Facing World Crisis
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The Russian Situation
Uranda March 5, 1953 Class
I was delayed slightly this evening because I was listening to the radio reports of the death of Joseph Stalin, the dictator of Soviet Russia, and the report of the general views as to probabilities of the outworking in Russia. There is the consensus of opinion it will be one of three men. I suppose you have listened to some of the reports. I shall not undertake to repeat particularly what is reported over the radio—that is available to you—but I would emphasize the point I brought to the attention of the Training School Class when the report first came through with respect to the fact that Stalin had been stricken by a stroke. No one can tell with any certainty what will happen inside of Russia under this particular circumstance. We know that there has never been on the face of the earth, in the period of recorded history, a more cruel and heartless tyrant than the one who has just been brought to the end of the life span on earth. Untold millions of people—and we have to say millions—have died, perished, been starved to death or slain, brutally tortured in every sort of vile and evil way, to serve the purposes of this tyrant who no longer lives. The men who are most likely to succeed Joseph Stalin are of the same breed. One is the quite well-known Molotov, who was present in San Francisco at the time of the organization of the UN, and anyone who has watched the pattern with respect to him knows that he is a cold and heartless creature who can hardly be called a man. The head of the dreaded Russian Secret Police, Beria, is another. The ten or twelve million slaves in Siberian concentration camps and other places are under his direct control. Consider the heartless treatment accorded to them: They are forced to labor hard, without adequate clothing in the extreme cold, and forced to sleep under conditions that we would not impose upon a dog. They are denied food except for slop that we would not feed a hog. Millions are subject to those conditions in this moment. And it is not at all uncommon for anyone who staggers out of the line, on the way to the salt mines or other endeavor in the cold gray dawn, to be shot for no more than just getting out of line, out of the line of the tramping slaves. The world has seen evil in many forms—tyrants of a terrible and heartless nature—but in all history there is nothing that compares with that which has been true, and is yet true, of Soviet Russia. The science of torturing people has been carried forward by the Russians in a way which makes the Spanish Inquisition look tame. I will not tax your stomachs by outlining some of the methods used. You probably know a little about it yourselves, but there is much more to know than you would have had any opportunity of knowing.
In any case, the leader in this criminal pattern of endeavor that defies God and has no regard for human life, let alone the dignity of man, has come to his end. In a land where there is no recognition of God, where no one trusts anyone else, where there is no love, fear and hate find their greatest possible expression. The soul-deadening influence of these conditions which have been imposed upon the Russian people when they exchanged the rulership of the czar for the tyranny of the Red regime has produced in the Russian people a condition which is difficult for any American or Canadian, anyone who has lived in a free land, to even begin to understand. But untold numbers have been reduced to an animalistic state, where their subjection to brutality might be compared to that which we knew more particularly on occasion before the automobile became so prevalent in this country: a horse with its spirit broken, owned by some cruel and heartless man who beat the horse and yet the horse went on working until it dropped in its tracks. The stigma of fear is something which you may have some ideas about but you cannot possibly know in the sense that it is known by untold millions of people on earth—the Red regime: the regime of spilt blood, human blood. There is little, in the ordinary nature of things, present in the men who will be struggling for power and position—as inevitably they will in a land controlled by fear and hate and greed—there is little in them which makes them susceptible to the influence of the spirit of God.
When our Master was on earth He made a statement which has been very little understood. He said, "Love your enemies"—love your enemies. Some have imagined that this was a rather spineless, weak-kneed attitude, but it isn't. And it is the only way by which we can be of any real service in helping to influence or meet the crisis which faces the world because there is a crisis in Russia. One of the greatest problems we have had in setting up any effective vibratory patterns with respect to conditions in Russia has come from the fact that the so-called Christian peoples of the world—including our own nation here—have forgotten the Master's statement. Or, to say the least, they do not understand it. There has been, on the one hand, indifference, an indifference which is difficult to understand, because anyone who wished to know anything of the facts could have awareness of the vileness and the evil of the Russian regime. But there was also a pattern of deep feeling with respect to Russia, a feeling of fear and hate. In other words those who had the privilege of living in what, comparatively speaking, are certainly free countries, who had the privilege of knowing something about the life of our Lord on earth, instead of remembering their responsibility, allowed themselves to be controlled by the Soviet regime, and because there was fear and hate there in Red Russia, millions who call themselves Christians became subject to fear and hate. To whom were they responding? To whom is anyone responding who yields to the fear and hate that emanates from Red Russia? Those who let themselves become subject to fear and hate with respect to Russia are subject to the Red regime, as surely as any peasant or slave in Russia itself or any of its satellites; not compelled by the Secret Police, who have no regard for any human right, but nevertheless subject to that Red regime, accepting the spirit that emanates from that point--fear and hate and related vibratory patterns. And this very attitude of fear and hate makes those who are so subject utterly useless in relationship to doing anything to clear the situation in Russia, at least in the vibratory sense. Those who are lethargic and indifferent, they certainly are of no value. Only those who remember the Master's word, "Love your enemies," are of any value in helping to meet the situation as it is. Becoming subject to fear and hate only supports the Red Russian regime.
