Peace in the World

Peace in the World

Everything is evaluated not according to what it looks like at a certain moment, but by the degree of its development.

All there is in reality, good, bad and even most harmful in the world has a right to exist. It should by no means be completely destroyed. Our task is to merely correct it and return it to the Source.

It is enough to take an attentive look at the process of the creation to realize the greatness and perfection of the act and the One Who performs it. Therefore we should understand and be extremely careful to neglect any part of the creation and say that it is superfluous and unnecessary. Because it is slander with regards to the act of the creation.

However, it is well-known that the Creator did not complete the creation at the moment of its making. We see that our reality is governed by the laws of step-by-step development that begins with the stage preceding conception and continues up to the end of growth. This is why we do not perceive a bitter taste of a fruit as a flaw in the beginning of its growth.

The same applies to the other elements of reality: if something seems bad and harmful, it only means that this element is in a transitional stage of its development. Hence we have no right to define it as bad and neglect it, because it is unwise.

Those who “correct the world” err

This conclusion enables us to understand that the people who have tried “correct the world” in every generation erroneously perceive man as a machine, which does not function properly and requires improvement, i.e. replacement of defective parts with better ones.

All their efforts were focused on destroying the evil that exists in the human race. truth to tell, unless the Creator had opposed them, they would have certainly succeeded in “sifting humanity through a sieve” and leaving in it only what is good and useful.

However, the Creator takes utmost care of every tiny particle of His creation, allowing no one to destroy anything in His domain. In accordance with it, all such “correctors” will disappear; while evil will remain in the world. It exists and counts the stages of development of every element of the creation until they reach their final state.

Evil properties will then turn into good and useful ones the way the Creator initially conceived them. This resembles a fruit hanging on a tree branch for days and months until it ripens so that every person will discover its taste and sweetness.

Accelerating the correction of nature

However, the aforementioned law of development that extends to the entire reality and guarantees the transformation of all evil into good and useful acts without asking people’s opinion. At the same time the Creator endowed man with power and allowed him to control this law speeding up the process of development at his own will, freely and regardless of time flow.

It turns out that there are two kinds of power acting in the above-mentioned process:

• “Heavenly Power” that guarantees that all evil and harmful will turn into good and useful. This, however, will occur “in due time”, slowly and painfully, as the “developing object” goes through terrible sufferings, ruthlessly crushed by the road-roller of evolution.

• “Earthly Power” that represents the people, who took control over the above-said law of development and who can free themselves from the shackles of time. They considerably accelerate the process of reaching the final stage. In other words, they complete their own evolution and correction.

If they deserve it, they will be able to take the law of development in their own hands. This law is destined to transform their negative properties into the positive ones. This means that they should begin to work with their negative properties and correct them. This will free them from bounds of time, and the achievement of the highest level of development will solely depend on their own desire, i.e. on the quality of their actions and thoughts. This way they will speed up the process of reaching the final stage.

Even if they do not deserve to control the development of their negative properties and leave it in the hands of Providence, the final correction and redemption are still guaranteed to them. In this case the process will be completed on term and conditioned on time.

In accordance with the law of gradual development the process of correction should include many different levels. It is a slow, difficult and extremely long process. Since the “developing objects” in question live and feel, hence while advancing through the stages they are bound to experience enormous and horrible sufferings. The power that compels the person to pass from one level to the next is nothing but the force of anguish and pain. Sufferings accumulate on the lower level and reach such an unbearable degree that the person is bound to leave it and rise to the higher level.

Such is the guaranteed end based on the law of gradual and time-dependent development, termed “in due time”. The completion of the process is inevitable, because the person is destined to take the development of his properties in his own hands (this is called “I will hasten”).

Good and evil are evaluated according to an individual’s actions with regards to the society

Before we set about researching the correction of evil in the human race, we should first determine the value of such abstract notions as good and evil. In other words, while analyzing the actions or properties of good and evil, we should clarify with regards to whom they can be considered assuch. To understand that one should know the relative value of the particular compared with the whole, i.e. an individual with respect to the society in which he lives and from which he receives both material and spiritual sustenance.

