realize another interesting point that I think we should always add, manifest, namely that in all these cycles.

of our vibration. There is conflict. Religions are in conflict because of the attitudes of people. The religion itself is never in conflict with another religion, but its followers, having developed sectarian allegiances, become in conflict with all forms other than their own. So, we have a great struggle in the world over religion. Religion itself is indivisible; it can never, under any conditions, be violated. But man, in his ignorance of the values of life, is constantly trying to change universal procedure. He is seeking desperately to make a new pattern of life according to his own fancy, and the more he fancies, the worse his pattern gets. It becomes inevitable, for instance, that all these different, separate new creeds that spring up by human endeavor must find their place in the pattern of religion. They may be a novelty; they might be something brought back from all time. If they fit in, they go forward with the rest. If an old religion is revised, this is revived because it has been restated in principles and integrity. It then proceeds as before, and those types

of religion which have never been improved gradually fade away. Now we know, for instance, that in the modern religious world, we've had a great deal of pain and sorrow in connection with the religious life of humanity. These tragic episodes have nothing to do with natural law. The pain is due to what the individual does to the law. The law is never vicious. The law never revenges. The law never hurts of itself. But individuals breaking the law hurt themselves. They come into unfortunate relationships with the vibratory rates which constitute integrity, and their own misdeeds bring down upon them an adverse reflex from the law. This does not mean that the law is personally accusing them. It means that there are things that are right and things that are wrong, and regardless of what happens, right is rewarded and wrong is punished. Now, punishment is not because of a malicious point of view, nor is it a result of an effort to dominate religions by some new face or by strengthening an older one. There is no competition in religion, really, because

All of them are parts of a site of a sequence of 10 qualifications within a great octave of energy. All religions are compatible, and anything that is not compatible simply because it isn't part of the religious pattern that gradually fades away. Everywhere we look, we see, therefore, the effort to grow religiously. Now we are beginning to see it again after quite a time. We remember the growth of religions as they developed within the memories of ancient times. Remember the wonderful centuries between 500 BC and about 500 AD. There was a great birthday of malicious beliefs. Then things are slowed down somewhat now, and we are beginning to have grave doubts and reservations concerning some of our beliefs. If these beliefs do not work, they are not part of the pattern. If they are irreconcilable with integrity, they are not part of the pattern. Now, in a case of religion, the selfish self-wills, arrogant individual believes the answer to his problem may be to draw a religion entirely, to give up the problems of faith, and do as he pleases. Well, he can.

do that, but he cannot escape the fact that he lives in a universe that is oriented to religion, regardless of what he thinks about it. Almost all the things that interest him in atheism have some relation to religious values: honesty, honor, integrity. All of these things are part of moral life; they are part of the great tape which we call religion. Any one of them being violated brings with it a certain inevitable consequence. This consequence is not a revenge on the part of the law; it is not a punishment by a being or by an intelligence against the person who has violated principles. It is simply that the breaking of a rule cuts off the value of that rule and leaves the individual in need of certain things which are brought only by that rule. Therefore, we must be rather careful in regarding any religion as superficial. Now, in religious life, we have a little series of 10 degrees from the highest to the lowest. The highest, of course, would be perfect religion, religion in which there is no conflict or contradiction. Religious on that level means totally

and completely in conformity with truth, and in that conformity, the individual, regardless of the level of his intellect, has no conflict with any belief, any integrity that other people may have. He will have the capacity to accept the search for reality and be very grateful for those who advance along that path as he goes down with those through the chain of involution, arc development. The entity becomes obscured, as we find in scriptures, and there are these big wars in heaven and all these things. Now, there is never an actual war in heaven because heaven cannot fight. The war is a conflict over what is heaven. Believe the rulers of things, the ambitious ruler, takes the attitude possibly that God should be on his side, that God doesn't plan to be on his side. It's a very serious shock, but it has to be. The truth is never on the side of error; it is on the other side of correcting an error. It is never competitive, for all truth leads to unity; all errors end in diversity. Everything that is essential to our forthwith.

