"Greetings from the Brotherhood!

Though you are thousands of miles from the theater of war, the echoes of the destruction are vibrating in this very atmosphere. Whenever there is a war of this magnitude, the earth is surrounded, encompassed completely, by the vibratory energy of the destruction that is occurring. It is for this reason that even we, the Messengers, encounter some difficulty in maintaining vibratory balance.

This is what often happens with your guide. If you turn to a negative frame of mind, such as anger, the guide cannot draw near, but rather is repulsed. So it is that when the actions upon the earth become negative, such as in war, we find the earth plane shielded in the very negativity that is being fought against, especially here within this geographic sector, this country, because it is the leader in the war. The energies projected from this country are not prayers of peace, but are waves of anger and hatred. Those few who pray for peace are like the whispers of ants lost in the roar of the ocean at the beach. The toll is heavy, not only in the death and in the destruction, the toll is heavy in the vibrations. How can there be joy in the words and in the mouth and in the faces of those who have killed an enemy? This very day, those pilots who destroyed other aircraft were elated over their kill. We are not dealing with a machine killing a machine, it was a man killing a man. Must the act of Cain and Abel forever be repeated?

If there be death, look upon the death with sorrow and respect. There is no right; there is no wrong, for both are equally so. The moralities and immoralities abound. War may well be the times that try men's souls, trying them in the test to determine if there is joy in the killing. If there is joy in the taking of life, and if both sides take joy in the lives that they have destroyed, then are not both equal? And are not both then the animals, but worse than even the animals of the jungle who do not destroy without need. There is no light when the automatic rifle is creating its deadly staccato. There is no light or blessing in the rhythmic clanking of the treads of a tank, and there is no balance in the rhythmic clicking of the weapons, nor is it the voice of God that is heard through the roar of the jet engines. It is in these theaters, these arenas, that you, mankind collectively, become as the gladiators of Rome, they and their victims. At times, in the course of life, it is necessary through the interaction with life to struggle with others who are of a negative bent, but there can never be an excuse for taking joy in the repulsing of such negativity.

We take no position politically for or against the actions of any one government or of the Nations United. We abhor the actions taken by Saddam Hussein, and we see the negativity that he creates and generates. But the soldier that he sends out is still a spiritual being occupying a physical body. He is still the son of a mother, the husband of a woman and the father of a child. He is still a brother, both spiritually and physically.

In all conflicts, we find a common thread. If you find joy in the killing of an animal or a bird without need, it is easy then to move up the scale and take on bigger animals until you kill a man. We have a saying in our plane of reality:

The implication is very strong. You who eat meat are killers of animals. Their blood is upon your hands, and you are doubly guilty of their death, for not only do you eat their flesh, but you have others kill them for you, as if to exonerate yourself from the guilt of the act of killing, which is hardly what could be termed a humane thing. And, as you take the blood from the meat, the ancient idea of the sympathetic magic is not totally lost. The cannibal believed that to eat the heart of his enemy would give him the courage. The symbolic idea that the heart was the center of courage is not new with one civilization, and there is a root of truth in the spiritual energy attached.

The flesh of animals is no different than the flesh of men, for man too is an animal. But think well upon the thought that we find not killers of men amongst those who do not eat of the flesh. That is not to say, that there is not one or even several, but their energy is microscopic in comparison with those others. The anger that is manifested against the war or against the enemy is an animalistic anger. Reduce the source of stimulus for the animalistic response within the being. It is not to say that conflicts will cease entirely when man no longer kills animals, but it is to say that his solution to those conflicts will certainly not be animalistic.

Let be done what must be done and do it quickly, but find no joy nor glory in the execution. There are none within the battered lands who praise your names, and the mothers who sit with lifeless children in their arms do curse your souls to the end of time, as do the fathers and the brothers.

Double your efforts to bring forward the light, and hope that the light will gain you forgiveness of those whom you have killed. And at least, look to bring the light to the soul in transition, that it may see the reality for what it is. A Messenger running in the middle of the battlefield with an olive branch would not be heard in this conflict and would be quickly dispatched by both sides. We carry no olive branch. We only bring you our eye witness report of the battle between the sons of light and the sons of darkness as it progresses this moment with the darkened earth, red with the blood of innocence. That is all."

