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EXTRACTS FROM THE ALICE A. BAILEY BOOKS This material was quoted with the permission of the Lucis Trust, which holds copyright. Humanity is subjected to crises o discrimination, leading to right choice.
That is the problem confronting humanity today, leading to a crisis within
the United Nations. By Alice Al Bailey, Lucis Publishing Company The true problem of the United Nations is a twofold one: it involves the right distribution of the world's resources so that there may be freedom from want, and it involves also the bringing about of a true equality of opportunity and of education for all men everywhere. The nations which have a wealth of resources are not owners; they are custodians of the world's riches and hold them in trust for their fellowmen. The time will [Page 175] inevitably come when—in the interest of peace and security—the capitalists in the various nations will be forced to realize this and will also be forced to substitute the principle of sharing for the ancient principle (which has hitherto governed them) of greedy grabbing. There was a time—a hundred years or more ago—when a just distribution of the world's wealth would have been impossible. That is not true today. Statistics exist; computations have been made; investigation has penetrated into every field of the earth's resources and these investigations, computations and statistics have been published and are available to the public. The men in power in every nation know well exactly what food, minerals, oil and other necessities are available for worldwide use upon just and equitable lines. But these commodities are reserved by the nations involved as "talking and bargaining points". The problem of distribution is no longer difficult once the food of the world is freed from politics and from capitalism; it must also be remembered that the means of distribution by sea, rail and air are adequate. None of this will, however, take place until the United Nations begin
to talk in terms of humanity as a whole and not in terms of boundaries,
of technical objectives and fears, in terms of the bargaining value
of oil, as in the Near East, or in the language of mistrust and suspicion. Alice A. Bailey, Lucis Publishing Company The unity, peace and security of the nations, great and small, are not to be attained by following the guidance of the greedy capitalist or the ambitious in any nation, and yet in many situations that guidance is being accepted. They are not to be gained by the blind following of any ideology, no matter how good it may seem to those conditioned by it; yet there are those who are seeking to impose their particular ideology on the world—and not solely in Russia. They will not be reached by sitting back and leaving the changing of [Page 171] conditions to God or the evolutionary process; yet there are those who make no move to help, even while knowing well the conditions with which the United Nations have to deal. Unity, peace and security will come through the recognition—intelligently assessed—of the evils which have led to the present world situation, and then through the taking of those wise, compassionate and understanding steps which will lead to the establishing of right human relations, to the substitution of cooperation for the present competitive system, and by the education of the masses in every land as to the nature of true goodwill and its hitherto unused potency. This will mean the deflecting of untold millions of money into right educational systems, instead of their use by the forces of war and their conversion into armies, navies and armaments. It is this that is spiritual; it is this that is of importance and it
is this for which all men must struggle. The spiritual Hierarchy
of the planet is primarily interested in finding the men who will work
along these lines. It is primarily interested in humanity, realizing that
the steps taken by humanity in the immediate future will condition the
new age and determine man's destiny. Will it be a destiny of annihilation,
of a planetary war, of worldwide famine and pestilence, of nation rising
against nation and of the complete collapse of all that makes life worth
living? All this can happen unless basic changes are made and made with
goodwill and loving understanding. Then, on the other hand, we can have
a period (difficult but helpful because educative) of adjustment, of concession
and of relinquishment; we can have a period of right recognition of shared
opportunity, of a united effort to bring about right human relations, and
of an educational process which will train the youth of all nations to
function as world citizens and [Page 172] not as nationalistic propagandists.
What we need above all to see—as a result of spiritual maturity—is
the abolition of those two principles which have wrought so much evil in
the world and which are summed up in the two words: Sovereignty and Nationalism. Alice A. Bailey, Lucis Publishing Company
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