both with growth, it's going to lead us nearer to the realities we see, and in so doing, is going to help us to be better people all the way along. Now, when we come into life in an incarnation or embodiment, we bring in with us the records of our own achievement in the vibratory level of religion. We bring our religion with us, not our religion in the sense of a Creed, but our religion in the sense of an integrity. If we were reasonably developed in the previous embodiment, we will be reasonably developed now. If we avoided and abated, then we will be suffering from the consequence of avoidance and evasion. Now, we will pick up our religious life where we left it off. We will pick it up with the selfishness and the unselfishness, the kindness and the cruelty, the strength and the weakness that measured it in the past. And the individual coming in to lay nearly always becomes concerned about the spiritual aspects of his own nature because he is primarily a spiritual entity. Therefore, all of his

material of actions and our comic to some degree. They represent need a further experience to prove moral or ethical integrity. The individual who breaks the rule suffers, is taught a lesson. If he does not learn the lesson, it is repeated. If he does not learn it in this life, he will repeat it in the next. He will complete a mistake until he wears it out, but he will never be subject to a personal hatred. He will never go into hellfire and damnation over it. He doesn't need to. He can be miserable enough simply living with himself and in so doing learning that he cannot accomplish certain misdeed successfully. So we come into life when they in various degrees of this religious pattern, assuming that there are ten levels of religion and that within these ten levels there are 49 subdivisions. We realize that this room for a large diversity of religious differences and opinions, but in all cases, the basic Integrity's are the same. They come in a different language for different people. They use different symbols for different

nations. They use different words for different languages. They come with all the differentiation that is necessary to adjust them to the consciousness of the group toward which they are being developed. So that of in this religious grouping, we have not only all different types of Orthodoxy but all different types of heterodoxy. We have the world religions, we have all the theories and practices of our ancestors, and we have with it all a tremendous philosophical background. And that philosophical background is the basic background of the vibratory rate of religion itself. There is only one basic religion, never has been but one, and never can be but one because it is a ray of the infinite, and the infinite only has one ray for that and never wears it out. The individuals living or developing within these, we're out there rebellions and come finally to feast with the law itself when we come to peace with a universal law, political, social, economic, industrial, educational. That law no longer becomes a frightening thing. We are no longer

afraid of the 'value to accept Vietnam. We also have become aware that in the pattern of values, there is always a space for promotion. When we think we have everything we need and we are just so proud of ourselves, we can hardly bear it. Something goes wrong, and we suddenly discover that we have to go on and do some more, and we have to keep on growing through this pattern of religion until we have completed the 49 levels, which go from absolute negation to absolute fullness. The negation, however, is not the presence of evil; the negation is only the absence of the very active participation of the universal law in the habits and practices of humanity. So, we are very much concerned then in trying to understand some of the problems we have today. We have now a troop of many things: statesmanship, government is a unit, it is a vibratory keynote. If a government is part of a marvelous cell or, will say, a unit of power, the government is part of one great vibratory rate, and it extends.

all the way from the perfect inconceivable government to the lowest possible local political situation, and all these things are communist now. Then, when we try to adjust to them, we come into problems. The individual trying to take the law of progress in government and kinda tip it a little bit to his own advantage, breaking a little of the ethics in order to advance his own purposes, immediately he is in trouble. There is no possible way for him to avoid the trouble because when you're walking with the law, there is no other direction you can walk without pain. So then, the mistake that has been made is caught up with, and the individual has to change. Now, a nation may go against the law; it's bad nations of in doing that pretty steadily here in the last 50 years. They've all been out for the dollar and for power, and we watch them one by one. You get even more and more trouble they get into, a trouble that will continue as long as they break the rules. Now, it'd be a lot of people would think I would say

under those conditions that these nations that are in trouble are being punished by the law. They are not. They are punished by their own attitude toward the law. The law is not punishing anybody; it is simply failing to cooperate with that which is bad, that which is unlawful, will never be supported by law, but which is lawful will always be supported. And if for one reason or another the fourth is the support is delayed, it will come in due time. So we look around and we see nations in great trouble, and our first thought is, of course, that some heavenly power, some mysterious dictator, some grand spirit beyond our reach is punishing us for our mistakes. The problem is not that way at all because the instrument of punishment and fulfillment are all under our owns in. We have within ourselves of vibratory adjustment by means of internal mechanisms to every rate of vibration that can affect from the outside. We are constantly under the domination of a certainty that if we go along and do is be sure it, we will have no serious troubles, and when we

