The person who does not read good books has no advantage over the person who cannot read them. The American Airlines 757 airplane was approaching the Rocky Mountains on a flight from Boston to Los Angles when a passenger called Michael Tighe’s, arm and head, suddenly lurched into the aisle. His wife, a nurse, who was sitting alongside him, immediately knew something terrible was about to happen. Mr. Tighe’s heart had begun beating erratically, failing to send an adequate blood supply to his brain. Mr. Tighe, sixty-two, was at the edge of death when flight personnel appeared with a laptop-sized device. Attaching electrical leads to his body, they shocked him—once, twice, several times—and literally brought him back to life, making him the first person to be saved in-flight by a defibrillator. It has been installed on the plane only two days earlier. Like the human heart, societies and economics, too, are subject to premature beats, local tachycardias, fibrillations and flutters, as well as “chaotic” irregularities and paroxysms. While this had long been true, the uneven, ever accelerating pace of change and continual de-synchronization that comes with it may now be pushing us toward temporal incoherence—without a defibrillator on board. When our institutions, companies, industries, and economy are out of sync with one another, what happens to us as individuals? If we are, indeed, running faster and panting harder, where will it end? How did we get chained to time and speed in the first place? Start here with a point made earlier that in less affluent societies, ancient China or feudal Europe for example, people were not generally paid hourly wages. As slaves, serfs or sharecroppers, they typically received or kept some fraction of what they actually produced. Work time, as such, did not directly translate into money. Add to that the facts that weather, the limitations of human and animal energy, and extremely primitive technology all set upper limits on human productivity, no matter how many hours a less affluent family might work. The result was a relationship to time remarkably different from our own. #RandolphHarris 1 of 17

As late as the fourteenth century in Europe, according to French historian Jacques Le Goff, clerics were sill preaching that time belong to God alone and therefore must not be sold. Selling work for time was almost as bad as usury—the selling of money for interest. And as far as the fifteenth-century Franciscan monk Bernardino of Siena was concerned, humans were not even supposed to know how to tell time. The industrial revolution changed all that. Fossil fuels and factories smashed the agrarian limitations on human productivity. Clocks and watches made it possible to monitor and measure time more accurately. And how long or fast you worked did make a difference. Second Wave employers, in hopes of maximizing output, sped up assembly lines of paid piecework to squeeze additional muscle power from workers. And based on the “time is money” formula, factory workers came to be paid by the hour. Which explains why the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics still typically measures “labor productivity” in terms of output per hour. The early modernizers went further, forging another link in the chain that inextricably bound wealth to time. The New World gradually did away with traditional anti-usury laws and legitimized interest payments based on time. This was ultimately followed by a vast expansion of other time-based payments by consumers, corporations and, above all, governments. In this way, the pricing of labor and the pricing of money both became increasingly based on time. Introduced separately and gradually, these twin changes were momentous. They meant that the same individual as worker, as consumer, as borrower, lender and investor became chained to time as never before. Workers grumbled about the rat race. Artists, writers and filmmakers satirized it, as did Fritz Lang in his scenes of workers and clocks in his amazing film Metropolis (1927) and Charlie Chaplin in his classic Modern Times (1936). However, the chains of time only tightened over the years as punch clocks and time-based Taylorite. #RandolphHarris 2 of 17

