There was an offer by Michael to weave a tapestry of past lives. Are they ready for that now? Should we ask specific questions?
THERE IS NO NEED TO ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. WE WOULD THINK YOU WOULD EXAMINE YOUR VARIOUS REASONS FOR EVADING THIS PARTICULAR QUESTION. IT IS AN INTERESTING PHENOMENON. WE HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE THAT THOSE OF YOU NOW ON THE PHYSICAL PLANE, AND OTHERS WHO HAVE LIVED WITHIN THE PAST THREE DECADES, AND EVEN PERHAPS MOST OF THOSE WHO LIVED IN THE PAST FIVE DECADES, AND ALL THOSE WHO WILL LIVE AGAIN IN THE NEXT TWO DECADES, HAVE ALL LIVED DURING WHAT EACH CHOOSE TO CALL THE “CARDINAL POINTS” OF THESE CYCLES. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE LIVED DURING THE CENTURIES IN WHICH THE MOST SWEEPING CHANGES HAVE OCCURRED: PHILOSOPHICALLY, SPIRITUALLY, CULTURALLY, AND SCIENTIFICALLY. FIVE OF YOU WERE PRESENT IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA IN EACH INSTANCE WHEN THE INFINITE SOUL MANIFESTED ON THIS WORLD. THOSE FIVE KNEW EACH OTHER WELL, AS THEIR LIVES WHERE INTERWOVEN AT THE TIME. ALL OF YOU HAD ACCESS TO THE WORDS THEN, AND AT THE TIME OF THE LAST MANIFESTATION [Jesus]. ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN EXPOSED TO THE OCCULT BROTHERHOOD IN THE CRADLE OF ITS EXISTENCE, THREE OF YOU BECOMING INITIATES BUT NEVER ADEPTS. ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN, AT ONE TIME, ASSOCIATED WITH THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH AT A TIME WHEN THERE WERE SWEEPING PHILOSOPHICAL CHANGES. ALL OF YOU HAVE THIS IN COMMON. YOU DID NOT LISTEN. WE HAVE MORE.
Is Michael speaking of those people present in the room this evening, or of the entire group?
WE REFER TO MEMBERS OF THIS CADRE WHICH INCLUDES SOULS NOT IN THIS ROOM.
FOUR OF YOU HEARD THE WORDS OF SOCRATES: TWO FROM HIS STUDENT, PLATO, AND TWO FROM HIM. SIX OF YOU KNEW THE MAN, JESUS, IN HIS CHILDHOOD. TWO OF YOU KNEW HIM WELL, BUT WHEN WORD CAME OF HIS TEACHING, IT WAS DISCOUNTED.
MANY OF YOU, HOWEVER, HAD NAGGING DOUBTS THAT CARRIED OVER INTO OTHER LIVES THAT KEPT YOU SEARCHING. MOST OF YOU HAVE SEARCHED UNCEASINGLY FOR THE ANSWERS, AND ALL OF YOUR LIVES HAVE BEEN TIED UP WITH THIS EXPRESSION OF LOSS SINCE THAT TIME. FIVE OF YOU WERE WITH ALEXANDER [the Great], AND CAME CLOSE TO A VISION OF UNITY AND WORLD GOVERNMENT UNDER A MAN WHO EXPRESSED LESS NEGATIVITY THAN ANY OTHER RULER SINCE THE CIVILIZATION BEGAN ON THIS WORLD. FOUR OF YOU SERVED UNDER THE LEGIONS OF ROME, AT THE TIME WHEN ANOTHER VISION OF PEACEFUL WORLD DOMINION WAS TAKING PLACE. HISTORY, AT LEAST THE WRITTEN CHRONICLES, OFTEN LACK MUCH IN THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE WHICH THEY CHRONICLED.
