Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00229)

Dear Friends, 

Precisely four days before the 9-11 attack in New York, the United 
Nations Assembly,  gathered in that same city, formally  resolved to 
set a day,  in September,  to yearly celebrate cease-fire, peace and 
non-violence around the planet. 

Was it a karmic coincidence? 

A synchronistical confluence of movements coming from light and 
shadow and at different levels of reality, one spiritual, the other 
material?  

Whatever our answers to that, the issue of "perpetual peace" --  
which was first raised several centuries ago in Europe --  will most 
likely remain in our collective agenda until we attain it, sometime 
in the future.  

The practical question for us is, though:   how we can prepare and 
produce peace, and starting from where?     

See what "The Theosophical Movement" magazine said in 2005: 

"The General Assembly of the United Nations Organization passed a 
Resolution on September 7, 2001, to observe September 21 as the 
International Peace Day. The Assembly declared that the Day be 
observed as the day of global ceasefire and non-violence. It invited 
all member-states, U.N. organizations, government and non-
governmental organizations and individuals to commemorate the Day 
through education and public awareness. It is a tragic commentary on 
the state of moral sickness of the world that violence continued 
unabated in all the troubled parts of the world on the day of the 
International Peace Vigil."

"The Theosophical Movement" adds:

"The twentieth century has been a century marked by phenomenal 
progress in the fields of science, technology, communications, 
trade, commerce, transport, etc., but it has also been a century of 
wars and violence on a scale of destruction unprecedented in the 
history of the world. The devastation of the First World War moved 
the leaders of the warring nations to come together to discuss ways 
and means of ending wars and to resolve international disputes 
peacefully ...."

See more at 

http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7506worldpeace.html

Regards,  Carlos.