Lost Horizon Found! "LOOK AT THE WORLD TODAY. Is there anything more pitiful? What madness there is. What blindness. What unintelligent leadership. A furiously racing mass of bewildered humanity, strengthening, not in wisdom but in vulgar passions, crashing headlong into each other, motivated by greed and propelled into brutality. The time must come when evil will destroy itself. "WHEN THE DAY COMES THAT THE WORLD BEGINS TO LOOK FOR A NEW LIFE, it is our hope they may find it here in Shangri-La. Here we shall be with our way of life based on one simple rule--love. And it is our hope that Shangri-La's brotherly love will then spread throughout the world. And when the strong have devoured each other, then at last the meek shall inherit the Earth." NO WORDS MORE PERFECTLY DESCRIBE THE GLOBAL PLIGHT OF THE '70s (or the 21st century!) --and yet they were written almost 40 (now 70) years ago by the late James Hilton [1900-1954] to express the philosophy of the High Lama of Shangri-La his classic novel, Lost Horizon [1933].....
Are you a Sight Seer? Or a Seer Sighter! THIS REVELATION OF TRUTH WAS INSPIRED BY THE LORD as we gazed out the window of our train upon the ruins of castle after castle, and great house after great house, palace after palace, of the ancient Roman ruins as we wound through the hills of Italy. These great buildings, these glorious edifices, these grand creations of man, had all fallen into ruin and decay with the passage of time. AS I WATCHED THESE HISTORIC HILLSIDES with their once proud structures of man, now in ruins, I could see again the glories of the past, the armies that had swept across these hills, first one way, then another--the legions of Rome and the hordes of her enemies, changing ever changing the face of history--one constructing, another destroying, building and tearing down, creating and demolishing, in the changing tides of history. Nothing was ever permanent, but each new regime washed away all but the meager vestiges of the past, ....
Did God Make a Mistake? Did God make a mistake by putting Adam and Eve in the Garden where they wound up making their own choice--the wrong one? (See Genesis 3:6.) Did God have to confess failure by the Flood, in that He had to wipe out all Mankind for its wickedness? (See Genesis 6:5-7.) Was the Tower of Babel a total disaster, and was the confusion of tongues a catastrophe? Or was it necessary to accomplish God's purpose to humble and scatter Man over the face of the Earth? (See Genesis 11:1-9.)....
The Dropouts! THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF DROP-OUTS: some for the wrong reason--some for the right reason--some from the wrong System--some from the right System--some in the wrong direction--some in the right direction! Which kind are you? You have to be one or the other! THE WORLD'S FIRST DROPOUT WAS LUCIFER who had decided to do his own thing instead of God's, and persuaded the next two dropouts, Adam and Eve, to do the same--and people have been dropping out ever since--some for God and some for the Devil!....
Look of Love "Love at first sight" is quite possible, to respond with love to a loving look is a very normal reaction, as "love begets love." For it is very easy to "fall in love with love." To see love in someone's eyes is a psychological, emotional, physiological spiritual phenomenon which no one can quite explain any more than the seventh wonder of the World, which King Solomon called "the way of a man with a maid."--Pro.30:18,19. For "eyes are the windows of the soul." For some inexplicable reason known to God alone, it is often possible for some to look into another's eyes read the very thoughts intents of the heart. In the "Look of Love," when looking earnestly penetratingly into each other's eyes, a definite reaction takes place which you often can actually feel physically.....
All you need is love Our goal is to love God and our neighbor as ourselves, and as a result bring love to the whole world and peace and freedom and plenty for all! Simply, our goal is to try to persuade everyone to love god and his neighbor as himself, and this would solve all the problems of the whole world! The whole world's problems--political, economic, social, religious and physical--could be solved through the Love of God and each other! That's what we teach and preach and that's our message, our life, our goal, our love, our everything: To love God and our neighbors as ourselves!.....
