The Way of the World September/ October 1974

The Holy Spirit Association for the 9V101 Unification of World Christianity .I! v~r 1./VV I., 1.:::7/"'t VOLUME VII 111 III NUMBER 9/10 The vvay Of th e vv'QfId

The Hope of Youth (II) "The image of ideal youth should be the one who can represent the world, including every country, and the one who can represent the three ages of the past, present and future. If such a youth existed on earth, he should be the treasure of the world."-Reverend Sun Myung Moon (page 3)

The National Crisis "But the supreme crisis that confronts us is neither political nor economic. It is moral and spiritual and if we fail to solve the moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past. "-Billy Graham (page 20)

The Freedom Imperative "Freedom seeking people have still to unite against these threats with a completely freedom-giving way of life, such as Eliot hoped for, in order to prevent the actuality of worldwide destruction, a possibility that will be made a reality by the spread of Communism." -Michael Butler (page 26)

When Love Is Strict "In our time, when the danger to be spoiled and to be demanding is great for all of us, we can get moral strength, when we remember that the love which comes from above is strict." -Thorleif Boman (page 65)

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September 18, 1974, the day of sion of defending freedom and of glory, arrived. One of the largest serving the rest of mankind. But crowds in the history of Madison without knowing the will of God, Square Garden packed the huge the United States cannot fulfilI stadium and the overflow pounded this mission. So Reverend Moon on the doors vainly trying to get in. has come to proclaim God's pur­ Reverend Sun Myung Moon pose and awaken conscientious announced the coming day of the people, especially Christians, to Lord and called on people to pre­ fulfill this mission. pare for this day. The Messiah is On the foundation of his three coming as a man on earth to com­ years of proclamation in the Unit­ plete the unfinished mission of ed States, Reverend Moon will Jesus. "We are living in such an send out representatives to 120 extraordinary time," he an­ countries around the world next nounced, "at the birth of a new year. In addition, the International age! Heaven is quite near. And if One World Crusade teams now you earnestly call upon God, He working in the United States will will answer you .... The new hope travel to Japan and Korea and for mankind is the Messiah. And eventually other countries. that 'great and terrible day of the In order to bring unity to our Lord' is at hand! It is up to you anguished and divided world, we whether that day will be great or need the Messiah. In order to find terrible. If you meet the Messiah, personal happiness, fulfillment, foryou thatdaywill be great. But if and the true way of Iife, we need you fail to meet him, for you that the Messiah. In order to solve the day will indeed be terrible." problems of our communities, Reverend Moon's proclama­ societies, nations, and world, we tion at Madison Square Garden need the Messiah. God has prom­ marked the opening of his final ised the Messiah. Men and women eight-city tourof the United States for 2,000 years have prayed for during his three years of public Christ to return. How he is com­ ministry here. This tour will lay ing, and how to prepare to receive the foundation for the next seven him Reverend Moon is proclaim­ years of his work. The United ing. The Madison Square Garden States has been a land chosen by proclamation marked the begin­ God from the time of its founding ning of a new scope of this procla­ by men and women of faith in mation. Let us earnestly pray to God. Reverend Moon proclaims receive God's words and live by that the United States has a mis- them. D 2 The image of ideal youth should be the one who can represent the world, in­ ThePART (11) cluding every country, and the one who can represent the three ages of the past, present, and future. If such a youth ex­ isted on earth, he would be the treasure Hope of the world. As you all know, precious treasures do not go away in a short time. Inevitably and invariably they have an of eternal quality. Such a youth reflects the total. We must all covet such an image of youth. Youth by REVEREND From a speech given to the International Leadership Seminar July 29, 1974, at Barrytown, New York. SUN MYUNG MOON 3 Once you have become an ideal self, then what would be your second desire or ambition? We don't even have to say that. Of course, the second desire of ours would be to find some good · mate. Mankind is man and woman; we call them mankind. We don't call all men "mankind." Our second desire is for true man and woman to be­ come one. More precious than your own self is God has had finding someone who can be your mate, your better half. No matter how perfect one may be, one objective, he can't be perfect alone; only when he finds to make one someone as an opposite, someone in whom he perfect man can find his perfection, will he become perfect. More precious than your own self is finding and one perfect someone who can be your mate, your better half. woman and No matter how perfect one may be, he can't be one perfect perfect alone; only when he finds someone as an opposite, someone in whom he can find his per­ youth. fection, will he become perfect. No matter how shabby she may be, there is no girl who would not want her better half to be someone far better than herself. The same thing can be said for a man. He wants to become per­ fect, but he would like his spouse to be a little more perfect. Then he would like to be happy, and feel happiness with her. So the ideal is to live in love, be intoxicated in love, fulfill all our higher ideals, and spread them around. Then the question arises, is there such a man and woman? If we look all over the world and we cannot find even sporadically such ideal youth then how will we feel? God also will be im­ mensely sad, and so will be all mankind past and future. No matter what perfection an individual may achieve, this is not the end of the ideal; rather, it is the beginning of the ideal where he and his spouse will become one. There the ideal will begin. We can never deny that this is the desire of all mankind, and this is the desire of everyone. 4 This is a proclamation that we have made upon heaven and earth. We proclaimed this rep­ resenting all history. This proclamation has been made to prepare the tradition for the future. No matter how high a wave may come in the future, we must be able to go through and over it. This is what all mankind wants, and this is what even God wants of us. So far, God has had one objective, which is to make one perfect man and one perfect woman and one perfect youth. Since this cannot be achieved among fallen man, some man must be sent directly from God; this is the concept of the 5 Messiah in all religions. That Messiah is one youth. In Revelation, at the end of the Bible, it shows us clearly that the end of God's ideal is this perfect man and perfect woman; when they re­ joice, embracing in holy matrimony, this is inex­ changeable for the entire universe. Once God has achieved this high ideal as a standard, then there will be more such individuals and families com­ ing into existence; this is what God has been working for. So this is the highest ideal of God and the highest ideal of mankind. This is the deepest desire of God and also the deepest desire of mankind. Only around this one center can mankind and God eternally be happy and one.

Unchanging love. We want someone as a Would you like being opposite to us to be worthy of our eternal to be a child and unchanging love. Why? Because true love is of an eternal nature. I presume that you want that is loved by only one perfect spouse, because such love will God? be absolute, and there will be only one. And then he or she will want his or her spouse to have absolute authority, because love is almighty. So therefore, since this is God, and we are born from God, we have come to have this very high ideal resembling God. So what would you like to be? Would you like to be a child that is loved by God? And beyond that, would we like to mature ourselves so we can make God happy in turn? This should be not only our desire and ambition, but this must be God's desire. The perfect family can only exist centered around perfect individuals. Then immediately you may think that if the most beautiful girl in the world can be your spouse, then you can be happy. But here it is different. This is the way all man­ kind has been thinking. Then who is the most beautiful man or the most beautiful woman in the world? The most beautiful man or the most beautiful woman in the world is the one who 6 would like, with his good eyes, to see the good world. The most beautiful man or woman will be the one who wants more than anything else by far tohearwith his ears somethinggood, and nothing but good. And the most beautiful man or woman will be the one who with his nose not only smells cosmetics or other things, but who would also like to smell the goodness of the world. Who is the man who has the most beautiful mouth? It will be such a man who will not speak with his mouth about himself, but about the world. The man that is willing and ready to stand against the world and speak on behalf of God for the entire human history and mankind, such is the man who has the most beautiful mouth; therefore he is the most beautiful man. No matter how well proportioned one may be, still if he is disliked by many, he will not be a The most good man. Everyone will like him or like her beautiful man because of his character or her character; he will be a good good man, or she will be a beautiful or woman is woman. Do you understand that? the one who would like to Unity of opposites. Actually even more ideal is a man who is one hundred years old and about see, with his to go to spirit world with a very little baby; when good eyes, the they become happy and play, then such a world will be the ideal world. good world. That leads us to say that when the most beautiful man or woman and the most ugly man or woman become one, and when they will never for anything in the world leave each other, then that will be the most ideal combination. And such people are the most ideal people. I've been going to the Atlantic Ocean for some fishing. About a week ago there was a storm, but I ventured into it. The waves were tossing very high, and then I thought, the wind blows from one direction, but why doesn't it make one great wave? Because it obeys the prin­ ciple of the universe, everything is in contrast: high and low, high and low, fast and 7 slow .... From all these variations comes the ideal. For a high mountain there should be a deep abyss. And in the deepest valley is stored every­ thing that comes from high above. In the highest place there is nothing beyond, but there one can look down on the lower place, and make some­ thing of it. That's the ideal. So therefore, the action of give and take is in the whole universe. The highest will balance with the lowest, and that's the way the symmetry is. When this is all achieved without consciousness, when every­ thing is achieved automatically, there is automat­ ically the ideal. If someone has much money and someone else doesn't have much money, and if the one who has a lot of money keeps it all to himself, he will be unhappy, himself and others. When he learns to give this all to the ones who don't have much, then he will be worthy of being the center of that money. If you go deeper and deeper into the earth, it becomes warmer and warmer. Then appears the phenomenon of deterioration or corrosion. Be­ cause things become too hot, they evaporate and go up. So here, the high will reward the low. As we all know, water flows to the lowest point from above. But it again goes in the air as vapor. So we easily find out that the lowest thing has some For a high means of dominating the highest, for instance, mountain there becoming a cloud and dominating the high should be a mountain. In this world, if here is an advanced country, deep abyss. there is a backward country. If there is a rich country, there is a country which is not so rich. Where there is the Occident, there is the Orient. And when these establish a perfect harmony, as opposites or a pair, then the ideal will start to exist. And the Unification Church is responsible for teaching this to the en tire world. Rhythm comprises music, and that's also the way the wind blows. The wind doesn't blow in 8 just one gust. So when the wind is analyzed in this way, we discover a wave. When the wind blows steadily from one direction still the branches of a tree toss their heads to and fro. So also when we breathe we inhale and we exhale. Sometimes we bat our eyelashes, and that's vari­ ety. Where is harmonious variety? That is the problem. There is no man who can claim, "Since I have a mathematical nature, I don't approve of that." No matter how philosophical or mathemat­ ical he may be, everything goes by this rhythm; he can't deny that.

Harmony of East and West. Western people sleep with their stomach down. Many people sleep in this way. They are symbolizing, without their knowledge, looking down at the earth. Al­ most all Orientals sleep with their back down. That means they are looking up to heaven, and it symbolizes the spiritual civilization. Especially at the termination of the age, people act according to the symbolic meanings. At this moment, the Western people may feel diminished a little bit, but we can't help it, that's a fact; how can you alter the fact? The Western civilization will serve the world in terms of material, by material. But that's not all. The Orient will be in the leading position of the world with its spiritual nature. l_'he _East CO!ltributes to the West. God h~s Eve...-,;n-hing is one high ideal. Smee two elements form happ1- . .1. J u. L ness, He has provided man with a spiritual nature In contrast, and a material nature. By harmoniously balancing high and low these, He has expected happiness. It's very in- f d 1 ' teresting that when an American summons peo- ast an SOW. ple, he motions with his palm up. Actually, he is symbolizing, "Heaven, come this way, come my way." And when Oriental people summon peo- ple, they motion with their palms down. That means they, being in heaven's position, call "Earth, come." That is very symbolic. In the West, the flute, for instance, is played to the left. In the East it is played to the right. It 9 symbolizes the external or horizontal develop­ ment. Material profit is made by Western enter­ prising nature. Western civilization analyzes ev­ erything to its least part. But the Oriental way of thinking aims at the crux or heart of the problem, to grasp it as a whole. When Western people are happy, they ex­ press it all throughout their members. They show it completely, they have nothing to hide. But there is such a thing as Oriental ambiguity. When he is happy, sometimes he looks happy and sometimes unhappy. He rarely shows the root and the top. All throughout history, it has been an Orien­ tal virtue to discard everything material, so that men become whole in a spiritual manner. "Where are you Orientals are poor. They are not poor be­ going, cause they are bad, but because they are destined Westerners?'' to be poor by God. Therefore, God has prepared the Western civilization reciprocally for the 'We are Oriental civilization. We must be very sure of one heading to the thing, that at the end of a merely material civiliza­ tion, nothing but misery will remain. Whereas at East to learn." the end of a spiritual civilization, hope pops up. Hope is what we get after being poor all this time. When we ask, "Where are you going, Westerners," Westerners must answer, "We are heading to the East to learn," which is as it is supposed to be. And when Orientals are asked, "Where would you like to go?" they would like to come to the West, where they may experience some of the things that they had never experi­ enced until now. We can safely predict, and everybody can easily understand, that we are just about at the brink, at the end, of material civilization. From here, we can expect something very drastic. The only way for the survival for Western people is to try to find some path which is valu­ able, th.rough which they can consider the Orien­ tal way of thinking very valuable. In other words, we must subjugate ourselves to Oriental thought JO and go into it and learn from it, because one learns only after he humbles himself.

Expanding your ideal. Then what is the youth's ideal, after perfecting himself and after meeting the perfect mate? Such a man and wife and such a family will want to have everybody in the world as their friend. The world will be a happy multitude which will be happy just look­ ing at all their brothers and sisters in the entire world; when they become friends, it will be such a beautiful sight. Those are the multitudes who will make their credo to love God more than their own nation. It will be those people who can love their God-centered brothers and sisters more than anything else they have in the world. Wouldn't that be the highest ideal that youth can put its aim to? The person who extends his love through and beyond his own mate, to the brothers and sisters of the entire world, will be the successful person, the only successful per­ son. He must be centered around God, because without God we don't exist. If you concentrate man to a seed, what is the seed? Before the child were the parents, so the When Orientals parents are your origin or seed, you might say. So are asked, let us say it is origin, because the seed is an origin, and from the origin you are born. Then what is "Where would the origin of your own parent? Parent, parent, you like to go?'' parent, parent, parent... Then it goes back to the they would like ultimate cause, and that is God. The only hope and purpose of every living to come to the being's life is to resemble its own source. Let us West. examine a seed. A seed is always split into two and is surrounded by one pouch. And if you take a smaller portion, then it is in a different sac, but it is still divided into two. No matter how small a seed you may take as an example, everything is split in that way. Then who does it? It resembles the ultimate cause. What is the ultimate cause? God. So God has a dual capacity, or dual essen­ tiality as one necessary character. Everything 11 else does also, because it takes after the princi­ ple. To take another example, even an indi­ vidual has two elements: the body or flesh and the conscience. That's the plus entity and minus entity. When they go against each other they perish. When you take the example of the seed, do the two elements within the seed fight each other? They never fight. If they did there would be no plant. What about the king of all the ani­ mals, mankind? As an individual, are you one? Are you perfected? If not, you have no life. In other words, you haven't become a seed yet. A perfected man or woman must become one. When man and woman become one, then they are happy. Why are a man and woman happy together? Because in that way, they resemble, and come closer to God; that's why they are happy. Each individual has to have a root, and he has to have a trunk, and then he must have leaves. So the three will comprise a tree. Who is your root? Your parents. You have to make a per­ fect trunk out of yourself. All seeds contain all the elements of a plant. So when you plant a seed, a root comes. It comes You need from something, because there is something in it. The trunk comes because a trunk was already something there, and it has leaves. The leaves come be­ round in your cause there already have been leaves. character. When you look at a tree, it resembles a closed circle. Why? Because God is like that. God is round, so it becomes round. The base is round, the trunk is round, the branches are round. Round things rotate faster. They run easier any­ where. It is like a ball, which, if you kick it, will go very easily everywhere. So that's why you need something round and complete in your character. That's why everybody resembles this round shape. Everything is in three steps. Even the finger has three steps or joints. '}nd the arm has a hand 12 and upper and lower arms, it's a11 three. Also the head and body and trunk... because that's the principle of God. So we see these three steps: root, trunk, and leaves. When you live in con­ formity with these three elements, the world can be yours, and God will not protest.

A void extreme individualism. Then let us ask these American people, "Are you precious individually or in a collective sense?" Collective. Is your value temporary or eternal? Eternal. Is it absolute value or something that can be di­ minished? Absolute. Everybody is very ambitious, as if he was a thief trying to rob everything from God. But God doesn't mind: as long as you are living within principle, He doesn't mind. 13 One of the extreme forms of individuality in which we live now is, "I don't need anybody. I am self-sufficient. I don't need any parent." In­ dividualism is wrong; it does not fit the principle of existence. In other words, it doesn't resemble the seed. So we must correct it. If we say the family is one unit, then the root of that family is the parents. Americans feel, "I don't need any­ body. I need myself." Further, some people say, "I don't need a wife." Or if they need a wife, they can go anywhere and money will take care of it. Will that work for God or not? It cannot. Americans feel, The trunk has two functions. One is the sipping the water up, and the other bringing the "I don't need water down. From the date of birth to the date of anybody. I death, we have one trunk. That has duality, too, need myself.'' man and wife. Would you like to become that trunk? Can you change a new trunk every day? You might as well go to spirit world or die early if you are going to be variable, changing every day. When the trunk is changing minute by minute or hour by hour, or day by day, how can branches and leaves come out from it? They will automati­ cally die. We must bear historical fruit. We must bear the fruit which resembles the original entity. Youth is like a tree root. Even the root is formed in a round shape. That's the period of you th. In that period you th prosper and grow big. In order for a trunk to become a perfect trunk, it must have a perfect root, from which it must get all the nutrients. We must make sure that we exist now for the past, and that we shall exist for the future. And that's the sole purpose of our existing now. So the one who changes every so often and the one who disappoints others will never bear fruit. The period of youth, of course, is the most brilliant period of man's life. He works harder, wishes the highest ambition, expects the best in the world, and. then works hardest. When a per­ fect man and perfect woman become complete, then a flower will bloom one day. When there is a 14 flower, there are all good scents and fragrances and honey. That's the beginning of love, and• that's the period of youth. When man and woman come together, they will have that fruit, and from that something that resembles them will appear. That's what we call a child. These are the same three steps: parents, ourself, and children. All throughout the world leaves and branches of one trunk will prosper. Then don't you need leaves? Doesn't a tree need leaves? Yes. So for you a child is absolute neces­ sity. When you have all three elements with you, Have you ever then you can say that you are a man. So any man must have these three. Some are selfish, keeping stopped to all of these for themselves. When you confess, "I think that since am doing all of this to please my parents," then your parents God will be happy and you will be happy. Every­ body will be happy to see such a one. Everybody existed earlier will be grateful for him. No one will do anything than you did, for himself, but would rather do it for his spouse. Western or Eastern, black or white, yellow or that they are black, everyone is saying in unison, "Yes." more preoous When the parent does everything that he than you? can and works so hard simply for the sake of his children, then everybody will look up to him and say "Beautiful." We must remember that this is the path or procedure that we have to take in order for us to bear good fruit. The root exists for the trunk and for the leaves. The trunk exists for the root and the leaves. The leaves exist solely for the trunk and the roots. There the ideal ex­ ists. Have you ever done something very good for your own parents? Have you ever stopped to think that since your parents existed earlier than you did, that they are more precious than you? Those people should be called good who value the roots more than themselves. We call such a man who loves his children more than himself a good man. We must realize that this is the long­ existing and deepest principle of the truth of goodness. 15

Enclose in envelope and mail to: The Wayof the World 6401 Chillum Place, NorthWest Washington, D. C. 20036 USA Become an unchanging standard. Once you God wishes to become the one complete self with all these, then would you like to become someone who see the world a changes easily, or who does not change eternally? perfect world Among these three, the root changes least. In where all other words, the leaves change more easily than the trunk and the trunk changes more easily than mankind can the root, but the root changes the least. live, as in our When you grow as a tree, would you like to grow straight up, or would you want to grow example of a curved? Straight. Do you want to go high, or low? tree. High. In other words, you are looking for the ideal, ambition, and hope. Would you like to become large or small? Large. Would you like the reality to be an individual one, or a worldwide one? Worldwide. You are not different from any tree. A tree would be the same. These brilliant and full-grown trees will be the center of all plants and animals and creation. When the time comes, there are flowers and fruits. Do you get married because of your spouse's sake, or for your children's sake? Children's. But now, everybody gets married for himself or her­ self. The only reason why you have to give every­ thing to your child is so that your fruit will be fruitful in that way. The reality of the ideal is accomplished when these joys become real and all these principles are in one accord. So far we have not realized that the reason we are living is for the future, so that we will see a better future than our present life. We had not realized this yet. Throughout history we have wanted to get married, but we didn't know why we did it. We wanted to get married and have children, but we don't know why we wanted children. Now we know. It has always been be­ cause of God, in order to resemble God. He wishes to see the world a perfect world where mankind can live, as in our example of a tree. Have you ever heard that such an individual existed, that such a family or nation existed? We are going to have it now. All the branches are 17 The most from East, West, North, and South. The direc­ tions of civilization in the East and West are valuable thing completely different. Although the directions are is the one that different, they are all absolutely necessary for the resembles the center. Even the very tip of the tree is in a way like a branch. It all depends on which angle you center in angle. look at it, but it's the same thing. So everything, according to its angle, is different. Some grow in a horizontal way and some vertically; according to the angle a branch has, its value is different.

Alignment with the center. What is the most valuable thing? The most valuable thing is the one that resembles its center in angle. So this is why we wish to become similar to the center one. The branch that extends to the East and the branch that extends to the West have two differ­ ent or opposing directions. But since there is one trunk and one center line, these are all harmoni­ ous, although their direction is different. We have things of every direction and every shape, so what God now needs is one center, centered on which everything can direct its own way.Then God will have something to judge val­ ues by. He is going to make that criterion. In the family it is the same way, and in the larger group it is the same way-God needs some criteria by which He can compare and judge the value of others. The reason why He is urging you to become the most perfect individual in the world, the most perfect family and nation in the world, is so that you can serve as a trunk, as one center line. Once that value or criterion is established, then God can judge values in comparison to that. So with these we have come to have a new ideal for the family today. Then how far does the ideal of a family extend? To the world. Then we have to be the center of the nation which represents the world. Then centered around that, we have to establish a criterion by which different things can go in different directions. We should not forget 18 that heaven is trying to nurture us to become a I hope that you member of the country which is to serve this purpose. So such will be the ideal, things will resemble God, start from the small and become ever higher and do everything ever larger. Still, they resemble one principal for God, and entity. Let us repeat our conclusion once more. We understand must achieve our perfection, which will never be God. less than any historical achievement. We will become the men and women who never ap­ peared before in history. We shall bear and raise children which all the world and mankind would like to have. This is the purpose of creating and obtaining the ideal society and the ideal world under God.

No bigger ideal. God works twenty-four hours a day for the world, so we must resemble God. We must take after God and His effort. So we must think all the time, twenty-four hours a day, about the world. When we establish our­ selves on this ideal of God, then it will be ours. And that's the most beautiful ideal that one youth can have. Now we know that our path and purpose in life is to raise good children and resemble God, as has been explained, in three stages. We shall never err in our direction. We shall go unchang­ ing towards this one direction. So our members love their brothers and sisters more than anything else, and they will love their parents better than anything else. Such will be our attitude. So we must live for others. This is the one pattern that we must establish for our followers to copy. In return the world will be ours, and the world will love us. There are many, many seemingly big things, but nothing is bigger than this, believe me. This is most fundamental. I hope that you resemble God, do every­ thing for God, and understand God. I wish you all happiness, and all security, and all closeness to God in the future. • 19 This past year the American peo­ our already impressive number of ple have suffered an emotional crises here at home-an accelerat­ trauma that has had few parallels in ing crime rate, mass murders, soar­ our history. We have entered 1974 ing drug use, rampant inflation, with millions of our citizens con­ pollution, the breakdown of fused, discouraged, cynical, afraid families, a jittery stock market and disillusioned. -and the list could go on and on. Our newspapers and our tele­ And the question that many vision screens are bringing news of Americans are asking is: What a hundred and one dangerous went wrong? What is wrong? problems that are rocking the It is almost a paradox that our world. Each day seems to add to nation, with all the economic af-