Temporal incoherence is often seen in modern times because of globalization and international business. With countries like China being 13 hours ahead of America, it means in most cases they are often a day ahead. And while we are sleeping, they are waking up. So some business people will need to be up at 1am or 2am to do deals with China and prepare to get their projects in a day ahead to make sure they are delivered on the day expected. With everything moving at rapid pace, Americans needs to sometimes be ahead one or two days, so this often means there are no weekends, it is just a constant cycle of business everyday of the month. Nonetheless, even today some employers in call centers and factory-style offices equipped with the latest Third Wave technologies continue to use Second Wave methods of management. Counting an employee’s keystrokes or calls per hour, they apply the traditional speed-up methods of the old-line textile mill or auto assembly line. The pace of life—not just at work—is in for a jolting further acceleration. Acceleration has clicked into ultra-drive and an avalanche of words has been devoted to elaborations by others. An entire new vocabulary of terms—“twitch speed,” “hurry sickness,” “time deepening,” “Internet time,” “digital time,” “time famine”—reflects the accuracy of that early forecast. Today millions feel harassed, stressed out and “future shocked” by the compression of time. London’s Evening Standard reports the unsurprising arrival of therapists who specialize in helping “rushaholics” to slow down. We hate to wait. The epidemic of attention deficit disorder among American kids may be chemical rather than cultural in origin, but it perfectly symbolized the growing refusal today to defer gratification as the future speeds up. However, if businesses necessarily want instance gratification, faster and larger returns and even automated services to reduce conversation and speed up transactions, why do we blame kids for wanting the same? However, this chemical reaction combined with the loss of patients due to having anything and everything at one’s fingertips has created a perfect formula for addictive tendencies and poor impulse control. #RandolphHarris 3 of 17

The inability to control impulses leads to short term pleasure and reduces the ability to reach one’s highest potential. One recommendation is that when you do give in to instant gratification for something, spend time reflecting on how it made you feel and whether you want to make decisions that way in the future. Yet also remember the demand for instant gratification is everywhere. Consumers expect to find the services, products, and information that they want quickly and easily. As it stands, 60 percent of women say they do not have enough free time and 60 percent feel guilty for spending the free time they have on themselves. Around the World, multi-tasking and multi-focus replace single-minded concertation as an entire generation grows up in a culture and an economy moving from sequential to simultaneous processing. Even when some people have a long-term injury or sickness, they are still training themselves and focusing on a project like it is their job because no one knows what the future holds, so it is best not to set around like a vegetable, you have to train yourself for something and keep your mind sharp so you can participate in intelligence conversations. If and when you recover, people will be impressed by how much you know and the ways you can contribute to conversations and projects. This may give you an advantage over others who have more experience and a better education on paper. A lot of people like to hire people based out how they feel about a person because when you can see someone is knowledge able, trustworthy, possesses important skills, and are loyal, that is the type of person you want to take a risk on. Corporations are not faceless giants, behind that name are several people who have staked lot of money, in hopes of making more. And if you see intelligent and are business friendly, that will go a long way. However, it is also good to make sure you are truly ready for paid labor, because a physically or mentally unprepared employee can cost a firm hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars if they breakdown. #RandolphHarris 4 of 17

People are all processing more and more input at faster and faster rates and are bored with anything they regard as slow, so that is important to keep in mind. A person can get approved for a mortgage, car loan, credit card, or personal loan within seconds. They can find out the results of medical examinations, with detailed results in minutes. All these pressures for speed explain why a covey of “time management” consultants and shelfload books offer advice on how to reschedule our days and relate time to our personal priorities. Yet all this advice scarcely touches on the less obvious reasons for the speed-up of life. Several forces have been converging to drive the acceleration needle off the gauge. The 1980s and ‘90s saw a global shift toward liberal economics and hypercompetition. Combine that with the eighteen-month rate of semiconductor-chip power and you get near-instantaneous financial transactions. (Currency traders can find out about a trade within two hundred milliseconds of its completion.) Put differently, behind all of these pressures is the historic move to a wealthy system whose chief raw material—knowledge—can no move at nearly real-time speed. We live at a pace so hyper that the old law that “time is money” needs revision. Every interval of time is now worth more than money than the last one because, in principle if not in practice, more wealth can be created during it. In turn, all this changes our personal relationship to the deep fundamental of time. In yesterday’s work World, time was packaged in standard lengths. “Nine-to-five” became the template for millions of U.S. workers. Half an hour or an hour for lunch were the norm, along with so many days of holiday time. Labor contracts and federal laws made overtime expensive for employers and discouraged deviance from standard time packages. These standard time packages spread from the factory throughout the rest of life as well. Paralleling the factory, virtually all industrial-age offices also set fixed, standardized schedules. #RandolphHarris 5 of 17

