"We need spiritual discipline. A religion is a useful thing for inculcating spiritual discipline provided the religious leaders are not fighting among themselves. At the present day religions fall down on the job, and so all the present Earth religions shall, before too long, pass away like shadows disappearing in the night, and a fresh religion shall come to this earth which shall help lift people out of the, darkness and the misery into which they have now sunk. (comment: as I see it - it will become a synthesis between the spiritual sciences - Martinus cosmology, Theosophy, teaching from direct physical contacts to higher developed people from "space" - and all the similar wisdom written by other sources - as example Rampa. But this "religion" will not be founded on the ability to BELIEVE - but to UNDERSTAND THE TOTAL CONNECTION between the so-called physical and the spiritual worlds. This will accelerate much until we reach the limit of the next cosmic radiation field - called the sign of Aquarius in 2029. R.Ø.remark.)

But the time is not yet. The Final Battle is not yet. First there is more suffering, more disturbances in this, the Age of Kali, disturbances caused by World War 1 in which women deserted their homes and their children and left those children to run wild on the streets. If you get a wonderfully kept orchard(frukthage), an orchard on which great care and endless expense has been lavished, and you suddenly withdraw all care from that orchard - everything soon becomes third-rate. The fruit no longer has the bloom and the fullness of constant care, instead that fruit becomes wrinkled and bitter. People are getting like that. People are now of inferior stock (lavere tankegods), and soon there will have to be the leaving process again so that fresh blood is brought to the Earth.

But first there will be more suffering. First the whole world will be engulfed by a form of Communism. Not the Communist of China, where even clocks and cars are supposed to run by the illustrious thoughts of Chairman Mao Tse Tung, and -where, apparently, if a person has some interior obstruction, he just thinks of old Mao Tse Tung, and there is such a disturbance that everything is - cleared away immediately! (this book was written in the 60's).

So Earth is in for a sickener, Earth is in for a bad time, lets face it frankly. Everything is going to be engulfed in this form of Communism. Everyone will be, given a number - they might even lose their names and identities. All these strikes are going to price things out of existence. The Unions are gaining, more and more power, and eventually they will take over with the private armies of sheeplike workers, and that will be a major step towards the ruination of the Earth. Eventually the press lords, like the robber barons of old, will mobilize their private armies of press workers and they will go to even lower depths in their attacks on people; attacks which are so difficult to stand against when even the meanest type of reporter can write things in the columns of his paper - and the attacked person has no redress whatever. This isn't justice. This isn't fair. And it's this type of sub-human person who is ruling the Earth today and will bring the Earth down even lower and lower.

-Until, having unnecessarily touched rockbottom in this, the Age of Kali, the indomitable (ukuelige) spirit existing in some people, will shudder (grøsse) with the shock and the shame of what has fallen -upon the Earth, and the spirit will revolt and will take action which will enable Earth and the peoples of Earth to rise again. But it may be necessary for the peoples of space, the Gardeners of Earth, to come and give assistance.

This is the Age of Assassination (ødeleggelse). A great religious leader, Martin Luther King, was assassinaed. He was a good man and had much to give to this Earth. As for the others, well - they were just political people and (I do not want to tread on anyones toes!) history will prove that these were dwarfs raised to giant stature only by the appaling (sjokkerende) power of their advertising machine - an advertising machine which blew out a lot of stiriking hot air and made dwarfs appear like giants, just as you can get a toy soldier and by placing, alight behind him you can make his shadow giant size on the wall behind. But here, too, the toy soldier's shadow is a shadow only, something without substance, something that soon will be forgotten. Martin Luther King was no shadow. He was a good man, working for the good, not only of coloured people, but of people of all colours throughout the world. For, in persecuting blacks, or browns, or reds or yellows, the white people who are doing the persecuting are placing a terrible amount of Kharma upon them-selves individually and collectively, and whatever they are doing now to the coloured people - will have to be atoned for in suffering and toil (slit og ydmykhet) and humility.

There would still be time to save this Earth from its degradation, from its shame, if only women would return to their homes and look after the children and see that those children had proper training, because it is the lack of training which makes it possible for assassins (mordere) to go about their filthy (skitne)work. It is the lack of training, which enables race riots (opptøyer) to take place, and looting, and rape (plyndring og voldtekter). These things were not common in the days when women had more than equality at home; when she occupied the supreme place of honour as Mother to her family.

It would be much, much better if the criterion of womanhood could be: How well behaved are her children? How contented is her husband? How useful is this woman to the community? Is she an example to others? If so she is a woman to be proud of. Now, sad to say, a woman is judged by her mammary development ("brystenes størrelse"), whether they stick up or down, how accessible they are, and how many husbands she has had. Sex is a wonderful thing, but this isn't sex. The people who go in for this type of thing are immature (umodne). They don't know anything about LOVE, but only about the - most functional aspects of procreation, and then, interestingly enough, most of these sex queens are as impotent as a eunuch (kastrert mann) who has been treated twice by mistake! ( Because these "queens" - has developed behind - and lost their natural femininity - and tries to replace this by focusing on the externally - their body and look.R.Ø.remark.)

If all of us could issue a prayer that a Great Leader would come to Earth and help to straighten out the mess, that Great Leader would come, not with flaming sword and embattled hosts - because wars never settle anything, wars just make misery, wars make more troubles. It's not necessary to have any of those things. The way of peace is the best, and the best way to get peace is to get women back in the homes teaching decency (sømmelighet) to the male members of the family. They can do it, you know. Remember the old saying? A woman who is good is very good, but a woman who is bad is worse than any man could ever be - no matter how bad.

by Lobsang Rampa

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