Greetings, my beloved friends.\u00a0 May the blessings given touch the deepest part of your being so that you will know forever the glory of your innermost truth; so that you will lose the fear of your innermost truth; so that your commitment to all of your being will be ever more anchored in your total devotion to your path.<\/p>\n
Increasingly you find that the pain you wanted to avoid makes room for joy\u2014a joy that could have never come if the pain had not been met.\u00a0 Increasingly you find, my dearest ones, that when you do not fear and do not avoid the negativity, the distortion and destructiveness that are a part of your being\u2014be it only a small part\u2014a divine alchemy takes place and produces the true integration and transformation of your total being in an ever deepening process.\u00a0 Individually, more and more of you have found this to be so, even though the hurdles seemed great at times.\u00a0 They always seem much greater than they actually are.\u00a0 As more of you individually overcome the inner obstructions, futile fears and unnecessary resistance, so does your community grow in strength, in realistic groundedness, and in joyousness and abundance.<\/p>\n
For this lecture I have announced a somewhat unusual topic, but you will see that it fits into the sequence of lectures and has its integral meaning in your own process, both as individuals and as a community.\u00a0 The topic is the spiritual meaning of political systems<\/i>.\u00a0 I will speak about the best known political systems on your earth plane at this point in your evolution.\u00a0 I shall explain the divine origin of each of these systems and the distortions in each.\u00a0 I will then show you how every one of these systems, in their divine as well as in their distorted manifestations, is a reality of your internal world.\u00a0 From there we shall proceed to perhaps gain a clearer vision of New Age politics.<\/p>\n
Let us take first of all a by now already obsolete, but still known system in your world, and let us classify it in one category as monarchy and feudalism<\/i>.\u00a0 What are the divine origins of this format and what are its distortions?\u00a0 The divine meaning and origin, the inner truth of these systems is in certain highly developed human beings who are fully aware of their responsibility.\u00a0 Development always carries responsibility, and those who are willing to shoulder it can, according to divine eternal law, and commensurate with their commitment to their task, feel it their right to enjoy the accompanying privileges.\u00a0 A person who is unwilling to assume such responsibilities has not rightfully earned these privileges; he either feels too guilty to even really want them, or is so rebellious that he wants to steal them and justifies this by claiming that those who have earned them are unfair and abusive.\u00a0 Now, even if authority is being abused, those who are unwilling to assume the demanding task of leadership are not right to rebel.\u00a0 They will not need to rebel if they fulfill the conditions that entitle them to the envied and coveted privileges.\u00a0 These are envied only when the price is not being paid.<\/p>\n
Those who fully give to their tasks as leaders of nations and of governments, discharge themselves of their responsibility according to divine law.\u00a0 They lead and guide those who do not wish to take on the chores of such a task, which consists of many hardships, as well as of the privileges.\u00a0 Leadership requires a lot of self-discipline that the self-indulgent do not desire to exert.\u00a0 The often necessary and voluntary giving up of an immediate gratification is totally rejected by those who follow, but who often simultaneously resent those who lead.\u00a0 Nor do they wish to assume the risks of exposure, criticism, slander and hostility that those in the limelight must be strong enough to endure.\u00a0 It is certainly easier to follow than to lead, to be an ordinary citizen than the leader of a nation. \u00a0The follower can afford to be lazy, even if the laziness is not necessarily physical.\u00a0 It can be laziness of mind, laziness of spirit, laziness of courage, laziness of heart.<\/p>\n
Leaders create a following and, in total devotion to their task, give of their best.\u00a0 They use their power for the good of all.\u00a0 They do not shun personal inconveniences in connection with their task.\u00a0 This is, broadly speaking, the divine reality contained in the regimes of monarchy or feudalism.<\/p>\n
It is easy to see how this can be distorted by ruthless, selfish or irresponsible human beings who abuse the power, and use it for their own material or power gain, and obstruct the unfoldment of justice, of law, of beauty, of fairness and of divine intercession.\u00a0 The true leader, the monarch if you will, who is at the helm of the ship, is always a channel of divine inspiration.\u00a0 If that inspiration is not sought and put above all else, then abuse is the result.<\/p>\n