Schools, meanwhile, prepared future generations of factory workers by submitting children to a similar time discipline. In America, kids in their conspicuous yellow buses were unwittingly being prepared to commune to work on time. Inside, the school bells rand and the children were (and still are) marched through a sequence of standard-length classes. By contrast, today’s emergent economy, for which those schoolchildren are being misprepared, runs on radically different temporal principles. It is, we are fragmenting yesterday’s standard time packages as we shift from collective time to customized time. Put differently, we are moving from impersonalized to personalized time in parallel with the moves toward personalized products and markets. Now, consider some incidents of pleasures of the flesh and marriage in a more “privileged” and more “underprivileged” situation. For the first, we can return to the remarkable boom in early marriages and child bearing occurring especially among the economically privileged who previously would have married late. No doubt this has been partly due to the war and the Cold War, clinging to life and clutching to something safe in an era of anxiety. However, it seems to be also partly a strong reaction to drift toward formlessness which these young persons could observe in their own parents. These young-marrying, contemporaries or juniors of the Hipster Generation, have often expressed themselves as follows: “My highest aim in life is to achieve a normal healthy marriage and raise healthy [non-neurotic] children.” On the face of it, this remark is preposterous. What was always taken as a usual and advantageous life-condition for work in the World and the service of God, is now regarded as an heroic goal to be striven for. Yet we see that it is a hard goal to achieve against the modern obstacles. Also it is a real goal, with objective problems that a human can work at personally, and take responsibility for, and make decisions about—unlike the interpersonal relations of the corporation, or the routine of the factory job for which the worker could not care less. #RandolphHarris 6 of 17

However, now, suppose the young man is achieving this goal: he has the wife, the small kids, the suburban homes, and the labor-saving domestic devices. How is it that it is the same man who uniformly asserts that he is in a Rat Race? Either the goal does not justify itself, or indeed he is not really achieving it. If marriage and children are the goal, perhaps the truth is a man cannot really achieve it. It is not easy to conceive of a strong husband and father who does not feel justified in his work and independent in the World. Correspondingly, if he is running a Rat Race, his wife feels justified in the small children, but does she have a man, do the children have a father? Into what World do the small children grow up in such a home? If its personnel are married and have homes responsibilities, it is advantageous to the smooth function of the organized system. (Exempli gratia, it is much harder for them to act up and quit.) However, the smooth functioning of the organized system may not be advantageous to the quality of marriage and the fatherhood. It is a troubling picture. On the one hand, early marriage is excellent and promising, especially in the probable case that both the young people have had experience in pleasures of the flesh and could have others, and they have chosen the marriage as a reasonably steady and jealousy-free alternative. And having children early is admirable, rather than delaying for the empty reasons that middle-class people used to give. On the other hand, to take on such early responsibilities indicates an early resignation: the marriage seems partly to be instead of looking ambitiously for a worth-while career. If the highest aim in life is to achieve a normal marriage and raise healthy children, we can understand the preoccupation with Psychology, for the parents do not have much activity of their own to give rules to the family life. The thousands of happy marriages, then, have the touching dignity of evangelical tracts, as is indeed their tone; they teach how to be saved, and there is no other way to be saved. #RandolphHarris 7 of 17

On the children is lavished an avalanche of attention. They cannot possibly reward so much attention, and the young father, at least, soon gets pretty bored and retires to his Do-It-Yourself. Now it used to be said that middle-class parents frustrate the children more, to meet high standards, but the frustration is acceptable because it leads to an improved status, esteemed by the children; the lower classes, on the contrary, are more permissive; nor would the discipline be accepted, because the father is disesteemed. What then is the effect, in the ranch houses, if the discipline is maintained, because the standard is high, but the status is disesteemed, first by the father himself, who talks cynically about it; then by the mother, who does not respect it; then by the growing children? Is it possible to maintain and pass on a middle-class standard without belief in its productive and cultural mission? I wonder if we are not here describing the specific genesis of a Hipster Generation: young men who cannot break away from the father who has been very good to them, but who simply cannot affirm father’s values; and there are no other dominant social values to compensate. If this is the case, where now there are thousands of these young men, there will be hundreds of thousands. The organized system is the breeding ground of a Hipster Generation. Now, after the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, the moral pursuits and other reformers focused on the age of women of the evening. In England, the age of consent was far too early. Grown men eagerly sought out undeveloped girls, knowing they had nothing to fear from the law. Some were a class of men who are disgraced in every society because the mates they choose are far, far too young for anyone to consider, and this was because in many cases they wanted to protect themselves from diseases, which virgins did not carry. In consequence, a supply of very young girls, often spurious virgins, came onto the market to become women of the evening. #RandolphHarris 8 of 17

