In a society in which the government is released from the welfare function of caring for the poor and indigent, the true nature of human compassion can come into full play. Such a society it truly civilized.

CHARITY

In considering help to the less fortunate, the Laws of Charity described in an earlier chapter must never be forgotten. According to these Laws, which are the Laws of the New Renaissance, three factors must be present before we have a right to help others.

First, they must ask for help.

Second, they must be unable to provide it for themselves (have real Need).

Third, the person or group offering such help must be able to do so without neglecting any of their own responsibilities or obligations.

As long as these criteria are met, charity represents men doing the work of God. Otherwise, as is so often today, it is the work of the Devil (injurious in the long run).

Persons interested in this part of the New Renaissance should refer to the section in this book on the Law of Personal Responsibility. Suffice it to say here that the objective of all true charity is to help when the one in need is no longer able to help himself. Cease such aid as soon as he can help himself. Insofar as possible, teach the needy one the Laws of Health and Success so that he will be able to care for himself in the future.

Never forget that each of us come to Earth to work out our past Karma and find the Light of God within. Sometimes to do this we must suffer. No one has the right to deny another this suffering. Therefore, if one in apparent need disdains our aid, that is his right. We have no obligation to interfere unless evil is done to others.

One of the most important ways of helping the poor is to stop alibiing and glamorizing poverty and need. THERE IS NO STATE OF MAN THAT HE DID NOT BRING UPON HIMSELF. Were this not true, the entire message of the Nazarene would be a fraud. Did He not say, "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." If this is true, and who of us in worthy enough to say it is not, then all of us are where we are because of what we have brought upon ourselves. The acceptance of this Law is the beginning of wisdom and the key to entrance into the New Renaissance.

The ideal charitable institute of the future will, therefore, have as its program two goals: First, to bind the wounds of the victims of their own misapplication of God's Laws. Second, to help these people see the proper way to correct their mistakes and to help them set out on a course in harmony with these intractable forces.

One of the most important teachings is the fallacy of the supposition that we are not the makers of our own fate, that we are the victims of the whims of others. This is the philosophy of all weaklings, drones, and losers. It will not be tolerated in the New Renaissance. Those who are unable to root it out of their consciousness will find the road to the future blocked to them.

Poverty is, after all, only as state of mind. In China where beggars are considered contemptible, the streets have always been free of them, even before the Communist Revolution. In their neighbor India, on the other hand, begging is regarded as a worthy profession, and the streets are full of those looking for a handout.

There will be need for a variety of charitable institutions in the New Renaissance. The nature of man is such that one teaching, in the beginning, will not fit all, and it will be necessary to establish different types of programs to reach different minds. The basic Laws do not change, but the best manner to implant them in the mind of the individual is always subject to much conjecture and variation.

EDUCATION IN THE NEW RENAISSANCE

What has been said concerning charitable institutions is also true of the educational system of the New Renaissance. Following a common basic education, the curricula will be adjusted to meet the needs and talents of the students. There will be greater emphasis on preparing students to the productive members of society, on meeting needs they will encounter in life, than there is now. Students who are more adapted to manual than to mental skills will no longer be made to feel somehow inferior. By this time the proper position of the farmer will also have been firmly established, and he will be accepted as one of God's chosen, as he provides the sustenance without which none of us can live.

It goes without saying that here, too, the Law of Personal Responsibility will be a paramount teaching. When this Law can be fully understood by our future generations, we need have little fear of foreign ideologies. When the theories of the latter are compared with the transcendent wisdom of this Law, such socialistic rationalizations look shoddy and laughable.

All such socialistic programs are built upon atheism, because none can long survive the scrutiny of Law as made clear by the Nazarene in the New Testament. The Parable of the Talents alone shows the folly of all such humanistic endeavors. Humanistic tendencies arose, not because the Law was defective, but because the interpretation of the Law and its application were misconstituted and misconstrued by the leaders of the Church and others who took upon themselves the obligation of teaching this Law to God's children.

