JAPAN

These three letters  written by Herbert W. Eustace seem quite timely in today’s world.

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“I have been requested to send out this copy of a letter written to a friend, as it was thought it might be of interest to you.”
[written by Mr. Eustace across the top of this letter]

1600 The Alameda,
San Jose, California,
November 29, 1935.

Dear . . . . . . . . :
      For some time I have been wanting to write you to answer your question about what I think of World affairs at the present time and their ultimate outcome. 
      First may I say that I think that World affairs instead of, as so many think, being in a deplorable state, are really in the most hopeful state that has yet appeared.  Of course, as a metaphysician you would know that it would have to be so, because progress is the law of being or as Mrs. Eddy says, “the law of God,” therefore every unfoldment must be a larger sense of good appearing no matter what the interpretation.  It was because of this eternal truth that the Psalmist saw so clearly that if he went into hell behold infinite good was there also, there was no place and no condition into which he could be led where good was not All-in-all.  That applies equally to this present unfoldment of World affairs.
      Let us examine conditions and see just where we do stand.  First of all, it should be frankly acknowledged that what is called The League of Nations is as essential for the welfare of European nations as is the league of States in America, called the United States of America, and which is maintained and governed by its League-its Constitution and the Supreme Court of the United States.  The League of Nations is intended to be, and must finally be, to the nations of Europe what the Constitution is to the United States.  It must regulate only the relationship of one nation to another and not interfere with the internal government of any nation.  It is merely intended to protect each nation in its individual right to work out its own salvation in its own way and to prevent other nations from the slightest interference.  Without the League of Nations how can the nations of Europe work amicably together while all the time in fear that one may be preparing to attack the other?  The constant preparation for war is bound to cause fear of attack and wherever there is fear there is hatred and where there is hatred there is murder-the desire to destroy that which is causing the fear.  But with that fear of interference removed is there any doubt that the nations of Europe would live in as friendly relationship with each other as do the different States of the Union in America?  And does any thinking American doubt, for one moment, that were it not for the Constitution and its interpreter the Supreme Court that the States would quickly be raising barriers to protect their different interests in the form of tariffs, etc., which might lead sooner or later to serious quarrels?
      It is the same human mind with its desires and selfishness, regardless of locality, and its baneful characteristics that are mastered only through severe discipline.  America has attained her present position, because she has put herself through this discipline and has learned  through numerous trials and tests that, as Massachusetts long ago declared, “a government of laws and not of men” is the only safe course to pursue, in order to secure happiness and freedom.  Whenever there has been an attempt to substitute government by men for government by law there has been a mental revolution that has quickly overcome such an endeavor.
      Eternal vigilance is, however, the only guarantee of safety.  After one hundred and fifty years of progress and persistent holding to government by law and not by men, we are today confronted with public speeches and with other efforts of people, who have limited understanding of the real meaning of America, to promulgate the doctrine of “disciplined democracy”.  By “disciplined democracy” they mean that democracy that is disciplined by a body of superfine, self-appointed guardians who think they know exactly the right course for Americans to pursue and would if they could, regulate the daily life and acts of each one.  Fortunately the Constitution and the Supreme Court stand as a barrier against this domination, thus preventing revolution by violence.
      To return to the League of Nations and World affairs.  It is self-evident that until the last year the League has been in no position to test her power and authority.  But today she is in that position-she is now confronted with the disagreements of two of her members. One determined to destroy the other regardless of most solemn agreements.  Here is the League with its constitution confronted with the very purpose for which it was formed.  What will she do about it?  From all appearances, at this moment, it would look as though she were going to do, what in the end she will have to do if Europe is to survive, enforce her constitution and compel Italy to come out of Ethiopia and allow the League to settle the whole disturbance, exactly as the Supreme Court of America settles, under the Constitution, the difficulties that arise between the States.
      If the League compels an amicable settlement what must the result be? The League will have learned and will have established its own power for righteousness.  It will say to its members, “no more war; you can beat your swords into plowshares and your spears into pruning hooks, for from now on I am going to see that there is no more interfering between nations.  Each must be allowed within its own boundaries to progress and develop with all its energy and ability.  If Africa is to be developed I will open it for development under the authority given to me as the League of Nations and will protect the inhabitants from all selfish exploitation.  All nations of the World will be welcome to participate in the development for the enrichment not only of themselves but for enriching and ennobling the inhabitants of the country developed.”   It is absurd to assume that a so-called backward race is unwilling to be made richer and better in every way.  What they all emphatically object to is being exploited and used as incubators to supply millions for what is rightly called “cannon fodder”.
      If the League functions in the way the nations founding it intended it to function, then surely a bright day is dawning for Europe as well as for the whole world.  It would usher in 1936 with a glory and assurance that has long been desired and should indicate the beginning of the entrance to the King’s Chamber in the Pyramid which, as you know, is calculated to take place during the latter part of 1936.