The opposition to changing this was powerful and persistent. Many legislators were themselves unrepentant brothel habitues and resisted all efforts to modify the legislation. In 1875, they relented slightly and raised the age of consent to thirteen. Moral reformers saw this as a cynical reaffirmation of the double standard. Underclass women over the age of thirteen remained virtually unprotected, and men of all classes considered them fair game. For an entire decade, nothing changed while the spotlight was on the Contagious Diseases Acts. Then in 1875, the Herculean efforts of reformers and a crusading journalist named William Thomas Stead convinced the reluctant lawmakers to raise the age of consent to a more “acceptable” sixteen. Mr. Stead was the son of a Congregational minister and the doting father of six children. At the age of sixty-two, he went down on the Titanic, quietly reading in the first-class smoking room, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee on a doomed journey to a peace conference. In his prime, Stead used his editorship of The Pall Mall Gazette to research and expose flaws and inequalities in his society. His grandstanding journalistic campaign on behalf of ruined young girls was startlingly unorthodox. Frist, he found a London police officer willing to be quoted about how abysmally the law protected girls. When Mr. Stead inquired, “Is it or is it not a fact that, at this moment, if I were go to the proper [brothels] houses, well introduced, the keeper would, in return for money down, supply me in due time with a maid—a genuine article, I mean, not a mere women of the evening tricked out as a virgin, but a girl who had never been seduced?” The police source replied without a moment’s hesitation, “Certainly.” Having established the situation surrounding his issues, Mr. Stead proved his point in a manner that went far beyond investigative-reporting techniques. Through a brothel-keeper, he actually negotiated with certain Mrs. Armstrong, an alcoholic mother, to purchase her virginal daughter Eliza (a pseudonym for Lily), “a bright, fresh-looking little girl, who was thirteen years old last Christmas.” Mr. Stead and Mrs. Armstrong struck a deal, and Eliza was his for the price of five pounds. #RandolphHarris 9 of 17

However, before he paid the entire sum, Mr. Stead had the girl’s virginity professionally certified by Madame Mourez, an abortionist/midwife, whose skills in pronouncing upon the physical evidences of virginity is generally recognized in the profession. After a brief examination, Madame Mourez issued a written certificate of virginity. She was even moved to exclaim to Mr. Stead, who she assumed was about to deflower young Eliza, “She is so small, her pain will be extreme. I hope you will not be too cruel with her.” With his certified virgin in tow, Mr. Stead stepped firmly off the path of acceptable journalistic practice and into a netherworld of quasi-criminality, morally justified, tactically sound, but legally indefensible. Mr. Stead instructed his brothel-keeping agent to take Eliza to a house of solicitation on Regent Street. There, despite her extreme youth, she was admitted without question, Mr. Stead reported. She was also undressed and put to bed, quieted with chloroform purchased from Madame Mourez, the abortionist, who had enthusiastically recommended it for deflowering virgins. Mr. Stead then entered Eliza’s room, closing and locking the door. Silence. Then, with a scream like the bleat of a frightened lamb,” the drowsy child, “in accents of terror, ‘There’s a man in the room! Take me home—oh, take me home!’” Eliza need not have worried. She was in no danger of being assaulted by physical force. She was merely the sacrificial lamb in Mr. Stead’s blazing crusade to reform the age-of-consent laws. Once his cautionary drama had been played out and documented, Mr. Stead arranged for Eliza’s passage out of merciless England to France. Then her sat down at his desk and penned his account of Eliza’s adventure. “The Maiden Tribute of Babylon” caused a sensation. “An Earthquake has shaken the foundations of England,” proclaimed the bishop of Truro. Ironically, Mr. Stead soon replaced Eliza as principle victim of the expose. He was charged, convicted, and condemned to three months in prison for exporting a minor without parental consent. #RandolphHarris 10 of 17

