A peaceful inner revolution.

 

Day 33

I had a great day yesterday riding my BMW motor cycle over to the coast. I have had the bike for over twenty years now and it is still going as good now as the day I brought it. It was second hand and it belonged to two previous owners who both apparently worked on improving its performance, it is still a very fast bike for an old one

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THE ESSENE RENAISSANCE

Quoted from THE ESSENES by Josephus and his Contemporizes. By Edmond Bordeaux Szekely.

The first Christian – Essenes had no formal creed. Their members were that freedom is the indispensable condition of wholesome spiritual life for men. They insisted upon being just as free to make new discoveries in religion as the scientist is in biology or chemistry.

Precious as is freedom, they did not regard it as an end in itself but rather as a condition in which alone they could fulfil function, which to enrich the individual life and to improve the social order.

The only religion that could satisfy them was one that rose above the ancient divisions and unite men all over the world in one brotherhood.

The fundamental belief of the modern Essenes is that the renaissance of the original purity, simplicity and harmony of the creative life of the first Christians-Essenes is the only way out of the present world chaos of violence, ignorance, misery and suffering.

On this universal and eternal basis they are trying to bring about the all-sided realization of the best forms of the individual and social life.

1. They always and everywhere get rid of what is bad by strengthening what is good, never by violent attack on what is bad

2. They get rid of ignorance simply by extending education and not violent attacks on ignorance.

3. They get rid of egoism simply by aiding and extending altruism and not by violent attacks on egotism.

4. They get rid of violence simply by the progressive growth and strength of our constructive social activity and not by destructive attacks on violence.

6. They get rid of disease by strengthening the vitality of the organism and not attacking the disease.

5. They get rid of misery by the progressive elimination of the chief individual causes of misery, by giving progressively possibilities to every one of winning and extending individual and collective well-being and not by violent attack on the existing law of society.

7. They get rid of chaos and darkness by the extensive organization of order and the progressive organization of light and not by destruction or violence.

In brief : They create a better future by the constructive and progressive amelioration (to make better or improve) of the present and not by the destruction of the past. They bring about a peaceful inner revolution, an individual rebirth in each altruistic, intelligent and active being in order to ensure the unlimited progressive evolution of mankind towards an ever better future.