start looking, and we say, Oh, this poor man was terribly punished for something that is not his own fault. Then it's time to give another look, because if you do and research deep enough, we will find that each individual is receiving his just dessert, not from the law but from the loss in himself of the benefits and advantages that come to those who obey the law. So we have in our religious mystery today, we have many religions fighting for peace, we have many religions striving desperately to dominate each other, we have many so-called theologies that are monitoring their own people and murdering the stranger looking for power and physical superiority, and some of these people are doing this in the name of God. Some of those who are doing the worst are doing it because they say God wills it so, and this becomes another interesting phase of our problem. God does not will any such thing. God does not will disaster. God wills success and security, and if man breaks the law, it is man who causes the disaster. There is no question about

all of these problems working themselves out. But when they work themselves out, we will have to watch to make sure that we recognize the truth of the matter. Then we realize that the lawbreaker breaks himself and no one else. That those who keep the law keep their own destiny. Those who obey the principles of growth grow with life. Those who block the principles of being deprived of the growth which they would naturally receive. Now today we have a new spirit coming up among our people. There is a question coming more and more into focus that something is wrong with what we're doing with Riaan. Doesn't be out there making trouble for each other. That we should be a not out there killing each other or turning bombs on each other. And we shouldn't be making under-the-table arrangements to profit by all this. When these things all add up and they show a trouble, there is no deity sitting up above with an earphone listening to it. There is no one sitting about below who's going to report it to it and Saint

Peter is not going to get up and tell him not necessary. The vibration set up by the person in himself as a result of his own action in his pond is his Punisher. He thinks he can blame it on something, but the only answer is that it is his own fault, and he will continue to suffer for his own misdeeds until he stops performing them. This is a point of view that most religious people do not have. Most religious people believe there is some kind of a punishment that is meted out to them because of their misdoings or because what they are doing is not in harmony with the miseries of the day. It is not true at all. Everyone is in harmony with religion and having made an adjustment can go on with any faith. He does not need to change his faith. He does not need to do anything except live it. And all religions have as their final code something resembling the Ten Commandments or some Sermon on the Mount to give her courage to them all. Most all religions start by saying

that the man must be just. That integrity is demanded by God. Well, is not really demanded by God, but integrity is there, and those who keep it will be rewarded for keeping it. They will not be rewarded by a separate deity off somewhere; they will be rewarded because their own bodies will be more healthy, their minds become more clear, and their daily lives become more constructive. The reward that apparently comes from God comes from the simple performance of a right action, and all right actions will be rewarded, and all wrong actions will be punished by the action, not by an arbitrary deity. Everywhere we have working with the universe of life, we are floating in a midst of an infinite field of constructive energies that go on into the infinite future as they came out of the infinite past. Man is an entity, and entities have been fighting against this integrity for thousands of years. He has decided that it was the one thing that permitted him, prevented him from amounting to something. If he could do exactly as he pleased and conquer the universe, then he'd be happy, but he it

isn't going to happen because if he conquered the universe, he could only do it by destroying the universe. And in destroying the universe, he would have to destroy himself. There is no way in which the individual who is not interested in integrity can hope for security, peace, or happiness. Now, it's wonderful to think of it out in space, where planets and stars and galaxies move about an invisible axis, which will be there forever. Perhaps that all seems very wonderful, but when we come down to the personal life of individuals, where he comes down to the recognition that each human being is a magnetic field in himself, he is a vibratory creature, and his vibratory creature is the support of his physical body. And where he portrays the body, he damages the support. When he's afraid, he portrays or just disobeys the support of the inner life. He's in trouble. He was there for always bear in mind that he is an energy field, and that somewhere along the line, his energies match in with almost all of the major enemies' energies of space. He

has an authority factor in his own nature, but means the way she attempts to establish a family overhead to create a business. He has a political factor to elect or be elected to public office. He has a creative factor which is going to help him to succeed in some personal field. He is going to be drawn to medicine, drawn to Lourdes, drawn to all the different phases by the Integrity's of his own energy field. His energy field, if it is not protected and taken care of well, but they care of him for his entire lifetime. But the moment he compromises that energy field, that energy field will begin to failing. Now that is what we have in politics today. We have too much corruption and it is destroying the very purpose for which these laws were enforced. We are no longer thinking in terms of a just government. We are thinking of in terms of profit and hoping to last until something falls on us. This is not a good philosophy, but it is coming. Now there is no deity it is going to fight with us over it. We want

