12/06/2026
Chapter IX: PEACE
Extracts from the book *Radical Transformation*
by V.M. Samael Aun Weor
What people call peace is the antithesis of war. What people call war is the antithesis of peace.
Truth is not found in conceptual dualism. One must go beyond the polarity of the mind if one wishes to find truth. We need to reach the great synthesis.
So-called peace is nothing more than a period of preparation for war, and war in turn is a period of preparation for peace.
Peace and war are the same mental form, with a positive pole and a negative pole.
Synthesis lies beyond the opposites of philosophy. In synthesis, and only in synthesis, can we find true peace.
It is absurd to call peace a period of preparation for war. Unfortunately, people think this way due to a lack of conceptual synthesis.
Peace is an atomic substance that emanates from the depths of the Absolute.
It is impossible to possess within our psyche this type of atomic substance as long as the psychological “I” exists within us.
Within the “I” we have all the factors that produce war. These factors are known as cruelty, selfishness, greed, ambition, hatred, cunning, etc.
In the spectacular drama of war, all the destructive factors we carry within are displayed.
Peace is an atomic substance that cannot be possessed by one who has within their psyche the psychological factors that produce war.
Individual selfishness becomes collective selfishness, individual greed becomes collective greed, individual hatred becomes collective hatred.
Thus wars arise: the struggle for monopolies, destructive ambition, desires of conquest, etc.
There exists in the world a law of reciprocal maintenance of all that exists; our lives serve to maintain something large or small in the world.
This law was known by ancient sages as the process of the common cosmic trogoautoegocratic law.
Wars exist because we do not know how to intelligently manipulate this great law of the reciprocal feeding of all that exists.
It is truly impossible to handle this great law while we have within our psyche all the psychological factors that produce war.
Nature has given us life, but we must pay for it dearly. We feed on nature, but she feeds on us.
The ancient Asian sages discovered within the psyche of every individual two substances which they called abrustdonis and helkdonis.
They said that by intelligently transmuting these two metaphysical substances, a vivifying sacred substance called askokin is liberated.
Askokin is the substance with which Nature feeds; Mother Nature gives us life but charges dearly for it. She demands askokin, and if we do not give it voluntarily, she takes it by force through great wars.
If within us, in each one of us, there were no destructive factors that produce war, Mother Nature would not need to use this destructive system to extract her sacred nourishment.
By dissolving the psychological “I,” a permanent center of enlightened consciousness is established within us; then we liberate the sacred askokin through right thinking, right feeling, and right action.