From DECISION, © 1974 by The Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. 20 fluence for enjoying life, virtually fronted by external threats. But leads the world in crime, narcotics today we face the greatest of all abuse and immorality. As Ameri­ threats-disintegration from cans we have at our beck and call within. all the necessary armaments for na­ Now, some people have ac­ tional security, but we are still in­ cused me of being a moral alarmist secure. We have all the material who leans on the panic button too possessions deemed essential for often. But I have traveled over the happiness, but we are unhappy. world too much, talked privately Science has brought us close to a to too many of our national leaders, material paradise, but we also and sifted the fears and concerns of stand on the precipice of hell it­ the average American too many self. Millions of Americans are times to be overly optimistic about happy on the outside, but deep the state of our nation. down inside they know something I don't see anything wrong is missing: they are lonely, empty with being a realist: seeing things and bored. as they are, and telling it as it is. A distinguished Britisher said The worst course of action, it recently that he visited an Ameri­ seems to me, would be to bury our can home that seemed to have ev­ heads in the sand and shrink or erything: three cars in the garage, a hide from the dangers that beautiful living room laden with threaten to engulf us. expensive furniture and a color TV What are some of these dan­ set, a kitchen filled with the latest gers? First of all, of course, there is gadgets, and a large pool with a the political crisis. The furor over spacious patio. However, the lady Watergate has had a profound and of the house was reading a book unsettling effect on our nation. We entitled How to Be Happy. do not know the full facts about One woman awaiting the Watergate-and, for that matter, birth of her baby was quoted in the we may never know the facts. It is press as saying, "I don't want my clear that this sordid affair has sent child to be born into a world like shock waves through our whole this." A grandparent wistfully said political system. But to me the to me the other day, "I wonder most disturbing aspect of what kind of world my grandchil­ Watergate is not the crimes that dren are going to live in. I'm afraid have been committed, though for them." they are very bad. The most dis­ No one can deny that our na­ turbing thing is the reaction of tion faces one of the gravest crises millions of Americans who have of its history. In virtually all of the become cynical and disillusioned past crises, with the exception of with our whole governmental sys­ the Civil War, our nation was con- tem. And unless this disease of our 21 spirit is checked and reversed, it confronts us is neither political nor could undo us. economic. It is moral and spiritual. You see, democracy cannot And if we fail to solve this moral survive when the people have lost and spiritual crisis we may be confidence in it. And when confi­ doomed like the great nations of dence has been seriously eroded, the past. no democracy can function effi­ Look at the skyrocketing ciently and effectively. crime rate. Look at the rapidly in­ Second, we face an economic creasing moral permissiveness that crisis. We enjoy the highest stan­ pervades almost everything we dard of living of any nation in the read or see. Look at the pervasive history of the world. We are the corruption to be found in almost best-fed, the best-clothed, and the every segment of our national life. best-housed people in history. But Not just in Washington-it's all we are also beginning to pay the over the country. It's in every city. price for our luxurious living and You see, there's a little bit of our deficit spending. Inflation has Watergate in all of us. Morally and hit every American. The world­ spiritually, we have to confess, our wide energy crisis grips us, and no country is on the verge of breaking one can predict the extent to down. which it will affect our economy. The spiritual problem is also But the supreme crisis that an individual problem-it is one 22 that rests with you and me. There cially young people, are respond­ can be and will be no lasting social ing to the proclamation of the reform until the individuals who Gospel. But these encouraging make up society are reformed. facts should not lead us to self­ The problems of society are delusion that all is working out; caused by men and women in our that the coming judgment will be society. We are a nation of indi­ averted; that our nation as a nation viduals, and we are perilously is following God, because it is not. close to reproducing the life-style The Bible contains many of the people in the book of Judges warnings. In his Letter to the Ro­ in the Old Testament, of whom it mans the Apostle Paul warned of is said: "Every man did what was the danger of deliberately forfeit­ right in his own eyes."(Judges 17:6) ing the truth of God and accepting Take a hard look at America "a lie." He said if the people of his and all of its problems. It is not day continued in this direction, unlike a mirror in which each they could be sure that they would American sees himself. I am often reap the harvest of the evil they asked, "Is America at the cross­ had sown. Three times Paul said, roads?" My answer is an emphatic "God gave them up." There "no!" The idea of the crossroads comes a point beyond which no implies that we are at a place nation, no community, no family, where we can choose one or and which no individual can go another road to follow. I think we without being judged by God. have already made a choice at a When we reach that point of moral crossroads some time ago. I doubt decadence and idolatry, God that anyone can specify the exact "gives us up." Nothing is left but time when this choice was terrifying judgment, both in this made-but in my judgment it has life and in the life to come. been made. And we are well along I believe that such events as the deadend road we deliberately Vietnam, Watergate, and the chose to follow. The choice was energy crisis have been judgments made when America as a nation upon America. If we do not repent abandoned obedience to God and and turn to God as a nation, to his moral law. We chose the road more-and even more severe of secularism, hedonism, materi­ -judgments will follow. alism, and moral permissiveness. Our nation was founded on It is true, of course, that mill­ firm moral principles; our ions of individual Americans have forefathers wanted this to be a na­ not abandoned obedience to God tion in which God was honored. or to his moral law. Millions in But what happened? We have America live for the Lord. It is also abandoned God, and we face the true that millions of people, espe- imminent danger of being aban- 2 J doned by him. ever, religion is merely a formality This happened to the people that has little effect on the way we of Jerusalem in Jeremiah's time. live and act during the week. Only They mocked the prophet, saying a vital, personal faith in the living that he was an alarmist who over­ God of the Bible can get to the root simplified the problems. But only of our problems. a few years later God's judgment The great question is, "How struck. The Babylonians under can we rediscover the faith that Nebuchadnezzar invaded the was once a dynamic, revolution­ land. They destoyed the city of ary, life-changing force in Ameri­ Jeusalem and sent its inhabitants can society?" into exile and slavery. This can The answer is to be found happen to us if we do not return to only in Jesus Christ, the greatest God and seek his will for our lives. revolutionary of all time. He was What is the answer to the not concerned primarily with polit­ crisis that faces us at this hour? ical or economic revolutions. In­ The greatest mistake that we stead, he came to enter the lives of could make would be to fail to men and women and revolutionize diagnose the illness, or to offer an the most basic and stubborn source effective remedy. of the problem-the human heart. The name of the disease is This change of heart is what we sin. Our nation must seek again need as a nation. This is what you the way of God and walk in the law need now as an individual. of God. This is the only answer Christ can and wants to revo­ ultimately to America's problems. lutionize your life-your home Yes, we do need election reform -your community-the entire na­ laws to prevent another Watergate. tion. But it will have to start with Yes, we do need to take practical you. steps to avert a threatened Something vital and historic economic recession. But all of could happen to America during these will fail if they are not linked 1974 that could turn the country wth a return to God on the part of around. If men and women across the people and the leaders who the land will turn to God, it could make up this nation. have a profound effect on the fu­ I am not suggesting that more ture of this nation. interest in religion is going to save It may seem unlikely, but in us, because many people in spite of all of our problems I see Jeremiah's day were religious. And some encouraging signs that this is that is true today as well. A sub­ already beginning to happen. For stantial though declining number example, thousands of prayer of our people go to church each groups and Bible study groups week. For all too many of us, how- have sprung up from coast to coast. 24 In many of these groups, Jews, place, and the Bible says that we Catholics, and Protestants alike must repent of our sin and receive are meeting in their desperate him into our hearts by faith, and search for life's true meaning. trust him as our Savior and our Thousands of people have already Lord. found that Christ is the answer, I'm not asking you to turn to especially among young people, Christ in order to save America. I and that he gives new purpose and ask you to turn to Christ so that you direction to life. can have purpose and meaning in The trend of our nation can your own life, so that you can find be reversed. However, it will hap­ forgiveness before God, so you can pen only as individual men and have salvation and eternal life. women reverse the trend of their Irving Berlin wrote "God lives by committing themselves to Bless America" in 1918, but the Jesus Christ. song, I've read, was a flop then. In What does God require of us 1938 he dusted the tune off for a at this hour? First, he demands Kate Smith Show. She sang it and that we be honest before him and it became an instant hit. And "God admit that we have sinned against Bless America" has always been him by choosing to go our own way identified with Kate Smith. instead of his way. On our coins we Once again "God Bless say,"ln God we trust." In reality, America" needs to be dusted off. however, many of us are trusting Let's sing it and pray it with a new only in our own wisdom and in our meaning. That song carries with it own might. all the moral and spiritual things And then, second, God re­ I've just been talking about. It's quires that we must turn from our not just "God bless America." sins, as well as confess them. By God can't bless us until we meet this the Bible means that sin must his requirements of repentance be renounced, and that, by God's and faith. grace, we decide we will live for But I believe that in the midst God in all that we do. of cynicism, discouragement and Third, God requires that we disillusionment, it's time to be­ must accept his Son Jesus Christ lieve again. It's time to hope again. into the very center of our lives, It's time to sing again. But you can not only as Savior but as Lord. The only do it, and the nation can only amazing message of the Bible is be blessed, if first you have peace that God loves you. He loved you with God. so much that he sent his only Son It is my prayer that you will to die on the cross for you. Christ find that peace-not only peace took our sins upon himself. He with God, but peace inside and died in my place. He died in your peace with your neighbor. • 25 the. ;. freedom imperative by MICHAEL BUTLER

Murder In The Cathedral, by T.S. Eliot, was written for the purpose of shocking pre;..war theatregoers and possibly intellectuals out of their complacency and into a sense of urgency of a fundamental prob­ lem that was gripping Europe -at that time. In the years leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War, Europe was witnessing the alarming growth of an alter­ native: ideology-totalitarianism and especially Nazism-which threatened the freedom of the Christian-oriented Western world. T~s. Eliot felt the urgency of the times, and had analyzed the nature of the problem, both in his poetry and more explicitly in a group of lectures entitled The Idea OfA Christian Society, published in 1939. In T .S. Eliot's work there is not so much an apocalyptic fervor, but more a direct confrontation with the effects of the evil which is controlling the world. Throughout his life he became deeply con­ cerned with evil, the cause of all 26 suffering, and in his writings is ex­ pressed the search for some· ulti,.. mate answer. He finally arrived ,at a position which brought about his conversion to Catholicism: Christian patience and humil:. ity are achieved when change and the "perpetual struggle of good and evil" are seen from the per­ spective of God. In The Rock, a dual conception of the· church is given: on one hand, the church in action must continue the fight against evil in every generation, but on the other, it must be simul­ taneously recognized with humil­ ity that the battle will not be won on earth. Murder In The Cathedral was written for the Canterbury Festi­ val of 1935. In it, Eliot deals not only with the martyrdom of a twelfth century Archbishop, Thomas a Becket but dramatizes all the disorder and the search for hope experienced in those black years prior to the Second World War. In The Idea OfA Christian Soci­ ety Eliot analyzed the position that Western society had arrived at: · "We are living at present in a kind of doldrums between oppos.;. ing winds of doctrine, in a pe­ riod in which one· political philo­ sophy has lost its cogency for behaviour. .. it is this disorderf and not indiv'idual insince'rity, which is responsible for the ·hol­ lowness of many political and ec­ clesiastical utterances." Western society is at a point where there absolutely must be 27 change, held Eliot. What are the parts. At the center of the play is alternatives this society is faced Archbishop Thomas a Becket, with? whose convictions are strong "We might of course merely enough to enable him to die for sink into an apathetic decline; them. His course, in Part I, is without faith in life and therefore analogous to Jesus' struggle in the without faith in ourselves, without wilderness. Thomas remains a philosophy of life, and without steadfast against the four Tempt­ art. Or we might get a 'Totalitarian ers, to unite completely with the Democracy' ... a state of affairs in Will of God, by subjugating his which we shall have regimentation own will. Part II parallels the Pas­ and conformity, without respect sion. Thomas becomes a sacrifice for the needs of the individual for God as payment: soul." "Blood for blood. Eliot urged that the problem His blood to buy my life, must be confronted now. Our cul­ My blood given to pay ture, he maintained, is mainly for His death, negative-only positive in so far as My death for His death." it is Christian. What is needed is a The historical Thomas :i re-evaluation of society in light of Becket was murdered in 1170 after "Christian Principles." a protracted struggle with Henry II "My primary interest is a over ecclesiastical privilege. In change in our social attitude ... Eliot's play, Thomas dies to assen such a change would compel the supremacy of the law of God. changes in the organization of in­ Thomas was tern pted in four dustry, commerce and financial ways: the First Tempter offers credit; that it would facilitate, Thomas a return to his early life of where it now impedes, the life of youthful, sensual pleasures at devotion for those who are capable court; the Second Tempter offers of it." earthly power with which to im­ Such a change could only prove the temporal world, leaving come about through the dedicated holiness for the hereafter; the and sincere efforts of those with Third Tempter offers Thomas strong convictions. Indeed, Eliot both revenge upon the King and searched for a Christian mirror­ domination over the Pope if he will image of the dedicated Com­ side with the barons. Thomas is munist militant, fearlessly putting able to reject all of these from the his Marxist principle into practice. standpoint of his initial position This concern is dramatized in proclaimed in his entry speech. the whole movement of Murder In "Neither does the actor suffer The Cathedral. The play is divided Nor the patient act. But both by a sermon interlude into two are fixed 28 In an external action, an eter­ brating the martyrdom of a 12th nal patience century Archbishop. What is un­ To which all must consent usual and unique about this play that it may be willed are the actions of the four Knights And which must suffer that who, after drunkenly insulting and they may will it." then violently murdering Thomas, It was God who has estab­ step forward and justify their ac­ lished the "eternal action." All tions in an idiom more at home in self-willed actions will conflict 20th century politics than in litur­ with the fundamental pattern so gical drama. They argue to assert that those who "will it" suffer. the necessity of their actions and The Fourth Tempter comes un­ lament that they were landed with expectedly, urging Thomas to the task. They ostensibly take a "seek the way of martyrdom." stand behind order and stability in Thomas must also overcome this the temporal world. desire. We can understand this "Unhappily there are times more fully from what the Arch­ when violence is the only way bishop preaches in the sermon in­ in which social justice can be terlude. secured. At another time, you "Ambition fortifies the will of would condemn an Arch­ man to become ruler over bishop by vote of Parliament other men: it operates with and execute him formally as a deception, cajolery and vio­ traitor." lence, it is the action of im­ The Four Knights totally purity upon impurity. Not so deny the fact that freedom can in Heaven. A martyr, or saint only come from God, when one is always made by the design allies with the will of God. They of God for His love of stand in the position of one of the men ... a true martyr is he alternatives Eliot cited in The Idea who has become the instru­ OfA Christian Society. They repre­ ment of God, who has lost his sent those working for "a state... will in the will of God ... " in which we shall have regimenta­ In Part II there is the contrast tion and conformity without re­ between Thomas, who has by now spect for the needs of the indi­ "lost his will in the will of God," vidual soul." This is especially and the four Knights, whose ac­ clear when one reads the final tions are totally motivated by their speech of the First Knight. ambition. Thomas goes to his "I think there is no more to be death with a spirit that reflects the said; and I suggest that you Crucifixion. now disperse quietly to your Yet Murder In The Cathedral is homes. Please be careful not more than a liturgical drama cele- to loiter in groups at street 29 corners, and do nothing that might provoke any public, outbreak." Yet these words are not the final position of the play. It is the Chorus which voices the final speech. ThroughoutMurder In The Cathedral, the Chorus has led the audience through all fear, doubt and anguish concerning the fu­ ture. The Chorus is made up of the poor women of Canterbury, who are common people, suffering the effects of so much spiritual and ideological struggle. Their final words are in the form of a prayer. "Forgive us, 0 Lord, we ac­ knowledge ourselves as a type of common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the surrender required, deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God,, Who fear the hand at the win­ dow, the fire in'. the thatch, · the fist in the tavern, ·the push into the canal· Less.than we fear God; . , We acknowledge our tres­ pass, our weakness, our fault we. acknowledge That the sin of the· world is upon our heads, that the blood of the martyrs and the agony of the saints Is upon· our heads. Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us 30 Lbrd have mercy upon us Blessed Thomas, pray for us.,, Eliot was writing in a time when Europe was threatened by the spread of the most powerful and most efficiently organized to­ talitarian_ipeology yet to appear on the face''of 'the earth. What will happen .;hen the people, like these warmth':"seeking poor • women ofCanterbury, are faced with such possibilities? Will the faith of the people be strong enough to unite them against such a powerful threat? Europe has been ravaged twice already, by power-seeking individuals. In 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm introduced the realities of 20th century warfare, bringing about destruction never before precedented in world history. Again in 1939, Europe was again brought into turmoil by Hitler's ambitious reach for power with the freedom-denying totalitarian ideology. On both occasions, the common people have been able to unite against th.ese threafs, just in the eleventh hour. However, the . possibility of a materialistic alter­ native to individual'freedom is still very much a reality. Freedom­ seeking people have still to unite against these threats with a com­ .,pletely freedom-giving way of life, such as Eliot hoped for, in order to prevent the actuality ofworldwide destruction, a possibility that wrll be made a reality by the·spread bf Communism. D 31 Evil and Understanding Suffering by PROF. LLOYD GEERING It is impossible to ignore evil and suffering, and the great reli­ gious traditions have evolved, in part, as a practical way of both un­ derstanding the true nature of evil and learning how to cope with it. They have differed greatly in their diagnosis of the problem and in the cure which they have pre­ scribed. Some have maintained that evil and suffering do not really exist at all except as an illusion in man's own mind. As soon as his ignorance is dispelled by the true knowledge of reality, evil and suf­ fering vanish into nothingness. Some have seen evil as a posi­ ''Daddy, why did God make tive force at work in the world, mosquitos?" This question by a personified as evil gods or as Satan. three-year-old, tormented on a Then it becomes necessary to find hot summer night, gives succinct ways of gaining the victory over expression to a problem which these personal forces. This has al­ has puzzled the mind of man ways been an element of the view of evil in Christianity, particularly ever since he began to reflect on in the early centuries. life. It is the problem ofevil or of It has never become the dom­ undeseroed suffering. inant Christian view, for it quickly 32 Professor Lloyd Geering, a fonner Presbyterian minis­ ter, was recently appointed Professor of Religious Studies at Victoria Univer­ sity in Wellington, New Zea­ land. A man ofcontroversial views, he was charged with heresy but later acquitted and appointed to the Religious Studies faculty. His latest book is entitled Resur­ rection-A Symbol of Hope. develops into a dualism which runs Today we may prefer to assess counter to the ardent monotheism the development of human nature of the Judeo-Christian tradition. in terms of genes and environmen­ But neither has Christianity tal factors, rather than in terms of been happy with the idea of re­ original sin, yet the propensities garding God as the ultimate author we are referring to in human na­ of evil, as an ancient Israelite ture are fundamentally the same. prophet did when he put these The story of Adam and Eve words in the mouth of God: "I points to the fact that much of the make peace and I create evil, and I evil in the world, such as cruelty, the Lord do all these things" (Isa. oppression, war and so on, does 45:7). originate in the heart of man him­ Christian thinkers have self, even though he is not wholly tended to see man himself as the clear why he has been created the chief cause for the evil and suffer­ way he is. ing in the world. Stemming from If these expressions of evil are the first act of disobedience in the to be overcome and eliminated Garden of Eden, man has con­ from the world, then it requires a tinued to inherit from his parents a fundamental change in the nature sinful nature, which makes him of man himself. Christianity has prone to do evil in spite of himself. always claimed that it offers to There is no doubt that this men the way to become new or belief contains remarkable m­ transformed creatures. sights into human nature. But we are still left with the 33 problem of what has been called ogy is helping us to understand. the natural evils in the world We are left, then, with the -evils such as drought, storm, evils which emanate from man earthquakes and even mosquitos, himself, and with his attitudes to­ which can in no way be attributed ward the natural phenomena to the sinful nature of man. which he must learn to accept as The reason why man has part and parcel of the order of crea­ come to regard these natural tion. phenomena as evil is that they On the problem of evil Chris­ threaten his security, cause him tianity may not answer all our pain, and disturb his peace. questions to our satisfaction, but But are these things evil in even to men of the modern world it themselves? There is much to be prescribes a way for learning how said for the view that the natural to cope with it. phenomena of our world are The Christian faith chal­ neither good nor evil in them­ lenges us first of all to deal with the selves, but only appear so because evil which emanates from our own of the way in which they impinge willful desires and self­ upon human existence. centeredness. To do this we must It is true that man observes a allow ourselves to be transformed good deal of suffering in the ani­ into the likeness of Christ. mal kingdom, particularly where Then it teaches us how to one species must prey upon cope with the evil we observe in another for its very livelihood. the world around us, and which This has sometimes led men to see may also bring pain and distress to the consequences of the primeval ourselves. We do this not simply Fall extended from human nature by tolerating it like the Stoics, but to the world itself and to speak of a by absorbing it and thus overcom­ "fallen world." ing it. The ancient prophets of Is­ This is symbolized in the rael looked to the time when not cross which the Christian is called only man but also the world as a to take up and bear. It is by refus­ whole would be morally trans­ ing to seek revenge, refusing to formed so that the lion should eat pay back evil for evil, by using the straw like the ox and the infant whole of one's energies for the should play on the hole of the welfare of others, even to loving cobra in the ground and come to no one's enemies, so that evil is van­ harm. quished and the world of man All this may seem a rather transformed. naive vision in the light of the in­ Then the will of God wi 11 be tricate interdependence of all done on earth, as manifestly as it is planetary life which modern ecol- in heaven. 0 34 The~ Baha'i Faith and The Divine Principle