      You might naturally ask, Why should the League operate in the case of two of its members, Italy and Ethiopia, when it did not operate with Japan and China?  In the first place the two cases are not analogous although on the surface they seem to be so.  One must not forget that the time is different, that the League while formed to protect its members from aggression had to grow to the point of unity where it could demand that for which it was established.  It had to learn from experience and the bitter contempt of many of even its own peoples, because of its previous failure to do so, that it must function no matter how hard the task or else terminate in ignominy.  It needed the experience of Japan and China to force it to perform its proper function or otherwise to die.  It has been now given the opportunity right at home, not thousands of miles away, to prove its power or go out of business and it seems to be choosing to exercise its power.
      To me there is another reason also why the League could not operate in the case of Japan and China and that is, that it was essential for the welfare of the World for Japan to do the very thing she has done and is continuing to do in establishing herself on the mainland of Asia. She has become a bulwark of protection to China from the machinations of Russia, which you must never forget, is the final menace to the World’s progress.  Russia stands and always has stood as the Gog and Magog of the Scriptures, which was to come down from the North and threaten the civilization of mankind in the final conflict of Armageddon when the hosts of the godless are arrayed against the host of the godly.  In other words when those who say there is no God are arrayed against those who acknowledge that there is God and that He is all that is; in other words All-in-all.
      The final battle doubtless will not be seen as men fighting with material weapons but may appear as enlightenment fighting the dark weapons of destruction-destruction of all freedom of action through State control and the materialization of thought to the point of the utter despair of the heart’s cry, “Is there no God?”  All this is coming under the guise of Communism and in perhaps a more subtle form as Fascism and Naziism undermining individual liberty.
      Do you not think that Japan has been an instrument of God in preventing Russia from communizing the whole of China and spreading its virus to millions of others?  Russia is afraid of Japan for she instinctively feels in Japan that Israelitish intent that goes forward fearlessly everywhere to bless mankind and not to harm it.  Japan has shown this in her development of Manchukuo, where today progress is seen on every side and ten million Chinese are happy and satisfied, while across the border hundreds of thousands are starving to death and banditry is rampant through lack of intelligent government.  In doing this Japan is showing how truly the old Samurai (the ruling class) are indeed a portion of the Israelites who became separated from their brethren in their journeyings to the Isles of the Seas in the West, the British Isles, and instead journeyed to the Isles of the Seas in the East, the Japanese Isles.  In due time, after being nurtured and protected, like their fellow Israelites in the British Isles they became ready to perform their office as Israel; to stand with the sword of God, and to say to Russia and its Communism, “Stay where you are and fight out your own theories of godlessness with your own people and leave all others alone.”
      With Japan on the East ready for action at any moment, Russia does not dare to move on the West, and consequently held in check.  If Japan were not on the mainland, undoubtedly Russia would have absorbed the whole of China and have endeavoured before this to  move on to the West also.  No thinking person can doubt this.  The battle of Armageddon-the determination to destroy freedom and individuality is being fought on all sides.  Without freedom and individuality no progress can be found.  You cannot have one without the other.
      The attacks in America on “rugged individualism”, attempts at “regimentation”, focusing of all power in “Federal bureaucracies” “government of men instead of law”, “government ownership”, etc., are vicious attempts to undermine and eventually destroy all that spiritual America, the America of the Pilgrim Fathers, in other words what Christian Science really means.  The need to protect America against these attacks is always present, for the negation must run side by side with the positive truth of Being and unless reversed will not be found the presence of God.
      This reversing of the negative appearing of Mind must be kept constantly before one for as Mrs. Eddy says in an early edition of the Science of Man, “Matter held as shadow is the idea of God, but matter held as substance is a belief and error,” in other words if matter, material sense, is seen as the negative interpretation of Mind and reversed as such, it will be found the very presence of God, but if matter, the negation, is thought of as something of itself, as substance, and is not reversed, then it is “belief and error” and holds within itself all that there is to evil.  This reversing is imperative and keeps one happy and busy, because when reversed even the very worst evil takes on the pinions of light.
      Seeing things from this standpoint, how can one be anything but happy and confident because of the “joy that is set before” one?  The end of prophecy and the entering into the King’s Chamber in the Pyramid, with its open coffer, the breaking down of all limitations, is verily at hand but, remember, it is an individual unfoldment requiring the utmost consecration to the one Mind as All-in-all, and the fulfilling in one’s own experience what Mrs. Eddy writes-I again quote from the Science of Man, “Do not think to deceive yourselves by deceiving others, for Wisdom will call you into judgment for all you think and act, and the tribunal before which your true position is tried and proved, is the demonstration that you are able to give of healing the sick, after learning the principle upon which this is done, and the only one by which you can succeed to the most marvelous instances of cure.”
      The World is unfolding rapidly into the fundamental truth, into the acknowledgment that “the earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.”  You can afford to rejoice and be glad and actively watch the hand of God interpreting His own earth and heaven to you His own idea.