METHODS. In the New Renaissance there will be little difference between the teaching of the schools and the teaching of the most advanced religions. Instruction in both will be based on scientifically demonstrable truth. During the Manistic Age mankind will gradually come to understand that there is only one Truth and that it is applicable to all forms of human activity. Philosophy and science will once again merge as they did in days long past to the advantage of each. This "marriage" will but prove the validity and eternalness of the great Law of Hermes, "As in the inner, so in the outer," There is a Universal Oneness in all the world about us, and All is but one thing in a nearly infinite variety of forms. Down through the centuries mankind has accepted the forms, but never the Universal Oneness. By understanding the unity, all its forms or manifestations become clear, and true wisdom, such as was found by Solomon of old, can be possessed by each of us.

Pure science can understand the nature of things but cannot tell us why. True philosophy, that which teaches the Divine Laws of God, can tell us why but frequently cannot give us the proof demanded by those reared in a computer age. Therefore, the union of these two is imperative in the school of the New Renaissance if the Manistic Age is to fulfill its prophecy.

As civilization's early teachers looked at the forms of manifestation of the unity, they began to put each form into a category and systematize the thought of the world about it. Because order is Heaven's first Law, they were on the right track. But they erred in separating elements that were in reality the same though to the mortal eye appeared to differ.

The new, clear thinking of the Manistic Age will cut through this ancient misconception. and schools will once again teach the commonality of all that which we call Truth. Spiritual wisdom that cannot be substantiated by scientific logic will be relegated to the status of superstition, and "scientific" theories that fail to meet the test of harmonizing with well-proven Divine Laws will be relegated to the trash can.

Once the truth that there is no factual Law of God that will not stand the light of scientific logic is accepted by the academic community, the school system of the New Renaissance will be well on its way. Admittedly, such a test will be hard on many of today's orthodox religious organizations. But the Law of God is: Adapt to the evolution of mankind or perish.

Nor would this be the first time the Church has been forced to change its policies. A realignment of Church doctrine occurred during the first Renaissance when the Church was forced to give up its concept of the form of the Universe. Admittedly, it did not give up without a fight as the quasitrail of Galileo demonstrates. But it finally did change, as the weight of scientific evidence became overwhelming. That which happened once can, and will, happen again. In fact, if the truth were acknowledged, what we call the New Renaissance is but an extension in a new direction of the earlier Renaissance.

Ironically, the Catholic Church apparently learned a lesson from this first change and does not deny the possibility of future changes. Their reformed offspring, the Protestants, may not be so flexible, as they have built their doctrinal teaching on a foundation that may not withstand the scrutiny of New Renaissance thought. Only time will tell which organizations will be able to blend and adapt with the times.

The curricula of schools in the New Renaissance will consist of the Laws of God, Nature, and science (they are one and the same), and student experiments to prove the validity of these Laws will be encouraged. Students will be asked to accept nothing on faith. If a law cannot be tested and proven to the student, how can he be expected to accept it?

Tests will be directed more toward ascertaining the reasoning power of students than the amount of facts they can store in their mental on-board computer (the brain). In this way school will become a place all students will look forward to attending instead of the feared prison so many view it as today. Modern education to a great degree limits the number of practitioners in a field or profession by making the training onerous, rather than teaching students to handle real-life problems and to seek new solutions for themselves. The influence of the children on the New Renaissance will ensure that his is changed in the Manistic Age.

EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG GIRL. Because of the nature of puberty in the young girl, she will be treated differently, at this age, than her male schoolmates. Today, society pretends that the menarche does not exist. Especially is this true in the academic community. It is at best an embarrassment to them since it makes a distinct difference between boys and girls which academics do their best to intellectually deny. As the One Flesh concept of marriage and the science of Ingenuology* become better known, this indifference will gradually abate.
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*Ingenuology is the science of the human incentives. (The word is taken from the Latin ingenuus, meaning native or inborn.) This, therefore, is the study of the native or inborn human incentives described in an earlier chapter.
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When the young girl enters this stage of her life, she should be placed on a schedule different from that of boys her own age. Little of a mental nature should be asked of her, but rather her body's energies should be allowed to concentrate their efforts on establishing her womanhood. Few other stresses should be placed on her at this time. Thirty years of clinical practice have repeatedly proven to me that life-long physical weaknesses in female patients can be traced to the stresses place on women at the menarcheal time by the school, their parents, and ignorant male peers.