When these systems appeared in your earth world, this was their innate message.\u00a0 They appeared when humanity in general was not able or willing or developed enough to assume the responsibility of true self-rulership.\u00a0 Therefore people needed guidance.\u00a0 Obviously, I do not have to go into much detail to show how these roles were not always fulfilled, even though at first highly developed beings often incarnated to fulfill such tasks.\u00a0 Sooner or later the temptations proved too much.\u00a0 Others followed who took the rulership by power or manipulation and then abused their position and took advantage of their power.<\/p>\n
How does this political system exist in the inner world of a human being?\u00a0 Again, this is not too difficult to see, my friends.\u00a0 You have all discovered that there is in every human being some talent to be a leader in one way or another; a talent to assume responsibilities and to serve a cause.\u00a0 No matter how buried these talents may at first be, they can be awakened from their dormant state and eventually always bring the individual to such a path.\u00a0 If you do not cultivate this talent, then you will be a follower who has much fewer rights and privileges.\u00a0 It is as you wish.\u00a0 If you do not wish the higher task of assuming the responsibilities to lead, to stand in an exposed place, to risk everything that goes with it for the purpose of truly serving a higher cause, then you have no right to complain when others do this job.\u00a0 And I emphasize once more that this might apply to very subtle expressions and not necessarily manifest in overt outer leadership or statesmanship.\u00a0 You can be a school teacher, you can supervise others in an office, you can do any task on earth and be, within its own framework, a leader, a “monarch,” or simply a follower.\u00a0 Both roles have their value and carry their distinct differences.\u00a0 But when the follower resists his\u2014or her\u2014talent to become a leader in his own right, wherever his place may be, and then rebels against the leadership he refuses to assume because he is too lazy, too fearful, too selfish, too self-indulgent, he commits as grave an injustice and dishonesty as the ruler who abuses his power.<\/p>\n
Wherever your talents lie, you contain the possibility of higher rulership in the best sense of the word.\u00a0 Rulership is not just a political expression.\u00a0 It can be expressed in every area of life.\u00a0 First of all, this natural talent of leadership or rulership must be assumed toward yourself, as an expression of an integrated process.\u00a0 This means the ability to exert a certain amount of discipline, of firmness, of strength, of not succumbing to the temptation to indulge.\u00a0 The weak ruler who does not wish to be bothered and dispenses with this necessary, healthy discipline, is as much at fault and does as much damage as the one who is over-severe, hard, and closed to the feelings of the heart, to compassion, and who never relaxes his or her domination.\u00a0 Neither can find the balance between discipline and relaxation and the intuitive knowing of when one and when the other is appropriate.<\/p>\n
Discipline cannot be used toward others in a fair and balanced way if it is not first and primarily used toward the self.\u00a0 If it only exists toward others while the self indulges\u2014as many rulers have done and still do\u2014then a hurtful imbalance comes about.\u00a0 This is why your path teaches primarily, and with an apparent overemphasis, self-discipline<\/i>.\u00a0 True self-purification and transformation on this path is impossible unless self-discipline is acquired and used constantly against the ever-lurking resistance to moving and to overcoming.\u00a0 Only when you have mastered this resistance to a considerable degree does your leadership of others organically evolve\u2014such as helpership, teaching, or any other responsible role in the community.<\/p>\n
Within your own soul system both aspects exist\u2014the monarch and the follower or citizen without responsibility.\u00a0 The one is rich, the other poor.\u00a0 The one has rights, the other does not.\u00a0 How do you apportion your energies and direction in choosing what to cultivate on your road to unfoldment?\u00a0 Do you abuse this double principle in you?\u00a0 If one is abused, then the other must be too, for they are two parts of one whole.\u00a0 How do you react toward those attitudes in you that wish to cheat, that want to get the results without earning them, that wish to have it as easy as possible and get free gratifications that are not earned by honesty and by everything a human being is capable of giving. If you follow that discipline within yourself, then you earn authority in the best sense of the word in your immediate environment.\u00a0 Then the “monarch principle” within your soul is acting harmoniously, meaningfully and appropriately toward the “responsible citizen principle” within you.<\/p>\n
