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Symbolic of the breaking up of forms and releasing the contained life for wider action in fresh forms.
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. But all these things are the beginning of travail." - MATTHEW xxiv. 6, 7.
Christ emphasises the truth that such evils as wars and natural calamities, with the sufferings entailed, are means to an end, and are not to distress the faithful, for they do not affect the Self behind, and are passing phases in no way final for the soul. We are to recognise in these troubles certain processes whereby the evolution of good is ultimately accomplished.
"God brings forth from all pain a spiritual somewhat for the sake of which the pain is sent. There is no waste, no wanton sacrifice, in the experience of men; all human sorrow is the substance from which God is fashioning holy joy. All pain, whether deserved or un-deserved, is God's accumulating blessing in His Divine purpose, and it has its spiritual equivalent in the deeper life that is one with His own. No man can suffer except God be with him. Pain is no mark of the displeasure of heaven, but just the contrary. It is the summons to come up higher." - R. J. CAMPBELL, Song of Ages, pp. 64, 70.
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