Universal Significance of World Events

EOM Ida Mingle

This book is made up of matter published in the "Light of Truth," a monthly paper of the School. It contains some of the events interpreted in 1927, and all of those of 1928 and 1929. The events, like those of the Bible, may become historically old, but their significance and the principles involved are ever new.

These interpretations are devoted to the development of the universal spirit of the student. Truth is universal in its service. It has its activity of service to the entire race through those who can understand the racial progression. This understanding is the culminated result of individual spiritual unfoldment. When the ego has been individually identified in the Light of the Spirit, he or she becomes a light to illumine the mass mind.

This book can be read with profit by any one seeking intelligent advancement, regardless of religious tendencies. Those who love to serve the race should see to it that it is placed in the hands of intelligent leaders of his own community.

Universal is that which pertains to the race as a whole. Universal comes from the roots unus meaning one, and versum meaning to turn, that is, turned into one, or combined into one whole. At the ends of cycles, the forces of intelligence progressed turn as one force from circumference (outer) to center (inner), outer events becoming means by which the attention of the people, as a whole, are attracted. This forms a current of thought whose outer unity is made to function certain principles that stand back of the events. Thus the Divine Mind, which is universal or cosmic in its function, has a racial organism by which it operates to not only determine the wisdom and love or ignorance and hate gained, but also to generate and project through the spiritually minded a current of thought and love that will produce a new condition of consciousness for the race. Since 1914, when all racial groups were centralized in a common cause, one that effected the entire race, universal thought currents have been projected through events that are conspicuous enough to command the attention of the people of particular governmental groups; this is the means by which thinking facilities are developed and by which the principles underlying the racial progression may further promote themselves. These have their ultimate identity as wisdom and love, or ignorance and hate.