As BOTA students, we learn Qabalist's principles we then use for
participation in facilitation of the Divine Plan at the level of the
microcosm, and eventually the macrocosm.  We learn the plan is for all
human existence to live by the Golden Rule -- automatically-- meaning:
second nature, without thinking about it-- just naturally behaving with
consideration toward anyone as we would like to be considered.  There is
more to the Divine Plan, but it starts here.  The rest will come naturally
to all humanity with help again from the Inner Order.  Currently the first
stage of spiritual unfoldment for all humanity is in progress:  Liberty;
Freedom from bondage.  (See T. I.R.O. chapter 10.)

A little known story was barely mentioned by *The Chicago Tribune* on
August 7 relevant to the progress of peace by bringing Iran into the peace
movement.   It mentions what I recognized as the most important statement
from a U.S. President that has not been expressed by any other U.S.
President.  The President not only expressed it but tweeted it just so that
people like me are to notice.  As the Tribune story was all about Iranian
leaders bashing the U.S. President, Trump replied:

 ""I am asking for WORLD PEACE, nothing less!"

What do we learn from Seven Steps about which stage of the plan for world
Peace we are in now?  We are in the stage subsequent to the stage of
silence.  We are in the stage after the clear mental image has been
established, when we are recruiting appropriate partners who have manner
for supporting. or have something to contribute, to the plan.  In this
stage more and more people and resources become involved.  Eventually, this
stage becomes known to so many people that it becomes common knowledge.  It
is now common knowledge that the goal of this administration in U.S.
history is "world peace."

Last year the stage we were in was only perceivable to the few of us on
earth who have-- during our lifetimes, become aware of the seven steps.  Of
course BOTA does not have a monopoly on the principles behind how creation
is manifested.    But the creation of world peace is being managed by only
one source, what we know as the Inner Order.

They have been working on the Divine Plan all along.  Through the Inner
School, they assure that the details of Seven Steps are taught to us so
that we, too, may observe, understand and contribute something to the
effort.

We know that the Golden Rule is the end result, and after we master it at
the level of the microcosm, we have our responsibility to humanity to: " .
. .lift all others unto thee, Oh Lord of the Universe."

The numbers of members of humanity engaged in "lifting" has been growing at
an exponential rate during our lifetime-- many of the boomers-- souls with
personalities imprinted  with the need for peace from world wars lived
during previous incarnations.  (Not all of us want to return each life as
soldiers.)

As I neared my fifth birthday, my father told me that he was going to go
fight in the Korean war.  I didn't know what fight meant, nor what a war
was.  But I remember feeling fear of that word, "war."  Dad was not gone
long and returned home safe a few months later.

I don't remember "war" ever being discussed by my parents.  But I remember
being told about it in first grade at Catholic School, relevant to the war
in Bolivia.  As I got older, the one question about life that bothered me
more than any was, "why do we have wars"?.   My teenage years were spent
preparing for the reality that when I graduated from High School that I
would be sent to the Vietnam war.

We didn't know why.   We were not told the truth about the "why." Irony
that bothered me immensely at the time had to do with that fact that we
were taught that our "boomer generation" -- a population boom, was a result
of the aftermath of a war during which so many people were killed.  The
Vietnam war was where boomers had to go get killed or maimed in this
incarnation, too.  There were soldiers in the Persian Gulf wars that in
previous their lives had been in Vietnam and in WW2 before that, and the
American Civil War before that, and the American revolution war before
that.  (Live by the sword, die by the sword? and reincarnate with a sword.)

I had managed to live from childhood through to adulthood without being
able to find out why we have wars.  By the time that I had started BOTA at
30, I still had not known the truth about why we go to war.  Of course I
had heard and read a lot of reasons by then --which in hindsight I realized
later were lies or theories-- not the real reasons.

There are people who know very well why we have wars, but it is for none of
the reasons that have ever been published.  The people who know what the
reason is, keep it to themselves-- not so much to keep it a secret, as much
as just being incapable of discussion.

In the mean time, the rest of us continuously try to solve the problems to
end wars; but wars continue.  The most popular known thinkers don't seem to
be revealing any truth about why we have wars.  It makes me wonder if they
actually know, or if they are just mouthpieces for the war lords.
Obviously there has been something preventing the world from ending wars,
someone must know.

