Thinking and Destiny - H.W. Percival

"Dr. Karoll, just when you have me listening carefully to your reasoning, you make a statement that sounds irrational and my confidence in you is shaken." I felt frustrated at hearing Dr. Karoll speak in riddles. "What possible connection could there be between the morals of America and a way to avoid a cataclysm of nature like the shift of the poles? Aren't you falling back upon an ancient superstition to imagine Divine retribution for immorality by catastrophe of geological origin?"

"As far fetched as it may sound, David," said Dr. Karoll, "it is now a scientifically established fact. Misuse of sexual energies by the people on earth does unleash destructive forces causing volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and the breaking up and submerging of land masses. Mythology suggests how this occurs. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is just one account on record. The Guardians in the celestial ships burned these cities and made the sites uninhabitable because these cities hindered the progress of the souls born in them. At other times, the Guardian Intelligences allow the release of those natural forces which cause earth quakes or volcanic action. This was the case when Pompeii was destroyed. The similarity in the stories of Pompeii and Sodom and Gomorrah is not just a matter of coincidence. Sexual forces should be used in harmony with man's purposes for being in a physical body. Use of contraceptives by the general public had encouraged a great increase in sexual activity for self indulgence."

"Far fetched is putting it mildly, Dr. Karoll," I said. "You would have been called just plain crazy by the most astute jury of religious leaders, psychologists, anthropologists, geologists or any other group of educated men of my time. I'm afraid that I would have agreed with them, too," I said a little apologetically.

"Perhaps we're off the subject in a way which isn't helpful right now," said Dr. Karoll. "Suppose we ask our professor of political science to bring us back to the discussion of how our government operates." With that Dr. Karoll nodded toward Arthur Hilliard that he might take the initiative.

Here is a man who is three-quarters space intruder and one-quarter Hindu, I thought to myself; apparently, we had to get outside help to get over our impasse with corrupt government. I turned to Dr. Hilliard without waiting for him to speak. I was feeling a little cynical on the sex question and did not want him to start a philosophical discourse that would draw us away from what Dr. Karoll had just been saying. "Dr. Hilliard, I assume from what Dr. Karoll has just said, no birth control is allowed because it is not in the best interest of the people! Surely you have a problem with over-population. Alice has told me that this is not so, but how is it that the children of the irresponsible and politically voiceless masses do not overrun the earth?"

"If there were such a problem, it would indeed be an irresponsible government that was at fault, David," said Dr. Hilliard.

"Oh, no! This is too much," I said. "You mean that the common people are not allowed to cohabit or have man-woman associations except as the government allows?"

"We talked about this before, David," said Alice. "Didn't you understand what this actually meant to human society?"

"Well, who decides which person can marry and which cannot? Does this mean that some...well...a good percentage of the masses have no sexual expression...that it is not allowed?" This whole area of thought was puzzling and antagonized me.

"You've asked several good questions," said Dr. Hilliard. "First of all, David, you must understand that each individual decides for himself whether or not he wishes to marry. The opportunity is offered equally to all. All who exert the self discipline required to qualify for marriage are extended this privilege."

"But even so," I said, "isn't there a great deal of resentment?"

"There is no basis for resentment. Because of their understanding of reincarnation, many do not wish to marry for spiritual reasons. In the early days of the Christian church there was a profound understanding of this subject. The creative spiritual force which results when sexual energy is sublimated through continence and prayer has always been the great cohesive force behind Catholicism. The monks and nuns of not only Christianity but of all the great religions understood that miracle working power was based upon the sublimation of sexual energy and its transmutation into a higher form of creativity."

"Well," I said, "that's a pretty extreme point of view. That couldn't be a basis for very many people to give up such a normal expression of their nature. How is it managed that so much control is able to be accomplished?"

"You are quite correct in your assumption that the masses have very little of the bodily sexual expression. This is because correct attitudes toward sex are learned from infancy. Even those who do marry hold the ideal that such is a sacred experience and only for procreation. You see, a true marriage is based upon relating the procreative act to spiritual laws. The purpose of marriage is very sacred. It allows two people to express sacrificial love in cooperation with Divine Love so as to be channels for the entry of souls into the earth."

"I'm not ready for ideas like this," I said. "Is there any history to back up what you are saying?"

"Pythagoras outlined the conditions to be fulfilled by those who would prepare themselves to have superior children. The most superior man in history was born into a community of Essenes who followed the instructions of Pythagoras. They studied how to prepare the mother, taking her into training at the age of three. They understood the astrological signs and other conditions governing the return of earth's spiritual leaders through reincarnation."

"I never thought of Pythagoras as anything but a mathematician. And I certainly never heard his name mentioned in connection with experiments in genetics," I said.