to do this, we will do it, but if we do what is wrong, there is no possible way by any force we can conceive to get away without misery. There is no way of winning the fight against truth. There is no way of being happy in a world that we are making miserable, and there is no way of being happy in a home that we are making miserable, or the presence of children we are neglecting. Every time we break the rules, we destroy some of our own peace, some of our own integrity, and begin to burden ourselves with miseries which become difficult. Now, the plan itself is a magnetic field, and in the magnetic field of the planet, we have all the elements, all the animals, birds, flowers, everything you can think of that is gone to make up this Garden of Eden, which we were given as a reward for some previous growth. But we are not keeping the growth up very well. We are finding that this garden is a great temptation. This is good. This garden is rich, and we might as well get rich off of it. This guard, this Guardian.

that our garden is bountiful of good. We might as well make advantage of it, every part of it. We might as well destroy its environment. We might as well destroy its natural resources because the main problem is to get what we can as quick as we can get it. It isn't going to work that way, not because of the deity to say you can't do it, but the moment we begin to misuse resources, these resources of themselves turn on us. When we recently, when we misuse the resource of environment, it slowly turns on us, destroying by punishing us as a result of our own misdeed. No person is required in this. No particular being must hand out the punishment. The moment we break the rule, the rule starts to break us. And if we do not bend our way, we have to find it back again through suffering. So we have now a new century coming up here in the next two years, a century which many people are hoping is going to do some good. And at the same time, a lot, a lot of people are

worried about the probability of getting what we are deserving, and that's a pretty sad prospect because we are not deserving too much. We are not deserving rewards for being foolish, stupid, and dishonest. We are not becoming successful because we are exploiting the universe that we inhabit, this marvelous compound cell that we call the planet or the solar system. We are exploiting it. We are trying to just discover ways of getting everything away from it for our own advantage, and as we gradually destroy the cell, we destroy ourselves with it. The older religions and philosophies of the world, born out of on the point that is perhaps still valid, and that is that the safest life for anyone here on this planet is the simple life. The good life is the life that is full of aspiration but not too much ambition, a life that is satisfied to live and let live, a life that is grateful when others do well, a life which helps those who get in trouble even though they may deserve it, but even though we still have the vision.

and the heart to do something. Until we understand the whole principle better, charity is very important. So, we are not really working until we find that we are not perpetuating problems. If we perpetuate them, we will have them. Now, how are we going to know whether we're perpetuating problems or not? Well, the only thing we need to know is whether what we're doing is working well. A lot is our educational system satisfactory. Are the young people getting the education we believe they need? Are the young people themselves satisfied that they've been given the instruction that is useful to them? If we are convinced in our own minds that we are doing the best we can, whether we are consciously and intentionally compromising everything because it's a little too much work, then we have another problem. It comes out of the same thing. If these young people are graduated to do what we have done, the years of the 21st century will be very rough on them because we are now facing into the consequence of a personal and

collective mismanagement. We are paying for the mistakes we have made and for the faults we have never corrected. We are also paying for an educational system which we have variously distorted in order to make sure that it would advance our personal desires. We are in the same respect with our religion. We are now looking for a religion that is going to help us to be better without effort, and this is not going to happen. And yet it's not possible. We're a group of evil spirits are going to sit there to make us uncomfortable. It means that we're on a John adjustment is achieved by the person. The consequence is bound to accumulate against the common good. So we have to work all the way along with the realization that we are dealing with vibrations, that we are dealing with a continuous mass of living in it, the energy moving from one thing to another. This same energy can cause us to have dyspepsia. This energy can give us a headache. Visca energy can lead the desperate person to narcotics.