At least twenty-five to thirty-five percent of Americans have a condition known as adrenal syndrome. This condition, while it does not limit the lifespan, makes life much less productive and satisfying because of the weaknesses and mental fogginess so much a part of this little understood and accepted ailment.

Women make up the majority of victims of adrenal syndrome. The onset can often be traced to events of the menarche. By ignoring this important time in a girl's life, we in substance are producing a large population of weak and dependent wives and mothers. This evil not only affects them, but is a strong factor in the lives of their husbands and children. A wife with adrenal syndrome requires much care and attention that the man of the household should direct to his worldly duties, that go wanting because of the time and energy he needs to spend caring for his wife. if you think I exaggerate, ask one of these long-suffering husbands.

Perhaps the worst part of this situation is the effect on the children, especially daughters. Daughters of adrenal syndrome mothers invariably develop the tendency from this condition. When this tendency is added to the stresses of our present system at the time of the daughter's menarche, she has little chance to avoid this weakness. Carry this through a few more generations, as has occurred, and you can readily see why we are quickly becoming a nation of neurotic weaklings.

The answer is surprisingly simple. Recognize what is going on with young ladies at the time of their menarche and give them a sabbatical until the glandular changes are well established. The change may take six months to a year, but what is this period compared to a lifetime of misery and low productivity? During this time, the young girl may devote her time to activities that enrich the body, mind, and Soul, but do not create stress. This would be an excellent time for a mother to teach her daughter domestic and gardening skills that are such an important part of the true One Flesh marriage, but are so frequently neglected today.

Many "liberated" women will find these suggestions chauvinistic or even archaic. That does not in the least affect their validity. In fact, the great number of women who come to doctors' offices with the adrenal condition described above confirm this stand. The truth is that these women for some unexplained reason want to be men but were not made so by Nature. "All the king's horses and all the king's men" cannot change this. To oppose one's own individual incentives in this incarnation is to court disaster.

Inasmuch as we all are given free will by the Law and by God, women now and in the New Renaissance have and will have the right to do as they will, but it is a most difficult course to attempt to swim upstream against our inborn incentives. A far wiser procedure would be to live in harmony with the gender with which one came into this life. if at the end of the present incarnation a person still desires to live the life of the opposite sex, all that person has to do is to program this desire for the next incarnation, The Soul itself is sexless, and each individual has complete freedom to choose. Taking this into account, always remember that whatever sex you now are is the one you alone chose in the last incarnation for this lifetime.

Once the menarcheal time has past, girls may return to classes with the rest of the students. The time lost will not be difficult to make up because as cited above, the curricula will not be the same as today but will include more of the teaching of the Laws of God, Nature, and science.

THE MEDIA IN THE NEW RENAISSANCE

When America was formed, the media consisted of newspapers, and flyers, and in some cases the town crier. Anyone so desiring, could remain free of such influences for an entire lifetime. There are those who might even say to their great advantage. Nowadays, however, this has changed considerably. Once it was realized that the media could be used to sell a product, any product, from soap to politicians, their growth and invasion into private lives was assured and it has been astronomical.

The power inherent in our modern media has not gone unobserved by pressure groups and governments. In fact, America, and perhaps a few other Western republics, are the only countries that do not have careful regulation and control of the media by the government in power. These governments are convinced that most citizens, like Will Rogers, "know only what they read in the newspapers." In this way "truth" soon becomes only that which those in power want it to be.

Efforts have been made by various powerful groups in America to do the same thing, but with far greater sophistication. People who know their media are controlled know also they will be told only that which the forces that run the government wish them to hear. These people are in a position to discount the news, recognizing that it is heavily slanted. Thus, even though the media are controlled, their effect on the population is not as strong as the of media people believe to be unmanipulated.