by DAVID BALISE

The Baha'i faith originated in Per­ gions. Beyond this, however, he sia (Iran) in the year 1844. It was in said that he was to prepare man­ this year that Mohammad Ali took kind for the coming of "Him the title the Bab, meaning "the whom God will make manifest," door" or "the gate." He said that who was the Promised One of all he was the One foretold by two religions (the return of Christ early nineteenth century Moslem to the Christians, the Amitabha leaders, Shaykh Ahmad and Siyyid Buddha to the Buddhists, etc.), Kazim. The Bab taught that he and who would establish the King­ was a Manifestation of God, and dom of Heaven on earth. that his station was the same as that of the founders of other reli- The Bab quickly attracted 35 many followers, called Babis, over if necessary from beginning our 20,000 of whom were killed by the education all over again. We must Persian government. In 1850 the not allow our love for any one reli­ Bab himself was killed. Thirteen gion or any one personality to so years later Baha'u'llah ("the Glory blind our eyes that we become fet­ of God"), the foremost disciple of tered by superstition! When we the Bab, publicly proclaimed that are freed from all these bonds, he was "Him whom God will make seeking with liberated minds, manifest," and that he had re­ then shall we be able to arrive at ceived this revelation ten years our goal." This paper critically ex­ earlier in 1853. Baha'u'llah spread amines the Baha'i faith and its his teachings until his death in teachings, in a sincere attempt to 1892, even though he was impris­ find the truth. May those who read oned, tortured and exiled re­ it do so with the same spirit. peatedly by the Persian and Tur­ kish governments for doing so. After Baha'u'llah died his son The Baha'i teachings. The 'Abdu'l-Baha ("the Servant of the Baha'i faith is similar to the Divine Glory") spread the faith to the Principle in its goal of setting up Western world, even v1siting the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, America in 1912. Shoghi Effendi and in many specific beliefs. was the Guardian of the faith from However, its teachings differ sig­ the time of 'Abdu'l-Baha's death nificantly from those of the Divine in 1921 unil his own death in 1957. Principle in three major areas; the The faith is now administered by nature of God's relationship with the "Universal House of Justice" man, the nature of religion, and in Haifa, Israel, and there are the nature of evil. Baha'is in every country of the free Baha'u'llah's teachings on the world. nature of God's relationship with When 'Abdu'l-Baha was in man are very explicit. Since man is London and Paris he proclaimed the creation and God is the creator, what are now known as the man can never know God, just as a "twelve Baha'i principles." The painting can never know the artist. very first of these principles is In the Book of Certitude he stated, called the independent investiga­ "No tie of direct intercourse can tion of truth. Baha'is would do well possibly bind Him to His crea­ to note that 'Abdu'l-Baha did not tures. He standeth exalted beyond exclude them when he said, "We and above all separation and must be willing to clear away all union, all proximity and remote­ that we have previously learned, ness." Here and in many other all that would clog our steps on the places, Baha'u'llah implies that it Way to Truth; we must not shrink is impossible for God to create 36 people to Him by their teachings. But why can't everyone become a manifestation of God? There is no logical reason why God would want to let only a small, select group of men know Him directly. If God desires to make Himself known unto men why must He use an intermediary? These inconsis­ tencies show that the Baha'i un­ derstanding of God's relationship with man is incomplete. The Baha'i teachings on the nature of religion say that God created man with the capacity for infinite good, but that man did not know about goodness and about his spiritual nature. Therefore, each manifestation of God had the mission of spiritually educating mankind. Each one of them taught mankind a bit more about how to live a good life; and revealed a bit more of God's Truth. This·gradual spiritual education is called "pro­ gressive revelation." However, why would a God Baha'i Temple in Israel. of infinite goodness create the children who can know Him di­ original parents from whom a:11 rectly in the same way that chil­ humanity is descended without dren know their human parents di­ letting them know about their rectly. But how could. it be impos­ spiritual nature, and without giv­ sible for God to do something that ing them any way to learn about it would give Him great joy? until mankind as a whole evolved Baha'u'llah says that God has spiritually, thousands of years bridged the gap between man and later? Individual plants and ani­ Himself by sending "manifesta­ mals· grow to maturity and perfec­ tions of God," such as Abraham, tion within their lifetimes. The Moses, Buddha, Christ, and fact that the original parents, and Mohammad, to mankind. They all mankind sirtce them, have not know God much more directly grown to foll spiritual maturity than most people do, and bring within their lifetimes, shows that 37 something must have happened not only do not go beyond those of after the creation of the original Christ, but they actually retrogress parents, that caused them to lose to those of Moses. In the Koran the knowledge of their spiritual (which few Baha'is have read) nature. Otherwise, God's love for Mohammad portrays God as an in­ individual human beings would be finitely powerful Being who will limited, and He would not be a destroy people who will not do His God of infinite goodness. will. This view is diametrically In addition, the doctrine of opposed to the love of God for man progressive revelation states that which is shown so clearly by Christ God has sent all His manifesta­ in parables such as "the Prodigal tions to the East. 'Abdu'l-Baha Son." The love of God for man is says that "In the past, as in the not even hinted at in the Koran. present, the Spiritual Sun of Truth This shows that Mohammad did has always shone from the horizon not bring a higher level of truth of the East... all the great spiritual than Christ did. teachers arose in the Eastern Concerning evil, Baha'u'llah world." Since Baha'is do not con­ taught that it is simply the absence sider Confucius and Lao-Tze to be of good, and not a negative force manifestations of God, many opposing good. He said that the Baha'is say that all religions come things in the world that are called from an area in the Middle East evil actually result from the igno­ roughly 3,000 miles in diameter. rance of mankind, and that when But why has God sent so many religion teaches goodness to peo­ manifestations to this small area, ple they gradually become less and to the descendants of Abra­ "evil," like a light spreading in the ham in particular? The Baha'i darkness. teachings do not give any reasons However, evil is more than for this. the absence of good. There are A third problem with the doc­ many indications of this, even in trine of progressive revelation re­ the Baha'i teachings. One exam­ gards Mohammad. Mohammad ple is the Baha'i teaching on cov­ came 600 years after Christ, and enant breakers. Covenant break­ should therefore have brought a ers are Baha'is who turned against higher level of God's Truth. It is the true Baha'i leaders at one time true that the teachings Moham­ or another, and tried to form their mad brought were responsible for own sect. Baha'is are to avoid all the birth of Arab civilization, and contact with covenant breakers. that contact with the Moslems dur­ Why? If evil were only the absence ing the Crusades helped end the of good, there would be no reason "dark age" of the Christian world. to avoid evil people. Good people However, Mohammad's teachings cannot be harmed by associating 38 with people who are not good, as fulfilling their own portion of re­ long as they are not actually evil. s ponsi bil i ties within their The real reason covenant breakers lifetimes. If they had reached per­ are to be avoided is that they rep­ fection they would have been able resent a negative power which to have direct give and take with tries to destroy goodness, and they God's heart, entering the direct are often strong enough to triumph dominion of His love. Their de­ over the Baha'is. (If the Baha'i scendants would also have been standard of goodness was stronger, able to do this, and the Kingdom of this separation would not be nec­ Heaven on earth would have been essary.) established right away. The Di­ Evil is shown to be a negative vine Principle explains the inner force in other places in the Baha'i meaning of the fall of Adam and teachings, also. In his Tablet to the Eve, which happened when they City of Constantinople Baha'u'llah were still immature, in the growth said, "We behold in thee the stage, and which resulted in the foolish ruling over the wise, and separation of mankind from God darkness vaunting itself against and in the creation of evil. the light." Clearly the "darkness" The major trouble with the must be more than an absence of Baha'i teachings is that they omit light, since it was triumphing over the fall entirely. They say that ev­ the light. In Gleanings from the erything has been going according Writings of Baha'u'llah, "the Evil to God's plan, and that no funda­ One" is mentioned in seven dif­ mentally different relationship ferent places. Baha'is explain this with God is possible than the rela­ away, but the context of these tionship with Him that some peo­ quotations clearly shows that an ple have now. The Baha'i teach­ evil power exists. But the Baha'i ings, without knowing it, deal teachings do not show how to exclusively with fallen man. The overcome this evil power. Baha'i teachings give no indication that God wants to relate to us The Baha'i teachings and the much more directly than He has Divine Principle. The Divine been able to relate to mankind in Principle untangles the inconsis­ the past, when everyone has had a tencies and fills in the gaps in the fallen nature. Baha'i teachings. It offers the only The Divine Principle teaches logical explanation of why people that God is working to restore are separated from God, even man's original unfallen nature. To­ though they were created by a God do this God has worked with men of limitless goodness, power, and to lay foundations of faith and love for man. The first people on foundations of substance upon earth were to grow to perfection by which the Messiah can come to 39 restore all people. The foundation of substance to receive the Messiah has often involved relationships that God has set up between two individuals or two groups, one (usually the younger) relatively good and the A Baha'i symbol that is frequently other (usually the older) relatively found engraved on the stones of rings is evil. God gives His love to the in­ a long beam, which is supposed to rep­ dividual or group that is in the po­ resent the tree oflife (namely, the revela­ sition of relative goodness. If the tion). The crossbeams from top to bot­ individual or group that is in the tom symbolize the three levels of being: position of relative evil is humble the kingdom ofGod, revelation, and the and unites with the relatively good human world. The three crossbeams side, they can grow together, both and the long beam, with their particu­ lar ends, each form four Arabic B's receiving God's love. The first and H's, the basic letters of the word such relationship was between Baha ("majesty"). For the Baha'is Cain and Abel. However Cain, this symbolizes the revelation of God. symbolizing relative evil, killed The two five-pointed stars, one on each Abel instead of uniting with him. side, represent the two heralds of God, Later, God created another Bab and Baha'u'llah. "Cain-Abel relationship" between Abraham's sons Ishmael and Isaac, and finally the Messiah, Jesus in the positions of relative evil and Christ, to their descendants. good, .respectively. This relation­ When Christ came he could have ship was never resolved. There­ restored all mankind to God if the fore, God set up another Cain­ people had accepted him and Abel relationhip, between Esau spiritually grafted themselves to and Jacob. When Esau humbly him. However, the people failed united with Jacob (Genesis 33:4), to accept him, and therefore Christ this relationship was resolved suc­ was able to restore mankind only cessfully. Because of this God on the spiritual level. If the people could bless both of them, and give had accepted Christ they could Jacob the new name "Israel." have been restored both spiritually This is one of the reasons why and physically, and the Kingdom so many "manifestations" have of Heaven on earth would have been descended from Abraham. begun. Christ would not have There were many other conditions been crucified. Because Christ that Abraham and his children ful­ was rejected and crucified, God's filled, which collectivly estab­ restoration providence has been lished a foundation upon which prolonged until now. Christ must God could send many prophets, come again at this time, in a similar 40 manner to his first coming, and God as a powerful Being to be complete what was left unaccom­ feared. Both teach that those who plished during his first advent. commit a crime must receive a The relationship between punishment equal to the crime, Ishmael and Isaac still needs to be i.e. "an eye for an eye, a tooth for resolved. If the children of Israel a tooth ... " (Ex. 21:24) and "retal­ (the Jews) had accepted Christ as iation is decreed for you in the Messiah, they and the children bloodshed; a free man for a free of Esau, as the children of Isaac, man, a slave for a slave ... " (Koran would have united, centered on 2: 173). Both forbid eating blood or their faith in the Messiah, with the pig's meat (Deur. 12: 16, Lev. children of Ishmael (the Arabs). 11:7; Koran 2: 168). Both require Then the combined children of animal sacrifices (Ex. 29, etc.; Abraham would have united in the Koran 22:34-38, etc.). Both have a same way with the rest of the holy place of central importance: world, forming the Kingdom of the Jewish Temple that was at Heaven on earth. Jerusalem, and the Moslem Ka'bih However, the Jews rejected at Mecca. Members of both faiths Christ, and the physical restora­ practice circumcision. tion of mankind was prolonged. Both tribes then set up a na­ Therefore, God has given the tion under God's guidance, using Arabs a course of history similar to military force to conquer the sur­ the one that the Jews have gone rounding people. Each nation had through, so that the Cain-Abel re­ a succession of spiritual leaders. lationship between them can be There were 16 Jewish Judges and resolved by the Lord of the Second 12 Moslem Imams. Each nation Advent. There is a remarkable prospered and went through a gol­ parallel between the history of the den age, and then began to de­ Jewish people from the time they cline. Each nation was prepared to went into Egypt until shortly after receive a Messiah. The Messiah the coming of Christ, and the his­ figure came to both nations, as tory of the Arab people during the Christ and the Bab, respectively. past 2000 years. The Bab did not have the same Both first spent several providential significance as Christ hundred years on a low physical did, but the parallels between and spiritual level. Then each re­ their two lives are amazing. Bill ceived the Law of God, through Sears lists 27 parallels between the Moses and Mohammad respec­ two in his book, Thief in the Night. tively. The parallels between the These parallels culminated with Law of Moses and the Law of the rejection and death of the Mohammad are very clear. Both Messiah figure, in both cases. have the same understanding of The teachings of each Mes- 4 J siah figure were then established lowers of the Bab, and He gave extensively over the earth, by Paul Baha'u'llah great spiritual knowl­ and Baha'u'llah, respectively. The edge and insight. Baha'u'llah in­ parallels between these two men terpreted the fact that God had are also remarkable. Neither of given him this revelation and these them was one of the original disci­ blessings to mean that he was the ples chosen by the Messiah figure promised Messiah, and not just (Christ's 12 apostles or the Bab's the leader of the Bab's followers. 18 Letters of the Living). Both re­ This interpretation, though sin­ ceived their calling in a vision a cere, was incorrect and against few years after the death of the God's will. There is abundant evi­ Messiah figure. Both of them dence that this is true. wrote many epistles, expanding The Bab shows us that and elaborating the teachings of Baha'u'llah was not Him whom the founder of the faith, and call­ God will make manifest. The Bab ing the believers to higher moral wrote in the Persian Bayan: "The standards. Both defended them­ Germ that holds within itself the selves in their writings as the potentialities of the Revelation legitimate leader of the faith that is to come is endowed with a (many of Baha'u'llah's writings are potency superior to the combined similar in tone to Paul's II Cor. 11). forces of all those who follow me." Both of them were repeatedly ex­ Baha'is interpret "those who fol­ iled and imprisoned, and each low me" to exclude Baha'u'llah, died in a land far to the west of the but at the time this was written original country of the faith. In Baha'u'llah was definitely one of each case their teachings became the Bab's disciples. The Bab al­ the central doctrine of the faith. luded many times to the fact that Baha'u'llah was to be the leader of Baha'u'llah and the Lord of his followers after he himself had the Second Advent. The Divine died, but he never indicated that Principle thus teaches that Baha'u'llah was to be Him whom Bah a 'u 'llah was not the one God will make manifest. foretold by the Bab: Him whom Furthermore, the year the God will make manifest, the Lord Bab began his ministry, 1844, is of the Second Advent. Baha'u'llah the year indicated in all the failed his mission by claiming to be prophecies from past religious Him whom God will make man­ books that Baha'is feel refer to the ifest, alhtough this does not mean Baha'i faith. The year Baha'u'llah that Baha'u'llah went against began his ministry, 1863, is not God's will deliberately, for his own mentioned in the vast majority of personal gain. God called these prophecies. Clearly, then, Baha'u'llah in 1853 to lead the fol- the Bab's position was more im- 42 portant than Baha'u'llah's posi­ the sun will be darkened, and the tion. moon will not give its light, and Saint Paul gives us strong evi­ the stars will fall from heaven ... dence that Baha'u'llah was not the and they will see the Son of man Lord of the Second Advent, the coming on the clouds of heaven One whom the Bab called "Him with power and great glory"(Matt. whom God will make manifest." 24:4-30). It is clear that the great Paul writes: "Concerning the com­ tribulation, which is worse than ing of our Lord Jesus Christ. .. let anything that has happened before no one deceive you in any way; for it or will happen after it, had not that day will not come, unless the occurred before Baha'u'llah came, rebellion comes first, and the man 100 years ago. Indeed, Baha'u'llah of lawlessness is revealed, the son referred to the great tribulation as of perdition, who opposes and ex­ something yet to come: "O ye alts himself against every so-called peoples of the world! Know, ver­ god or object of worship, so that he ily, that an unforeseen calamity is takes his seat in the temple of following you, and that grievous God, proclaiming himself to be retribution awaiteth you ... The God" (II Thess. 2: 1-4). No man or winds of despair are, alas, blowing creed that fits this description from every direction, and the strife came before Baha'u'llah, so that divideth and afflicteth the Baha'u'llah cannot be the second humari race is daily increasing. coming of Christ. The signs of impending convul­ Christ gives us an even clearer sions and chaos can now be dis­ proof. He told the apostles: "Take cerned" (Gleanings from the Writings heed that no one leads you ofBaha'u'llah, pp. 209,216). Since astray ... you will hear of wars and the great tribulation was still in the rumors of wars; see that you are not future, the second coming of alarmed; for this must take place, Christ was also still in the future, but the end is not yet. For nation and could not have been will rise against nation, and king­ Baha'u'llah. dom against kingdom, and there Finally, it must be noted that will be famines and earthquakes in after Baha'u'llah declared himself various places: all this is but the to be Him whom God will make beginning of the birth-pangs ... manifest, Baha'u'llah and his fol­ and many false prophets will arise lowers gradually lost their spiritual and lead many astray ... Then vitality and their selfless devotion there will be great tribulation, to God. such as has not been from the be­ ginning of the world until now, no, During the ten years between and never will be... Immediately 1853, when Baha'u'llah was called after the tribulation of those days by God, and 1863, when he 43 claimed to be Him whom God will volved in these schisms, and he make manifest, he wrote the vast tried to prevent them, but it was majority of his best-known books. his claim to be the Messiah that These include The Hidden Words was the ultimate cause of them. and The Seven Valleys. The most These schisms were a sign from important of these books, how­ God that although Baha'u'llah was ever, was the Book of Certitude, still the legitimate leader of the which Shoghi Effendi said was Bab's followers, his claim to be "foremost among the priceless "Him whom God will make man­ treasure cast forth from the billow­ ifest" was false. ing ocean of Baha'u'llah's revela­ When Baha'u'llah died, his tion." In this book Baha'u'llah ex­ son 'Abdu'l-Baha was able to stop plained the inner meaning of many some of this erosion of Baha'i unity Messianic prophecies in the Bible and vitality, by taking the position and in the Koran. He should have of a servant to God and to the other continued to write books like this, Baha'is, showing the humbleness preparing the whole Moslem that his father had lacked. How­ world to receive the Messiah, the ever he did not undo his father's One the Bab called Him whom mistake by teaching that "Him God will make manifest. If whom God will make manifest" Baha'u'llah had done this, his writ­ had not yet come, and by prepar­ ings would have continued to in­ ing the Baha' is and other people to crease in vitality and originality. In­ accept him when he came, so the stead, a year after he wrote the unity and spirit of selfless service Book of Certitude he claimed to be of the Baha'is continued to erode the Messiah, and as a result his after his death. His grandson, later writings became more and Shoghi Effendi, worked in vain to more repetitious and monotonous, stop it. A hundred years ago 20,000 full of the almost uncountable followers of the Bab gave their superlatives with which Baha' - lives for their faith. Now more and u'llah described himself. more Baha'is are unwilling to even Baha'u'llah's failure affected spend a few hours to attend the not only his writings, but the meeting (the "feast") that the Baha'is as well. They became less Baha'is hold every 19 days. There devoted and sacrificial, and got in­ has also been a tremendous. in­ volved in a series of schisms and crease in the number of "inactive" plots which even included several or "undeepened" Baha'is. murders. Many people broke away Shoghi Effendi wrote that and became covenant breakers, "Divorced from the institution of and even Baha'u'llah's own family the Guardianship, the World was divided into rival factions. Order of Baha'u'llah would be Baha'u'llah was never directly in- mutilated and permanently de- 44 prived of that hereditary principle more difficult for the Moslems to which, as 'Abdu'l-Baha has writ­ recognize the Lord when he ten, has been invariably upheld by comes. the law of God ... Without such an~ It is abundantly clear that we institution the integrity of the are now living in the "last days." Faith would be imperiled, and the The signs thatwere not fulfilled in stability of the entire fabric would Baha'u'llah's time are being real­ be gravely endangered ... the ized now. The "Son of Perdition" necessary guidance to define the that Paul predicted, who opposes sphere of the legislative action of God and claims to be God, is its elected representatives would clearly the atheistic Communist be totally withdrawn." But Shoghi system. "He" is especially per­ Effendi died without having any sonified in Joseph Stalin," the Red children and therefore there has master whose purges cost the lives been no Guardian of the Baha'i of 30 million Russians, most of faith for over 16 years. The impli­ them Christians. Furthermore, cations of this are very clear. the world has already gone through Surely the Baha'i faith would not the "wars and rumors of wars" be thus "mutilated and perma­ foretold by Christ. This continual nently deprived" if Baha'u'llah series of small local wars ended in was really the Lord of the Second 1914, with the advent of a new Advent. kind of war. Since then there have been two devastating, workt-wide Conclusion. If Baha'u'lah had wars, each of them worse than any not claimed to be "Him whom previous tribulation. The world is God will make manifest," the now in the midst of an ideological Bah a' is had not claimed to be war which potentially may become "Him whom God will make man­ a devastating third world war be­ if est," the Baha'is, representing a tween America and the USSR. We sizable percentage of the Moslem are in the "great tribulation" now! people, would be able to easily The Messiah, "Him whom God unite with the Messiah, the Lord will make manifest,'' the Lord of of the Second Advent, when he the Second Advent, must an­ comes. This would- make it possi­ nounce himself within the next ble for the Lord of the Second Ad- few years. It is critically important -vent to easily resolve the ancient that the Baha'is, as well as conflict between Ishmael and everyone else, keep their spiritual Isaac, through their descendants, eyes and ears open and investigate the Arabs and Jews. The failure of all spiritual teachings with the at­ Baha'u'llah has made the resolu­ titude of sincerely searching for tion of this conflict much more dif­ truth, so that they will accept the ficult, and it has also made it much true Messiah when he comes. D 45 come?" Elijah replied: "Go thyself and ask him." "Where will I find him?" "At the main gate of Rome." "How will I know him?" "He sits among the beggars and " their wounds. Each one of them will untie every bandage to ap edicine and then rebandage their wounds. He alone unties one at a time. He thinks: 'If I am called, I must waste no time.' " R. Joshua found him, and said: tings to thee, My Master and Teacher!" Messiah replied: "Greetings to R. Jo§ sked: "When . Messf R.xJo e following day he again met Elijah)1 said: "Since Messiah lace in the World- by PAOLA PACIFICO Leader of the Aquarius Group

Interviewed by FRANCO RAV AGLIOLI The Age of Aquarius has been predicted by many people; in fact, in every sacred book we find that there will come an era in which man will make a qual­ itative leap in evolution. This era should start in about 1975 and end towards the year 2000-a cosmic occasion in order that man may make a step ahead towards the evolution. The people who live in Milan, Italy, form an energetic mass that for the moment works for a selfish purpose. However, they have been trained to work seriously, and for this we have opened an Age of Aquarius center in Milan and not, for in­ stance, in Rome, where there is more dispersion and more amusement. If they first worked for the external things, now this training may be useful to work for internal things. What do we propose? Since in the Age of Aquarius in every being grows as an internal search, we stimulate man not to search outside himself, but in­ side. Instead of spending energy for material things, we must use this energy to research spirituality. With this spirit a sort of community has started, which is interested in every­ thing, since we start from the point that man must find his right. pressed these talents, we are cured way to reach completion. of physical diseases caused by There are many ways, as we being prevented from expressing also see in your symbol. We deal them. with the famous esoteric disci­ So the study of reincarnation pline, that is, we are interested in and astrology gives us a method of astrology and reincarnation. All preventive medicine. Therefore these disciplines have given us a we have a group for psychic dan­ sort of inclination which we call cers, for architecture, for photog­ aquarian. We treat astrology as the raphy. In short we explore all the science of the energies, so we various artistic sectors. We analyze make a horoscope of the personal­ the people through a series of ity. questions and we discover if they It was necessary to bring rein­ have a talent which matured in carnation into the Western world their past lives; and through as­ under the appearance of a univer­ trologywe discover the predisposi­ sal principle, that is, the evolu­ tion of a certain type of art. So we tionary law. In Asia nobody is in­ insert this person in a certain artis­ terested in reincarnation, because tic sector and he embraces it they discount the idea that we freely, while he frees his artistic need to reincarnate many times in push. We make the people be­ order to evolve. We are fragments come aware of the divine sparkles of past lives, which are simply 'he has inside, and because atoms loaded with energy, flying everyone has his own cosmic func­ about in space. To discharge they tion, the only mortal sin in life is have to tune in to certain energy not to live one's own cosmic func­ fields and that's why a person is tion while on earth. When some­ born in one way rather than in one finds his note and plays it with another, in one family rather than harmony, he automatically enters another. into harmony with the cosmos and From the past lives we don't becomes a cosmic man. After he only inherit these fragments of has realized himself he becomes a Karma-some negativity to positive man and proceeds posi­ unload-but we also inherit tal­ tive energy. ents. If it's not possible to express The "Ashram" which I have the real talent, this talent "taints" been leader of is very small. Only a a person and produces a physical few people have left everything symptom. It has been proven that and have come to live with us, and some people have discovered hid­ because we don't have any more den talents like dancing, painting, room we can't accept many others architecture. There are hundreds who will dedicate themselves of those cases, and once we've ex- completely to this work. But these 48 people radiate positive energy and learn to realize the divine on earth, in their job or studies. Our biggest problem are not the adults but the children. Education as it's seen these days is a mnemonic exercise; that is, they go to school to learn who Garibaldi was, who George Washington was. People don't want a child to express himself, but they oppress him through a didactic education. At school they don't awaken the talent of the child; rather they give him cultural knowledge and so restrain the di­ vine part in him. So we've made sections where children of our as­ sociates come to learn how to ex­ press themselves. Because chil­ dren are full of destructiveness, we have made rooms where they can unloose their energy, where the child frees himself, rolling on the floor, screaming. After some time he begins to create, painting and singing, and out come come beau­ tiful things. In the school of the Age of Aquarius we would like the child to be educated, not only physically but also spiritually. The Age of Aquarius must be the age of inclusiveness, of collab­ oration, an era of union and joy. In our center people of all kinds come, even blind or spastic peo­ ple, and after some time they are at ease with us, because we are unit­ ed in spirit in an internal search. Our community is the only one where a two year old child lives toge th er with an old man of eighty. We want to keep this, because to- tality consists of everything. Be­ simply experiment with that cause the adults, those physically which has been said already by disabled, already felt at ease with many others; we search to live it in us, we thought immediately of the reality of every day and of children. So handicapped children course to give it to everyone who have come, and we've seen that wants it. We have many bodies, they, through our way of living, but only one soul, and we must feel very well. There has been a come to understand this through spiritual enrichment for the hand­ the soul that everyone of us has. icapped, as well as for the normal In this Age of Aquarius many children. The normal child has the groups are working: yours and ours possibility of doing good to the for instance, are a part of the whole handicapped and of course the and in practice we do the same handicapped has done good to work. We try to give people the him, so the enrichment has been possibility of plunging into their reciprocal. internal reality, and show them Whoever wants to adhere to that this reality exists, that it's real, our movement has to spontane­ that it's equal for everyone of us, ously give us his strength, energy, and that it's what Christ has taught money, everything he wants to us. If Christ has come to the world give, because a spiritual center has it is because there is the possibility to be born from spontaneity and to evolve and that possibility is for collaboration. Our only problem is everyone. Of course, once the in­ the lack of space, because there dividual is on the right way, all are many people: all are ready to doors, even that of negativity, do something. There is somebody begin to open. This negativity is who types with a typewriter, changed into light. Only the indi­ another who cleans the house, vidual can do this work: there are etc ... because we want this to be­ no elevators to Paradise. come a small village. We should If we should be able to say: also like to come together for the we lead you on this path, we bring holidays, during the other months you the light, we should have to live together, to experiment to­ much help today. But our basic gether. We want to create a com­ point is not to give anybody a munity where we can live spon­ crutch. We simply have to say to taneously not taking account of people that the Age of Aquarius is material values, but of values of the cosmic era, in which help another kind-that of the heart. comes from the divine and every We feel it growing abundantly in­ individual has to learn to get in side, pushing us to make this new touch with and to use the energy experimental community. We coming from God. We have tc don't teach anything new, but open the doors to receive thii so energy. Every man needs to know stance, we have to teach that the that he has two legs, discover them emission of negative thought de­ and walk, to see how beautiful it is files the air around us. We try to to walk on two legs. This is an exclude everything that is of incentive we can give, even if of mediumism, spiritualism and di­ course we always have to be ready vination, not because we don't be­ to give advice, to resolve the lieve in it, but because we must doubts of this man. He has to learn not be dominated by the spirit that all the techniques, all the dis­ world anymore. My body gives ciplines are nothing but a snare. hospitality to the divine, so I have Sooner or later he has to learn to to discover the divine that is al­ eat by himself, to get up by him­ ready in me and make it master of self. myself. We have to test life through Mediums have made us un­ our intuition, through the way of derstand these powers which were . the heart, discovering every day first outside of us. But when we the divine essence with which we discover that these powers are in want to get in touch, through vari­ us, occult must not exist anymore; ous paths necessary to arrive there no mysterious form must exist concretely. We see that in the anymore, and nothing must en­ whole world there are groups, thrall and degrade man. Man has many groups, which want the to discover the divine that is in same thing. We are not the only him, and he only has to live it. ones. We consider Aquarius every­ However, he must live it from the thing that takes into account the moment he wakes up till the mo­ internal truth of man, which is that ment he falls asleep, during the other truth inside man. Inside us whole day, not just for one or two we feel the vibrations of this future hours a day. Every action must be world that will lead to an evolu­ divine, and therefore he has to tion, not only for us, but for the know what happens when he whole earth. In the Age of thinks, when he talks. We have to Aquarius there will be a complete teach man to create thoughts of disappearance of that veil that peace and well-being. We have to separates the visible from the in­ learn that at last it's possible to visible. By studying, experiment­ cure people through the power of ing, observing, we can synthesize thought. All this new knowledge these two worlds: the visible and has to lead to the new era, and we the invisible; we can also translate want to live it consciously and into Occidental terms that what a without fanaticisms, with spon­ man has within within himself and taneity and sincerity towards our­ what has already been said by selves and others, creating right Oriental philosophies. For in- and good relations and upright ac- 51 tions in our lives-but everything realization of this Christian principle without prejudice. is due to the influence of Oriental doc­ We have to make the divine tn'nes? fully living in us. Mediumistic No. On the contrary. Some­ gifts are translated into interces­ one who approaches Oriental doc­ sion; that is, we must become trines returns to the Christian doc­ mediators between us and the di­ trine with so much knowledge and vine. We can receive the divine can become a real Christian. powers channeled through us, not Therefore the knowledge of to be superior to the others, but to Oriental doctrines never separates help the evolution of the world. one from Christianity. The Chris­ All the movements that bring tian idea of union and love has us an explanation of this internal been assimilated mentally, but it reality, that make us discover a has still to be lived in the heart. It's method to be able to live the di­ not enough to understand an idea vine are welcome. We should want mentally, it has to be lived. The our center, "the Age of Aquarius," Christian idea has been under­ to become a center of sorting out stood mentally by everyone, but it all these disciplines so that anyone has not been lived yet. I think that can realize himself by reading a even today it doesn't exist yet, book of Aurobindo or the "Divine even if it has been tried. Principle." We should want to be­ What do you think of the people come a center of connection be­ who say that this is the era in which tween the various movements Christ returns.? through the exchange of ad­ Christ returns in us. Every­ dresses, of magazines, books, and body has to realize that inside. As information and above all, of love, Au robin do says: "The adventures of ideas, of confidence, of joy. We outside us have finished." We should like to give everyone the have to make the Christian part possibility of self-realization, to live in us; mankind has to bring chose the most adequate and forth a new conscience. In prac­ adherent road for his needs. tice, we have to realize ourselves, Do you think that Christianity is we have to become the messiah to in crisis? ourselves. Certainly, we have to The real Christian principle, become the priest of ourselves, the real Christian function is that doctor of ourselves. Man has to of love and union. As for me, this understand and become a guide of has not been realized yet, there himself, manage himself on his can't be a crisis because Christian­ own, putting himself in contact ity in this way has never yet ex­ with the divine. When you have isted. discovered the divine in you, wha· Do you think that the lack of else do you want? Automaticall~ 52 this puts you in the track of real outside? There will be a center in life. I personally can't believe that us! This is the principle. • Christ comes from outside. Now Christ has not come only for we have to realize Christ in us. the Christians, but he has come for So why, beside theosophy and the whole world, the whole man­ Christianity, do other religions talk kind, as Buddha has not only come about the coming ofa man.P for the Buddhists. Now we've un­ Even if it may seem strange, ders rood that all religions say everything that has come to the something right, and therefore by world is right, is real. Only every­ uniting the religions the famous thing proceeds according to its de­ universal religion will come out. termined time. For instance, We have to free ourselves from theosophy was born a hundred every prejudice. At Buddha's years ago, but we can't stop at time, the illumination and self­ theosophy, we have to go on. realization taught by Buddha was Mankind was not ready at that given to everyone; therefore man­ time to absorb certain ideas, be­ kind was in the position to attain cause he was not yet enough de­ that kind of knowledge which veloped. Now is the moment in Buddhism reaches. When Christ which the organs of light develop, comes to the world, he has come as well as intuition, conscience, for everybody; and through the psychic sensibility and internal vis­ knowledge of his message ion. We can get learning from the everyone could realize the same doctrines of the past, but we must things. The symbol outside us has not acquire the knowledge that already come and has said and today can wake up man inside. We taught that what he had to say and have to amplify our conscience and teach. Now we have to accomplish vision. We have to realize that the the internal work, the individual coming of Christ that everybody is work. waiting for is nothing else but the This can be accomplished by arrival of man at a totality, the self-determination or through the same totality of Christ. Two many pushes we receive. For in­ thousand years ago a physical stance, a physical material misfor­ being came who represented this tune may be the method and the totality. We have accepted it and way to get free from chains which now we have to realize it. For two prevent us from dedicating our­ thousand years we have under­ selves to the divine, to the search stood that outside us was Christ. for union with the divine in Now we have to assimilate the fact wholeness of body and mind, and that Christ is in us. Christ has been with joy. This research of the di­ the symbol of everything we can vine must be our evolutionary leap realize inside. Is there a center in the Age of Aquarius. • 53 FROM SWITZERLAND Evangelicals Challenge Liberals

In late July some 2400 Protestant penitence both for our neglect and evangelical leaders from 150 coun­ for having sometimes regarded tries held a ten-day International evangelism and social concern as Congress on World Evangelism in mutually exclusive ... Although Lausanne, Switzerland. Or­ reconciliation with man is not rec­ ganized largely by the Billy onciliation with God, nor is social Graham organization, the confer­ action evangelism, nor is political ence posed a serious challenge to a liberation salvation, nevertheless prevailing philosophy of the World we affirm that evangelism and Council of Churches. Some in the socio-political involvement are World Council now question both part of our Christian duty." whether Christians have the right On the Bible: "We affirm the to disturb the faith of people who divine inspiration, truthfulness already have a religion. Opposed and authority of both Old and New to the World Council, 1900 mem­ Testament Scriptures in their en­ bers of the Lausanne Congress tirety as the only written word of signed a 3,000-word document God, without error in all that it which upheld the vigor of biblical, affirms, and the only infallible rule evangelical Christianity. At the of faith and practice." same time, the Lausanne Cove­ On Salvation: "We recognize nant, as the declaration was called, that all men have some knowledge took notice of the need for social of God through His general revela­ concern: tion in nature, but we deny that this can save. Jesus Christ. .. is the On social concern: "We express only mediator between God and 54 Man ... Those who reject Christ ported an "easy Christianity." Mr. repudiate the joy of salvation and Rene Padilla, a Baptist working in condemn themselves to eternal Argentina, stated that, "A Gospel separation from God." that leaves untouched our life in On the Second Coming: "We be­ the world ... is not the Christian lieve that Jesus Christ will return Gospel but culture Christianity ad­ personally and visibly, in power justed to the mood of the and glory, to consummate his sal­ day ...This kind of Gospel has no vation and his judgment... We re­ teeth. It demands nothing." ject as a proud, self-confident Padilla went on to emphasize dream the notion that man can that the quality of conversion was ever build a utopia on earth." more important than the number Some Third World evangeli­ of converts. "Faithfulness to the cals especially criticized the way Gospel should never be sacrificed the United States has often ex- for the sake of quantity." •

