Last Thoughts

    

Awake you foolish people of Earth!

        You are dooming yourselves and all other forms of life on this planet to an untimely death. Your path through history is coming to a point of no return and options are limited. Now there are only three outcomes possible. Future number one, which is the most natural and desirable, comes to pass when mankind realizes that everyone must work together to fix the many dangers looming ahead. Until now, that is not happening. Future number two, slowly beginning to unfold, leads to annihilation both catastrophic and violent. The third possibility offers a way of redemption, but not without inherent difficulties. Some religions teach Armageddon scenarios and 'End of Days' prophecies as something God ordained for the future. These are mythical dead-end predictions. Actually, a planet at peace is just the beginning for a species destined to inherit the galaxy.

         There is one universal and immutable Spiritual Law: Humankind must solve their own problems. A single mortal being a member of humanity meets this criteria; however, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely!" What would keep a benevolent dictator from becoming a world tyrant, or Anti-Christ? Ideally, an individual should require only a single mandate from all nations to oversee the dismantlement and recycling of all nuclear weapons while staying aloof and separate from the process. Arms reductions will not work; they must be dismantled!

         Failure to secure a safe future results in horrifying consequences, but not as horribly as this realization: only souls that have fulfilled their obligations on Earth can hope to continue their work off-world or in the deep cosmos. Those souls still left to balance their accounts here remain stranded in this system, simply because all vehicles of life will cease to exist after the initial destruction. You will have abandoned your mother planet and left a dead one; there is not enough cosmic time to start over.

         Fulfilling your purpose for being here hangs in the balance on what you decide. Failing that purpose, other than being a monumental tragedy, amounts to a disastrous waste of time, and heart-breaking effort!

Azrael

A message to the news media from John