Universal and Moral Values, Politics and World Peace — Page 15
a direct result of to reject it. Look back at the history of the First World War; go beyond the history of the First World War to the causes of the first global war and the second global war. You will always notice a preceding global economic crisis the system of Capitalism based on usury and interest. It plays havoc with your peace and your security; your industry and your commerce. You do not see it because you are shortsighted made shortsighted by your ego factor and your immediate interests. . This is the most ugly part that ego plays in human life. Ego is shortsighted. It desires to have something HERE and NOW, and does not care to look ahead in time as to what results would follow from this egoistic attitude of Man. . Again, I would like to be brief but the subject is very vast and you have to be convinced of what I am telling you; otherwise, just my telling you "Come, return to God" will be meaningless. . Money cannot grow by itself!. You are sitting on a bough that you are severing on the wrong side it is bound to fall, with you! You have seen it happen many a time before. Tomorrow, you will see it happen again if you do not realize the folly of repeating the mistakes that have always led the world into horrendous global wars. How the economy of the world can be rectified is something that is, at present, beyond the power of economists, and politicians, even to attempt. . This is so because the entire global system is based on the Capitalist philosophy of interest that, in turn, is based on the false. notion that accumulated money, if left idle, must grow. They forget that money cannot grow without being wedded to huUNIVERSAL MORAL VALUES, POLITICS & WORLD PEACE 15