The sixth peace of the sevenfold peace was peace with the Kingdom of the Earthly Mother and involved man's relationship with the laws & forces of nature. This harmony between man and nature has long been proved to be neccessary to man's well being in life. Whenever man has gone against nature's laws, as has occured throughout history, he has met with ill-fate. One has to merely look at man's most recent past with the effects of pollution and hazardous wastes on the health of humans/animals, the environment, the ecology, the economy, and all of these are long term effects as well; to know the truth and consequences of man disrespecting nature.
Sumerian hieroglyphics tell of a time when man was one with nature, and lived an idyllic existance with the forrest, about 10,000 years ago. Humans there and then, lived as arboculturists, their society flourished on mostly fruit trees with some crops of grains and vegetables. Keeping their food source in abundance was of course, a major goal of this society. Trees and to a smaller part, grains & vegetables, were carefully cultivated. Mankind learned hybrid breeding and produced many kinds of fruit. At this time, man was indeed in alignment with the Earthly Mother's Kingdom.
This type of society was again demonstrated in history, during Zoraster's time, in ancient Persia. There and then, all father's were asked to plant a fruit tree on their son's birthday, every year; so that on the son's 21st birthday he would have not only 21 trees, but the land the trees were on, and this was the son's inheritance. Also, the father would have taught his son the necessary skills and knowledge about the cultivation of the fruit crop.
Again in Brahmanism, this Vedic philosophy was founded in the Upshanishads, as the "Law of One":'Tat Vam Asi--Tho art that'; and demonstrates the oneness of man with ALL. One of the steps to this "oneness" involves first our oneness with the Earthly Mother.
The seventh peace is that with the Kingdom of the Heavenly Father. This peace is one's peace with everything...the universe and the cosmos. This is also viewed as one's peace with the "Law"--the One Law contains all the universal laws of nature and the cosmos, this Law is equated with the Heavenly father. This Law governs all things from earthly nature to whole solar systems and galaxies. once man has found his peace with the Heavenly Father's Kingdom, his "inner intuition" is "awakened". This "inner intuition" is what the mystics and prophets down through the ages have used to guide themselves. This is mankind's highest goal, to be one with one's Creator. First, man must realize that he is a part of the universe, not separate from it.
He must realize that he is seperating himself from the Ultimate Source.(the Heavenly Father). The Essenes taught that by man choosing this separateness, he had put limitations on himself, on his ability to connect with the Source of All, and in doing so had gone against the Law itself.
Dr. E.B. Szekely says this best in his chapter on the Sevenefold Peace (from the book, "The Teachings of the Essenes:From Enoch to the Dead Sea Scrolls"): "...A man's failure to understand this causes an infinite complexity of false limitations.He not only limits himself to the supply of his material needs, but in regard to his capacities, his abilities, and power of thinking, feeling, and acting. He lives a life of mediocrity because of these false ideas of limitations which he fastens upon himself. Modern Science concurs in this, reporting that man has capacities that he seldom uses...The Essenes taught this peace to humanity so that it could overcome all limitations and contact their Universal Source, the same source with which the great masters throughout the ages have united their consciousness when they gave forth their intuitive teachings showing man how to become conscious of the law, understand it, work with it, and manifest it into action...The kingdom of the Heavenly Father is always open to him. His return to the universal consciousness, universal supply, is always possible. Once he makes the decision to return and puts forth the persistent effort, he can always go back to the Source, his Heavenly Father, from whom he came from, whom he has never in reality been away from..."
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