This attitude can then unfold toward the outer environment and will rest on a very firm ground.\u00a0 This is monarchy and feudalism in the divine sense, not in the abused sense.\u00a0 It must proceed, as all cellular growth does, from inside outward.\u00a0 You start with yourself; later, when sufficient self-rulership has been established, a small sphere of leadership arises naturally, almost without your outer intention, as it were.\u00a0 It grows as a tree, in whatever field you activate your innate talents and fulfill your task.\u00a0 As your stature grows due to your ongoing development, so does the sphere of your influence and positive power widen and encompass more “followers.”\u00a0 A beautiful, harmonious, organic monarchy is then a divine expression in your personal life that can, in some cases, extend into public outer life, if it is so ordained.\u00a0 This is then the model for the feudal and monarchical political system, which is part of the scheme of all things.<\/p>\n
But so is the second category which I wish to discuss, a part of the scheme of things.\u00a0 Let us take socialism and communism<\/i> as one category.\u00a0 What is the divine expression and meaning in these systems?\u00a0 It should not be too difficult for you to see that the idea here is equality, justice, and fairness for all.\u00a0 It may seem a contradiction if I say at the same time that all entities are not equally developed, some are stronger, some are more courageous, some are better equipped for and more deserving of the privileged position of leading a country, a society, a civilization, a group of individuals, a business, or whatever.\u00a0 In that sense people are not equal, of course.\u00a0 Is this really a contradiction?\u00a0 I should say not.\u00a0 Owing to the dualistic spirit of human consciousness, things often appear to be in contradiction which are not.\u00a0 So it is simultaneously true that people are created equal, and also that they are not equal in their expression, in their development and will direction, in the choices they make every day and every hour of their lives.\u00a0 People are unequal in their feelings, in their thoughts, their decisions and their actions.\u00a0 You would say that an adult and a child are equal as far as their innate value is concerned.\u00a0 But they are certainly not equal in their life expressions.\u00a0 So we can say that there is no contradiction in saying that they are both equal and unequal.<\/p>\n
The form of government in which all are equalized was clearly a reaction to the abuse of monarchy and feudalism.\u00a0 The inequality which is a characteristic of monarchy and feudalism was being abused.\u00a0 Another facet of divine truth had come to countermand the abuse of truth, the distortion of the truth.\u00a0 But with the second system, too, abuse set in, as it is bound to when one truth seems to be a contradiction to another truth.\u00a0 With such exclusiveness the dualistic mind destroys the inner unity that exists in all your contradictions.\u00a0 A tightrope of infringements diminishes the new truth.\u00a0 Now the equality becomes abused and a uniformity sets in that is no longer in keeping with the vitality of the human unfoldment and the divergence and varieties of human expression and development.\u00a0 Fairness, uniformity, conformism supersede free unfoldment and expression of choice, of talent, of development.<\/p>\n
Now how does this appear in your soul?\u00a0 What is the inner reality of this form of government?\u00a0 In its divine expression the human soul deeply knows that no matter how distorted and negative another human being may be, he or she is nevertheless a divine manifestation and as such truly equal\u2014on that deepest level.\u00a0 If you can perceive this, your commonsense and love will make it possible to also perceive and determine the differences of expressions.\u00a0 On that outer level of expression there is obviously no equality.\u00a0 For those who responsibly fulfill their tasks in the universe and live according to the spiritual laws are not equal in expression to those who abuse the laws selfishly, distort them according to their own, self-serving purposes\u2014individually or in political life\u2014and who do not care if their actions and attitudes affect others adversely.\u00a0 The abuse of the laws may be on a more obvious level, or it may be a subtle, but nonetheless insidious attitude with possibly worse effects than the obvious manifestation.\u00a0 It would be absurd to claim that an individual who denies divine reality, within or without, is equal to those who nurture and uphold divine truth and love.<\/p>\n
This inequality can be known truthfully and creatively only when one also knows the underlying equality of all divine life.\u00a0 And that is the inner expression, in its purity, of the outer political expression of socialism or communism.<\/p>\n
Now let us look at a third, by now popular form of government, which is capitalistic democracy<\/i>, as you know it in this land.\u00a0 Its divine manifestation and meaning are total freedom of expression and the use of divine abundance according to personal investment.\u00a0 Yet, at the same time, in the divine manifestation it makes room for caring for those who are not able, or, on a deeper level, not willing, to undertake responsibility for themselves.\u00a0 This system does not sentimentally proclaim that such people should reap the same benefits as those who invest their whole being into life.\u00a0 Nor does it exploit those people in order to justify the ruler’s own power drive.\u00a0 In that sense, this form of government is the nearest expression of New Age fusion of duality.\u00a0 You can sense here the fusion of the two other systems I was talking about, at least to some degree.\u00a0 It is a much more mature form of government than the other two.\u00a0 All categories, of course, have sub-categories.<\/p>\n