and they can lead the more desperate person who found out the facts off of narcotics. We are in the midst of a confusion of desperation. The world is falling apart, nations are falling at each other's throats. Every time we open the book to read the newspaper, something's gone wrong, and we begin to say, My, as wealthy we are the victims of an outrageous destiny. We are not our outrageous anything except ourselves. We began in the night in the early 1900s in here with the policy of great wealth. We gained our great wealth by exploiting the immigrant labor at that time, which little later, however, has more or less regained its position. But we are constantly thinking only of material success in a world in which matter is actually electrons. So whether we success or not doesn't seem to make much difference. The thing that makes a difference is the vibration that we set in motion. Constructive, is it going to do the things to make a better world or a better life for ourselves? Is neglecting our responsibilities in order

to have fun going to payoff, and the answer is, if you can understand science sufficiently, it can never pay off. Now, this brings us to the realm of science for a moment, as to what is there and what we have to do about it. Science is working very hard to split atoms and do all kinds of interesting, phenomenal things, like putting people on other planets. That's their part, a nice little game that science plays. But there are other things that are more important. It's very important for science to realize that the very world in which it functions is a world of infinite energy, and that the only thing that is proper to knowledge is to find out what that energy wants. Because if it was wise enough to create us in the first place, it can probably tell somebody who listens where we're going. In the second place, if we are able to use science to solve the mysteries of our own ignorance, it could be a very wonderful thing if we could use science not to produce more and more contraptions to confuse us, but to

straighten out our thinking so that we know that two and two makes four instead of two and two making great fortune somewhere. We need to have a clear line by means of which science discovering the vibratory pattern of life assists all things to keep that pattern, to obey those laws, and to fulfill the destiny which those laws of those principles have intended. There is no doubt in the world that the universe wants to have a happy existence. It wants to fulfill itself. It wants to have the success that comes with achieving what is necessary for security and peace. It wants us to learn to grow without suffering, learning to keep our tempers without being frustrated, learning to face the bitter experiences of living without being readily subjected to the neurotic. The nature wants us to recognize that we grow because it is the law of existence, and if we grow happily, we are happy. If we grow fighting every step of the way, we are unhappy. If we have to decide between natural growth and television, we must learn to select natural growth. Television at the present time couldn't

be much worse. They say it can be. Was just waiting. But the answer is that this, all this type of thing, hour after hour, waiting and sitting in front of a tube to watch things that have no meaning in the first place or a major proof. So what's wrong? And if the fruits are what's wrong, we are not going to accept that proof anyway. But we should be doing things to learn, to help, to create, to provide, which you're going to take the energy we have in life and make it earn a destiny that is suitable by the right use of our potentials. We grow. If we use one energy wisely, we will have a second energy given to us. If we become master of our own dispositions on one level, we will have the strength to master them on another level. Growth is what is intended, and nature is perfectly happy for happy growth. He doesn't want miseries, but for every individual, grudges everything he does right and considered ill-doing at vacation. We are going to have the same problem, but you are living in the

universe of energies absolutely impossible to violate. We are living in the situation in which we keep the rules, and the rules keep us. Break the rules, and the rules break us. There's no ifs, buts, and hands about it. There is no way of doing it wrong and being rewarded in happiness. So we have to look around and see what we can do. We're working with the school system, we're working with all these problems, but they're all being pointed towards the perpetuation of the present condition. There were little improvements here, they're a little better than that, and perhaps something a little stronger in the higher education, but for the substance of the thing, no change. The change is the thing that has to come, and the change is made 'basic. We can put all the patches and all the postgraduate courses on that we want. We can build new devices, new machines until the universe topples over from its own devices, but this will not do it. The answer is very simple. We will have to learn the simple facts.

of doing it right in the first place. We have to learn to use common sense and integrity. We have to uphold the virtues which our ancestors praised, even if they didn't keep them. We are certainly going to be forced in the next 25 years to decide whether we want to make our own mistakes and perish, or clear up our condition and survive. We are being given an opportunity for the best and most important improvement that is possible. We are in need of idealism. We will get it if we want it. We are in need of integrity. We will get it if we earn it. We can do all these things and meet the next generation, at all the generations to come, with a clean slate and a clean world. We can recognize the fact that we can conserve resources, that we can control the environment, that we do not need to poison the air, that we do not need to toxify all of our foods. These things are not necessary, but they represent little shortcuts to the ways of profit, and with these, we're going to have trouble as

long as we have them, and we'll never be able to create a government strong enough to sustain us in our mistakes. It's not possible, and then when we realize that, then we'll stop making the mistakes and do it right in the first place. Now, in our little religion's world that we are living in now, our own particular little this world of hopes and ideals, we find a great interest coming up, a new world is breaking for integrity. We are becoming more and more aware of the necessities of cleaning house, and more and more people are willing to do it little by little. The improvement of character is becoming something generally to be hoped for, and I've noticed in many publications that have been coming along recently the new ideas in schooling, the new ideas in marketing, the new ideas in education. They are all working towards the solution now. Not one of the ones I've talked with have been thinking of doing for the sake of pleasing God. That was the old way. Now there's believing that the proof of

