Peace in the World by Michael Laitman

Everything is evaluated not according to what it looks like at a certain moment, but by the degree of its development.

All there is in reality, good, bad and even most harmful in the world has a right to exist. It should by no means be completely destroyed. Our task is to merely correct it and return it to the Source.

It is enough to take an attentive look at the process of the creation to realize the greatness and perfection of the act and the One Who performs it. Therefore we should understand and be extremely careful to neglect any part of the creation and say that it is superfluous and unnecessary. Because it is slander with regards to the act of the creation.

However, it is well-known that the Creator did not complete the creation at the moment of its making. We see that our reality is governed by the laws of step-by-step development that begins with the stage preceding conception and continues up to the end of growth. This is why we do not perceive a bitter taste of a fruit as a flaw in the beginning of its growth.

The same applies to the other elements of reality: if something seems bad and harmful, it only means that this element is in a transitional stage of its development. Hence we have no right to define it as bad and neglect it, because it is unwise.

Those who "correct the world" err

This conclusion enables us to understand that the people who have tried "correct the world" in every generation erroneously perceive man as a machine, which does not function properly and requires improvement, i.e. replacement of defective parts with better ones.

All their efforts were focused on destroying the evil that exists in the human race. truth to tell, unless the Creator had opposed them, they would have certainly succeeded in "sifting humanity through a sieve" and leaving in it only what is good and useful.

However, the Creator takes utmost care of every tiny particle of His creation, allowing no one to destroy anything in His domain. In accordance with it, all such "correctors" will disappear; while evil will remain in the world. It exists and counts the stages of development of every element of the creation until they reach their final state.

Evil properties will then turn into good and useful ones the way the Creator initially conceived them. This resembles a fruit hanging on a tree branch for days and months until it ripens so that every person will discover its taste and sweetness.

Accelerating the correction of nature

However, the aforementioned law of development that extends to the entire reality and guarantees the transformation of all evil into good and useful acts without asking people's opinion. At the same time the Creator endowed man with power and allowed him to control this law speeding up the process of development at his own will, freely and regardless of time flow.

It turns out that there are two kinds of power acting in the above-mentioned process:

• "Heavenly Power" that guarantees that all evil and harmful will turn into good and useful. This, however, will occur "in due time", slowly and painfully, as the "developing object" goes through terrible sufferings, ruthlessly crushed by the road-roller of evolution.

• "Earthly Power" that represents the people, who took control over the above-said law of development and who can free themselves from the shackles of time. They considerably accelerate the process of reaching the final stage. In other words, they complete their own evolution and correction.

If they deserve it, they will be able to take the law of development in their own hands. This law is destined to transform their negative properties into the positive ones. This means that they should begin to work with their negative properties and correct them. This will free them from bounds of time, and the achievement of the highest level of development will solely depend on their own desire, i.e. on the quality of their actions and thoughts. This way they will speed up the process of reaching the final stage.

Even if they do not deserve to control the development of their negative properties and leave it in the hands of Providence, the final correction and redemption are still guaranteed to them. In this case the process will be completed on term and conditioned on time.

In accordance with the law of gradual development the process of correction should include many different levels. It is a slow, difficult and extremely long process. Since the "developing objects" in question live and feel, hence while advancing through the stages they are bound to experience enormous and horrible sufferings. The power that compels the person to pass from one level to the next is nothing but the force of anguish and pain. Sufferings accumulate on the lower level and reach such an unbearable degree that the person is bound to leave it and rise to the higher level.

Such is the guaranteed end based on the law of gradual and time-dependent development, termed "in due time". The completion of the process is inevitable, because the person is destined to take the development of his properties in his own hands (this is called "I will hasten").

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