To solve this seeming riddle, we may find the answer among the principles
we are taught.  Something exists because it fills a need.  More simply
explained, the needs exist because human brains/imaginations are using
their powers to visualize obtainment of needs.

Animals are not visualizing war.  Neither are masters of wisdom.  That just
leaves the human beings.  Fortunately not all of us are visualizing war.
But there are enough people visualizing war to cause war to fill the need
that visualizations create.

War strategists are the most potent of the visualizers.  They usually
achieve high ranks for their ability to visualize and implement war
successes.  They attract soldiers into their sphere of influence also so
capable of "seeing" victory results.

One manner by which war would come to a screeching, albeit temporary halt
would be by simply unemploying every soldier of every rank.  Let them
visualize a hefty unemployment check.   Few if any would be visualizing war
strategies for some period of time.  All economy would temporarily
collapse.  Soldiers temporarily would have no jobs or income.  Millions of
people who had been in a war habit and war consciousness would go crazy
with nothing to do.  The cost of major rehabilitation would bankrupt every
economy.   An obvious solution at that hypothetical point would be a return
to war and likely never again try that strategy.

That leaves the removal of the need for war as the only solution to peace.
But to remove the need for war, it is essential to fully discover every
need that war fills.  While we don't need to know them all for this
discussion, we will be benefited by considering the primary covert, hidden
and occult needs.  Covertly, the need is for profit.  Hidden are the people
who profit most.  Occult is the manner by which war is sustained.

Occult is also the manner by which peace will come to prevail.  Consider
that occult forces "black magic" vs. "white magic" (Light vs. Dark) are
equally opposite.   All those representing the Inner Order that serves
humanity are opposed by that element of the inner universe that is absent
of conscience and absent of care or concern for humanity.   By definition,
the latter element can be regarded as corrupt.

Obviously, the opposition to world peace has been an effort costly in time
and resources, and human life.  We have no reason to doubt that the Inner
Order has been working on the issues relevant to the opposition for a long
time.  What is different now is that enough work has been completed and we
are on the next step of progress-- removing the need for war.

A covert obstacle is fear.  Fear of war by the untrained human mind
produces images of the very matter humans fear.  Subconscious extrapolation
on images fueled with fear manifests what subconscious extrapolates as a
desired result. Fear of war helps keep wars fueled by visualization
consequential to the act of worrying.  People who are worrying about war
are producing mental images of war that fuels war.  The greater the emotion
behind the images, the greater the potency of the "fuel."

Ironically, profiteers of war fear peace.  But, those who fear peace are
not fueling peace with their visualizations of worries of peace.  They
either know better than to visualize peace, or they are too busy at war to
visualize peace.  Most are skilled at visualizing war and avoiding
visualizations of peace.  Regardless, not much emotion is likely to be felt
by people worrying about world peace.  World peace is too hard to imagine
even by people working at it.

We learn to discover that emotion is the fuel for manifestation of our
visualizations.  Therefore, we learn how to apply effort (meditation) to
equilibrate our emotions.  Also we learn to visualize desired results
whenever having an emotion, positive or negative.  Subconsciousness does
not seem to know the difference between positive and negative emotions.
Emotions, whether positive or negative is merely fuel for
subconsciousness.  Knowing this, we may train ourselves to substitute
images of desired results for the old and established habitual images of
our fears or undesired results.

The need for war is being eliminated in the middle east.  It has already
been eliminated in North Korea.  You don't know this because you are
prevented from knowing by the remaining elements that thrive on war that
are preventing news about the progress of peace by smothering and burying
such news of peace under gossip and smut news.  They even create fake news
stories for the purpose of filling any remaining empty space between
advertisements and commercials.

There are other reasons that fake news is created.  Essentially is is
intended to get readers emotional and visualizing their fears.  True that
it sells advertising and commercials better than stories about how the
world is getting better; but the main reason is to disturb emotional
equilibrium.  Fear of war helps their cause. Our work is to visualize our
cause.  Please join in visualizing World Peace whenever you are afraid
about what appears to be happening throughout the world.

Fraternally in the L.V.X.,
your frater, c