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J anuary
1971
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them warn, solemnly, that this was civ–
il ization's LAST CHANCE to survive.
Then I saw these meo fight viciously for
every selfish advantage -
and al the
coJI of PEACE!
Men laud the way of !ove and co–
operation as an impractical platitude.
But in action, they go the diametrically
opposite direction.
And that is the basic mistake, for the
11nselfish way of giving - of outgoing
concern for others - is, in actual fact,
no impractical platitude, but the
only
way to peace, real and true success with
prosperity and happiness.
1
have proved
it by
44
years of personal experience.
Ambassador College has demonstrated
it by
23
Y2
years of collective experience.
Actually, what almost no one seems
to realize, the way of "GIVE" - of out–
going concern - is actually an invisible
but inexorable fixed LAw in living
motion. Actually THAT WAY
ÍS
a SP!Rl·
TUAL LAw, as real and intlexibly
relentless as the law of gravity or of
inertia. I t governs and regulates all
human relationships.
W
ould it seem so strange that man's
Maker- the very Creator of the vast–
ness of space, the stars, the sun and the
earth, who set in motion the Jaws of
gravity, inertia, all the laws of physics
and chemistry -
Jho11ld also have Jet in
living motion
this spiritual Law for the
very PURPOSE of producing PEACE,
HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY, abundant weJl–
being for mankind ?
For every effect,
1
repeat, there has to
be a CAUSE. We do have evils, and
there has to be a CAUSE. We
could
have
GOOO results, but they can be produced
only by a CAUSE. And that LAW - that
WAY of LIFE -
ÍS
the CAUSE.
Of course it isn't fashionable any
more to mention or even suggest that
man had a Maker. It isn't "intellec–
tual." It is absent from the modern
PROOUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE. But then,
if we are to be rational, we do face the
The
PLAIN TRUTH
FACT the evils are escalating in virtually
exact ratio with knowledge production.
Just
WHAT
could be WRONG with this
knowledge production?
First Scientific Experiment
1 explained to the educators in Japan
that if we would consider and give cre–
dence to the "forbidden fruit" narrative
in the Hebrew Scriptures, we might
come directly to the crux of the whole
question -
the CAUSE of all the
world's
ills
-
the REASON
increaud
know/edge has paralleled increaud evi!J.
That account shows our very first par–
ents M.AKING THE VERY FIRST SCIEN–
TIFIC EXPER!MENT!
Their Maker had revealed to them
this inexorable spiritual Law. He had
put them in the beautiful Garden of
Eden. That spiritual Law, and the !ove
that fulfills it, was symbolized by one of
two special symbolic trees in the center
of the garden. The one tree was called
"the tree of LIFE." It was freely
offered. In reality it represented the very
LIFE-impregnating Spirit of the great
Creator - the God who, though Him–
self an eternally living Spirit Person,
revealed that He had made mao in H is
own likeness, though of physical matter
from the ground. Thus, their Maker ex–
plained, man was MORTAL, and could die.
But there were TWO symbolic trees in
the garden-center.
The other was called "the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil." It repre–
sented
taking to themse/ves
ability to
know - to produce the KNOWLEOGE
of what is Gooo and what is EVIL, that
is, what is right and what is wrong.
The Creator had
already
created and
set in living motion this inexorable spir–
itual LAw that is the WAY to every
GOOD. To produce knowledge of, and
follow any OTHER WAY automatically
must RESULT in EVJLS! For any
other
u•ay
is of necessity the
tramgressio11
of
that Law! There can be no law
tUitho11t
a penalty.
And the penalty of trans–
gression of that Law is DEATH -
capital punishment - ETERNAL punish–
ment, or eterna! DEATH.
Notice this significant narrative. Our
first parents' Maker forbade them to
take and eat of this forbidden fruit.
WHY? Because it represented the CAUSE
of every evil and unwanted result -
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tbe CAUSE of unhappiness, suffering,
strife, violence, death. Because it was
BAO for humanity! Their Maker told
them they were made only of material
substance from the ground- they were
mortal - and if they took and ate of
the forbidden fruit
Jhey tuould
SURELY
die!
lt was SURE!
It is the prerogative solely of God the
Creator to determine what is right, and
what is wrong. He did not delegate to
man the responsibility to determine
WH.AT is right and WHAT is wrong -
but He did compel mankind to decide
WHETHER to obey what is right, or
WHETHER to choose to do wrong.
Since the Creator already had set in
eternally living motion this spiritual
LAw to provide the CAUSE for every
GOOD result, there was no other right
way for man to choose.
lntellectual Vanity–
Revelation Rejected
The first man and woman had perfect
human minds. But they did not use
them rightly or wisely. The thought
carne to them that they possessed intel–
lectual powers so great that they could
even assume the GoD-prerogative of
producing the KNOWLEOGE of what is
cooo and what is EVIL. Thís appcaled
to intellectual vanity. They were thrilled,
enthralled, intoxicated by the grand
prospect.
WHY knuckle under to obey their
Maker? Then agaín, DOUBT entered
their minds whether they could BELIEVE
Him. He had said they were mortal.
They could
on: -
they had only a tem–
porary, mechanical-chemícal existence.
They could only go on living eternally
by receiving eterna) LIFE as His GIFT -
freely offered by the other symbolic tree.
But how could they be SURE? They
decided they should put it to the test
and see for themselves.
So
they mtered 11pon the
ver)
¡il'lt
"SOENTIFJC EXPERIMENT." They pio–
neered in the human way of knowledge
production.
They rejected revelation. They used
observation, experiment, human reason.
It
was when they SAW with their own
eyes - observation - tbat this fruit
was pleasant to the eyes, good for food,
and desired to make one wise, that
intellectual vanity, lust and greed