Reality clearly demonstrates that an individual has no right to exist if he isolates himself from the society, which would serve him and satisfy his needs. From this it follows that man is initially created to live within a society. Every individual is like a tiny wheel inside one mechanism. No individual wheel has any freedom of movement. It is involved in the general motion of all the wheels in a certain direction so that the entire mechanism would be able to complete the given task. If one of the wheels breaks down, it is not considered as breakage of one particular wheel. It is estimated from the view point of its role in the entire mechanism.

Similarly, every individual’s value in the society is determined not by how good he is by himself, but by the extent of his contribution to the society as a whole. And vice versa, we do not evaluate each individual’s degree of evil. We rather estimate the damage he causes to his society.

It is clear as noonday both from the standpoint of truth and goodness, because the whole contains only what is present in the particular and the benefit of the society is the benefit of each individual. One who causes harm to the society harms himself. He who is of benefit to the society receives his share, since the particular is always a part of the whole. The value of the whole is a sum total of its parts.

It turns out that the society and an individual are one and the same. There is nothing negative in the fact that an individual is subordinate to the society, because both an individual’s and the society’s freedom constitute the same. Good or bad properties and actions are only estimated according to their usefulness to the society.

Needless to say, the above-said only refers to the individuals who do their duty in the society, receive as much as they need and do not encroach on their comrades’ share. However, if certain members of the society behave differently, they cause harm both to the society and to themselves.

All the aforesaid is but highlighting the weak point that requires correction. This way everyone can understand that his personal benefit and the benefit of the society are the same thing and in this manner the world will achieve its complete correction.

Four categories: mercy, truth, justice and peace with regards to an individual and the society

Now that we have discovered the true meaning of goodness, we should take a close look at the means at our disposal for faster achievement of happiness.

There are four categories at our command for attaining this end:mercy, truth, justice and peace. All those who have tried to correct the world used these categories. Rather, humanity has developed until today within these four categories – the Divine Providence has brought people to their present state.

As was stated above, the best thing we can possibly do is take the law of development under our control. We will then free ourselves from the sufferings which history prepares for our future.

In accordance with this let’s research and analyze these four categories in order to understand what they have given us up to now, and consequently find out what help we can receive from them in the future.

Practical difficulties in establishing the “truth”

When we “theoretically” examine positive properties, we naturally have no better one than “truth”. The goodness we defined above taking into consideration the interdependence between the individual and the society, when he gives and properly functions within it receiving his fair share, is nothing but “truth”. It is always in demand, because in practice this quality is not accepted by the society. In practice this lack of truth ispredetermined by it. There is some flaw or factor, which prevents the society from accepting it, and we should find out what it is. If we profoundly research the practical significance of truth, we would undoubtedly discover that it is obscure and extremely difficult to see.

truth obliges us to equalize all individuals in the society, so that everyone would receive his part in accordance with his effort, no more and no less. This is the only real basis that raises no doubts. Obviously, the actions of the person who wants to benefit from someone else’s efforts contradict both common sense and the category of truth.

But how can we imagine and comprehend this category for it to be accepted by the society? For example, if we oblige everybody to work equal number of hours, the category of truth will still remain concealed from us. Moreover, we will discover undisguised falsehood with regards to the worker’s physical and moral state.

Quite naturally, all of us cannot work equally. There will always be someone, who due to his weakness makes a bigger effort in one hour than his comrade in two hours or even more.

There also exists a psychological problem, because the lazy person exerts a lot more energy in an hour than someone else who works for two hours. From the viewpoint of absolute truth we cannot oblige one part of the society to work for provision of the life necessities more than the other.

In practice it turns out that the strong and enterprising members of society benefit from the efforts of other people and thus malevolently exploit them, which certainly contradicts the category of truth. Compared with the weak and lazy members of society they themselves make very little effort.

