🧔The Stage of Man🧔

Mankind has reached that stage of his unfolding where he must either learn the facts of inexorable universal law and practice them, or perish by his own hand. He will die by the sword he slays with unless his entire human relations are reversed from the taking principle to Nature's principle of balanced giving for regiving.

Man's scientific skills have made it possible for him to slay his entire race. A continuation of the old barbarian practice of taking, which has bred his many wars of hatred and aggression, will inevitably lead to a war of extinction unless Nature's love principle of giving replaces it.

Today the world is divided. Disunity marks all human relations from industry to religion from capital to labor. Two opposing world ideologies democracy and communism stand like insurmountable precipices to debar world unity. Freedom itself is not two centuries old.

Slavery was existent in our own country within the memory of living men. Through ignorance and superstition, America's colonial intellectuals burned old women at the stake as witches. Mighty empires are still attempting to build themselves into greater empires by the sword.

Man is at the crossroads of his unfolding. The old way of life which built his empires of hate and fear must be abandoned. This coming age must be built upon God's one law of balanced interchange in all human relations. There is no other alternative.

To continue the old way means the destruction of civilization by multiplied hate. To follow the new path will mean the multiplication of love which alone will bring peace, happiness and prosperity to man. Man's comprehension has been limited to the range of his senses. Man is now unfolding beyond the range of material sensing in the direction of cosmic knowing.

Science is doing this for him. Science is slowly, but surely, verifying the personal God of man's demanding and identifying the invisible, spiritual Personal Being of man with the invisible, spiritual Personal Being of God.

Science is thus replacing man's abstract god of faith and belief with a dynamic God of law and order whom man KNOWS. The abstract god of faith and belief is the direct cause of man's many religions, for abstractions have bred many concepts of God, where knowledge can conceive but the ONE. Faith and belief are the shield of ignorance.

THE MESSAGE OF THE DIVINE ILIAD is to build a scientific comprehension of the nature of God and man's unity with God in order that mankind may unfold in the direction of its ultimate goal of cosmic awareness of the Light rather than refold by descending into the terrors of another deep and long dark age.

THE MESSAGE OF THE DIVINE ILIAD
by Walter Russell