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How to Act in a Crisis
Beloved El Morya
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shall thou trust. Psalm 91.4
In the ordinary course of daily living, crisis do arise - individual crisis that affect only one person, a family or a localized group of related beings and, less often, thank God, great national and international crisis that affect millions. The important thing for each one to remember is that any group, no matter how small nor how large, is made up of the individual unit, multiplied. The calm, poised, reasoning individual becomes the pivotal point for the greater number who is unable to intelligently cope with sudden shock, surprise, fear, or whatever the appearance may be. We have all read of how great audiences have safely been removed from burning buildings through the quick thinking and masterful control of either an entertainer or of a member of the audience itself, who directed the thought pattern of the crowd and maintained order and balance in the entire group.
Emotional hysteria and all mass feeling are highly contagious and run like a forest fire through the feeling world of mankind. There is no individual who is proof against sudden, unexpected disturbance, unless such an one has carefully and constantly trained himself to remain poised and balanced in the face of emergencies, and built a momentum of controlled energy into his own world. The practice ground for such training is our daily environment. Kipling put it well when he said "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you". The matter of keeping your head (mind) receptive to the directions of the Higher Intelligence, and your feelings calm and unruffled, in the face of unpleasant daily experiences may make all the difference between safety and disaster when emergencies arise.
We have all had the experience of contacting a calm, poised individual when we ourselves have been distressed, and have witnessed the effect of the transference of that calm, poised, assured feeling stilling our own distressed emotions. Thus, although hysteria, fear and uncontrolled emotions are instantly transferable, so too are the higher spiritual qualities of peace, poise and balance.
Over and above the human race, there stand great Guardian Beings whose responsibility and voluntary service is to protect the lifestreams on the planet when need arises. They do this through connecting their own Feelings of Peace, Poise, Safety, Calmness and Healing, with some individual in a physical body who can maintain harmonious control of his emotional and mental energies at a time when the great masses are distressed. Such an individual is singled out, and through his very body flows the substance of God's Love, like a blanket of healing, protection, peace and supply. Thus do the 'Wings of the Almighty' spread over the face of the land. In the same manner, individuals who are by nature, and cultivation, self controlled and balanced in times of crises, become the natural recipients and dispensers of supernatural substance 'the manna from heaven' which is sometimes required by the people to sustain the body's life during cataclysmic action, famine, war, pestilence, or other crisis of a like nature....Witness Moses feeding the Israelites in the wilderness, and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes.
Let us then, individually, begin to train ourselves to remain the Peace Commanding Presence in the face of the small, trifling experiences of daily life that when, and if, the occasion should ever arise we may abide under the Wings of the Almighty and become those very Wings to the children of Earth who might require our Presence, Comfort, Assistance and Counsel.