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Leo Tolstoy led us to believe with his great classic “War and Peace” that peace is absence of war, and that war is a natural state. We cannot blame Tolstoy, who described the human condition brilliantly, with his panoramic study of early 19th Century Russian Society. He was a storyteller who understood deeply the human condition and from his keen perception extrapolated a theory of historical determinism. Avid readers of War and Peace as I am (three times no less, I must confess) will see that the novel lays out a theory of history which states there is a minimum of free choice––that war follows peace, just as surely as night follows day.
In this modern age, we see little to disprove Tolstoy’s awesome theories. If we look at our world in one way we see apparently inevitable results. We constantly hear about warfare, starvation, loss and tragedy and if we don’t watch ourselves we allow fear to enter into our consciousness. Once fear is there, we are well on the way to proving Tolstoy’s theory of life, with all its inevitability and limitation.
All it takes though is a trip to the ocean with our three-year old to know he’s wrong on this. We can walk in the countryside when the dew is still sparkling on the grass and know there’s nothing inevitable about life. We catch our hearts opening up, and our bodies overreacting with a feeling of tingly joy, when a charming elderly lady offers us a gentle, knowing smile, for no reason, other than love.
Just open a magazine or book, dedicated to spiritual truth and see the possibilities, reminding us never to be limited. Never to underestimate our divine potential. Never to fear our greatness or capacity to love. Never to hold a lesser picture of ourselves or our world than that offered to us by the Wise Ones. Jesus, the Lord Buddha, Gandhi, and others, graced our world at different times in our history, have offered us a path away from the endless cycle of war and limitation.
In our dim and distant path, we, the human race, may have chosen the apparent delights of freewill and the right to act and be exactly as we wish. However, the goal, the Holy Grail of all thinking people is not freewill––but freedom. Freewill allows us to indulge our fleeting passions; freedom leads us on the higher path to unlock life’s mystic secrets. Freedom from war, pain, limitation and fear is our birthright. Freedom to unlock the divine secrets of our higher nature, and to soar through the skies of our own becoming.
This freedom can be achieved through aligning our freewill––our right to choose ––with the great Laws of God. The Divine Laws teach us that the way to break through the endless, limiting cycles is to realize Oneness. It is then and only then that we will act with our God-nature and so rise above the apparently inevitable cycles we have–– through past lives––created.
At the moment, Peace is on everyone’s mind because there is continual talk of its opposite - war. But if we change the way we perceive life, as a spiritual journey in which we unfold our Divine potential, not as a battle for survival, then peace must eventually dawn. First it must dawn in the hearts and minds of each of us, and then it must, by the Divine Law of Action and Reaction...Karma...exist upon our Earth.
We can then prove war does not have to follow peace, as night follows day. Instead, conflict can be turned to spiritual action and peace, inward reflection. Both of these opposites will then meet in the fires of that great mystic force – LOVE.
Chrissie Blaze, Sr Aetherius Church minister and student of Dr. George King (Yoga Master & The Aetherius Society founder). Author of Mercury Retrograde: Your Survival Guide to Astrology’s Most Precarious Times of the Year, and Power Prayer, (co-authored Gary Blaze). For further info on workshops in the LA area, visit www.chrissieblaze.com 323-252-6391 (voicemail) or 323-465-9652.
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