FROM SRI LANKA 5-Faith Dialogue

(EPS)--Interdependence is a rec­ ognized fact of life. But the energy crisis has recently made people in one part of the world painfully aware of their dependence on those in another part. Therefore the search for world community becomes even more urgent than heretofore. "Unless justice and peace are munity: Resources and Respon­ transformed into concrete sharing sibilities for Living Together." of power in the community of na­ The meeting was organized by the tions, we may witness merely a Department of Dialogue with rearrangement of old positions," People of Living Faiths and Dr. Stanley Samartha of Geneva, Ideologies, a sub-unit of the World Switzerland said on April 17. Council of Churches. He was addressing 60 men The energy crisis has pointed and women of the Hindu, Bud­ up the need for "fresh criteria for dhist, Jewish, Christian and Mus­ new human relationships that go lim faiths here for a conference on beyond economic and political the theme "Towards World Com- structures," according to Dr. 55 Samartha, an Indian theologian tions, history, culture, inherited who heads the dialogue depart­ wisdom, as well as contemporary ment. Values that sustain personal religious experience. life within the community need to He also cited the element of be defined, he said. " .. .in the "spirituality" as a source of power, search for values and criteria, the meaning and direction for the vari­ religious or transcendental dimen­ ous communities of faith. "Sym­ sions in human relationships can­ bols of worship and prayer and not be ignored." meditation hold communities to­ The term "world commun­ gether more strongly than theolog­ ity" presents certain difficulties, ical dogmas," he said. according to Dr. Samartha. First it "The significant question for is likely to be misunderstood as a us would be in what ways the move towards "a homogeneous spiritual sustains the life of man in unity or a totalitarian uniformity." the community, and how different The conference will reject comm uni ties of faith manifesting a syncretism, he predicted, as a form diversity of spiritual styles could of "shallow friendliness" which be in helpful touch with each other leads to "spiritual poverty, for mutual correction and enrich­ theological confusion and ethical ment." impotence." A multi-lateral dialogue held World community can also be in March 1970 at Ajaltoun, Leba­ misunderstood as a Western notion non included Hindus, Buddhists, imposed by rich and powerful na­ Christians and Muslims. Now at tions on the poorer nations of Asia Colombo the Jews have joined the and Africa. "Only when people are dialogue. liberated and freedom and power A communique suggesting are shared can there be true com­ how people of all five faiths can munity," said Dr. Samartha. assist the search for world com­ Thirdly, the concept of munity was expected by the time "community" is usually derived the conference ended April 27. It from a single religious or ideologi­ will represent the views of the par­ cal basis. It therefore lacks the ticipants and not those of the multi-cultural, multi-religious and World Council of Churches. How­ multi-ideological reality of today's ever, it is expected to make an world. important contribution to the Fifth He challenged representa­ World Council Assembly in tives of the five faiths present at mid-1975 which will have as a Colombo to examine critically the major topic for discussion the sub­ resources they bring to the search ject "The Common Search by for community. Specifically he People of Various Faiths, Cultures mentioned their scriptures, tradi- and Ideologies." D 56 FROM SRI LANKA Towards World Community

by C. MICHAEL DE VRIES The presence of five tradi­ tions did not make it any easier to (EPS)--"I cannot hear that word reach agreement. And the fact that any longer," said one of the fifty sociologists, technologists, politi­ conference participants. The word cal scientists and theologians look was "dialogue," and the occasion at things from their own perspec­ was a consultation of Hindus, tive was both an enriching and a Buddhists, Jews, Christians and complicating factor. Muslims organized by the World All agreed, however, that Council of Churches' Department dialogue is to be understood as a for Dialogue with People of Living relationship, an inter-action be­ Faiths and Ideologies. tween people not belief-systems. "Dialogue" was indeed the It is not confined to religious peo­ word most often used during the ple, but may also include some ten-day meeting: it occurred prac­ partners motivated by secular tically every sentence uttered. ideologies. It is, in the words of the This did not mean, however, that twelve-page memorandum ap­ all agreed on the definition of the proved by the conference, "sober, term. In fact, one of the goals of charitable and rational, allowing the consultation was to obtain clar­ both critical and appreciative ap­ ity about the meaning of commun­ proaches." ity and the resources and respon­ A neutral observer might have sibilities for living together in the left the conference feeling that the twenty-two countries of Asia, Af­ appreciative approach dominated rica, Europe and North America the meeting, and that the partici­ from which the participants came. pants might have benefited more It was the first time the five from a somewhat radical and criti­ major world religions were "rep­ cal mutual questioning. But one resented" in a consultation of this has to be aware that multilateral kind under World Council aus­ dialogue is still in its infancy. At pices. This representation should this stage listening is more impor­ not be seen as "official": those tak­ tant than cross-examining. ing part were there in a private capacity, as had been the case in earlier meetings with people from Polarities. Having gratefully four different religious traditions acknowledged the removal of a (Ajaltoun, 1970 and Broumana, number of stereotyped misunder­ 1972). standings of the other, one has to 57 recognize-as the memorandum history, and secondly in the sense does-the existence of real that history, by that very fact, be­ polarities. comes the vehicle for the realiza­ Take, for instance, the tion of God's design for His world. phenomenon of "spirituality." For The Asian religions cannot attach Jews, Christians and Muslims it is any such positive value to time or related to a personal God, re­ history, and in fact strive to tran­ garded as beyond and other than scend these categories. In more themselves. Hindus for their part technical terms: theirs is a "cycli­ seek the realization of truth bv cal" notion of time, whereas the being delivered from the con·­ other religions have a "linear" sciousness of self as a distinct and one.

separate reality. Buddhists seek Common Lines. If these dif­ enlightenment . through disci­ fer enc es can be described as plined self-effort. following the "polarities," the participants at Middle Path shown by the the same time acknowledged "real Buddha. Cle,uly, such diverse un­ common links.'' derstandings of man's ultimate First of all, they agreed that destiny have consequences for any attempt towards a world one's vision of world community. community-including the at­ Another example of diver­ tempt towards a definition of that ging-or even opposing -views is term-should be provisional, the notion of time and history. a-dogmatic and pragmatic, and not Judaism, Christianity and Islam utopian. are "historic" religions;, First in Secondly, they were all aware the sense that they are based upon that mankind is driven towards a divine revelation at a given time in world community by a variety of factors other than those stemming No final decision was made from religious traditions. Science, about a second gathering. But technology, social and political there was a commitment to initiate data leave no doubt about the in­ such meetings in different coun­ terdependence of peoples, nations tries and to keep in touch with and cultures. each other (unfortunately most re­ But the religious motivations ligions have no agency capable of derived from the various traditions organizing such a meeting). were recognized as a rich resource A few practical recommenda­ for the safeguarding of human dig­ tions were accepted. I mention nity, for the quality of life-in­ some of them: institutions should community. One of these motiva­ be established and movements tions is, as the memorandum puts among people be encouraged to it, "the notion that man is related promote dialogue, wherever pos­ to a transcendental reality: hence sible, on local, national and inter­ the right and duty not to submit to national levels. Promotion of social the human situation as it is, but to justice within and beyond political strive towards its betterment." orders was recommended, as well Another one is the common em­ as common concern for environ­ phasis on universal responsibility mental problems. Education at all towards all, and on loving­ levels concerning different reli­ kindness and forgiveness. gious traditions was seen as one of the major issues. So was mutual Where do we go from here? sensitivity in situations where All participants felt a way ought to people feel a duty to bear witness, be found by which the dialogue, and-needless to say-the promo­ both bilateral and multi-lateral, tion of freedom of religion. could be continued. For all were But the main result of the aware of the unique possibilites. meeting was strengthening the Where else would it have been participants to reach out beyond possible, to give but one example, themselves and their several tradi­ for Jews from Israel to converse tions in the quest for meaningful about the theme of the conference encounters with people of living with Muslims from neighboring faiths and ideologies. Each one Arab countries? And to do so in a will provide a list of twenty names spirit of mutual readiness to accept of similarly inclined co­ the partner's sincerity? Where else religionists, with whom corre­ would a Christian from the spondence and, hopefully, other Western world have an opportun­ contacts will be established. With ity to share his concerns and apologies to readers in tropical deepest convictions with Bud­ areas: it will have a snowball ef­ dhists and Hindus? fect. D 59 FROM VENEZUELA Pentecostals Meet for Dialogue by IAN M. FRASER their counterparts from Bolivia, Colombia and Puerto Rico spent (EPS)-Angel Villalobos comes of five days with fifteen Pentecostal peasant stock. As a priest he has pastors and laymen at the G. F. been closely identified with peas­ Bender Educational Centre near ants in the Rio Frio area of his Barquisimeto. They struggled native Costa Rica. He backs their over what it means to "confess struggle to get land of their own Christ today" in the situations of rather than remain farm laborers deprivation in which all are living. working for others all their Jives. The setting was appropriate. Roberto Melgarejo is a Because Pentecostal leaders live at layman from the working class who the level of the people they serve, has gained an education. He is part the center has only bare essentials. of a team of ten people who have Sometimes there is water for turned their backs on a life of drinking and washing, sometimes privilege and chosen to re-insert not. The food, while adequate, themselves into a Peruvian consists mainly of cereals and veg­ barriada (slum), helping the in­ etables. Beds are of the simplest habitants become aware of their kind, set up wherever there is grim situation and the resources space; there are hard benches to sit which might help them change it on. When it rains, water pours in for the better. The team is sup­ on all sides, but you carry on re­ ported by the Evangelical Latin gardless. American Commission on Chris­ Here the Pentecostals feel at tian Education (CADEC). home. They can express them­ Near here is a center belong­ selves. Outsiders may find the ex­ ing to a remarkable Evangelical Al- istence a bit rough, but it is cer­ 1iance of forty-six Pentecostal tainly economic. The two doilars a churches, which believe in prayer, day extracted from each confer­ Bible study and worship in the ence participant was a far cry from Spirit. They also are committed to the cost of a hotel room, a sum the education of disadvantaged roughly equivalent to what 2 children and the liberation of ex­ Pentecostal pastor needs to feec ploited peasants. his family for an entire month. · Recently a small group in­ Juan Marcos Rivera, Carib cluding Angel and Roberto plus bean secretary for UNELA!v 60 (Provisional Commission for Latin Relaxed communication. American Evangelical Unity), More than two thirds of the con­ speaks appreciatively of the Ven­ ference time was spent in the re­ ezuelan Pentecostals on the basis laxed sharing of stories, experi­ of his ten years' acquaintance with ences, insights and concerns. All them. were related in terms of the history "These are thoughtful peo­ and problems of a particular coun­ ple," he says. "We must give them try. If small, somewhat isolated an opportunity to contribute to the Christian groups and movements thinking of the world church. are to thrive courageously in a They have put their faith to the world hostile to the Gospel, they test and they know it works. You'll need opportunities for such infor­ notice the local leaders draw on a mal, face-to-face encounters at the 'memory bank' rather than a 'book deepest level. bank.' They are not accustomed to To open the day there were writing. Wherever writing is con­ songs to guitar accompaniment, sidered the only method of com­ prayers, readings. This might oc­ munication, they are at a disadvan­ cupy ten minutes-or half an hour! tage. Here the balance is being Things took their unhurried redressed. They are taken seri­ course. ously.'' Then suddenly a moment Then he made a perceptive came, so definite you could almost remark which I as secretary of the reach out and touch it, when par­ "Participation in Change" Study ticipants realized the impact of of the World Council of Churches new acquaintances and fresh ex­ found especially interesting. Juan periences had been taken in and Marcos said: assimilated. People who had been "In recent political develop­ strangers were now part of a com­ ments the Venezuelan people munity. Then they were ready to have made it clear they are going to turn outwards. There were con­ make up their own minds about cerns to be communicated beyond their destinies. It is important to the bounds of the assembled keep close to common people who group. show this kind of awakening and Two very down-to-earth con­ awareness. Future trends can be clusions emerged. They could see read more clearly from their no possibility of confessing Christ movements than from those of the without helping people to experi­ elites. ence genuine freedom and stop "We need to stay beside being victims. For this to be possi­ them-listening to them. The ble, they affirmed the absolute kind of people gathered here can necessity of ( 1) rural people having provide a real pointer to what God land to work, since to have a sense is preparing for the future." of dignity it is necessary to make a 61 decent living; and (2) all men hav­ During this same visit other ing an education that will enable doors were opened. A group of them to develop their full poten­ young people who deeply long to tial. Without such an education, be Christians but have been people do not look like children of shunned by the churches because God for whom Christ died. they do not conform to certain standards were gathered in a small "It's a breakthrough.'' house singing and chatting. The Assessing the value of theencuentro president came with us and sat on or encounter to the Pentecostals, the floor with them. For the first Juan Marcos Rivera said: "Their time they felt accepted. minds had been filled with their "It is gatherings like this," own difficulties. Now they have said Juan Marcos, "that gave the become aware that fell ow Chris­ Pentecostal community an aware­ tians face even greater hardships. ness that the Holy Spirit works in They are encouraged-life is a ways beyond their reckoning and battle everywhere. opened up to them ways of Chris­ "Further, this fresh aware­ tian life they instinctively would ness of different kinds of Christian have shunned.'' commitment worked out in a vari­ Things are happening that ety of situations has helped them only a short time ago would have measure the quality of their own seemed impossible. A representa­ engagement here. They are tive of the Association of Evangel­ deeply thankful to God for the en­ ical Churches of the Caribbean richment others have brought Coast attended the encuentro. Only them." six months before Juan Marcos had Roman Catholics had been tried unsuccessfully to arrange a invited to attend, and a priest and a meeting with him. Now a member layman were present for part of the of the association is going to spend conference. In return, the group a year at the Pentecostal education was invited to visit a church of center. "Catholic Pentecostals." The It's a breakthrough," the president of the Pentecostal As­ UNELAM representative said. sociation joined the congregation "An encuentro like this with their on this occasion and took part in envoy participating lays a basis for the prayers. He felt part of the confidence and further oppor­ congregation-in fact it was hard tunities." to drag him away. One vital woman in the group "This was something that had shared her concern about the polit­ never happened before," accord­ ical and social domination women ing to Juan Marcos. "It was cer­ experience in Latin America. Her tainly most unexpected." words were so forceful that 62 everyone was deeply affected. She they too go home with new ideas, was persuaded to stay over an extra alerted to the mistakes others have week, and a full schedule of made, strengthened. They take strategic gatherings was quickly ar­ back to their communities encour­ ranged for her. agement and gifts to deepen their As to the "inserted" group, life and outreach. •

FROM ZAMBIA Message to African Churches

(EPS}--As it concluded its ten­ "We came together to listen day deliberations in Lusaka, Zam­ to God speak to us, to teach us and bia, on May 21, the Third Assem­ to equip us for this mission in Af­ bly of the All Africa Conference of rica today. We realized, painfully, Churches sent "a message of that only a free Church can free hope" to the churches in Africa. In Africa from its superstitions, false the message, the Assembly called conception of development, polit- upon the churches "to allow Christ to set them free." The message was entitled "The Struggle Continues." The full text reads: "We, Christian men and women, black and white, repre­ senting different age groups and professions and coming from the many Churches in Africa, meeting at this Third Assembly of the All Africa Conference of Churches at Lusaka, Zambia, would like to de­ clare with the writer of the First Epistle of John: 'That which we have heard, which we have seen, we have looked upon and touched with our hands ... we saw it, and testify to it and proclaim to you' that what the African Christian men and women are crying for and struggling to achieve is to be freed. ical and social injustices, oppres­ fore we can become a society sion of the black by the white and which lives wholly and exclusively oppression of the black by the for others, we must call upon the black, from elitism and indis­ Churches in Africa to allow Christ criminate importation and imita­ to set them £ree- tion of foreign cultures through lit­ l. From theological conser­ erature and films. vatism, so that we can understand, "As we grappled with the interpret, apply and experience problems of Evangelism and Self­ the message of the Gospel afresh; hood of the Churches in Africa, the 2. From denominationalism Church and Cultural Renewal in and outmoded church structures, Africa, the Prophetic and Serving and rigidity and timidity in chang­ Church, and Church Union and ing them, so that we may be led by Cooperation, it became increas­ the Holy Spirit to a reality of one­ ingly clear to us that it is only as we ness in Him; live No Longer for Ourselves but 3. From fear to proclaim the for Christ that the Church in Africa new message of redemption and can speak with a free voice to its denounce evil boldly; people. 4. From hypocrisy that leads "We were painfully aware to denouncing evil abroad and that there are areas in Africa that condoning it at home; are still victims of oppression and 5. From selfishness in sharing suffering of all kinds; for example, with one another our resources of our black brethren in South Africa manpower, skills, time and fi­ and Rhodesia are under the yoke nance, so that God may lead us of a white minority government into a rediscovery of our mission­ and are groaning under the system ary role in the use of these re­ of apartheid. And those in sources; Namibia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozam­ 6. From easy dependence bique and Angola are under upon foreign money and men foreign and imposed rule. They without making the efforts to edu­ need to be freed. The white needs cate ourselves for self-reliance. to be freed from his fear of the "This is the message we have black which drives him to oppres­ to proclaim to all Churches in Af­ sion, and from his greed which rica. It is a message of hope, know­ drives him to exploitation. The ing that God is willing and ready to rest of Africa still living in any kind use the immense spiritual and of bondage and the grip of evil moral capacity of the Christians in needs to be freed and brought to Africa to free Africa so that we, the light of the Gospel. And we together with all the Christians of saw that before we can achieve for the world, shall 'No Longer Live Africa what is expected of us, be- for Ourselves but for Christ.' " • 64 Thorleif Boman is a Norwegian preacher and lecturer in the churches theologian and a scholar with interna­ and organizations in and about Oslo. tional fame. His doctor's thesis from In a new book he has taken up the 1952 has appeared in four different individual's relationship to society. editions in Japan and in paperback He says, "The main problem of our editions in English. In a series ofarti­ time is that the faith and the morals of cles he has taken up important reli­ the society have been destroyed and the gfous questions which enjoy a vital in­ individual no longer finds a common terest today. Some of his articles have human base to stand on. This is why been published as a book with the title also the individual's personal faith "Religious problems." and morals die. The rescue must come when we find and express in words and Dr. Boman teaches at the Protes­ deeds the religious values and the ethi­ tant faculty of the University of Oslo cal norms which will persuade others today, and is also a very popular by their genera I validity. '' WhenDVE 's)\RlCI by THORLEIF BOMAN

The ideal love is often charac­ especially as Luke and John de­ terized as passive by the Christian scribe him, and also Peter's de­ church, as an ability to believe and scription of Jesus to Cornelius: to hope everything good for "He went about and did well." others, and to tolerate bad things In this, however, not every­ from others, and not to hit back in thing is said about the perfect love. wrath and hatred. The example is There is one more aspect in­ the crucified love. This love, volved, but this aspect is hardly nevertheless, has to be com­ looked at at all and very lowly plemented by the active love, love judged, so many deny that it is in words and deeds. The example there at all. This is strictness. for that is the Jesus of the Gospels, Strictness is not talked about as 65 something which stands besides table together with publicans and love, which is applied if there is sinners, for he hoped to find not enough love or when love can­ someone among them whom he not do the task. But strictness is a could help to the light. He also necessary and full, conscious ex­ claimed the right to publicly re­ pression of love. ceive the humble thank you of a Here again we must take prostitute, who had become a new Jesus as the pattern and the exam­ and happy human being because ple. In most of Jesus' words there of him. Such claims caused a con­ is sunshine and warmth of heart, flict between Jesus and those who and great peace and security; but represented society, morals, and some words sound like a thunder­ religion. storm. One gets the impression Finally, Jesus had his own that the hard words are more fre­ life-task. He went his own way in quent and more strict the nearer he life, without asking some other comes to death. men for counsel, help, or approval. Jesus' strictness was directed There was no room for men to go against his opposers, his followers, beside him, but he invited all to and himself. He was mildest follow in his track. However, they against his opposers. His strictness had to follow him unconditionally. against them was mostly a strong Many followed him in the begin­ warning not to lead the people on a ning, when he was popular and way which will end in the destruc­ when many were for him, but as tion of Jerusalem and the whole the opposition became strong, nation. It is surprising how little more and more fell away. Eleven our sermons and our teachings of the apostles followed him even make of this important point. All until Gethsemane, but the last and theologians admit that the king of most heavy steps on his way, from Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, would Gethsemane to Golgotha he went have spared Jerusalem and the alone. people, if the warnings of the For the disciples to follow prophet Jeremiah had been Jesus could mean taking part in a heeded .. Why not say the same if long marriage feast. They felt se­ Jesus' warnings had been heeded? curity near him, because he de­ Jesus claimed the uncondi­ f ended them against all attacks: tional .right to do good, e.g., the "Can you make the children of the right t9 heal someone who was sick bridechamber mourn while the on sabbath; the right to defend the bridegroom is with them?", ht disciples when they were attacked asked the attackers. They met ir by outsiders (he had reserved the Jesus a religious and ethical great education of the disciples for him­ ness without any likeness. "Bless self); and the right to sit at the ed are your eyes for they see; am 66 your ears, for they hear. For verily Nevertheless, they endured with I say unto you, That many him (Lk. 22:28). After they had prophets and righteous men have got to know him, they did not have desired to see those things which any choice (John 6:68); but the you see, and have not seen them; love he gave them was strict. and to hear those things which ye But even then, God's love to hear, and have not heard them." Jesus was stricter. Why do But it could also be heavy and evangelists not preach about the difficult to be Jesus' disciple. It relationship between God and was good that he turned away their Jesus? Why do the teachers not criticism, (Lk. 10:40), their loving talk about that? When Jesus was and well-meant advice (Matt. baptized there was the voice 16: 16: 22); he blamed them for saying, "This is my beloved son." their bad understanding (Matt. The one who was perfect in love 15: 16) and for their little faith and perfect in obedience, God let when they were afraid to perish bear a terrible lot of suffering. He (Matt. 8:25). He asked such high did not complain, but he gave a claims of those who wanted to be convincing explanation, "For unto the children of God, that the dis­ whomsoever much is given, of him ciples had to ask: "Who then can shall be much required." be saved?" (Mk. 10:26). He In our time, when the danger strengthened them against the fear to be spoiled and to be demanding of death by saying that there was is great for all of us, we can get something worse than to be killed moral strength, when we re­ by men (Lk. 12:4). They had to be member that the love which comes prepared for that, if they wanted to from above is strict. For those who be his disciples (Matt. 10:38 ff). If suffer without guilt and without a conflict should develop between being able to understand why, it that which was from God and that might be of help to remember that which was from men, even if it they share the lot of all the involved their loved ones, his dis­ prophets and of God's most be­ ciples .had to choose that which loved children. Nobody can be­ was from God. come a deep Christian without Because the difficulties be­ being strongly tested in advance. came greater ~fay after day, Jesus This is the price which has to be had to be stricter and stricter in paid to come close to God. It is order to prepare them to be able to therefore the great task in life of all master the situation. In the end his who suffer to fight the good fight strictness rnade them so afraid that of faith, until the fog clears up and they no longer dared ask him what the sun starts shining. They will he meant by the words which they meet God as a loving Father even: did not understand (Lk. 9:45). in suffering. • 67 ciilture

/lf:t \~, Below/1:rl etrfrA, ofHa.fdlnB befor~:/the ... r,' Subt!jJmmittee ~fl;, JonJJ is professr), ant} Physiology. ✓1 California at Ji.f on the staffqJlle{ fields of s/eciallj biochemistry, d ,, biophysics, an . ology, He has recently wrlt/e.,,/ two books, Coleridget~;(oq11~oleridge and 4 Opium, 1t'il S~ilual Drugs: De­ habilitati6fi andl!lehabilitation of the Mi/a. He h~s also conducted studies for the U.S. Army of the drug problem among soldiers in Southeast Asia and Germany. In the course ofhis work he has personally interoiewed more than 1600 drug users, most of whom used cannabis. He also conducts a course called ''Drug Use andAbuse'' at Berkeley which has a current en­ rollment of 390 students.