"You are dealing with all of the natural problems. First, let us define historically of what we are speaking, for there is a great gulf between the words you use and their final meaning, and we are not speaking of the Gulf of Mexico, but rather the Gulf of Persia and the war that is currently being waged between members of the United Nations and Iraq. Is that not correct?"

"I believe the word would be more correct to say that the United States is the strongest arm of the United Nations. It is important in these sessions that when we speak of world events, that we define them clearly so that future generations reading these words will not be confused as to the gulf of emotions that are being spread about.

Dealing with the question of war, the element of war and peace was well described by Tolstoy in his book. The light worker is a human being full of emotions, both positive and negative, emotions of outrage, patriotism and spirituality. That is in itself a natural conflict. At times it is healthy to let an emotion play itself out, providing it does not manifest itself in physical acts. The right and wrong are more obvious in retrospect.

If you think it difficult for the light worker upon the physical plane, please realize that those of us on this plane, including your own guide, have been sorely occupied dealing with the transitions that have occurred in greater numbers. It is the guides of the light workers that assist the victims of war. We do not find our emotions raised by a flag or the sight of a machine spitting fire moving through the sky. Nor do we find it comforting to hear the boom of destruction as large quantities of explosives destroy other explosives, nor does it make sense to the elderly or the children who are frightened, injured or killed.

War is an abhorrent thing and no man should find pleasure in the goings and comings of war. And yet, one must ask what of the Saddam Hussein and his ilk, shall they be then ignored? That is not the nature of man, and the nature of man is to castigate or punish those who are wrong. Before you can totally condemn war, you must first condemn the assassination that you practice in the name of justice within your system. There is no difference between the death in a war and execution of a criminal in your electric chair or your chamber of gas or your hangman's stand or the injection of death. These are equal. And if one must extend it to all the directions, the ruthless slaughter and senseless slaughter that man perpetrates upon himself upon his highways, with his bottle of hope in one hand and blindness in his eye, of the hunters seeking out the primitive thrill of their ancestral blood, looking to kill with a flash of light and the sound of lightning and heated lead. The animal kingdom is equal in its glory to man because it is innocent and man is not. Shall we then not look to the problem of the slaughter of the innocence of the animals, the cruelty and inhumane treatment, the sadistic system that you call welfare? What of the street people, the homeless of your nation, the alcoholics, the drug addicts and those simply without the education or intelligence to fight well in the battle of the way? Are not these things equally abhorrent as is the war? How many die in a single holiday upon your highways? It will take many weeks of war to match one weekend of your July 4th. We do not pardon war by the comparison. We point out from where comes the energy.

We do not say that the end justifies the means; and yet, in the end, the means will have been what they will have been, and we cannot change what has been. But if we arrive at the day of peace when the world at last can know a time of peace, then the means indeed will have justified or been justified by the end or the goal achieved. A complex and confusing thought.

Remember, that no soul has ever been destroyed. You can ravage the planet, you can ravage the body, but the spirit triumphs over all. Until the cruelty, the prejudice, the inhumanity that exists between man and man within his own countries, until that comes to an end, how can we think of war as being much different? It is only a focused version of what goes under the name of peace. Be not dismayed. There is progress. The snail moves forward."

"That is true, but also remember that, that which today is abhorrent to you, yesterday was the source of your pleasure. Do you understand?"

"That is correct. And remember, that in the week of the war, more children have died of hunger than all of those who will die in this conflict. Everything must be dealt with in relativity to the reality in which it exists. That does not make it correct. One does not balance good and evil with comparison, one deals with reality of evolution by comparison."

"We see the souls ascending and the smoke of war beyond the ides of March, and beyond that we cannot tell at this time."

"We feel it is yet very early to tell. The earth has her form to cleanse herself. If the problem is not brought to gigantic proportion, as it exists at the moment, it is a tolerable factor not much greater than some of the great volcanic explosions that have occurred. Do you remember historically of the volcano island of Krakatoa?"

