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THE POWER OF KARMA have always been employed. They know not of great changes taking place beneath the earth, of portents and manifestations, of mighty cataclysms that have been unleashed before, and will occur again.
They think that volcanic eruptions are due to the play of blind, natural forces. They think great tidal waves happen by chance. They see in storms only the by-play of elements causing destruction by nature's whim and accident. They do not recall a time when a vast continent sunk beneath the waves because those upon it had disported themselves evilly, even as there are those upon the earth planet disporting themselves in similar fashion anew.
But you who are wise in your superior discernments, wrought from psychical wisdom, should perceive that there are gifts and powers not known to the world of ordinary mortals, that forewarn and thus forearm those who have the stamina to exercise them and bring them to a state that renders them effective.
The Churches of the world know nothing of this. This is because the great ecclesiastical systems of the world are not the world's saviours. The world will be saved by a goodly band of men and women who have constituted the real Church of old, and who have come into flesh to
