September 17, 2001

A Letter from The Maitreya to the World

Not even one week has passed since the terrorist incidents in New York City and Washington D.C., and already I see the phoenix, the voice of Love among you, rising from the ashes.

As vigils are now being held around the world, candles are burning, and the voice of reason, compassion, patience, and tolerance is growing louder still. A call to love. A call to put down all weapons and love one another. Even though it took events so tragic to bring the world’s attention back unto love, the signs show that it is working.

Everything means something, everything that happens to you and around you. And while many are still insisting that message, that teaching, is one of hatred and revenge, I assure you it is not. There are no victims, as seen through God’s eyes. Thus, it follows that these thousands of souls unwittingly, albeit willingly, gave their lives to deliver a powerful message to the world. Look in your hearts. Did they give up their very lives-their greatest possession, their greatest dream and joy—in an act so heroic, so noble, so selfless—to incite war and kill God’s Creation?

No.

They gave their lives to call humanity’s attention back unto itself, back unto love. As the world waits in fearful anticipation, their voice and their message is growing louder and louder with every passing day. It is time you empower yourselves and one another to remember that the fullness of God runs through your veins. And it is your faith, your courage, and your perseverance in Love’s name that will turn the tides of this world and restore everlasting peace on Earth.

Some years ago, an angel was sent among you to give the American people back its voice. The man in whose body that angel silently walked was, and is, Ross Perot. In his individual campaign for the Presidency of the United States, rising and appearing out of nowhere, he single-handedly was responsible for creating the highest voter turnout in the history of the nation.

God used that campaign to remind everyone of the power of one voice. And now I am asking that you use that voice. As within, so without. Who would be so hypocritical as to now blame the President for the fact that he was put in office by a collective consciousness that relates to God more through fear than through faith?

Before anyone points a finger in judgment toward him, remember that he is awaiting direction from the people. His motive is pure; he wants only to protect. But he is confused, and fear still holds dominion within the White House. The fact that he hesitates now shows that there is still an opening for a change of heart.

Citizens of the world, show him your support by not leaving him stranded with the most difficult decision of his life—initiating a potential Third World War. Call him, write him, e-mail him your feelings and wishes, and speak to him in your prayers. To believe that the voice and will of one man is stronger than the voice of God in your heart is the greatest act of folly.

If Moses had succumbed to that fear and temptation, the Red Sea would never have parted. Thousands upon thousands of soldiers marched toward this one man and the tribe he led out of darkness, with weapons in hand, hatred and murder in their eyes and in their hearts. And it was the voice of one, the faith and courage of one, that summoned the power of God so strong as to part a sea and lead a people to safety and freedom.

Do you think he possessed any power greater than the power that lies dormant within you? I ask that you believe. Believe in yourself. Believe in that very same power of God which is now available to you. Believe in the ability of that Love—if given your consummate faith and devotion-to consume your entire being and walk you, as it did Krishna, Moses, Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and others.

This, I offer, is available to each and every one of you. Let these mighty souls who recently gave their lives be the catalyst. Let them be your inspiration. Verily, I say unto thee, should you miss this golden opportunity, another invitation will come—one larger, stronger, more cataclysmic in nature—to move you into love, to make choices based on that love, to draw strength from the power of that love, and to stand in the face of all adversity through courage and perseverance within that love. If you choose to stay silent, yes, of course, God, in His infinite love and compassion will allow it to happen, because that is your choice. The last and greatest gift unto creation is free will.

You now have the power and freedom to choose, and you will sleep and dwell and work and live with the consequences of your choice. The divine irony is that all roads, all human choices, in the perfect tapestry of God’s will and infinite consciousness, will ultimately arrive at the same place. Those of you who are already writing letters, holding vigils, calling radio stations, and—pray thee—writing to politicians and to the President, using all the resources you have available, are ennobling and glorifying the lives that were given up for you.

In return, shall your lives be so amazingly blessed, uplifted, and exalted from the mundane trials and tribulations you now know, and shall you be shown a clearer, more graceful path into the world of pure love. Because of your efforts on behalf of these ones, and on behalf of those living for whom you have hope, compassion, and mercy: As you sow, so shall you reap one thousand-fold.

Another powerful message has been sown into the collective consciousness by way of these events. A seed of confusion and uncertainty has been placed in the minds of most. Like mice scrambling to find their way out of a maze of confusion, the U.S. government is struggling to create so great a security web that it could offer its people a life free from fear of invasion, terrorism, assault and attack. Please know that there is no system on earth wise enough or strong enough to give you this protection. And this is the very message that this event was meant to parlay into your minds and hearts. There is only one way, one place, where you can find that level of safety, and that is in the power of protection derived from your Faith, a faith sourced by an unflinching gaze on God. Therein shall you find your safety and your safe harbor. Only those who dwell in the fullness of that Divine, omnipotent companionship can walk free from the armor of weaponry and man-made security, free from locks, devices, and electronic systems—protected only, and completely, by the power of God’s omnipresent love.

While only certain individuals have ever walked and lived to demonstrate this truth, the day will come when nations will, as well. Here, again, is the opportunity for America to be one such nation. There already exists one true peace-loving country on the planet that currently issues a global statement saying it will fight no war on its own behalf, nor on behalf of any other country and, therefore, maintains no defense system or military operation whatsoever. As a result, this country is not invited into war, nor is war ever waged upon it. Instead, it lives in peace among all nations—an island in the Sea of Contentment.

The United States of America is not the most powerful country in the world because of its money, weaponry, and military fortitude. You have only been taught and trained to believe that. It is the most powerful country in the world because God has placed that power within this land, to shine the Light of Freedom brightly upon the world. The power had to be granted to your land and your people by God before it could be used. For all comes from the Creator, all originates from the Creator. I am now asking you to draw from the wellspring of that Power and Might that was granted unto you, to use it in Love’s name, instead of in Fear’s name.

Let us, My beloved children, keep the horse before the cart. Heed thee, well, My words. Take them into your heart. Let them gestate and have their way with you. Sleep upon them, dwell and dream upon them. And, when you awaken from your introspection and contemplation, lend a voice to your sentiments and beliefs. Take action upon those beliefs. And remember to do so always with the utmost of patience, compassion, tolerance, and non-judgment for the feelings, beliefs, choices, and actions that all others make—like yourself—in their journey back into love.

In so doing shall Grace be planted with every footstep you make, and shall Grace be the trail that paves the way for others.

Blessed be, dear ones, in whose most Holy name I come. - Louix Dor Dempriey (Bhagavan Sri Pranananda)