"And lasted for more than 20 years, so that at sunset there was a red ring produced for more than 20 of your earth years as a result of one volcano. It is early yet to tell, but remember, not only the fire of burning a hydrocarbon material and the bombs and their explosions, but much worse will be the toxic chemicals if released into the environment. That can produce a change that is much greater. The chemical, the nerve gas that is so diluted that it cannot harm a human, can still kill insects, small animals and birds and certainly destroy plants. But these things are formed at such complex patterns that one can only wait to assess their value for danger as they pass."

"Danger, yes. Catastrophe, no."

"The containment system is sufficient to protect against major problems of an ecological nature due to the radiation that would occur. There is no immediate danger in that area."

"They are planned, yes."

"Have you ever been stung by a bee?"

"Was he not insignificant in comparison to your body as a whole?"

"But to say the least, he took your attention. So it is with the Arab terrorism. They shall sting like bees, they shall take great attention, but their final effect will be minimal. We are not being vague. The types and places are not yet formed in their minds. They have 20 targets for each act. That is to say, if they have one bomb, they wish to place it in 20 different locations. They have not formulated plans for lack of proper communication."

"Manila in the Philippines. It is well spread, as even the terrorism of the Arabs and PLO has been over these last few years."

"It will be protracted even after Iraq no longer wishes to participate. Other elements seeking to make themselves known will use the opportunity to continue their terrorism."

"They are not half the danger as Iran itself."

"That question is not clear. The bombing had a great effect on your end."

"On Iraq."

"It has had an effect upon both. Iran is nervous that some of the impact or bombs may stray across the border. Iraq suffered the attacks of Iran for 8 years. Do you truly think that one week has made a great impact upon them?"

"10,000 sorties or 20,000, however you wish to count them, does not change the nature of the people until the attack comes to the people. Because of that which you call your Convention of Geneva, which no one seems to adhere to except when it is convenient, because of this Convention, you are now not attacking civilian areas. Formulated in 1949, it was too late to save the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is saving the cities of Iraq. A man who is not beaten or struck does not fall to his knees very quickly. You are beating at the fences and barns and outhouses of the people of Iraq, but you are not directing yourself to them. Therefore, they can be philosophical about their luck and credit their concept of Deity with the blessing. When there is no more food or water or shelter, then the desperation forces them to negotiate, but a man who negotiates in hunger seldom seeks the truth."

"Have you ever seen an attack of locusts?"

"What resistance could you give?"

"But when do you strike them? After they have made their attack and are fat with their glory! He is waiting for a moment of weakness, be it supplies that have not arrived, a reduction in the ammunition or opportunities of carelessness."

"If you would give me a half a million souls to make that decision, they could."

"Your energies of a positive nature surrounding Saddam with light all help, but the force and direction of this war is being pushed by millions of consciousness'. Therefore, we require a great number to counter that act. The sum conscious attention, the vector sum as you might term it, of energy is directly proportional to the number of consciousness' involved. You often succeed because of apathy. The light worker conquers darkness because of apathy. But in a war, you are apathetic. In a war, emotions are high, adrenalin is high and consciousness is focused; therefore, one can flake away at the stone while millions die. It is important for your own spiritual development that you maintain the enemy surrounded by light."

"The street urchin who becomes dictator does not have time in his life for positive moments. His pleasure is in his possessions, and his ambition is greater than his concern for the welfare of those about him. This entity uses religion as a tool and weapon, but has no true belief. His guide is basically out of work. Do you understand?"

"That is correct. The late Ayatollah Khomeini was a religious man, one who believed in his path and in his religion. He was reachable through the spiritual vision. Saddam Hussein is a dead man who lives, and worse than most, he knows it. Therefore, all to him is but as a game, and the whim or impulse of one moment to the next is what motivates his primal desire."

"Think well, young friend, what hour is it in that part of the world where it is the conflict?"

"And what is happening at that time?"

"That is also when death is raining down upon Iraq. The Allied attacks are occurring in the hours of light. Do you think that the attacks, the feeble futile attacks of Iraq, have much of an impact upon the numbers? Psychologically perhaps, but the numbers of people injured and killed is very small in comparison with those who are eliminated by the bombs of more than 10,000 sorties, as your generals have said. Do you understand?"

