"Legal lines of statehood, lines of demarcation of cities, counties, and nations have also to do with karmic groups. And therefore, pay attention to them. The instruction on the demagnetization of the cities and the nations is also important. Thus, demagnetization and two-by-two will carry out the mission of the mercy flame."

"Let us look, then, to causes—causes of war. These concern me. For civilization may hold together imperfectly for many centuries, but world war and world holocaust can set back the planetary body, cutting off the right arm, the right leg, destroying genes and so forth, so that the morrow does not bring the new dawn of opportunity. Let us examine, then, causes of war most recent in this hemisphere in Central America, in Afghanistan, war that parades across the planet—causes of war in Vietnam, in Korea, in World War II, World War I.

"Beloved children of the Sun, these causes go back to the same forces—those exterrestrials in the earth who desire to keep the control of the population by arraying brother against brother, aligning them in causes and polarities not their own but foisted upon them by serpentine minds who have known how to work them up to a fever pitch of emotion and hatred by their indoctrination and propaganda and contrived shortages of food, hunger, disease, and manipulation of the basic commodities of the oil and the wheat.

"Blessed ones, the gold that is in thy hand from the God of Gold—this, too, they have tried to manipulate. Let us concentrate, then, not on surface events, but let us pull the black threads from the fabric of world consciousness. And then let us go to the hands that have woven these, and behind the hands to the controlling consciousness, and behind the controlling consciousness to the core of evil in the Matter cosmos . . .

"Beloved ones, someone once said that history is made by the little people and not by those important people. Well, it is so when the little people discover on that mighty day that a William Tell or a David or a single voice or a single one holding the finger in the dike can make the difference. The little people do not shape history unless some among them get the idea that the power of God is in their hands, that the ball is in their court, and that if they act, truly, nations and continents can be preserved for another day of grace, another day of freedom.

"There is a time for sowing, a time to water, a time to watch the summer breezes and sun, a time for harvest, a time for going into the seed within itself. Understand the times and the seasons:

"There is a time for the coming of the Ascended Masters and the Avatar and the Divine Mother with us. There is a time that is an interval of space where a civilization and a people must take that flame and demonstrate it.

"There is a time when the dark ones move across the land and all are bowed down, and the trees also are moved by strong winds of dark desire and many of them are broken. And there is a time for the coming of the Helper and the Comforter and the One who enlightens.

"Take heed, then, that you understand that that which occurs on a planet and in spiritual cycles is
a sine wave. Thus, it is written that there is a tide in the affairs of men. When this tide is taken at its crest, so it leads on to fortune, and that fortune is a divine fortune.

"Thus, there is a tide in the cycles, the sine wave of being, and you must mark those points of the peaks and the lows. You must understand there are economic cycles, though they are denied. There are waves that are predictable in all areas of existence because they line up with the cycles of karma which have been observed and plotted on graphs by those who were inspired by us to warn humanity of the hundred-year cycles and more."