68 In my presentation this after­ his courses. He partially recovered noon, I plan to deal with the and changed his major to sociol­ sources of the current marijuana­ ogy, but then dropped out into the hashish epidemic, because only Haight-Ashbury drug culture and when we have identified the is reported to have died. When last sources will we be able to attack seen, he was unrecognizable phys­ and push back the epidemic. ically and with no trace of his A chance opportunity to former high intelligence. launch the drug movement came •A strong B+ student with to Berkeley in January 1965. The aptitude in literature became a Free Speech Movement won an "speed freak" (heavy user of am­ endorsement from the Berkeley phetamines). She was also in­ faculty of their contention that free volved with marijuana and other speech includes freedom to en­ drugs. She has partially gage in illegal advocacies and acts. recovered-enough to work and This sad event occurred on De­ support an inactive, pot-using cember 8, 1964. When the campus "husband"-but she lost her way. reopened in January 1965, the first •An athlete who sometimes such illegal act was open advocacy dated our daughter had an athletic of drug use-in particular, mari­ scholarship, was a strong student juana and LSD. Pro-marijuana academically, and was recognized handouts flooded the campus for as an outstanding person. His sub­ months, and speakers endlessly sequent involvement with can­ sought to promote these drugs in nabis and LSD produced a perma­ the "free speech area," using Uni­ nent personality change. He be­ versity public address equipment, came homosexual and a dangerous and in classrooms. manic depressive. Shortly after­ During this time, we had a ward, in an LSD flashback, he son and a daughter on campus. killed a relative. He is now in- Among their circle of friends, even stitutionalized. though our children did not m,e •A young man, the son of drugs and the majority of their schoolteachers, very able mentally friends did not, there were and with exceptionally fine home nevertheless some who were seri­ training, began using drugs on ously affected by drug abuse: campus. One day he went home while "high" on amphetamines, beat his father to unconsciousness, and killed his mother by mashing Ruined lives. her head with a flowerpot. He •An A student in engineering never offered any explanation for became heavily involved with his "madness." marijuana and LSD and failed in •An additional six individuals 69 have undergone personality increase 20 tim~s as great as before changes due to cannabis and LSD, 1965. The greater susceptibility is, to a degree requiring psychiatric in my opinion, the result of wide­ care. It can be said that, while spread advocacy of drug use by these six have "recovered," they persons in influential positions. have certainly blunted their poten­ For the first time, the drug abuse tial and cannot make up for the loss disease of a few intellectuals broke of time in the most formative into the educational system, liter­ period of their education and de­ ,ally without opposition and with velopment. "distinguished" support for the I cite the above cases because "mind expansion" hypothesis. they all occurred within the limit­ ed circle of friends and acquain­ tances of my son and daughter. The drug propagandists. Dr. The number of cases is high, in Timothy Leary: I knew him in the view of the small fraction of that 1950's and, in my opinion, he has circle that was involved with signs of mental deterioration, drugs. coincident with his drug use. Prior to 1965, signs of drug By chance, I was one of the use had been increasing at the rate last to challenge him in public dis­ of approximately six percent per cussion before he was arrested. We year. Butafterdrugusewasopenly debated in San Francisco on Fri­ advocated; as at Berkeley' from day, November 7, 1969~' Leary January 1965 on, drug use of each asked the audience of some 500 type increased at seven percent high school journalism students to per month, resulting in an annual use drugs · to protest the war in 70 Vietnam: "Blow your minds." I pause, he said: "You are wrong; I replied that many young people know of only 250 who died from had already taken Dr. Leary's ad"." taking LSD." I replied, "These vice, and this had led, through were the ones you knew about per­ LSD use, to the death, or mental sonally, Dr. Leary." He remained and physical maiming, of more after that in a trancelike state, people than had been killed or making no further comment. In­ maimed in the war in Vietnam in terestingly, the news·paper report the same time period. Leary ex­ of the incident cited the "verbal claimed, with a waving of arms, scuffle," but did not give the sig­ "I've been shot." Then, after a nificant details. 71 Lester Grinspoon: His book, Mostly, he draws a picture of a Marijuana Reconsidered (Harvard world so bad that use of marijuana University Press, 1971), has been is a welcome relief, as the lesser of heralded in the New York Times two evils. In his teaching on the Book Review as "The Best Dope on Berkeley campus (lecturer, School Pot So Far." The Washington Post of Criminology), students report (May 30, 1971), in its review by that he asserts that marijuana is Edward Edelson of Grinspoon's less harmful than alcohol and book, had this to say: "[Grin­ cigarettes. spoon] is convinced that fu­ ture experiments will confirm the Marijuana propaganda from belief that marijuana is an extraor­ the "right." On many occasions of dinarily harmless drug. Here he debate with those advocating the may be optimistic ... use of mari­ legalization of marijuana, I have juana is increasing. Time and listened to such statements as numbers are on the side of legali­ "even the conservative experts zation. Dr. Grinspoon' s book is appointed by President Nixon on part of this movement." the Marijuana [Shafer] Com­ mission agree that it is a mild drug John Kaplan: His book, and should be legalized." Fortu­ Marijuana-The New Prohibition, is nately, the foolish portion of the a persuasive argument that those Shafer Commission's report were wishing to use cannabis should be too ambiguous to be convincing. allowed to use it as they wish, as is The rurnabou t of William F. the case with alcohol. It is a liber­ Buckley, Jr., in reporting (De­ tarian and legal argument without cember 1972) that he had used scientific competence. The author marijuana, found it harmless, and selects evidence on only one side advises decriminalization, is a dif­ of the issue, citing Grinspoon as ferent matter. His unambiguous evidence that marijuana is a mild statement, his stature as a leader, drug, essentially harmless. and the reversal of his former posi­ Dr. Joel Fort: He has been a tion had a widespread impact. I tireless worker for the legalization contacted Mr. Buckley by tele­ of marijuana. He states that he is phone and letter and was led to against drugs and that marijuana believe that he had invited me to should not be used. Yet, other acts reply in a statement to his paper, and arguments presented by him the National Review. My essay was have the opposite impact. I have sent at once (December 14, 1972) opposed him in debate many but was never published, nor did times. Occasionally, depending on Mr. Buckley provide an explana­ the kind of audience, he has stated tion for withdrawal of his invita­ that marijuana is harmless. tion. 72 Marijuana propaganda in if passed, legalize marijuana. In education. All about me in the Washington, D. C., the Mayor's education world I observe exam­ Advisory Committee on Narcotics ples of bias for drugs .... At Ber­ Addiction asked for steps in the keley there are several courses on "legal growth, manufacture, and drug use. Dr. Fort gives one, and supply of marijuana." The first the others are also in the hands of point of the chairman, Mr. Frank persons who believe in the advan­ H. Rich, was "No demonstrable tages of drugs used moderately to evidence is available to support enrich life or for recreation. the assertion that marijuana use is Perhaps the students are not en­ hazardous or detrimental to the tirely fooled, however, because physical or mental health of the my class on drug abuse is much user." He acknowledged credit to more attended. The propaganda the Shafer Report and to Professor for drugs that is more hidden from Kaplan's book, Marijuana-the sight is that appearing as. a section New Prohibition. The sources of of courses in psychology or sociol­ propaganda are used and reused as ogy or anthropology in which the though they were valid, and when urging of the marijuana experience propaganda is used as a resource, is a secondary part of instruction. there is no listing of scientific in­ Such examples appear to L'! com­ formation. mon. The media and pro­ marijuana propaganda. For a de­ Misinformation from gov­ cade now, newspapers, journals, ernment reports. The Federal radio, television, have repeatedly Government, through its official featured pro-marijuana spokemen agencies, has been one of the like Timothy Leary, Joel Fort, worst offenders in spreading the Lester Grinspoon and Norman impression that cannabis is a harm­ Zinberg. If the principle of equal less drug. Reports of the Depart­ time were invoked, the networks ment of Health, Education and would by now owe some hundreds Welfare are inadequate scientifi­ of hours, at least, to scientists cally, do not touch accurately on whose work on marijuana had led the principal matters needing . them to the converse conclusions. clarification and, in many in­ In placing their facilities at stances, are likely to lead the pub­ the disposal of this one-sided lic to believe that science has propaganda campaign, they may proven marijuana harmless. have succeeded in brainwashing As of May 1974, several state themselves, in addition to the legislatures are considering bills brainwashing of a substantial por­ that will for all practical purposes, tion of the American public. 73 The entertainment industry. Rabbit," "D.O.A.," and "Comin' Another important element in the Into Los Angeles." barrage of pro-marijuana and pro­ drug propaganda was the output of our entertainment industry. The role of radical prop­ There were pro-drug films aganda. Radical propaganda has like "Easy Rider" which sym­ also played a major role in the pathetically portrayed the life of spread of the drug epidemic, and young people caught up in the in particular, of the marijuana­ drug culture, including the use hashish epidemic. and sale of marijuana. Perhaps the principal vehicle of the New Left movement was And then there was the bril­ the underground press. The un­ liantly made but criminally damag­ derground press has undergone ing film, "Su perfly," which considerable attrition in recent glamorized the lives of two black years, but not so long ago every cocaine wholesalers, in a manner major American city had one or which brought protests from black several underground papers, and community leaders in Washing­ even relatively small cities had ton, D. C. and in other cities. I their own local underground press. quote what the New York Times film It has been reported that at the review said about "Superfly:" height of the phenomenon there "That the film [Superfly] does not were some 800 underground pa­ also belong with those movies por­ pers in the country, with a total traying the evils of drugs must be readership of roughly 20,000,000 the result of very intelligent calcu­ young people. lation; for there is no moralizing, I have yet to see an under­ not even the subtle silent kind, ground newspaper that was not ac­ and the film's most eloquent tively engaged in the pro­ spoken passage is given to Priest's marijuana propaganda campaign. partner"_,:_Priest is "Superfly" Timothy Leary, the guru of - "when he defends dealing as a the Leftist drug cultists, was car­ way of life." ried almost on a syndicated basis The recording industry has by just about the entire under­ played a major role as a vehicle for ground press. pro-drug (primarily pro-marijuana) A typical example of New propaganda. Scores of such songs Left drug propaganda is the formal were recorded by folk singers and publication by Lyle Stuart, Inc., rock groups and became best sell­ New York, of Tke Anarckist Cook ers and top favorites of disc jockeys Book. In addition to "recipes" for across the country. Some of the bombs to be made in the kitchen, better known ones were: "White methods for the preparation of 74 many drugs are given. The intro­ In his testimony last June, ductory chapter on drugs states: Dr. Andrew Malcolm, a Toronto "The use of drugs comes under psychiatrist told the Subcommit­ the birth of a new culture .... The tee that marijuana makes people use of drugs under this culture will far more suggestible and therefore be free ... " And he quotes Jerry far more open to manipulation. Rubin: "Pot is central to the revo­ This coincides with my own ex­ lution. It weakens social condi­ perience with some 1,600 mari­ tions and helps create a whole new juana smokers over an 11-year state of mind. The slogans of the period. I am convinced that people revolution are going to be POT, under the persisting influence of FREEDOM, LICENSE. The marijuana can be easily manipu­ BOLSHEVIKS of the RE­ lated by demagogues of the ex­ VOLUTION will be longhaired treme left or the extreme right. pot smokers." Marijuana smokers, in short, The Communist Party itself would be grist for the mill of any has not partcipated in the pro­ future totalitarian movement. marijuana propaganda campaign or in the campaign to legalize mari­ juana. The Trotskyists and Mao­ Scope and distribution of the ists have also not participated in epidemic. Strong religious faith pro-marijuana propaganda, and, at whether Christian, Jewish or other least in the case of the Trotskyists appears to give resistance to the are on record as opposing the use drug. Strong family ties, more fre­ of the drug. quently found in connection with It is interesting to note, how­ strong faith, also appears to reduce ever, that when the Communists, involvement. Trotskyists, and Maoists With regard to the United -cooperating despite their States as a whole, there is no com­ differences-brought hundreds of munity free of the problem thousands of young people to ....This is how I stated the prob­ Washington to protest against the lem in 1968 in a booklet that had Vietnam war, the air of the greater millions of copies distributed; Washington area was heavy with "Social pressures among the pot smoke for the duration of the young to use the dangerous drugs demonstration. There is no record are wide-spread and, unless the of any spokesman for the major trend is reversed, as much as half Old Left organizations using his of this generation of young people command position in the demon­ may acquire crippling drug addic­ stration to discourage the use of tion or habituation." To that pot. And one is compelled to ask: statement we need only add the why? genetic hazard. • 75

One Man Fights for Truth and Beauty United in God by His Divine inspiration Never be depressed, live by His sacred aspiration Indelibly in our hearts reigns Hi.~• glorious religion Faith-we shall ever be· s·oldiers of God's battalion In love, faith, unity we trample Satan's temptation Clarion call of mine answers my supplication Angels singing songs of sublime unification Together we must radiate God's wonderful Association In this army of God's array we focus our determination Onward, happy soldiers to the battlefield of our purification Noble, staunch, and vigorous, we shall blaze the trails of sanctification

Calling all people over land, sea, and air to join our jolification Honesty and integrity shall blast Satan's temptation Until we reach our glorious and loyal destination Rollicking we march to heaven's priceless jubilation Come, join this bandwagon, tum away from all destruction Hallelujah! we shall sing on our way to sweet salvation

May God's blessing shower on us all And garland you with prayers of love And flowers of divine songs And gems of perfumed roses from God's sweet garden. Peace on us all, peace, om, salaam Betty Kaloo · Guyana, South America 77 FATHER'S SONG

I heard Your song one afternoon. It was beautiful. I don't think I could ever sing that beauty. When I heard You, I stopped. I just couldn't move. You saw me, and You smiled. And then You sang it again, All the way through­ just for me. I listened, and my heart became a part of Your song.

How can a song be so beautiful? There are no tears to cry No laughter to fill the air That can sing Your song. Tears are the shadow Of Your song. I heard it all, Standing in the sunset Singing Your song in my heart But knowing no words to say. Alice W. Hellerstein St. Louis, Missouri 78

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To the question "Will the free free world and the Communist world and the Communist world world converge politically and converge?" the answer appears to ideologically?" one cannot reply be a definite "Yes" but only as far by a mere "Yes" or "No." The as science and technology is con­ problem is rather complex, and in­ cerned. In this regard we should volves three necessary preliminary not forget the fact that Soviet Rus­ considerations: sia pioneered in space exploration First consideration: an ideology and Communist China has be­ of violence. The Communist world come a nuclear power, well ahead has been recently divided by some of many Western countries. The minor ideological differences, but two giants in the Communist as a whole it remains a Marxist world are no longer lagging behind world, and Marxism contains a leading Western countries, and it most sacred dogma-the third law even seems that the Communist of dialectical materialism which is system with its huge concentration the negation of negation. This of power in the hand of the party third law of dialectical materialism has effectively contributed to their denies democracy and promotes rapid development in science and violence. Soviet Russia and Com­ technology. To sum up, one may munist China are at odds with each say that in the particular field of other, but neither of the two has science and technology, the Communist world is moving to­ wards our side, full speed. Remarks at a panel discussion, "Will the fret But politically and ideologi­ world and the Communist world converge.?' a, the 7th World Anti-Communist League confer­ cally the problem is quite differ­ ence, April 1974. Mr. Hoang is from Sout) ent, and to the question "Will the Vietnam. 84 ever abandoned its opposition to and reject violence. democracy and its policy of vio­ It is in my view that our pres­ lence. ent world is divided into three cul­ The free world does not pre­ tural spheres, each presenting two sent ~uch a definite ideological characteristics: homogeneity. If we disregard 1) The Communist sphere, minor variations, we may say that characterized by an opposition to the non-Communist world is di­ democracy and a policy of vio­ vided into two main spheres of cul­ lence. ture. On the one hand, we have 2) The Western sphere, the Western culture characterized characterized by democracy and a by democracy and a long tradition long tradition of violence. of violence, and the Oriental cul­ 3) The Oriental sphere, ture characterized by a lack of characterized by a lack of demo­ democracy and a traditional cratic tradition but with a tradi­ philosophy of non-violence. All tional philosophy of non-violence. the three leading Oriental The three cultural spheres philosophies, Buddhism, Taoism, can be schematically represented Confucianism, preach harmony as follows: Convergence of three cultural spheres

Communist world -Violence - No democracy

Western world Traditional Oriental -Violence world -Democracy - Non-violence - No democracy

Convergence occurs only similar to Western countries. Simi­ when either of the three changes larly, let's suppose, also for one its inner characteristics. For one minute, that Mao Tse-Tung re­ minute, let's suppose that Soviet jects violence and revives the spirit Russia suddenly opts for democ­ of non-violence contained in racy. It will then become quite Buddhism, which once flourished 85 in China, or the spirit of softness the democratic system in the from Taoism, or that of harmony West, or a complete disappearance from Confucianism; then the of the spirit of non-violence in the People's Republic of China will be East. We do not think about such similar to Imperial China in many an eventuality, simply because we respects. do not want it to happen. Ration­ ally speaking, movement in either Second consideration: cultural direction is always possible, and a exchange. Although an exchange of shift from democracy to des­ culture is possible and such an ex­ potism, or from harmony to change has happened many times tyranny is always easier and more in history, cultural exchange is likely to happen than the move­ ruled by the same law which pre­ ment in the opposite direction. vails in money exchange, and that Because of the above consid­ is: The bad money chases the good erations, I would like to divide the money away. I· mean to say that whenever two different cultures question "Will the free world and the Communist world converge?" come into contact, the bad charac­ into four component questions: teristic of either one always tends Question One: Will the Com­ to expand into the other one, while munist world implement democ­ the good characteristics are not racy and move closer to the West? likely to be absorbed with the My answer: No. No leader in same ease. This has been demon­ any despotic country is willing to strated by the process of cultural implement democracy which will exchange which took place be­ run against his privilege and tween East and West during the power. Democracy can only be past century or so. Efforts in trans­ implemented by a revolution from planting Western democracy (a below. In the present circum­ good characteristic) into Asia rarely stance, no revolution can be ex­ succeeded, while on the other pected in Soviet Russia or in hand, through films and TV Communist China. Westerns, violence has been Question Two: Will the Com­ spreading into many Asian lands. munist world abandon its Third consideration: West or philosophy of violence and move East.P It is our hope that when we closer to the spirit of non-violence think about an eventual con­ which characterized traditional vergence, we wish to see the Asia? Communist world move either to My answer: No. When we an the democratic system in the discussing that eventuality here. West, or to the spirit of non­ Mao Tse-tung is criticizing Con• violence in the East. We never fucius and praising the legalis think about an eventual collapse of school of philosophy, the onl~ 86 philosophy of violence which ever vive the spirit of non-violence in existed in China and which has the East. been condemned by the Chinese To resist Communism more people for more than two thousand successfully, another step should years. be taken: to implement Western Question Three: Will the democracy wherever it is still lack­ Western world abandon democ­ ing, and to spread the Oriental racy and move closer to the Com­ spirit of non-violence wherever a munist world by a progressive tradition of violence still prevails. evolution towards despotism? In so doing, both East and West My answer: Quite possible, if will have two weapons to resist we ignore such a possibility. As a Communism instead of one, or matter of fact, democracy has been none in many cases. wiped out before, in ancient The task is certainly difficult, Greece. but it is not impossible, because in Question Four: Will the Asians Asia, Japan has successfully im­ abandon their traditional plemented Western democracy philosophy of non-violence and while preserving Buddhism, and move closer to the Communist India has maintained both democ­ world by adopting tyrannical racy and her traditional spirit of policies? non-violence. This has been, in My answer: Quite possible. my view, the reason why these two Such a process is already happen­ countries resist Communism ing in many Asian lands. Will it somewhat better than many happen to Thailand in the near fu­ others. One should also note that ture? All depends on whether the the spirit of non-violence has lately Thai will use Buddhism to oppose made some progress in the West. Communism or whether the Thai To conclude, I hope that will simply resort to violent someone or some group of scholars methods to oppose Communist will work out what I should call an violence. Ideology for Peace and Freedom, It is my opinion that we which is most urgently needed should not expect the Com­ everywhere in our present worid. munists to move toward our side. Perhaps an international seminar Such a chance exists, but for the must be organized for that pur­ present moment, it is still too re­ pose, and scientists of all denomi­ mote. On the other hand, we nations, from all countries should should rather concentrate our ef­ meet, discuss and find out some fort on preventing our side from ways to combine Western sliding into their side. In other liberalism and Oriental modera­ terms we should uphold democra­ tion into one single philosophy, tic institutions in the West and re- that of peace and freedom. • 87 The Whole Nation Dreams where they were forced to sign a of Reunification confession that they had been spy­ ing. According to Prime Minister In accordance with the nor­ Kim Jong Pil there are several mal security rules for fishing ves­ reasons for the relatively favorable sels, the crew sent messages out economic development in South every twelve hours. What spy­ Korea. First is President Park vessel in the world broadcasts its Chung Hee's strong leadership. positions in a language under­ He has stressed to the population standable to everybody, and not in that incessant labor is necessary for code?", the Prime Minister asked. progress, and that a well-arranged economy, combined with political In addition to this occurrence and social stability, are their only two espionage cells were exposed hopes in order to survive. in the middle of March. These Most of the population is aware of the fact that if they have a stable economy, others will re­ spect them, and this will discour­ age the North Koreans in their hope to take them by force. At the present Korea is unfortunately a divided nation, but their hope is that soon in the future this penin­ sula will be reunited, and that Seoul will be the capital of the whole nation. The Prime Minister and the people are constantly hoping that peaceful reunification will be pos­ sible. This is the dream of the whole nation and the reason why they have suggested a dialogue with North Koreans, in spite of by INGEGERD GAL TUNG countless violations of the armis­ tice agreement. We only need to A co,respondent for the Oslo, N orwi go back to February of this year, newspaper Morgenbladet visit when the North Koreans shot at Korea and wrote a series ofaccounts and sank a South Korean fishing her visit in May of this year. The fi vessel, confiscated another one, lowing excerpts of three interviews t. and in addition brought several in­ translated and reprinted by perm nocent fishermen to North Korea, sion of Morgenbladet. 88 cells had been operating in the mg way: South for ten years, directed from "Here in South Korea we are North Korea, in order to overthrow in a special situation and we do not the Sou th Korean government. dare to get relaxed because of the Both cases are very alarming, ac­ danger fom the North. There are cording to Prime Minister Kim. student demonstrations because The Prime Minister is sorry our intellectuals look at foreign that Sou th Korea has had to use countries with envy and would like such strong measures as the curfew to have the same freedom as exists after midnight, and that there can­ in those countries. These coun­ not be the same freedom as in the tries, however, do not have Kim' Western countries. This lack of 11 Sung hanging over their heads. freedom is strongly criticized in The intellectuals and the students the Western press, and Kim who are demonstating have a Jong Pil explains it in the follow- dream, but they are overlooking reality. We in the government are The railroad's end at the 38th parallel reads, " .. . though the train also dreaming about a life without yearns to run further." tension; we do not want to be alert all the time. We want nothing more than to live the same free life as you do in the West, but in order to get there it is necessary for us right now to live as we do." The forty-seven year-old Prime Minister, who has a military education, plays a key role in the military junta which is leading South Korea after the bloodless coup in 1961. In January 1963 he left his position, retired from the army, and started organizing a new political group, the Democratic Republican Party. It was or­ ganized in order to give an injec­ tion of new blood to the Sou th Korean political life. This is Presi­ dent Park's party. Kim Jong Pil was one of the most enthusiastic fighters for a normalization of relations with Japan, which occupied Korea from 1910 to 1945. After the occupation 89 came to an end, there were no rela­ troops from South Korea, and tions at all between the two coun­ there are no plans to do this. tries. He met a strong opposition This assurance gave special because there was much hatred joy to South Korea, because the against the former colonial power American Secretary of Defense, Japan. When he signed the first James S. Schlesinger, had sug­ agreement with the Japanese gov­ gested in February that it might be ernment there was a strong reac­ possible to replace some of the tion in the whole country. American troops with "mobile re­ Prime Minister Kim said that serve troops" who could be South Korea is very glad that it stationed on Guam or on Hawaii. now has good relations with Japan North Korea in the mean­ today, on the diplomatic, finan­ time has tried desperately to get cial, and political sectors. "Our the American troops taken out of two countries need each other." South Korea. In this connection said Kim. The occupation belongs North Korea's foreign minister to the past. We must only have the made a so-called "peace sugges­ future in our thoughts." tion" to the U.S. and suggested bilateral talks concerning the re­ moval of the troops. A spokesman U.S. Troops Remain in Korea for the State Department, John King, rejected this suggestion on "The U.S. has fortunately as­ March 25th, saying that the U.S. sured us that there will be no was interested in every attempt changes in connection with the which would reduce the tension on 40,000 soldiers who are stationed the Korean Peninsula. In this con­ in South Korea," stated South nection he directed North Korea's Korea's Foreign Minister, Kim attention to the suggestion which Dong Jo, at an interview in his of­ President Park has made to Nord fice. Korea of a non-aggression agree­ Dr. Henry Kissinger person­ ment. ally gave this assurance to the North Korea has also sent foreign minister in mid-March. letter to the American Congres Mr. Kim Dong Jo was then in concerning the American troops Lima, Peru, when he got a tele­ but this letter was addressed to th phone call that Mr. Kissinger Congress itself, which is an ur would like to meet him, in usual procedure. North Korea hf Washington, D.C. not received an answer to this le There Dr. Kissinger repeated ter. With regard to the up-comir what President Nixon has stated, 29th General Assembly of tr namely that it could be a catas­ United Nations, South Korea trophe to withdraw the American prepared for the fact that cl 90 Communist countries again will and Venezuela in March. He used try to place the Korean question on the opportunity to have a meeting the agenda. North Korea is really with the South Korean diplomats working for that, but their tactics in Central and Latin America. The are not quite clear. meeting was held in Lima, the This was confirmed by Am­ capital of Peru, where he also bassador Kwon Min Jun, who is signed a trade agreement with the the leader of the North Korean ob­ country. servation mission at the UN. He Peru's government is sup­ has said, "Our struggle is clear, but posed to be socialistic, but they not the tactics." By "struggle," he gave me a very friendly reception, was undoubtedly referring to the he recounts enthusiastically, and attempt to get the American troops he adds that the South Korean withdrawn from South Korea. The government plans to sign trade ambassador, by the way, always agreements with six other coun­ uses the word "patriots" when he tries in Central and Latin America, talks about the North Koreans, together with fishery agreements and he uses the expression with four nations there. South "traitors" when he talks about the Korea is very interested in closer South Koreans. relatiof\ships with Latin America, This is not really the ter­ but has, led by Kim Dong Jo, also minology of reconciliation, if it is started to concentrate lately on that they want. Europe. All the Common Market Foreign Minister Kim states countries, with the exception of that there has been no progress at Denmark, have followed South all in the dialogue between North Korea's request not to start dip­ and South Korea. The North lomatic relations with North Korea Koreans put new things on the as long as the dialogue continues agenda all the time as tactics for between the two countries. delaying and stopping the talks. They are also sending leaflets to our students to encourage them to Why Negotiations Broke Down start a revolt against President Park. They slander South Koreans "We not only need patience, more and more intensely all the but superhuman patience for our time, but we never go against negotiations with North Korea. them step for step. That would Even if the dialogue between our place us on the same low level two nations more or less has where they are. reached an end, we have decided The Foreign Minister Kim never to give in, but try to main­ was present under the inaugura­ tain a certain contact, even if it for tion of the new presidents in Brazil the time being is on a very low 91 level," spokesman Lee Tong Bok between the two nations. said recently, during an interview During our talk Mr. Lee ex- in South Korea's capital, Seoul. plained how the idea of a dialogue Lee Tong Bok was formerly a came about. South Korea's inten­ well-known journalist in Seoul, tion was to obtain, if possible, a until a couple of years ago when he less tense relationship between was asked to take over the position the two nations, a tension that as spokesman of "The Coordinat- reached its climax at the end of the ing Committee" between North sixties. That was when North and South Korea, in the dialogue Korea, on November 2, 1968 was The "Freedom House" at Panmunjong attracted tourists and newsmen during the North-South reunification talks.

92 sending 120 weaponed guerrilla to exchange addresses between soldiers into Sou th Korea, killing approximately ten million Koreans lots of innocent village inhabi­ who had been living separately for tants. On March 16 of the follow­ a quarter of a century. In this way, ing year, North Korean agents parents would get a chance to again made their way into South know where their daughters and Korea. Pretending to be police of­ sons could be found and vice ficers on patrol, they confiscated versa. This first meeting, which identification cards from hotel was open, was held in the border guests. town Panmunjong, but it did not This, together with other consist of anything but propaganda events, such as the Pueblo affair, talks from the North Korean side. caused rising panic among the After this experience we South Korean population. We un­ made a new advance behind the derstood the situation could not scenes, planning to discuss com­ continue in this way any longer. mon problems. As a meeting place Something had to be done to get in we suggested Geneva, Paris, touch with the North Koreans, and Seoul, or Pyongyang, and the head we found out that the best solution of our intelligence service, Lee Hu would be to suggest a dialogue for Rak was going to be our represen­ the purpose of obtaining an even­ tative. Then Mr. Lee's secret visit tual reunification in definite steps. to Pyongyang followed early in That this would not be realized 1972. He was hailed by the North overnight, because of the greatdif­ Korean dictator as "the people's f erence in ideology, way of think­ hero." ing, social and economic systems, On July 4, 1972, a common and view of values, we of course communique was issued that a understood. But as a middle point dialogue between our two nations on the road to reunification, we was starting. But this idyllic situa­ were hoping, however, that a tion did not last long. Already in friendly coexistence could be November 1972 the North made possible, since we were Koreans insisted on making sev­ working for a mutual confidence eral changes. First of all, we and a feeling of solidarity as wanted to discuss humanitarian Koreans. "After all, we are the questions, while they claimed that same people," the spokesman for "military questions" were to be the Coordinating Committee given highest priority, as, for in­ pointed out. stance, the withdrawal of the U.S. In 1971, for the first time, we troops in South Korea. They made a proposal to North Korea for wanted "political conferences," a meeting. First of all, it was to be where representatives of all the realized on a humanitarian level, people would participate. One of 93 the conditions in the common Sung, as their hero. They are de­ communique was that hostile scribing him as "the greatest propaganda against each other ideologist ever born in Asia." At should cease on both sides. North the same time they encourage the Korea was already transgressing democratic revolution of the peo­ this condition on November 11, ple," to free us "poor people in 1972, when accusations against us South, who are living under the were broadcasted from Radio yoke of colonialism." Pyongyang. A secret radio station Just how little the North located somewhere in North Korean population knows about Korea, urged the population in the outside world and what is South to make a rebellion against going on south of the 38th parallel our legally constituted govern­ that separates us, we partially ment, with the aim of overthrow­ learned in March 1973. At that ing it. time a delegation from our side vis­ On August 28, the dialogue ited North Korea, and were shown was interrupted in the name of a hennery, Lee Tong Bok said. Kim Young Joo from the North The farm leader was informing the Korean side; Le Hu Rak, who had delegation that due to "their be­ been hailed as "the people's hero" loved and respected leader, Kim II by Kim Il Sung, was suddenly clas­ Sung, who was holding his protect­ sified as a traitor. ing hands over the farm," it was After the experiences we possible to produce several have had, we have found out that hundred thousand eggs each day, during these twenty-six years of so that every person in North separation, North Korea has never Korea could be given three eggs a for a second given up the idea of a week. The delegation was very Communist takeover of the south­ surprised to be told by the farm ern part of the country, our inter­ leader that he never for a minute viewee declared. Dialogue or no had ceased thinking of the day of dialogue, they are planning to reunification, "when we can help reach their aim-through military you-our poor brethren in the power or through what they call South-who never got a chance tc ''the democ.ratic ,revoJution.. of the see such eggs. You then will ge1 people,"-'of foak:ing~ff5ntS' ~of the·, three eggs a week too." discontented elements in South I myself have had the ques Korea. tionable pleasure of visitini To reach their goal, the North Pyongyang three times, a Koreans have introduced their spokesman of the Coordinatin, very special type of Communism, Committee. We did not have pei based on a fanatic idealizing of mission to move freely in the cit their own country and of Kim II or to talk with the population. J 94 we wanted to leave the hotel, we Koreans announced through their were requested to wait in the re­ newspapers that we were gather­ ception room for transportation, ing all the cars from the whole that in nine out of ten occasions country in the capital merely to never turned up. impress them while they were vis­ The spokesman of the Coor­ iting us. On the other hand, we do dinating Committee tells me that not of course disregard the fact that several analyses have been made North Korea is on a high level con­ in South Korea of the reason why cerning heavy industry, especially the North Koreans agreed to the the fabrication of weapons, but proposal of a dialogue at all. The concerning consumer goods they conclusion of the analysis is the are years beind us. following: North Korea calculated So from August 28, 1973 until wrong in their estimations of the November, there was no contact at situations in South. They must all between our two sides. In the have thought that by establishing a meanwhile, North Korea was mak­ direct con tact with the Sou th ing propaganda that we were Koreans, whom they believed under U.S. imperialism and a new were living under the most miser­ sort of Japanese colonialism. On able conditions, they would be November 15 our side sent a mes­ able to appeal to the population sage to Pyongyang to announce directly and to get them on their that we were willing to discuss an side in the planned revolution. eventual reorganization of the The North Korean authorities committee, if that was what they undoubtedly came to the conclu­ wanted. Our proposal is to expand sion that it presents a risk to their the committee from five to ten own Communist system to let persons, while North Korea wants some of their countrymen find out a committee consisting of a how retarded North Korea actually minimum of 350 persons and a is, concerning economy, de­ maximum of 1,000 persons from velopment, and growth. During each side-in other words a the dialogue we met in the border mass-meeting. town Panmunjong, sometimes in "It is the same from whatever Pyongyang, and, sometimes in point of view one looks at it-this Seoul. Even if a limited number of is not a real proposal at all," Lee delegates were visiting Seoul dur­ Tong Bok sighs. He confidentially ing these meetings-a fifty-nine tells me that day and night he is man delegation at the Red Cross longing to go back to journalism. conferences and twenty-five per­ ""This is at least fruitful sons at the remaining meetings work," he says, "while talking -still it was too dangerous. After with the North Koreans is like talk­ their first visit to Seoul, the North ing to the wall." • 95 On September 19 Japan and South men cutting off their little fingers Korea formally ended the month­ and sending them to the Japanese long dispute arising over the assas­ Prime Minister as a token of their sination of Mrs. Park Chung Hee outrage at the official Japanese by a Korean resident of Japan. statements disclaiming any re­ Mrs. Park was killed on Au­ sponsibility of the affair. gust 15 by a bullet intended for her Japanese leaders had said husband. The accused assassin, publicly that Japan bore no legal or Mr. Mun Se Kwang, had been part moral responsibility for the affair of a left-wing study group as a and that no investigation would be youth in Osaka and had entered made into Japanese accomplices. Korea on a false passport obtained In addition, Japanese leaders from the birth certificate of the angered Koreans with statements husband of a member of his study that contradicted the Japanese­ group. The pistol used in the as­ Korean treaty. They said thatPres­ sassination was stolen from ident Park did not represent the Japanese police. only legal government on the For several days during the Korean peninsula and that there middle of September Koreans was no longer any danger of attack rioted daily around the Japanese upon the South by the North. embassy in Seoul. Photographs The United States had de­ were published showing Korean clined to intervene in the dispute