"Can you imagine the difficulty we have in dealing with the souls of women and children and men who are fragmented by your bombs? It is they and the living who need your light. The care that they receive is our responsibility. The degree of recovery and the healing energy also comes from your plane. Shall they return to seek vengeance, or shall they find love emanating from this planet, from the very source they seek to hate in their transition? Do you understand?"

"We stood and watched the thousands when the atomic weapons were used. We watched the hundreds of thousands who died in your other wars, and many are the time we had no voice. If you do not become beacons of love to those of your enemy who have died, then their consciousness, being separated from their physical forms by such force, shall seek with vengeance and hatred which would be natural for them. But as they focus their mind and their hearts with the hatred and vengeance, if they find love coming to aid them, then their hatred is reduced. They need not return again to fulfill this conflict, eternal as it seems to be. Let us bring an end to war! Let not the souls make their transition in hatred and alone. Let them find the light and the love."

"If it were not emotional, it would not be of value. The analogy is valid, remembering that one sees as one believes. The realm of spirit lends itself not to form, at least not readily; therefore, what one believes or with what one is most comfortable, that thing or that form will become for the moment of transition as in the case of the bird."

"If one could take the gold dust of the Brotherhood's presence's and sprinkle it in the air before those who make their transition, their path will clearly be marked. From your vantage point, you are from the source of light, and all that you leave behind and put in front of them becomes as miraculous light for them to follow. The lights and forms that have been reported are indeed those of you who are working from the physical through the spirit and back to the physical. Do you understand?"

"That is correct."

"That is so, but it is even a greater experience if one can visualize the snow falling, wherein the snow are flakes of light falling about you, in front of you, creating a pathway. Remember always, that you, the light workers, are indeed the light at the end of the tunnel."

"It was not the entity Hussein himself, but rather a negative force which is typical of the energy he and his associates generate. Therefore, it feeds upon them, takes their form and basically wishes to do as you have described. Why do you think you are needed?"

"First, you must understand that Hussein is not religious. Second, the form for dealing with any energy of that type is always the same: Surround the negativity with the light, but never attack it."

"That is not a portent. Nor is it a possible condition, though theoretically, it could exist. There are no energies toward that at this time. But if one puts the question in one's mind about the use of nuclear weapons, then that becomes one of the possible scenarios. Do not dwell upon it, for in so doing, you can also create the very scenario that one wishes to avoid."

"We still find that a valid probability. If we move into the future and take one of your newspapers and look within the columns of metals, we find the futures posted at said values, and they are still in that area. The timing may slide slightly as a result of these international matters, but we do not feel that the deviation is much greater than 60 or 90 days. Do you understand?"

"We are not clear of what it was or when was this devaluation with Nixon."

"That is correct. But the true devaluation of the dollar occurred under Lyndon Johnson in 1964 when the United States came off of the gold standard. That was the true devaluation. After that, any variation in the value of the dollar internationally is based upon produced goods and reserves, as well as the debt caused by international purchases, import and export. It is possible, although we have not concerned ourselves with the fluctuation of the dollar in the world market since that does not directly affect the individual here, it is highly possible that this melds together with the variations we have seen. We have no direct knowledge of what would trigger the variations in the value of the dollar."

Coordinate your efforts to continue the publication. The time has past to hear the excuses. Are we clear? If there are problems, rectify them, and if there are those who cannot participate, excuse them and find another, but let each look to his blessings in proportion to the energy he has put forward against his own commitment, against his own word. Those who have continued to fulfill have continued to receive. Those who do not fulfill are cut off, as a tree that bears no fruit is cut off from the water. You have 9 years to finish this century; and yet, you have 25 years of work to complete in those 9. There is much work to be done. This is not a time of relaxation. We have said in other messages that one cannot take the positive reactions and rest upon the laurels. The powers of darkness seek to create confusion. The Light Messenger must go forward at this moment."

Messenger II - War and the Light Worker

"Greetings from the Brotherhood!