How can we do our part here in a spiritual or vibrational sense? What happens when you actually obey the Master's admonition, "Love your enemies"? The fear cannot reach into one, because perfect love casts out all fear. If you are loving your enemy, so you have no fear of your enemy, the hate in your enemy cannot reach into you, because hate cannot penetrate where love is. Hate is a negative thing, in any case. It is like darkness, which can be present only where there is no light. Hate cannot be present where there is love. It can exist only in the shadows. Where does the darkness go when we turn on the lights? Where does hate go when we turn on love? As far as human beings are concerned, hate goes back to the one who sent it out. Hating someone who hates you will not hurt the one you hate, but loving the one who hates you will hurt the one who hates, unless he stops hating. The power of love, which will by its very nature protect you from the damaging results of fear and hate, returns the hate to those who send it out. Those who are subject to hate are not particularly disturbed by hate. If human beings subject to hate were bothered by hate in any real sense, the men in the Kremlin would have been, well, more crazy than they are long ago. The men in the Kremlin kept right on. Oh, they took precautions against being assassinated, but it did not bother them in any real sense as far as their own consciousness and attitude was concerned. What is it that they cannot stand, that they cannot understand, that sets them wild? It is love. If you are afraid of them, well that is what they want, that is what they are working for, that is what they are asking for. So you are just doing their bidding if you are afraid of them. But what is it that they cannot understand? Love.
Now I am not suggesting that you follow out some human pattern of trying to go over there and love them—not the human concept of approach, in any case. No. As I said before, the wrong attitudes in the people of the free world, as it is called, free in the sense of the political patterns of the world, have let them become subject to the fear and the hate, and they are of no value in meeting the situation. They only establish a vibrational pattern which means that if anything is really done over there to meet that situation the same current will reach them. They are asking for the same treatment that must be accorded to the evil leaders of the Red regime. So what is it that has protected Stalin for so long, for instance? The fact that those who have let themselves come under subjection to fear and hate—who are to a degree, or in a sense, partly innocent—inadvertently teamed right up with Stalin, right in our own churches and homes and the communities across our land. How? By joining the communist party? Oh no. By joining the ranks of those who hated and feared Joe Stalin, by becoming fearful, by giving themselves to hate. They joined right up vibrationally speaking. And though they may have been violently anti-communist according to all ordinary patterns, they were supporting the Red regime, and they established a situation wherein they protected Stalin and all the rest of his evil crowd. Now, letting the Christ light, love and life shine out, refusing to be subject to the evil patterns in the world, refusing to become centered in them through fear or hate, remaining centered in God, obedient to the two great commandments, the current of love goes out, and because there is a current of love in the world, those who give themselves to evil are exceedingly restless, they are uncomfortable, they are fearful, and that fearfulness shows itself in various desperation patterns which appear.
There has been a particularized current of God's love flowing out to Joe Stalin and others—I'm not asking you to believe it particularly, unless you feel it within yourselves that it is true—and from my standpoint I feel that it had a great deal to do with bringing Stalin's days on earth to an end, because that love is the one thing that can penetrate through the great, thick walls of the Kremlin. It can go right past the guards. It cannot be stopped by any of their security measures, because they don't understand it, they don't know what to do about it. And if the current of love is held centered on anyone whose life is dedicated to evil, that person will by reaction destroy himself. Assuming that he has reached a point where he has committed the unpardonable sin, there is no chance of his responding to that love and being set free—which is certainly true with anyone who has gone to the lengths and depths of evil, as these leaders have. Such a person will be much more inclined to fly into a rage; he will be much more likely to lose what he might call self-control. He will just never have a chance to rest. No matter how many guards are outside the door, no matter what the circumstances, or where one might go or turn, such a person just simply has no place to rest. If the current of love is kept steady the only rest possible would be to turn to God. And if the individual refuses that, then he has no rest, day or night--no rest. And in such a case, what does this business of high impatience, flying into a rage, etc., do to the physical organism? In your class you will be studying more about it. You probably know something of it now. That is the sort of thing that builds up blood pressure and produces a stroke.