 Mr. Stead responded bitterly. “What else could one expect?” he declared, given that the very legislators he had hoped to prod into reform were themselves patrons of Mrs. Jeffries’s brothel in Chelsea or Berthe’s on Milton Street. Despite this, Mr. Stead’s revelations created an outpouring of public outrage, including a four-hundred-thousand-name petition that, unrolled, was two and a half miles long. The legislators, secret clients of brothels or not, caved in and raised the age of consent to sixteen. Though women over sixteen remained unprotected against predatory males, this legislation was nonetheless a heavy blow to England’s historically entrenched double standard. It is clear to see money is not the root of all evil. Today, hard-won laws in North America and much of Europe have established a measure of equality that has deeply eroded the most blatant manifestations of the double standard. Feminists of both genders keep vigilant watch to ensure the old ways of thinking, acting, and legislating do not creep back into use, at least in the law. However, even now, remnants linger on. Randy young men still sow their wild oats, but the girls they sow them with are often times unchaste, sometime chaste. Yet, the double standard is eroding, but chastity still bears a woman’s face. Now, while interviewing for the job of editor, Frederick said, “This may sound self-serving, but I am extraordinarily gifted. I am certain that I will do great things in this position, that I and the newspaper will soon set the standard for journalism in this city. The committee was impressed. Certainly, Frederick’s credential were strong, but even more important, his self-confidence and boldness had wowed them. A year later, many of the same individuals were describing Frederick differently—arrogant, self-serving, cold, ego-maniacal, draining. He had performed well as editor (though not as spectacularly as he seemed to think), but that performance could not outweigh his personality. #RandolphHarris 11 of 17

 Colleagues below and above him had grown weary of his manipulations, his emotional outbursts, his refusal every to take the blame, his nonstop boasting, and his grandiose plans. Once again, Frederick had outworn his welcome. To be sure, Frederick had great charm, and he knew how to make others feel important, when it served his purposes. Thus he always had his share of friends and admirers. However, in reality they were just passing through, until Fredrick would tire of them or feel betrayed by their lack of enthusiasm for one of his self-serving interpretations or grand plans. Or until they simply could take Frederick no longer. Bright and successful though he was, Fredrick always felt entitled to more than he was receiving—to higher grades at school, greater compensation at work, more attention from girlfriends. If criticized even slightly, he reacted with fury, and was certain that the critic was jealous of his superior intelligence, skill, or looks. At first glance, Frederick seemed to have a lot going for himself socially. Typically, he could be found in the midst of a deep, meaningful romantic relationship—one in which he might be tender, attentive, and seemingly devoted to his partner. However, Frederick would always tire of his partner within a few weeks or months and would turn cold or even mean. Often he started affairs with other women while still involved with the current partner. The breakups—usually unpleasant sometimes ugly—rarely brought sadness or remorse to him, and he would almost never think about his former partner again. He always had himself. Each of us has a personality—a unique and enduring pattern of inner experiences and outward behaviour. We tend to react in our own predictable and consistent ways. These consistencies, often called personality traits, may be the result of inherited characteristics, learned responses, or a combination of the two. Yet our personalities are also flexible. We learn from experience. As we interact with our surroundings, we try out various responses to see which are more effective. This is a flexibility that people who suffer from a personality disorder usually do not have. #RandolphHarris 12 of 17