96 between her two East Asian allies, gether with an operative of the saying the affair was too emo­ Pyongyang-controlled Korean tional. However, as Korean anger Residents' Association (Chosoren) increased, diplomatic sources in­ had directed and funded Mun in dicated that the United States his assassination attempt. helped bring a resolution to the According to Prosecutor Kim, conflict. the unidentified North Korean The Japanese government agent operated out of a North gave two expressions of regret, one Korean freighter, the "Man­ written and the other oral, over the kyongbong-Ho," which has been incident. The written statement travelling between the North was a personal letter from Japanese Korean port of Hamhung and sev­ Prime Minister Tanaka to Presi­ eral Japanese ports, including dent Park, delivered by former Osaka. The Chosoren operative Foreign Minister Etsuaburo was identified as Kim Ho Ryong, Shiina. Japanese diplomatic age about 40, who is the Political sources said that the letter ex­ Section Chief of a Chosoren chap­ pressed condolences for Mrs. ter in Osaka. Park's death, Japan's deep regret Prosecutor Kim quoted Mun that the plot had been initiated in as confessing that he was recruited Japan, a prorQise that the Tokyo by the pair around September 5, government would carry out a full 1972 for revolutionary indoctrina­ investigation, and a pledge to pre­ tion and given the mission in early vent any recurrence. November, 1972, from Kim Ho Apparently President Park Ryong to assassinate President was not satisfied with the expres­ Park at the Samil Independence sion of the letter. Mr. Shiina then Day ceremony in Seoul on March said that Japan felt duly responsi­ 1, 1974. ble for the incident, would sternly The agent allegedly gave punish offenders in Japan and Mun 500,000 yen, telling him to would do her best to prevent ac­ purchase a pistol at a black market tivities in Japan aimed at over­ in Hong Kong for use in the assas­ throwing the South Korean gov­ sination. This was supposedly the ernment. Korean Foreign Minister reason for Mun's trip to Hong Kim Dong Jo wrote down Mr. Kong with Mrs. Yukio Yoshii of his Shiina's remarks and asked him to left-wing study group. However, sign them, which he did. during their three-day stay in The Chief of the special Re­ Hong Kong, they apparently failed public of Korea investigation of to obtain the weapon, forcing the the case, Prosecutor Kim II Tu, postponement of the assassination told a press conference on August attempt. Mun succeeded in steal­ 19 that a North Korean agent to- ing two revolvers from an Osaka 97 police box on July 18, 1974, one of team infiltrated into Seoul and which was used to kill Mrs. Park, came near the presidential palace the Prosecutor said. before being stopped by Seoul On May 5, 1974, Mun was police, who killed all but one of said to have made contact through the would-be assassins. Kim Ho Ryong with the North The ghastly extremes which Korean agent aboard the the Korean protest took have sub­ Mankyongbong-Ho during its stop sided, and hopefully the senti­ in Osaka. The agent allegedly ments as well. A unity between gave Mun new instructions to as­ Japan, Korea, and the United sassinate Park during the August States is essential to maintain 15 Independence Day ceremony. peace and stability in East Asia. If Kim then gave Mun 800,000 yen nothing else, this incident strongly for expenses and instructed him to shows the need for such unity. gain a passport with the help of North Korea has been ac­ Mr. and Mrs. Yoshii. With the tively promoting anti-Park senti­ Japanese passport in Mr. Yoshii's ments in the South and in Japan, name, Mun entered Seoul on Au­ the latter through the pro-Kim II gust 6. He took a room at the posh Sung Chosoren. The 600,000 Chosun Hotel, keeping to himself Korean residents in Japan have and staying indoors most of the been treated as second-class citi­ time. On August 15, he rented an zens in Japan and denied many expensive car to drive to the Na­ rights. Chosoren glorifies North tional Theater, where President Korean life and Kim 11 Sung. The Park was speaking. Some reports followers it recruits work together say that Mun was able to enter the with the Japanese Communist hall by being mistaken as a Party for the subversion of the Re­ Japanese diplomat. public of Korea. An alternative to The Japanese accomplices of the comprehensive ideology of the assassination plot are hoped to Kim 11 Sung is being offered to be uncovered through a Japanese Korean residents of Japan by the investigation on Kim Ho Ryung, Japanese branch of the Interna­ Prosecutor Kim said. The ROK tional Federation for Victory Over investigation team has asked the Communism. A new dimension of Japanese police for cooperation in this effort began this summer. the investigation through Interpol Korean residents in Japan have and diplomatic channels. been invited to two seminars in the The August 15 assassination United States to study an alterna­ attempt was the second Com­ tive to Communist ideology and tc munist attempt on President strengthen bonds of understand. Park's life. On January 21, 1968, a ing and friendship between Korea 31-man North Korean commando Japan, and the United States. [ 98 viewpoints world events A new step in international coop­ * * * eration is planned for July of 1975, when Russian cosmonauts and A growing number of suicides American astronauts will link in the United States, particularly spaceships for two days of experi­ among the blacks, Indians, and ments and sharing in space. In the young, has spurred new preparation for this mission, studies into the causes and preven­ Americans have visited Russia and tion of self-inflicted deaths. Such the Russians have visited America. self-inflicted deaths in 1973 were Chester Lee, program director for estimated at 24,440 persons, a rec­ the American effort, explained his ord total. The over-all U.S. suicide views of the project this way: "If rate of 11. 7 per 100,000 still seems we are ever to reach detente with low in comparison with Hungary Russia, it's got to start somewhere (33. l per 100,000, the world's and we believe this sort of program highest) and a number of other is a good beginning. And in the European nations such as future, if we are to continue ex­ Czechoslovakia, Austria, and ploring space, the costs are so great Sweden. that the nations have to do some­ Many cities have set up thing like this together, just to suicide prevention centers, with keep the programs going." counselors and staff persons man­ The Americans are learning ning telephone "hot lines." to speak some Russian and the Commonly cited motives for Russians are learning English. suicide include: chronic depres­ Both sides have made concessions sion, serious illness, job reversals in spacecraft designs, and the new and other frustrations, hysteria, docking mechanism they have de­ guilt feelings, excessive use of signed is better than either the barbiturates, postalcoholic with­ Americans or the Russians had drawal, and a morbidity built up by previously developed indepen­ previous suicide attempts. dently. This is but a small example Whatever the motive, it is of the possible benefits of peaceful usually agreed that persons con­ international cooperation. templating suicide give some sub- 99 tie or obvious signal of their inten­ extremely severe penalties for il­ tion, such as "If I see you legal use), the Turks blame U.S. again ... " or "please pray for me." addiction on American morals Specialists in the study of suicide rather than on Turkish farmers. cases urge people to heed suicide Because of the threat of cancelling threats and cries for help. Suicide U.S. aid, the Turks might respond is considered the second most by cancelling agreements for use common cause of death among of vital NATO and U.S. bases on American young people, after ac­ Turkish soil. cidental deaths. Our lifespan on In light of the complexities of earth is such a unique opportunity modern global interrelationships, for spiritual growth. Self-inflicted the U.S. must renew its moral death is a tragic barrier to fulfilling foundations at home, and then an individual's purpose in living. lead the way for international cooperation for the benefit of all * * * peoples. * * * It is estimated that the opium poppy grown in Turkey was for­ The foremost family in the merly the primary source of nearly controversial probe of man's 80 percent of the heroin distrib­ origins is undoubtedly the uted in the United States. A 1971 Leakeys. In 1959 Louis and Mary accord between the U.S. and Tur­ Leakey found an almost complete key agreed to compensate Turkish skull in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge farmers for not growing the poppy, dated 1¾ million years in the past. and during the two years that the This find, which they named Turkish fields lay fallow, the esti­ Zinjanthropus, was purported to be mated number of U.S. heroin ad­ the "missing link" between primi­ dicts in the U.S. dropped from tive ape-man and modern man. 600,000 to 200,000. Now that Four years later, another find, Turkey has agreed to resume Homo habilis, much larger and poppy growing, U.S. narcotics of­ more like modern man, replaced ficials have little hopes of keeping Zinjanthropus in the Leakeys' the products out of the United minds as the ancestor of modern States. man. Zinjanthropus was consid­ The U.S. tried to compensate ered to have coexisted with Home the Turkish farmers, but they habilis and then died out. could not find any alternative These finds aroused grea1 crops and also resent foreign controversy, which has been re­ domination. Not faced with any cently revived by the latest find b~ drug problem (perhaps because of son Richard Leakey and his assis JOO tants. Thirty fragments from one have theories to fit it-and that skull were reconstructed in 1972 to attempts to explain their recent indicate a cranial capacity of 800 finds are bound to create more cubic centimeters, roughly equiva­ heated controversy as they delve lent to Homo erectus (a walking, ever deeper into the roots of man.'' beetle-browed creature, the first While anthropologists and approximately human creature). paleontologists attempt to weave The greatest shock was that this together the strands of man's skull, assigned the file number origins, the Bible indicates' that 1470, was dated at almostJ million man was created from God's love years old. and intellect, and was intended to This pushed the Leakeys' fully reflect the nature of God. But theories of man's emergence back because of his early deviation from a million years, and relegated the God, he fell far below God's origi­ Zinjanthropus, Homo habilis, and nal intention and has only very some unusual proto-human man­ slowly progressed to his present dibles recently discovered to three state. separate lines of parallel develop­ ment which eventually became *** extinct. Leakey's findings, and espe­ "Peace Demoralizes North cially his interpretations of them, Vietnam," is the title of an analysis remain highly controversial among of the current mood in North Viet­ his anthropological colleagues. nam which appeared in the Austra­ Comparisons of darings, for in­ lian newsmagazine The Bulletin. stance, between similar findings The country has been devastated by Leakey and by some of his col­ by war, and rice and other essen­ leages differ by as much as 500,000 tials are rationed. The aid from years. However, D. Carl Johanson Peking and Moscow which North of Case Western Reserve U niver­ Vietnam received during the sity, announced a discovery of a height of the war has dwindled, hominid skull fragment and four perhaps due to the administrative leg bones, dated at more than 3 muddle in Hanoi and the chaotic million years old, whose structure physical and spiritual conditions. indicated that the creature was Hanoi papers themselves com­ adapting to an upright life at that plain th;it the peasants neglect col­ age. lective labor in the fields, often A July 15, 1974 Newsweek working only four hours a day, re­ review of these developments serving their energies for building commented, "What is obvious is profitable side businesses, selling that anthropologists for once have produce from private plots oroffer­ more evidence available than they ing their own labor in free JOI markets-at much higher prices new Portuguese junta's future de­ than the official state standards. cisions about overseas territories, Hanoi's response is a "revisionist" the conflict between the army and pragmatism that includes holding the guerrillas in the north of out "capitalist" material incen­ Mozambique, and the fate of the tives, such as bonuses and pay by approximately three percent the piece work, coupled with more non-black population. Those who rigid enforcement of work regula­ had been informed of the coup ex­ tions. pressed a jubilation and relief at This new line in Hanoi must the end of 48 years of Portuguese horrify the Chinese hard-line control. Marxists, but the North Viet­ The article published in the namese have not been able to Lisbon Expresso worried about the solve their problems along the response in South Africa, which Marxist lines. The Australian has traditionally regarded Mozam­ paper speculates that Hanoi may bique as a source of practically free start bargaining with the U.S. for labor and as a protective zone aid. However, this may only be a against guerrilla activity. Two deception to gain time to build up politically distinct groups ex­ theirs trength for another attack on pressed support for the new pro­ the South. gram of the Junta. The Democrats The South, meanwhile, ac­ of Mozambique asked for civil cording to reports of the recent freedoms and the prevention of a fact-finding mission by Freedom declaration of independence of the Leadership Foundation, has built Rhodesian style. The United up an impressively stable and free Group of Mozambique (GUMO) society, in spite of continued ter­ sent a cable expressing hope for rorist attacks from the Viet Cong. "finding a political solution to the Under the duress of war and existing conflict in Mozambique strict government control, the through multi-racialism and North Vietnamese proved to be pacifism and political institutiom tough fighters. But the Com­ born of the Movement." munist system cannot provide the We can but hope that th< spirits of the people with a solid natural human longing for freedorr foundation for a peaceful society. can find fulfillment in Portuga and her former colonies, couple< * * * with true cooperation resulting i1 the benefit of everyone con The first uncensored news cerned. dispatch sent from the Portuguese Nuclear power has opened u colony of Mozambique in 43 years for man tremendous potentials fr highlighted an anxiety about the human welfare and developmen 102 As with so many of God's gifts, further explorations will raise that man first used it for destructive figure enormously. A phenomenal purposes. Now that many nations quantity of manganese nodules of the Third World are building has been discovered lying on the nuclear reactors with the aid of ocean bed, containing enough Western nations, is there any way copper and nickel to double the of ensuring that the nuclear power world's resources, as well as man­ thus developed will be put to ganese, cobalt, and other miner­ peaceful purposes? India recently als. But who has the rights to mine tested its first nuclear device, fol­ them? lowing the lead of China. Now, A previous law-of-the-sea part of Nixon's promises in the conference in 1958 gave coastal Middle East include developing states the right to exploit off-shore nuclear plants in Israel and Egypt, resources to a depth of about 600 two historic opponents. Nixon jus­ feet, but left many uncertainties. tified his promises by explaining A conference in Caracas this June that U.N. commissions would was to convene 151 nations (the oversee the production of these largest world conference ever as­ facilities. However, the U.N. sembled). The conference was lacks much inherent moral author­ expected to agree to extend the ity these days to enforce its objec­ territorial rights of all coastal states tives of world peace. The perils of to 12 miles off shore and to control a nuclear "accident" or deliberate of underwater resources within attack are frightening and sober­ 200 miles of their shores. One mg. problem arises involving 100 straits that are now treated as high *** seas and open to all ships; the 12 mile proposed territorial rights A great rush to develop the would bring them under the con­ world's underwater resources may trol of just one or two countries. trigger an unprecedented interna­ The U.S. insists that the narrow tional scramble or may set the waterways remain open to all traf­ scene for the greatest international fic. cooperation in history. Last year At least, the known sea re­ Icelandic gunboats fired on British sources will help ease the worries fishing vessels for allegedly viola­ of many countries over mineral ting Iceland's territorial waters-a and energy reserves and provide scene in what has been called the an incentive to develp the new Great Cod War. Moreover, an es­ technology needed to exploit timated 26 percent of the world's them. This offers a wonderful op­ known oil reserves are underseas, portunity for international cooper­ and some experts think that ation. • 103 IOWCs spearhead all-out campaign by JOY SCHMIDT brotherhood, according to par­ ticipants. The International One World Crusade teams had partici­ About 600 young mehlbers of the pated in Reverend Moon's 21-city Unification Church gathered at tour in 1973 and 32-city tour last Barrytown, New York on August spring as well as in the Celebration 10 to prepare for an all-out cam­ of Life programs last summer. paign to turn New York upside "We are using the successful down-spiritually. pattern we developed during the This third New York cam­ 32-city campaign," explained paign in the three years of Rever­ Rev. Paul Werner, coordinator of end Moon's public speaking tour the ten teams. He outlined the or­ of the United States created the ganization of the teams. Each greatest spirit of unity and team has a primary section to wor~ 104 in (part of Manhattan) and a sec­ and planning. ondary one (in Queens, Brooklyn, After the initial five days of New Jersey, etc.). Everyone rises training at Barrytown, the teams at 5:45 a.m. and eats breakfast. By went to New York to devote full 7:00 everyone is downstairs, ready time to working on the streets and to leave for their areas. Through­ door to door, giving away tickets out the day they speak to people, and persuading people to come to persuading them to go to Madison the meeting. Initially, there were Square Garden on September 18. four lectures per day at the 475 Each person receives $1.00 per Fifth Avenue office downtown. day and a bag lunch. They eat Each of the lectures was about an supper when they return to the hour and a half long and briefly Paris Hotel at 10:00 p.m. and meet covered the entire scope of the Di­ by teams and regions for sharing vine Principle-God's ideal, the 105 fall through disobedience, the im­ portance of the family, God's pro­ vidence in history, and the birth of the Messiah after 1917. After lectures, interested guests stayed for question and answer sessions. "Through the lectures we created a spiritual environment at the Fifth Avenue office," ex­ plained Dr. William Bergman, IOWC commander in the New England area. "N ewspeople al­ ways came during lecture times. They would meet a member on the street and follow him or her back here. Walter Cronkite taped part of my lecture and then inter­ viewed members from eight coun­ tries, asking 'Who is Reverend Moon to you? A prophet or the Messiah?' " At the Paris Hotel for a while firm commitments to attend the all-day study programs were held Madison Square Garden program. for interested students. In addi­ Wednesday mornings and tion, two three-day workshops at Sunday mornings, all the IOWC Barrytown drew a couple hundred members, New York Unification guests. A number stayed on for Church members, and (in the last more extensive training programs week) Unification Church mem­ and returned to Manhattan near bers and friends from around the the end of the campaign to invite country, gathered at St. Michael's people to the Madison Square Cathedral near the Paris Hotel for Garden speech. I met one such services. On September 15, Re­ team of about eighteen men and verend Moon inspired the mem­ women handing out tickets near bers to win New Yorkers with thei1 Times Square. They gathered for smiles and their love. "These las1 a spirited rally of singing and three days are like the last thre< street-speaking. steps to the victory," he ex• About ten days before the end plained. "God has been lookini of the campaign, lectures and for men of faith for 6,000 years workshops were discontinued in That faith will be most glorious!· order to place total emphasis on blessed. In the worst situations distributing tickets and gaining instead of complaining, just giv, 106 IOWC commander Ken Sudo inspires team members with God's love. your humble heart to God." tion in New York, planned to dis­ Many of the teams held small, rupt the forum with sixty violent spontaneous rallies from time to demonstrators, so it was cancelled. time. Dr. Bergman's team met on In addition to talking to peo­ Wall Street about every other day ple on the streets, some IOWC to sing, pray and speak to passing teams went to parks, door to door, people. Dr. Bergman reported in shopping centers, or to eating that the number of people who places such as McDonalds. stopped to listen to the songs and Television commercials and news speeches was proportionate to the coverage enhanced the interest amount of heart the individuals and response of the public. The put into their effort. IOWC leaders commented that Mr. Hugh Spurgin's IOWC Manhattan was probably the most team rented a storefront near Col­ difficult place to carryout religious umbia University to use as a lec­ work; by far the greatest percen­ ture room and eating place. They tage of people ignore efforts to organized a forum on the campus give them a leaflet or engage them for September 16 entitled, "Who in conversation, but on the other is Reverend Moon and what are his hand people come up to team future plans?" The Attica Brigade, members to ask for tickets and in­ the largest Communist organiza- formation. 107

Mr. Perry Cordill, IOWC was a stroke of wisdom. In their commander in the mid-South, led evaluation sheets the trainees told a team visiting people living in of new realizations of the Divine Flushing who had been contacted Principle and their relationship by other teams. "The response is with God. Younger and older good now," he commented. "But members alike received great at first, people would say, Tm energy and stamina to carry out our Jewish,' or 'I'm not Christian; I'm Father's will." Catholic.' Our general impression Dr. Bergman noted that al­ is that people are so much more though there was little time for in­ prepared now and that they are re­ dividual counseling of team mem­ ally desperate for the love of God. bers by the IOWC commander, They have realized that they have the work of the campaign itself has come to the end of the rope of strengthened and deepened new whatever they have been doing members. Each evening he lis­ -drugs, family conflicts, or what­ tened to highlights of the day and ever. I think more than ever, when then spoke inspirationally to his I look at people on the streets, of team on whatever theme he felt the need to save the lives of New they needed to hear. Yorkers. I really feel the longing of "Many people are impressed God's heart." by our group," he added "by our Mr. Cordill and Joe Stein and sincerity and by our international others who had participated in all scope. The Messiah comes in an three New York Day of Hope unexpected way, but we all agree campaigns commented on the dif­ that he must come to unite the ferent spirit this year. Joe Stein people of the world. Our move­ observed, "I feel a much greater ment is able to provide a very visi­ sense of responsibility and a much ble example of a world-wide deeper sense of the meaning of the movement, particularly though campaign itself. There is a greater IOWC teams. We have to restore feeling of united effort, whereas unity in our team before we can go last year there was much more out and tell others about unity. competition." Our team includes ten The five days training at Bar­ nationalities and is not only a re­ rytown before moving to the solution of East and West, but also streets of New York City rated of the various European ancestries high in Mr. CordiH's evaluation of which have been at conflict with the success of the campaign. each other." "People this year are much more Having been raised in a united in tradition, and the mem­ Jewish family, Dr. Bergman finds bers are far more grown spiritually. Jewish businessmen and families The five-day Barrytown training inspired by a group really doinE 110 something to counter problems of fast and lunch for 1250 and dinner crime, drug abuse, family break­ for 750 each day pied with Kris to downs, etc. "I am touched when I find some help to clean up the go to Saint Patrick's Cathedral or kitchen for dinner. After hours of Trinity Cathedral," he mused. seemingly fruitless search, Kris "When I look at the statutes there went down to the kitchen to find I can see that those people were about a dozen volunteers from all cognizant of what it means to live a over scrubbing pots and floors and life of faith. I am really touched by counters. Christian history, but now The hotel and its residents present-day Christians must have will not soon be forgotten. Mrs. an openness to the spirit of God." Reiner Vincenz adopted one of Adequate housing in New several generations of cats as a York has posed a perennial prob­ mascot for her team. These cats lem for Unification Church lead­ have lived in the trash room for ers. An indispensable element of several generations and have never the campaign was the Paris Hotel, seen daylight. a dilapidated relic on Manhattan's Rev. and Mrs. Reiner Vin­ West End available for under cenz are heading a large team of $1.00 per person per day. Enough half the IOWC members accom­ livable rooms were found on the panying Reverend Moon on the first seventeen floors for about 700 Day of Hope tour. At Belvedere IOWC members. Because of the following the Madison Square dubious character of some of the Garden speech, Reverend Moon other residents and the five bur­ personally selected the 400 mem­ glaries the first two days the teams bers of this traveling team. The lived there, IOWC commander remaining IOWC members re­ Martin Porter organized a system turned to their regions to continue of security guards for each floor. spiritual work there. A team of Kris Bick, Day of Hope sec­ fund-raisers was selected from the retary, could not recall one dull mass group to raise the money for day at the Paris Hotel. She told me the campaign and the expenses of of "Bishop Saint John," who the IOWC teams working in re­ played the organ and preached all g10ns. hours of the night in his room; on After a meal of fresh tuna and other nights, his guests played Korean food at Belvedere, the noisy card games. One day the IOWC teams organized for their water pipes on the mezzanine new activities, and Rev. and Mrs. broke, and rusty water dripped in Vincenz led the traveling 400 to jungle fashion into all parts of the Philadelphia to prepare for the kitchen. Ingrid Batavier and her September 26 and 27 programs staff of twelve who prepare break- there. D 111 80,000 Posters Create A Wonderful World of l31ue New York will never forget the it. Brilliant red, white, and blue 80,000 posters advertising "Sep­ posters two by three feet became a tember 18th Could Be Your Re­ sort of wallpaper to cover up the birthday" plastered by David Byer dirt and gloom of many areas of and his team of 21 on every con­ New York. The access roads to the struction site and posterboard in Queensboro Bridge were lined New York. Most newspaper stories three deep on either side, as far as and television· news coverage of the eye could see with about 4,000 Reverend Moon's campaign were posters. On Second Avenue in illustrated with photos of vast ex­ Manhattan, after leaving the panses of wall to wall posters. Queensboro Bridge, 407 posten I had never seen anything like on a construction site greeted t 112 million and a half commuters whatever side we were working daily. Columbus Avenue's round from-beginning from the abso­ postering poles were all covered lute comer on the side and the top with Reverend Moon's face. Wall and then go perfectly across. That Street had been plastered. Even way we can't be accused for not three areas in the center of Harlem really respecting Reverend were decorated with the red, white Moon's picture. And it has had an and blue. incredible effect on people be­ Seven New York Unification cause of that." Church members began the pos­ A couple of times New York tering spree on August 4. In two Unification Church members weeks they placed 1200 posters in went out and postered randomly shops along the main avenues in throughout the city. But Byer's New York. One Sunday afternoon experience shows that such poster­ when they were postering the ing has less effect than wall to wall owner of the building came out to postering. "When we keep it up," observe their work. "Well," he he said, "people can't help but said, "they're going to cover it recognize that this is a great effort. with something else anyway. Just putting posters anywhere, They've been covering it for the anyone can do that. But this way last twenty years, so you might as our determination is all summed well cover it." David Byer re­ up in that postering. If anybody ported that he was kind of pleased covers it, whoosh, we cover it right because it looked so much better. back up, no problem. And they are absolutely defeated." When the IOWC teams ar­ Campaign posters for city and rived in the middle of August, state primaries were all covered fourteen more were drafted for the over, as well as posters for various postering team. One team of seven Communist groups. On Columbus postered new areas of New York, Circle, Socialist Workers Party another team of seven postered members covered the entire con­ new areas in the surrounding struction board with their own boroughs, and the third team of posters, appealing for the working seven retouched any damaged class to unite against the capitalist posters. class. "This Communist group is "Our standard is the perfec­ the first group to entirely cover our tion stage," Byer explained. "The posters," Byer commented. "It posters shouldn't be a little shows some amount of determina­ crooked. It should be like wall­ tion, but they are the only group paper; there shouldn't be any that can really show any determi­ spaces left uncovered. The posters nation." should start ftom the left-hand or After the team began poster- 113