In any case, they say Joe Stalin had a stroke, and it finished him. But that does not mean that the job is done. It means that we have the responsibility of loving our enemies, of keeping that current of love clear, clear of all fear, clear of hate--the clear, pure current of God's love flowing out—that it may work. It always leaves a door open for any human being who becomes the focus of that current of God's love, because that person can find peace by turning to God. But if he or she refuses that, there is no peace. That person is restless and troubled, and must sooner or later be destroyed by his or her own attitudes and patterns of action. So, far from being spineless or weak, this divine attitude is the one which ensures an outworking in the pattern of things by which evil shall destroy itself. There would be no difficulty, no difficulty at all, in eliminating the threat to world peace that arises in Red Russia if as many as one half of the people who call themselves Christians in the United States of America would let their own hearts be cleansed of fear and hate toward Red Russia, toward the Kremlin, and would let love flow out—"Love your enemies." And those men there who are given to living with such horrible skeletons, shall we say, who have made for themselves a tomb out of the bones of their own victims, do you think they could long withstand that love without going stark crazy? Oh no. They would go crazy so fast that they would be no threat to the world's peace, and they would destroy each other and destroy themselves. And that is all it would take: obedience to the Master's command, "Love your enemies."
This stands as a great object lesson, revealing what human beings do to themselves by failing to recognize the simple laws of life. These same principles work out in all of our human relationships. Human beings seem to think they are justified in having resentment toward someone, having hate, or perhaps just plain ignoring. People say, "Well I don't hate so-and-so, but I certainly don't have any love for so-and-so." That is still not obeying the Master's command. If there is someone who hates you, love that person. Not by going up and throwing your arms around them and trying to kiss them or something. Oh no, not at all, not at all. But by letting God's love flow through you to that person constantly, day and night, without a break. Just love that person. Keep that person enfolded in love, and if there is any chance that that person will yield to the spirit of God, you will be opening the door so that that person can arise and come out of the pattern of destruction. But if he or she keeps the door closed, refuses to yield to God's love, then that person will find that there is no place of peace. He may try to find peace in entertainment or drinking liquor or something else—it doesn't make any difference—but that person will find no peace, and sooner or later the end will come. By this simple working of God's love the pattern of evil could be very quickly cleared from the world. If one tenth of the people in the world who call themselves Christians would face up to this truth, evil and its power in the world would be quickly banished, and it would be comparatively easy to work out all the problems involved.
Blessed ones, here we have the responsibility of letting God's love have meaning on earth to all people alike, without regard to race or color or creed, without regard to the iron curtain. You know, the iron curtain cannot stop love. It can stop most anything that human beings ordinarily contrive to try to get through it. But from our standpoint the iron curtain is as helpless as if it were a pink ribbon stretched across the ground—it has no meaning. So whether it is an iron curtain or something else, the spirit of God overleaps all humanly established boundaries, and the power of God's love penetrates through every obstacle which human beings can raise. And those who give themselves to hate are the most vulnerable to God's love. Of all the people who leave themselves wide open, those who give themselves to hate are in the worst possible position. They can seek to hide behind the rocks in the highest mountains, or anywhere else, and they cannot escape. They can climb high or they can go low and they cannot get away from God's love. And the pursuit is absolutely constant until one of two things happens: either that individual yields and responds to God's love or yields to the results of hate. A small handful of people such as we are here can have a tremendous influence in the realm of world affairs. One of the things that has made a tremendous difference in the outworking of those affairs has been the change of administration in our own country—no longer temporizing, no longer given to Chamberlain's tactics, no longer carrying an umbrella. That change, from the standpoint of the focalization of our own government, means that the power of God at work in the world is allowed to be much more meaningful than it was a few short months ago. We can do a lot more now than we could before—by being true to God, by letting God's love have meaning in our lives, by doing as the Master said, "Love your enemies." And if you do not think that a person who is enfolded in love while he is subject to hate is in a difficult situation, you ought to watch one sometime. There is no place of rest, day or night. That is plain hell. All you have to do is to establish the fire of love around such a person and that person is in hell, where there is no rest day or night. What have I said so many times? The only fire there is in hell is the fire of God's love, and that fire of love, which blesses those who respond to it, is an eternal torment to those who fight against it. God's love is an eternal torment to those who fight against it, but to those who respond to it, it is soothing, healing, wonderful.
