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Upbringing Children
God embodies man on Earth so that he could learn Divinity here — in this School called Earth, where God is the Teacher. This study is threefold: man studies Love, Wisdom, and Power. This is what we study here under His guidance — invisible in the beginning, which later becomes evident.
There are theoretical and practical lessons in this School. The theoretical ones consist in studying the Will of God through reading books and by other means. The upbringing of children is one of the practical subjects.
In the beginning, a child needs to be taught elementary things: speaking, walking, rejoicing, etc. But when he grows up — parents should try to teach him as many skills and to make him as broad-minded as possible. They should teach him how to ride a bicycle, how to run, how to swim, how to pitch a tent, how to make a fire, how to sing, how to draw, how to play various games, and so on. Let him watch TV so that he could get to know people in different parts of the planet and the diversity of their religious quests… All this will prove useful to him in the future and will allow him to solve problems of the grown-up life.
One can work for the Evolution of the Universal Consciousness by upbringing not only children from one’s flesh and blood, but also many other children. We are all — children of One God. We are all — one family. One should learn to treat other people’s children as one’s own. By living this way we will learn to expand our love and to treat people the way God does, we will learn Divine Love.
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