1. As BOTA students, we learn Qabalist's principles we then use for
2. participation in facilitation of the Divine Plan at the level of the
3. microcosm, and eventually the macrocosm.  We learn the plan is for all
4. human existence to live by the Golden Rule -- automatically-- meaning:
5. second nature, without thinking about it-- just naturally behaving with
6. consideration toward anyone as we would like to be considered.  There is
7. more to the Divine Plan, but it starts here.  The rest will come naturally
8. to all humanity with help again from the Inner Order.  Currently the first
9. stage of spiritual unfoldment for all humanity is in progress:  Liberty;
10. Freedom from bondage.  (See T. I.R.O. chapter 10.)
11.  
12. A little known story was barely mentioned by *The Chicago Tribune* on
13. August 7 relevant to the progress of peace by bringing Iran into the peace
14. movement.   It mentions what I recognized as the most important statement
15. from a U.S. President that has not been expressed by any other U.S.
16. President.  The President not only expressed it but tweeted it just so that
17. people like me are to notice.  As the Tribune story was all about Iranian
18. leaders bashing the U.S. President, Trump replied:
19.  
20.  ""I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!"
21.  
22. What do we learn from Seven Steps about which stage of the plan for world
23. Peace we are in now?  We are in the stage subsequent to the stage of
24. silence.  We are in the stage after the clear mental image has been
25. established, when we are recruiting appropriate partners who have manner
26. for supporting. or have something to contribute, to the plan.  In this
27. stage more and more people and resources become involved.  Eventually, this
28. stage becomes known to so many people that it becomes common knowledge.  It
29. is now common knowledge that the goal of this administration in U.S.
30. history is "world peace."
31.  
32. Last year the stage we were in was only perceivable to the few of us on
33. earth who have-- during our lifetimes, become aware of the seven steps.  Of
34. course BOTA does not have a monopoly on the principles behind how creation
35. is manifested.    But the creation of world peace is being managed by only
36. one source, what we know as the Inner Order.
37.  
38. They have been working on the Divine Plan all along.  Through the Inner
39. School, they assure that the details of Seven Steps are taught to us so
40. that we, too, may observe, understand and contribute something to the
41. effort.
42.  
43. We know that the Golden Rule is the end result, and after we master it at
44. the level of the microcosm, we have our responsibility to humanity to: " .
45. . .lift all others unto thee, Oh Lord of the Universe."
46.  
47. The numbers of members of humanity engaged in "lifting" has been growing at
48. an exponential rate during our lifetime-- many of the boomers-- souls with
49. personalities imprinted  with the need for peace from world wars lived
50. during previous incarnations.  (Not all of us want to return each life as
51. soldiers.)
52.  
53. As I neared my fifth birthday, my father told me that he was going to go
54. fight in the Korean war.  I didn't know what fight meant, nor what a war
55. was.  But I remember feeling fear of that word, "war."  Dad was not gone
56. long and returned home safe a few months later.
57.  
58. I don't remember "war" ever being discussed by my parents.  But I remember
59. being told about it in first grade at Catholic School, relevant to the war
60. in Bolivia.  As I got older, the one question about life that bothered me
61. more than any was, "why do we have wars"?.   My teenage years were spent
62. preparing for the reality that when I graduated from High School that I
63. would be sent to the Vietnam war.
64.  
65. We didn't know why.   We were not told the truth about the "why." Irony
66. that bothered me immensely at the time had to do with that fact that we
67. were taught that our "boomer generation" -- a population boom, was a result
68. of the aftermath of a war during which so many people were killed.  The
69. Vietnam war was where boomers had to go get killed or maimed in this
70. incarnation, too.  There were soldiers in the Persian Gulf wars that in
71. previous their lives had been in Vietnam and in WW2 before that, and the
72. American Civil War before that, and the American revolution war before
73. that.  (Live by the sword, die by the sword? and reincarnate with a sword.)
74.  
75. I had managed to live from childhood through to adulthood without being
76. able to find out why we have wars.  By the time that I had started BOTA at
77. 30, I still had not known the truth about why we go to war.  Of course I
78. had heard and read a lot of reasons by then --which in hindsight I realized
79. later were lies or theories-- not the real reasons.
80.  
81. There are people who know very well why we have wars, but it is for none of
82. the reasons that have ever been published.  The people who know what the
83. reason is, keep it to themselves-- not so much to keep it a secret, as much
84. as just being incapable of discussion.
85.  
86. In the mean time, the rest of us continuously try to solve the problems to
87. end wars; but wars continue.  The most popular known thinkers don't seem to
88. be revealing any truth about why we have wars.  It makes me wonder if they
89. actually know, or if they are just mouthpieces for the war lords.