Herein lies the danger of the American media today. Although uncontrolled from all outward appearances, the media can be subtly slanted to manipulate public opinion in a far more successful manner than where the government has complete sovereignty. Thus, media bias is much more dangerous in a so-called free environment that in a totalitarian one.

Because of the limited nature of airways channels available for radio and TV transmission, some sort of federal control is necessary, even though it does seem to deviate from the principle of American liberty as envisioned by our Founders. Where it not for some type of control, special interest groups could buy up the various networks and transmit to American people whatever they wished them to think. To some degree this is being done at this time, but it would be a much more dangerous problem than it is were it not for the recent introduction of cable channels and the popular videocassette. These innovations allow the public a renewed freedom of choice and, therefore, have been rigorously opposed by the established media. The American principle of freedom will prevail, however, and in the New Renaissance a wide variety of media outlets will be made available to the public. it will be increasingly difficult for any one group to attempt to control public opinion for long. Lincoln said it all in the statement, "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time.

When we speak of government control of the media, we are concerned only that governmental power is used to ensure All groups are given the right to use the media that are deemed public (such as the limited airways). The government has no right to limit the use made of the media, only to make sure no restrictive monopoly or cartel is established.

In discussing such matters, we should never forget that there are few definitive answers in our material existence. It is man's nature to pretend there are, but in the last analysis we all know better. ONE NEVER KNOWS FROM WHENCE TRUTH WILL COME. THEREFORE, ANY ATTEMPT TO RESTRICT FREE SPEECH, NO MATTER HOW ODIOUS IT MAY SEEM TO SOME, IS COMPLETELY UN-AMERICAN AND WILL NOT BE TOLERATED IN THE NEW RENAISSANCE.

The Spiritual law upon which this principle is based may be stated thus: That which is all evil will rapidly be destroyed by the reaction of the law itself. That which continues to exist, will do so, therefore, because it serves a good and useful purpose , under the Divine law. Any attempt to destroy such an entity is doomed to failure, until it has completed its lawful task. We can and must learn from all that exists and should make every effort in the media of the New Renaissance to see that NO voice is stifled.

THE CHURCH IN THE NEW RENAISSANCE

Though said in sadness, yet in all honesty, the orthodox Christian Church is the most intolerant and bigoted institution in the world today. One has only to listen to a Sunday of television ministers' sermons to have this conclusion fully authenticated. It is ironic that the man who came to be the Prince of Peace should end up as the excuse for such arrogant self-righteousness. Of course, these doctrines are not the teaching the Nazarene gave, but the garbled interpretation of those who do not know.

The greatest misunderstanding stems from the inability of early Church leaders to comprehend the difference between the Christ and the man Jesus. The Bible is correct when it declares that the Christ is the only begotten Son of God. In this instance, the Christ is a synonym for the Divine Spark which is placed in each of us by God in order that, by bringing it into consciousness, we may have life eternal. Those who led the Church, following the usurpation of power by Constantine, were unable to comprehend that the Nazarene used symbology much of the time and did not refer to Himself as the Christ. As John the Baptist played the part of the human mind, Jesus represented the human Soul (the one symbolized by water and the other symbolized by fire), and as such portrayed the process of human development for "those with eyes to see and with ears to hear."

If the words of the orthodox Church are accepted in this light, its teaching is pure and holy, but if it is taken in the sense of the Christ being a man-God named Jesus, it becomes a narrow, bigoted force despised by many and feared by all.

One cannot help but ask, why, after two thousand years, has the misunderstanding of the early misguided Church prelates not been detected and corrected? The answer is simple: THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN DOES NOT WANT IT CHANGED BECAUSE IT SATISFIES TWO OF HIS MOST PREVALENT CARNAL DESIRES. These are exclusivity and laziness.

