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80 ELIAS : The positive forces will maintain the upper hand, even if everything seemingly indicates the opposite . • The spirit is always placed higher than physical matter! Question : Prophecies of disasters and threats circle the globe like an epidemic plague. Can you tell us something about this? AREDOS : This particular pestilence has always been around , because we are dealing with rumour mongering in order to agitate people. Terrible paroles circle the world like an electric wildfire. • However if something positive is prophesied, one is not willing to listen, because it is a lot less dramatic . Question : (1970) We have no reasons to look at the future with optimism, if the climax of the BATTLE of ARMAGEDDON is still to be expected. How do you see this? ELIAS : We are aware of the seriousness of the situation. But we are also aware that positive endeavours are afoot that will fight evil. It might not look like it, but the spirits separate into their respective camps just the same. • Even though still a minority, the good side’s numbers swell continuously. As you are well aware, senseless war and its associated brutalities are pilloried everywhere on Earth. It is about time that war movies are prohibited and that toys based on weapons of war are no longer fabricated. The more the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and the Near East escalate, the more abhorrence about these events is felt in Europe, America and the Soviet Union. • If wars were not connected to huge profits they would not have been waged for a long time. The major industries literally survive from the profits of armament. • It must be the most noble of assignments of schools and universities to condemn war in any form or shape! 28. World peace is approaching (Transmission from the year 1961) Well, if the world situation is to be reformed it has to be in the shape of a spiritual event. Technology and physical events might bring about progress or regression; however war or peace always eventuates from mental interests, born from within the thought processes of man. Well, this is why the spirit rates above all things that are of a physical and invisible nature. The spirit however is subordinate to divine LAWS; it is being monitored from the HIGHEST SENTINEL. This is the reason why the non-spiritual, evil directs destruction and hatred against common sense, against any positive development of what is good and beautiful. People are supposed to know about these things and ward off these base influences, but man on this