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We are half way through a year – 2025 – which itself marks the end of the first quarter of the 21st century. As time passes and we move further into a future full of extraordinary potential, each choice, each act and gesture counts now more than ever. People feel it. There is just ‘something’ about our times. We are on the verge of something momentous, something pivotal.
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In his article ‘Let there be light’, Benjamin Creme’s (BC) Master writes: “Each century brings mankind closer to his goal: the demonstration, in all its perfection, of the Light of God.” Isn’t that amazing? We are beings of Light. He goes on: “Deep within each one of us dwells such a light, awaiting the opportunity to shine forth. Within each glows the potential of all Cosmos.”
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Whatever your interpretation of the state of the world at present, however hard and brutal or full of goodwill and cooperation we make the world for each other, it is an incontrovertible fact that beauty, greatness and triumph into Light is the ultimate goal. And yet, right now, we seem to have driven ourselves to the brink of catastrophe in so many ways. Exactly by expressing as much of the Light in ourselves as we can touch, we lift ourselves and help to move the global community towards solutions that must work for all.
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This is not to dismiss or gloss over possible future hardship and the very urgent need to stand for justice, for truth, for the rule of law. Silence is complicity; apathy allows tyranny to grow unchecked. Permitting ourselves to be distracted, letting the ‘bread and circuses’ policies of corrupt leadership entertain or confuse us, delivers the planet and our collective future into the hands of the power-hungry and greedy 1%.
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‘The end of corruption’ is the title of the second article by BC’s Master printed here. What a revolutionary idea! At present it is so far from the norm that it is probably thought to be naïve. But, as the article points out, “In the midst of such corruption is it possible to engender trust, without which the future for men would be bleak indeed? Without trust, a fairer sharing of resources would be a forlorn hope. Without trust, the global decisions required to sustain our planetary home would never be taken.”
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As trust, truth, basic freedoms, democracy and human rights are systematically and deliberately eroded by corrupt authoritarian leaders around the world, as the world’s electorate is encouraged to reject ‘the other’ and the outsider, Dr Bandy Lee explains pathology in leaders and the devastating effect the emperor’s madness has on the people, distracted, confused and roused to resentment and hatred. We know that ‘glamour is contagious’. We know that ‘group think’ exists and we experience how unrealities can be shared just as easily as facts are shared.
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This month’s issue is also full of hope, with news of positive action on behalf of the natural world, but we see the need for action, determination to resist the negative and to notice ‘the writing on the wall’. We did not include more than this of George Orwell’s famous warning (from his book 1984): “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” But we do note that it was prescient and appallingly familiar and for that reason we have included in this issue a list of ‘Early warning signs of fascism’.
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One may recoil from the word fascism and yet people experience that we live in ‘an upside- down world’ or a ‘back-to-front world’ where nothing is as it seems to be. We know from BC and the Master DK that a key characteristic of the astral plane is that the real becomes inverted. What is false seems true (hence the frequency of projection, in psychological terms, used in current politics). Everything is seen and experienced ‘upside-down’. In this mad uncertain dystopia there are no facts only opinion; no truth but that of one’s tribe. Science has no reality; the law no authority; justice and politics are bought and sold. Orwell warned of a totalitarian state where the objective is to confuse, weaken and distract so that the authorities have an easy hold on the people through propaganda, alienation and surveillance.
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One solution is humanity itself, at its best: “The world stands ready for more light. The peoples everywhere are thirsty for new knowledge of themselves and of God.”
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Also in this issue, we travel through space and learn more about the nature of the Cosmos and what binds humanity into one whole being. We celebrate the life of Pope Francis and, as millions mourn his passing, we weep with Gaza knowing that our tears are pitiful if not part of some act of help and support.
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The range and variety of articles in this issue is somewhat surprising, since even in the articles by BC’s Master we highlight the best and the worst – the Light in each human and on the other hand the corruption that hampers it.
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Over the years, those who worked with Benjamin Creme and experienced his Master with and through him came to love both of them and their constant work to aid and guide humanity, their love, wisdom and humour. Their words inspire hope which is the source and driving force for action on behalf of our planet and on behalf of those who suffer.
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