 |
Peace on Earth
by Chrissie Blaze |
Leo Tolstoy led us to believe with his great classic
"War and Peace" that peace is absence of war,
and that war is a natural state. We cannot blame
Tolstoy, who described the human condition brilliantly,
with his panoramic study of early 19th
Century Russian Society. He was a storyteller who
understood deeply the human condition and from his keen
perception extrapolated a theory of historical
determinism. Avid readers of "War and Peace,"
as I am, will see that the novel lays out a theory of
history that states that there is a minimum of free
choice. That war follows peace just as surely as night
follows day.
In this modern age, we see little to disprove
Tolstoy’s awesome theories. If we look at our world in
one way we see apparently inevitable results. We
constantly hear about warfare, starvation, loss and
tragedy and if we don’t watch ourselves we allow fear
to enter into our consciousness. Once fear is there, we
are well on the way to proving Tolstoy’s theory of
life, with all its inevitability and limitation.
All it takes though is a trip to the ocean with our
three-year old to know he’s wrong on this. We can walk
in the countryside when the dew is still sparkling on
the grass and know there’s nothing inevitable about
life. We catch our hearts opening up, and our bodies
overreacting with a feeling of tingly joy, when a
stranger offers us a gentle, knowing smile, for no
reason, other than love.
All it takes is to visit an Internet radio station
such as Jerry Pippin’s dedicated to Truth, or to open
a spiritual book to remind us of our great
possibilities, and never to be limited. Never to
underestimate our true potential. Never to fear our
greatness or capacity to love. Never to hold a lesser
picture of ourselves or our world than that offered to
us by the Wise Ones. Jesus, the Lord Buddha, Gandhi, and
others, who have graced our world at different times in
our history, have offered us a path away from the
endless cycle or war and limitation.
In our dim and distant path, we, the human race, may
have chosen the apparent delights of freewill and the
right to act and be exactly as we wish. However, the
goal, the Holy Grail of all thinking people is not
freewill – but freedom. Freewill allows us to indulge
our fleeting passions; freedom leads us on the higher
path to unlock life’s mystic secrets. Freedom from
war, pain, limitation and fear is our birthright.
Freedom to unlock the divine secrets of our higher
nature, and to soar through the skies of our own
becoming.
This freedom can be achieved through aligning our
freewill – our right to choose – with the great Laws
of God. The Divine Laws that teach us that the way to
break through the endless, limiting cycles is to realize
Oneness. It is then and only then that we will act with
our God-nature and so rise above the apparently
inevitable cycles we have – through past lives –
created.
At the moment, Peace is on everyone’s mind because
there is continual talk of its opposite – war. If we
change the way we perceive life – as a spiritual
journey in which we unfold our Divine potential, not as
a battle for survival, then peace must eventually dawn.
First it must dawn in the hearts and minds of each of
us, and then it must, by the Divine Law of Action and
Reaction – Karma - exist upon our Earth.
We can then prove forever that war does not have to
follow peace, as night follows day. Instead, conflict
can be turned to spiritual action and peace, inward
reflection. Both of these opposites will then meet in
the fires of that great mystic force – LOVE.
STOP PRESS NEWS! One-Minute Peace Prayer Initiative.
At 8:00 p.m. each day local time (or another time
suitable for you) join together with other caring,
compassionate humans around the world by saying a prayer
for peace for one minute. To sign up for this Prayer
Initiative, visit www.chrissieblaze.com/prayforpeace.shtml
© Copyright 2003 Chrissie Blaze. All Rights
Reserved.
Chrissie Blaze, a teacher, author, astrologer,
media personality and senior Aetherius Church minister
was a close student of Dr. George King (Yoga Master and
founder of The Aetherius Society) for 25 years. Chrissie
Blaze has written books including Workout for the
Soul: Eight Steps to Inner Fitness, AsLan
Publishing, Inc., November, 2001, Mercury Retrograde:
Your Survival Guide to Astrology’s Most Precarious
Times of the Year, Warner Books, Inc., April, 2002,
and The Baby’s Astrologer: Your Guide to Good
Parenting Is In the Stars, Warner Books, Inc., 2003
publication. For further information and details of
classes and workshops in the Los Angeles area, please
visit www.chrissieblaze.com.
Tel: (323) 252 6391 (voicemail) or (323) 465 9652.
BACK
TO "FEATURES" PAGE
|