the pudding is to please the universal plan of things. Well, many people will probably like to call the universal plan the will of God, and who shall say they're not right? Maybe it is. It well could be. But whatever it is, it is any immutable principle against which we cannot survive without obedience. Therefore, the time has come definitely to watch these changes, to see how the tendency has altered that now the atheism is no longer very popular. Atheists are very quiet these days because they have no one who wants to listen to them, and they're having hard trouble believing it themselves. But in come in case they're coming around to realizing that a government is failing, that a world is getting more sick every day, that nations that are highly large enough to actually be counties now, independent states, and all these things, and everybody disliking everybody, everybody waiting for someone to turn their back so we can grab what they have. This type of thing is beginning to be very sickening to a very large group of people, and this sickening is simply the

evidence of having done it wrong. It isn't the sickening, isn't being pointed out by the finger of God, but it's being followed, following pointed out by the history of our day, by the circumstances and the conditions. Now we have also here quite a group of religious people, and they're in trouble also because religion up to now has been funny, clannish. It has never been liberal or broad in its consequences. Religions have been at war, war with each other since the dawn of time. We have wars and countless various difficulties, had persecutions and massacres in which, in the name of God, we have been murdering our friends and relatives for ages. So this religion, this type of thing, is not a success, but the possibility is there that all religions are minor divisions of one grand octave, the spiritual self, the spiritual unity, that all the religions had the same source of life, the same means of sustaining life, and the same obligations. Now why we should constantly try to discredit other people's beliefs.

is a little difficult to understand, especially as we're doing nothing with our own. But the truth of the whole situation is that we are one of our great problems. Has been the Spanish Inquisition, has been the various tyrannies in the name of religion, which has proved to us conclusively that this is not the answer. And in this particular time, religion itself is changing. Religion is recognizing that it is a natural destiny, that its essential purpose is to help, not to convert, and that there is no need to convert anyone who is living in harmony with a constructive spiritual integrity. There is no need to convert a Buddhist, no need to convert a Parsi. The only need to convert ourselves when we claim to be something and don't live it, where we perspectives and deny the problems of our own daily Integrity's in those areas. We need to get some assistance. We do not need, however, to ever think that we can be do it by simply changing a faith because the faith is part of a level. Would be, we will say, for instance, that

there are 10 of religious integrity. The some small native people out on this summer a summit of things are in the lower grape people who have their rich doctors and their various seers and chieftains, and they live a very simple life. Their whole philosophy was, as it was, would be wandering tribes of American Indians, be friendly, trust your visitor, and help whenever there is trouble. This was enough. So we go on up over through all these different levels of religion. We find the glories of Buddhism, the wonderful ideals and hopes of the rest rim philosophy. We learned the wisdom of the Greeks, the wisdom of the Latins, and we say to ourselves, by our neighbor say now that these religions died because they were not strong enough to live. We lost the Greeks because we they weren't strong enough to live. We lost the Egyptians because they were not strong enough to survive. They developed too many iniquities, but the truth is the entire opposite. We lost Egyptians because they were overcome by militant destroyers. They didn't die

because of weakness, they died of assassination. They were die. They died when the Greeks died, when the Romans came in, and the Roman Greeks died when the Muslims came in. And the Muslim summed it up very simply: if it's in the Koran, we've got it, got it already. And if it isn't in the Quran, we don't want it, burn it. This is not the sign the Egypt failed. It was a proof of inability of a single unit to survive the pressures of the... We can use the same thing in our Christian life. Will lower the wars of Christianity, the Crusades, one after another, the trial Crusades in which thousands of infants went out and died in the desert. All these things are not because of God, are not because of evil beyond the gut, the guardians of the Gog and Magog. These difficulties are due simply to the fact that we don't accept the fundamental fact: is it is our business to clean this up, and it is not the business of heaven to receive our prayers and petitions, but our to roll up.