We learn to walk in the flame, untouched, unhurt, cool and comfortable--the flame that would just be hell to the human being who is fighting against God and whose heart is filled with hate. The indifferent people of the world do not count at the present time. They will be awakened sooner or later. The lethargic ones, the indifferent ones, don't count now. Don't try to awaken them even. Don't be bothered about it. Leave them alone. They will awaken in season and go one way or the other. You will not help them by trying to wake them up. There are enough people awake who need help. There are those who are responding to God's love and there are those who are subject to hate. And those who are subject to hate, no matter what they call themselves—Christians, or Mohammedans, or Communists—they are not serving God. They are not serving God. They are serving the prince of this world. What can one do to serve them? Love them, so that if there is anything in them that will awaken to the spirit of God's love, they will let themselves be changed. As long as life remains there is a chance for each and every one to change, change from the pattern of evil and move into the pattern of life. But just because someone is going the wrong direction under the current of love, do not stop loving. If you say, "Well, now I'm afraid to love so-and-so after what Uranda said tonight. Now he or she just might go the wrong way." Well if they go the wrong way under love, they will go the wrong way anyway. You will not help them any by refusing to obey the Master's command, "Love your enemies." And who are our enemies? Those who fight against God. We are not their enemies. Remember, there is a difference. They are our enemies, yes; they are enemies to us. But we are not their enemies; we are not an enemy to anyone, anywhere. But in daily life, human beings are so prone to feel that they are somehow justified in having resentment toward so-and-so. "Such and such a person did something I don't like and I'm justified in resenting that." Are you? Then you are becoming subject to that person; you are falling down and worshipping that person. That is the spineless way; that is the weak-kneed, nincompoop way. Yes, that is right. The way of strength and character is to love your enemies and enfold them in a little hell. It will be hell only if they fight against God's love. You do not make it a hell. You are offering them the things of heaven, God's love, the most beautiful and wonderful thing there is. That is what you are offering them. That is what you enfold them with. What do they do with it? They can let it be heaven or they can let it be hell. It is not your responsibility to try to determine what it shall be for them. So we love not only our enemies but our friends, too, all alike, without regard to race or color or creed, without regard to humanly established boundaries. To love. How? By letting God's love have meaning in our lives.
Now I suggest that you do not try to start loving, in this sense, the leaders of Russia's Red regime until you have learned to live for a least a week or ten days with absolutely nothing but a spirit of love toward all the people around you right here on Sunrise Ranch. If you go stretching yourself out to Moscow and then you have a reaction here, what will happen? You will be filled up with the spirit from Moscow so quick that you will get hurt. These are laws. I am not talking about figments of fancy. This is something that works under law as surely as the electricity that flows through the wire and gives us light from that globe. If you should, by some chance—you probably couldn't even get contact—but suppose you did get contact through to Moscow, and then you had a reaction right here, what would happen? You would get hurt. Learn to so live right here that there is not for any instant, not even a tenth of a second, at any time, resentment in you toward anyone here. When you have learned to so live for thirty days, shall we say, thirty days in which you have not felt a tiniest hint of resentment, let alone hate, toward any person at any time, under any circumstance—right here, for thirty days--then you come and tell me about it, and if I find you ready I will invite you to share in a special pattern of service and function on earth, about which I am not going to talk very much now, except I have told you the principles involved. But if you try individually just to go out and do this, without any recognition of coordination or pattern or anything, it will either turn out to be nothing or you will get hurt. Generally speaking it just turns out to be nothing. Why? Because human beings try to be the whole thing all by themselves and they do not make any contact, they do not get through. They are only playing children's games. It has no more meaning than a little child playing doctor or nurse, or something else. You can spend your time playing children's games if that is your choice, but this is not the place for it.
So what I am talking about has to be really done, not just something talked about. No children's games. The real thing. But when you can come to me and say honestly that you have not felt any resentment, not even for a tenth of a second—not to start to and then catch yourself and say, "Well now I'm not going to be resentful." I am talking about no resentment right from the start of the circumstance, not for a fraction of a second. And when you have gone thirty days and you can honestly say that, I would be very happy to consider you with respect to something I am not going to talk to you about now, but it is a very important sphere of service, very important, and there is room for a lot of people. There is a lot of room at the top. If it is crowded down at the bottom, come on up. And if you are ready to do the job, deliver the goods, stay centered, be faithful and true, there is a place for you. Remember the Master's word, "Love your enemies"—not after you have stopped to think about it, not after you have had five minutes of resentment or even five seconds. When you can love where most people would have resentment or hate—from the first fraction of an instant—where the ordinary human being would react and have resentment, then you are beginning to be something that God can use to great advantage here in this world. Here is an opportunity to serve to the glory of God and to the blessing of the children of men.