We all want to be special. It is a common human trait to desire God to look upon us with favor. This human feeling has created cliques and exclusive clubs and lodges since time immemorial. What greater exclusivity could one have than that of being the only one allowed in Heaven by the All-Wise Creator? In fact, for many, it is not enough just to be Christian; you must be "their" kind of Christian and believe exactly as they do, or you are surely going to hell. Although they pretend to be sorry for you and wish you would repent and see the truth "their way," one cannot help but wonder if some wouldn't be a little disappointed if you didn't go to hell, after all.

This carnal trait of exclusive superiority is the force behind all discrimination, bigotry, and intolerance. The effect on the Soul is the same whether it happens in the Church, the KU Klux Klan, or an exclusive club. In the New Renaissance this human weakness will be eliminated from the Christian Church if it is to survive.

Actually, if the desire for a special position were the only adverse teaching of the orthodox Church, it might survive. But when this is combined with the appeal to indolence and dishonesty, so much a part of the teaching of the average Christian Church, it is doubtful that the Church can survive intact into the New Renaissance. The Christian Church today attempts to assure its advocates that there is no way they can better themselves except by believing in the name of someone else. This doctrine was originally adopted for two reasons, First, it made the Christian dependent on the Church and gave the Church control over him. (It is the nature of carnal man to wish to control others.) Second, it was an easy doctrine to sell, because it relied on man's inherent laziness and desire for something for nothing.

If we consider the ubiquitousness of these two human weaknesses, we can understand the appeal of Fundamentalist Christianity among the uneducated populous and its rejection by those who are more tolerant and fair-minded. Orthodox Christianity sounds almost too good to be true, and, like all such things, it is. It will survive into the New Renaissance only if it is able to modify its teachings to allow for a voice of dissent and reason. Once this is done, it can advance further by adding to its teaching the Nazerane's doctrine of "faith without works is dead."

Admittedly, the Church is not entirely to blame, for certainly the people could not have been so mislead if they were not basically dishonest in their own hearts. Truth that is not first just cannot be Truth. If we forget for a moment that the Bible, as interpreted by a Fundamentalist minister, is the word of God, we cannot help but be struck by the basic injustice of most of the concepts asserted to be the foundation of the Christian doctrine. It is almost as if a moral an honest man must leave these virtues out in the street, when he enters the Church, lest he become confused. The dubious interpretation of the Bible by one who does not know is never to be given more weight than the sense of moral right and wrong within the heart of a just man. In fact, frequently, the conscience of an unjust man is a far better judge of guilt than most pious "men of God."

In the New Renaissance man will be taught to be truly free - not only from the misguided doctrines of those who now mislead him, but also from his own carnal nature which, lo, these many centuries, has allowed him to eagerly follow false prophets, because he hoped that they would help him achieve, with little effort, that which he was too lazy to honestly earn for himself.

LABOR AND INDUSTRY

The relationship of labor to industry has gone through many changes in the last few decades. Early in this century employers many times took advantage of their workers. During the days of the Great Depression, change came about, and the power of the labor union was established. The pendulum swung in the other direction. Now, in the last few years, the pendulum is swinging away from the control by labor. This is neither good nor bad. It merely demonstrates the fact that for a material economy to function properly there must be a certain balance between labor and capital. If this balance becomes tilted too much to one side, or to the other, forces will be set into motion that will in time make the correction back to the center position.

By the very nature of their positions the interests of the worker and the employer seem to be antagonistic. Such is not necessarily the case. Henry Ford proved this some years ago. In general, the worker wants to work as few hours as possible and to make as much income for the time spent as possible. On the other hand, the employer wants the employee to work as much as he can (without overtime, of course) for as little as possible. Obvious, then, every job is a compromise between labor's desire and those of industry. This is as it should be. The forces at work are those of the market, and they can be trusted to reach a fair compromise that does not injure the consumer or the other parties.

That there are other considerations is not to be denied. For example, in early days of the auto industry henry Ford, the far-seeing industrialist, raised the wages of his workers from one dollar a day to five dollars. The rest of the industry was thunderstruck. "Why did you do it?" they asked Ford. "How else," he replied, "can the workers afford to buy one of my cars? In one broad stroke Henry Ford had established anew middle class, and the American standard of living took a leap forward. This is the style of thinking we anticipate in the New Renaissance. At this time there is much "treading of water" in the American economy, and we eagerly await the return of those Souls who are ready to once again lead America to new standards in industry.