our own sleeves and see that it doesn't happen again, and we have the same with wars all over. One group is down; it has to be democratic, and the other group is democratic and doesn't like the Democrats. Everything is different; everything is confused. A man gets up and summons contradiction before he says anything, and this is all presumed to be inevitable and nothing you can do about it. The fact that it is not inevitable, and the real reason that nothing gets done about it, is because people are not honorable, not honest, not there, and not good-hearted. They are simply exploiting each other, and the exploitation ends in death, not because of God or devils out there to do it, because vibration destroys that which destroys it. When the crippled a bad vibration into a pattern, that pattern is gone. When we make a bad guy vibration in the human body, we sicken and die. When we become addicted to the bad habit, drugs, and things of that nature, the body stickers and dyes. Wherever we abuse civilization, it sickens and dies.

everywhere it is the Integrity's that have to live, and if we have those, we have nothing else to worry about. The voice, the problem is not to find a solution or some hero to stand up and tell us what to do. The hero may make his own rewards in the world to come, but we have to make ours by doing it ourselves, and that is what we find is facing us. And then, in the 21st century, we've got to get something out there to some good, something that is more than profit, something that is more than finding new ways of exploiting natural resources. Because to find ways of ending war, we've got to find ways of bringing people to the realization that we live in an honest universe, and the only way we can live in it well is to be honest ourselves. The day of the corrupt leadership of the past, which we can read in any encyclopedia, in any history, the leaderships of tyranny, the leaderships of corruption, the leaderships of mass murder, all of these things have brought us where we are.

because we deserve to be there, but it's perfectly possible to change it. There is nothing about evil that good cannot remedy. There is nothing about the problems of the moment that wisdom cannot solve, if that wisdom is intelligent and constructive. Now we want to set up great systems to fight this corruption. We want to have special ways of doing it and make it great. I do about it all. It's not that difficult. We don't need new courses on all this. We simply need basic intelligence. We need to take the courses we already have and put so back into them because what the whole educational system, the political system, and the industrial system have lost their souls. They've lost their contact with the infinite. This infinite good is not very necessarily a person. It is an energy, a principle, a vibration, something that has arisen in space long before I time where I came from. We do not know, but we are formed and then tend to consider that whatever it is, it is a sovereign good, and we can call that sovereign god and

We will not be far from the truth, but the infinite principle of good is worshiped by philosophy under the feminism of God. But God is the one thing that nothing can prevent, nothing can injure, nothing can corrupt. Therefore, to stay on that side of the fence is to stay with security to the end of time. The days of corruption are numbered because we have the resources to preserve them, and the time now is buried now. Are we going to have to live ethically if we want to survive? And we do want us about it, and we will survive. But we would like to do this together pleasantly. We would like to survive rather cheerfully so that our children and their children will have a pleasant world to live in. We would like to work in a way in which there won't be any more wars because of you, no reason for them. We would like to have food for everyone instead of wasting it. We would like to have better living conditions instead of using almost all of our resources for weaponry. Quiet, simple people, ordinary people working quietly.

together can do what the Giants have never been able to do: give us a world worth living in. And as we do that, we climb up the stand of the vibrations, and we find that there is a vibration within our own bodies for each of these levels. Each of these levels reacts into us because we are all planets, we are all solar systems, small ones, yes, but the same general principle. And we can make the same corrections in ourselves that result from a wise refrain in larger matters. We can become peace-loving in our own natures. We can forgive our enemies, and we won't have them anymore. We can be unselfish, and we can get away from a competitive arrogance in which we try to outwit without wisdom everybody else. The problem is not to do these things at all, just daily keep the rules, keep the rules of the they created us, keep the destiny which confronts us, continue to go on to do what is right and what we know it should be done until it is done correctly. That will give us

the new start and a new lead for a better life than we have ever known. Here, there is no reason why like people as intelligent as the modern world cannot reorganize itself to keep harmony with the rules of its own salvation. We know these rules exist. We see people falling under them and trying to crawl out again. We see all these things failing from lack of integrity. But it hasn't occurred to us to try to improve the integrity. But what we have tried to do is by new ways of bolstering up our corruptions. It can't be done. We might as well get used to the idea and set the work to use the truths we know and the principles that reality learning to understand to become useful, then become a help to our own kind in all we do that is right. The better the future will be, and we will come into the new century with hope and understanding. Thank you.

Manly P. Hall - Faiths That Lead to Certainties

Manly P. Hall - Faiths That Lead to Certainties