The distortion of capitalistic democracy is again very obvious in that the abuse of power by the few stronger, more willful individuals may then impose disadvantages on those who are not willing to stand on their own two feet.\u00a0 These disadvantages would surpass the natural, cause-and-effect result of their refusal to fend for themselves and instead take on a parasitic role at the expense of others.\u00a0 But in this distortion of the third system the exploiters become parasites in another sense, using those who want to use.\u00a0 Rather than helping them to awaken through really fair and appropriate dispositions, they play right into the rationalizations of those who are lazy and cheat, making their excuses valid by giving seeming justification to their argument that it is an unfair world they live in and that they who are less greedy are victimized by the greedy.<\/p>\n
Both extremes can abuse this system.\u00a0 The socialistically-minded can become more parasitic and use the power structure as an excuse.\u00a0 The strong and diligent ones, who risk and invest, can abuse the system by justifying their greed and power drive with the actual parasitic nature of the lazy ones.\u00a0 In other words, in this system, since it is a fusion of the former two categories, you also find a “negative fusion” of both distortions.\u00a0 You can observe this in various ways in your political life, if you look at the public expression.\u00a0 Both expressions, of both categories, contain more possibility for abuse in this system, just because this system also offers more possibility for a healthy fusion of two apparent opposites.\u00a0 The other two categories offer less freedom and, therefore, perhaps less possibility for abuse.\u00a0 On one level this may seem untrue\u2014and it is untrue.\u00a0 Yet on another level it is also true.\u00a0 The more development and freedom, the greater are the dangers of abuse and distortion.<\/p>\n
Freedom always contains more possibility of abuse.\u00a0 This is a universal reality within the soul, as well as in external expressions.\u00a0 When the abuse reaches its peak, the painful confusion of dualism arises and the pendulum must swing in the opposite direction.\u00a0 So, within your soul, you may swing from being submissive to being a rebel.\u00a0 Political systems swing from authoritarianism of one form or another to over-permissive systems that allow the parasite to sentimentalize his “cause.”\u00a0 And so it goes back and forth throughout the centuries until the margin of the swing of the pendulum becomes narrower and the point of fusion is approached.\u00a0 Democratic capitalism or capitalistic democracy is such an expression, but if the system is based on abstract theories and governed by the mind only, the possibility for error, distortion and abuse will always be present.\u00a0 A channel to perceive divine will and divine law must therefore be established.<\/p>\n
It is easy for you to see how this principle applies to your inner world.\u00a0 When you are given the freedom to responsibly run your life, how easy it is to abuse this freedom unless you confront your real, hidden motives constantly and conscientiously.\u00a0 How much maturity is needed to abstain from the temptations to abuse freedom!\u00a0 How much self-discipline is needed not to do so!\u00a0 You also need maturity, strength and fair-mindedness so that you stand responsibly on your own two feet and you don’t become a burden on your fellow-citizens.\u00a0 This temptation always exists, both in your personal life and in public life.\u00a0 When you consistently yield to the temptation, you draw tighter fences around your emotional freedom and you set up an inner system of tyranny in which you no longer feel free.\u00a0 You may for a while find outer circumstances for blame for this self-restriction, but when this is no longer possible, you often keep frantically struggling, not understanding why you feel so constricted within yourself.\u00a0 You do not understand the inner tyranny you have set up by constantly abusing your freedom to create, to choose, to direct your life, your thoughts, your feelings, your will.<\/p>\n
Now let us observe, with our knowledge of these three basic systems, their divine meaning and their abuses\u2014inside of you and therefore inevitably outside\u2014how these laws apply to the smallest immediate individual life situation as well as to the largest scale of world government.\u00a0 How can all this be integrated with and become part of politics in the New Age?\u00a0 What is your idea?\u00a0 Some of you have thought about it, have had ideas.\u00a0 So let us be a little more specific.<\/p>\n
