What about right now? Much is going on in the hearts and souls and minds of men -- an improved and encouraging awareness -- that is invisible to those who only casually glance at surface events.
The only value of the if-variety of forecasting is alerting citizens to the dangers of over-extended government. How near or far off is this hoped-for turnabout?
The human race is not doomed. Civilization is not going to crash. Humanity is going through a difficult time, but humanity has gone through difficulties many times before in its history, and has always come through, strengthened and purified.
These flowing, ever-changing activities -- not stabilization -- compose the order for which we should strive. This is moral beauty!
The more free you are, the more is possible.
It is the freedom to take advantage of this constant flux. Let all the trillions times trillions of tiny creativities freely flow and configurate, so that creation at the human level may be more and more realized.
Everything in the Cosmos, be it atoms or galaxies or man, is in constant change. Any attempt to stabilize the what-is, as related to social affairs, is an affront to evolution -- Creation at whatever level!
Hope is one of the mainsprings of human progress. It can, indeed, be likened to the sun. As our hopes for liberty are strengthened -- as we journey toward their realization -- our burden, the authoritarian shadow, is cast behind us. Hope for the ideal leads to intellectual enlightenment, and darkness has no resistance to this light!
The star of freedom is surely one of life's highest objectives. And the steps along the way should be in harmony with that high goal. Lesser means can only lead to baser ends -- never toward freedom. Thus, let the objectives be high, that we may realize our potentialities.
Whenever one rises to this spiritual height, secrecy to self as well as to others becomes a built-in trait, as natural and no more reflected upon than breathing or heart beats. This is true charity -- and the rewards are out of this world!
Why do millions of socialistically oriented people fall into this politico-economic trap? They fail to recognize that their give-aways consist of goods and services forcibly withdrawn from the free market which produced them -- that much maligned and handicapped free market which their schemes have not yet destroyed.
Implicit in the operations of the welfare state -- is helping people to become helpless. The state does this by giving out food stamps, paying farmers not to farm, workers not to work, and so on. This policy deadens self-responsibility, the very essence of one's being.
There may be no greater menace to society, here or elsewhere, than government handouts -- misconceived as charity.
In their blind pride, the least taste of political power drives them to become power addicts. Until such persons seek help, there is little we can do to curb their addiction. What we can and must do is to develop in ourselves the strength of character to resist the temptations of power.
Pride sprouts and grows from ignorance and self-blindness. Those with a haughty spirit foolishly believe they know the most, where as they know the least. While they don't know how to make a pencil or why grass is green or who we are, they "know" how to run our lives.
The strength of character each of us should develop is true humility -- the state of being teachable in mind and spirit. Humility is an awareness of how much there is to learn; it is a virtue that displaces the sin of pride. No person can be a know-it-all at the same time that he seriously seeks knowledge.
The overcoming of this foolish hope is a personal problem. The remedy? An awareness of one's blessings. Each of us has more than he can count. Every misery one misses is a blessing, as is every breath of fresh air, every friend, every enlightening thought.
Hope for an awareness of blessings -- of all the foolish hopes, covetousness heads the list. "Thou shalt not covet." Covetousness leads to actions that range all the way from theft to our present welfare state -- the something-for-nothing syndrome.
The reality as I see it? Infinite Consciousness -- Creation -- is a magnetic force attracting mankind toward the Infinite Order. Further, it appears to be a pulsating force like the tides, drawing and ceasing to draw in a sequence and on a vast range of frequencies.
In view of the fact that he who believes is strong and he who doubts is weak, it behooves us to strengthen our belief in the role of faith and to explain our findings. Success in this respect is, indeed, the leaven of liberty. No faith, no liberty!
