Can One Person Really Make a Difference?

White Eagle tells us that they can! Recently I opened White Eagle’s book Healing the World at this page: ‘In world affairs the individual work may turn the scale, may turn the affairs of humankind from evil to good. Good comes out of evil or ignorance. Good will come but you must know this truth in your hearts and minds. Your thoughts must dwell upon it; your speech must express this divine truth. You must live in the Star, and however contrary the conditions of earth may be, never give way to pessimism; never in any situation. Be sure that if you think aright, think creatively and positively, you are an instrument of God, for you set into operation the law of divine love, and the results will be wholly good.’

Although the media news is often full of sad and distressing stories, it seems to me there are an increasing number of stories/events that give real hope that there is an actual change in consciousness taking place in many millions of people throughout the world. White Eagle has long told us that the coming of the new Golden Age of Brotherhood will be brought about by many individuals turning their thoughts and their faces to the light, rather than the dark.

New leaders are emerging on the world stage who have definitely turned their faces towards light and reconciliation, rather than keeping to entrenched ideas from the past and the sense of individual territory. For me personally, the newly re-elected German Chancellor, Angela Merkel is one of them. Like me you may have seen Andrew Marr’s BBC documentary about this remarkable woman. In a very interesting way she seems to be a bridge between the past Piscean Age and our present day Aquarian Age of working together for brotherly understanding, forgiveness and moving on. Her background is so interesting, having her roots in the Eastern sector of the old divided Germany (before the Berlin Wall came down).

Andrew Marr’s programme showed so clearly how, in her style of leadership, she is actually demonstrating a whole new way of being—a leadership from the heart, calling upon the intuitive heart in all humanity to arise, rather than the hard, mental, war-like energies of the past. It seems that Angela is an iron lady with a velvet glove, and with a very soft and open, intuitive heart. Apparently she works always for consensus and yet gives firm leadership. What a role model for others. She has won many awards, including ‘Vision for Europe’ in 2006, and the Nehru Award for the year 2009 for international understanding. She is working for greater understanding between the world’s religions, supporting expanding religious classes in German schools, including Islam. In spite of Chinese protests, she met with the Dalai Lama on 25^th September 2007—interesting that I should be writing this on the very anniversary of that auspicious meeting.

Let us hold her, the Dalai Lama, the United Nations and all working for peace and reconciliation under the shining ray of the Star today.

'How can a God of love allow such suffering?'

Like many of you I expect, I see the horrific happenings in Syria and the plight of so many refugees, especially over one million children, and I think many people must be asking the question ‘If there really is a God of love, how can he/she allow such suffering?'

I find White Eagle’s teaching profoundly helpful at times like this. I do believe that there are divine laws which encompass all life and that sometimes one of the purposes of so-called evil is to open our hearts in greater compassion. White Eagle is very reassuring for me when he says: ‘God is complete and absolute justice and love. God is not hard; God is more loving, more compassionate, more tender, than any human being alive, and has set in motion a law for the evolution of all.’

The Lord Buddha, too, offers an example in his teaching about suffering and the ‘Bodhisattva of infinite compassion’ Avalakitsvara, is depicted as a being with many arms and in each palm of one hand an all-seeing eye of wisdom and in the other a different object—symbolising the care which exists for all created life to give to each according to their unique need.

At such times people also naturally ask what they can do to help and in the book ‘Healing the World’ White Eagle says: ‘There is great need for your untiring service, and we ask you to give forth to the world from the well of truth that is within you, the spirit of peace and love and brotherhood. A mighty power from the Centre of Light is being concentrated upon world affairs at this time, but also there is the opposite force at work; always there are the two: positive and negative, the constructive and the disintegrating forces, and it is of vital importance that the balance be kept. Don’t think, ‘I am so insignificant, I can do nothing’. You must never fail in your obligation to think positively, to send forth the light of love and goodwill.’ Those of us who have been working for the light for many years will know the power of this radiation and what it can achieve.