Very sincerely yours,
HERBERT W. EUSTACE.

Note:  “Origin of Japan and the Japanese”, by Jenichiro Oyabe.

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A FRIEND PRINTED AND GAVE ME A NUMBER OF COPIES OF THIS LETTER I WROTE IN SEPTEMBER. I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE ONE.
HERBERT W. EUSTACE
1600 THE ALAMEDA
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA

September 10th, 1939
Dear:—
      Always remember there is a vast difference between your religious sense and spirituality. Religiousness is a form of good materiality, whereas spirituality rises above all material belief and is entirely apart from it. That was the difference so clearly seen by Jacob in his distinction between Manasseh and Ephraim, when he definitely pointed out that Ephraim, the younger, would be the greater.
      Every Christian Scientist is learning, sometime from hard experience, that his religious sense cannot be trusted to lead him forward spiritually. Too often its tendency is to lead him into materiality, not away from it. It starts from effect not from cause. He also has found that true spirituality does not deal with persons, places or things, but with God alone.
      Yes, you may have many times heard me say, that the “World War” of 1914 was the ending of that kind of warfare, so far as Israel was concerned, and therefore, there would be no more war of that nature in which Israel would be involved.
      Israel was deeply involved in the war of 1914, for to Israel it meant the protection of the English language, and thus the protection of the clothing of the “young child” Science and Health. All the so-called powers of evil were bent on destroying that “clothing”, even as Herod of old was determined to destroy the body or clothing of the “young child”, the Christ idea as presented by Jesus.
      When once the English language was protected and evil foiled in its attempted destruction of the “clothing” of Science and Health, that phase of attack was finished. Evil could do no more along that line so it proceeded to the next phase, the purely mental, where the Christian Scientist deals entirely and it has been operating there ever since. That warfare is waging grandly and evil is being seen for just what it is, the negation of good, and it is being reversed and translated back to its origin, God.
      What does this all mean? Simply, that the Christian Scientist must not be deceived by appearances. What is now appearing as warring nations is the highest religious sense of good fighting its sense of evil—the attempt to completely dominate and eventually abolish all material freedom. But, of course, this is all in the realm of materiality, and has nothing to do with spirituality except as the negation of it. This war is the highest sense of good of the human mind conquering and destroying that mind’s sense of greed and control.
      The Christian Scientist must rise above materiality, and must not be mesmerized into thinking that this war has anything to do with the former war. Evil would like to say it has—that it is an aftermath of that war, and that the work of that war was not properly finished. Watch that you are not deceived. Differentiate between Manasseh, your religious sense interpreted as England, and Ephraim, your spiritual sense interpreted as America. The temptation is to confuse the two and make one erroneously think that Manasseh and Ephraim are Israel. They are not.
      Until my eyes were open I fell into this error. I suppose it was the Manasseh desire to make a larger sense of Israel. But Israel cannot be enlarged. Jesus was forced to that conclusion after trying to improve the religious sense, for he finally said, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” and also, “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.” That which seems lost to material sense is spiritual sense. Israel is pure spirituality. It is that, alone which begins with “your consciously being” and never for one instant departs from the “plumb line.” It is your spiritual sense only that is Israel, the “Shiloh” of Mind. Religious sense and spiritual sense can only be found united as the religious sense is reversed by the spiritual sense and the human concept of good yields to Divine good.
      It is perfectly true that, as Mrs. Eddy states, “God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies,” and so your Ephraim, the true spiritual idea, appears as supplying your Manasseh fighting for a better sense of human good, with all that Manasseh is able to interpret as enabling it to overcome its enemies. But you no longer interpret Ephraim as being involved in the actual so-called fighting for Ephraim’s battle is raging far above the human concept of good in the pure realm of Mind, and there it will continue.
      Be sure that you are happy and contented to keep it there, and not to drop it to the level of human belief. No progress can be made with human belief.
      Neutrality, like Jesus’ command to “agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou art in the way with him,” means agreeing with thine adversary by reversing the false material sense and replacing it with the true spiritual sense.
      Neutrality means being every instant on the side of God as the only cause and never personalizing anything but finding God as All-in-all, the one alone from whom all activity proceeds. This is true neutrality and keeps you actively on the side of good until your religious sense yields to spirituality.
      Manasseh, religious good, naturally leads all fighting for a better sense of human good. But Ephraim is fighting for the pure good of Spirit and is not deceived by malicious suggestion into forsaking its spiritual vision. It knows that only as the spiritual vision is maintained can the religious sense of good yield to the reality, in other words see “all these things added.” Religiousness finds it difficult to recognize that true spirituality is always right, and there is often a severe struggle not to turn to the human sense of good, as being better than your spiritual sense.
