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'rom the microscopic world of atoms and pre-atomic particles,
o the macroscopic world of galaxies and constellations,
lur understanding is expending. It appears that we are
ipproaching the realization of the Golden Age.
However, when we examine our present surroundings more
;arefully, we find that everywhere there is sickness instead of
lealth, chaos instead of stability, war instead of peace, poverty
nstead of prosperity, unhappiness instead of happiness. The
huge expenditures of major governmental and public
programs are not being applied for the creative development of
human potential, but rather, are being used up simply in
defensive measures against various negative factors.
Although living in the worldwide prosperous society, most
of modem mankind is fall of fear and anxiety, wandering
in vain, seeking happiness and fulfillment through sensual
pleasures or mysteriuos illusions. What mistake have we made
in the process of constructing this modem civilization?
It is the direct result of a lack of understanding of what
humanity is, together a confused view of the life, the nature,
and especially the order or law of the universe. Therefore,
instead of being on the road toward real happiness, we have
been taking the wrong, or not say oppossite way.
In anyhow, it is clear that we all are facing the greatest
crisis in the history of the hum an race, regardless of our
sex, age, nationality, social regime, religion or cultural
background.
This crisis is the biological, psychological, and spiritual
degeneration of mankind, which may lead either to the
gradual extinction of homo-sapiens by increasing disorder
in our physical and mental conditions such as AIDS,
cancer, diabetes, heart (cardiovascular) disease, neurasthenia,
neurosis or to instantaneous extinction by world destruction
throughown physical, mental, and spiritualnuclear warfare.
Everyone in the modem world is in the middle of a biological
Flood of Noah. Where can we find the Ark to save our lives?
In the ancient, geological, Flood of Noah, salvation was
achieved by buiding the Ark; but in this biological crisis,

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