A personality disorder is an inflexible pattern of inner experience and outward behaviour. The pattern is seen in most of the person’s interactions, continues for years, and differs markedly from the experiences and behaviours usually expected of people. Frederick seems to display such a disorder. For most of his life, his narcissism, grandiosity, outburst, and insensitivity to others have been excessive and have dominated his functioning. The rigid traits of people with personality disorders often lead to psychological pain for the individual and social or occupational difficulties. The disorders also bring pain to others. Witness the upset and turmoil experienced by Frederick’s co-workers and girlfriends. Personality disorders typically become recognizable in adolescence or early adulthood, although some start during childhood. These are among the most difficult psychological disorders to treat. Many sufferers are not even aware of their personality problems and fail to trace their difficulties to their inflexible style of thinking and behaving. Approximately 9 to 13 percent of all adults may have a personality disorder. Disorders of long standing that usually start before adulthood may continue into adulthood. More acute disorders that often begin as a noticeable change in a person’s usual behaviour are, in many cases, of limited duration. People with avoidant personality disorder, who fearfully shy away from all relationships, may be prone to develop a social phobia. That is why, even though 64 percent of students, sometime in their grade school career want to be homeschooled or transferred, parents make them stay in the schools they are in so they can become social and confident adult. Another point while we are on the topic of school, detention is a really great program. If kids did not have responsibilities, did not have to play sports or work, for those performing below standards, think how much reward they would get from staying after school and reading a chapter they did not complete or finishing up a worksheet. #RandolphHarris 13 of 17

Nonetheless, diagnoses of personality disorder can easily be overdone. We may catch glimpses of ourselves or of people we know in the descriptions of these disorders, and we may be tempted to conclude that we or they have a personality disorder. In the vast majority of instances, such interpretations are incorrect. The cluster of “odd” personality disorders consists of paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. People with these disorders typically display odd or eccentric behaviors that are similar to but not as extensive as those seen in schizophrenia, including extreme suspiciousness, social withdrawal, and peculiar ways of thinking and perceiving things. Such behaviours often leave the person isolated. Some clinicians believe that these personality disorders are actually related to schizophrenia, and they call them schizophrenia–spectrum disorders. In support of this idea, people with these personality disorders often qualify for an additional diagnosis of schizophrenia of have close relatives with schizophrenia. Of course, such findings may simply reflect the difficulty of distinguishing these personality disorders from schizophrenia, rather than some kind of direct relationship between them. Clinicians have learned much about the symptoms of the odd personality disorders but have not been so successful in determine their causes or how to treat them. In fact, people with these disorders rarely seek treatment. Now, what the scientists have done with atomic energy is to destroy the atom, the stud which God made and used to make the Universe. They have released destructive forces into the World and degenerative forced along with them among humankind. Even the peaceful commercial use of nuclear energy in reactor-installations brings these evils among us and the precautionary safeguards fail to overcome them. Human intellect, when not balanced by intuitive feeling and when directed by one’s wild and egoistic impulses, can only lead one to self-destruction in the end. In total sense, this will not be permitted by the World-Mind. Therefore, its course will be hindered and on oneself restrained as soon as the time is appropriate. #RandolphHarris 14 of 17

The physical starvation or privation which afflicts so many millions in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas is deplorable but the spiritual starvation or moral degeneration which afflicts many more is really a worse evil. This idea may seem strange, even repulsive, to most people. For its truth can become evident only after carefully thinking out the causes and consequences of both situations, although it is evident in a flash to those who have enough intuitive insight. There is a grimmer prospect than overpopulation. By destroying their home, humans as a species are destroying themselves, not to mention animals and plants who will pass with them. If this planet dies a new one will be born, yes, but one will carry the moral guilt. In an unsympathetic society, what is deep in a human heart may be deliberately denied expression and not allowed to come out. The large cities have become large blots on humankind’s inner life and outer health. They are marvels of ingenious arrangements but monstrosities of nervous strain and psychoneurosis. Their inhabitants follow an artificial existence under the delusion that it is human existence. Everything within them is abnormal yet custom and cowardice, ignorance and selfishness have proclaimed it normal. The air is filled with chemical poisons by travelling vehicles and factories and industrial plants. Their water flows through miles and miles of sediment-lined pipes. Their food is stale, devitalized, adulterated, and often disease-breeding. The unnatural living and high tension of millions of city-prisoned people exposes them to physical and nervous sickness. It becomes harder with each year for the inhabitants of modern London or modern New York to achieve this gentle receptiveness to intuitive spiritual moods. If its industrial constructions have turned wandering streams into foul gutters, green fields into filthy slums, and pleasant valleys into mean joyless streets, science had not served the World. Worse is the poisoned air and food, the mechanized worker. #RandolphHarris 15 of 17

