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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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