"The virgin birth is an advanced concept in the practical application of the teachings of Pythagoras. Conception was by materialization of the seed from another level of matter or consciousness by a soul who had attained mastery of natural laws governing such. The virgin birth itself is not so exceptional in religious lore but the double virgin birth of Jesus Christ is unique in the records. The records read by psychics say Mary was also immaculately conceived and born to the Essene maiden Anna."

"Why this term--immaculate?"

"It refers to freedom of the conception from any taint of desire for a sensual experience through their flesh bodies on the part of the mother or father. Conception may be achieved through aportation of the sperm of a man living in a physical body by spiritual forces. In the case of the Master of Masters, the first to achieve this mastery, Jesus, the projection of the seed was by Him from another level of consciousness. Through the virgin Essene Anna, He projected the female aspect of Himself as Mary and then His male aspect through Mary as Jesus. This was unique in the history of the human race. It has great significance for mankind."

"Then the father, Joseph, must have been prepared by training to accept both the idea that Mary was not illegitimate and that her impregnation was of the same order," I said.

"He was."

"Then Jesus was truly the son of Virgin Mary by immaculate conception, you say?"

"Yes, David, this is true. And the first Christians, the founders of the Catholic church, the gnostic Christians, understood these concepts well. They have actually been common knowledge among the scholars of the ancient Mystery Schools from their beginnings."

"You have gone too far for me," I said. "These ideas are beyond my comprehension. I never would have believed that you could make a Virgin Birth sound like a scientific fact." I paused thoughtfully before speaking again to ask, "Suppose a couple should disobey your laws and have a child, then what?"

"They forfeit their lives, but the child is allowed to live."

"That sounds harsh," I choked. "No! It sounds inhuman!"

"It sounds so to you because you have a different understanding of death," said Dr. Hilliard. "Our science has transformed the old concept of death. In fact, death, as you thought of it, has been abolished from the earth."

"Forfeiting one's life and being put to death sound like the same thing to me," I said, with a note of sarcasm.

"Departing a flesh body is making transition to another state of consciousness. Death does indeed occur to the physical body and the false I, the personality. The unconscious mind of the entity has continuity but the personality is a temporary vehicle like the body. The physical body is only a gathering of dust around a form generated by the unconscious mind. And the personality is only a reflection of the set of influences one is working with in a particular life span on earth."

"Dr. Hilliard, you say things with a definiteness that stuns my power to think. I'm not able to absorb them. My powers of reasoning are short circuited. You speak as if it were rather inconsequential for a person to lose his body, or voluntarily give it up to experience being parent to a child. I never visualized a government with such all pervading powers. Your thinking is so foreign to my times I haven't the capacity to understand it. Government by the people in combination with the idea of rebirth, Divine Justice, no sexual privileges for the masses, chaste marriage, select group of voters...all this is too much for me!"

"David," it was Alice speaking now, "if the greatness of ancient Greece resulted from application of teachings introduced by Pythagoras with regard to eugenics, wouldn't it be a crime against our race to ignore them? If the birth of Christ resulted from this knowledge, is it any wonder that dedicated men and women are applying it in order that souls may enter into the earth under circumstances more in harmony with their spiritual nature? We believe that a civilization equal to the most spiritual times of Lemuria and Atlantis will again rise in the earth because of the re-discovery of this knowledge. The promised Millennium hinges upon its applications."

"Please bring me back down to earth and relate these things you are telling me to government of the people, by the people, and for the people," I said, feeling stubborn and intellectually lost.

"We are trying to do that," said Dr. Hilliard, "but must work with the mental handicaps you have acquired from your times."

"When you talk like that I have no way to answer you," I said.

"Well," answered Dr. Hilliard, "ignorance of the purpose for earth life was the reason for the Twentieth Century preoccupation with material goals and your frantic activity to acquire them. Manufacturing skills brought into being by efforts of inventors were intended to serve the ideal of freeing man of material want, so that he could develop higher aspects of his nature. Mankind failed to grasp this opportunity. To the contrary, indulgence of the sensual side of human nature on a gigantic scale followed the industrial revolution. Advertizing techniques capable of rendering the mind helpless to resist had enslaved the masses to pursue material goals and sensual satisfactions. The marvelously elevating potential of radio and television was used instead to cloud the minds of the people, dulling their intuitive sense of right and wrong."

"That's a pretty sharp criticism of advertising," I said. "How would people know what to buy without advertisements? Don't you have any kind of advertising?"

"Advertising as a commercial activity has no function in connection with distribution of the nation's produce. We guard our people from all that would program their minds to express selfish desire or that would destroy their moral fiber. Surely you understood that the techniques of advertising of your time hypnotized your youth to make mindless responses to inane slogans and enslaved them mentally by the time they were adults. We do use some of the techniques your advertising industry discovered but only to ennoble the thinking of our race."