In the New Renaissance many Souls will return who will desire to teach man that it is possible for labor and industry to work together for the benefit of both. Various types of incentive programs will be will be instituted so that a man will be rewarded in direct proportion to his accomplishments. Eventually, most national unions will disappear, as they were of little help to the worker but were merely another form of racket for organized crime. Local unions will be retained, however, because they will give workers a voice to restrain an unfeeling employer.

In the last analysis, the labor scene in the New Renaissance will be governed by two Laws of the Christian Dispensation: "The laborer is worthy of his hire" and the Parable of the Talents. All will be paid an honest wage for work done, but none will be paid who is unwilling to work. That is the Law of God, always was the Law of God, and always will be the Law of God.

FARMERS IN THE NEW RENAISSANCE

Farming is the most essential of all occupations. Without the farmer we should all soon wither and die. Because he is by nature usually an uncomplaining individual, he has been much abused during the past centuries. This sleeping giant is about to awaken, however, and many of the changes that will bring on the New Renaissance will be because of his actions. He is slow to anger because he is a man of the soil and patience is the badge of his tribe. But enough is enough, even for the farmer. He has been lied to, cheated, misused, and abused to the point where he will not accept it much longer. When he finally revolts, Americans will come to know something of the real values in life. Cocaine and marijuana will suddenly take second place to meat and potatoes as hunger increase.

Once the New Renaissance is established, the emphasis in farming will be revolutionized. Every effort will be made to produce quality, rather than quantity. The cost of produce will rise, but the farmer will retain much more of the profit of the finished product than he now does, so his standard of living will increase considerably with only a moderate increase in food cost to the public. Efforts will be made to create low-cost foodstuffs of high nutritional value for lower income groups. This food may not be fancy, but it will allow proper nutrition and diet will be balanced to prevent deficiency diseases.

In the New Renaissance a minimum of chemical fertilizers will be used, as this technology has proven to produce nutritionally inferior foods. The system is used today because it is thought to be financially advantageous. In the New Renaissance superior methods of soil nutrition will be mandatory for all farms that are to sell on the preferred market. A common marker will be available for farmers who do not wish to serve the requirements of the elite of the New Renaissance, but the prices here will be lower. Eventually, there will be little demand for this substandard produce.

Pesticides of all types will be outlawed as dangerous to public health, and scientists will learn methods to cooperate with Nature to control the pest we now poison. The Law to be applied here is, "All things are good; it is only the misuse of them that create evil." Wise men of science will learn to understand the reason for each pest and work in harmony with Nature to the mutual benefit of all. We are taught that, under the Law, nothing is to be destroyed. It is our obligation to find the proper use for each creation of God and work with Him and Nature to fulfill that purpose. There is no reason to expect that this does not apply to plant pest as well as to everything else.

Recent interesting studies have found that certain pests appear only when specific mineral deficiencies occur in plants. Could it be that these pest are Nature's way of telling us what soil corrections we need to make? Is it possible that we have but to look at our plant's pest to know what we must do to make the plants truly healthy? Could it be that in the past our various pesticides added toxic chemicals to an already deficient plant? One can only speculate as to how much such a food really was of benefit to the body.

As the New Renaissance progresses, the farmer will play an increasingly important part. He will gain increased respect and all will realize that without him they could not be fed. The farm will be considered the place where the most important of all Earth's products are produced. Quality will be expected from the farmer and will be provided gladly once both he and the consumer understand what is desired and why. Middlemen will become the farmer's agents rather than the other way around. As the importance of nutrition becomes apparent to more of the elite of the New Renaissance, a closer rapport will be established between the farmer and his ultimate customer. In time, much of a dedicated farmer's food will be spoken for by his customers before he plants it, so he will have an assured market.
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