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War and Peace

Necessity of war
Are all these war s necessary for the evolution of the earth?

At a certain stage of human development, wars are inevitable.
In prehistoric times the whole of life was a war; and to the present
day human history has been one long history of wars. Wars are
the natural result of a state of consciousness dominated by the
struggle for life and egoistic aggressiveness. And at the present
time, in spite of some human efforts towards peace, there is,
as yet, nothing to assure us that war is no longer an inevitable
calamity. Indeed, does not a state of war, open or otherwise, exist
at this moment in many parts of the world?
Besides, everything that happens on earth necessarily leads
to its progress. Thus war s are schools of courage, endurance,
fearlessness; they may serve to destroy a past which refuses to
disappear although its time is over, and they make room for new
things. Wars can, like Kurukshetra, be a way to rid the earth of a
domineering or destructive race so that justice and right may reign.
They can, through the presence of danger, shake the apathy of a
too tamasic consciousness and awaken dormant energies. Finally
they can, by contrast, and because of the horrors that accompany
and follow them, drive men to seek an effective way to make such
a barbarous and violent form of transformation unnecessary.
For everything that is unnecessary to the evolution of the
earth automatically ceases to exist.

You have written: "They [wars] may serve to destroy a past which
refuses to disappear although its time is over, and they make room
for new things." Now that the Supermind has descended upon earth
will war be necessary to change the present state of the world?
All will depend on the receptivity of nations. If they open widely

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