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Cosmic Alchemists “view the world as one big organization of workers in which the success of the organization depends upon the development of the highest possibilities of every person, and upon the opportunity to fully exercise these abilities. World progress depends upon the advancement of all people.”
“It is the desire of the cosmic alchemist that all the people of the world shall make as great intellectual and spiritual progress as possible. The cosmic alchemist believes this can be accomplished only by providing freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of expression and freedom of worship to all the people of the world.”
As America became engaged in WWII, President Roosevelt outlined these four freedoms and artist Norman Rockwell created a series of paintings outlining them as goals that extended beyond defeating the wartime Axis of powers.
These laws were framed as models later to be enacted elsewhere, and it was the expressed hope of their sponsors that the whole United States eventually could be blanketed with them. It was even suggested that the sale of literature on these subjects be prohibited. Had these efforts succeeded, people in this country would thereafter have been prevented from learning about the inner plane.
Because to make the most intellectual and spiritual progress people must have access to facts of both the inner plane and outer plane, and be permitted to live in the manner indicated by these facts, the cosmic alchemist works vigorously to enable all the people of the world to have FREEDOM OF WORSHIP.
A people, however, who are sadly undernourished, or a people who must toil each day until exhausted in order to keep the body alive, have too little energy left for effective study. If they cannot spare the time to get an education, or if educational facilities are unavailable, they are curtailed in their intellectual and spiritual progress even though they have freedom of religion. And if they are too poor to acquire or otherwise contact the physical things from which spiritual values can be gained, their progress is retarded.
Because to make the most intellectual and spiritual progress, people must have sustenance, must have some leisure from arduous toil, and must enjoy certain social, recreational and physical facilities, the cosmic alchemist works energetically to enable all the people of the world to have FREEDOM FROM WANT.
Such freedom from want can be obtained for all the people only under the most favorable political conditions. It cannot be obtained if the privileged few are permitted to exercise censorship over the views expressed by those who believe in equal opportunity for all. And it can be attained in full measure only when each individual is given opportunity to use his natural aptitudes.
Because to make the most intellectual and spiritual progress people must be permitted to select, without interference by special privilege, their own leaders, and must be permitted to use their special talents, the cosmic alchemist works strenuously to enable all the people of the world to have FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Fear restricts activities, impairs the health, and chains the attention to images which engender a dominant vibratory rate which is too low to permit contact with the higher inner-plane levels. It thus not only hinders the development of spirituality, but it hinders clear thinking and the most satisfactory intellectual progress.
Knowledge of afterlife conditions should banish the fear of death, the economic conditions of the world should be handled in such a way that abundance will banish fear of want, and proper organization and cooperation between nations should banish the fear of war and the atomic bomb.
Because to make the most intellectual and spiritual progress people must know about afterlife conditions, must not be faced with the specter of want, and must not be compelled to sacrifice time, energy or their lives to war, the cosmic alchemist works ardently to enable all the people of the world to have FREEDOM FROM FEAR.
It is good to remember that as citizens of the Cosmos we are here on this planet to develop our abilities and flourish as emissaries of Deity by Contributing our Utmost to Universal Welfare and to work toward the realization that all people of earth will enjoy the four freedoms.
CONTRIBUTE YOUR UPMOST TO UNIVERSAL WELFARE
C.C. Zain, Cosmic Alchemy, Chapter 1.