ing on Columbus Circle, two men thing, and we just couldn't allow worked for twelve hours scraping that. September 18th is such a the posters off and the construc­ short time away and it looks so tion boards were painted gray. beautiful this way. It's very won­ The postering crew came back and derful, and all the media will come covered it immediately with post­ to photograph it and it will make ers again. Columbus Circle even more fa­ "I was arrested here," Byer mous. Couldn't you just let us reminisced. "The guard of the keep it up? We'll maintain it and Colliseum pressed charges and keep it clean. And we promise not then we got into the police car and to let any other posters stay up went over to the station house. more than a few hours.' The captain of the guard had a "The manager said, 'Aw, little conference with the police sure. And will you send me some after I told him about Reverend tickets too?' When I brought him Moon. In a sense he was for us at some tickets, he said he had never that point. The policeman seen such determination in all his couldn't determine who had the life. Everyday, he said, there are right to press charges, so he asked, three girls outside his building 'Who owns this property anyway?' publicizing the September 18th The captain of the guards said, program, and he can see their smil­ 'We own the property,' and the ing faces. It makes him very construction men said, 'We own happy. the boards, but we don't want to "That kind of thing is hap­ press charges.' pening more and more," Byer "Then they said, 'Well, we concluded. don't really want to arrest him On two early-morning rounds anyway, but we'd like him to take with the postering crews I was all these posters down.' I said, 'ls amazed at the speed with which there any way I could speak to the they worked. Byer said they can manager or president of this build­ paste up 200 posters an hour, or ing?' I waited for an hour until the 2,000 for a night. Their daily ac­ manager came in. 'You don't have tivities begin with the major post­ to take them down,' he said, 'just ering from 12:00 until 10:00 a.m. don't put any more up.' They sleep from 10:00 a.m. until "So I replied, 'But other 4:00 p.m. at the 71st Street Unifi­ posters will be put up there that cation Church. When they rise, are so ugly, and we really love this they clean and meet for prayer. man. This man is such a wonderful After breakfast around 5: 15 the) man. He's done so many good go out until about 9:00. They ea1 things. And they'll write on them dinner with the Manhattan churd and deface his picture and every- members, and after dinner thei 116 prepare the glue (six 20-gallon team is just so cooperative. They garbage cans of potato starch paste are so sacrificial it's incredible." per night). Long window-cleaning In our early morning travels brushes and paint rollers are the with the postering teams we saw most popular glue applicators. people stop and stare with amaze­ The three teams postered and ment at the long, long rows of maintained 150 to 200 locations, beautiful posters, and the teams of mainly construction sites. Accord­ six or seven men and women work­ ing to New York Unification ing with incredible speed and effi­ Church advisor, Mr. Takeru ciency. Kamiyama, "the postering crews The final night before the have done a 100 percent perfection Madison Square Garden event, job." And I had to agree. the teams plastered 400-500 large There is a wonderful spirit of posters printed for transit advertis­ unity and dedication evident in ing and some fifteen-foot rally the postering teams. "We tried to banners on top of the smaller treat each poster like a person," poster. The effect was astounding. Byer explained. "We haven't been The huge rally banners carried the able to do any direct ticket-giving slogans "Prophet for the Salvation or witnessing in this postering of America," "God has chosen one campaign, so I really wanted our man to speak to America," "God's team to see the value of what they prophet, Rev. Sun Myung are doing and to love those posters Moon," and "September 18th, so much. The more care they take Madison Square Garden." in putting them up, the longer The postering work of these they stay up. 21 men and women was probably "I really feel the Principle the most controversial part of the wo*-ing so much. If there is any whole campaign, as well as the problem of unity, I know I can most visible. New York City ordi­ expect an attack someplace nances do not forbid postering on -people defacing or ripping down construction sites, but complaints posters, etc. I treat these posters were registered. In his speech to like some kind of battle front. I banquet guests at the Waldorf As­ really can see the spiritual battle toria on September 17, Reverend going on. If someone tears down Moon promised to remove all our posters I feel the need to posters the night after the Madison quickly replace them, to protect Square Garden program. All Uni­ that place. Once we put up post­ fication Church members assem­ ers, we have to defend that place. bled in New York did just that. By If we can maintain even one point, the morning of September 19, we can build on that strength." New York had returned to its usual Byer praised his team. "The splintered drabness. • 117

120 HardWlrk Fruit forNewYork Churches Tens of thousands of Christianity in churches each member is assigned Crisis books have been distributed 120 homes for regular contacts. door to door in the New York area Mr. Joe Tully, Unification during the past several months in Church state representative in preparation for the Madison New York estimated that thirty na­ Square Garden campaign. The tions were represented among the church in Forest Hills, after dis­ church members in New York, tributing 2,000 books, made 150 creating a truly international envi­ appointments to come back and ronment. Dr. William Bergman, discuss them in one weekend mobile unit commander in New alone. York before leading an Interna­ tional One World Crusade team, Weeks and months of observed growth in the New York wi messing have given the New members. "I find the New York York church members many con­ family really inspiring; people who tacts for follow-up work, visiting in are relatively young are taking homes, teaching at the centers, major responsibilities." He attri­ and inviting to workshops at Bar­ butes the growth in New York to rytown. In the weeks immediately training programs at Barrytown, preceding the campaign, they now led by Hiroshi Matzusaki, and concentrated on getting people to the leadership of Mr. Takeru committed to coming to the Madi­ Kamiyama. "I feel that the people son Square Garden program. receive great training from Mr. The Manhattan Unification Kamiyama. Mr. Kamiyama and Church on East 71st Street or­ Mr. Tully work together as one ganized their contact cards by zip body. Ifeel that this represents the code areas and assigned pairs of standard we should develop people to v1s1t each area. throughout the country." Throughout the New York Mr. Aidan Barry, Manhattan 121 church director, had the inspira­ Long Island, Unification Church, tion one night to bake 10,000 related some of her experiences in cookies and deliver them to the meeting people. "The first minis­ doors of the 5,000 people who had ter I went to see was a rabbi. His definitely promised to come to first question was 'Why do you Madison Square Garden. So they want to explain the Unification spent 70 hours baking the cookies, Church to a Jew?' I said we wanted wrapped them in plastic tied with a to introduce ourselves to the other bow and stapled them to a flier religious people in the area. reminding people co come. The "He had never joined the day before the campaign they took local ecumenical council, because them to every door. no Christian minister could ex­ Manhattan church members plain to him the idea of a living and work long and diligently to fulfill dying God. I explained it accord­ their goals. They chartered buses ing to the Divine Principle. He for their contacts, including two had all kinds of questions, which entire churches in New Jersey, he fired at me for twenty minutes: Baptist and Methodist. A total of doctrine, Reverend Moon, aims of 1,500 had promised to come from our church. Then he told me, 'I these two congregations to the will explain why I asked you these Madison Square Garden cam­ questions. My daughter was raised paign. a good Jew. After graduating from The Forest Hills church has high school, she went to Israel used picnics and free films to in­ three times, and once to Russia. terest people in their programs. On her way back from Russia she But their influence has extended met two Jewish boys from the Uni­ as far as California, when Ruth fication Church in Scandinavia and Lester flew to New York to try to later went to a workshop in Eng­ bring her classmate Debbie Van­ land. She came home and told me derMeer away from the U nifica­ she was thinking of joining the tion Church and back to Califor­ Unification Church, because this nia. Ruth had heard Reverend was the first time she met people Moon speak in Los Angeles last who thought like she did. So I January and felt she could really want to know, can she keep this trust the people with him. After intense Jewish feeling and still be two weeks in New York she de­ a member of the Unification cided to stay. Church?' New York Unification Church "I replied that I as an Irish leaders have contacted practically Catholic felt I was fulfilling my all other religious leaders in the ideals much more now in the Uni­ area. Miss Lynda Champion, fication Church. So he took some former director of the Baldwin, books, and wants to come to visit. 122 "The father of one of our to be. 'That's not definite yet, members came out from Colorado either,' we said. He became very to visit. He attended our fellow­ upset that we could not give him ship and a slide show. He prayed at more notice and more details. dinner and joined us in unison " 'We are very sorry,' we said. prayer afterwards. All the guests 'Giving people advance notice is joined in the prayer, many of them like giving them a longer time to crying. think of reasons not to do it. How "He told us, 'I really pray that much notice do you suppose God God will bless your work, because gave Abraham, when He asked it is one of the best groups I have him to leave his father and his ever met.' One night he had made home country, and set out on a dinner for us when we arrived journey across the desert to an un­ home; it was one of the most de­ known land? Time is urgent. We licious· meals I have ever had. have so little time to do God's "Last year during the Day of work.' Hope campaign I spent a lot of "We told him how much we time in Harlem. I learned that 1.8 admired his dedication to God's million people in New York are work. I told him I joined this Christians, and of those 1 million movement because I felt it would are black. We ha"e had some really do what I didn't see the Catholic good contacts among the Chris­ church doing-bring a unity of tians in Harlem. faith. He finally said, yes, he "During the National Prayer would come. and Fast programs last winter, we "He came to the prayer meet­ were given four days to plan an ing and also came through the interdenominational prayer meet­ snow to our rally. He left early, and ing and program. One of our Aidan and I went to see him to friends is a Catholic Archbishop apologize for not taking better care who had worked for thirty years in of him. 'I felt young all day after Harlem. He is a man of deep con­ that,' he told us. 'It reminded me cern for the spiritual needs of peo­ of when I first became a priest. It ple and has commented to us that gave me real hope for unity and ministers today aren't really con­ spiritual salvation.' cerned with spiritual education, "You can really tell that New just social action. York City is the battle line, de­ "Aidan Barry and I visited clared by our Heavenly Father. him to ask him to give the invoca­ The best and the worst happens tion at the prayer meeting. He here. Even the younger members asked who else was going to speak. learn that if you just follow 'We don't know yet,' we replied. Father's word, everything will He also asked where it was going work out." D 123 ICameasa Friend~ NEW\ORK by REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON at Day of Hope dinner, September 17, 1974 Waldorf Astoria Hotel I am very happy to be here tonight. I thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for coming. I wanted to meet each one of you on the way in; however, because of the lack of time I could not do so. I deeply apologize for it. You must be asking, who is Reverend Moon? What office is he running for? Well, here I am, Reverend Moon. I am not running for anything. Humility is a wonderful thing. At 5:00 rush hour I see peo­ ple, most of them walking with their head down. New Yorkers are so humble and meek, I thought God must love New Yorkers. Then after several months I found out the real reason. There are many tall buildings. Tourists look up at the skyscrapers. So New Yorkers know they must be very wise not to be stepped on by tourists. I find people humble and meek in the 124 sight of God, so I know they can be someone to love and someone to blessed by His love. be loved by. Who then can be in I would like to leave with you the position of object to God? Man a few grains of thought. [Five and woman, you and I, are created women from the International to be in the position of object to Socialist Workers Party shouted God. Therefore, God is in the po­ "Rev. Moon is a fascist .... " sition of subject, and man is in the Guests threw things at them and position of object. they were finally escorted out of I think that there are many the ballroom.] Their participation distinguished couples in this hall. in this program makes it even more When you looked for a mate, did exciting. So I thank them very you look for someone inferior to much. Those ladies are a work of yourself? You don't have to an­ God, because now I feel so close to swer, because all people look for you. I'm sure you feel close to me, someone ideal and perfect and too. I would really like you to feel superior to themselves. In Korea, at home, speaking to you as parents are complimented when brothers and sisters. told their baby is better than the Throughout history, all men parents. Why do we act this way? have been searching for true hap­ God is subject and man is object. piness and joy, which is eternal. Our human traits all come from Many search, but very few have their origin, God. found it, because our life on earth If we ask God, "God, would is very brief and changing. So peo­ you like to have your object better ple come to the conclusion that if than yourself?", God will give you we want to search for unchanging the answer, "Yes, I want my ob­ joy and happiness, we must search ject, my son and daughter, to be for the source. Is there a source? better than myself." Have you Yes, there is. Almighty God. ever thought, God cannot become perfect without you? You are that ManistheobjectofGod. The precious in the sight of God. With­ words, love, ideal, happiness, and out you, God cannot fulfill His joy do not mean anything when idea. This is a really stunning you are alone. Those words come truth. alive when you form a circuit be­ The relationship between tween two, when there is give and God and man is not only the rela­ take. This is also true of God. tionship of subject and object, but Even though He is almighty, as the relationship of Father and son. long as He is alone, He cannot In this fallen world, deviated from generate them within Himself. God's ideal, we want our love to be They remain dormant in Him. For eternal. God's ideal and love are God to realize His ideal, He needs eternal. God wanted to have an 125 God created the universe and man on the basis of selfish relation­ ships, it would lead to self­ extinction. Therefore, God, the king of wisdom, created the uni­ verse in a relationship of unself­ ishness, upon which His ideal can prosper and in which we can attain eternal joy and happiness.

We are created for others. God created us not for ourselves, but for others. There are many men in this hall. We all have pride in our ego, pride in our accom­ plishments. But did God create men for the sake of men? No. God created men for the sake of women. I see only the ladies ap­ object, a son and daughter, to have plauding. But just a minute. By the same quality of love. So God the same token, are women wanted a world eternal and un­ created for the sake of women? All changing. Therefore, God must ladies throughout the world have create man to be the realization of something in common. They re­ love which is eternal and unchang­ ally want to make themselves ing. beautiful-hairdo, beautiful Now the subject and the ob­ dress, beauty exercises. Do they ject are actually one. When you do this for the delight of them­ consider these two, subject and selves? No. For the sake of men. object, you can think of two kinds So everything is complementary. of relationships: selfish and unself­ I am trying to emphasize this. ish. Which would God choose? If God created everything in the 126 The glittering entertainment at the Day of Hope dinner included the Korean Folk Ballet (above) in their Fan Dance and the New Hope Singers Interna­ tional (below and Jeff) in their International Song. universe for complementary and This is a deviated world, a sinful reciprocal purposes. This is a uni­ world, departed from God's ideal. versal truth. All creation must Religions are an instrument of complement each other and create God, trying to bring this world into a circuit for give and take relation­ the knowledge of the true will of ships. By doing so, we can fulfill God. All good religions, East and the purpose of creation. When you West, have this one thing in apply this in daily relationships, it common-teaching the sacrificial will work wonders. For example, if way of life. you practice God's way in your family, between father and chil­ U nseltish love bears interest. dren, truly you will feel as one true The God of wisdom has set the family of-God. What is the true principle of life on unselfishness. relationship of husband and wife? Why? Suppose someone loves you Unselfish love, nothing else. At one hundred percent in an unself­ their wedding they pledge eternal ish way.If someone truly loves you, love. "I love you even to death." would you want to return one However, that particular pledge hundred percent to him, or would will not last for three days. you like to be stingy and return In America, you can name 40-50 percent, or would you give famous patriots. I know one, more love? Which way does your Abraham Lincoln. Why is Ab­ original nature work? You want to raham Lincoln a great patriot? Be­ outdo him or her in returning the cause he gave his life for the well­ love you receive. being of his countrymen. By this Suppose I love Col. Pak, my principle, can you name one, the interpreter next to me, one greatest of all? Yes, Jesus Christ. hundred percent unselfishly. Jesus Christ was the supreme ex­ Then I want to return one hundred ample of giving. He was born for percent and more than the love I others, lived for others, died for receive from him. Then I receive others. Jesus Christ knew the uni­ 120 percent in return, and I can versal truth, God's way of life, give more, maybe 130 percent. So which is an unselfish life. He truly in the circuit of give and take of demonstrated that way of life to an love there is premium and in­ absolute degree. terest. The motion of love is a cir­ Then what is the fall of man cular motion. A straight line comes we speak of in Christianity? What to an end, but circular motion of is the sin that all men come from? love remains for eternity. Unself­ Selfishness. Satan twisted the ish love remains for eternity. Each truth of God from unselfish giving action of give and take brings more to selfish taking. He subjugated results, and therefore great pros­ Eve and she subjugated Adam. perity. 128 The 1600 guests at the Day of Hope dinner included a great variety of guests and filled the International Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to capacity. After Reverend Moon's speech well-known author and seeress Jeane Dixon spoke. The second reason why God your love within yourself. Love made the principle of an unselfish can be fulfilled only by an object. way of life is this: When you prac­ You also have certain ideals. But tice God's way of life, you resem­ ideals can never be fulfilled in ble God; you are more like God. yourself alone. Ideals can only be For example, suppose you have fulfilled by dealing with others. ten members in your family, eight Everyone in this world seeks children and two parents. If the fulfillment in life. In order to fulfill very young son is a very loving, your life, you need your love and self-giving person, and loves your ideals to be fulfilled. But they everyone, soon he will become the can be fulfilled only by others. You central figure and will receive are in the receiving position. more love from everyone, includ­ Therefore, our basic attitude of ing the father and mother. So life is one of humility and meek­ when you practice God's way of ness. This is God's way of life. life, you shall have the power like In the last quarter of the God; you shall have the central twentieth century, God is looking position. down on this earth, seeking a God-like person who can truly rep­ All compete for God's domin­ resent Him and His way of life by ion. There is another principle in tribe, family, and nation. He is this universe. Everyone wants to seeking such a champion on earth. belong to the one who loves him. When I talk about the spirit Everyone hates selfish domina­ world, people shake their heads, tion, but where there is unselfish disapproving. But it really can be love, everyone seeks to come said that I am an expert on that under that domination. Heaven is world. That world in which the the world of God's domination. principle of God alone is working Does everyone hate that domina­ is systematic, a world in which tion? No, everyone competes with God's ideal has been fulfilled. The each other to get closer to God and world of God is the total practice of more domination by God, because God's way of life, an unselfish way that domination is the domination of life. Therefore, those who prac­ of love. Everyone is seeking God tice God's way of life on earth are and true love. When you become the only ones who deserve it eter­ like God by practicing God's way nally. We all long_ for something of life, you are taking God's posi­ eternal. Yes, we can attain that tion in your own society. world, by knowing God and His There is one final reason for principle. an unselfish life. Is love yours? Love is not mine, love does not One grand circle of giving. I belong to me. You cannot fulfill am here to present one formula 130 -God wanted to have the nation, center of the universe. society and world in which His I came to America to serve. I formula becomes successful. First, love America just as I love my own of all, I myself exist for my wife, country, because this is God's husband and wife together exist "Country and I love God. But if I for the family, the family serves failed to really succeed in the the society, the society serves the propagation of God's way of life, nation, the nation serves the then all my philosophy would be in world, and the world serves God. vain. God loves America and is re­ God is solely existing for you and lying on America. Therefore, it is me. So by giving your total self, important to God, to all of us, and actually you are gaining the entire to me. From the beginning, universe, including God. This is America has been pursuing the truly one grand circle of giving. By great goal of one nation under doing this you possess the ultimate God. That one nation must not be one. God is in your possession. You selfish, it must be truly sacrificial can attain true happiness by ful­ for the benefit of the entire world filling this way of life. and all mankind. By demonstra­ When people hear this word ting God's way of life, indeed, unification, they say, "Reverend America will become the champi­ Moon, it is a good idea, but it is too on in the Kingdom of God. There­ idealistic. I am sorry, Reverend fore, I came to America to speak to Moon, because I know it will the American people. never work." But to those critics, my answer is very simple. Rever­ A revolution of love. In 1972 end Moon is not going to do that. I had a vision, to go to America to God is going to do that. God speak to the American people. For created the world in harmony and three years I am obeying this unity. Let us all get together and command. America is coming out practice His will. Allow yourself to with individualism. But God's be His instrument. philosphy is not individualism. What is the origin of the evil When an individual is centered world? Basically, selfishness upon himself he will find himself brings evil. From this principle, in a lot of trouble. That trouble is we can evaluate when this world or shown in America. There are this society is on the side of wick­ many broken homes; American edness or goodness. Any nation young people are in trouble. God which truly works for the purpose is trying somehow to wake Ameri­ of serving the world and tries to cans up. God has very strange sacrifice itself for the benefit of the ways. He called me to kindle the entire world and for the salvation fire of spiritual revolution-a revo­ of humanity will emerge as the lution of love in America. 131 I want to announce an impor­ sial. I know there are many criti­ tant competition between you and cisms of my poster. So many can­ me. Let's love America and bring didates spend money for earthly this country close to God. America purposes. I come to proclaim the is truly one great Christian nation Kingdom of God on earth. I want on the face of the earth. Further­ to do more than they do. I came to more, America was founded on the America in obedience to God. I love of God. However, in recent wanted every New York citizen to history, America has been going know of my coming so they will farther and farther away every day. have no excuse before God. But I Someone must turn it around, so will do something unusual for New someone must come as a fire York. After tomorrow, September fighter. 18, no poster of Reverend Moon In the last eleven months, I will remain here in New York. went to every state of America. I They have the purpose of inviting visited every corner of the country. people to hear the declaration of Everywhere I go I do not get too the Kingdom of Heaven. After much kind treatment. People they serve their purpose, I will shout at me and throw things at take every single one off, myself me. But I do not concern myself and my people. with those things. I concern my­ I came to New York as a friend self only with God. I did not come of New York. I respect and admire for money, I did not come for any you. Let's be close. If I meet you other purpose than to give myself on the street, let's shake hands, as for the eternal well-being of this brothers and sisters on the street. great country. I have a real reason My dream and ideal is to in­ to cry out to you tonight. I hope stall one great movement of God, you truly understand. not an institution, to bring the New York is really the heart­ Kingdom of Heaven on earth beat of America, the center of -and I want to start the Kingdom America. I am launching my of Heaven here in New York! crusade in New York, because if I I truly have the deepest admi­ succeed in kindling the heart of ration for you and I also want to man for God in New York, I will express my genuine love for each succeed anywhere-New York, one of you, because in God we are America, the world. This is my one. Let God's love come into goal. I will not stop. your heart, let it run out to New York, to America, to the world. I I came as a friend. I know want all of you to embrace God as I that in the last several weeks there embrace my brother beside me. have been many posters outside. May God bless each one of This has become very controver- you. D 132 By 7:00 p.m. September 18, 20,000 men, women and children packed Madison Square Garden and some 10,000 more on the out­ side pounded on the doors, unable to enter. It was the day of rebirth, the widely-publicized "New Fu­ ture of Christianity" proclamation by Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Eighty thousand brilliant blue posters had been plastered on almost every construction site throughout the city and some 800,000 tickets had been given out

133 by a thousand of Reverend Moon's tracted a varied crowd, inside and young followers in the New York outside the Garden. Outside, a area since August 10. dozen different groups handed out "One of the genuinely mys- leaflets espousing various causes, terious figures of our time" (ac- from Trotskyites and Marxists to cording to the New York Daily Atheists United, Jews for Jesus, News), Reverend Moon spoke for and Husband's Liberation. A hot two hours and 45 minutes to the pretzel vendor drew a hungry overflowing audience on "The crowd an~ "God's Umbrella" of Messiah-the Last Hope for several Baptist, Methodist and Mankind." Nazarene groups passed out their The program opened with the interpretation of fundamentalist "Gloria" from Schubert's Mass in Christianity. Radio and newspaper G by the New Hope Singers and reporters confronted people with continued with two spirituals, "Sit questions about Reverend Moon. Down, Servant" and "Ezekiel Inside, Reverend Moon in­ Saw a Wheel." The Korean Folk vited those who opposed him to Ballet performed two of their most stand up and speak; about a half a popular dances, the "Fan Dance" dozen stood up, waved papers, and the "Penitent Monk," fol- and left. Then, with tears in his lowed by Bennie Hylton and an eyes, he sang a lyrical Korean ensemble from the Singers leading song, "San yoo wha." the audience in a rousing "Light- "I did not come to America of house." my own will," he declared. "I Reverend Moon's speech at- came by the will of God. I have a Oklahoma Mobile Unit Commander John Harries welcomes guests to Rev­ erend Moon's ~peech. mission to share this revelation time of Jesus and is also the mis­ with you and the rest of the world. sion of Christians today. The two September 18, 1974, to me and to people are like brothers, both God, is a day of declaration." agents of God's will, he stated. Reverend Moon explained In order to be able to accept that God's eternal and unchanging the Messiah today, we must know will was unfulfilled when Adam the true meaning of the Bible. The and Eve disobeyed His command Bible is written in symbols and not to eat of the fruit of the tree of parables. Why? "When agents knowledge of good and evil. "Our communicate in enemy territory, first ancestors brought sin to man­ they always speak in codes," Rev­ kind," he added. "So the world is erend Moon explained. "Then no a world of sin. We are patients; we one understands the meaning of need the Messiah; we need the the message except those who master physician. We need help to coded it. Jesus said that no one bring this world back to God." knows the day of the coming of the "If the first man and woman Lord, only God. In order to protect had been obedient to God, no sal­ His agents on earth, God gave the vation would have been neces­ message in code. But from time to sary," Reverend Moon asserted to time God sends His prophets to scattered hecklers. God's will is reveal the true meaning of the the kingdom of heaven on earth, Bible." he added. In such a place there Here is an unsolved historical will be sinless couples, sinless puzzle! he exclaimed. "God pre­ children, and actually a sinless pared the chosen nation for 4,000 world. In such a world you won't years. At the appointed hour, God have to go to church to pray. In sent His son, and the people re­ such a world the Messiah is not jected him. Why?" He gave three necessary. reasons. "The Messiah must destroy First, Mal. 4: 5-6 promised Satan's sovereignty and liberate that Elijah would come before the man from the bondage of sin into Messiah, before the "great and the bosom of God. The Messiah· terrible day of the Lord." The comes to do a repair job. We must people thought this prophecy had be grafted to him as the true olive to be fulfilled literally, with Elijah tree." himself returning from the sky, as What is the mission of the he had gone up. But Jesus said chosen nation? Reverend Moon John the Baptist was Elijah (Matt. asked. "It is the preparation for 17:10). one day-the coming of the Mes­ The second reason was the siah." This mission was the mis­ failure of John the Baptist. Al­ sion of the people of Israel at the though he initially testified to 135 Teams wait for their guests at the 8th Avenue entrance to Madison Square Garden. Jesus, he did not follow him. He ing applause from the audience. even denied his role as Elijah He expounded at length the (John 1: 19-21), contradicting the role of John the Baptist in relation­ words of Jesus. ship to Jesus. "John the Baptist The third reason the people would have been the bridge be­ rejected Jesus was because they tween Jesus and the people," he expected the Messiah to come on added. But John said, "He must the clouds of heaven, as increase and I must decrease." If prophesied in Dan. 7: 13. John had united with Jesus, he Those who handed Jesus over would have increased with Jesus; to be crucified thought he was a if necessary, they should have suf­ blasphemer, heretic, and prince of fered together, Reverend Moon demons. The crucifixion was a his­ observed. torical mistake, Reverend Moon The Bible has dual said, due to the ignorance and prophecies, according to Rever­ blindness of the people. "We must end Moon. The Messiah can be not repeat that same mistake the Lord of glory or the suffering today," he concluded, to resound- Servant. To fulfill the will of God, 136 man must accept the Messiah. But rection. Christianity is the religion man cannot be trusted to accept of the resurrection. him. So God must give dual "Jesus Chr~st appeared to me prophecies. When the people re­ and told me the truth. John the jected Jesus, the result was the Baptist appeared to me and told suffering Messiah. "If Jesus came me the truth. The whole meaning solely to die on the cross," Rev­ of the Bible came alive to me." erend Moon stated, "he would Reverend Moon added that he have proclaimed that from the very himself was shocked when this beginning. He would have died for truth was revealed to him. us a thousand times in order to Christianity has only the save mankind, if his only mission spiritual kingdom of heaven, he had been to die. God would not explained. The Messiah is coming have needed the chosen people in back to bring man's spirit and that case." . body-his whole being-into the On the other hand, Reverend kingdom of God. Moon continued, "If they had ac­ There are dual prophecies for cepted him, he would have be­ the second coming as well as the come the king of Israel. God said first. "I have one more shocking it, and He meant it. Jesus would item of news to reveal about the have gone on to Rome, and God coming of the Messiah," Rever­ would have restored the capital of end Moon continued. "John the the kingdom of heaven in Rome in Baptist did not come on the Jesus' lifetime. The kingdom of clouds. Jesus did not come on the heaven would have been a reality clouds. Do you have a guarantee ever since." that the Messiah will come on the In such a case, there would clouds? Sin came into the world by have been no history of Christian a man; it is more logical that the martyrs, the chosen nation would Messiah will come again as a not have lost its homeland, and we man." would not have to worry about the If the Lord is coming with the second coming of Christ. clouds, the Bible has told a lot of Jesus prayed in anguish in the untruths, Reverend Moon ex­ Garden of Gethsemane seeking plained, and quoted Matt. 17:25; for some other way of fulfilling Luke 17: 26-27; 18:8; and Matt. God's will. "Jesus knew the heart 7:22-23-all describing how the of God, and was really grieved," Lord will suffer and be rejected Reverend Moon continued. "At when he comes back. "If he comes the cross, no one stood at the side on the clouds, every eye will see of the son of God. The cross was him; then who will reject him? the infiltration of the power of Reverend Moon asked. "The Satan. God's victory was the resur- narrow-minded Christians will 137 persecute him and put him in jail asserted, "I am bringing this mes­ [if he comes as a man]. But he does sage so that he will not have to say not come just to be persecuted. He that to you." comes for victory!" In conclusion, Reverend Reverend Moon urged his lis­ Moon ref erred to the beginning of teners to invest a minimum of his speech. God wanted perfect three days in order to learn the man and perfect woman to be mar­ entire scope of this revelation. ried in a perfect matrimony and "The end of the world is at hand. give birth to sinless children. But This is the end of Satanic order. this never happened. "What is the This is a new day of hope, the new conclusion of Christianity in the day of the Messiah." Bible? The final chapter of the When the Lord comes, he book of Revelations describes the comes as the Lord of judgment. marriage supper of the lamb. The Jesus said in Matt. 16: 19 he left true meaning of this is the day of the keys to the kingdom of heaven the first heavenly matrimony by on earth: "Whatever you bind on God. God will fulfill that day with earth will be bound in heaven and the coming of the Messiah. When whatever you loose on earth will be we have sinless True Parents, all loosed in heaven." You decide mankind will be grafted onto your fate on earth. To the evil­ them." doers, the Lord will say, "Depart He stated the qualification for from me." But Reverend Moon the Messiah: a man of perfection,

One Marxist group demonstrates outside of Madison Square Garden for the freedom of South Korean political prisoners

138 the last Adam, the champion of heart and energy, left the stage, God. "The Lord is coming to and the New Hope Singers sang an bring together suffering Christians original arrangement of "Praise to and give new hope. God has de­ the Lord." Because of the late clared that this day is at hand. The hour, many of the audience were third Adam will bring the spiritual unable to remain for the finale: the and physical kingdom of God, un­ "Hourglass Drum Dance" and the conditionally and indestructibly. Mask Dance" of the Korean Folk But we cannot accept it as we are. Ballet; the unique "International We must change. Song" of the Singers; and the mul­ "This is the day of march to timedia "Arirang," sung and or­ the day of hope. We shall bring the chestrated by the New Hope ktngdom of God to the face of the Singers and danced by the Korean earth. We shall march on! Amen." Folk Ballet. A mirror ball rotating This stirring conclusion from the middle of the vast ceiling brought the audience to its feet for spattered flecks of light through­ a great cheer of hope. Thirty-six out the stadium. times they had interrupted the "September 18th Could Be speech with applause, and the Your Re-birthday" posters and hecklers, scattered in the far bal­ handbills had proclaimed conies, had little effect. Reverend throughout the city. Now, four Moon and his interpreter, Col. Bo hours later, the crowd spilled out Hi Pak, after pouring out all their into the Madison Square Garden

"The Socialist Worker" stirs an argument among protesters at Madison Square Garden.

