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KIT 012 - Christmas Message II

Christmastide flashes once more on our calendars - a recurrent
tide imprinting a pulse amongst the intricate rhythms of the
harmony of the spheres and upon the humdrum of our lives. It
evokes the hope that arises wherever one makes a fresh beginning,
and carries with it a message of forgiveness, gratitude and
goodwill for all beings.

This year's message heralds the hope for peace on earth, nurtured
by the masses of forces of good will throughout the planet. We
embody this massive plea, inasmuch as we have committed ourselves
to serve the Spiritual Government of the World. Now the time has
come to harness the network of forces of goodwill in an effective
drive for peace. The way to effect this is for those who take
responsibility for what is happening in our time to write this
intention into our New Year's resolutions.

While our day and age seems to be besmeared with violence and some
sordid permissiveness, it is paradoxical to discern, emerging in
the midst of manifest decadence, an acute awareness of human
suffering and despair. In fact, our era is hallowed by the
awakening of consciousness fostered by elite esoteric movements.
The signature tune of those who entertain awareness of the
psychological, social and ecological tribulations of our time is
"solidarity", a powerful rallying bugle call for a humanity
recklessly risking massive suicide as well as genocide. What it
really means is that we are all in this together and mutually
interdependent. It is curious to see how synchronistically this
development is perfectly in line with the holistic views of modern
science; it is all a dynamic interplay.

A few decades ago, if people were being tortured for their
beliefs, one would have said, "It's outrageous, but what can I do
about it? ... Glad it is not happening to me. ... It is a
political issue and there is no way in which I can interfere in
the internal affairs of another country without myself getting
tortured, perhaps."  Now as a result of the experience of Amnesty
International, it has been shown that when a large number of
people from all over the world send a massive bulk of mail to the
responsible authorities, in some cases, eventually, the guilty
conspiracy that operated covertly started to crumble when
unmasked. A tidal wave of outraged indignant human consciousness
on a momentous scale represents an unwieldy force; the force of
solidarity could stem the tide of violence. Unrelentingly,
inexorably spurred on by respect for the dignity of the human
status which is being violated by unscrupulous people for the
purpose of dominance, this human tidal wave will penetrate surely
enough all the fissures of a power that is often precariously
balanced on a hoax of make-believe and bad faith. We have often
had occasion to witness this in our studies of the history of
crumbling empires.

Singly we may cower under a frustrated feeling of impotence;
together, in concerted action, the forces of goodwill in the world
represent legion.

Knowing this, it follows that we each shoulder some responsibility
in the balance between war and peace on the planet. Human
activities on the planet are the outcome of thinking and emoting
on an enormous scale. We all know that the simplistic, uninformed
interpretation of outdated scientific views entertained fifty
years ago led people to deride the effectiveness of "mind over
body." Today we know of cancer victims in remission -
paradoxically, from the medical view - purely for having applied
positive thinking. Despair turns off the immune system and
optimism and fun enforces it, as the experience of Norman Cousins
indicates.

A recent experiment by physicist Buryl Payne, of the Academy for
Peace Research, shows that synchronized concentration of a large
number of people has an effect on sun spots. The Academy has
studied the correlation between the curve of sun spots and the
incidence of war in the course of some of our history. The
inference is that, should a large number of people pledge
themselves to concentrate on peace at the same time every day, we
might contribute to shifting the balance of forces on the planet
towards peace.

The British observed a minute of silence at the stroke of Big Ben
at midday during the darkest and most distressful days of World
War II. The buses used to stop and everybody stood still for one
minute. Many attribute to this practice the prodigious turning of
the tables of fortunes of the adversaries at that precise juncture
in the war.

I would now wish to suggest that all of us motivated by a sense of
responsibility and solidarity would observe a moment of silence
precisely at midday, local time. Since midday in New York is not
the same as midday in Los Angeles or midday in Paris or Delhi, we
would thus be launching a circle of positive thinking encircling
the planet. Meanwhile, the Academy for Peace Research will be
checking on whatever effect this has on sun spots. This will be
our feedback to confirm that something tangible and observable
does actually happen. Since Dr. Payne is demonstrating the impact
of thought upon the bio-field of the body and consequently the
impact of the masses of human bio-fields upon the sun's magnetic
field, I suggest that during that minute we identify ourselves
with being a force field and realize that it is without boundary
and therefore, intermeshes with kindred fields to form a massive
wave-interference pattern. It is then important to concentrate on
the far-reaching power of this field and use the password, "Ya
Vakil", the name of a protective archangel manifesting personally
in each of us as our guardian angel.

I will always stand by you in loyalty in the name of our
commitment to the Message of Unity brought by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat
Khan.

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