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Nations, like individuals, go through cycles of emotional reactions. An individual may be swept by certain emotional patterns and then thrust them aside, and come under the influence of other emotional patterns, so nations do the same. Nations being made of individuals, overall problems are solved in a series of acts.

These mass killings are your nation’s way of pinpointing an extremely dangerous inner trend, that otherwise could have far more severe worldwide consequences. Obviously serious consequences result from these particular recent murders.

The consequences however for the nation and the world would be far more disastrous had these hates and aggressions not found these therapeutic, almost surgical, unfortunately necessary, outlets.

I am not condoning, you understand, the situation. The inner hate and aggression has not been recognized by the nation in the past. A holier-than-thou attitude developed into a spiritual hypocrisy. A portion of this was the result of ideals that could not be lived up to in practical terms—an overidealization. This does not mean that good intentions caused these situations.

It operates, this aggression operates, as a constant check. It shows the rate of progress. It is a measure by which you can see failures. Were it not for this you could fool yourself, as your nation fooled itself for some years, not realizing its inner psychic condition. The ideals then are mouthed, but they are not taken seriously. Without these recent deaths, your country could have initiated a disastrous war.

If ideals are merely mouthed, and the idea of peace not seriously strived for, then this is an inferior state, even if there is no war. These men are showing the nation the difference between ideals and actions. Their deaths point the way and will give the impetus that was sorely needed.

They provide crisis points. Your nation, because of its greatness and ideals, must judge itself accordingly against those ideals. It therefore cannot afford to judge itself against others, find itself superior, and rest. Such murders would have been taken for granted in some other nations. Those who point the finger now however know, in one respect, that they have the right to do so since you are the ones who have set forth the ideals of peace and brotherhood. It is against these, then, that you must judge yourself.

Strength does not come in national terms, real strength, by bullying aggressive stance. But it does come when the people within a nation are making an honest effort to bring about in physical reality the materialization of their individual and mass ideals. The best that is in them, whatever their point of development. The unity and strength is psychically recognized.

Without these murders the nation would not know what was wrong with itself. The murders are symptoms, but without symptoms the patient will not realize that anything is wrong with the inner self.