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A GUIDE TO THE NEW RENAISSANCE

Chapter One

WHY A NEW RENAISSANCE?

According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Renaissance means a renewal of life, vigor, interest, rebirth.

The first Renaissance influenced and was influenced by the cultural and technological life of the time. The New Renaissance will take place in the moral and Spiritual life of the people. Although we have and are now advancing rapidly in a technical sense, many feel our moral and Spiritual attitudes are just slightly below those of Attila the Hun. It almost appears as if Diogenes of old would go unfulfilled in his search for an honest man in today's world.

The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah would blush to see the sexual habits that control so many of our people. One can but imagine the heartache felt by the gentle Prophet of Nazareth when He sees His "Christians" killing, raping, looting, and planting bombs that kill innocent women and children. The Golden Rule of this Great Teacher has been thrown on the trash heap and that of David Harum put in its place: "Do to others what they want to do to you, only do it first."

The strong, whose duty should be to protect and teach the weak, take advantage of the weak to advance their own ends. The poor are patronized and plundered at the same time. Peoples, nations, and races are set one against the other for the profit of the few and the anguish of the many.

We are now deeply immersed in moral and spiritual DARK AGES. Fortunately, however, no age lasts forever. From far off, a Light is beginning to shine and illuminate this morass, and those with eyes to see and ears to hear know that a New Renaissance is on its ways.

Evil, that which is harmful or destructive, has the seed of its own downfall in the bosom of its matrix. This seed is pollinated and fertilized by the emotions generated by the evil itself. In time, this seed grows into an all-consuming weed that chokes out and destroys all that gave it life. When it has served this purpose, it dies because it can live only on the evil that gave it existence.

This evil or "weed" is coming to maturity in many parts of the world. New deadly diseases, plagues, unusual accidents, natural and unnatural catastrophes, and unprecedented terrorism fill our television screens and newspaper pages. When the Nazarene said, "Blessed are the meek (humble, unselfish), for they shall inherit the earth," He was undoubtedly referring to this time. Those with evil in their hearts are about to be destroyed by that evil and the world that remains will be peopled by the "meek."*
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*At the time the King James Version of the Bible was organized, the meaning of the term, meek, was a gentle, kind person, not someone who permitted others to take advantage of him.
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It is important at this time that those who are "meek" are careful of their associations, for it is the nature of the evil "weed" to take innocents who are closely allied to the guilty down with them, if they do not keep their distance. Because of the lack of inherent evil in these innocents, however, they will not be "placed in prison" with their more carnal friends, but will be allowed to return to Earth after a respectable time for contemplation with a heavenly admonition to choose their friends more carefully in the future.

The Two-Thousand-Year Cycle

Some acquaintance with the cycles of the Earth and the Heavens is assumed in the foregoing discussion. For persons who are interested in protecting themselves and their loved ones from the ever-increasing destroying forces in the world, but who have not been previously exposed to these teachings, a short review of past events and of those to come may be helpful.

Because of man's basic ignorance and carnality, he can be taught Truth only in small doses. Approximately every two thousand years a new "Messenger" is sent by God to bring the latest interpretation of the Law (the truth of our being). Unless this is done no real advancement of humanity would take place. Each Messenger teaches the same Law as the last but interprets and extends it to fit the evolutionary improvement of mankind. "Think not I am come to destroy the Law but to fulfill," Jesus said early in His ministry. As the new period of change takes place in the moral and Spiritual, it is mirrored in the material world as well. The New Dispensation will replace the old.

Those who would hold on to the ways of the old will be thrown in the refuse heap with the used-up dispensation itself. The Law demands a clean slate. This demand is even more far-reaching in this New Dispensation than in the past. This time a new land has been chosen to exemplify God's Power and Glory. For this new land He will have a new people. The cream of all other lands. The new land is the Americas, the new people all Americans. This is not enough for His New Dispensation, however. Only the finest will become a part of His New Renaissance. The process of selection, through which only the purest and most desirable will inhabit His promised land in the New Renaissance is now under way. Biblically, this is called the separation of the "wheat" and the "chaff." Once this process has been accomplished, the New Renaissance can proceed in earnest. According to the book of Revelation, the Devil (those too evil to be a part of the New Renaissance) will be bound for approximately a thousand years. After that time, they will gradually be allowed to return to Earth on the assumption that the moral and Spiritual control of the Earth will be so stable that they can be easily accepted and reformed without creating adverse effects upon society and mankind. To put it in the common vernacular, the leaders and people of the New Renaissance have been given a "running start."

This heavenly prison is, of course, well within the functioning of the Divine Law. Whenever a people have created so much evil that, according to the Law of the All-Wise Creator, they deserve to cool down a bit before being permitted to reincarnate to Earth, they are held back. Actually, their own evil holds them, because there would be no parents to whom they could be born in the New Renaissance until they have had time to forget their past ways. Once the Law cleanses the world of the "chaff," these must wait in the Soul World either until the people of the New Renaissance degenerate so as to deserve such progeny (heaven forbid) or until time and desire has brought these Souls to the point where they wish to return to the Earth to honestly repay their past evils and take a valued place as an upright member of society.

This is not the first time such an event has taken place. The most illustrious precedent was the fate of the people of Atlantis. They were held for many thousands of years until all memory of the process that led to their destruction was forgotten. Now that that is past, many of these advanced Souls have returned and will become the leaders of the New Renaissance.

Although there will undoubtedly be catastrophic events in this process of separation, much of it will be carried out by the quieter, though slower, process of attrition. If the Law simply waits until an evil person brings about his end and then does not permit him to reincarnate for several generations, the world can be purified. This method is unassuming, but it is very effective.

People of the New Renaissance

From this discussion it is obvious that the New Renaissance will be composed of three groups of individuals. The first group will include those who were able to survive the Time of Separation and entered the New Renaissance in this lifetime. This right they earned by making themselves "wheat" and by being "in the world, but not of it." In essence, their heart and mind were pure enough to assure them a place and their understanding wise enough to see that they were not in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The second group will include those who were sufficiently pure of heart to belong in the New Renaissance but who were not sufficiently wise enough to avoid the broad swathe of the Law's mighty scythe during the last days. These are somewhat like curiosity seekers caught in a raid of an illegal gambling establishment. They must go through the embarrassment of being jailed for a short time, but once the truth is learned, they are released with a warning. They will begin to return to the New Renaissance in the early decades of the new century.

The third group will include those who have prepared themselves for this glorious time for many years. They will be the leaders of the New Renaissance. Some of them will survive the last struggles and be ready and willing to take over the reins of society from the present deposed office holders. Many of these great leaders are now waiting in the Soul World until the time is propitious for them to return to prepare to take up their duties.
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