THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN IN THE WORLD TODAY

KEYNOTES TO KEEP IN MIND

·         The whole goal of the future of the present effort is to bring humanity to the point where it –

occultly speaking – “enters into light”.

The entire trend of the present urge forward, which can be noted so distinctly in the race, is to enable the race to acquire knowledge, to transmute it into wisdom by the aid of the understanding and thus to become “fully enlightened”. Enlightenment is the major goal of education.

·         Two major ideas should immediately be taught the children of every country. They are: the value of the individual and the fact of the One Humanity…these two principles… will lead to the intensive culture of the individual, and then to his recognition of his responsibility as an integral part of the whole body of humanity.

·         The problem of the children is basically that of education, using the word in its widest sense, which involves not merely schooling, but also the home, family relationships and the community environment. We should not give them false impressions of historical facts by emphasising nationalism and competition and thus present to their minds distorted values upon which they are expected to build their lives.

·         Past educational systems have failed to teach past generations how to live harmoniously and to think in wider terms than those of their own community. They did not prepare the youth of the world for sane, co-operative living or for world citizenship so necessary today.

·         Education has largely divorced the spiritual values from the material values in presenting its picture of the world in which we live. Aggression has been extolled. Our heroes have been the great territorial conquerors, the great soldiers or the great explorers. We have eulogised pioneers who opened up unknown lands and, in spite of the original owners of the lands, raised the flags of their own nations upon them. But the spiritual values and the sense of responsibility, blus the moral and ethical virtues have been neglected. The goals presented to the children are not evocative of their creative, divine heredity.

·         The problem with which we are faced is to integrate the best of the past educational processes with the higher and newer educational trends which are indicative of a changing civilisation.

·         We have to face the necessity [and it is a very real one] of giving our allegiance to the inner realities which underlie world education and in learning to train our children in world citizenship. The instrument to be used in bringing about these changes both in ourselves and in the world is THOUGHT, and not emotion or feeling.

·         The spiritual horizon must be seen as inclusive of all the many approaches, and particularly where the youth of the world is concerned. The current delinquency stems not so much from material poverty as from spiritual poverty.

·         Bearing in mind that, as indicated in the UN’s Declaration of the Rights of the Child, “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth”.

·         Recognising that the child, for the full and harmonious development of his or her personality, should grow up in a family environment, in an atmosphere of happiness, love and understanding.

·          And that the family, as the fundamental group of society and the natural environment for the growth and well-being of all its members and particularly children, should be afforded the necessary protection and assistance so that it can fully assume its responsibilities within the community.

·         Recognising that, in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration.

·         Taking due account of the importance of the traditions and cultural values of each nation for the protection and harmonious development of the child.

·         Recognising the importance of international co-operation for improving the living conditions of children in every country, in particular in the developing countries.

·         Our educational systems are largely material in emphasis and aim to fit children for a competitive life in a material world. Their horizon is too small.

·         Our religious training [if given at all] has emphasised a withdrawal from the world and holds out the hope of a future asylum, heaven or nirvana. This produces conflict and cleavage of which the results are only too apparent.

·          The New Education will surely give an inclusive training so that the truly complete citizen in any nation will also be an active and conscious citizen of the spiritual world.

 

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THE HEART AND THE INVISIBLE WORLDS [a poem]

The Subtle World is the exalted sublimation

Of the Earthly sphere with fire in manifestation
It is the essence of all existence
And eventually destroys all resistance

When this Invisible World becomes real

You will become familiar with the surreal
Then you can notice the growth of consciousness
While your soul grows in dominance

Through creativeness you become a co-worker

And start to call yourself a soul-worker
Great is the achievement of work in this World
Where all our efforts in fire get pearled

Thus pray before going to sleep and think

In order to strengthen the beneficent link
And act as the Teachers have instructed
So your eyes cannot be obstructed

The Invisible Worlds can create anything

And have its presence in everything
It is the prototype of earth
Where it comes to birth

The New World is the perception of the invisible one

The way we will be when everything is done
Thus we must strive towards this transformation
If we want to see the end of creation

Love is the impetus for the expansion of consciousness

Where a flaming heart will bring harmoniousness
Love lies on the boundaries of the New World
And without it the New World cannot be unfurled

For the path of love is the tension of cosmic energy

Driving and pulling us onto the path of the clergy
Where everything must be directed to good
To be loved and understood

Yoga comes through refinement of the Heart

Thus a fiery Baptism must play its part
To receive those beneficent currents
That will give us power over the elements

So, become accustomed to constant labour

And never forget your neighbour


[Based on the Agni Yoga teachings.]