"It sure sounds like a `Big Brother' government to me. Even a man's soul isn't his own," I said. I could not help being shocked at the idea of the non-existence of a free press or of complete control of all channels of communications by the government.

"David, you'd do well to stop and think a bit before answering. Possibly you're allowing prejudice to interfere," warned Alice. "Shouldn't you let your powers of reasoning have a chance to operate? You might be able to see that our government has truly become government of the people, by the people and for the people. It gives more genuine freedom to the individual than was ever dreamed of in your time. No group or class infringes upon the rights of others, nor upon the rights of posterity."

"Well, I certainly must say that with all our freedom to exploit natural resources, we were stealing the rights of posterity. `Let posterity solve their own problems,' was the common point of view," I commented.

"Yes, David," said Dr. Karoll. "But promoting an understanding of reincarnation can provide incentive for men to give their very lives to improve the lot of posterity. The freedom of a citizen should be unlimited, as long as he is not destructive and contributes his share of time to serve the common good. In the interest of the general welfare, a government can allow unlimited freedom to express individuality in service to others but selfishness must be sharply limited."

"Who votes," I said. Too many new ideas were confusing me and I was trying to get the conversation into an area that I would feel more able to talk about.

"Anyone who is currently eligible," said Dr. Hilliard, "just as Alex outlined earlier. Anyone who can prove his capacity for self-government has a voice in the world government through its elected representatives."

"Isn't there private enterprise anymore?" I asked.

"Not of the kind that allowed private ownership of a nation's vital industries like communications, food production, clothing, building construction, banking, and transportation, to fall under control of small groups of people," said Dr. Hilliard.

"As a matter of fact, David," said Dr. Karoll, "the feverish activity to produce consumer items has discontinued. The activity today centers upon acquiring self knowledge and developing the soul faculties. Furnishing material needs does not require the priority it once did."

"But what about all of the people's needs for clothes and shelter and food and entertainment?" I asked.

"And transportation, you might add," said Dr. Daren, who had been quietly listening to the discussion.

"Yes, that's right; the automobile and truck building industry was one of the country's chief manufacturing activities," I said, "and the gasoline and oil to keep them running required another giant industry."

"You had quite an industry built upon the ill health of the people, which included great hospitals, insane asylums, drug producing organizations and an army of doctors and nurses," spoke Dr. Daren, the medical scientist.

"None of these are under control of private interests?" I asked.

"No, they aren't David." It was Riley Knudsen, the powerfully built professor of anthropology speaking. "Mankind has gone through a transition. The industrial age changed the struggle for barest necessities to keep body and soul together into capacity to over produce everything needed. Industrialists of the late Nineteenth Century and the Twentieth Century fought with each other to gain strangle holds upon vital industries. Like Robber Barons of old, they amassed fortunes through their control of transportation facilities, manufacturing the key products, utilities and natural resources. The strong willed and brilliant men devoted themselves to the struggle for wealth and power. To perpetuate the conditions created, they maintained an economy of scarcity and high rate of goods consumption. Wars were their most effective means. As if hypnotized, people spent their lives frantically serving the false values of the times. Instead of building fine communities, recreation parks, and homes that would endure down through time, your new productive capability was diverted to very perishable consumer goods, war material, and housing projects that became slum areas almost before the last pour of concrete hardened."

"Many people knew all this," I interjected. "We just didn't know how to combat it. We knew things were wrong but hoped that they would change for the better as education improved. The tragic conditions in the world sometimes seemed hopeless and purposeless to many of us, I suppose."

"All this was not purposeless as it may have appeared, David," Professor Knudsen responded. "There is a parallel between the evolution of man as an individual and as a race. The race is progressing through the creation, growth, disintegration, and regeneration of nations, just as individual man is making progress through experiences of birth, life, death, and rebirth. The law and order in the universe, the intricacy of his own physical vehicle, and the wonders of the visible world of nature are ever before man to lead him to seek his Maker in humbleness. Our God is Time, Space, Patience, Love and Immutable Law."

When Riley Knudsen stopped speaking the room was quiet. An atmosphere of awe and reverence settled upon us. We could not remain unaffected, for it seemed that he had spoken a prayer from the heart, baring his deepest religious convictions. Several minutes went by while we sat before the fire watching the red-orange glow of the dying embers. Finally, Dr. Karoll spoke to thank Riley Knudsen for providing such fine thoughts to sum up the evening's discussion. Since the professors planned to leave for Utah Isle before breakfast in the morning, we all exchanged a word or two before saying goodnight to each other.