If we take into account the natural law of “following the majority”, we will see that the kind of truth based on the actual number of working hours is utterly unrealistic and impossible to implement. The weak and lazy will always represent the bigger part of society and they will never allow the strong and industrious minority to enjoy the fruit of their work.

So it is clear that the principle based on the individual’s efforts is totally impracticable. It turns out that the category of truth cannot be the key factor determining the development of an individual and society. It lacks something that can provide the life conditions in the completely corrected world.

Moreover, we find even bigger difficulties seeing that there is no clearer truth than in nature. Every person most naturally feels that he is the only ruler in the Creator’s world. He is quite sure that everything and everybody was created with the sole purpose of making his life easier and more comfortable. At that he does not feel any obligation to give something in return.

Bluntly speaking, everyone’s nature is to use the life of all creatures in the world for his own benefit. Everything that the person gives to his neighbor is only done forcedly, under compulsion. But even then he takes advantage of his fellow creature. He simply resorts to cunning so that another person would let him have what he wants.

This means that the nature of every branch is closely related to its root. Since man’s soul emanates from the One and Only Creator, the person feels that all the creatures in the world are created to serve him and should submit to his rule. This law is indisputable and inviolable.

People only differ by the choices they make. One chooses to use creation for receiving the basest pleasures, another craves for power and the third one seeks honor and respect. Furthermore, unless it cost so much, everyone would agree to use the world to get all of it together: wealth, power and recognition. However, the person is forced to make his choice according to his abilities.

This law may be called the “law of uniqueness”; it is imprinted on man’s heart. No one can possibly escape from its influence; everyone receives his part, the great one according to his greatness, the small one according to his smallness. This law is neither good nor bad; it represents nature’s reality and has a right to exist as any other part of creation. There is not a faintest hope to repeal or even slightly mitigate it as there is no chance to destroy the entire human race. In accordance with this, we will not act against our conscience by saying that this law represents “absolute truth”.

How on earth can we convince an individual by promising him absolute equality among all the members of society, when all he naturally aspires to is to rise above society? After all that has been said, there is no doubt that nothing in man’s nature can be more opposite to this.

Now we understand that it is utterly unrealistic to make an individual or society happy in accordance with the category of truth so that everyone would completely agree to it, as it should be in the state of Final correction.

The use of other categories instead of the category of truth

Now let’s study three remaining categories: mercy, justice and peace. At first glance, they were not created initially to support truth, which is very weak and fragile in our world. From this point history began its slow, step-by-step movement towards organizing the life of society.

Theoretically all the members of society unconditionally accepted the rule of truth, but in practice they opposed it in violation of the agreement. truth has been destined to be used by the most deceitful people ever since. It is not to be found among the weak and righteous, so that they would use it even to a small extent.

Inasmuch as they could not conduct themselves in accordance with the category of truth, the number of the weak and exploited grew. This led to development of such categories as mercy and justice, because the foundation of society’s existence obliges the strong and lucky to help the weak and miserable so as not to harm the society as a whole.

Yet the nature of things is such that in these conditions the number of the weak and miserable grows so immensely that they begin to threaten the strong, which consequently leads to discord and clashes. This served as a reason for the appearance of the category of peace in the world. So all of these categories: mercy, justice and peace originated and developed due to the weakness of truth.

This led to separation of society into groups. Some of them adopted the category of mercy and compassion, i.e. donating part of their own property to less fortunate ones; others adopted the category of truth, i.e. accepted the principle “mine is mine”, “yours is yours”.

Bluntly speaking, these two groups may be categorized as “builders” and “destroyers”. Builders are those who care about society’s well-being and for this they are ready to share their property with others. The ones who are naturally inclined to destruction find the category of truth (i.e. the principle “mine is mine”, “yours is yours”) much more convenient. Being totally unprepared to sacrifice anything for others’ sake, such people prefer to protect their property even if it threatens society’s existence.

Hope for peace