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Ask Richard: The Nation of God
by
Richard Kieninger Question:
Is the Answer:
At the Last Supper, Christ said, “I will drink no more of the fruit of the
vine until that day that I drink it new in the THE NATION OF GOD IS TO ACT AS A PEACE
CORPS FOR THE WHOLE WORLD. In Stelle and Adelphi we are starting a culture where all are mutually supported in seeking to be as excellent as it is humanly possible to be. Not only is it a practical necessity to have permission from everyone to strive for excellence, but also to have support that moves everyone in a civilization towards that end. I think that any place or any time where such supports exist universally would be like a Nation of God because we would then be living according to God’s laws and, presumably, His intention. God has never spoken to any man about what His true intentions are, but based on the laws that we see always work, He wants the very best of us and for us.
God built into us the capacity to understand beauty and to enjoy pleasure.
So, we should have those things because they make us feel human. They enrich
us and enlarge us. We also have to work and be concerned about the welfare of
other people. We can’t be islands unto ourselves, but neither are we to be sacrificers that other people can walk over like a doormat. We need to be
practical and we need to be idealistic. With mutual support for personal
growth, cooperation, the cultivation of beauty and pleasure, the desire to
work in order to compensate for everything we receive, and an attitude of
brotherly love, we can have everything that is good.
I think everybody in this room believes humans have the capacity to live a
life of fulfillment in a positive environment of their own making. Yet doubt
can arise as to whether Stelle or any other group is able to create such
order. Somewhere along the line there will be outsiders who will say, “Hey—those guys have a lot of things we would like to have. Let’s grab those
things for ourselves,” not realizing that the basic force that people in
Stelle and Adelphi have cannot be stolen. The survivors of the turn of the
century in the Nation of God will already have been taught what Natural Law
is so that they make their lives conform to it and thus find peace and beauty
for themselves as Members of the Brotherhoods. Comment:
I don’t want to misinterpret, but it sounds like in order to achieve that
Nation of God, we are going to have to go through disasters at the end of the
century to clear accounts, and then only certain Egos will be allowed in that
Nation of God—while other Egos who are not advanced or good or whatever,
just by definition will not be allowed to live there. I don’t see how such a
nation could be balanced or whole. Response: I understand there are more than a billion of us who have achieved Initiation in one lifetime or another. Stelle and Adelphi are trying to get those folks together who are presently incarnate so we can build a firm base from which to eventually uplift everyone in the world. That’s the main task of The Great Plan that Melchizedek initiated and is being brought into functional reality through the work of the seven Lesser Brotherhoods. The Nation of God is to act as a peace corps, as it were, for the whole world. But there needs to be a group of people who are willing to work now to develop the means of our physical survival and to preserve culture and technology for the rest of the world so that after the cataclysm all can be rapidly uplifted to an even higher level than before. That’s the Brotherhoods’ plot. The Nation of God is important because it is a center, a practical pilot plant, as it were, for anyone to see what men can do and what is necessary to make a real civilization work.
Nothing breeds success like success. When people see that something is
working, and they are offered the means of doing the same thing themselves,
and shown how to do it, and given assistance through teachers and technicians,
then this is the most rapid way to uplift the world. Members of The Stelle
Group and The Adelphi Organization and, hopefully many of the people sitting
in this audience, agree that the Brotherhoods’ Plan is a worthwhile task for
themselves. They can see where it is going to benefit themselves and their
children. It is a practical dream that is within grasp; so why not give it
our best shot? Everyone wants a worthy goal to make their lives meaningful.
Here’s one of great moment. As somebody said, “If not you—who? If not now—when?” It is a dream within the realm of real possibility. Moreover, by
associating with men and women who aspire to excellence and greatness, one is
also uplifted.
Most Christians have the impression that the
The Nation of God is more a practical vision than just a beautiful, idle
dream. Let’s work for it, and we’ll have it. There are many good and
beautiful people in this world who have a great deal of energy to offer. The
Stelle Group and The Adelphi Organization provide places for such people to
come together. The Brotherhoods have thereby provided a common rallying
point. We are here to show people the possibilities of greater good that they
have; but we have to select the ones who are most inclined to actually move
themselves in that direction. There are all too many who think, “I want to
live in the
The Brotherhoods are making Their plan coincide with the natural catastrophe
that’s coming up at the end of this century. The earth changes also serve as
a purification process. It will not make individuals purer; rather it will
make the world of man less sophisticated. So, if some people will stand aside
from their present society in order to build yet a greater one for the next
fifteen years, Christ’s Plan can become a reality. We are not looking for
those who are trying to say, “I am one of the Elite, I can be one of these
great ones.” If that is your spur then we don’t need you at all because that
attitude can lead to great wrongs. But it is true that we are looking for the
cream of the cream; and the Brotherhoods make no apologies for that.
If you want to wait and look for a while to see if we are going to do it or
not, then you are not helping us. I am not accusing you of anything. I’m just
saying such would be the fact. Fortunately, there are people who have
prepared themselves over many incarnations to be ready to take on this Great
Work, and they have been willing to incarnate at this time in order to make
it happen. It is those people whom we are looking for; because it is going to
take an almost superhuman effort.
I recall how totally the From “The Stelle Group Letter,” April 1985
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