“We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.”

There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration.

Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.

It’s an utter, utter necessity to renounce war forever. And nothing new can be built until this is done.

Each one of us is Divine. We’ve come from a great Divine source. We are each of us a spark of the Divine. That spark could not demonstrate itself at the dense, physical level, so it reflects itself at the soul level.

The wars of today, the terrorism of today, are the result of injustice, and that injustice is the Outcome of our greedy, selfish, competitive way of working through commercialization and market forces.

Life is not about making money. It is about enhancing the quality of life for every single being so that they go from physical satisfaction to astral satisfaction to mental satisfaction to growing spiritual satisfaction, up and up and up, all the way. It’s all spiritual.

There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There’s a huge surplus of food per capita, but it’s locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa,

Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations.

Unless you have money today, you cannot live life according to your need.

We’ve poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

America, like all nations, has to renounce war.

The masters are men like us who have evolved ahead of us and come to the end of the evolution as a human being on planet earth.

The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We’re all part of one great oversoul.

If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth.

The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol.

The incidence of Alzheimer’s disease is growing at a pace like never before, affecting people at a younger and younger age. This is the direct effect of nuclear radiation polluting the air of our planet from the power stations and other nuclear experimentation.

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

You don’t need to know what you’re escaping from to become a fugitive.

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof

… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.

A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.