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PEACE COMES WHEN WE OURSELVES ARE PEACEFUL*

“To get wisdom is better than gold, to get understanding

is to be chosen rather than silver.” Prov. 16: 16.

The Bible is a book that most people take as a guide and consult it to
find an answer to their problems. The answer to our problems is not outside

ourselves, it is within ourselves, although the Bible does help us to see the
way when we begin to understand ourselves, it is still outside ourselves. Jesus
said, “ye read the Scriptures and ye think ye have Eternal Life?”

In the first book of Genesis there is a statement which the prophet who
wrote it knew what he was talking about. He shows that God saw that His
work was good. The Divine could see no flaw anywhere and this Perfect

Creation includes man.
There can be no flaw in the Divine Mind which includes man, but
as soon as man descends into the intellectual, he creates out of his own very

limited understanding the errors that create havoc in his life.
This world of error is man’s conception of things which is quite
different to the Divine Creation. If man can see for himself the falseness of
his own conceptions he would not hold on to them.

If man then cannot see the falseness of his own creation how can he
ever reach that which is Divine? Man’s conceptions are the result of his
ignorance and because he does not know what is false, he cannot realize

what is true. Thus the misdirection of his creative power of thought produces
for him corresponding results which he calls reality. In fact there is nothing
real about it (at) all, for Reality is harmony while man creates the reverse
because he does not know what is false.

Man now asks, how can we solve the present crisis in the world? Is
there anything that the individual can do to stop bloodshed and misery taking
place?

What man sees in the world is just the result of his own everyday life.
It is the outward expression of man’s inward state. So man is responsible
for the misery. If then man is responsible, it also rests with man to put an

end to all the misery.
Man misdirects his thought-power and because he is caught-up in his
own action and reaction he fails to see the Truth of the Divine Nature of

things.

* See Notes page 417 413