Wherever different minds meet in the spirit of fellowship, there we find a great harmony, peace, happiness understanding, and cooperation in life’s activities. With so many troubles plaguing this earth of ours- a miniature world war going on in Europe, nation tearing at nation- never before was there a greater necessity for peace than now.
I believe there will always be wars, until perchance we all become so spiritual that by the evolution of our individual natures we will make war unnecessary. No matter what their differences, if great minds such as Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Mohammed, sat together, they would never use the engines of science to try to destroy each other. Where there is understanding, peace reigns. Why must people feel it necessary to fight? The power of guns evokes no wisdom, nor has it ever accomplished lasting peace.
War is like poison in the system. When we have toxins in our body, that impurity has to get out somehow. So we suffer from disease. Likewise, when there is too much selfishness in the international system, that poison breaks out in the world as the disease of war. Many people are killed, and then for a little while there is a lull. But war comes again- and will come again and again- so long as there will be ignorance, and so long as the individual man has not become a perfect citizen of the world.
God gave us intelligence, and He placed us in an environment where we must use that intelligence. The universe is like a shell, and we are like little chicks moving about within it. But what is beyond this shell of matter? What is beyond its three dimensions? We must penetrate space and know the workings of that other world out of which this one has come. We should use our intelligence to analyse the mysteries of life and to explore the secrets the Heavenly Father has hidden behind nature. How much better use of intelligence this would be, than to the creation of bigger and more destructive instruments of war. We must use our intelligence to have peace among ourselves.