Pope Pius X [Saint]

 

In discussing the charity of this blessed soul, the subject could never be exhausted. For we speak here of charity in its highest sense: spiritual love — a virtuous commodity that Pius possessed in boundless measure. So much so, that it would seem it was the Heart of Jesus beating within his bosom, motivating his every act. And anyone in his presence always sensed it. Monsignor Benson commented, “Who that has seen him can ever forget the extraordinary impression of his face and bearing, the kindness of his eyes, the quick sympathy of his voice, the overwhelming fatherliness that enabled him to bear not only his own supreme sorrows, but all the personal sorrow which his children laid on him in abundance?”

Another visitor said, “My attention was completely captivated by his expression and his eyes.” And another, “You cannot go near him without loving him.” But all who met him almost universally commented, “He is a saint!” One visitor told him so in Italian, and the Pope genially replied, “You have made a mistake in your consonants. I am a Sarto, not a santo.”

How fortunate were those ever to be in the presence of Saint Pius X, to have some relic of his, or to receive his blessing.

Many were miraculously cured of their infirmities. One nun, dying from abdominal cancer, swallowed a particle of the Pope’s clothing. All pain instantly vanished and she was restored to health. The Mother Superior of a girls’ boarding school in Ireland contracted a disease of the hip, which gave her excruciating pain and forced her to take leave of her work.

The disease spread rapidly, and before long she had to be continually on her back. One of her students, a six-year-old, wrote to the Holy Father to ask him to pray for the afflicted Superior. One evening, a short time later, the pain suddenly left the ailing nun along with all traces of the disease.

A man once brought his child, paralyzed since birth, to a public audience with Saint Pius X. His holiness beckoned to the man, “Give him to me,” and sat the youngster on his lap while he talked to other visitors. After a few moments the small child slipped off the Pontiff’s knee and began running about the room.

There were many such miracle associated with Pope Pius X, all of which the Saint humbly attributed to the power of “the Keys,” dismissing his own personal sanctity. One of the more dramatic of them is worth telling.

A cab once carried two Florentine nuns, both suffering from an incurable disease, to the Vatican. They asked the cab driver to wait while the two, badly afflicted and barely able to walk, met in private audience to beg the Pope to cure them. “Why do you want to be cured?” asked the Holy Father. They answered, “So that we may work for God’s glory.”

Laying his hands on the nuns’ heads and blessing them, His Holiness said, “Have confidence; you will get well and do much work for God’s glory.” In that same moment the nuns were cured, but Pius bade them to keep the matter silent.

As it turned out, the charge immediately presented some difficulty, for when the two now healthy women returned to their waiting cab, the driver refused to admit them. They insisted that they were the same sisters he had brought, but the man could not be convinced: “The two I brought were half dead. You are not the least like them.”

The compassion of Saint Pius X was indeed Christ-like as well. We have already mentioned how the blessed man would weep at the sight of suffering. Consequently there was nothing that could arouse his anger more than cruelty.

Once, as Patriarch, he heard from the streets the cries of a small child being unmercifully punished. He rushed toward the direction of the cries and yelled up to an open window, whence they came, “Stop beating that child!” A woman appeared at the window, then quickly retreated at the sight of the infuriated Cardinal-Patriarch on her doorstep. Needless to say, the beating stopped.

So much the greater was he agonized as Pope, witnessing the inhuman treatment accorded to South American Indians; the Sultan ruler who took perverted pleasure of having his victims tortured to death; and the barbaric persecutions inflicted on Christians by Communist revolutionaries in many different countries. And in every instance he tried to intervene with all the might and indignation of his sacred office.