ALL OF YOU NOW HAVE THE CHANCE AGAIN TO HEAR THE WORDS, AND BE A PART OF THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LOGOS; ALSO, A CHANCE TO SIT AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER. ALL OF YOU ALSO NOW HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A MOVEMENT TOWARD PEACEFUL WORLD DOMINION — THIS TIME WITHOUT THE BLOODSHED OF THE PAST. WE HAVE SAID THAT THIS PLANET WILL NOT BE DESTROYED. THAT IS TRUE, BUT WE DO NOT DISCOUNT THE POSSIBILITY OF A DEVASTATING, INTER-CONTINENTAL NUCLEAR WAR. THIS IS A VERY REAL ALTERNATIVE AT THE MOMENT. THE ONLY METHOD OF ESCAPE WILL BE THE CHOOSING OF ONE OF THE OTHER ALTERNATIVES. THIS ALSO CAN OCCUR AT THE MOMENT — NONE OF THEM MORE LIKELY THAN THE OTHER. AT THIS POINT IT DOES NOT REALLY MATTER: YOUR COURSE HAS ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN, AND YOU HAVE BEGUN TO CARRY OUT THE AGREEMENT THAT YOU MADE BETWEEN LIVES, AND IN THE PAST.
WHETHER OR NOT THE BOMB COMES, THERE WILL ALSO BE A PHILOSOPHICAL AND SPIRITUAL REVOLT, AND THAT HAS ALREADY BEGUN. THE BOMB CAN BE A TRULY FRIGHTENING POSSIBILITY TO THE PERSONALITY, ESPECIALLY THE ONES NOT INVOLVED. THE OTHER ALTERNATIVES TO THIS ARE NOT ALL ATTRACTIVE, EITHER, BUT ONE CERTAINLY IS. THIS CIVILIZATION HAS NOW EVOLVED TO THE POINT WHERE IT CAN, AS A WHOLE, BEGIN TO LOOK AT THE CONCEPT OF UNITY. BEFORE, THIS HAS ONLY BEEN A DREAM OF OLD VISIONARIES, AND NOT A POSSIBILITY. TRUE, IN THE PAST, THERE HAS BEEN ALWAYS BLOODSHED IN CONQUEST, EVEN THOUGH PEACEFUL INTERVALS FOLLOWED, DURING WHICH GREAT STRIDES WERE MADE. IN SPITE OF THE BLOODSHED, IN THESE PERIODS, THERE WAS LITTLE REAL ENMITY INVOLVED. THE MORALITY OF WAR WAS NOT QUESTIONED UNTIL THIS CENTURY. THINK ABOUT THAT BEFORE YOU BECOME TRAPPED IN YOUR PESSIMISM, BECAUSE THIS IS THE GREATEST SINGLE STEP THAT YOUR CIVILIZATION HAS TAKEN. IT IS A SWEEPING MOVEMENT, ALSO, AND THERE IS HARDLY A MAN ALIVE TODAY WHO DOES NOT QUESTION IT. THIS HAS ALWAYS MEANT CHANGE IN THE PAST. WHEN THE QUESTION IS ASKED, THE ANSWER NORMALLY FOLLOWS CLOSE ON ITS HEELS. THE POSSIBILITY IS GREAT THAT THIS IS THE LAST GENERATION THAT WILL ACTUALLY CONSIDER ARMED WARFARE AS A SOLUTION TO ANY PROBLEM ON THIS PLANET. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN PESSIMISTIC ABOUT THE ABILITY FOR MAN TO CHANGE, BUT THIS IS TRULY A GIANT STRIDE. THE QUESTION IS SIMPLY THAT IT WAS NOT POSED BEFORE, AND IT WAS NOT OFFERED THAT THERE WAS ANY OTHER WAY. THOSE WHO WENT INTO GAUL FOR THE LEGIONS OFTEN FELT [no] ENMITY FOR THOSE THEY CONQUERED, AND WERE JUST AS AVID ABOUT BUILDING UP AS THEY WERE ABOUT TEARING DOWN. THE SAME WAS TRUE IN THE TIME OF ALEXANDER. THERE HAVE BEEN EXCEPTIONS TO THIS, NOTABLY SCIPIO AFRICANUS AND HITLER. THEY DID HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF ENMITY TOWARD THOSE THEY CONQUERED AND DESTROYED. BOTH WERE DISSENBLED [sic] AND “MAD”. TODAY THERE ARE ALIVE TWO MEN WHO COULD CONCEIVABLY FIT THIS PATTERN, AND TRIGGER A GLOBAL HOLOCAUST. THIS IS ONE ALTERNATIVE; THE OTHERS: CONTACT WITH WORLDS BEYOND THIS ONE IS ONE — THIS WOULD PROVIDE THE SHOCK OF WHICH YOU HAVE SPOKEN; SPIRITUAL COMMUNITIES AND WIDESPREAD RESISTANCE IS ANOTHER.
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