A New Humanity in a New Age

Is our problem that we do not take seriously and literally the often encountered prediction of a new humanity living in a new age? Is it for real? Is it already here, and we are now only living through the dregs of the old and already completely outmoded?

I have to ask myself seriously these questions, as I have been born and bred in an age which has realised all too well that change does not happen by waving a fairy wand in the air and saying a few magic words for the accompaniment. And, if change really is in sight, it will happen slowly and grudgingly, like all the other things we have tried to move along in our life.

Yet, I have to be honest. I have been the witness of too many things which I realized, in each instance with a shock, had been in a gestating state for years, and perhaps even centuries. And it was only now, in a short space of time, that their results had passed some critical threshold of conscious visibility, which had caused me to neglect them in the past. I am not exactly slow in getting off the mark, but things especially connected with the deep patterns of human nature I have always regarded as being especially resistant to sudden change.

But now, frankly, I think we have passed the threshold of a real New Age, and the old has suddenly and visibly become outmoded and no longer valid. Let me cite "worry" as an example of what I am speaking about. I have had for a greater part of my life a wonderful friend who has led me by the hand through events and the discarding of old patterns I would never have thought possible. I was in my mid-thirties when, each time I left him at the end of a visit, he would say to me, and to the others present, "Don't worry, be happy."

I knew what he was saying to me to be the truth, as after my first encounter with this great man I had no more worries. Having met a truly perfected being gave me a confidence in Creation I had never had before, and through the years I have found all the reasons why our habit of worrying is no longer valid - not needed; It is outmoded. The planet and the level of human development has passed the stage where worry was an integral part of daily realistic living.

"What? No problems?"

Yes, that is, not real ones.

"And what about all the massacres going on, and the bombings and killing of the innocent everywhere?"

Yes, but it is now only the last gasps of an outmoded and no longer propelling force. And I know that the very people who are still living through the dying gasps of the outmoded form with all its fairy-tales appended to give it a magic touch of attraction, will be corrected and erased through the victory of a knowledge of love that has reached its highest pinnacle within their own ranks and philosophy. There is no way that the New can be stopped, as all the roots and creative force needed are already in position to dissolve these dying paroxysms of an outlived form from the old humanity in its past dying mode that has now been surpassed.

There is one thing, though, that I could wish for in this crossing over from the old to the truly new. That is that the destruction of beauty that goes on at such a time be limited to the absolutely necessary in the closing of accounts. When I think of the destruction of those two magnificent statues of Buddha carved into the cliff of Afghanistan, I really do feel as though I could cry out with Jesus Christ, "Forgive them, O Lord, for they know not what they do." And what they do not know is that these have been among the dying gasps of the dying forms of a very long age indeed.
Let us be happy that the succeeding one is well en route and will have the soft warmth of pure gold and the diamond sparkle of Reality everywhere.