Perhaps the most painful of such afflictions was World War I. Pius prophetically had foreseen its coming years before the actual outbreak, and his soul bore that terrible vision as the body would an unhealing wound that progressively deepened as the war approached.

Cardinal Merry del Val recalled that as early as 1911, Pope Pius spoke to him of the matter:

“Your Eminence, things are going badly; there will be a terrible war! I am not speaking of this war [the Libyan campaign], but of the big war!”

The Cardinal, not really knowing what this meant, tried to console the Pontiff with more optimistic observations. But the Holy Father raised his hand in gesture to indicate the gravity of the matter: “Things are going badly; we shall not get through 1914.” Dr. Bruno Chaves, a retiring Brazilian minister to the Holy See, heard these comments in his last audience with the Pope on May 30, 1913: “You are fortunate, Dr. Chaves, to be able to return to your home in Brazil. Thus you will not be here for the world war.”

Dr. Chaves assumed that the reference was to the then ongoing Balkan conflict, but Pope Pius X, seeming to read the minister’s thoughts, added:

“The Balkans are but the beginning of a world conflagration that I am helpless to prevent and which I shall not be able to withstand.”

In his last months Saint Pius X became increasingly preoccupied with the thought of the impending cataclysm. While walking one day with Monsignor Bressan in the Vatican Gardens, he stopped before a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes and exclaimed in words that seemed cryptic to his confused guest:

“I feel pity for my successor. I shall not be here. Truly ‘devastated religion’ is upon us.”

In 1913 the Federal Reserve Bank was born, with Paul Warburg its first Governor. Four years later the US entered World War I, after a secret society known as the Black Hand assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his Hapsburg wife.

The Archduke’s friend Count Czerin later said,

“A year before the war he informed me that the Masons had resolved upon his death.” ^[5]

That same year, Bolsheviks overthrew the Hohehzollern monarchy in Russia with help from Max Warburg and Jacob Schiff, while the Balfour Declaration leading to the creation of Israel was penned to Zionist Second Lord Rothschild.

When in July of 1914 the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated, the great Pontiff knew that the time of the inestimable human suffering which he had long anticipated had finally arrived. Pius lapsed into a state of such aching sadness that it could only be compared to Our Lord’s agony in the garden of Gethsemane.

Within a few weeks, on the Feast of the Assumption, Saint Pius X became ill. It did not seem serious — a mild inflammation of the throat that settled into his chest. But on the nineteenth of August the meek, white-robed figure collapsed.

In a few hours the great bell of St. Peter’s was tolling the Pro pontifice agonizante.

“Holy Viaticum and Extreme Unction,”

Cardinal Merry del Val records, “were administered to him…in the simplest form possible.

On a little table by the bedside, covered with a white cloth, a crucifix and two lighted candles were the only evidence of the ceremony. I could not help thinking that after all Pope Pius X was receiving the rights of the Church in the way most congenial to him…. It was not unlike the scene one might have witnessed in the humblest cottage of a dying laborer, without pomp or splendor of any kind.”

In this modest disposition the quiet little Saint, who had courageously and firmly stood up against Satan’s soldiery like a colossal warrior, happily was to depart from this world, clutching a small crucifix, in the same poverty and simplicity in which he was born.

At about one o’clock on the morning of August 20, 1914, in the gentle peace of sleep, the magnificent fatherly heart that had loved and suffered so much was stilled by the Finger of God and beat no more. The glorious and beautiful soul of Pope Saint Pius X at last was blissfully where it had always longed to be — with the Heavenly Father. And his body was left perfectly incorrupt till this day as relic and testimony of his exceptional sanctity.

Pope Pius X died in the early hours of August 20, 1914. His last act was to kiss the crucifix he is shown holding. In the sleep of death his countenance was peaceful and almost seemed youthful again.

One cardinal announced, “The Holy Father has died of a broken heart.” That was very true. But Cardinal Merry de Val also reported that the saintly Pontiff possessed an “extraordinary serenity” in his last moments of life. And we are certain that this was because Saint Pius was immeasurable happy, knowing that in Heaven he could now interceded for us ever more powerfully against the wiles of the devil.

Pope Saint Pius X,

Pray for Us.

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