There are many questions which beset the light worker in these times, in these times, once again of war, of the conflict of man against man, machine against machine and machine against man. The problem affects all. It affects the pacifist, the hawk, the patriot, the worker, the father, the mother, and in these times, even the parental roles are confused with women serving in the active theater of war.

Certainly, these types of conflicts create conflicting emotions within the most evolved consciousness. To be against the war seems unpatriotic. To be for the war seems negative and animalistic. Is there such a thing as a war of honor or with honor? Can the killing of your fellow man be justified? Does one kill to prevent killing? But then again, does not one have to look at the source, at the means by which the conflict began?

Who is the negative element in this conflict? Is it the entity whom they call Saddam Hussein? But then, who is this man, not born of kings, who has such great power and from whence came his power? Certainly, in the present state of his madness, and within your frame of reference it is a type of madness, certainly the world must seek to control it, but is this the way to control it? Do bombs become the method? On the contrary, to have blockaded the country and caused the population to starve to death would have been equally out of balance.

If then, this Commandment you break, all others are broken by it. Thou shalt not kill! But then, you have not yet come out of the killing fields, for you still kill without concern. You kill, in your sense of the word, in many forms and many places within the walks of life as you know them. Do you not still kill the helpless animal only for its food or its meat to serve you as food? Is this not a killing? And not satisfied with the meat of the adult, you kill the children so that the meat will be more tender. Ah, but your hands are clean. You do not kill the animal yourself to partake of its energy and spirit force, you have others do it in large concentrations where a thousand or more animals may die daily. I believe you term these places slaughterhouses. Then certainly, since you are accustomed to slaughterhouses and the stench of death, then what is a little war where you slaughter your own kind? Does that truly have a different meaning? You march in the street to support individual rights, and you march in opposition to the rights. But yet, more than a million physical forms of human gender are terminated each year, and you very cleverly use the word, abortion, not slaughter. Then what is a 'little war'? What is the death of a child for a woman with child? These things have no meaning. The bombs rain down, they are not important.

One cannot alter the nature of other people. One cannot change the destiny that is formed by nations. One can only alter the course of his or her own being. You may change the orbital path by which you revolve around the sun that is your society and world. You may draw nearer to it or farther from it, but about it you must go. The light worker may not partake in the killing and look for the light. In every drop of blood that is shed, there are a thousand nights of darkness. If conflict there must be, then it is better that soldier fight soldier and not machine against people. The cause is good, but there is no justification even for a good cause. To kill is wrong. To deprive others of their opportunity to live is not in balance.

But we must step backward, and not as critics but as observers, and ask ourselves the question, 'How is it possible that Saddam Hussein grew to such power? Who was it that aided him and put him upon his throne whereupon he sits this day? Who gilded the inside of his coffer with the gold that he has used?' Certainly, not the black gold of the ground alone. Without the blessing of many parts of the world, he could not possibly have maintained his position and grown in such power and stature. The fact that power has corrupted him and driven him mad is not a new thing, and those who helped put him there share in the karmic blame for what has come to pass.

The young ones have gone to war. Some shall return no more, and their memories shall be a bittersweet pain to the families and loved ones. They shall become the pride of a nation and its cry for vengeance. And their blood and the blood of many innocents still with them shall suffice to give the forces of darkness more strength and more power, even as was said by David, that this was not a time to rest and count one's laurels. These are troubled times indeed! Even the peace in the eastern part of Europe is trying to dissolve itself. Look upon the world over the last six months and how the powers of darkness have struck out. The heart that is burdened with hatred and patriotism or nationalism or prejudice can never generate the healing light. Only the heart that cries for all who die, the heart that sheds tears for all that is destroyed, only they may bring about the solution through their blessing. Bring about the capitulation of evil by enshrining the evil in light.

In the blindness that has been brought to him, he believes he is right. Remember, that no army has ever conquered a people who believed in that for which they fought.