      Manasseh is not always, at first, at peace with Ephraim and in accord with Ephraim’s ways. But eventually it has to acknowledge that spiritual sense is always superior to the highest human sense of good, and in being superior it helps that sense by drawing it to higher levels.
      Keep clearly and continuously as your thought that, as Science and Health points out, “The twelve tribes of Israel with all mortals,—separated by believe from man’s divine origin and the true idea,—will through much tribulation yield to the activities of the divine Principle of man in the harmony of Science.” The twelve tribes of Israel, including as they do, Dan; (who is defined in Science and Health as “Animal magnetism; so-called mortal mind controlling mortal mind; error, working out the designs of error; one belief preying upon another,)” operate as the mind of every mortal, and in the same way, the twelve disciples, including Judas, operate as the mind of every mortal.
      In this realization there is no room for self-complacency. It is serious fact, and fact that must be met by each one and worked out by translating the erroneous interpretation back to its “divine origin,” and truly becoming “Stars in the crown of rejoicing. . . lamps in the spiritual heavens of the age,” as stated in Science and Health.
      Thus you understand why, what you call England (Manasseh, religiousness) is today involved in its fight for a better sense of good, while America (Ephraim, spirituality) is going forward in its capacity of spiritual unfoldment, untouched by materiality.
      All this is “here” not “there” and is going on individually. It operates as your thinking. Keep it as such and never forget, as Mrs. Eddy points out, “The Christian Scientist is alone with his own being and with the reality of things” and Jesus’ statement in referring to John the Baptist’s teaching, “he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he,” in other words the least spiritual sense is greater than the highest human concept of good.
      No comprehension of evil and its methods can be attained, unless the fact is clearly understood that evil has only one enemy and that enemy is Truth. Evil never hates a person, place or thing. Evil hates Truth for Truth is Being, Spirit, and evil, matter is Spirit’s opposite, in belief, hence the carnal mind’s enmity and perpetual warfare against Spirit and its hatred of all that pertains to spirituality. Evil does not hate a mortal who is its servant, but it does hate your “young child” true spirituality and to destroy that “child” is its only purpose. You know this.
      Just a word further. It is interesting to remember what the Great pyramid graphically portrays in its upper passage way leading to the chamber or sanctuary above the King’s Chamber. It is most significant that the ceiling of this sanctuary is red granite (usually supposed to typify in stone the highest spiritual sense) beautifully polished whereas the floor is rough and jagged, indicating that it could not be occupied except by those who could rise above materiality, or as one early writer inspiringly expressed it, “attainable only by beings who can move upwards like the angels of God.”
      As you know this small upper passage way commences at the top of the twenty-eight foot Grand Gallery with no possible material means of reaching it, and which according to Pyramid chronological measurements would give its date as beginning somewhere about the year 1876 to 1882. Is it not tremendously illuminating that 1875 was the year that Science and Health was given to the world, and is not Science and Health the “Upper passage way” leading to the “sanctuary” of Mind, attainable only by those who are willing to rise above matter and “move upward like the angels of God?”
      It is this “upper passage way” Science and Health, that has enabled its follower to preserve the even tenor of his way, free and undisturbed amidst all the anguish of the worldly thought,—the anguish of following the lower passage way to the King’s Chamber—the Hall of the Judgment of the Nations.
      As the Christian Scientist you dwell with Mind, the one cause. You do not deal with effect and consequently you do not and never will enter the King’s Chamber, for you are safe and fearless in the “sanctuary” above it all. The King’s Chamber, is emblematical of the religious thought struggling out of its bondage into a fuller sense of light. He who bases his being on the allness of Mind does not have to struggle through material belief to attain the goal of Spirit for he finds himself as already at the goal where he has always been as the activity of God.

—H. W. E.

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“Japan fulfilled her mission of compelling America to open her eyes.  It was called Pearl Harbor but it was really the hand of God appearing in such language that America awoke.  Japan seemed to do a very wrong thing like Judas but it was in neither case wrong.  That is why Jesus told Judas to do quickly what was given him to do and get it over with so that he could rise higher.  Japan is learning and rising higher through what she did and God has given her a most thoughtful leader in General MacArthur.  He has a genuine sympathy with the whole thing.  Russia will have to learn too but is now most useful in presenting the evil of the opposite of Christianity or true individualism and opening all eyes to behold the vileness within her gates.”

[Letter written 4/24/1947 by Herbert W. Eustace]

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