In the first place New Age politics must, above all, always be carried by those who cultivate a channel to divine inspiration.\u00a0 Those who do not possess such a channel themselves cannot always judge whether or not this is so.\u00a0 The lack of perception may either be due to having a stake in not knowing because of selfish reasons, or it may really be “innocent ignorance,” if there is such a thing.\u00a0 But the more individuals are seriously motivated to choose their leaders according to this consideration, the more such leaders will actually be chosen.\u00a0 How you can be sure with any specific leader is, of course, the question, especially without personal contact.\u00a0 However, inner inspiration can also work to guide your intuitive faculties and your choices.<\/p>\n
The choice is easier today than it was in former times.\u00a0 For one, the communication system enables you to gain more contact with and knowledge about potential leading figures.\u00a0 The technical advancements that make this possible are yet another facet of the maturing, the development, of humankind.<\/p>\n
It is also easier today to choose inspired leaders because the energy and power of the spreading Christ consciousness creates channels all over the world.\u00a0 It requires courage to claim such a communication and also to own how difficult it is to put self-interest out of the way.\u00a0 For if self-interest comes first, the channel is naturally blocked.<\/p>\n
With selflessness as the primary concern and focus, world politics in the New Age will contain every one of these systems\u2014not in contradiction, but as an integrating whole.\u00a0 It may sound impossible to you that a form of government can combine monarchy and feudalism, socialism and communism and democratic capitalism.\u00a0 Yet it is so.\u00a0 For as I outlined here, they all contain truth and they are not contradictory to one another.\u00a0 As you increasingly find out on your own paths, all these systems and apparent contradictions must harmoniously blend in the human personality for fullest expression of creativity, joy and fulfillment.<\/p>\n
In fact, if a world government, or the inner government of an individual, does not wisely contain every one of these systems in positive manifestation, complementing one another, it cannot maintain the balance required for harmonious and full living.\u00a0 Such a government must be destroyed sooner or later.\u00a0 Is this not the case, over and over again, within the individual?\u00a0 For example, is not the struggling consciousness always straining to maintain an exaggerated independence and individualism at the expense of others, out of fear of conforming, of losing individuality?<\/p>\n
And is it not just as true, on the other end of the scale, that the lazy, demanding personality wants to be taken care of, be given to without the slightest effort on his or her part?\u00a0 Such a personality wants to discharge only the minimal amount of rebelliously executed duty, resenting anything that is demanded by life.\u00a0 Being full of resentment, he will do what he can’t avoid, against his will.\u00a0 This is truly the behavior of an unruly child who needs a parent to discipline it.<\/p>\n
Do you not always find an area in your soul that proudly wants to use power and have abundance, and does not care about others?\u00a0 All these expressions exist in the soul of every human being in one form or another.\u00a0 If they do not come to the surface, they lie hidden and therefore have more power to indirectly affect the person’s life and environment.\u00a0 If nothing else, they create a separating wall of loneliness and fear.\u00a0 To break through the wall, one truly needs to face it and to deal with it, so that it is eliminated and the divine channel can unclog itself.<\/p>\n
It is so with world politics in the New Age.\u00a0 Humankind has been going through all these various phases and stages of development.\u00a0 Just like you, as individuals in purification, find these aspects inside of you, so does humanity fluctuate from one form of expression of political life to another and work its way through, until it is clear that one system is not all good and the other all bad.<\/p>\n
One of the greatest pitfalls for human understanding of universal truths and the cosmic reality of life in which you dwell is the dualistic error of “this is right and that is wrong.”\u00a0 I have said this so many times.\u00a0 Now I bring this principle to this very topic.\u00a0 The New Age politicians must beware of embracing one form of government against another form of government.\u00a0 The nature of New Age politics will be precisely that it will not be partisan, not only within the country, but even concerning outer forms of government.\u00a0 The New Age politician’s task is indeed to represent all forms of government as the world knows them today in their divine expressions.\u00a0 This can and will happen if people open their channels and see the unity within the apparent contradiction.<\/p>\n