In destroying woods and forests, in building over glades and dells, humans have been destroying one of their principal resources of spiritual welfare. The message which their loveliness and silence could give is lost; the benefit to feeling and thought is not received. Battlement in the face of the World problem produces inertia and paralyses initiative. We are all suffering the evil effects of dispersed radioactivity even now. The dosage is mall but cumulative, worsening with every year that passes. An exhausted people may become too tired to believe in anything or to hold on to principles, may live from moment to moment in weary opportunism. Despite delusions about their progress in conquering Nature all humans are still controlled by Nature’s higher laws. Violation of those laws always brings suffering but the present-day violation will bring disaster. An ethically blinded World may not perceive the actuality and factuality of Universal Law. However, there is no other God pulling historic stings than the Universal Laws of retribution and re-adjustment. And let us not forget that this destiny is not an arbitrary tyrannical power; it is self-earned by the nations as by individuals and thus self-called into operation. The sufferings it brings to peoples are really the reactions of their own near or remote deeds. They are visited by the consequences of their own making. Universal Laws work on their own time to set straight all crooked things, not in ours. Nevertheless we can sometimes see it move quickly enough to teach a vivid lesson both to those who suffer its consequences and those who observe that suffering. Because sufficient people were unable or unwilling to learn the proper lessons of the first World War, they had to suffer the consequences of this failure in a worse form—the second World War. If the latter’s lessons are in turn also left unlearned, then those consequences will come in the worst possible form—a Third and Atomic World War. When a civilization becomes so mechanized or brutalized or sensualized or materialized as to be quite insensitive to the higher values of life, it invokes its own slow passing away or abrupt disappearance. #RandolphHarris 16 of 17

When we are aware of the Earth’s processes, seeing ourselves as parts of a whole, we learn to let go of the need to control life. We are reminded to accept the inevitable cycles of green and dry, birth and death, cold and warm, emptiness and fullness, light and dark, that characterize the events and activities of our daily life. Use this energy to achieve magically and create mentally whatever specific physical or mental objective one is aspired to. It becomes a vehicle of sacred consecration of spiritual force. Our prayers remind us of our role in shaping not only our physical existence but our human consciousness as well. Just as the spring has been celebrated for tens of thousands of years as the point of fertility, as when nature displays its beauty to bring about the conception of life, so too our own life has its birthing seasons. As a newborn babe, I can stand on my wobbly legs in the new World, wash the new body that has just been so tenderly born from a lifetime labor, and walk to stand before the bright sun. O Lord of hosts, happy is the human that trusts in Thee. Though I am fallen, I shall raise again, though I dwell in darkness, Thou art my light. Thou art my lamp, O Lord, Thou dost illumine my darkeness. My heart is not turned away, neither have my steps departed from Thy path. In earthquake and storm, I shall not fear, though mountains be moved into the heart of the seas; though surging waters roar and foam, and mountains shake under the storm; though the fig tree may not blossom, and there be no fruit on the vines; though the olive crop has failed, and the fields yield no food; though there be no flocks  in the field, and no heard in the stalls; yet will I have faith in Thee, O Lord; I shall rejoice in the God of my salvations, for with Thee is the foundation of life; in Thy light we do see light. To have faith is to perceive the wonder that is here, and to be stirring by the desire to integrate the self into the holy order of living. Faith does not spring outside of nothing. It comes with the discovery of the holy dimension of our existence. We live by the certainty that we are not as dust in the wind, that our life is related to the ultimate, the meaning of all meanings. God’s existence can never be tested by human thought. All proofs are mere demonstrations of our thirst for Him. Does the thirsty human need a proof of one’s thirst? There is neither advance nor service without faith. Nobody can rationally explain why one should sacrifice one’s life and happiness for the sake of the good. #RandolphHarris 17 of 17

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