You, the light workers, have been disbanded. You have separated yourselves because you felt it was no longer necessary to be joined together. Without the unification of light, the darkness cannot be burned away. Each one can contribute his light. And remember, that the hours of darkness are the hours in which the light is needed most, not only here in your darkness, but in that darkness there as well. And we give you the paradox: That because of the relationship of the world to time, you are the past trying to change the future. For that which is transpiring there in the Middle East, as you term it, is now 7 hours in the future to the here and now, so that at this very hour another day has formed. It is tomorrow; and yet, you can change the future from the past, even though the future now exists simultaneously with the past of which you are part.

Be not so few, those of you who try to take the moment. We neither bless nor curse, condone nor condemn, but he who does nothing or does not have the time to try, shall receive no blessing.

Be the light that blesses those who appear to be evil. Be the light that cleanses those who appear to be dirty. Be the light that heals the madness of the times. Bring about the meditation, the focus of light, in the morning and in the night and in whatever other time is possible. Seek out the Sanctuary. Seek other light beings to bring to focus the collective energy.

Let your weapon and ammunition be the light, the light that brings joy and peace and well-being, the light that heals men and nations. May it be so. That is the end of this message."

"That is our question! Much of the animal nature still exists within man's being. As of yet in his growth and development he still believes that material possessions are important. He has not yet arrived at that point of realizing that peace is the way of life. But there is still hope. Let it be that this century will be the last century of war.

Young people like yourself have the opportunity to create a new world but only if it is done with love. This will not come to pass until, prejudice is eliminated, separation by color, race or religion is stopped, and mankind realizes that all are God's children, brothers and sisters equal and alike. The family that fights within itself is a family destroyed. The family of love is a family that is recreating the world. When there is peace in the world and mankind is one, then and only then can the divine promise be realized."

"Yes they will, that day will come to pass. You are yet children in your development and only a short time has really passed in your growth. You don't have the time vision of the Brotherhood or you would see that although there is a great distance to go, the day will come when man will be a unified group, a spiritual community. Remember that in a form of speaking, you are Gods in the becoming.

It is not the belief in God that will save man, it is the belief in himself that will be his salvation as well as the realization of the need to live and work together harmoniously.

It is difficult for the hungry man to think of his spirituality. It is sad to think that there are persons preoccupied with saving the souls of children who are starving to death when what they really need is food for their stomachs. The hungry man does not meditate well and hunger has its own type of prayer. The inhumanity of humankind may appear incomprehensible, but you are making progress."

"I don't believe there is a better location in Venezuela to begin this light work. But remember that even with good ideas and positive thoughts there exists the danger of negativity. It is easier to be negative than to be positive and the forces of darkness are always trying to obscure the work of the light. Without values and morals there are no just men and without light workers there is no way to illuminate the world. All things that improve the life of man and permit him to live together in peace are the goals of the light worker. Be light workers if you can and if you can be light itself."

Hi! It has been quite some time since I took pen in hand to share personally with our Light Messenger friends. Somewhere along the way, I reasoned that the words of David and the Brotherhood were more important than trivial news concerning Richard, Salvatore or myself. I still believe that to be the case, but I also feel that perhaps a personal touch may be needed at this time.

During the last couple of years, my feeling has been that maybe it was time to put the Light Messenger to rest. We had covered all the bases and after all, no one wants to read redundant material, a perspective which may have been born from own personal desire to create changes and get on with new directions in my life.

All that aside, one day in January as I was standing in my kitchen, I suddenly had a strong feeling that I should perhaps go to St Augustine for a session with David and the Brotherhood, that we needed to put out a Light Messenger. It wasn't but 24 hours later when my phone rang with news that David had put out the word - we needed to do a Messenger.

So... the point is, that even though much time has elapsed and much has transpired for each of us, we are still here and we are still attempting to serve the light as best we can. I cannot tell you how often we will be able to publish the Light Messenger, nor can I tell you how long it will continue, but I can report that each of us in the Light Messenger family is committed, and not casually, to produce it for as long as the Brotherhood sees fit. It is an important vehicle of communication, perhaps more important than we will ever know in terms of the evolution of human consciousness. The commitment was made, aeons ago, by Richard, Salvatore, myself and several others in our immediate circle whose names have never been brought to the forefront. We believe in the messages of the Brotherhood, and I repeat, we are committed to this work!

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