This has to start, and has of course already started, in your own community, where you combine monarchy and feudalism, communism and socialism, and capitalistic democracy.\u00a0 You combine them all.\u00a0 When you rebel against the one and are in favor of the other, you are already in distortion.\u00a0 And let that then be a reminder that you are in distortion and that you need to look within yourself, to know what part in you wants to create the distortion.\u00a0 Is it the lazy part that resents the authority without wanting to be one and pay the price for it?\u00a0 Is it the envious part that refuses to earn what it envies?\u00a0 Or is it the powerful part in you that secretly wishes to abuse power?\u00a0 Look at that part in you which may want to use one format against the other when this is inappropriate, because of something self-serving and negative that is hidden.<\/p>\n
When the format is appropriate, there will never be a contradiction.\u00a0 Whatever problems arise will not be ascribed to the outer format or expression of eternal inner divine principles, but you will look at other levels of reality to seek the solution\u2014levels that contain very personal violations of truth, no matter how “public” the issue may be.\u00a0 Then one format will always have room for the other.\u00a0 The only way to attain this harmony and unity of spirit in the government of your community, as well as in your self-government\u2014the government of the intricate and manifold personality that you are\u2014is to totally surrender to the will of the highest.\u00a0 Look at that aspect in you that holds back from this surrender, that blinds itself so as not to see that in a specific issue surrendering would be the appropriate choice, and that refuses to surrender to the divine will.\u00a0 You will then understand your obstructions.<\/p>\n
Your community is growing very fast.\u00a0 It needs more and more responsible pillars who know of this principle and who devote their total life to being a divine channel.\u00a0 So those of you who wish to do this in every issue that comes up, that presents a problem inwardly or outwardly, in your feeling reactions or in the outer manifestations, or in both, go into yourselves and ask:\u00a0 “Is there God in this or that specific issue?”\u00a0 If you honestly question yourself, you will get the answer from the way you feel.\u00a0 And those of you who are more responsible for the government of your community will then also become, directly or indirectly, influential in creating New Age politics.\u00a0 This will perhaps disseminate the truths I speak about here, and eliminate the unnecessary division of one party, or government, or format going against the other and thereby overlooking what the real issues are that create the problem.\u00a0 Only then will the divine reality be experienced in all those formats.\u00a0 And you will also understand how every single divine reality can be distorted and abused.<\/p>\n
When humanity reaches this approach to human problems, a giant step in maturing will have been made.\u00a0 At the present time the number of those who see life in these terms is comparatively low.\u00a0 The majority of human beings still tend to say, “This attitude or principle is right, the other is wrong.\u00a0 One format is good, the other bad.”\u00a0 The general majority of human beings, especially in political life, still operates on the mask-self level.\u00a0 In one sense this is progress, in that in former times the general level was the lower self that was crassly acted out\u2014by leaders as well as by followers.\u00a0 Nobody bothered to even conceal it.\u00a0 The individual, as well as the entity humankind, has to go through the curve of evolution.\u00a0 The creation of the mask is the first facet of the realization that the lower self is unacceptable and “does not pay.”\u00a0 Although it is self-serving and hypocritical, this phase is temporarily necessary, until more maturity is reached.\u00a0 Then the lower self can be identified and evaluated, which makes the mask-self superfluous.\u00a0 This is the only road to the higher self.<\/p>\n
You, as individuals, are already beyond that and are struggling to eliminate the mask self that is now the generally accepted rule and pretended “necessity” for political life and politicians.\u00a0 You do not need to be in this frame of reference\u2014the mask self and the dualistic good versus bad\u2014any longer.\u00a0 And what a relief and liberation it is to find and to discern\u2014not only in your world view, but in your whole approach to life, to yourself, and to your relationships\u2014the beauty, the truth, the reality, the love, the rightness in each system, and to see where and how each is distorted.\u00a0 That is the revolutionary way into the New Age, which will reveal much greater truths than you can yet dream of.\u00a0 But as long as this vision is not cultivated, these truths cannot reveal themselves to you.<\/p>\n
Perhaps you feel, my dearest ones, the immense currents of powerful energy that you have created and with which you build a beautiful new world.\u00a0 Every one of you is contained in the deepest of security, in the guidance of the world of God.\u00a0 You are blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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