One of the pressing questions I am often asked in response to great tragedies is this: If the Creator—a loving, caring, and bestowing force—governs everything, how can so many harsh and cruel events take place?

The answer lies in understanding that the Creator is not a personality acting with changing intentions, but a law, i.e., a fixed, unchanging system that operates in the connection between people. The Creator becomes revealed precisely in the quality of connection that exists among people. Therefore, everything depends on the state of that connection.

Humanity needs to gradually rebuild its harmonious, peaceful, and eternal connection as a single soul, which once existed, then shattered, and which we are now in a process of correcting this shattering until it becomes fully corrected. If we advance according to the required stages, then everything unfolds harmoniously. However, if we delay or resist this development, then we begin to feel the discrepancy between the state we are in and the state we are meant to reach.

This discrepancy is what we experience as pressure, problems, and suffering.

For example, if at a given moment humanity needed to reach a certain level of connection, say, twenty percent, but in reality we only achieved fifteen percent, then the missing five percent becomes disclosed as a negative force. This gap manifests as crises, tensions, and........

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