Cosmic Consciousness
The article: Cosmic Consciousness
Chapter 11
The perfectly happy fate is not attained by the belief in the power of the sword
That the mentioned "compass" or the individual's perception of life and existence itself is to a great extent not quite correct is seen clearly in the atmosphere that now widely dominates the Earth.
Human beings starve and freeze, even though the planet is abundantly endowed with provisions and sources of warmth.
Human beings murder and kill each other to get a place in the sun, even though all the continents and seas lie bathed in the divine light of this radiant star.
The same beings deceive and rob each other of properties and treasures with which the Earth is so profusely and extensively endowed that the number of human beings is so small in comparison that the Earth may almost be looked upon as an as-yet uninhabited world.
Our resources or sources of nutrition are of such vast dimensions that they are sufficient for thousands and thousands of coming generations' myriads of as-yet unborn souls.
The now living generations mutilate or massacre each other so that their blood simply colours the water in the rivers, and their death rattle sounds through the jungles as well as over the white endless desolate snow fields; while the survivors, when they are discharged from the hospitals and convalescent homes, limp along on artificial legs, working with artificial limbs, hands replaced with iron hooks, their eye sockets filled with painted glass balls, groping their way blindly or being led on a leash by trained dogs.
Indeed, the so highly praised "lords of creation" have here changed roles with the "dumb" animals.
It must here be understood that when we mention these things it is not because we fail to appreciate the artificial limbs and the other great help that can be given to the poor, mutilated creatures in such a beneficial way; on the contrary, we must also see in this a divine, helping hand being stretched towards the unfortunate beings.
But we mentioned this only in order to show the result of a wrong course.
Surely no warrior expects that the result of his work will constitute such a wrong or false course away from the comfort-contrast that it can lead him into such a sad situation, that is, to constantly be pulled along on a leash by a dumb animal.
Did he not believe that he would attain happiness and well-being through fighting?
Did he not believe that in reality fortune would be his if he got his neighbour, which means his opponent, tied and bound or destroyed?
Did he not believe in the power of the sword?
Did he not believe that power was the way to everything?
Was his entire belief or perception of life and existence not just the opposite of what was absolutely real and absolutely true?
But how can one reach happiness and well-being by sowing unhappiness and suffering for others?
Must we not expect that those others will defend themselves too?
But thereby one exposes oneself to the danger of either being mutilated or becoming a wreck, and then getting a rather Spartan degree of "well-being"; or one becomes the winner and then has to maintain this position by keeping the others chained and suppressed, and is obliged to sow mutilation and suffering.
But who can live in a state of well-being that is maintained constantly by the mutilation and unhappiness of others, a well-being that is a continuous robbery of other beings' life and health?
Is not the answer that it can be done only by an insensitive being, a being who lacks compassion, a being whose mentally is very near the primitive stage of the animal, if it is not an abnormal being with sadistic tendencies?
But a well-being that is maintained solely by fighting will inevitably always be mixed with the fear that the fight sooner or later will have an extremely untenable result.
And well-being that is mixed with fear is neither a perfect well-being nor perfect happiness.
The absolute accuracy of the "fate compass", which means, our perception of life's absolute identity with truth or reality, is thus the only prerequisite for building a perfectly happy fate, and thus being one hundred per cent in contact with the fulfilment of the divine world plan around us, and thus, like the world redeemer, being "one with the Father".
Only through being "one with the Father" will we be able to experience the realisation of the Christmas message: peace on Earth, peace of mind, and peace between us and our fellow beings, that is, human beings, animals and plants.