| *b.) There are evil-minded nations which are obviously corrupt and decaying, before the very eyes of the World! … c.) An evil-minded nation also becomes a nursery of diseases of the spirit and body. ***d.) But during the fiery creativeness and transmutation of the spirit, the potentiality of progress and development of a nation will be disclosed to men. ***e.) He who will not accept the Fiery Baptism, who will not follow the Origin of Light – will depart into the chaos of dissolution. ***f.) One may observe the moral sinking and affirm that only the Fiery World offers the needed purification.” |
| i.) It may be recalled that We repeatedly warned certain countries, and they rejected Our advice. Their free will preferred to choose destruction through slow decay. j.) Compare the character of a nation before and after Our warning. Great deeds become rare, and people lose the ability to preserve their values, degenerating into criers in the bazaar. Corruption creeps into all spheres of life, and although people can easily choose to follow the Advice, they prefer to bring on their own doom. k.) … We record all the consequences of ignorance, and this chronicle of humanity is deplorable. …” 3.) (Agni Yoga, Fiery World III, 18.): *a.) “.. Humanity does not ponder over the degeneration of many nations. |