THE HOLY WAR!    DFO 335A         5/75

         1. WE ARE ALL IN A HOLY WAR TOGETHER! We are fighting together for our faith, truth & freedom! We have pledged ourselves to lay down our lives in love for our brothers & sisters around the World. We have dedicated our all that all may be free to live lives of happiness together in cooperation, "from each according to his ability & unto each according to his need." (See 2Cor.8:14,15.)
         2. Freedom from want, freedom from bondage, freedom from pain, freedom from evil & freedom from fear--these are OUR UNITED GOALS! Mankind cannot be happy when hungry much of the time, enslaved by oppression, tyranny & exploitation, robbed by the rich, suffering the pains & pangs of hunger, malnutrition, disease, ill health, overwork, evil abuse, the tortures of war & constant conflict & nightmares of perpetual fearful insecurity!
         3. WE BELIEVE THAT ALL OF THESE EVILS ARE CAUSED BY MEN'S LACK OF LOVE FOR GOD & EACH OTHER & their defiance of His LAWS of LOVE & FAITH & PEACE & HARMONY with Him, each other & His whole Creation, which are the basic beliefs of every true Faith & true believer in God & His love & His concern for His creations.
         4. But we must not only know WHAT we are fighting for & against, but also HOW we must fight! This is not a mere war of weapons & armies & bodies of men.
         5. THIS NOT A WAR FOR THE MERE BODIES & POSSESSIONS & LANDS & PRIDE OF MAN! Such carnal wars of man have seldom ever settled anything or solved the basic problems of mankind. They have usually only resulted in more suffering, more agony, more pain, more hunger, more slavery, more bitterness, more vengeance, more fighting, more torture, more privation, more destruction, more waste, more misery, more poverty & more death! Most of man's selfish evil wars end in a mere CHANGE OF MASTERS & an EXCHANGE OF SLAVES, a vicious never-ending cycle of evils ending with fewer & fewer richer & richer rich & more & more poor, & all of them miserably unhappy with their life of death & fear together!
         6. OUR IS A WAR OF THE SPIRIT IN FAITH & LOVE TO WIN THE MINDS & HEARTS & SPIRITS & SAVE THE SOULS AS WELL AS THE BODIES OF MEN! Ours is a war to free men from the EVILS OF THE SPIRIT & mind & heart of man which CAUSE them to be selfish & unloving & vicious & cruel & unkind to each other, man's inhumanity to man because of his lack of understanding of how to be happy because of his lack of the knowledge of the love & faith & power of God & loving laws of God designed for our eternal happiness!
         7. OURS IS A WAR TO FREE MEN'S MINDS & HEARTS & SPIRITS from the bondage of evil & the soul-slavery of the Devil which bring all these miseries upon us!
         8. THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD! OURS IS A WAR OF WORDS & IDEAS TO THRILL MEN'S MINDS WITH FAITH & HOPE & FILL THEIR HEARTS WITH LOVE & PEACE & JOY TO SET THEIR SPIRITS FREE, AS WELL AS ACTS OF LOVE & DEEDS OF KINDNESS TO FREE THEIR BODIES FROM PAIN! We must therefore wage a war of words against the ideas of evil, a war of faith against fear, a war of hope against doubt. We must INSPIRE MEN'S SPIRITS TO BELIEVE IN GOD & His LOVE & His PLAN for the glorious future of man in the Kingdom of God on earth run by the righteous in which there shall soon be no more sorrow nor crying nor pain nor death, but all shall be light & health & happiness & peace & plenty for everyone.
         9. WE MUST TEACH THEM THE LOVING, LIFE-GIVING WORDS OF GOD Himself through His Holy Prophets in His Holy Books that they might have His life & love & happiness forever! Mighty empires of the sword have come & gone, but His words of love & life go on forever & continue to give joy & peace & love & life & hope to billions for generations! The Alexanders & Caesars & Ghengis Khans & Napoleons & Hitlers have come & gone, but the words & ideas & religions of the philosophers & the prophets of God live on forever!
         10. THEY KNOW NO BOUNDARIES, no nation, no race nor empire & are not bound by time nor space nor limited by man nor war nor force of arms, but embrace all mankind & unite their minds & hearts & spirits in FAITH & LOVE OF GOD & EACH OTHER for GOOD of ALL!
         11. WE CANNOT FORCE MEN TO BE GOOD: WE CANNOT LEGISLATE RIGHTEOUSNESS! We must persuade their MINDS, win their HEARTS, inspire their SPIRITS & save their SOULS so that they will willingly WANT to do good & not to do evil! To get REAL love, a woman must be WOOED, not FORCED. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still! You cannot change the world of man without changing his mind, & you cannot change his MIND unless you change his HEART, & you cannot change his heart without the inspiration of God's SPIRIT to save his SOUL & not only his body.
         12. ONLY THE POWER & LIFE & LIGHT & LOVE & WORDS OF GOD CAN DO THIS! We must get His Words to all men by every means available throughout the Earth. We must convey His ideas, hopes, faith, love & plans for His Creations to the eyes & minds & thoughts of ALL MEN EVERYWHERE, that ALL hearts may be changed & all spirits inspired & all souls be saved, as well as bodies, to live & love together FOREVER!


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