139 Center, swelling a sort of mul­ America!" he exclaimed. "Who tidenominational camp meeting. created the miracle? You did. This The Communist groups had left, small group of young peole. Other but many Christians remained to people do things and never take sing and share together. care of the aftermath. But when The "day of glory" and "total we do something, we finish it." victory" was not yet concluded, At Belvedere Reverend however. To fulfill Reverend Moon announced a campaign next Moon's promise to the citizens of year in Yankee Stadium. "The New York, all those who had time bomb is ticking. We must do worked to publicize the campaign our job before the time bomb ex­ went out that night to tear down all plodes. God has allowed only so the thousands of posters and re­ much time to accomplish the goal. store the city to its everyday dress You are participating as a pioneer, of dingy, shabby buildings and as a champion of God during this construction sites. critical period. Soon nobody on the Finally, after weeks of hard earth will be able to deny the exis­ work and a sleepless night, all the tence of God." participants in the campaign Other leaders added their gathered at Belvedere the follow­ tribute to Reverend Moon's ing day for a celebration. Rever­ speech. Mr. Takeru Kamiyama, end Moon explained that since advisor to the New York Unifica­ 1972 he has been planning for this tion Church and coordinator of the day at Madison Square Garden, entire campaign, told the assem­ "D-Day for God." "Truly you bly that Reverend Moon had "di­ have been the wonder in New rected me in every specific instruc­ York the last several weeks," he tion." He paid tribute to the coop­ told the assembled young people. eration of all the International One "People ask, 'Why do young peo­ World Crusade commanders; U.S. ple gather from all around the Unification Church president, world? Why do they follow a Neil Salonen; and to the fund­ Korean man?' I think that even raising teams, "who worked very now they do not really have the hard to raise the funds needed to answer. " make it successful." Reverend Moon cited the Mr. Kamiyama reported that New York Times' prediction that he 192 press people had covered the would never make his goal. "But event in the Garden and that there 130,000 people gave their word was a long, live television broad­ that they would come. I knew that cast across the country. He esti­ at least one third of them would mated that 15,000-20,000 were show up. And they did." turned away after the Garden was "We created a miracle in filled. In addition to taking down 140 Reverend Moon addresses Unification Church members on September 19 at Belvedere. the posters that night, teams prayer" and "your dedication." cleaned the debris off the grounds He told the young people, "God around the Garden. While helping has already blessed you in your to remove posters, Mr. Kamiyama fight. There will always be victory was told by a policeman, "I have wherever you go." never seen a group like this before. Japanese Unification Church I know God must bless you." president, Mr. Osami Kuboki, Col. Pak spoke of his feelings spoke of his experience on leaving while interpreting for Reverend the hall. "After the meeting I Moon. "Each time after I trans­ stepped outside. People rushed to late, I hang my head in repentance me asking, 'Are you Reverend for not being able to do him jus­ Moon?' 'Would you pray for me?' tice. I am deeply honored to stand 'Will you shake hands with me?' by him, to weep together, laugh 'Please give me a blessing.' Be­ together, be angry together. I am cause of that scene I could not grateful to be his shadow." leave for two hours. That was the Mr. Young Whi Kim, presi­ true witness to the greatness of dent of the International Unifica­ Reverend Moon. Those who re­ tion Church, attributed the victory mained to the very end were to Reverend Moon's "sweat and deeply moved." • 141 euro~_e___ _ FROM GERMANY Let Me Be a Good Missionary ing for joy and happiness among by BRUNHILDE HEIMUHLE men. Feelings come, and feelings It is really a big task to be a mis­ fade away. But the certainty I won sionary. The more I practice my that God exists still remains and is "profession," the more I recognize ever growing. Through the Divine its importance and the more I am Principle irrefutable truth has filled with joy. been revealed by God. When I As a missionary I am a began to recognize the value of it, I mediator between God and other made up my mind to become a people. Both God and people are missionary. claiming my attention and my ser­ Still I am in the process of vice, and to both I would like to learning. As a missionary my heart render satisfaction. "What are the belongs to God-first of all. As a characteristics that distinguish the representative of God I feel myself life of a missionary from a 'normal placed between God and the peo­ every day life'?" I ask myself. ple. I have to be on God's side and I must admit that it is not a have to be a decided disciple to common thing that.I have become take His part and to defend Him a missionary. I had to go through under all circumstances. In order various situations until I deeply to be able to do that I have to ask realized the reality of God and its Him to know His will. I have meaning for my life. This reality learned that for a missionary it is became clearer and clearer by dif­ essential to cultivate the relation­ ferent experiences. I have most ship to God to be in contact with vivid recollections of the unspeak­ Him all day long and to be con­ able joy that I felt when I became nected to Him by a strong bond of aware that God recreates every­ love. For every person God sends thing and restores man to his true to me to set a good example I am greatness and position in the uni­ grateful, I can learn and under­ verse. In that moment I felt over­ stand in a better way what divine whelmingjoy. I saw the creation in love, obedience and strong faith a bright light and felt vital power. really mean. Through these per­ At the same time I was urged to tell sons I acquire more stability and my experience to other people. It can fulfill my task. Each of my really struck my eyes: There is a brothers and sisters in the Divine common source and common long- Principle family is a help for me. I 142 cannot imagine becoming a good would find a different word for missionary without a strong family each person. He is the Creator, an foundation. artist, the judge of human nature. Day by day I feel strongly As God's representative I have to forced to go out into the streets and develop all talents in order to win speak to people. To me the street people's heart. The street, there­ is the mirror of man's way of life. fore, has become my teacher. I Day by day it reveals another learn now to become a good ac­ story. Looking from afar, there is tress, a good judge of human na­ just a crowd of rushing people. As ture, a diplomat, a good teacher, soon as I myself have become part father and mother-all in one. of these waves of human bodies, I Again and again, there is a new distinguish faces. Faces in which lesson to learn. today's life has left its traces. Pre­ Sometimes I succeed in tak­ cisely speaking, it is a life of inner ing people to our Divine Principle imprisonment, life spent in ignor­ center on the spot, but most of ance of God's existence. Disap­ them prefer to come in the even­ pointed and sad-the majority of ing. In this way the evening hours them. Behind this grey surface, are the climax in the course of my however, there is the original missionary's day. The evening lec­ being-longing for a real home tures are the fruit of the daily ef­ and true love, longing for harmony forts. I experience the great sur­ and freedom. The knowledge of prise in the eyes of my pupil when this inner thirst makes me stop and connections and insight of God's address them. It has become part plan become clear. "How is it pos­ of my life to speak to strangers. sible that never before I have Sometimes, however, I am really heard about it?" they seem to ask. surprised to find out that they are Together we explore the not strange at all to me, although I depths of human history under the have not seen them before. On the aspect of God's plan, starting over contrary it seems as if we have at the beginning. This is s tre­ been knowing each other for a long mendous experience with each time. Their way of speaking, their pupil. There are many obstacles to way of answering etc., is really a overcome. Sometimes we can take second "I"! them just jumping over them, Often I ask how God would sometimes it is a strenuous climb, talk to these suffering people. He step by step; really exhausted we would arouse their attention in arrive on the other side. It is a every way. Maybe He would say unique adventure. Often really something joyful so that they quick reactions are necessary, the can-for a while-forget the bur­ right word at the right time; some­ den of modern life. Certainly He times it is only patience and care- 143 fulness that lead to the goal. When the visitors have gone, Whatever we do, whatever are our it has become night. What a won­ tactics, it is essential to do it with a derful day it was. Deep experi­ heart of love and the desire to give ences took me a step further in everything. Just at the moment understanding God's eternal un­ when you think you no longer have limited being. I look at the sky and any force, it is God who gives you see the stars. Thank you, Father, new strength and leads you to the for having called me to be a mis­ peak. sionary. • No Dead Ideology

Since 1969 Rev. Paul Werner has work in Germany and to speak been the president of the German about their travels in America. Unification Church. During the For the occasion, all the Ger­ time he is fulfilling a mission in man members gathered at the five states of the USA, Mr. Helms training center in Neumuhle. Rev. is representing him here. At the Werner spoke in a large hall about beginning of July Rev. Werner and the future way of the Unification his wife visited the members in Church on the world-wide level Germany. Their five-day stay en­ and clarified in the gathering the abled them to gain a glimpse of the significance and the problems of

Rev. Paul Werner speaks to his team in Phoenix, Arizona. the German work. The develop­ problems, It shows how easily man ing situation in Germany required falls from one extreme to another. new organizational decisions: In place of this it is indispens­ building and expansion will still able to come to realistic terms with remain the strongest focus of activ­ religion. Here man searches ity, but parallel to that we will though knowledge to find light for strive for an intensive campaign to his inner path. But we also need a publicize HSA to the people. new spiritual foundation in order It wasn't possible for Mr. and to answer the important questions Mrs. Werner to stay longer, for of human existence, for the old pressing work awaited them in concepts no longer give sufficient America. Today's modern tech­ answers. The problems which we nology makes the task of coopera­ face must find a foundation which tive effort all over the Continent will let man live together in peace. lighter, so a permanent interna­ The first step towards that is a res­ tional exchange on the interna­ toration of the broken relationship tional level is possible. between man and God. Our time is so unpeaceful; With regard to world powers, each day we live, terror and many today ask whether it is the radicalism increase, All our daily will of God to restore His entire life is stamped with this. Rearma­ creation. Christianity has for 2,000 ment and inflation are slogans years spread the good news of the which hint it in whatever situation after life and of hope, all over the we find ourselves. Every man world. Isn't it God's will to fulfill should know that he is affected by this hope? Therefore, it is essen­ this. The isolation into which in­ tial that men accept their part of dividuals are being drawn should the responsibility. remove any doubt from our eyes. Rev. Werner said, "We all The steadily progressing want to show that we (HSA) don't tempo in man which lives easily represent any dead ideology, but brings the danger that he will lose want to bring life." Therefore, the control over his achievements. We way to God for each individual are looking over a situation that must come together. All men must must be immediately seized and see and feel what nature and free­ carried on to the finish. This has dom produces in each man. Rev. become very clear. There has also Werner urged all who had gathered been a greater number of spiritual together to pledge to do their best. phenomena. But owing to fan­ Then soon they would see great tasies and mystical ideas through­ transformations, and would be out their lives, most people will be able to show men that the hope of unrealistic outsiders. Religious Christianity is no illusion, but will disbelief brings no solution to our become a reality. D 145 ____so_u_t_li_~cific FROM NEW ZEALAND Television Covers New Dunedin Center

by SIEGRUN KUHAUPT A very pos1t1ve television program on Reverend Moon, his Greetings from New Zealand for Unification Church, and its ac­ July. This month has seen some tivities then appeared for twenty very significant events take plce. minutes on Southern television. Our newly-founded OWC This meant that viewers through­ mobile team went to the bottom of out the South Island were in­ the South Island, to Dunedin, to formed of Divine Principle and its begin a concentrated program of application. We expect very mission work. However, before positve results from this program. the mission was under way several Dunedin is generally a very days were spent painting and "slow to move" city as a result of cleaning the new Dunedin center. its isolation, but we are sure posi­ The team worked into the night tive results are forthcomng. Our and often the next morning, re­ Ginseng Tea business is expand­ decorating the house. ing. This heavenly tea is being With the center looking like well received in shops, but our new, the team converged on greatest victory was a sale of one Dunedin's city center, the Oc­ dozen tins to Minister of Parlia­ togon. Dunediners were very open ment, Mr. Gerald O'Brien. He but astonished to see our members and his wife are very fond of the wearing big red symbols and tea and so we are guaranteed of speaking so openly to all on the very favorable publicity within the street. New Zealand government. Al­ Soon after the team began ready his secretary has shown great mission work they were contacted interest in Ginseng and will try by a very interested reporter from Mr. O'Brien's beforeobtainingher Dunedin television. He asked if a own. filming crew could film in the Mr. O'Brien recently invited Dunedin center. Personal inter­ Graham Dun, Robin Bracefield views were conducted as well as and I to a parliamentary luncheon general filming of center life. The at the member's restaurant, following day they filmed the team Bellamy's. We spoke further with in action on the streets. Mr. O'Brien about the ideal world 146 and presented him with a copy of prayers are especially directed to Unification Thought. Reverend Moon and Ammrica; He found that Unification may our Heavenly Father bless his Thought aligned with his political labors in that country and make background and said, "I think I her strong to lead all nations of the will take a holiday and read this." world towards peace and freedom. Our relationship to Mr. O'Brien Visiting a new city is always a continues to flourish, and we ex­ stimulating experience. Just re­ pect to meet with him again very cently another member and I vis­ soon. ited Dunedin, in the far south of The Unitarian Church in the South Island. Dunedin is our Auckland has asked the U nifica­ youngest city and yet its people tion Church to conduct a service in have already shown good response early August. After the Auckland to Divine Principle. The people center leader, Coral Hyam, had are very open but have shown that spoken about the Divine Principle they are often slow to move. How­ following a Unitarian service ever, a Dunedin boy has already which family members attended, accepted and is studying at head­ the minister opened the doors of quarters. We expect another girl to the church as an invitation to hear arrive at headquarters from Dune­ more of Reverend Moon's teach­ din soon. This is a very promising ings. start to the mission in Dunedin. Michael Butler, a teacher at Persecution peaked during national headquarters, will speak the last few weeks but it was to the Unitarian Church congrega­ weathered without damage and fi­ tion on the Mission of Jesus and nally turned to good. Possession the Lord of the Second Advent. and hypnosis were two of the A recent innovation is a train­ methods used to control our mem-­ ing program for all members. To bers according to one newspaper attain the highest possible level of article. We were also described as Divine Principle understanding being "zombies." members from all centers periodi­ The trouble started when the cally meet in headquarters for a mother of two of our brothers went concentrated series of lectures on to the scandal paper which has the Divine Principle. been responsible for persecuting These members then return our movement since its advent in to their centers and pass on the New Zealand. She accused me of new knowledge. turning her sons into mindless To speed the progress of the zombies. Unification Church we lay condi­ This time she thought to run tions by walking to a park at mid­ us completely into the ground by night to pray for the world. Our raising persecution to a national 147 · level. She went the national radio peared to apologize. He said he station, television and finally the did not call for the investigation, New Zealand government. We re­ but was merely fulfilling his duty. ceived some very bad publicity as a It is his duty, by our parliamentary result. However the more abusive system, to hand on all representa­ this woman became towards us the tions from the people to parlia­ more people began to see who ment, regardless of their nature. stood in the position of right. He said that he personally is sure ·we were finally asked to ap­ we are based on righteous princi­ pear on television to answer allega­ ples. tions made against us. The televi­ Many parents of members ran sion reporter was very fair. When to our assistance as well. They all introducing Rev. Moon he said joined Mr. O'Brien in commend­ that Adam had fallen, Jesus' mis­ ing the work of .the Unification sion was left incomplete and that Church. Mr. O'Brien, by seeing "apparently" Rev: Moon is the how many parents support us, is new one and his wife and children now in even more support of the the beginning of a perfect society. Unification Church. A letter from one of her sons, who Mr. O'Brien almost im­ is working in America was de­ mediately contacted television, scribed during the program. She the press and radio "Windy" and said her son wrote of congressmen, told them he finds the work of the senators and church ministers fol­ Unification Church commenda­ lowing Rev. Moon, but just as she ble. He demanded an article be began to deny this the film was printed disassociating himself with cut. This happened on several oc­ any investigation into the U nifica­ casions which gave the impression tion Church. she was in support of the U nifica­ One of the parents who rang tion Church. Mr. O'Brien in support said that As a last effort to destroy us apparently Mr. O'Brien had spent she contacted her local Minister of several sleepless nights in deep Parliament, and our friend, Gerald concern for the false accusations O'Brien. She said she wanted a full made against us. government investigation into the Mr. O'Brien said that it would Unification Church. be unlikely that a parliamentary Soon after, a newspaper head­ investigation would be carried out. lined a story saying that Gerald He said the woman would be un­ O'Brien wanted the investigation able to substantiate her claims. conducted. Mr. O'Brien, after Many have now learned about many meetings, is now a very close the mission. Our telephone has friend of the family's. He rang us been swamped with calls from var­ the morning after the article ap- ious television viewers. We invited 148 them all to visit us to learn more soon after we received another about Divine Principle. telegram instructing us not to Internationally famous televi­ come but to get members. We sion personality David Frost also then gathered the whole family to­ had his interest aroused and in­ gether in our headquarters, every­ vited us to take part in a series of body gave up their jobs, and we programs called "Frost Over New started a four week tour by van Zealand." The program which around both islands. featured Michael Butlerof the Un­ ification Church was called "God, In prayer and heart we are all Is He Alive and Well in New Zea­ atMadison Square Garden hoping land?" David Frost's programs will for'the best possible results. This, be seen by millions. Recently we truly is an expression of the power received a telegram inviting some of God, and we know that God has of us to attend Madison Square been waiting 6,000 years for this Garden. As soon as the telegram day. We pray with all our hearts was received we set about earning that the significance of this day is money for the journey. However, fully realized. •

FROM AUSTRALIA Rally Calls for ,Moroz' Freedom the center, with seven peole by CARL REDMOND studying the new American Di­ vine Principle book. The new Our life continues here, with books are a tremendous help and good expectations for the future. are very impressive. We met members of the Ukrainian We contacted the Baha'i Freedom Movement and partici­ movement here and established pated in an open-air demonstra­ good relationships with them. tion for Valentyn Moroz, who is on Some have bought our books. The a hunger strike in a Vladimir prison Baha'i movement here was estab­ in the USSR. We prepared a large lished fifty years ago, and has color placard, "Stop Soviet about two hundred members. Slavery/Free Moroz." The meet­ Our sandwich board de­ ing was reported in the paper. A monstrations continue every Fri­ Mr. Darby of their group had at­ day night, with good response. It is tended the 1970 World Anti- spring now, and we have planted Communist League Conference roses, flowers, and vegetables with in Tokyo and was pleased to meet great faith. Now we must find our group in Australia. more people to help app~eciate Many new people are visiting them! 149 Douglas Darby of the Captive Na­ tions Society of New South Wales. He is middle-aged, and very zeal­ ous for freedom. He is positive to­ wards our church and is well known in Sydney. We are doing a few designs and posters to help in his captive nations work. We con­ tinue to help and foster friendship with the Captive Nations Council. As we began to appear at a few of their meetings, newspapers gave them publicity in their cause. The Baltic states in particular, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, received the limelight due to the Australian rally calls for forgiveness, Australian government's recogni­ love, and unity. tion of these states as lawful territ­ ory of the USSR. This is disgrace­ Our progress has been rather ful. Australia is very open-handed slow, but steady. People seem to towards Russia, and invites dig­ be more and more turned off when nitaries every other day. The it comes to religion or philosophy. Russian finance minister was Good conversations on the street quoted in the Sydney news as say­ are few. Everyone is in such a ing, "We don't have inflation in hurry, nobody knows what for. our country because we prepare for Society is taking a downward things before they happen." plunge. Inflation, strikes and I joined the Liberal Party to floods are taking their toll. Crime make good relations with people. and violence are increasing. Peo­ There are many good and disin­ ple are becoming increasingly dis­ guished contacts there. I spoke ata illusioned with ... everything, and Liberal Party meeting about the have not the will to put their faith Unification Church. But I am not in anything. But there are hun­ stepping on the political grand­ dreds of new revelations. stand. The Divine Principle is In August we welcomed new first. members Warren Towns from I appeared on Channel 10 TV Kyogle, New South Wales and this month to speak in defense of David Cooper, who who was born the Unification Church. The in England, but lived in Australia mother of an Australian boy who for seventeen years. joined the New Zealand family One of our contacts is Mr. became very negative and spoke 150 vehemently on Monday night's nized me afterwards were favor­ news, on August 26. Conse­ able towards me. So there's several quently I was asked to speak on hundred thousand dollars worth of Tuesday to rectify or counter the publicity. This was one of the first woman's allegations. The filming films in color on Australian televi­ was done at the center one lunch sion. In the same new program hour, and included shots of Re­ Milton Morris, Minister of Trans­ verend Moon's photographs and portation, the Chairman of the the book, New Hope: Twelve Talks Festival of Light, and the Greek by Sun Myung Moon. People I knew Archbishop in Sydney spoke. So who saw me on TV or who recog- this is quite an upward trend. •

FROM AUSTRALIA A "Churinga" Team in Melbourne can't forget it, even if they want to. by CHRISTA JENSEN Perhaps there is a little sur­ prise in the name of our team, The mission here in Australia, es­ "Churinga." It describes a symbol tablished almost a year and a half with thirteen concentric circles ago, is expanding; there is excite­ and is derived from the old myths ment and much activity in the air. and rituals of the Aborigines-the July was packed full with bless­ native people of Australia. Several mgs. thousand years before the white Our "Churinga Team," settlement started, the Abori­ which has existed for five months gines, very dark-skinned and tall now, goes witnessing in the streets people, came from South East Asia of Melbourne for ten hours every to live here. day, and many good contacts have They are not integrated into been formed. Constantly they the society of the white people, bring interested people into the and there are several problems, center, many of them coming dur­ mainly of racial and social kinds. ing the day to listen to the lectures Today the Aborigines live in the of the Divine Principle. It is amaz­ far "outback" of Australia in their ing how often we meet foreigners own communities, often con­ in the streets who have already nected with mission centers and in met the Unification Church in reserved area. Europe, in the United States, and Only the Divine Principle can sometimes even in Japan. The provide the possibility of solving Principle follows people all over these problems and at some stage the world; once they have heard these people of ancient times will this powerful message of God they be found by the Principle and they 151 will be members of one great fam­ has there been real unity; since we ily. So "Churinga" is an old sym­ have centers now in three states; bol for the origin of all life; it de­ Victoria, South Australia and West scribes so much the purpose of our Australia, it will be a base to team: to give life to many Austra­ achieve this unity in the future. lians. Thirteen million wait for We feel the urgency so much. salvation in this continent. Au.stralia's society is very weak-a Because the cities are far rapid decline becomes obvious. apart-five-hundred miles and The recent strikes have caused an more-we intend to have mobile unemployment rate of almost teams as soon as there are enough three percent. The Communists members in the centers; they will work hard to get more unions work along the same pattern we under their control; the average have established here in Mel­ Australian doesn't realize the bourne. danger. There seems to be com­ In Adelaide our second plete ignorance about the tactics center, established now almost and the intentions of the Com­ four months ago, is expanding; munists, and we find hardly any new members have moved into sense of responsibility. But deep the center and the girls are already down in their hearts the Aus­ strong fighters for our Father. We tralians long so much for real love welcomed new members here in and acceptance. We realize that the Melbourne Family as well. they all have a very strong longing It is a privilege to work for our to fulfill the Father's plan. Father here, and we desire so Recently we did pamphlet much that He is really happy when work in the three main shopping He thinks about Australia and sees centers in the Eastern suburbs of the mission progressing. We thank Melbourne; we were able to hand Him for all His love and guidance. out thousands of leaflets. We ex­ Again we were able to expand perienced the most different reac­ the mission here in Australia. On tions coming from the people but the 29th of August we opened a in general the response was very new center in Perth, almost 2000 good. miles west of Melbourne. We are In the last month we had not grateful that Father told us to go only an increase in our member­ out to establish the third center ship, but a new nation is rep­ and we are confident that within a resented in the family here as well. short time we will have a family A boy from Canada was ap­ there as well. The population of proached here in Melbourne, who Perth is 500,000. It is the capital understood the Principle and city of Western Australia, the joined us. We look ahead with con­ largest state of all six here. Never fidence. • 152 m~ ~ Two albums of the NewHope Singers International "Serious Music and ~Nice" "Come On In!'' order from New Hope Singers International 1365 Connecticut Ave.,N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Price: $5.00each (prepaid) In the golden age of Asia Korea was one of its lamp bearers. And that lamp is waiting ·1b be lighted once again For the> illumination in the East. · Habindranath ·1agore