90. Obviously there has been something preventing the world from ending wars,
91. someone must know.
92.  
93. To solve this seeming riddle, we may find the answer among the principles
94. we are taught.  Something exists because it fills a need.  More simply
95. explained, the needs exist because human brains/imaginations are using
96. their powers to visualize obtainment of needs.
97.  
98. Animals are not visualizing war.  Neither are masters of wisdom.  That just
99. leaves the human beings.  Fortunately not all of us are visualizing war.
100. But there are enough people visualizing war to cause war to fill the need
101. that visualizations create.
102.  
103. War strategists are the most potent of the visualizers.  They usually
104. achieve high ranks for their ability to visualize and implement war
105. successes.  They attract soldiers into their sphere of influence also so
106. capable of "seeing" victory results.
107.  
108. One manner by which war would come to a screeching, albeit temporary halt
109. would be by simply unemploying every soldier of every rank.  Let them
110. visualize a hefty unemployment check.   Few if any would be visualizing war
111. strategies for some period of time.  All economy would temporarily
112. collapse.  Soldiers temporarily would have no jobs or income.  Millions of
113. people who had been in a war habit and war consciousness would go crazy
114. with nothing to do.  The cost of major rehabilitation would bankrupt every
115. economy.   An obvious solution at that hypothetical point would be a return
116. to war and likely never again try that strategy.
117.  
118. That leaves the removal of the need for war as the only solution to peace.
119. But to remove the need for war, it is essential to fully discover every
120. need that war fills.  While we don't need to know them all for this
121. discussion, we will be benefited by considering the primary covert, hidden
122. and occult needs.  Covertly, the need is for profit.  Hidden are the people
123. who profit most.  Occult is the manner by which war is sustained.
124.  
125. Occult is also the manner by which peace will come to prevail.  Consider
126. that occult forces "black magic" vs. "white magic" (Light vs. Dark) are
127. equally opposite.   All those representing the Inner Order that serves
128. humanity are opposed by that element of the inner universe that is absent
129. of conscience and absent of care or concern for humanity.   By definition,
130. the latter element can be regarded as corrupt.
131.  
132. Obviously, the opposition to world peace has been an effort costly in time
133. and resources, and human life.  We have no reason to doubt that the Inner
134. Order has been working on the issues relevant to the opposition for a long
135. time.  What is different now is that enough work has been completed and we
136. are on the next step of progress-- removing the need for war.
137.  
138. A covert obstacle is fear.  Fear of war by the untrained human mind
139. produces images of the very matter humans fear.  Subconscious extrapolation
140. on images fueled with fear manifests what subconscious extrapolates as a
141. desired result. Fear of war helps keep wars fueled by visualization
142. consequential to the act of worrying.  People who are worrying about war
143. are producing mental images of war that fuels war.  The greater the emotion
144. behind the images, the greater the potency of the "fuel."
145.  
146. Ironically, profiteers of war fear peace.  But, those who fear peace are
147. not fueling peace with their visualizations of worries of peace.  They
148. either know better than to visualize peace, or they are too busy at war to
149. visualize peace.  Most are skilled at visualizing war and avoiding
150. visualizations of peace.  Regardless, not much emotion is likely to be felt
151. by people worrying about world peace.  World peace is too hard to imagine
152. even by people working at it.
153.  
154. We learn to discover that emotion is the fuel for manifestation of our
155. visualizations.  Therefore, we learn how to apply effort (meditation) to
156. equilibrate our emotions.  Also we learn to visualize desired results
157. whenever having an emotion, positive or negative.  Subconsciousness does
158. not seem to know the difference between positive and negative emotions.
159. Emotions, whether positive or negative is merely fuel for
160. subconsciousness.  Knowing this, we may train ourselves to substitute
161. images of desired results for the old and established habitual images of
162. our fears or undesired results.
163.  
164. The need for war is being eliminated in the middle east.  It has already
165. been eliminated in North Korea.  You don't know this because you are
166. prevented from knowing by the remaining elements that thrive on war that
167. are preventing news about the progress of peace by smothering and burying
168. such news of peace under gossip and smut news.  They even create fake news
169. stories for the purpose of filling any remaining empty space between
170. advertisements and commercials.
171.  
172. There are other reasons that fake news is created.  Essentially is is
173. intended to get readers emotional and visualizing their fears.  True that
174. it sells advertising and commercials better than stories about how the
175. world is getting better; but the main reason is to disturb emotional
176. equilibrium.  Fear of war helps their cause. Our work is to visualize our
177. cause.  Please join in visualizing World Peace whenever you are afraid
178. about what appears to be happening throughout the world.
179.  
180. Fraternally in the L.V.X.,
181. your frater, c